saavikford.bsky.social
CUNY Astro prof, AMNH research assoc, runner, astronomer, crafter, camper, gardener, mom, all opinions completely my own (she/her)
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Try not to beat anyone with that rolling pin! Unless, like… they really really deserve it? Except if that will make them put you in jail. Because jail is bad.
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The Mineral Cup is looking for volunteers!
If you know your way around SquareSpace, Tumblr, or Pillowfort, that expertise is especially welcome.
Show your interest on the #MinCup website: www.mineralcup.org/volunteer
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My mom (who was a nun, but left after 9yrs) always called him ‘The Rat’. Also, occasionally, ‘Nazi Pope’.
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How much must it suck for Vance to make converting to Catholicism his primary personality trait and the Church to respond by making an America Pope that tells Vance how bad a Catholic he actually is at every opportunity
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Marjorie Townsend is missing in Spanish and all but 6 languages.
She is considered of low importance for #WomenScientists and #Spaceflight.
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Pope Leo is both super woke and super Midwestern, so he'll smile and shake Trump's hand as he systematically replaces every American Bishop with an immigrant or refugee.
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Hello. My understanding is that you are a news organization with a long history in television. Are you aware that this was captured on video from several different angles?
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Bands of masked ICE terrorists are roving Los Angeles neighborhoods, kidnapping children, taqueros, fruit vendors and construction workers.
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& may hear this, if we try.
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Yeah, this is a horrible disaster that could unfold—please call your reps to tell them you don’t want US science funding cut—it is our broad-based science spending that has made the US such a science & tech powerhouse, which has also raised our economy, productivity & life expectancy… even Rs care
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Must do this while simultaneously knowing we can’t win every battle, but we mustn’t concede anything until we are truly beaten.
It’s hard, I won’t lie.
But hope is a discipline, as Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social says.
Now is the time to build strength & train ourselves to be disciplined.
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History is read backwards, but LIVED forwards. None of us can predict what will be going on in a year, for better or worse. History isn’t written yet—we still have time to fight. Let’s do everything we can to salvage every piece of our scientific endeavor—which is every person who contributes—we
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The scale of the impending disaster & the apparent unwillingness of any other nation (or consortium thereof) to step into the breach means this will be catastrophic not only for the US but the entire world… if we cannot change course.
It isn’t time to surrender yet—like I said in my plenary: