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With current border policies, it is unethical to continue holding so many important science conferences in the US. In addition to moving conferences to safer international locations, US organizers must reorganize meetings around remote participation.

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

Ugh. I miss threads. I miss people interacting with me. I miss being able to start a discussion. But if disappearing is what I had to do to get people to help stop supporting x, then.... So be it

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

[Sitting in the electric chair, again] Them: Any last words? Me: I won't be shocked if this doesn't work.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

This doesn't look good.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

My friend told me to pose like the flamingo was getting away from me Instead, it looks like the cover of a very niche romance novel 🤣

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

If you can call it the “Gulf of America“ because some weird old guy tells you to, you can easily call a person “they/them,” “him/he,” or “she/her” when that normal person asks you to do so.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

wrote a long piece about how fascists justify cruelty. It works a lot like John Wick or James Bond; you create a story about evil bad guys who deserve whatever happens to them. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-righte...

submitted 62 days ago • 32 comments

This is the best big-picture (both historically and globally) analysis of what’s happening in the US government that I’ve read so far.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 139 days ago • 13 comments

Mr. Trump, why not offer to resettle all 2 million Palestinian refugees from Gaza in the 50 States of the US of A? Transport the willing here, grant them full citizenship, provide them with health care, schools at all levels, homes, mosques and jobs... all free of charge. 1/2 #gaza #aid #uspol

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

WTAF (from New York Times)

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Come on folks, stand up and make your voices heard. Contact your senators and congresswo/men and tell them we will not allow this!

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Everything the White House is doing right now... #uspol

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a fact most Americans don't know: The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) is the largest purchaser of wine by dollar value in the world. The LCBO has shut the flow of all American beer, wine, spirits. We will drink "Freedom wines" from our allies and beer from our communities.

submitted 84 days ago • 940 comments

How come #physics papers never study a #cat's ability to multiply it's mass severalfold when they are curled up between your legs? #WorldsHeaviestCat #ImmovableCat #science #humor

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

This is the week the rabble successfully came for America's data, rather than the failed attempt on Jan 6 2021 when they came for our legislators and the VP.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Byebye love byebye happiness hello loneliness I think that I could cry www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/UWE...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: (not really, the egg is fine 🤭) Watch Jackie, the FOBBV eagle 🦅, in labor. This is their 3rd egg. 🥚 🥚 🥚 I'm really eggscited. I've been looking forward to it since last year. Last year, her and Shadow's eggs failed to hatch. I hope they do this year.🤞🐣🐣🐣 youtu.be/4ySPOCtRrZ8?...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Spoiler Alert: Trump’s “Biological Truth” exec order isn’t about biology — or truth. Great piece from my friend Alicia Roth Weigel. time.com/7209300/trum...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Republican death panels callously yank life support from 25M+ people. This is overseas, but don't doubt they plan to do the same thing at home next. Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Keep it going!

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Folded & assembled proof sheets for @skeuomorphpress.org’s forthcoming letterpress edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology"—an LIS practicum student created the woodcut illustrations of tech mentioned in the text, which we carved on the laser—I set type for the book & fold-out poster

submitted 93 days ago • 12 comments

I have been on Facebook and Instagram a long time. I've got cool communities there. Switching over is going to be hard, but I gotta try.

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments