katharinethegeek.bsky.social
Just your average queer scientist 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 👭🏼 🪐 𝑖ℏ𝜓'=𝐻𝜓.
Wife, mom, physicist, teacher, anti-fascist.
"Imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
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With his wife dumping him, you've already got one third of a country song. Just add a verse about her getting the truck in the settlement and another about Jesus, and you're done.
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That fits. He's already broken all of the ten commandments, he's gotta go for a clean sweep of the Bill of Rights as well.
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Any man wearing that much eyeliner is gonna know something about musical theater, just saying.
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Gotta love how these guys are all about how we have to preserve our "beautiful Western culture" of which they are utterly ignorant.
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So is Vance really so ignorant that he's never even *heard* of a popular play and classic novel, or his he merely feigning ignorance 'cuz theater is for wimps and books are for nerds?
Trump's ignorance is, of course, not feigned.
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Yeah, the kid crying in a mask was way more disturbing than the refrigerator trucks being used as morgues, the people being put on ventilators, or my local hospital setting up triage tents in the parking lot.
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If he wants to see someplace that "resemble[s] a third world nation", he should visit the rural South. Health care deserts, failing infrastructure, poverty, poor education.
Oh wait... he doesn't mean third world living conditions, he just means brown people.
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Makes sense, because after this hurricane season’s done everyone knows there will be no more hurricanes.
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Almost as bad as the smarmy "God doesn't give you anything you can't handle".
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Disgusting.
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I’m reminded of a neighbor (a Texan who’s rarely left the state) saying how she worried about crime for an upcoming trip to CA. Crime rates are about the same between the two states, but she watches fox so she thinks all blue states are crime-ridden hellscapes.
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My gay marriage has outlasted the marriages of half my wife’s Southern Baptist relatives, yet they have the nerve to “hate [our] lifestyle.” As some guy once said, they and the SBC need to look to the beams in their eyes before worrying about the specks in ours.
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Minor correction: Musk didn't design the algorithm; he'd have no idea how to do it. Musk told somebody to design the algorithm for him.
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TACO
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To-may-to, to-mah-to.
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Good point. Armed robbery might just be his side gig.
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Now, now, be fair. A few might have read Mein Kampf.
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Who needs logistics when the SecDef is a roided-up loudmouth?
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So why didn't he speak up for trans people when on those platforms? His lawsuits matter, but so does vocal opposition to the bullshit the right wing spews about people like me.
I'm all for him talking to the right wing, but in doing so he shouldn't concede an inch on equal rights.
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Not a problem: all the laid-off librarians, journalists, cancer researchers, and astrophysicists can do the sweatshop work while generative AI produces the (bad) art and (garbage) science.
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Sad to say we now know what would happen if a person got to middle age having read nothing but "the 21 day MBA" and a shitload of bad science fiction.
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Beneficial for him to dump on trans people? How so?
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Are you kidding? They just elected an administration full of nothing but cowards, and a congress half full of them.
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With MAGA dismantling the EPA, tap water won't be safe to drink here either. With them dismantling the FDA, bottled water won't be much safer.
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Holy shit these anti-vax people are psychotic.
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Are the 2000 new CANG troops now needed to bring the food & water they forgot to send with the first 2000 CANG troops?
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Oh, definitely very different situations. Sending troops to desegregate schools vs sending troops to allow masked men to abduct kids and parents from school graduations.
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Trump wants to send a similar number of Marines to LA to put down civilians dancing in the street in protest of arrests by masked, heavily armed men who may or may not be federal LEOs. Neither the governor of CA nor the mayor of LA has invited federal intervention.
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Yep. Reagan sent 800 Marines as part of a multinational force to stop a civil war; several hundred French and Italian troops were there as well. The force was invited to Beirut by the regional parties to the peace talks. /1
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Had one person at CNN in 2016 had the guts to say "we're not covering this moron's rallies because he's just spewing incoherent lies" the world would be a better place today.
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Yes. 1957, Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard against the wishes of segregationist Gov. Faubus. He also sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock to help enforce integration of schools.
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Nah. In Philly they also riot after losing or tying a meaningless sporting event.
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This guy's moment has arrived:
theonion.com/third-amendm...
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The very same day the king is sending a fully armed battalion to remind us of his love.
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We live in a world where pseudo AI is amplifying human stupidity
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After they've banned all safe and effective medicines, the bleach community and ivermectin community will wage holy war on each other.
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Illegal boarding in international waters is called, um, piracy.
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In Graves' "I, Claudius" there's the senile Tiberius manipulated by the evil Sejanus, followed by the insane Caligula. In Trump, we get the senility, insanity, and evil all in one person.
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Maybe if the NYT hadn't spent the last 10 years normalizing Trump, we'd not be in this mess.
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Ah, reminds me of my days in lab class, and why I was encouraged to stick to theory and stay the hell away from labs.
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Damn good thought for the day.
Too bad the speaker had just earlier said "What subject can give sentence on his king?" which is as Trumpian as you can get. Oh well, neither Richard nor Bolingbroke were good guys. I'm on team Wat Tyler.
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...if the American Republic last for a thousand years, men will still look back and say "this was their fucking stupidest hour."
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Getting the sign right is step one in budgeting.
My undergrad research advisor liked to quote Feynman: "if you don't know the sign, you don't know jack shit."