Antijen
@antijen.bsky.social
Mad Laboratorian. Writer. Multiple Mom. Feminist. Neurospicy. Evidence-based (til proven otherwise). Opinions are mine. ALL MINE. I stand for science and justice. Guns suck. She/her
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February 7, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
February 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
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If folks in other parts of the country are preparing for ICe Surge, part of the fabric of response has to include anti-fascist tow truck drivers.
Recruit them now.
Recruit them now.
Tow truck driver offering free service returning abandoned vehicles to families of those abducted by ICE: "For the last three weeks, we have been getting nothing but death threats."
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests
Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.
www.cbsnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:39 PM
If folks in other parts of the country are preparing for ICe Surge, part of the fabric of response has to include anti-fascist tow truck drivers.
Recruit them now.
Recruit them now.
I'm sorry. I cannot with Canada's opening ceremony outfit. Why are we wearing giant duvets draped over our shoulders, friends?
February 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM
I'm sorry. I cannot with Canada's opening ceremony outfit. Why are we wearing giant duvets draped over our shoulders, friends?
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If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 11:26 AM
If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.
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this gets a DANG from me
Yes, everything is terrible, but I painted this and it kinda rocks #sciart
February 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
this gets a DANG from me
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One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.
Anyway, yeah. The overwhelming impression one gets from so many of these emails is that a lot of them are guys who have never had a real, serious friendship with a woman in their lives.
Which sucks for them, but also sucks for every woman who has to deal with them, ever.
Which sucks for them, but also sucks for every woman who has to deal with them, ever.
February 5, 2026 at 6:47 PM
One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.
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IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:
THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
February 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:
THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
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No excuses for this. It incensed me so much I wrote not one, but two articles linking to millions of free to use public domain images.
world.hey.com/jordanacosta...
world.hey.com/jordanacosta...
Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers
You have options other than Generative AI to illustrate your work The other day, I posted the following Substack Note: My opinion was challenged with two now-familiar rebuttals: 1. The vast majority o...
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February 6, 2026 at 2:05 PM
No excuses for this. It incensed me so much I wrote not one, but two articles linking to millions of free to use public domain images.
world.hey.com/jordanacosta...
world.hey.com/jordanacosta...
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I do not think the most significant cultural shifts will come from a World War, Class War, Race War, or whatever other battle people weirdly fantasize about. I think it’ll be an integration of the idea that children are people and not the property of their parents.
February 6, 2026 at 3:33 AM
I do not think the most significant cultural shifts will come from a World War, Class War, Race War, or whatever other battle people weirdly fantasize about. I think it’ll be an integration of the idea that children are people and not the property of their parents.
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again these people don’t act like they believe in hell
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:58 AM
again these people don’t act like they believe in hell
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A white man said it, they might really hear it now.
February 6, 2026 at 2:58 AM
A white man said it, they might really hear it now.
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May/may not have cried watching this again just now.
"These wonderful patriots have defeated a concentration camp."
I believe
that
we
will
win.
"These wonderful patriots have defeated a concentration camp."
I believe
that
we
will
win.
Rachel Maddow on Hanover County ICE Detention Center
YouTube video by Rob McCausland
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February 5, 2026 at 6:37 PM
May/may not have cried watching this again just now.
"These wonderful patriots have defeated a concentration camp."
I believe
that
we
will
win.
"These wonderful patriots have defeated a concentration camp."
I believe
that
we
will
win.
A little bit of good local news!
Someone was arguing that it would be *good, actually* to have a detention center here, because otherwise people who are picked up get sent to detention centers in other states far from their families.
Uh... no. That happens regardless.
Someone was arguing that it would be *good, actually* to have a detention center here, because otherwise people who are picked up get sent to detention centers in other states far from their families.
Uh... no. That happens regardless.
Howard County says no to private immigration detention centers
Howard County says no to private immigration detention centers
The Howard County Council unanimously voted Thursday night to block a private immigrant detention center nearing completion in Elkridge.
buff.ly
February 6, 2026 at 2:30 AM
A little bit of good local news!
Someone was arguing that it would be *good, actually* to have a detention center here, because otherwise people who are picked up get sent to detention centers in other states far from their families.
Uh... no. That happens regardless.
Someone was arguing that it would be *good, actually* to have a detention center here, because otherwise people who are picked up get sent to detention centers in other states far from their families.
Uh... no. That happens regardless.
I'm at the hair salon while my kid gets his hair cut and I'm just SO uncomfortable with this kind of social interaction. So much small talk. So many little expectations that I'll know what to do or say next.
Here is a reference picture. Cut hair please. I will pay you and tip well. Ok?
Here is a reference picture. Cut hair please. I will pay you and tip well. Ok?
February 6, 2026 at 1:25 AM
I'm at the hair salon while my kid gets his hair cut and I'm just SO uncomfortable with this kind of social interaction. So much small talk. So many little expectations that I'll know what to do or say next.
Here is a reference picture. Cut hair please. I will pay you and tip well. Ok?
Here is a reference picture. Cut hair please. I will pay you and tip well. Ok?
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cool, shut it down then
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 9:28 PM
cool, shut it down then
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the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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I think most of you know this, but to be clear: All the semiquincentennial stuff I'm doing via @fullstorybaltimore.tours is commemorating the 250th anniversaries of various events that I find interesting and worth talking about (e.g. Dunmore Day).
Not "celebrating America's birthday" 🤨
Not "celebrating America's birthday" 🤨
there's still seven years to correct things in good time for No 250 [ed. 1783 being the proper date], though, isn't there @actualkatherine.bsky.social ? 🙃
February 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I think most of you know this, but to be clear: All the semiquincentennial stuff I'm doing via @fullstorybaltimore.tours is commemorating the 250th anniversaries of various events that I find interesting and worth talking about (e.g. Dunmore Day).
Not "celebrating America's birthday" 🤨
Not "celebrating America's birthday" 🤨
Is cringe cool now? Because that's really the only explanation for this. A "content hub?" Really?
I'm so tired.
I'm so tired.
Welcome to Headquarters, the new Gen-Z led progressive content hub.
February 5, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Is cringe cool now? Because that's really the only explanation for this. A "content hub?" Really?
I'm so tired.
I'm so tired.
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I believe that the “sides,” such as they are, are no longer right and left so much as abusers/enablers and folks who want to prevent that.
February 5, 2026 at 4:40 PM
I believe that the “sides,” such as they are, are no longer right and left so much as abusers/enablers and folks who want to prevent that.
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Literally make soup for your family.
I've cooked ~14 cups of carrots into my well-loved carrot soup in ~18 hours & it's a dozen freezer portions for my household + 4 servings each for 5 more households.
I do this kind of cooking regularly to help feed folks, but I talk about it because it helps illustrate the potential impact.
I do this kind of cooking regularly to help feed folks, but I talk about it because it helps illustrate the potential impact.
February 5, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Literally make soup for your family.
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The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.
One thing about the enormous pressure journalists are under to make videos and TikToks and do streams that kills me is that, like… some of us are meant to be read and not seen. Commenters get SO MAD about the way I look whenever my face breaches containment! Just let me write!
February 5, 2026 at 7:46 PM
The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.
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February 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Holy shit, this is exceptional.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Holy shit, this is exceptional.