Arum Park
@profarumpark.bsky.social
Korean American; she/her; Classicist at University of Arizona. Opinions are my own. http://press.umich.edu/11853864 https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/q524jr02p
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
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SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
President Trump criticized the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during a Fox News interview tonight, saying people "get it automatically now so the number is many times what it should be, it's disgraceful."
Trump says "we can reform" SNAP
"SNAP is supposed to be if you are down and out," Trump said on Fox News this evening.
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
BREAKING: James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix whose work reshaped medicine, forensics and genetics, dies at 97.
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
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A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...
Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...
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Enough. We HAVE TO HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. This is madness.
Retired couple (teacher & union carpenter) on ACA premiums skyrocketing — from $443/month to $2,224/month: “It's like buying another house and trying to pay for two houses at the same time… without the subsidy we honestly don’t know what we’re gonna do.” #TrumpShutdown
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Enough. We HAVE TO HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. This is madness.
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BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
October 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
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We live in a country where the media is focused more on who a Democratic mayoral candidate defines as his ‘aunt’ than on the DHS Twitter account putting out white nationalist propaganda and replying to Nazis online.
October 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
We live in a country where the media is focused more on who a Democratic mayoral candidate defines as his ‘aunt’ than on the DHS Twitter account putting out white nationalist propaganda and replying to Nazis online.
Seconding no intentional walks rule. This is ridiculous.
Suggesting that at least in the World Series after a certain amount of innings we should just do a home run derby like the shoot-out in soccer.
Also no intentional walks with no pitches. Come on.
Also no intentional walks with no pitches. Come on.
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Seconding no intentional walks rule. This is ridiculous.
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Should be a rule against walking Ohtani.
I don't have a good reason, I just like watching that young man bounce baseballs off satellites.
I don't have a good reason, I just like watching that young man bounce baseballs off satellites.
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Should be a rule against walking Ohtani.
I don't have a good reason, I just like watching that young man bounce baseballs off satellites.
I don't have a good reason, I just like watching that young man bounce baseballs off satellites.
Not only did he push Shohei off the base, he also hit him in the balls. #disrespectful
October 28, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Not only did he push Shohei off the base, he also hit him in the balls. #disrespectful
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Did the New York Times have an editorial meeting where they said something like “these are trustworthy people, we should take their word, put it headlines, that’s good journalism.”
Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”?
Or do they just sorta do it?
Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”?
Or do they just sorta do it?
October 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Did the New York Times have an editorial meeting where they said something like “these are trustworthy people, we should take their word, put it headlines, that’s good journalism.”
Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”?
Or do they just sorta do it?
Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”?
Or do they just sorta do it?
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One of the most photographed buildings in the world, this should be a cinch
Seems like a great moment for some magazine to do a big spread of photos of the East Wing throughout its history, driving home exactly what kinds of spaces have been taken from the people.
October 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
One of the most photographed buildings in the world, this should be a cinch
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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Coming soon: first English translation of the ancient scholia to the Iliad. Books 1 and 2.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
The Ancient Scholia to Homer's Iliad
Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - The Ancient Scholia to Homer's Iliad
www.cambridge.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Coming soon: first English translation of the ancient scholia to the Iliad. Books 1 and 2.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
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WashU in STL just announced, in a university-wide email, that we will NOT be signing The Compact.
This statement, I believe, exists thanks to the tremendous energy generated w/in our community by, among others, the Faculty Senate, the revived AAUP, and student journalists. I'm proud of everybody.
This statement, I believe, exists thanks to the tremendous energy generated w/in our community by, among others, the Faculty Senate, the revived AAUP, and student journalists. I'm proud of everybody.
October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
WashU in STL just announced, in a university-wide email, that we will NOT be signing The Compact.
This statement, I believe, exists thanks to the tremendous energy generated w/in our community by, among others, the Faculty Senate, the revived AAUP, and student journalists. I'm proud of everybody.
This statement, I believe, exists thanks to the tremendous energy generated w/in our community by, among others, the Faculty Senate, the revived AAUP, and student journalists. I'm proud of everybody.
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I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
spot.fund/dn8t744sc
I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator!
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Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files
October 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files
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October 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Dear Mariners,
I will love you forever.
Sincerely,
Me
I will love you forever.
Sincerely,
Me
October 21, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Dear Mariners,
I will love you forever.
Sincerely,
Me
I will love you forever.
Sincerely,
Me
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it pales in comparison to his government’s murders and abductions but it’s not his fucking house
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
it pales in comparison to his government’s murders and abductions but it’s not his fucking house
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Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again?
I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale.
That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?
I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale.
That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?
October 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again?
I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale.
That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?
I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale.
That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?
Dear sports gods,
As you know, the Mariners are the only team in the entire MLB that has never been to the World Series. I would love for that to change tonight.
Sincerely,
Me
As you know, the Mariners are the only team in the entire MLB that has never been to the World Series. I would love for that to change tonight.
Sincerely,
Me
October 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Dear sports gods,
As you know, the Mariners are the only team in the entire MLB that has never been to the World Series. I would love for that to change tonight.
Sincerely,
Me
As you know, the Mariners are the only team in the entire MLB that has never been to the World Series. I would love for that to change tonight.
Sincerely,
Me
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Today in campaign kerfuffles.
(Tell me you don’t know about Asia without telling me you don’t know about Asia.)
(Tell me you don’t know about Asia without telling me you don’t know about Asia.)
October 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Today in campaign kerfuffles.
(Tell me you don’t know about Asia without telling me you don’t know about Asia.)
(Tell me you don’t know about Asia without telling me you don’t know about Asia.)