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Bug nerd | Musician | Frequent émigré to virtual worlds | Charter member of the "look for the helpers" club | Vector-borne infectious disease expert and public health agency manager
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A view of "Uncanny Valley": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny...

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Diane Seltzer and Amanda Molina won their DC Bar races 🍾 www.dcbar.org/news-events/... ht: @kathoh.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 394 comments

"I believe that he's had it out for the Federalist Society ever since the coup, ever since January 6th, ever since the post 2020 election litigation. His view of what judges should do is they should be loyal to somebody: him." @gtconway.bsky.social joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

THE most litigious president in this country's history is NOT threatening to sue the world's richest man for defamation. The silence is deafening. #TACO

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Today in Politics, Bulletin 146. The final day in a wild week of politics. Here is everything that happened today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

submitted 6 days ago • 44 comments

In which a rich white guy reveals himself to be the coward he is, because MISSILES ARE PRECISELY THE RISK HERE for #WHATEVERHERNAMEIS.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

😂😂😂 this day keeps on getting better & better. 💕💕💕💕 this 😂

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

As a biologist, I've been mystified why I cannot look at her shiny lip-glossed lips without seeing earthworms moving. This explains it all...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.

submitted 8 days ago • 117 comments

With one agency head after another refusing to produce a budget as required by law, I wonder if Congress really missing the forest for the trees here? "When are you going to produce a budget" they are asked, in good faith, when obviously this clown posse has no intentions of doing so. Priorities!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

“I think his legacy is not going to be an EV or putting rockets into space. I think it’s going to be unnecessary death, disease & disability. That's not what it means to be an innovator, that's not what it means to be an American, that's not what it means to be a man" ~Scott Galloway #ElonMusk

submitted 8 days ago • 102 comments

There are few things more woke than portraying the ridiculousness of conservatives, as "All in the Family" did each week.

submitted 9 days ago • 100 comments

In which Big Industrial gets to defend itself for being an orphan, after having murdered its parents.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Ah, the ole' "I for voted for it before I voted against it" gambit, how very John Kerry of Empty Greene?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Because blaming economic problems on peasants hoarding rice worked so well the first time?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Your (local) tax dollars at work, doing the Fed's job! In which actions taken reveal that the RW "States Rights" claptrap is, and always has been, a lie. And it's the lie that persecutions of so-called "sanctuary cities" is based on: Immigration is a Federal function, not a State or Local one.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

"The key to lasting peace is clear: Putin must get nothing that justifies his aggression. Any rewards shows him that war pays off. If Putin decides who joins NATO or where NATO's infrastructure can't or can be, his appetite for war will only grow," Zelensky.

submitted 11 days ago • 75 comments