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Postdoc researching exoplanet biosignatures, Univ. of Arizona | Astrobiologist | Trans Lesbian | Wife | SFF Writer | Lukewarm Ecosocialist | Union Woman | One Half of @asabpod.bsky.social | She/Her www.tessafisher.com Words and opinions are my own.
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republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

Something to keep in mind before you get excited about suborbital passenger rockets replacing airplanes. All four of that polar orbit crew spacesick as soon as microgravity started. futurism.com/fram2-space-...

celtic pagans 600 years ago: "never must we go in ye olde barrow mounds. the fair folk may spirit us away through the veil." Me: *tits out in the middle of a mushroom circle chugging mead during a full moon on an equinox* "IT WOULD BE A SHAME IF SOMETHING FAYE ABDUCTED & CORRUPTED ME RIGHT NOW!"

It's amazing that 4 congressional Dems voted to make it *illegal for married women to vote*, and the rest of the Dems didn't respond "ok yeah you are not allowed to call yourself a Democrat anymore, we're not going to help fundraise for you, just go fuck yourself"

I do think that we are 100% dealing with people who DO have sinister evil overarching plans and are ALSO incredibly stupid and incompetent.

Uncountable scientific papers, patents, full classrooms, new ideas, new startups, new communities, new music, new art, new ideas, leaders and parents and founders and Americans, erased by one sad dipshit who can't stand to be in the company of his betters

Elon Musk really is huffing some Khmer-Rouge-flavored shit right now.

Oh hell ya www.military.com/daily-news/2...

i wouldn't mind living to see my 95th birthday for many reasons, one of which is that on the morning of October 23, 2077, I could take a sip of fine liquor, experience the sunlight, and say "not today, Vault-Tec!"

christopher walken in famous art work: thread

Now is a very good time for folks to reconsider the links between the MIC and space exploration. This week isn't the first time I've been advised to be ready to jump to a defense contractor to "survive" as a planetary scientist, and it won't be last. Really makes you think!!

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

Authoritarianism is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Join us to hear voices from the future, discussing their experiences in Hong Kong, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, and Ukraine, live on Wednesday or watch the recording any time~

I have zero patience for “do climate work but just don’t call it that”. I am not talking in code about an existential threat bc a handful of Americans like profiting off oil and gas & have managed to brainwashed another handful of Americans. Don’t capitulate. They’ll take your funding anyway.

there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.”

One of my pet peeves is the whole "both parties are the same" thing. Even if you believe both parties are equally bad, the *ways* in which they are bad is very much manifestly different! And this has serious strategic implications for challenging them!

It doesn’t matter if they’re “coming for you next.” Even if your position and your privilege will ALWAYS protect you and everyone you love, it is your job as a conscious human being to fight for justice. That’s just the way it fucking is. You don’t get to abdicate that responsibility.

RFK is using "healthy" here in a moralistic and eugenic sense if you die of an infectious disease, that just tells him you weren't healthy--in the sense that either you were irresponsible about your health and thus deserve to die, or you are defective and thus are a drain on society while you live

Let's be clear, these tariffs are not about reordering trade relations. They are a dominance performance, and it is about demonstrating dominance over consumers just as much as any foreign power. He is telling us peasants to shut up and drink our chicory and mud brew, smile, and thank him for it.

lord willing we will one day prosecute miller for crimes against humanity

we need to keep a close eye on the legal battle between maine and the trump administration. the battle is purportedly about trans athletes, but is really about federal vs blue state power. if maine can beat trump on trans athletes, any blue state can beat him on any issue.

Try to bear in mind that whatever you think of Democrats or the left side of the political spectrum in this country in general, there are 220 Republican House Reps and 53 Republican Senators who seem absolutely fine with all of this.

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That makes 11 states refusing to comply with the attack on diversity, equity and inclusion. 16 plus Puerto Rico have folded. Here's language to push your state and local education leaders to stand up and fight back.

When I read "the big unions are all in the enemy's side now" I'm gonna assume you know zilch about American unions beyond big news stories and negatively polarizing yourself online

im sorry but i refuse to exist in marc andreessen’s twitter-induced psychosis. these people have been nothing but lionized by liberal high society and in response, they have chosen to try to destroy it.

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

there is a certain kind of person alive who wants to enact psychological terror on minorities and children, complete anti-social behavior not fit for society

the muppets in famous works of art: thread