Loretta Hackenbush, PhD
@pghsciencenerd.bsky.social
My name isn’t really Loretta. Yinzer science goblin. Mall rat (RIP Century III).
ASMR throwback timeline cleanse
Enjoy the dulcet tones of The Beef snoring
Enjoy the dulcet tones of The Beef snoring
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 PM
ASMR throwback timeline cleanse
Enjoy the dulcet tones of The Beef snoring
Enjoy the dulcet tones of The Beef snoring
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This is an inside Pittsburgh joke that LANDS 🔥🌞
Marty Griffin haiku
Exclamation marks!
Lose force when used too often!
Try a sedative!
Exclamation marks!
Lose force when used too often!
Try a sedative!
January 30, 2026 at 1:06 AM
This is an inside Pittsburgh joke that LANDS 🔥🌞
Join me in yelling pasta and pasta-adjacent words at her
BEEFARONI MACARONI PEPPERONI CAVATELLI
BEEFARONI MACARONI PEPPERONI CAVATELLI
January 29, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Join me in yelling pasta and pasta-adjacent words at her
BEEFARONI MACARONI PEPPERONI CAVATELLI
BEEFARONI MACARONI PEPPERONI CAVATELLI
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I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.
This is the large domino, with the small domino being some random quack in the UK in 1998 trying to undermine the existing MMR vaccine so his business partner can swoop in with his own. Instead he lost his work credentials and now kids are dying needlessly all over the world, so great job everyone.
Austria loses its WHO status as measles-free, too, together with Armenia, Azerbaijan Uzbekistan and Spain. This comes as no surprise, considering the rise in numbers in recent years and the decline in MMR vaccine coverage
#VaccineHesitancy #PublicHealthImpact #AllChildrenNeedProtection
#VaccineHesitancy #PublicHealthImpact #AllChildrenNeedProtection
January 28, 2026 at 10:04 PM
I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.
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PEOPLE.
Stop acting shocked when women over 40 easily conceive. It’s perfectly normal for people to naturally get pregnant well into the late 40s and early 50s. In my family alone, people aged 47 and 53 gave birth without fertility assistance. It’s 2026.
www.reddit.com/r/influencer...
Stop acting shocked when women over 40 easily conceive. It’s perfectly normal for people to naturally get pregnant well into the late 40s and early 50s. In my family alone, people aged 47 and 53 gave birth without fertility assistance. It’s 2026.
www.reddit.com/r/influencer...
From the influencersfeed community on Reddit: Claire Danes admits she had a ‘meltdown’ after learning she was pregnant at 44
Explore this post and more from the influencersfeed community
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January 29, 2026 at 3:06 AM
PEOPLE.
Stop acting shocked when women over 40 easily conceive. It’s perfectly normal for people to naturally get pregnant well into the late 40s and early 50s. In my family alone, people aged 47 and 53 gave birth without fertility assistance. It’s 2026.
www.reddit.com/r/influencer...
Stop acting shocked when women over 40 easily conceive. It’s perfectly normal for people to naturally get pregnant well into the late 40s and early 50s. In my family alone, people aged 47 and 53 gave birth without fertility assistance. It’s 2026.
www.reddit.com/r/influencer...
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there are no tears like the tears you cry over bruce springsteen’s music. that man has never heard of irony or subtext. his lifelong task is to tell you things are bad by quite simply telling you things are bad and he’s the best there ever was at it
January 28, 2026 at 10:29 PM
there are no tears like the tears you cry over bruce springsteen’s music. that man has never heard of irony or subtext. his lifelong task is to tell you things are bad by quite simply telling you things are bad and he’s the best there ever was at it
THE BOSS
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 10:49 PM
THE BOSS
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“are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” has been knocking around my head all day
one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”
January 28, 2026 at 10:38 PM
“are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” has been knocking around my head all day
This shit ass bus is 45 min late
It’s 8 degrees out wtf
It’s 8 degrees out wtf
January 28, 2026 at 10:47 PM
This shit ass bus is 45 min late
It’s 8 degrees out wtf
It’s 8 degrees out wtf
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The Pitt episode where 37 salt trucks go down the night of a huge snow storm in the city and Dr. Robby has to snowboard all the victims in while avoiding parking chairs.
January 27, 2026 at 1:18 AM
The Pitt episode where 37 salt trucks go down the night of a huge snow storm in the city and Dr. Robby has to snowboard all the victims in while avoiding parking chairs.
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BYE BITCH
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 PM
BYE BITCH
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Boomers I talk to: I still feel 25 where has the time gone???
Millennials I talk to: I feel 900 years old when will the sweet embrace of death finally come for me???
Millennials I talk to: I feel 900 years old when will the sweet embrace of death finally come for me???
January 26, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Boomers I talk to: I still feel 25 where has the time gone???
Millennials I talk to: I feel 900 years old when will the sweet embrace of death finally come for me???
Millennials I talk to: I feel 900 years old when will the sweet embrace of death finally come for me???
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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It really is incredible that the average decent American is seemingly orders of magnitude more courageous than the people in public office who aspire to run the fucking country
January 24, 2026 at 6:07 PM
It really is incredible that the average decent American is seemingly orders of magnitude more courageous than the people in public office who aspire to run the fucking country
Did I yell BREAD AND MILK in the Giant Eagle parking lot? Yes
January 25, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Did I yell BREAD AND MILK in the Giant Eagle parking lot? Yes
I agree. Please immediately resign and stay at home with your kids. Don’t ever show your face in public again.
JD Vance: "To our fellow Americans we say, you're never gonna find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."
January 23, 2026 at 10:09 PM
I agree. Please immediately resign and stay at home with your kids. Don’t ever show your face in public again.
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weird to me how much defending the homeland and the future of the white race turns out to involve crashing a rental car and then running away
January 23, 2026 at 9:55 PM
weird to me how much defending the homeland and the future of the white race turns out to involve crashing a rental car and then running away
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time to uninstall tiktok yall
January 23, 2026 at 8:30 PM
time to uninstall tiktok yall
It's so cold outside my eyeballs hurt
January 23, 2026 at 9:54 PM
It's so cold outside my eyeballs hurt
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terrible choice. go for it. minnesota was the incredibly polite version lol.
January 23, 2026 at 7:27 AM
terrible choice. go for it. minnesota was the incredibly polite version lol.
I woke up early and had a 1.5 hour extended snuggle session with Professor Beefaroni
January 22, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I woke up early and had a 1.5 hour extended snuggle session with Professor Beefaroni
THE BOSS
Bruce Springsteen: “ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
January 22, 2026 at 1:04 PM
THE BOSS
It’s absolute ass outside
January 22, 2026 at 12:35 PM
It’s absolute ass outside