Doc Fancy
@docfancy.bsky.social
Writer, singer, marine biologist. Enjoys making smartarse remarks and quips, getting the laughs, explaining things with nerdy enthusiasm, and ranting, but tries to make the rants entertaining as penance.
I am back in my house in the woods.
(she/her)
I am back in my house in the woods.
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Doc Fancy
@docfancy.bsky.social
· Jan 22
Seems timely to cross-post a thread of mine from the Bad Place, about karyotyping: essentially, examining people’s chromosomal arrangements.
This can be done for many reasons, but in this case, I’m focusing on bigoted arsehats thinking they should test for sex chromosomes.
Copy pasta, let’s go!
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This can be done for many reasons, but in this case, I’m focusing on bigoted arsehats thinking they should test for sex chromosomes.
Copy pasta, let’s go!
🧵
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I’m at the Saturday Night Massacre.
I’m at the Wednesday Handy Situation.
I’m at the combination Saturday Night Massacre Wednesday Handy Situation.
I’m at the Wednesday Handy Situation.
I’m at the combination Saturday Night Massacre Wednesday Handy Situation.
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I’m at the Saturday Night Massacre.
I’m at the Wednesday Handy Situation.
I’m at the combination Saturday Night Massacre Wednesday Handy Situation.
I’m at the Wednesday Handy Situation.
I’m at the combination Saturday Night Massacre Wednesday Handy Situation.
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It's weird as hell hearing an organic harry potter reference in this, the year of Luigi 2025.
Like with Kanye, Richard Dawkins, R Kelly, Jimmy Savile, and Drake, after enough time a person stops being "famous ____ who is a piece of shit" and "piece of shit who used to be a famous ____."
Like with Kanye, Richard Dawkins, R Kelly, Jimmy Savile, and Drake, after enough time a person stops being "famous ____ who is a piece of shit" and "piece of shit who used to be a famous ____."
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
It's weird as hell hearing an organic harry potter reference in this, the year of Luigi 2025.
Like with Kanye, Richard Dawkins, R Kelly, Jimmy Savile, and Drake, after enough time a person stops being "famous ____ who is a piece of shit" and "piece of shit who used to be a famous ____."
Like with Kanye, Richard Dawkins, R Kelly, Jimmy Savile, and Drake, after enough time a person stops being "famous ____ who is a piece of shit" and "piece of shit who used to be a famous ____."
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
I sat down to write a rebuttal and express concerns regarding someone who is causing me personal distress and also proliferating *bad science* because they’re… not a scientist.
I wanted to be thorough.
There’s a bibliography.
Where did the fucking day go, it’s 4.5k words.
This. Fucking. Guy.
I wanted to be thorough.
There’s a bibliography.
Where did the fucking day go, it’s 4.5k words.
This. Fucking. Guy.
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I sat down to write a rebuttal and express concerns regarding someone who is causing me personal distress and also proliferating *bad science* because they’re… not a scientist.
I wanted to be thorough.
There’s a bibliography.
Where did the fucking day go, it’s 4.5k words.
This. Fucking. Guy.
I wanted to be thorough.
There’s a bibliography.
Where did the fucking day go, it’s 4.5k words.
This. Fucking. Guy.
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Katie Wilson, who is good, is currently 4,500 votes behind Bruce Harrell, who is evil.
There are 45,000 ballots outstanding. 10% of those ballots could change the fate of Seattle.
Check your ballot.
There are 45,000 ballots outstanding. 10% of those ballots could change the fate of Seattle.
Check your ballot.
This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Katie Wilson, who is good, is currently 4,500 votes behind Bruce Harrell, who is evil.
There are 45,000 ballots outstanding. 10% of those ballots could change the fate of Seattle.
Check your ballot.
There are 45,000 ballots outstanding. 10% of those ballots could change the fate of Seattle.
Check your ballot.
That is a turn of phrase and no mistake.
I would love to know the body count of the tea caffeine chart that looks like a pyramid and says white tea has no caffeine, because I am sure it has one.
Some aged white teas don't have MUCH, but that's not none. Silver needle and bai mu dan will throat punch the sleep cycle of the unwary.
Some aged white teas don't have MUCH, but that's not none. Silver needle and bai mu dan will throat punch the sleep cycle of the unwary.
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 AM
That is a turn of phrase and no mistake.
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Already run into kids who, when seeing my wildlife photos, exclaim 'that's AI'
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Already run into kids who, when seeing my wildlife photos, exclaim 'that's AI'
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Progress made on my big oil painting of nautiluses. 🧡
#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #deepseacreatures #mollusks #cephalopods #oilpainting #wildlifeart #animalart 🐡 🦑
#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #deepseacreatures #mollusks #cephalopods #oilpainting #wildlifeart #animalart 🐡 🦑
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Progress made on my big oil painting of nautiluses. 🧡
#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #deepseacreatures #mollusks #cephalopods #oilpainting #wildlifeart #animalart 🐡 🦑
#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #deepseacreatures #mollusks #cephalopods #oilpainting #wildlifeart #animalart 🐡 🦑
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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The conservative movement has been very successful at turning the word “socialism” into a slur that utterly distorts and perverts its meaning. They basically murdered this word.
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The conservative movement has been very successful at turning the word “socialism” into a slur that utterly distorts and perverts its meaning. They basically murdered this word.
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.
I, too, am Somewhat Faceblind.
I still remember the early scenes off the first episode of Orphan Black, and the big dramatic reveal showing — DA DA DAAAAA — they had the same face.
Totally wasted on me.
“What… what are we looking at here?”
I was so confused.
I still remember the early scenes off the first episode of Orphan Black, and the big dramatic reveal showing — DA DA DAAAAA — they had the same face.
Totally wasted on me.
“What… what are we looking at here?”
I was so confused.
I genuinely thought they were two different actors for like an hour! Which is a sign of good acting, lol. But that's the level of faceblind I'm working with, and I can still avoid calling one Black person by another Black person's name 99% of the time!
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I, too, am Somewhat Faceblind.
I still remember the early scenes off the first episode of Orphan Black, and the big dramatic reveal showing — DA DA DAAAAA — they had the same face.
Totally wasted on me.
“What… what are we looking at here?”
I was so confused.
I still remember the early scenes off the first episode of Orphan Black, and the big dramatic reveal showing — DA DA DAAAAA — they had the same face.
Totally wasted on me.
“What… what are we looking at here?”
I was so confused.
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Is there any doubt that he will go down in history as our worst Chief Justice and that his name will become synonymous with that of Benedict Arnold?
www.salon.com/2025/10/31/j...
www.salon.com/2025/10/31/j...
John Roberts betrayed America for Donald Trump
Legal scholar Lisa Graves on why this Supreme Court chief justice is the worst in history
www.salon.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Is there any doubt that he will go down in history as our worst Chief Justice and that his name will become synonymous with that of Benedict Arnold?
www.salon.com/2025/10/31/j...
www.salon.com/2025/10/31/j...
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"The miners will scream. The captured press will print their talking points. The Minerals Council will commission studies proving that apocalypse awaits if we tax them fairly...
What we need is the spine to reject a century-old deal that was rotten from the start."
urbanwronski.com/2025/11/01/t...
What we need is the spine to reject a century-old deal that was rotten from the start."
urbanwronski.com/2025/11/01/t...
The Worst Deal in History: Why Mining Has Ransacked Australia While the Press Looked Away
How Australia became the world’s cautionary tale in resource management. The mining industry didn’t steal our wealth. We handed it over. The press, owned by the same mining interests si…
urbanwronski.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
"The miners will scream. The captured press will print their talking points. The Minerals Council will commission studies proving that apocalypse awaits if we tax them fairly...
What we need is the spine to reject a century-old deal that was rotten from the start."
urbanwronski.com/2025/11/01/t...
What we need is the spine to reject a century-old deal that was rotten from the start."
urbanwronski.com/2025/11/01/t...
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Why is this happening again
This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Why is this happening again
This is how baseball works, right @iamdwalt.bsky.social?
Remember: whoever scores the winning run gets to take the first bite out of the baseball and enjoy the fresh juices running down his chin
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This is how baseball works, right @iamdwalt.bsky.social?
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Remember: whoever scores the winning run gets to take the first bite out of the baseball and enjoy the fresh juices running down his chin
November 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Remember: whoever scores the winning run gets to take the first bite out of the baseball and enjoy the fresh juices running down his chin
This legit happened to me once, except I was living in inner city Melbourne at the time and it was a brushtail possum.
It approached me, sniffed my offered hand (look, I might not have been entirely sober), and then bit me on the finger.
THEN I got the dirty look. Because my finger wasn’t a chip.
It approached me, sniffed my offered hand (look, I might not have been entirely sober), and then bit me on the finger.
THEN I got the dirty look. Because my finger wasn’t a chip.
Last night I saw a fox, I thought it was a big orange cat and went psspsspss and it looked at me like a was a dirty old man.
November 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This legit happened to me once, except I was living in inner city Melbourne at the time and it was a brushtail possum.
It approached me, sniffed my offered hand (look, I might not have been entirely sober), and then bit me on the finger.
THEN I got the dirty look. Because my finger wasn’t a chip.
It approached me, sniffed my offered hand (look, I might not have been entirely sober), and then bit me on the finger.
THEN I got the dirty look. Because my finger wasn’t a chip.
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Florence Welch capturinge the feelinge of 2025 wyth a track called simplye "Everybodye Screame"
October 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Florence Welch capturinge the feelinge of 2025 wyth a track called simplye "Everybodye Screame"
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Random stranger: "Everyone knows where they were when 9/11 happened."
Dracula: "Shit, man. I don't even know where I was when Franz Ferdinand got shot."
Dracula: "Shit, man. I don't even know where I was when Franz Ferdinand got shot."
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Random stranger: "Everyone knows where they were when 9/11 happened."
Dracula: "Shit, man. I don't even know where I was when Franz Ferdinand got shot."
Dracula: "Shit, man. I don't even know where I was when Franz Ferdinand got shot."
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.
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Qld top court overturns puberty blocker ban. The court agreed that there was too much political interference. The judge found in our favour on 3 grounds - in particular it rules that consultation was inadequate & that irrelevant factors were taken into account.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Mother says Queensland's puberty blocker ban fight was 'harrowing and traumatising'
Queensland Health placed a freeze on puberty blockers for adolescents in January, prompting a legal challenge by the mother of a trans teenager.
www.sbs.com.au
October 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Qld top court overturns puberty blocker ban. The court agreed that there was too much political interference. The judge found in our favour on 3 grounds - in particular it rules that consultation was inadequate & that irrelevant factors were taken into account.
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
THIS my god
See also “oh you can find studies to support anything,” said by people who don’t know how to search the primary literature or evaluate quality of evidence.
(Note: that in itself doesn’t disqualify someone from having an informed opinion, but it is why we need good science journalism.)
See also “oh you can find studies to support anything,” said by people who don’t know how to search the primary literature or evaluate quality of evidence.
(Note: that in itself doesn’t disqualify someone from having an informed opinion, but it is why we need good science journalism.)
There are few phrases I respect less than when someone says they don't "agree" with research findings. Research doesn't exist for you to agree or disagree. It exists for you to prove or disprove. Come up with a competing hypothesis and TEST IT. Otherwise, I don't give a damn how it makes you feel.
October 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
THIS my god
See also “oh you can find studies to support anything,” said by people who don’t know how to search the primary literature or evaluate quality of evidence.
(Note: that in itself doesn’t disqualify someone from having an informed opinion, but it is why we need good science journalism.)
See also “oh you can find studies to support anything,” said by people who don’t know how to search the primary literature or evaluate quality of evidence.
(Note: that in itself doesn’t disqualify someone from having an informed opinion, but it is why we need good science journalism.)
The way my first gastroenterologist was taken aback by my relieved response when confirming (at last) the diagnosis of my atypical Crohn’s.
Me: “You can treat Crohn’s. You can’t treat ‘huh, that’s weird.’”
(and the way I’d somehow normalised 20 years of repeated hospitalisations for abscess…)
Me: “You can treat Crohn’s. You can’t treat ‘huh, that’s weird.’”
(and the way I’d somehow normalised 20 years of repeated hospitalisations for abscess…)
October 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The way my first gastroenterologist was taken aback by my relieved response when confirming (at last) the diagnosis of my atypical Crohn’s.
Me: “You can treat Crohn’s. You can’t treat ‘huh, that’s weird.’”
(and the way I’d somehow normalised 20 years of repeated hospitalisations for abscess…)
Me: “You can treat Crohn’s. You can’t treat ‘huh, that’s weird.’”
(and the way I’d somehow normalised 20 years of repeated hospitalisations for abscess…)