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retrogradeboy.bsky.social
Biologist by trade, straight outta Gangnam Right now, it's all Korea all the time
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Back in the day in Korea during the dictatorship era this kind of thing happened often. Once they even met in a different building and kept the lights off until it was time to count the vote-- to hide from the opposition party that they were voting. This is how legislation passes in DICTATORSHIPS

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Basically, if the court rejects impeachment I will quit on my own. Yeah… if you believe that you’ll believe anything.

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How about this for a business idea: A paper shredder that scans the document as it shreds it. You're welcome.

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How many linguistic mutations did it take for my children to tell me they want to eat “donk ass” tonight?

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Facebook is all about showing you pictures of vaguely familiar people, or people you don’t care about. And then once in a while you see a picture that is… horrifying.

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Sure would be nice if the U.S. continued funding stuff like “vaccines for pancreatic cancer.”

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Agreed. Being able to use ApplePay is also great. Not sure how I feel about the "distance neutral" fare pricing. I like the simplicity, but it's not exactly fair. #nysubway

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김현태 (Kim Hyun-tae) is a colonel playing a very dangerous game with the big boys, and playing it badly. He should've just stuck to honesty (and the tears), because he is now royally screwed. Poor bastard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxnO...

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Special place in hell for the “we had no idea he would…” people. How could we have known? It’s not like he was ever a president or anything.

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On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Allowing Yoon to speak at his own impeachment trial was the worst possible decision ever by his defense team. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFhW...

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"Elez had emerged at the center of a legal battle over access to sensitive taxpayer information and systems the Treasury Department uses to process trillions of dollars in payments annually." Scary stuff...

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O tempora, o mores! English translation: oy vey Korean translation: C8 이게 뭐냐

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Added to the reading pile: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #bullshit /1

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Even the Chinese don’t call it “Chinese New Year,” so there’s that. #lunarnewyear #구정

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I wrote for The Contrarian about my decision to leave the New York Times contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

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lol wtf

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I don't know if this story is true. But if it isn't, it really should be.

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Yoon's crack defense team. "Dude, what're you doing?"

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I don't know what's sadder (re: Korean impeachment trial). Yoon's ridiculous defense, or the fact that he seems to think it's going so well. #impeachment

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The United States has left the World Health Organization. #WHO

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As yet another semester of teaching gets under way, I return to this useful graph. There are two points to be had - one obvious and one less so. The obvious - as stated - is the misleading effect of a truncated y-axis (the graph does not go to zero, which magnifies the effect). /1

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The internet seems to think this is some sexual thing, but any biologist can tell you what this is. #dmelanogaster #brideofsevenless #genetics #modelorganism #thomashuntmorgan

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Our universities are so good that our adversaries send their children to be educated here. We’re dismantling that unbelievable strategic advantage, hurting our own children and our own health in the process.

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Here’s an idea for gym membership. You pay $X to the gym at the beginning of the year, and then every time you go to the gym they give you some fraction of that money back. #health #gym #workout

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It’s gonna be a LONG four years.

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Hey All: Google is pulling the "automatically on for anyone over 18" bullshit with Gemini that the Dropbox did for its AI, but I can't afford to ditch Google Drive/Docs/Workspace. If you have a personal Google Account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off...

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