MCost
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Mom, wife, professor, archaeologist, writer, reader, (bad)quilter, beekeeper, gardener, professionally interested in zombies, Star Trek, societal collapse, megafauna and jam making. Would still buy a season pass for Jurassic Park.
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Today at NorCon I met one of the Oslo museum curators.
ME: I am afraid I may have poked a little fun at your museum. But it was with love! I swear!
HIM: (eyes narrowing) The thread about all the shite?
ME: (meekly) …yes.
HIM: Oh, we all loved it!
bsky.app/profile/tkin...
ME: I am afraid I may have poked a little fun at your museum. But it was with love! I swear!
HIM: (eyes narrowing) The thread about all the shite?
ME: (meekly) …yes.
HIM: Oh, we all loved it!
bsky.app/profile/tkin...
Somewhere behind the scenes of the Oslo Natural History Museum is an exhibit designer with a lot of old taxidermy and a VISION.
June 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Today at NorCon I met one of the Oslo museum curators.
ME: I am afraid I may have poked a little fun at your museum. But it was with love! I swear!
HIM: (eyes narrowing) The thread about all the shite?
ME: (meekly) …yes.
HIM: Oh, we all loved it!
bsky.app/profile/tkin...
ME: I am afraid I may have poked a little fun at your museum. But it was with love! I swear!
HIM: (eyes narrowing) The thread about all the shite?
ME: (meekly) …yes.
HIM: Oh, we all loved it!
bsky.app/profile/tkin...
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Cannot describe how much I love this
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
June 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Cannot describe how much I love this
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"... to include the names of living people who the government believes should be TREATED AS IF THEY ARE DEAD."
What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
April 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"... to include the names of living people who the government believes should be TREATED AS IF THEY ARE DEAD."
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Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass.
Philip K. Dickens
Philip K. Dickens
April 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass.
Philip K. Dickens
Philip K. Dickens
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Like, if you hit the point of rebuking in the name of the Lord, “bless your heart” is a tiny speck in the rearview mirror.
April 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Like, if you hit the point of rebuking in the name of the Lord, “bless your heart” is a tiny speck in the rearview mirror.
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Good work, Wisconsin!
BREAKING:
NBC News projects Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin state Supreme Court race.
Crawford is the Democratic-backed candidate.
Elon Musk's candidate lost. Trump's candidate lost.
NBC News projects Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin state Supreme Court race.
Crawford is the Democratic-backed candidate.
Elon Musk's candidate lost. Trump's candidate lost.
April 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Good work, Wisconsin!
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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
March 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
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Zelda Williams (the daughter of the great Robin Williams) sure had a lot to say about the “Studio Ghibli style” AI images that have been trending recently.
I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.
I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.
March 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Zelda Williams (the daughter of the great Robin Williams) sure had a lot to say about the “Studio Ghibli style” AI images that have been trending recently.
I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.
I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.
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They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
March 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
They are disappearing people off the streets
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More here, for those asking
Russian scientist from Harvard Medical School detained in U.S., faces deportation and likely arrest upon return due to anti-war stance
A Russian scientist working at Harvard Medical School has been detained in the United States and placed in immigration detention. According to multiple independent Russian media outlets and the scient...
theins.press
March 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
More here, for those asking
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This. Citizens are not immune.
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
March 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This. Citizens are not immune.
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It gets worse.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
March 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It gets worse.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
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Trump’s new EO on voting exceeds his power—elections are conducted by the states. Congress, not Trump, has the power to legislate national standards they have to follow. So why would he do this? It’s about voter suppression & making it more difficult for people like you & me who oppose him to vote.
Trump just signed an exec order purporting to require a passport (or a few other docs) to register to vote. The president doesn't have the power to override a law passed by Congress. This is the SAVE Act but much worse. It is an illegal power grab that would block tens of millions from voting.
March 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Trump’s new EO on voting exceeds his power—elections are conducted by the states. Congress, not Trump, has the power to legislate national standards they have to follow. So why would he do this? It’s about voter suppression & making it more difficult for people like you & me who oppose him to vote.
I will not be responding to any more Democratic fundraising pleas until I see the party, not just isolated individuals, DO something useful. That is all.
March 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I will not be responding to any more Democratic fundraising pleas until I see the party, not just isolated individuals, DO something useful. That is all.
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I want to laugh at this but also my mom haven’t gotten her March social security check yet. She has savings to fall back on and won’t go hungry but that’s not the case for so many.
"She would be totally fine without her check. Barbara is not one of those self-important elderly people who need to eat food to survive. She can subsist solely on quartered containers of yogurt and the knowledge that she is fulfilling her patriotic duty."
My Mother-in-Law Wouldn’t Complain If She Didn’t Get Her Social Security Check Because She Would Be Dead
" Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick suggested this week that only ‘fraudsters’ would complain about missing a monthly Social Security check, and th...
www.mcsweeneys.net
March 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I want to laugh at this but also my mom haven’t gotten her March social security check yet. She has savings to fall back on and won’t go hungry but that’s not the case for so many.
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Remember when every day didn't feel like an episode of Survivor?
March 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Remember when every day didn't feel like an episode of Survivor?
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Yikes...but sadly true.
Between the unsecured bombing chats and eliminating FEMA and trafficking legal residents to foreign labor prisons and supermaxxing measles and halting cancer research, it’s so hard these days to guess how you’re gonna die
March 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Yikes...but sadly true.
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I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.
March 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.
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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.
Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question
“Kennedy’s war on vaccines has started,” one researcher said.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.
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This entire 🧵 has me like 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
THIS IS INSANE:
A thread 🧵👇
Yesterday, the acting commissioner of the Social Secrity Administration, Lelnd Dudek, notified Rep. George Latmier that he rejected his and Rep. Lawler's bipartisan effort to keep the only Social Security hearing office in the Hudson Valley open.
A thread 🧵👇
Yesterday, the acting commissioner of the Social Secrity Administration, Lelnd Dudek, notified Rep. George Latmier that he rejected his and Rep. Lawler's bipartisan effort to keep the only Social Security hearing office in the Hudson Valley open.
March 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This entire 🧵 has me like 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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Oh look, Shitmer's a racist. Fuck all the way off with your anti-Palestinian rhetoric driving your fucking political stance.
YES, I'm adding him as a new entry into my Shitctionary of this Shitministration.
YES, I'm adding him as a new entry into my Shitctionary of this Shitministration.
In this interview Schumer says he agrees with Trump’s decision to pull $400 million from Columbia. A university in his own state. And he’s unconcerned about the unlawful arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, one of his constituents.
He is a traitor who needs to resign.
He is a traitor who needs to resign.
‘The Interview’: Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat
The Senate minority leader discusses the backlash to his vote on the Republican spending bill, how he sees his role within the party and his new book.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Oh look, Shitmer's a racist. Fuck all the way off with your anti-Palestinian rhetoric driving your fucking political stance.
YES, I'm adding him as a new entry into my Shitctionary of this Shitministration.
YES, I'm adding him as a new entry into my Shitctionary of this Shitministration.