Thi L
amorateacup.bsky.social
Thi L
@amorateacup.bsky.social
NIH Scientist & Microbiology Professor
Oklahoma ➡️ DC
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Some things I love:

✨ Books
✨ Food & Cooking
✨ Music
✨ Cocktails
✨ Dogs
✨ Stardew Valley
✨ Baldur’s Gate 3, The Witcher, etc
✨ Board games
✨ K-pop & k-drama
✨ Anime
✨ Science
✨ Nails 💅
✨ Candles
✨ Cozy vibes

#promosky
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Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.
February 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.
January 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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If you need more cuteness in your life, the Richmond Zoo is hosting a livestream of their baby Pygmy Hippo, Poppy. The Poppy Cam will be up every day from 9 AM to 5 PM EST!

metrorichmondzoo.com/animals/popp...
Poppy The Pygmy Hippo - Metro Richmond Zoo
metrorichmondzoo.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Some of my favorite book things:

💕 Romance
💕 Fantasy
💕 Romantasy
💕 Mythology
💕 Dragons
💕 Fae
💕 Witchy themes
💕 Billionaire MC
💕 STEM MC
💕 Enemies to lovers
💕 Fake dating
💕 Ana Huang
💕 Rebecca Yarros
💕 Emily Henry
💕 Evie Marceau
💕 Sue Lynn Tan
💕 Throne of Glass

#promosky #booksky #romancebooks
January 13, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Some things I love:

✨ Books
✨ Food & Cooking
✨ Music
✨ Cocktails
✨ Dogs
✨ Stardew Valley
✨ Baldur’s Gate 3, The Witcher, etc
✨ Board games
✨ K-pop & k-drama
✨ Anime
✨ Science
✨ Nails 💅
✨ Candles
✨ Cozy vibes

#promosky
January 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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So true.
January 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Am I the weirdo that reads Christmas books AFTER Christmas?☺️

#booksky #romancebooks
January 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Today's Barnes and Noble run! (Dating and Dragon's is signed) #booksky
January 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Meanwhile Costco just Costco-ing Costco

Doubled Down On DEI As A Business Case: What We Can All Learn www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...
Costco Doubled Down On DEI As A Business Case: What We Can All Learn
Costco is not here for the anti-DEI rhetoric, pushback or bullying. In a recent BOD meeting they double downed on DEI. Let's explore what they said & what we can learn.
www.forbes.com
January 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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🚫 Corporate DEI Graveyard 2025

Companies ditching diversity:
• Meta
• Amazon
• McDonald’s
• Walmart
• Ford
• John Deere
• Starbucks
• Microsoft (partially)
• Salesforce

Inclusion’s last call: going, going, gone! 🎭

#DiversityExit #Dei #capitalismSUCKS
January 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Maryland finds bird flu on Eastern Shore, marking first case since 2023
Maryland finds bird flu on Eastern Shore, marking first case since 2023
The Maryland Department of Agriculture detected bird flu at a commercial broiler in Caroline County.
buff.ly
January 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Secretary Buttigieg visited CMU today. I got to thank him for speaking at our White House ARPA-I Summit in 2023, but more importantly for all the work he’s led on climate & equity at DOT. A really phenomenal Secretary of Transportation.
January 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit”

theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...
Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”
Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”
theintercept.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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January 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
😤😡😤😡

Time to delete all Meta soon
Meta is now definitionally a homophobic corporation.
New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill"

www.404media.co/meta-deletes...
January 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🙃
In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees
January 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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if you enjoy the following let's be friends! 18+ plz 🏳️‍🌈💟

🖤 aesthetic bookshelves
📚 romantasy
🦇 acotar
🔮 witchy vibes
🌿 zelda
🫐 stardew valley
🍄 animal crossing
🍁 dreamlight valley
🌻 sims
🍂 palia
🌸 fortnite
🪴 tiny glade
🪻 infinity nikki
🌈 pretty pc’s
💗 cozy gaming spaces
January 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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A well-known romantasy author is being sued for copyright infringement. But the genre’s reliance on tropes makes proving plot theft tricky. Romantasy novels “express the longing to be unique, but they pour that desire into imitative forms,” Katy Waldman writes.
Did a Best-Selling Romantasy Novelist Steal Another Writer’s Story?
Tracy Wolff, the author of the “Crave” series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasy’s reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.
www.newyorker.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
January 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
January 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
💕💍💅🥰
January 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM