Jess
@tiredchaotic.bsky.social
Background in molecular neurobiology, foreground in chronic fatigue syndrome and (???). Love the Bay Area (despite it all), knitting away the ADHD, screaming into the void, my beautiful friends, and cats
[Banner is a painting by Ihor Melnyk]
[Banner is a painting by Ihor Melnyk]
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
People are good --
Yesterday, I lit some candles in glass vases around my pumpkin. At some point, one vase broke - but it was too dark to properly clean up last night.
When I went out today, all the glass had disappeared.
And they didn't even leave a nasty note 😲
Yesterday, I lit some candles in glass vases around my pumpkin. At some point, one vase broke - but it was too dark to properly clean up last night.
When I went out today, all the glass had disappeared.
And they didn't even leave a nasty note 😲
November 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
People are good --
Yesterday, I lit some candles in glass vases around my pumpkin. At some point, one vase broke - but it was too dark to properly clean up last night.
When I went out today, all the glass had disappeared.
And they didn't even leave a nasty note 😲
Yesterday, I lit some candles in glass vases around my pumpkin. At some point, one vase broke - but it was too dark to properly clean up last night.
When I went out today, all the glass had disappeared.
And they didn't even leave a nasty note 😲
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I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time
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"Exposure to more unvetted views does not automatically bring one closer to the truth..“Disciplines do not create expert knowledge through a marketplace of ideas in which content discrimination is prohibited and in which all ideas are deemed equal” ..some ideas are better than others."
#academicsky
#academicsky
Viewpoint Diversity Is a MAGA Plot
Defenses of the policy miss the political point.
www.chronicle.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"Exposure to more unvetted views does not automatically bring one closer to the truth..“Disciplines do not create expert knowledge through a marketplace of ideas in which content discrimination is prohibited and in which all ideas are deemed equal” ..some ideas are better than others."
#academicsky
#academicsky
Absolutely delightful
Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid
Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Absolutely delightful
The worst, the absolute worst
September 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The worst, the absolute worst
Oh my god, this explains everything
Maybe we are in the bad place because none of us forwarded those emails to 5 friends
September 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Oh my god, this explains everything
Never miss a chance to remind people that what makes humans "special" is our ability to form effective communities
'We certainly weren't exceptional, but now we're the only ones left': In new PBS series 'Human,' anthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi explores how humans came to dominate Earth
In her new show, Ella Al-Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to global hegemony.
www.livescience.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Never miss a chance to remind people that what makes humans "special" is our ability to form effective communities
I scream this in my head, like, once a week, then I flop over and distract myself with the first dumb YouTube video I find - recently, (new) Smosh
I just want to feel normal again! And have my brain intact! And be at the top of my game and get enough sleep and feel together and composed and have a gold pony of my very own and a unicorn that sneezes Skittles
September 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I scream this in my head, like, once a week, then I flop over and distract myself with the first dumb YouTube video I find - recently, (new) Smosh
I needed this
August 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I needed this
Responsible people exist
Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas | CNN
A small group of writers and researchers are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including the climate.gov website.
www.cnn.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Responsible people exist
Yes, obviously
A solution to declining birth rates? More supportive men, economist finds
Low fertility rates in the U.S. and around the globe pose problems for economic growth.
www.axios.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Yes, obviously
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People weren’t healthier “back in the day.”
In 1960s, life expectancy was in the 60s vs. 79 today.
Testicular cancer? 95% fatal.
Today? 95% survivable.
Same with MANY cancers.
Infections. Vaccine-preventable illness.
We live longer & healthier lives today bc of science.
youtu.be/rDx7LrBiMH0?...
In 1960s, life expectancy was in the 60s vs. 79 today.
Testicular cancer? 95% fatal.
Today? 95% survivable.
Same with MANY cancers.
Infections. Vaccine-preventable illness.
We live longer & healthier lives today bc of science.
youtu.be/rDx7LrBiMH0?...
People were not healthier 60 years ago.
YouTube video by Andrea Love, PhD
youtu.be
August 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
People weren’t healthier “back in the day.”
In 1960s, life expectancy was in the 60s vs. 79 today.
Testicular cancer? 95% fatal.
Today? 95% survivable.
Same with MANY cancers.
Infections. Vaccine-preventable illness.
We live longer & healthier lives today bc of science.
youtu.be/rDx7LrBiMH0?...
In 1960s, life expectancy was in the 60s vs. 79 today.
Testicular cancer? 95% fatal.
Today? 95% survivable.
Same with MANY cancers.
Infections. Vaccine-preventable illness.
We live longer & healthier lives today bc of science.
youtu.be/rDx7LrBiMH0?...
HUH
take heart in this fab essay and forthcoming book: archaeologists find that when empires fall, the powerful fare badly but the commoners fare better!
people want to cooperate and thrive. what happens next is still up to us.
aeon.co/essays/the-g...
people want to cooperate and thrive. what happens next is still up to us.
aeon.co/essays/the-g...
The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays
Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides
aeon.co
August 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
HUH
I love this show - so I'm sad, but it sounds like this will be one of the rare American TV shows that actually finishes its story with creative integrity
July 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I love this show - so I'm sad, but it sounds like this will be one of the rare American TV shows that actually finishes its story with creative integrity
Somerville is the best
Care for an amusing election story? In #SomervilleMA we have an election underway for "Bike Path Mayor".
[Ahem: Community path]
www.nbcboston.com/news/local/s...
[Ahem: Community path]
www.nbcboston.com/news/local/s...
Cats are running for mayor of a Mass. bike path. Locals think it's ‘meow-velous.'
A group of cats are campaigning for Bike Path Mayor in Somerville. One promises to “Make Cats Outside Again,” another is part of the Com-meow-nist Party.
www.nbcboston.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Somerville is the best
WOW these comments tho
July 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
WOW these comments tho
"the team gathered data from 253 populations across 121 primate species...
for 70 percent of the primates, either males or females could be at the top of the pecking order"
for 70 percent of the primates, either males or females could be at the top of the pecking order"
Alpha Male Primates a Myth, Researchers Find in New Study
New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more nuanced power dynamics in the relationships of our close relatives.
www.sciencealert.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"the team gathered data from 253 populations across 121 primate species...
for 70 percent of the primates, either males or females could be at the top of the pecking order"
for 70 percent of the primates, either males or females could be at the top of the pecking order"
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“Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed House Bill 25-1149 into law earlier this month to establish comprehensive statewide #BlackHistory #education standards for K-12 public schools.” Denver 7.
Good! We’ve had the Amistad law on the books here in Jersey for a while now! More states please!
Good! We’ve had the Amistad law on the books here in Jersey for a while now! More states please!
July 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
“Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed House Bill 25-1149 into law earlier this month to establish comprehensive statewide #BlackHistory #education standards for K-12 public schools.” Denver 7.
Good! We’ve had the Amistad law on the books here in Jersey for a while now! More states please!
Good! We’ve had the Amistad law on the books here in Jersey for a while now! More states please!
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Do you ever feel a slight vibration in, say, your thigh, and assume it's your phone, only to find your phone isn't in your pocket, and has your thigh recieved a message, and if so, how on earth are you going to access it?
June 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Do you ever feel a slight vibration in, say, your thigh, and assume it's your phone, only to find your phone isn't in your pocket, and has your thigh recieved a message, and if so, how on earth are you going to access it?
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I’m convinced that people like Zuckerberg do not get/actively dislike what it means to be human and are determined to inflict their terrifyingly inhuman fantasies of technology controlling our lives on the entirety of humanity
July 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I’m convinced that people like Zuckerberg do not get/actively dislike what it means to be human and are determined to inflict their terrifyingly inhuman fantasies of technology controlling our lives on the entirety of humanity
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There is no bond like the bond between two coworkers who are both annoyed by the same third coworker
July 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
There is no bond like the bond between two coworkers who are both annoyed by the same third coworker
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
This is incredible
The bar is high, but I think this is the dumbest anti-Zohran argument I've read so far www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/is-z...
June 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is incredible
this is so real - every molecular biologist has some pathway they'll never forget because, like, it reminded them of a band name and they dissociated for a few minutes imaging what instrument each of the enzymes would play
Lysosomal Storage Diseases
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
youtube.com
June 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
this is so real - every molecular biologist has some pathway they'll never forget because, like, it reminded them of a band name and they dissociated for a few minutes imaging what instrument each of the enzymes would play