Lava monster
@lavamonster.bsky.social
Science (sometimes fiction) nerd • Outdoor adventure obsessive • One of those transgenders you're hearing about in the news • she/they
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“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?”
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
In the meantime, he got the professional networking opportunity, and I didn’t. And Lawrence Krauss gets to write nasty things about me in the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times gets to write about me like I’m a crazy queer bitch who hates men.
That’s the other side of these emails
That’s the other side of these emails
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?”
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
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FUNKO IS DYING
RETWEET TO MAKE IT DIE FASTER
RETWEET TO MAKE IT DIE FASTER
Funko admits “substantial doubt” it can continue as a going concern amid crashing sales and mounting debt.
The Pop! maker warns of potential loan defaults without fresh funding or a buyout, after a 14% sales drop and $250M in obligations.
#Funko #PopVinyl #GoingConcern
The Pop! maker warns of potential loan defaults without fresh funding or a buyout, after a 14% sales drop and $250M in obligations.
#Funko #PopVinyl #GoingConcern
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
FUNKO IS DYING
RETWEET TO MAKE IT DIE FASTER
RETWEET TO MAKE IT DIE FASTER
It is the stage of autumn when the hunt for coziness leads me to upgrade from one blanket to two blankets.
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 AM
It is the stage of autumn when the hunt for coziness leads me to upgrade from one blanket to two blankets.
Straight up humiliation fetish to post stuff like this, and gawd damn look at that ratio.
Also I know who you're fighting for, Chuck, and it sure isn't any of the people you mention in this post.
Also I know who you're fighting for, Chuck, and it sure isn't any of the people you mention in this post.
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Straight up humiliation fetish to post stuff like this, and gawd damn look at that ratio.
Also I know who you're fighting for, Chuck, and it sure isn't any of the people you mention in this post.
Also I know who you're fighting for, Chuck, and it sure isn't any of the people you mention in this post.
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every news outlet and journalist who calls trans rights a losing issue should be forcefed soap and their own regrets
November 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
every news outlet and journalist who calls trans rights a losing issue should be forcefed soap and their own regrets
And this is how I found out.
this is how i found out
Joe Manchin: "I felt a great disturbance in the Filibuster Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
And this is how I found out.
A very sincere fuck you to the person who pulled a bike rack out of the sidewalk on a busy street in broad daylight and stole my bicycle.
That’s how I get to work, asshole.
That’s how I get to work, asshole.
October 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
A very sincere fuck you to the person who pulled a bike rack out of the sidewalk on a busy street in broad daylight and stole my bicycle.
That’s how I get to work, asshole.
That’s how I get to work, asshole.
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At first fettermans were spread 2 years apart, then 1 year, then 6 months, we could be seeing a double fetterman event within 7 days
October 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
At first fettermans were spread 2 years apart, then 1 year, then 6 months, we could be seeing a double fetterman event within 7 days
Chatting in the break room at work about how you “don’t do vaccines” should be just as socially devastating as talking about how you don’t believe in hand washing, but here we are.
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Chatting in the break room at work about how you “don’t do vaccines” should be just as socially devastating as talking about how you don’t believe in hand washing, but here we are.
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If they are willing to treat a celebrated international activist like this, then they are doing vastly worse to random Palestinians.
If they are willing to treat a celebrated international activist like this, then they are doing vastly worse to random Palestinians.
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
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October 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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If they are willing to treat a celebrated international activist like this, then they are doing vastly worse to random Palestinians.
If they are willing to treat a celebrated international activist like this, then they are doing vastly worse to random Palestinians.
Another year, another Nobel Peace Prize that seems nearly certain to age like milk.
October 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Another year, another Nobel Peace Prize that seems nearly certain to age like milk.
Gazed into the abyss that is Facebook reels and probably 3/4 of the videos being served to me were pretty obviously AI slop.
October 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Gazed into the abyss that is Facebook reels and probably 3/4 of the videos being served to me were pretty obviously AI slop.
Flu shot acquired. COVID shot is gonna be tougher to come by because RFK Jr. is a wad of used toilet paper.
October 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Flu shot acquired. COVID shot is gonna be tougher to come by because RFK Jr. is a wad of used toilet paper.
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October 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Some days are good days to not out what you actually think in writing.
September 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Some days are good days to not out what you actually think in writing.
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The Supreme Court right now:
❌ Using race conscious admissions in colleges to account for systemic and societal racial discrimination.
✅ Using race explicitly to determine who masked federal agents will snatch off the street to throw into concentration camps.
❌ Using race conscious admissions in colleges to account for systemic and societal racial discrimination.
✅ Using race explicitly to determine who masked federal agents will snatch off the street to throw into concentration camps.
September 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Supreme Court right now:
❌ Using race conscious admissions in colleges to account for systemic and societal racial discrimination.
✅ Using race explicitly to determine who masked federal agents will snatch off the street to throw into concentration camps.
❌ Using race conscious admissions in colleges to account for systemic and societal racial discrimination.
✅ Using race explicitly to determine who masked federal agents will snatch off the street to throw into concentration camps.
Me looking in a changing room mirror: dang my shoulder muscles are too big I don't look good in this blouse at all.
Me a few hours later in the climbing gym: aaargh I want more power, need to get stronger.
Such is the duality of being a transfem climber.
Me a few hours later in the climbing gym: aaargh I want more power, need to get stronger.
Such is the duality of being a transfem climber.
September 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Me looking in a changing room mirror: dang my shoulder muscles are too big I don't look good in this blouse at all.
Me a few hours later in the climbing gym: aaargh I want more power, need to get stronger.
Such is the duality of being a transfem climber.
Me a few hours later in the climbing gym: aaargh I want more power, need to get stronger.
Such is the duality of being a transfem climber.
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To live in the suburbs is to be the cat in the window staring longingly at the strays running free outside, knowing you materially have it better but also knowing that this is not the life you were meant to live.
August 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
To live in the suburbs is to be the cat in the window staring longingly at the strays running free outside, knowing you materially have it better but also knowing that this is not the life you were meant to live.
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"trans people are human beings" is not a "super crazy communist idea." "human beings should not go to prison because they can't afford their rent" is not a "super crazy communist idea."
The problem is if you’re not liberal enough. Then you’re as bad as the Nazis.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I really wish the left was more tolerant to views that were not “I agree 100% with your super crazy communist idea.”
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I really wish the left was more tolerant to views that were not “I agree 100% with your super crazy communist idea.”
August 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"trans people are human beings" is not a "super crazy communist idea." "human beings should not go to prison because they can't afford their rent" is not a "super crazy communist idea."
I’m increasingly convinced that people who claim gender anxiety is the beating heart of our current global fascist uprising are basically correct.
Here's a tweet by the current DHS PR officer pushing fascist and nazi imagery. He calls for trans people to be eradicated.
August 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I’m increasingly convinced that people who claim gender anxiety is the beating heart of our current global fascist uprising are basically correct.
Facebook is so completely cooked. I went over there for the first time in a long time and despite following or joining *zero* political groups or posts there I scrolled through my main feed and immediately say two promotions of anti-vaccine misinformation.
August 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Facebook is so completely cooked. I went over there for the first time in a long time and despite following or joining *zero* political groups or posts there I scrolled through my main feed and immediately say two promotions of anti-vaccine misinformation.
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This is the platonic ideal of liberal policymaking: incontrovertibly correct, insane number of lives saved and overall QoL improvement, polls like dogshit and would be electoral suicide.
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
August 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is the platonic ideal of liberal policymaking: incontrovertibly correct, insane number of lives saved and overall QoL improvement, polls like dogshit and would be electoral suicide.
TFW I realize that my employer’s health insurance plan being self-funded means they can tell me to get fucked and deny coverage because they don’t like trans people even when I live in a state that explicitly forbids denials of gender-affirming care coverage.
August 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
TFW I realize that my employer’s health insurance plan being self-funded means they can tell me to get fucked and deny coverage because they don’t like trans people even when I live in a state that explicitly forbids denials of gender-affirming care coverage.
This mealy-mouthed “people claim there’s overwhelming consensus but I saw some contradictory [conservative hatchet job] studies so what can you say” blathering is indistinguishable from how reactionaries talk about climate change and vaccines.
It’s just as unacceptable here.
It’s just as unacceptable here.
On a recent podcast Gavin Newsom tells Shawn Ryan how the Trans sports issue opened the door for him to change his mind on GAC for Trans Youth.
As someone who adored him since 2004 and voted for him 5 times, I can't wait for him to leave office.
There is no way I will be voting for him a 6th time.
As someone who adored him since 2004 and voted for him 5 times, I can't wait for him to leave office.
There is no way I will be voting for him a 6th time.
July 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This mealy-mouthed “people claim there’s overwhelming consensus but I saw some contradictory [conservative hatchet job] studies so what can you say” blathering is indistinguishable from how reactionaries talk about climate change and vaccines.
It’s just as unacceptable here.
It’s just as unacceptable here.