Dr. Nope
@drnope.myatproto.social
Knitter, scientist, school bus driver. Interested in just about everything, except your weight loss journey.
Living on the Salish Sea like a true moss goblin.
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#ActuallyAutistic
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Dr. Nope
@drnope.myatproto.social
· Jan 1
Intro post for pinning. I have a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Worked for about a decade doing research and data analysis. Just about the time (last Trump term) my funding was cut, went into *severe* burnout. Found out it was autistic burnout 😀. 1/3
I mean, I am a fan
November 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I mean, I am a fan
Happy Exploding Whale Day to all those who celebrate!
On this day 55 years ago, blubber went boom at the Oregon Coast.
That's when officials made the legendary decision to blow up a dead whale.
Here's a look back at the explosive piece of Oregon lore with a 2020 story by OPB's Tiffany Camhi written ahead of the whale of a tale's 50th anniversary.
That's when officials made the legendary decision to blow up a dead whale.
Here's a look back at the explosive piece of Oregon lore with a 2020 story by OPB's Tiffany Camhi written ahead of the whale of a tale's 50th anniversary.
‘It was like a blubber snowstorm’: Why Oregon blew up a whale in 1970
The exploding whale is a piece of Oregon lore that just won’t go away. It’s one of those real-life stories that just sounds too strange to be real.
www.opb.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Happy Exploding Whale Day to all those who celebrate!
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the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
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the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
This is interesting, but I had the experience reading it of becoming too aware of *how* I was reading it that i couldn't make sense of it anymore and had to take a break. 😆 Like if you think too hard about the mechanics of walking up stairs you can't just do it smoothly.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This is interesting, but I had the experience reading it of becoming too aware of *how* I was reading it that i couldn't make sense of it anymore and had to take a break. 😆 Like if you think too hard about the mechanics of walking up stairs you can't just do it smoothly.
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Appreciate your boosting/sharing of this episode in particular. Action items at the end include a petition for Leqaa
This week’s episode is an interview with two lawyers who represent Leqaa Kordia, a young Palestinian woman who is in ICE detention for protesting genocide.
open.spotify.com/episode/7gid...?
open.spotify.com/episode/7gid...?
“What’s at Stake is Everything”: The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention
open.spotify.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Appreciate your boosting/sharing of this episode in particular. Action items at the end include a petition for Leqaa
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New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
The Latest Defense Against ICE: 3D-Printed Whistles
Chicagoans are making, sharing, and printing designs for whistles that can warn people when ICE is in the area. The goal is to “prevent as many people from being kidnapped as possible.”
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New from 404 Media: people are 3D-printing whistles to warn each other about the presence of ICE. Some people make designs and upload them; others are given a design and are printing hundreds and hundreds of whistles at home. It's been effective in Chicago
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
www.404media.co/the-latest-d...
Lol look at these complete goobers!
One of the funner moments from my South Africa trip occurred when these two little borbs decided to chase each other on the edge a lagoon.
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
November 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Lol look at these complete goobers!
Oh, god, of course.
“Republicans appear to be quickly pivoting from the debate around Affordable Care Act tax credits to developing their own health policy agenda, with many conservatives now feeling like they have the blessing of President Donald Trump to pursue alternative solutions to spiking insurance premiums.”
Democrats want to extend Obamacare credits. Republicans have other ideas.
Democrats are racing to negotiate an agreement on extending Affordable Care Act tax credits with little indication Republicans will get on board.
www.politico.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Oh, god, of course.
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For the past few years, I have partnered with @blackbirdletterpress.com around this time of year on a handmade notebook. Proceeds support REBUILD. I am so excited to share this year's notebook inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks's words. www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-edit... - limited edition
Magnitude and Bond notebook for REBUILD by Blackbird Letterpress — Blackbird Letterpress
Magnitude and Bond notebook for REBUILD by Blackbird Letterpress. Partnering with Mariame Kaba to raise funds findmeatherapist.org. A letterpress printed journal with snippet of Gwendolyn Brooks poem,...
www.blackbirdletterpress.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
For the past few years, I have partnered with @blackbirdletterpress.com around this time of year on a handmade notebook. Proceeds support REBUILD. I am so excited to share this year's notebook inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks's words. www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-edit... - limited edition
This is really good
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is really good
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It seems almost quaint at this point to say it but why not repeat it: if you’re ill and you must be in public please do wear a mask. It may be a small ailment to you but you have no idea what’s going on with the people around you, and they don’t always have the option of removing themselves either.
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It seems almost quaint at this point to say it but why not repeat it: if you’re ill and you must be in public please do wear a mask. It may be a small ailment to you but you have no idea what’s going on with the people around you, and they don’t always have the option of removing themselves either.
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This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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Thank you @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social for noting that the conventional belief that women ovulate once a month is wrong, according to Canadian researchers. They have found that women can potentially ovulate two or even three times a month.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Thank you @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social for noting that the conventional belief that women ovulate once a month is wrong, according to Canadian researchers. They have found that women can potentially ovulate two or even three times a month.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
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I think a lot of the anger this morning stems from a feeling that we did our part, but they did not do theirs. This is an oversimplification, but my dudes, no wonder people are like, “OK, let’s try the democratic socialist, then.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I think a lot of the anger this morning stems from a feeling that we did our part, but they did not do theirs. This is an oversimplification, but my dudes, no wonder people are like, “OK, let’s try the democratic socialist, then.”
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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if your constituents constantly have to talk you out of screwing them over you're BAD AT YOUR JOB
November 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
if your constituents constantly have to talk you out of screwing them over you're BAD AT YOUR JOB
Finished these Varia Mitts (by Erica Heusser). I continue in my mission to swathe all my bus buddies in wool for the winter. 🧶
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Finished these Varia Mitts (by Erica Heusser). I continue in my mission to swathe all my bus buddies in wool for the winter. 🧶
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amazing how quickly Bezos has turned the WaPo editorial page from a well respected institution to a low rent clownshow that somehow makes the WSJ editorial page look sober and reasonable
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
amazing how quickly Bezos has turned the WaPo editorial page from a well respected institution to a low rent clownshow that somehow makes the WSJ editorial page look sober and reasonable
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#ShowMeYourKnits has a wip theme this week. I'm working on what will be a huge and warm shawl, with forest animals and winding leaves.
As always, my pug is keeping me company.
Pattern: ravel.me/woodland-fri...
#knitting #knitsky 🧶 #pug
As always, my pug is keeping me company.
Pattern: ravel.me/woodland-fri...
#knitting #knitsky 🧶 #pug
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
#ShowMeYourKnits has a wip theme this week. I'm working on what will be a huge and warm shawl, with forest animals and winding leaves.
As always, my pug is keeping me company.
Pattern: ravel.me/woodland-fri...
#knitting #knitsky 🧶 #pug
As always, my pug is keeping me company.
Pattern: ravel.me/woodland-fri...
#knitting #knitsky 🧶 #pug
Uh oh, I also have a negative attitude towards steeking 😬🧶
But also, I thought everyone was kidding when they said there was a knitting competition show!
But also, I thought everyone was kidding when they said there was a knitting competition show!
The new British competitive knitting show hosted by Olympic diver Tom Daley has been denounced by the knitting community of the Shetland islands for its imprecise portrayal of fair isle knitting and negative attitude toward a technique known as steeking
Shetland knitting group ‘shocked and saddened’ by representation in Channel 4 show
A GROUP protecting Shetland’s knitting heritage has criticised a new Channel 4 show for spreading “negative misconceptions about Fair Isle knitting...
www.shetnews.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Uh oh, I also have a negative attitude towards steeking 😬🧶
But also, I thought everyone was kidding when they said there was a knitting competition show!
But also, I thought everyone was kidding when they said there was a knitting competition show!
They've figured out I'm D.B. Cooper and they're gonna get me for my crimes.
There was a short notice call out to drive the band to a regional football game. I'm a band mom and the destination is my alma matter high school, so this feels like a very specific trap just for me. I took it. 😬🤞
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
They've figured out I'm D.B. Cooper and they're gonna get me for my crimes.
There was a short notice call out to drive the band to a regional football game. I'm a band mom and the destination is my alma matter high school, so this feels like a very specific trap just for me. I took it. 😬🤞
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
There was a short notice call out to drive the band to a regional football game. I'm a band mom and the destination is my alma matter high school, so this feels like a very specific trap just for me. I took it. 😬🤞
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There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.
If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
It’s trials w real punishments.