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.
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Doc Fancy
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· 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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A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
NEW—In late Feb, Chris Rufo published leaked chats between queer/trans employees at US intel agencies. Then Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she’d fire all involved.
I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:
I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:
Queer intel officers targeted by top secret chat leak get their chance to speak
Chris Rufo published the chats. Staffers say a new "lavender scare" is upon us.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 4, 2026 at 10:24 PM
A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
Hard agree with this. I do NOT want anyone thinking I approve of any of Australia’s bullshit, for example, since we also have a voting choice between “fucking shit” and “marginally less fucking shit.”
(We do have compulsory voting and a preference system, so it is a bit less polarised, but still.)
(We do have compulsory voting and a preference system, so it is a bit less polarised, but still.)
Dear Non Americans.
I'm so glad to hear this. I assume you've taken on full responsibility and accountability for the many crimes your nation has committed.
PERSONALLY.
No? Oh, that wasn't you? Oh, you support your country being accountable and reparations for such, but not YOU PERSONALLY.
Oh.
I'm so glad to hear this. I assume you've taken on full responsibility and accountability for the many crimes your nation has committed.
PERSONALLY.
No? Oh, that wasn't you? Oh, you support your country being accountable and reparations for such, but not YOU PERSONALLY.
Oh.
January 4, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Hard agree with this. I do NOT want anyone thinking I approve of any of Australia’s bullshit, for example, since we also have a voting choice between “fucking shit” and “marginally less fucking shit.”
(We do have compulsory voting and a preference system, so it is a bit less polarised, but still.)
(We do have compulsory voting and a preference system, so it is a bit less polarised, but still.)
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Waves glowsticks at this point because I really need certain fanclubs to freaking grasp it.
I specifically said "in the upcoming Democratic primary". You know what primaries are, right? It's when you choose to vote against one Democrat, by voting for a different Democrat.
January 4, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Waves glowsticks at this point because I really need certain fanclubs to freaking grasp it.
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it is always so much fucking dumber than you could possibly expect, even when taking into account the fact that it’s always so much fucking dumber than you could possibly expect
January 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
it is always so much fucking dumber than you could possibly expect, even when taking into account the fact that it’s always so much fucking dumber than you could possibly expect
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.
January 1, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.
I have seasonal affective disorder and live in Melbourne, which is apparently not a high enough latitude to get medical attention on the problem (in a research sense).
I love Melbourne. Deeply.
If I could relocate my household to Cairns for four months of the year, I would do it in a HEARTBEAT.
I love Melbourne. Deeply.
If I could relocate my household to Cairns for four months of the year, I would do it in a HEARTBEAT.
could the “you should be able to be happy living anywhere, and if you’re not able to do that, it’s a skill issue” contingent tell that to my winter seasonal depression, please?
because MAN would that simplify my life if the cure, which I somehow never thought of before, was that easy
because MAN would that simplify my life if the cure, which I somehow never thought of before, was that easy
December 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I have seasonal affective disorder and live in Melbourne, which is apparently not a high enough latitude to get medical attention on the problem (in a research sense).
I love Melbourne. Deeply.
If I could relocate my household to Cairns for four months of the year, I would do it in a HEARTBEAT.
I love Melbourne. Deeply.
If I could relocate my household to Cairns for four months of the year, I would do it in a HEARTBEAT.
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Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
Hell yes LET’S GOOOOOOO
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
December 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Hell yes LET’S GOOOOOOO
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
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Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
December 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
This is 100% true and also incredibly validating to see… there are things that you know don’t work while you’re writing them, but writing them tells you which round pegs are going in which square holes and which pacing points are happening at the wrong time, with the wrong tension.
The point of writing crap is not that you should barf out anything.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
December 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This is 100% true and also incredibly validating to see… there are things that you know don’t work while you’re writing them, but writing them tells you which round pegs are going in which square holes and which pacing points are happening at the wrong time, with the wrong tension.
Friend is okay!
Thank god.
This all feels so fragile sometimes.
Thank god.
This all feels so fragile sometimes.
I love so many wonderful people who started out as nicknames and avatars on a screen, and became so much more.
but fuck it's terrifying when you are made vividly aware that something could happen to them, and you might never know what, or when, or how.
please be okay 💜
but fuck it's terrifying when you are made vividly aware that something could happen to them, and you might never know what, or when, or how.
please be okay 💜
December 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Friend is okay!
Thank god.
This all feels so fragile sometimes.
Thank god.
This all feels so fragile sometimes.
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I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
Lay article attached:
One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires
Every few years, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often waterways, where the tiny microplastic particle...
www.pbs.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%).
Lay article attached:
Lay article attached:
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I find that I need to clarify. There are probably 50 non-sequential words I can't guarantee I wrote.
I'm not trying to get SFWA's ruling overturned. I understood the first iteration and I understand the new iteration.
If I wanted the novel on the ballot, I could have lied & not said anything.
I'm not trying to get SFWA's ruling overturned. I understood the first iteration and I understand the new iteration.
If I wanted the novel on the ballot, I could have lied & not said anything.
But the reason the conversation is happening this way is because Mary Robinette Kowal disclosed that in 2022-23she used AI to write around 50 words of a novel as an epigraph.
December 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I find that I need to clarify. There are probably 50 non-sequential words I can't guarantee I wrote.
I'm not trying to get SFWA's ruling overturned. I understood the first iteration and I understand the new iteration.
If I wanted the novel on the ballot, I could have lied & not said anything.
I'm not trying to get SFWA's ruling overturned. I understood the first iteration and I understand the new iteration.
If I wanted the novel on the ballot, I could have lied & not said anything.
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Sometimes you have the kind of day where you just send your Pomodoro group/friends every one of the Never Say No to Panda cheese commercial gifts you can find. "PANDA RAGE!" *gif gif gif*
If you haven't seen them...Happy Holidays, here's a thread.
If you haven't seen them...Happy Holidays, here's a thread.
a stuffed panda bear with a black and white mask on its face
Alt: a panda makes havoc in a hospital room, pushing over monitors, pulling IV lines, and being sinister
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Sometimes you have the kind of day where you just send your Pomodoro group/friends every one of the Never Say No to Panda cheese commercial gifts you can find. "PANDA RAGE!" *gif gif gif*
If you haven't seen them...Happy Holidays, here's a thread.
If you haven't seen them...Happy Holidays, here's a thread.
I love so many wonderful people who started out as nicknames and avatars on a screen, and became so much more.
but fuck it's terrifying when you are made vividly aware that something could happen to them, and you might never know what, or when, or how.
please be okay 💜
but fuck it's terrifying when you are made vividly aware that something could happen to them, and you might never know what, or when, or how.
please be okay 💜
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I love so many wonderful people who started out as nicknames and avatars on a screen, and became so much more.
but fuck it's terrifying when you are made vividly aware that something could happen to them, and you might never know what, or when, or how.
please be okay 💜
but fuck it's terrifying when you are made vividly aware that something could happen to them, and you might never know what, or when, or how.
please be okay 💜
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Remember: Type out "Trump" and put a space at the end.
December 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Remember: Type out "Trump" and put a space at the end.
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alberta is hell for this right now, and the use of the notwithstanding clause has been a deep violation with no effective pushback. this province won't stop until it is stopped
there’s now a petition for the canadian government to overturn the recent legislation in AB and SK designed to strip trans youth of their rights. please sign: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Sign this Petition - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
alberta is hell for this right now, and the use of the notwithstanding clause has been a deep violation with no effective pushback. this province won't stop until it is stopped
There is a reason that I refer to the third week of November as “Arson Week” and spend much of my encouragement/hype energy on telling people not to burn their draft even if right now they hate everything about it.
One of the recurring arguments I see made is “Writing is the best part! If you don’t like writing, don’t be a writer!”
Sometimes it is! Sometimes it’s pure unadulterated glee!
And sometimes I clean my house and repot my cactus to avoid it!
Sometimes it is! Sometimes it’s pure unadulterated glee!
And sometimes I clean my house and repot my cactus to avoid it!
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
There is a reason that I refer to the third week of November as “Arson Week” and spend much of my encouragement/hype energy on telling people not to burn their draft even if right now they hate everything about it.
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Okay, this is fascinating and absolutely fabulous if it can be extended: Virologist builds a beer that delivers a yeast-based vaccine against a pretty serious virus.
He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing
An NIH scientist’s maverick approach reveals legal, ethical, moral, scientific and social challenges to developing potentially life-saving vaccines.
www.sciencenews.org
December 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Okay, this is fascinating and absolutely fabulous if it can be extended: Virologist builds a beer that delivers a yeast-based vaccine against a pretty serious virus.
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To echo: do not cite anything you have not at least skimmed and can verify it really exists and says what you say it says (or is about what you say it is about). Even if you collect citations from others' work (a legit practice), CHECK THEM.
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
To echo: do not cite anything you have not at least skimmed and can verify it really exists and says what you say it says (or is about what you say it is about). Even if you collect citations from others' work (a legit practice), CHECK THEM.
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If it isn't completely obvious...
TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.
TRANS MEN ARE MEN.
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
Do not tell me that my friends and adopted family do not have the right to exist. I will fight you.
TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.
TRANS MEN ARE MEN.
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
Do not tell me that my friends and adopted family do not have the right to exist. I will fight you.
October 28, 2025 at 1:40 AM
If it isn't completely obvious...
TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.
TRANS MEN ARE MEN.
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
Do not tell me that my friends and adopted family do not have the right to exist. I will fight you.
TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.
TRANS MEN ARE MEN.
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
Do not tell me that my friends and adopted family do not have the right to exist. I will fight you.
As someone who is not pithy — literally my blog is called “nothing if not verbose” — and who would absolutely angst over physical appearance — and who can’t microblog without writing long threads…
I mean yes.
I mean yes.
i think its highly underappreciated the massive extent to which text-based platforms select for people who can consistently post in large volumes
short form video selects for conventionally attractive, microblogging selects for people who can post 50+ times per day
short form video selects for conventionally attractive, microblogging selects for people who can post 50+ times per day
I agree that it’s 100% true that the eyeballs are all on short form video - and man, it’s still really depressing how the necessity of Doing Video nowadays seriously disadvantages people who aren’t conventionally attractive (or who just genuinely can’t stand being on camera)
December 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
As someone who is not pithy — literally my blog is called “nothing if not verbose” — and who would absolutely angst over physical appearance — and who can’t microblog without writing long threads…
I mean yes.
I mean yes.
Sod it, I am getting this Xmas gift for me and my extremely frustrating ARFID.
It’ll be a while before I properly cook again — planning meals fell off the proverbial mental table when a 200 tonne tree fell on my house — but that day is getting closer.
It’ll be a while before I properly cook again — planning meals fell off the proverbial mental table when a 200 tonne tree fell on my house — but that day is getting closer.
🎁 For this holiday season, consider gifting COLOR TASTE TEXTURE! It’s a great primer for people of all ages with little to no experience cooking. If you have some neurodivergent friends and family, or parents of littles, they might love this! It’s not just a cookbook, it’s a new approach to food. 🎁
I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.
December 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Sod it, I am getting this Xmas gift for me and my extremely frustrating ARFID.
It’ll be a while before I properly cook again — planning meals fell off the proverbial mental table when a 200 tonne tree fell on my house — but that day is getting closer.
It’ll be a while before I properly cook again — planning meals fell off the proverbial mental table when a 200 tonne tree fell on my house — but that day is getting closer.