John Swenson
@mobulasana.bsky.social
Human🧬
Yoga practitioner (YTT 200 hr) 🤸🏼
Post-doctoral evolutionary biologist 👨🏻💻
Fast with code, otherwise unhurried 🧘
Yoga practitioner (YTT 200 hr) 🤸🏼
Post-doctoral evolutionary biologist 👨🏻💻
Fast with code, otherwise unhurried 🧘
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No Kings, Bellingham, WA. Post rally dance party. #nokings @walshfreedom.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
No Kings, Bellingham, WA. Post rally dance party. #nokings @walshfreedom.bsky.social
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.
Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care
Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care
October 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.
Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care
Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care
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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
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I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’
The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.
www.vulture.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...
Calm down that rhetoric, Democrats 😒
Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party
September 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Calm down that rhetoric, Democrats 😒
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the era of small government is over and we can either have armed thugs with badges disappearing people or universal health care and high speed rail
August 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
the era of small government is over and we can either have armed thugs with badges disappearing people or universal health care and high speed rail
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I’m watching a live stream
August 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I’m watching a live stream
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Considering he's consistently been the highest-rated late-night host for years...yeah.
Here's Colbert on July 14 making fun of Paramount for paying Trump $16 million. It's hard not to see CBS canceling his show through this lens.
"I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's big fat bribe."
"I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's big fat bribe."
July 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Considering he's consistently been the highest-rated late-night host for years...yeah.
I learned this the hard way with my very first conference talk (lightning talk, thank god). My first time going without notes was when I gave the actual presentation and it .... Didn't go well haha.
Now, I prepare assuming no PowerPoint notes and have physical note cards in case my mind blanks
Now, I prepare assuming no PowerPoint notes and have physical note cards in case my mind blanks
I’ve been to about 80 scientific conferences at a wide variety of venues
Sometimes you’re able to see your PowerPoint speaker notes. Sometimes you’re not.
But you almost never know in advance of arriving at the venue
So I strongly recommend to practice your talk enough that you don’t need it!
Sometimes you’re able to see your PowerPoint speaker notes. Sometimes you’re not.
But you almost never know in advance of arriving at the venue
So I strongly recommend to practice your talk enough that you don’t need it!
July 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I learned this the hard way with my very first conference talk (lightning talk, thank god). My first time going without notes was when I gave the actual presentation and it .... Didn't go well haha.
Now, I prepare assuming no PowerPoint notes and have physical note cards in case my mind blanks
Now, I prepare assuming no PowerPoint notes and have physical note cards in case my mind blanks
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Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth
July 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
July 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
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When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
July 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
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Shark Week bills itself as pro science and conservation and says they don’t promote fear.
One of these 2025 episode titles is real and I made up the rest.
Guess which is real.
1 Great white assassins
2 Great white sex battle
3 Great white invasion
4 Florida’s death beach
Lolz all real
One of these 2025 episode titles is real and I made up the rest.
Guess which is real.
1 Great white assassins
2 Great white sex battle
3 Great white invasion
4 Florida’s death beach
Lolz all real
June 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Shark Week bills itself as pro science and conservation and says they don’t promote fear.
One of these 2025 episode titles is real and I made up the rest.
Guess which is real.
1 Great white assassins
2 Great white sex battle
3 Great white invasion
4 Florida’s death beach
Lolz all real
One of these 2025 episode titles is real and I made up the rest.
Guess which is real.
1 Great white assassins
2 Great white sex battle
3 Great white invasion
4 Florida’s death beach
Lolz all real
Seems our new approach to Middle East diplomacy draws heavily from the Mars Attacks playbook.
June 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Seems our new approach to Middle East diplomacy draws heavily from the Mars Attacks playbook.
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legitimately, being able to calmly say "I was wrong, my bad" or "oh, I didn't know that!" when being corrected or encountering new information is an actual skill, something people have to work to develop, and the fact that so many adults are incapable of doing it is a problem
June 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
legitimately, being able to calmly say "I was wrong, my bad" or "oh, I didn't know that!" when being corrected or encountering new information is an actual skill, something people have to work to develop, and the fact that so many adults are incapable of doing it is a problem
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There is a lie that shapes our governing ideologies & institutions in this country: that property is of more value than people. The idea is as pervasive as it is destructive & has to be completely destroyed for justice & equality to be made more than empty phrases & meaningless gestures.
June 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
There is a lie that shapes our governing ideologies & institutions in this country: that property is of more value than people. The idea is as pervasive as it is destructive & has to be completely destroyed for justice & equality to be made more than empty phrases & meaningless gestures.
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I don’t know how to communicate with someone who believes that Elon Musk is not an out of touch elite, but my colleagues who make $65,000 a year and have $150,000 in student loan debt are out of touch elites.
"We are not the elites the billionaires claim we are. Most professors don’t have tenure. The humanities professoriate don’t even have full time jobs, have been known to sleep in their cars. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?"
www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
I'm a professor. We're not the 'elite' the powerful billionaires say we are.
Most professors don't have tenure. An increasing number don't even have full-time jobs. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?
www.houstonchronicle.com
May 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I don’t know how to communicate with someone who believes that Elon Musk is not an out of touch elite, but my colleagues who make $65,000 a year and have $150,000 in student loan debt are out of touch elites.
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"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Contrast this to the announcement yesterday that the government would garnish wages, SS, etc. of student loan borrowers who defaulted.
I'm no economist, but taking as much money as possible from low/middle income folks while taking relatively little from the rich seems financially inefficient, no?
I'm no economist, but taking as much money as possible from low/middle income folks while taking relatively little from the rich seems financially inefficient, no?
Q: "The president posted this morning that he would be okay with raising taxes on the rich. Is that something that is being seriously considered?"
Hassett: "The president is not a strong advocate of that."
Hassett: "The president is not a strong advocate of that."
May 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Contrast this to the announcement yesterday that the government would garnish wages, SS, etc. of student loan borrowers who defaulted.
I'm no economist, but taking as much money as possible from low/middle income folks while taking relatively little from the rich seems financially inefficient, no?
I'm no economist, but taking as much money as possible from low/middle income folks while taking relatively little from the rich seems financially inefficient, no?
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Welcome to the liquidation of American dominance in science
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Welcome to the liquidation of American dominance in science