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ladeeeeet.bsky.social
midwesterner. microbiologist. mom to several, partner to one. she/her
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Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

Siri! Play for Whom The Bell Tolls!

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I make the music for when everybody knows mom needs some space

They should make a separate Beltway for people who know how to drive cars

What really gives it away is the fact that, under the SAVE Act, a “Real ID” is not enough to prove citizenship. Even though, to get a Real ID, you have to prove that you are a citizen.

"Trying to help is not the same thing as actually helping," part 9,072: Someone has reached out to me to say they know that lots of my scientist colleagues have lost their jobs, and wanted to pass along a job ad. It's $10/hr to train AI to solve math problems. Nope. I will not be sharing that.

This full name is blowing my fucking mind

I feel like this is my moment, as an American, to step up, because I have a lot of experience at ignoring emails

Sorry bro I'm not doing your job for you

moo deng for pontiff campaign starts now alert the conclave

Accessible version:

The microscopic bee professors who run my computer may be tiny — but they’re not vaccinated, an op-ed by newly appointed NASA chief Damon Hatesworth

I look forward to a day when even people I’d spit on for sport get low cost or even free insulin because I hate pointless deaths under capitalism.

Welcome to the resistance Ballsack Sports

The White House asking every federal employee to send an email summarizing what they did last week is something that FOIA lawyers dream about

Being a highly qualified black person or woman = "mired in woke culture"

you can tell the people trying to gut the government have never had a real job because they landed on "one micromanaging email" as the thing that would break regular people

Last week, my innie: 1. led his team in an ORTBO 2. visited the Posterity Wing 3. improved relations between the Optics and Design and the Macro Data Refinement Teams 4. was rewarded with a Music Dance Experience upon reaching 75% on Sienna 5. had an unsanctioned erotic entanglement

Comrade Capybara

y el chismosavirus?

coming this holiday season

This is entirely preventable. Science solved this problem more than 60 years ago.

Love is so powerful (it keeps JK Rowling away from you)

Your outie understands when someone is making a joke on the internet and doesn't embarrass themselves in people's replies

I’m always dunking on my kids here but the truth is I love them more than my own life. they are brilliant and charismatic and hilarious. will you please take them

trump take roth ira

I tried to pet every breed of dog at the Westminster Dog Show. The resulting video: 12 minutes of extremely good dogs 132 dogs pet 5 face licks 2 belly rubs Me saying “BEAUTIFUL dog” at least 59 times youtu.be/nOzLZH29wFc?...

We’re too toxic for a fucking asteroid

*stares in historian*

your outie doesn’t reply to a funny post with a restatement of the same exact joke

We will *DARE* them to not take drugs, if you will

is it a bad sign if the cute Canadian cat account is posting “if you send your army, the lucky ones will die of gunshot wounds” about us

In the decline of humanities education we have forgotten what an oath actually is. When you take an oath, you put something up. You put up the life of a loved one ("I swear on my mother") or, if unspecified, your own. The life is collateral. You are calling upon God to end you if you break the oath.

Not only were all childhood vaccines studied more rigorously than nearly any other medical therapeutic before ending up on the vaccine schedule, we also have years of data on BILLIONS of administrations since. No other medical interventions have been tested as rigorously as childhood vaccines have.

I'm sure I speak for many of us when I say fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Lmfao

I mean

counterpoint: WE DON’T HAVE KINGS IN AMERICA AND I DO NOT INTEND TO BEND THE KNEE TO ONE is a profoundly more effective message than whatever this farting around is, go listen to the great khan of the plains

Looking for all those Republicans with pocket Constitutions who love to tweet about 1776

Come ON

And there it is. Same holds for activists, writers, "free speech" orgs, arts institutions and everyone else who has been silent for 15 months.