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mephistotabernacle.bsky.social
Humanist, leftist, atheist, ally, fan of human cooperation, student of many sciences, teacher of some, Ohioan (for now). I'm not going to let Bluesky turn into the timesink that X became for me previously; here I will block early and often.
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A Cuyahoga County deputy took an illegal joy ride in my car yesterday. No probable cause, no arrest, just decided to order me and my child to get out of the car then drove it elsewhere against my protestations. The fucker didn't even put it in park when he left. Wish I'd been recording.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

1. The central dogma of christianity is that people want to do bad things. 2. A person can only speak confidently about the state of their own mind. Therefore, a christian is a person announcing that they want to do bad things. (this explains a lot)

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

My current campaign: Calling my R(egressive) congressional senator and representative with four instructions: 1) Impeach 2) Convict 3) Remove 4) Resign

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

I've encountered creationists who reject mutations; they think that mutations are just recombination. I doubt they have ever considered that they are disproven by the observation that there is more than one human 'Y' chromosome.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

A constituent was forcibly removed from Mike Lawler’s town hall. He has inadvertently created an instantly iconic image of the resistance.

submitted 51 days ago • 302 comments

If you think that letting corporations own roads will make the roads better, you need to look into the cost of marketing departments and realize that governments don't need them.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Has another paper gone missing? GS shows 88 people have cited it, and science.org links to it... National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Diversity and STEM: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities (National Science Foundation, 2023); ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23315/.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Heard a claim today that much of the death caused by Stalin was due to rejecting evolution. I just had to check it because it seemed too conveniently pro-atheist/science to be true. It's true, and I will now think of RFK as "the U.S. version of Lysenko." www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

I was trying to find a dataset to play with some statistical approaches I've been studying. Decided to compare two numbers: - pre-vaccine COVID case fatality rate - VAERS reports per vaccine administered. The CFR (1.7%) is more than 10x higher than all kinds of reports (even the fake ones) (0.14%)

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

A christians using a 'no true scotsman' to try to absolve their religion of the bad things christians did while trying to take credit for "good things" those same christians did is a good indicator that the person you are talking to is part of the problem.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Hey Eric Ralls, A *Last* Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) is NOT "the first edition;" Neither is it "our earliest common ancestor." Portraying it as such is not just misleading, but feeds into anti-science, anti-evolution narratives. www.earth.com/news/luca-la...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Listening to someone doing christian auto-hieromytherotism (right behind me in a classroom) is probably the most disgusting thing I have had to put up with in a very long time. Like, seriously, it's basically necrophilia lusting after their favorite dead body.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

I've nicknamed the violent hillbilly militia arm of Donald's regime the "Pumpkin Guard" with intentional parallel to Mao's 红卫兵 (Red Guard) and rural competitive agriculture. Humorous as it is, I don't think we're too far off them appearing at universities to beat professors and students.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

I trust that my anti-vax family are enjoying the weekly updates I'm sending them on the progress of the measles outbreak they worked so hard to accomplish. They've become very quiet. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

First, they came for Abrego Garcia, and the MAGAts said "take him." Because anyone still MAGA only hears the off-white name and will believe any criminal allegation attached to it, no matter how many conservative courts rule otherwise.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

“Show me your papers!” used to be a phrase that evoked disgust over totalitarianism. Now, in the USA, it is ‘praised’. How the mighty have fallen.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Progressives need to take over the Democratic party.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

It's (un-)surprising how much like "communist" Russia and China the United States currently sounds if you just search "bourgeois" and replace it with "leftist." The anti- "intellectual elite" part especially. The Jan 6ers make a pretty decent hillbilly stand-in for the Red Guard, too.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

So, uhm... Points for confidence, but ChatGPT draws chemical mechanisms much the same way an organic chemist's 4 year old child might: complete with misspellings, arrows-to-nowhere, and ... well, I would definitely call water magically appearing from nowhere an "aqueous work-up" of some kind 🤣

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Today I remembered back to when my creationist uncle tried to convince me that evolution selection didn't work... ...using a prime example of natural selection. I wish I understood just how politically loaded that particular ignorance was back then.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder, folks: "I do not think there are gods" isn't a religion.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not concerned about the undocumented immigrant with some parking and speeding tickets. I'm concerned about the American citizen with 34 felony convictions who is driving America right into a fucking ditch.

submitted 84 days ago • 116 comments

One of the most frustrating parts of studying organic chemistry is the tendency for my inner monologue to make the correct determination (this looks like an elimination reaction) while my hand draws a completely unrelated mechanism.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

The problem with having interacted so much with right wing nutters is that I know that they will love the fact that Booker just broke Thurmond's record; they probably salivate at accusing long filibusterers as being done by people they view as on the wrong side of history.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Gee... it's almost like there should be a process to determine whether someone should be deported or not... a process that should be due to every person, regardless of how "guilty" they may appear. I wonder what we'd call something like that.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

"Irreducible complexity" analogy in simplified physical terms: See that rock rolling down the hill at almost 40 kph? There's no way that rock would get that fast without help, even if it did start on the top of the hill (which, incidentally, [I] don't believe it did)! Therefore god pushed it. 😂

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments