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The Hungriest Hippo
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Parasitism researcher. If you’ve done a mouse blood draw, you’ll know why I work with plants

Still skeptical bc Cambridge Analytica

Thoughts/opinions are mine and don’t represent those held by Milton Bradley, Hasbro, or the family Hippopotamidae
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Will Ferrell has an enormous audience of straight dudes who need to hear this. Nothing but facts here about anti-trans bigotry:
September 27, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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For New York mag, I wrote about the slop economy nymag.com/intelligence...
September 25, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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“This is not satire,” says Kentucky GOP Senator posting video of a car dealer highlighting his sale of 2 luxury cars to a rural school district, saying it’s an argument for constitutional Amendment 2.

Yet, it was satire. Completely false. #kyga24
Fact check: Ky Republican Senator reposts satirical video maligning public school district
A Republican state senator and other supporters of a “school choice” amendment widely shared a satirical video Monday claiming an eastern Kentucky school district bought luxury vehicles.
www.lpm.org
September 23, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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Imagine stealing every poem in existence to not be able to write a limerick
September 21, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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My father, Andy, does not support any behavior that scares the hoes. He believes in safe and respectful workplaces for all, unlike this Daniel guy.
KY Gov. Andy Beshear at a 9:30 presser "will make a brief statement and then take questions from the press regarding allegations against Rep. Daniel Grossberg." Comes just after the Herald Leader's latest about him getting banned for life from a strip club: www.kentucky.com/news/politic... #kyga24
September 20, 2024 at 2:01 PM
OH SNAP NEW KEN BURNS IN 2025
September 11, 2024 at 2:38 AM
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New preprint just dropped!! 🤩 Thread coming soon ...
August 31, 2024 at 6:19 AM
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[solemnly] get his ass
August 13, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Entire Boeing C-suite should be put in a small room and only let out when these people get back
They went to space for eight days - and could be stuck until 2025 - BBC News
Two American astronauts face the sudden prospect of spending Christmas and New Year in space.
www.bbc.com
August 11, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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I don’t think Andy would have been a bad choice but I am really glad I do not have to be annoyed at people getting things wrong about Kentucky more than I already am
August 6, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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Centrist Pundits: Walz only got picked because of antisemitism in the Democratic Party

Normal people: I like that he looks like my dad and he was funny on TV
August 6, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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lmao if these people saw an actual 'Dad bod' they would claw their eyes out like Sam Neill at the end of 'Event Horizon'
March 28, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life.

But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
June 22, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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is it because they fired people's coworkers and replaced those lifelong experts in the field with an extremely stupid guessing machine so the bosses could pocket 100% of the salaries they're no longer paying while asking the remaining workers to pick up the slack and clean up after the AI's mistakes
July 24, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Politics aside, I don’t like the underlying assumption of this. Petri dishes do the Lord’s work.
July 21, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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JD Vance is particularly odious to me because we’re roughly the same age and from the same part of Ohio and I grew up with a hundred pasty, squishy faced white dudes like him & they’re all convinced they’re marginalized because you can’t smoke at Waffle House or say the n-word anymore
July 15, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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My colleagues & I have studied the social media aftermath of mass shooting events for a decade. We’re still processing the horrifying, abhorrent, and tragic event yesterday, which appears to be an assassination attempt on former President Trump. In case they're useful, here are some first thoughts:
July 14, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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It does remain startling to me how the response to the attempt on Pelosi’s husband (which was directed at her) was largely met with a shrug.

Also, remember the attempt to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer? Which Biden *pointedly* brought up last night in Detroit?
My skeet about 1970s assassination attempts has a lot of "they were desensitized to political violence then, unlike now" replies.

And that doesn't really ring true to me. Giffords, Pelosi's husband, January 6—we've had a lot of political violence in recent years without trans-partisan uproar.
July 14, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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July 12, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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amplify this not unverified reports until we know more
July 13, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.
This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.
tom nichols—of all people???—just made a good point: you have to talk about P2025 in simple real people terms. not policy wonk terms.
July 7, 2024 at 12:21 AM