TQFT Enjoyer
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Mathematician, university educator, writer, musician, and occasional photographer. Often: prickly. Sometimes: adorable. Rarely: extraverted.
See this? This is my shocked face: 🙄
June 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
See this? This is my shocked face: 🙄
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The Silicon Valley fascists genuinely think that technology (i.e., cool robots and spaceships) has nothing to do with science (i.e., girls filling out spreadsheets wokely). I am not being sarcastic. I know that sounds insane. But that's really what they think.
The top priority for Trump 2.0 is to punish the libs and science is lib-coded despite “STEM” being centrist to conservative coded because the pro-STEM rhetoric is really just anti-humanities rhetoric, they don’t actually support science and half of them think the Earth is 6,000 years-old.
1. This work was a top priority for Trump 1.0
2. It is directly synergistic with defense dept space propulsion goals
3. It's a key enabler of the deep space human exploration Trump 2.0 says they want to prioritize
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2. It is directly synergistic with defense dept space propulsion goals
3. It's a key enabler of the deep space human exploration Trump 2.0 says they want to prioritize
🤔🤷♂️
June 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The Silicon Valley fascists genuinely think that technology (i.e., cool robots and spaceships) has nothing to do with science (i.e., girls filling out spreadsheets wokely). I am not being sarcastic. I know that sounds insane. But that's really what they think.
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The right-wing has now just switched to calling anything they want to suppress "porn." It's all so transparent and dumb.
And they'll keep doing it, keep going after books, purging libraries, banning websites so long as elected officials continue to buckle.
And they'll keep doing it, keep going after books, purging libraries, banning websites so long as elected officials continue to buckle.
Wake school board approves Freedom to Read grants. Critics say they promote porn.
The grants promoting Banned Books Week events comes as state lawmakers want to make it easier to remove books from school libraries.
www.newsobserver.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The right-wing has now just switched to calling anything they want to suppress "porn." It's all so transparent and dumb.
And they'll keep doing it, keep going after books, purging libraries, banning websites so long as elected officials continue to buckle.
And they'll keep doing it, keep going after books, purging libraries, banning websites so long as elected officials continue to buckle.
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This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.
May 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.
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They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.
The White House blamed exposure to environmental toxins, poor nutrition and increased screen time for a decline in Americans’ life expectancy Thursday.
White House says food, toxins among reasons for poor U.S. health
Parts of the “MAHA report” contradict scientific consensus.
wapo.st
May 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.
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Yup, one of the terminated NSF awards was #2140743, which allows Harvard to draw funding for its NSF graduate research fellows (GRFP), all current and new.
Confirmed here: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Just cruel.
Confirmed here: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Just cruel.
All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated
May 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Yup, one of the terminated NSF awards was #2140743, which allows Harvard to draw funding for its NSF graduate research fellows (GRFP), all current and new.
Confirmed here: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Just cruel.
Confirmed here: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Just cruel.
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My doctor changed my diagnosis to "Endocrine Disorder" in November without me asking--because he saw the writing on the wall.
Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.
Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.
May 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
My doctor changed my diagnosis to "Endocrine Disorder" in November without me asking--because he saw the writing on the wall.
Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.
Ask your doctors to do the same--Just to protect your access to life-saving medication.
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The vote was 215-214 with the 3 notable missing votes because Dems died in office.
If you are one of those people scolding those of us who say it's time for old ass reps to retire, know you're part of the reason all these Americans got fucked.
If you are one of those people scolding those of us who say it's time for old ass reps to retire, know you're part of the reason all these Americans got fucked.
House Republicans just passed a bill that will kick 14 million people off their health care, take away free school meals for 18 million kids, and raise our deficit.
Now it goes to the Senate but we need to keep fighting.
Now it goes to the Senate but we need to keep fighting.
May 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The vote was 215-214 with the 3 notable missing votes because Dems died in office.
If you are one of those people scolding those of us who say it's time for old ass reps to retire, know you're part of the reason all these Americans got fucked.
If you are one of those people scolding those of us who say it's time for old ass reps to retire, know you're part of the reason all these Americans got fucked.
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HOLY SHIT. The ban on any federal funding gender-affirming care includes stripping ACA plans of covering it as the essential care it is.
I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need.
We told you this was coming
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need.
We told you this was coming
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
BREAKING: Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ stripping transgender Americans of health care
The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."
www.advocate.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
HOLY SHIT. The ban on any federal funding gender-affirming care includes stripping ACA plans of covering it as the essential care it is.
I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need.
We told you this was coming
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need.
We told you this was coming
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
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Jesus. Excellent work by Michael Le Page, and utterly infuriating scenario. As Michael points out, the press release from Colossal called these dire wolves throughout. But now they want to argue that they never claimed that. Scandalous, really.
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolves
Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolve...
www.newscientist.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Jesus. Excellent work by Michael Le Page, and utterly infuriating scenario. As Michael points out, the press release from Colossal called these dire wolves throughout. But now they want to argue that they never claimed that. Scandalous, really.
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
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Not satisfied with merely slashing Medicaid
Republicans now want to demolish MEDICARE as well
Which would severely harm seniors and disabled people
Plus bankrupt rural hospitals
Seriously-how many Americans are Trump and MAGA Republicans going to kill so they can give Elon Musk another tax break
Republicans now want to demolish MEDICARE as well
Which would severely harm seniors and disabled people
Plus bankrupt rural hospitals
Seriously-how many Americans are Trump and MAGA Republicans going to kill so they can give Elon Musk another tax break
May 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Not satisfied with merely slashing Medicaid
Republicans now want to demolish MEDICARE as well
Which would severely harm seniors and disabled people
Plus bankrupt rural hospitals
Seriously-how many Americans are Trump and MAGA Republicans going to kill so they can give Elon Musk another tax break
Republicans now want to demolish MEDICARE as well
Which would severely harm seniors and disabled people
Plus bankrupt rural hospitals
Seriously-how many Americans are Trump and MAGA Republicans going to kill so they can give Elon Musk another tax break
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Let's be clear about what that means:
Behind closed doors, while their constituents slept, Republicans snuck a new ABORTION BAN into the fine print of an already awful bill. A 🚨 marketplace-wide, nationwide ban on abortion coverage that will impact every. single. state. 🚨
Behind closed doors, while their constituents slept, Republicans snuck a new ABORTION BAN into the fine print of an already awful bill. A 🚨 marketplace-wide, nationwide ban on abortion coverage that will impact every. single. state. 🚨
May 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Let's be clear about what that means:
Behind closed doors, while their constituents slept, Republicans snuck a new ABORTION BAN into the fine print of an already awful bill. A 🚨 marketplace-wide, nationwide ban on abortion coverage that will impact every. single. state. 🚨
Behind closed doors, while their constituents slept, Republicans snuck a new ABORTION BAN into the fine print of an already awful bill. A 🚨 marketplace-wide, nationwide ban on abortion coverage that will impact every. single. state. 🚨
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The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans.
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
May 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans.
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect.
I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”
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If you’re looking for something to make your blood boil, try this: “Paying so-called ‘experts’ to deliberate bad ideas for hundreds of hours is exactly the kind of waste that DOGE is eliminating,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai told Nature in a statement.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE
Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.
www.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If you’re looking for something to make your blood boil, try this: “Paying so-called ‘experts’ to deliberate bad ideas for hundreds of hours is exactly the kind of waste that DOGE is eliminating,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai told Nature in a statement.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
May 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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The US is ceding global leadership to China.
China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S.
Beijing will replace the United States as the organization’s top state donor, expanding its influence as the U.S. retreats from international cooperation.
wapo.st
May 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The US is ceding global leadership to China.
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my mother was one this crowd. protested abortion clincs. Against HIV research. "All Jews go to hell" and Pro-Israel. She so badly wanted the rapture to happen. So if she, as a church going christian believed Donald Trump was the anti-christ, she would vote for him for that reason alone. Monsters.
May 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
my mother was one this crowd. protested abortion clincs. Against HIV research. "All Jews go to hell" and Pro-Israel. She so badly wanted the rapture to happen. So if she, as a church going christian believed Donald Trump was the anti-christ, she would vote for him for that reason alone. Monsters.
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One of the thicker onions
May 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
One of the thicker onions
Welp: it's Influenza A
May 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Welp: it's Influenza A
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Jon Schweppe, the new Senior Policy Advisor to the FTC, advocates for the federal government to seize foreign domains that don't comply with US age-verification antiporn laws.
Given that a wide swath of the right believes that nearly all LGBTQ+ content is "porn," this is especially concerning.
Given that a wide swath of the right believes that nearly all LGBTQ+ content is "porn," this is especially concerning.
Siri, what would happen if we put Christian Nationalists in charge of our tech policy?
May 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Jon Schweppe, the new Senior Policy Advisor to the FTC, advocates for the federal government to seize foreign domains that don't comply with US age-verification antiporn laws.
Given that a wide swath of the right believes that nearly all LGBTQ+ content is "porn," this is especially concerning.
Given that a wide swath of the right believes that nearly all LGBTQ+ content is "porn," this is especially concerning.
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GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say
The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness
www.statnews.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...