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phdfrog.bsky.social
Scientific Amphibian. Open-source software nerd and occasional tech writer in "real life". I hang out with cats.
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This sounds like a blatant violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Lawsuit time?

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

🎶 I've been listening to various recordings of the Elgar violin concerto the last couple days. This is the one that struck me as bringing something fresh to a work that's long been a favorite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OHn...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 2 days ago • 1244 comments

This is the guy who wants to eliminate telecommuting by federal workers because he claims they're playing golf instead of working when they're not required to be physically in their offices. 🙄 The projection is epic!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: The United States faces "a constitutional crisis as the president attempts to rule as an autocrat..., a heedless billionaire smashes through people’s lives and complex systems he doesn’t understand with sadistic glee,...and the U.S. is attempting to reverse eighty years of world leadership."

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Why is @govofco.bsky.social defending Trump and Musk, instead of defending the people of his state from their unconstitutional depredations on programs authorized by Congress?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This was always my favorite "Frog and Toad" story. 🐸

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The pilot quoted in this article has the same conclusion I did after seeing the video of the crash: failure of the right landing gear is what caused the right wing to break off and lift generated by the remaining left wing flipped the plane. globalnews.ca/news/1102336...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I'm having a hard time getting motivated to work on my taxes this year. Why should we ordinary citizens obey the law when our leaders openly flout it? Why should I send money to the government when it's not going to the programs Congress voted to spend our taxes on?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Measles requires 95% vaccination rates for herd immunity. It has a 16.2% case fatality rate for unvaccinated children under 5 years and 24% for children under 9 months (who are unable to be vaccinated). 30% of the survivors experience severe complications like blindness, deafness, or encephalitis.

submitted 98 days ago • 112 comments

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

submitted 7 days ago • 478 comments

I don't know what's going on at the dead bird site nowadays and maybe there are other accounts I ought to be following here, but Pete Buttigieg sure seems to be the leader of the Democratic party resistance in my feed.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 8 days ago • 2697 comments

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

submitted 9 days ago • 598 comments

I've been having rather vivid nightmares lately. The one the night before last was actually kind of interesting with a hero-on-the-run plot like "The Thirty-Nine Steps", but this morning I woke up in a sweat after dreaming that China had launched a nuclear attack against Ukraine. 😰

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

If you're looking for a way to support legal action against the Trump/Musk assault on the rule of law, I've found a couple of organizations who are busy filing lawsuits: @democracyforward.bsky.social (Marc Elias) and @sddaction.bsky.social (Norm Eisen), both accept tax-deductible donations! 💳

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

If our POTUS won't follow the law and he and his minions are busy redirecting our tax money somewhere other than where Congress authorized, and Congress is OK with this, why should we citizens bother to follow the law and pay taxes?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Yay! Pete's here. 🥳

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments