rileyhannan.bsky.social
Kirschstein-NRSA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UVA studying B1 cells in various diseases w focus on fibrosis. Likes making tools. Flow cytometry + microscopy + data wrangler.
Wannabe polymath.
Leftist/anti-authoritarian hot takes are my own.
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As I've been reading more, it's been fun* for me to learn how ubiquitous the loss of a common truth is in fascist/authoritarian societies - a feature, not a bug
*fun in the "wow it's like poetry, it rhymes" academic way. Mortifying otherwise
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Make sure your blood pressure is OK after that. Mine isn't just from this thread.
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This is an all-timer thread. Thank you for this schadenfreude
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Narrator: the surprise was not, in fact, a very good pie.
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I'm tired, Mr. Roof
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I did not understand this reference and looked it up, this should be classified as an infohazard lmao
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Exhibit x/infinity of this admin being so so goddamn unserious
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For sure, I just don't think there are engineers rubbing their hands together with glee after designing the 2026 model of ChildRunnerOverer
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Gonna be pedantic and argue that the engineers aren't the bloodthirsty ones. It's the average American autobuyer who wants these cars, and auto manufacturers meet that demand.
Overly permissive civil infrastructure and emissions regulations allow for them to be legal.
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These people are so goddamn unserious.
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You have to attack the demagoguery directly, and create countervailing social pressures to oppose him. People aren't sitting in the middle trying to decide whether or not immigrants are invaders. They are trying to decide which team to join. Being meek and defensive makes a bad case for your team.
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Satire is dead, and so am I 💀
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I've heard Hingeley also recuses if he's made eye contact, or peed in the same urinal. But seriously, how can it take that long to proceed??
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Unsaid implication being- we need only survive, and then can step over the bodies of our colleagues into rarified+funding-replete air
I'd prefer to scream and dance and yell about everyone dying rather than excitedly anticipate the "boon" of their absence???
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I feel this discomfort as well. Doesn't seem appropriate to self promote/science skeet as per usual. Was in a meeting where someone said "all we have to do is make it through this and we'll be set! Heads down and work hard!" - icky!
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Time to finally switch from illustrator
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I'm naive of their broader client base - what the heck is coherent making/selling to justify such a big ticket CEO?
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Yeah but you don't make any money here; this is just a sad hobby.
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I agree with the others here - this purity test is not the hill to die on. Despite their ubiquity, I think you'd be hard pressed to get a meaningful description of a UMAP from 95% of the people who use them. Deference to experts is good.
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Damn you stole my reply. Certainly a more palatable take than genX just suck.
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Fear & concern are coded feminine, so they get translated into anger, which feels more tough.
Hurt & disappointment are coded feminine, so they get translated into outrage & aggrievement.
The simple human need for love & affirmation is coded feminine, so it gets translated into demands & control.
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Who let you in my house, Molly?!
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One of the wildest things I've seen on Blue sky, no joke.
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I am very interested in this rooster. Clearly this article is deficient in all kinds of review, peer or author. One of several typos.
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I had to scroll so far down for this - the first actual correct take. Scrubs are common, especially with crewed launches.
I hate Elon as much as the rest of y'all, but please - a kneejerk response to a story might not represent the truth - and weakens valid arguments against Musk and this admin.
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Not me trying to click the "yes" button.
Ty for your blog post + continued reporting!
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Oooo stealing this :)
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The hypocrisy is simply breathtaking, even in the context of the post-truth, post-satire hellscape that is America in 2025.
UVA - just take the fucking mask off, put the hood on, whatever. Cut the bullshit and embrace the good 'ol white boy club you've always been.
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I was here in 2017 when terrisulli took a white nationalist at his word and let nazis terrorize the school and the city.
I was here last year when a dozen or so demonstrators had riot police sicced on them because they were... doing nothing? Aside from caring about brown people, that is.
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Yes, you really suck.
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The Jim Cramer of political punditry
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Maybe I was just trying to call Elon stupid in a very overwrought way lmao