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The thing about American reactionaries online is that they’re like “under a true Christian monarch, the West will flourish with the enlightened guidance of a philosopher king…” and it’s meant to justify supporting a senile gameshow host and a drug-addled manchild who cheats at Diablo.

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Also what's happening to our country, coincidentally.

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"Elon Musk is not a scientist, he is not an engineer. He is a billionaire con man with a lot of money." - @aoc.bsky.social 🎯

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Bunny stack!

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What do you think this is? If you guessed mirror for an X-Ray telescope, you’d be right! This is part of one of the mirrors on XRISM, a joint JAXA/NASA/ESA mission that launched in 2023. But why does it look like this? 🔭🧪🧵 (1/n) 📸: NASA, T Mickal

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My friends know of my love of zines. I started making them when I was a teenager [that's a long time ago] and this essay includes lots of reasons that you should consider making your own zines in this moment we are living through: open.substack.com/pub/queerarc...

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Again Donald Trump and Elon Musk are complicit in murder.

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I love boneless wings :3

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LGBTQ federal workers say they're terrified they're about to be fired for their gender identity, sexual orientation, or past efforts to support other queer and trans employees—in other words, a second Lavender Scare. Honored to have their trust with this story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Tired of wondering which atomic lines are in your spectra? You need: whose line is it anyway? An interactive tool for identifying atomic spectral lines. 🧪🔭 #stars install: pip install whoseline source: github.com/bmorris3/who...

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Turning 30 less than a month into my graduate program like

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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My latest column for @newscientist.com is about how categories are made by humans, whether we are talking about how to organize stellar types or human sex identity. With special mention to @benneholwerda.bsky.social and one of his students OBAFGKM :-) 🧪🔭 www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

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Keep making art, my friends. Write, draw, paint, sing, play. And keep enjoying the art of others. Indulge in things that bring you joy. It's how you survive and it's what makes fighting so important. Fight as much as you can, but don't forsake joy.

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That moment when Alt Text ceases to become a chore and becomes a gift of descriptive language to all who read it. When you realize the opportunity to write alt text is actually an opportunity to exercise your own brain and creativity. #tinyjoys #alttext #disabilities #writing

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Having a book club, even a virtual one (which can address accessibility and keep ppl safer from things like COVID etc) is a real, tangible thing folks can do. I'm talking about learning, not just being entertained. I'd highly recommend starting with Let This Radicalize You.

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My U.S. Rep, a Democrat, held a town hall and explicitly said that THE REASON she was speaking out louder now was because she got so many calls and emails. DEFINITELY YELL AT THEM. It’s the only language they speak. It’s literally how they gauge public opinion.

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"Move fast and break things" sounds like some bold techbro vision of innovation, but it's also the same motto of thieves who want to do a smash-and-grab and get the fuck out before anybody can catch them.

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BLESSED

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Taking things one day at a time. Todays task? Keeping my book club from trying to pick another book by an alleged sex pest AGAIN

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Couldn’t make it to the protest at Stonewall today but this is how I hope everyone’s rolling up

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We won’t disappear just because you change a website.

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There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

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If you needed something positive today, here it is.

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Currently the least popular person in the office (running a temp chamber with a compressor that clicks on and off every few seconds) (also one of the few remaining queers)

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"[Vera] Rubin addressed the [1996] graduating class at the University of California, Berkeley, saying: 'I hope that you will fight injustice and discrimination in all its guises'" 🔭

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The thing about complying in advance is that while fighting fascism is scary, it’s not as scary as living a cowardly life.

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I’m not saying it would fix everything, but a lot of the internet’s problems would be solved if “write your kneejerk thoughts and opinions in a journal and show no one” would come back into fashion. Not everyone needs to know your rawest, off the cuff, unedited thoughts.

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Do folks understand that the EOs attacking trans people include people under 19 because they want to see if we will let them ban gender affirming healthcare for adults too? Once they get bigot mandates to harm the most vulnerable, they will never stop there. Same for gestational abortion bans.

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They found a way to litter from space

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Teaching myself how to bind books so I don’t have to get a new stapler to print zines. Anything to keep my hands moving

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Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Microsoft)

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A gift for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...

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Hey so FYI this is why a lot of us believe billionaires should not exist. Because no one should be rich enough to topple a government

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Haymarket Books has 40% off books about the history and politics of the Black freedom movement (black liberation, abolition, anti-fascism). I highly encourage everyone to read any of these books especially if you're a fan of democrats.

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A private citizen shutting down a government agency is a coup. Do not normalize this.

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We had an entire movie about why you do not give AI access to the Nuclear codes, people.

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If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

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