Claire Oliphant
@claireoliphant.com
I weave my fascination with #science and #mathematics into my #stainedglass art.
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Who got the structure of DNA? Franklin, Crick, and Watson. It's true and we can't be stopped.
Went to a great talk the other day where the speaker referred to "Watson, Crick, and Franklin" nucleotides & let's all adopt that terminology
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Who got the structure of DNA? Franklin, Crick, and Watson. It's true and we can't be stopped.
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There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.
*If all goes by the regular schedule
*If all goes by the regular schedule
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely.
*If all goes by the regular schedule
*If all goes by the regular schedule
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AND FURTHERMORE - (Hi, this is your county chair, Sasha) I have my calendar cleared from March 1-April 11 which is when the C&A cycle runs, and I would truly love to be absolutely wrecked at the end because we had to process so much data because SO MANY DEMS SHOWED UP STATEWIDE.
Please show up.
Please show up.
As an example: the last time I caucused for a candidate, there were three people there for my district. We were electing five representatives. Me showing up, by myself, got two reps for the candidate I was caucusing for.
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
AND FURTHERMORE - (Hi, this is your county chair, Sasha) I have my calendar cleared from March 1-April 11 which is when the C&A cycle runs, and I would truly love to be absolutely wrecked at the end because we had to process so much data because SO MANY DEMS SHOWED UP STATEWIDE.
Please show up.
Please show up.
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Democrats can't defeat Trump-MAGA authoritarianism without an agenda that stands squarely on the side of working people.
We need a pro-worker, pro-democracy, anti-establishment movement that will take on oligarchy like never before.
It starts with the party rejecting Big Money.
We need a pro-worker, pro-democracy, anti-establishment movement that will take on oligarchy like never before.
It starts with the party rejecting Big Money.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Democrats can't defeat Trump-MAGA authoritarianism without an agenda that stands squarely on the side of working people.
We need a pro-worker, pro-democracy, anti-establishment movement that will take on oligarchy like never before.
It starts with the party rejecting Big Money.
We need a pro-worker, pro-democracy, anti-establishment movement that will take on oligarchy like never before.
It starts with the party rejecting Big Money.
I know lies and misinformation travel faster than truth, but I find this post so much more interesting than any of Avi Loeb's (bonkers) assertions about 3I/ATLAS.
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained
Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft. He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...
sites.psu.edu
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I know lies and misinformation travel faster than truth, but I find this post so much more interesting than any of Avi Loeb's (bonkers) assertions about 3I/ATLAS.
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
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I understand what the roll call vote totals are going to be but if the other Democrats had a problem with this deal they would be withholding unanimous consent on advancing it and loudly naming their colleagues as traitors.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I understand what the roll call vote totals are going to be but if the other Democrats had a problem with this deal they would be withholding unanimous consent on advancing it and loudly naming their colleagues as traitors.
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I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit
this should not be controversial 🫠
this should not be controversial 🫠
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just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
BREAKING
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
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This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This is a bad deal, and the old way of doing things is clearly not working.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
We need new leaders in the Senate.
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Can concur.
I don't make a point to get in everyone's business, but my bestie and I were talking to our server at this restaurant in Dubai.
I believe he was from Thailand, if I remember correctly. Was there for work and hadn't left in years.
The gag is, people hear this story and think. . .
I don't make a point to get in everyone's business, but my bestie and I were talking to our server at this restaurant in Dubai.
I believe he was from Thailand, if I remember correctly. Was there for work and hadn't left in years.
The gag is, people hear this story and think. . .
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Can concur.
I don't make a point to get in everyone's business, but my bestie and I were talking to our server at this restaurant in Dubai.
I believe he was from Thailand, if I remember correctly. Was there for work and hadn't left in years.
The gag is, people hear this story and think. . .
I don't make a point to get in everyone's business, but my bestie and I were talking to our server at this restaurant in Dubai.
I believe he was from Thailand, if I remember correctly. Was there for work and hadn't left in years.
The gag is, people hear this story and think. . .
What a delightful bit of news to wake up to. A bit of whimsy to start the day.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
What a delightful bit of news to wake up to. A bit of whimsy to start the day.
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if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
I don't know if Kat will win, but I LOVE the way she's running her campaign. She's being transparent, and using a lot of her campaign $$ and actions to actively help her community. This isn't just a good hearted move, I think it's smart politics.
Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District.
And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:
And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:
November 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I don't know if Kat will win, but I LOVE the way she's running her campaign. She's being transparent, and using a lot of her campaign $$ and actions to actively help her community. This isn't just a good hearted move, I think it's smart politics.
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please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state"
⚗️🧪 #chemsky
⚗️🧪 #chemsky
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Private equity needs to be reformed from the ground up or outlawed
November 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Private equity needs to be reformed from the ground up or outlawed
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Another reason to boycott Tesla.
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Another reason to boycott Tesla.
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#fungifriends #candlesnuff
Found a forest of candlesnuff fungi.
Did I mention that thing about nature being amazing and that we should get our act together, rethink everything that damages us & nature, and restore our planet?
Let’s just do it. Luckily it’s not rocket science.
#actnow #photography
Found a forest of candlesnuff fungi.
Did I mention that thing about nature being amazing and that we should get our act together, rethink everything that damages us & nature, and restore our planet?
Let’s just do it. Luckily it’s not rocket science.
#actnow #photography
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
#fungifriends #candlesnuff
Found a forest of candlesnuff fungi.
Did I mention that thing about nature being amazing and that we should get our act together, rethink everything that damages us & nature, and restore our planet?
Let’s just do it. Luckily it’s not rocket science.
#actnow #photography
Found a forest of candlesnuff fungi.
Did I mention that thing about nature being amazing and that we should get our act together, rethink everything that damages us & nature, and restore our planet?
Let’s just do it. Luckily it’s not rocket science.
#actnow #photography
Like the sonogram of a planetary system
WOW!
An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action.
🧪🔭
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
An incredible discovery. The first ever image of a baby exoplanet embedded in the dust rings from which planets are forming around a star. Confirms the developing view of planet formation that we’ve never before seen in action.
🧪🔭
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
November 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Like the sonogram of a planetary system
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Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
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NEW: While major statewide elections and ballot measures captured national attention this week, local elections also delivered on some crucial pro-democracy victories. Check out all of the small — but mighty — election wins you may have missed👇
https://bit.ly/4nNbmoN
https://bit.ly/4nNbmoN
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November 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: While major statewide elections and ballot measures captured national attention this week, local elections also delivered on some crucial pro-democracy victories. Check out all of the small — but mighty — election wins you may have missed👇
https://bit.ly/4nNbmoN
https://bit.ly/4nNbmoN
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Here's a photo from the National Catholic Reporter that may upset the admin:
a Bishop
leading a Day of the Dead service
Along with over a dozen clergy
in front of the Trump-Vance-Noem immigration black site they were denied access to
in front of a banner reading GOD STANDS WITH THE OPPRESSED
a Bishop
leading a Day of the Dead service
Along with over a dozen clergy
in front of the Trump-Vance-Noem immigration black site they were denied access to
in front of a banner reading GOD STANDS WITH THE OPPRESSED
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Here's a photo from the National Catholic Reporter that may upset the admin:
a Bishop
leading a Day of the Dead service
Along with over a dozen clergy
in front of the Trump-Vance-Noem immigration black site they were denied access to
in front of a banner reading GOD STANDS WITH THE OPPRESSED
a Bishop
leading a Day of the Dead service
Along with over a dozen clergy
in front of the Trump-Vance-Noem immigration black site they were denied access to
in front of a banner reading GOD STANDS WITH THE OPPRESSED
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A clear explanation of the efforts of a Supreme Court Justice to try to mitigate the impacts of an awful person, and a reminder that it's helpful to learn the details about something before leaping in with a half-formed opinion.
If you’re trying to catch up on what went down with #SNAP late last night at #SCOTUS, here’s my attempt to read the breadcrumbs on the “administrative stay” issued by Justice Jackson—and why a justice so critical of the Court’s grants of emergency relief to Trump still granted temporary relief here:
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
www.stevevladeck.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A clear explanation of the efforts of a Supreme Court Justice to try to mitigate the impacts of an awful person, and a reminder that it's helpful to learn the details about something before leaping in with a half-formed opinion.
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You can’t afford a coal mine.
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof.
Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof.
Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
You can’t afford a coal mine.
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof.
Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof.
Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...