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mitothomas.bsky.social
Molecular microbiologist, swing dancer, & baritone horn player. But I do nerdy things as well.
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Always respect for my president

The problem is conservatives and TERFs DON'T know what a woman is. Or a man. They define man as "not woman" and woman as "not man", and that's why the idea of transition fries their brains. If they didn't hang their identity on being "not the other", they wouldn't be obsessively policing others.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

the crazy part is this means the facebook we’ve all been experiencing for the past 5 years was the *good* version

"She is serious," is something one lawyer warns another, while shaking their head regretfully, about a third lawyer who is acting crazy. Usually in response to a question like, "So what is this woman's deal? Is she just messing with me, or is this actually how she is?"

You will never succeed at fighting right wing disinfo with facts. Right wingers believe the first thing they hear & they'll believe it for life. They'll fight to the death about some inconsequential bullshit they just heard 5 seconds ago. You beat them by calling them weird assholes & isolating them

Citizens would be on their best behavior if their needs are met, if they’re life is full of less stress, they can feed their families, and pay their fucking bills. They don’t need child monitors.

This is the most important thread you will read. This is lunacy. And we are derelict as a society if we don’t push for guardrails around this. My God. Thank you @karenattiah.bsky.social.

Is “untreated” modifying water or water enthusiasts

since we're doing "things we got wrong this year," I will say this: I think of myself as a pretty pessimistic person, but boy howdy did I underestimate the sheer partisan hackery of the supreme court

I wonder what charity work Trump will do when he's out of office

I wrote about the billionaire system—a murderous scam upon which my country was founded—enabling our rising fascist tide, and lessons of opposition to learn from the natural human system it captured and perverted for its evil intentions. A tale of two murders: www.the-reframe.com/a-system-bui...

Be the woman hitting a Nazi with a handbag you wish to see in the world. I love that she has been immortalised by a statue too!

The solution to poverty is to give money to people who need money. Everything else is just inefficiency in order to salve people’s desire to punish poor people for being poor.

Having loathed the term skeet since I first encountered it, I look forward to this video helping to make it uncool

concept: For All Mankind but it's an alternate history of the DOJ doing its fucking job

Jeff Bezos has a very different understanding of the word “uniting” than I do, if he thinks that is something Trump will do

Matt Walsh: “People should not be allowed to earn a living wage doing something Donald Trump can learn.”

one of the worst things in political journalism is the tendency to treat only private comments as an actual reflection of a candidate’s views and thus remotely scandal-worthy the terrible shit they say in public is actually much more likely to result in awful policy and should be treated worse

Proud member of the…26% 🥲

Lol at “Did you find this helpful?”

Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

YOU GUYS WE HAVE TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING SO THE ECHIDNAS CAN DREAM

an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

have said this before but trump’s brain is pretty obviously far more cooked than biden’s if you listen to what they actually say. but the presentation - basically trump being a spaz - makes trump *look and sound* less cooked to many people i think

"With the help of a research assistant, I reached out to every union drive that went public in 2022...BLM was the (non-union) movement influence that was most widely cited by those workers who initiated union drives in 2022." @ericblanc.bsky.social www.laborpolitics.com/p/can-anti-r...

Bitcoin consumes about 2.5% of US electricity, about the same as all residential cooling. An article decrying *that* electricity usage as a personal moral failing would be much less tone deaf.

"And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them. ... If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine."

Sitting way up on the grass at the top of the amphitheater at the Berkeley Greek without any sound-reflective surface behind us and the opening act is still so loud it hurts. They’re awesome tho

This amazing sea otter was a foster mama to 15 orphaned pups during her time at the aquarium, allowing them to return to the wild 🦦

Happy Pride :-)

Trump and his supporters are not angry that the Manhattan trial was “rigged.” They’re angry that it wasn’t. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

they retreat to this equivalency canard because Netanyahu is plainly guilty

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