Transitional Fossil
@transitfossil.bsky.social
retired mechanical engineer and computer scientist. avid swimmer. amateur classical guitar player. atheist. liberal. feminist. anti-fascist. never trump.
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This is what my students and I do! #STEM #STEAM #STEMSky #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #TeacherSky #EducatorSky Human-Robot InterAction youtu.be/Oc8wBqZNZ2s?...
Hand Gesture Blossom Robot
YouTube video by Solbin Lee
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November 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This is what my students and I do! #STEM #STEAM #STEMSky #AcademicSky #ScienceSky #TeacherSky #EducatorSky Human-Robot InterAction youtu.be/Oc8wBqZNZ2s?...
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”To all those fallen soldiers, who gave everything so people like me could give nothing.”
November 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
”To all those fallen soldiers, who gave everything so people like me could give nothing.”
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"He didn’t even have a chance to show them he was legal. They didn’t seem to care either way. See, Yomi had lived here for ten years. He came from Nigeria, built a life, earned his green card, followed every rule this country told him would keep him safe. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t 'illegal.'"
ICE Took a Green Card Holder Leaving for Work Just Weeks After His Baby’s Birth
Agents surrounded Abayomi Daramola in his front yard, just 3 weeks after his wife gave birth to their third child. Green card be damned.
dissentinbloom.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"He didn’t even have a chance to show them he was legal. They didn’t seem to care either way. See, Yomi had lived here for ten years. He came from Nigeria, built a life, earned his green card, followed every rule this country told him would keep him safe. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t 'illegal.'"
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Normal isn't coming back so get off your knees and fight back - what they have planned for us is far worse than anything they've already done.
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Normal isn't coming back so get off your knees and fight back - what they have planned for us is far worse than anything they've already done.
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Anti-black racism from slavery is the gateway drug to every other kind of ism in this country.
It is the foundational and most prevalent delusion of superiority and entitlement that permeates and gives license to the inequality and otherizing of every other minority group.
If we get rid of
It is the foundational and most prevalent delusion of superiority and entitlement that permeates and gives license to the inequality and otherizing of every other minority group.
If we get rid of
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Anti-black racism from slavery is the gateway drug to every other kind of ism in this country.
It is the foundational and most prevalent delusion of superiority and entitlement that permeates and gives license to the inequality and otherizing of every other minority group.
If we get rid of
It is the foundational and most prevalent delusion of superiority and entitlement that permeates and gives license to the inequality and otherizing of every other minority group.
If we get rid of
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i’m not sure the US can still produce national vital statistics (live births, deaths, etc). this is a shocking thing to say for a high income nation. very short thread.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
i’m not sure the US can still produce national vital statistics (live births, deaths, etc). this is a shocking thing to say for a high income nation. very short thread.
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A dear friend of mine was recently diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma.
He has had excellent insurance his whole life, and his treatment will be covered. His cancer is treatable.
But without treatment, he dies within a year.
He is lucky. He can afford his insurance. For those who cannot
He has had excellent insurance his whole life, and his treatment will be covered. His cancer is treatable.
But without treatment, he dies within a year.
He is lucky. He can afford his insurance. For those who cannot
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A dear friend of mine was recently diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma.
He has had excellent insurance his whole life, and his treatment will be covered. His cancer is treatable.
But without treatment, he dies within a year.
He is lucky. He can afford his insurance. For those who cannot
He has had excellent insurance his whole life, and his treatment will be covered. His cancer is treatable.
But without treatment, he dies within a year.
He is lucky. He can afford his insurance. For those who cannot
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"In retrospect, Sandy Hook marked the end of the U.S. gun control debate,” British columnist Dan Hodges wrote in 2015. “Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
"In retrospect, Sandy Hook marked the end of the U.S. gun control debate,” British columnist Dan Hodges wrote in 2015. “Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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God save us from knowing fools who now say identifying elements of the current fascism is "threadbare cliche." The same turkeys who five years ago called it hysterical, fraudulent intellects who've read a great deal but believe the deepest expression of wisdom is being the first to claim fatigue.
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
God save us from knowing fools who now say identifying elements of the current fascism is "threadbare cliche." The same turkeys who five years ago called it hysterical, fraudulent intellects who've read a great deal but believe the deepest expression of wisdom is being the first to claim fatigue.
I think Embiid is done. The Process failed.
they're a better team with Maxie and Edgecombe leading the way.
they're a better team with Maxie and Edgecombe leading the way.
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I think Embiid is done. The Process failed.
they're a better team with Maxie and Edgecombe leading the way.
they're a better team with Maxie and Edgecombe leading the way.
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A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
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Why isn’t the Trump administration being widely described as a “white supremacist administration” because that is overtly what it is?
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Why isn’t the Trump administration being widely described as a “white supremacist administration” because that is overtly what it is?
no, not worse than Republicans.
they didn't usher in fascism or destroy democracy.
let's be real here, please.
they didn't usher in fascism or destroy democracy.
let's be real here, please.
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
no, not worse than Republicans.
they didn't usher in fascism or destroy democracy.
let's be real here, please.
they didn't usher in fascism or destroy democracy.
let's be real here, please.
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High income, eh?
High Income is Elon Musk the new Trillionaire
High Income is Millionaire grifter Bernie Sanders
I grew up on food stamps, free lunch, and government cheese.
Who does this fool think he is talking to?
#BlackSky #STEMSky #AcademicSky #BlackAdemic
High Income is Elon Musk the new Trillionaire
High Income is Millionaire grifter Bernie Sanders
I grew up on food stamps, free lunch, and government cheese.
Who does this fool think he is talking to?
#BlackSky #STEMSky #AcademicSky #BlackAdemic
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
High income, eh?
High Income is Elon Musk the new Trillionaire
High Income is Millionaire grifter Bernie Sanders
I grew up on food stamps, free lunch, and government cheese.
Who does this fool think he is talking to?
#BlackSky #STEMSky #AcademicSky #BlackAdemic
High Income is Elon Musk the new Trillionaire
High Income is Millionaire grifter Bernie Sanders
I grew up on food stamps, free lunch, and government cheese.
Who does this fool think he is talking to?
#BlackSky #STEMSky #AcademicSky #BlackAdemic
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💸 JD Vance’s family blew $35 MILLION in vacation money
💸 Kash Patel used a $60 MILLION FBI jet for a date
💸 Trump spent $98 MILLION golfing — on nearly 1 out of every 4 days of his presidency
🧾 ALL on YOUR tax dollars.
But somehow… they think a single mom getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?
💸 Kash Patel used a $60 MILLION FBI jet for a date
💸 Trump spent $98 MILLION golfing — on nearly 1 out of every 4 days of his presidency
🧾 ALL on YOUR tax dollars.
But somehow… they think a single mom getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
💸 JD Vance’s family blew $35 MILLION in vacation money
💸 Kash Patel used a $60 MILLION FBI jet for a date
💸 Trump spent $98 MILLION golfing — on nearly 1 out of every 4 days of his presidency
🧾 ALL on YOUR tax dollars.
But somehow… they think a single mom getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?
💸 Kash Patel used a $60 MILLION FBI jet for a date
💸 Trump spent $98 MILLION golfing — on nearly 1 out of every 4 days of his presidency
🧾 ALL on YOUR tax dollars.
But somehow… they think a single mom getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?
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We actually elected the single stupidest American to be president.
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We actually elected the single stupidest American to be president.
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Mildred Dresselhaus | Renowned physicist known as the "Queen of Carbon." Key figure in nanotechnology. First woman Institute Professor at MIT, and champion for #WomenInSTEM. Recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2014. She was born #OTD in 1930.
physics.mit.edu/faculty/mild...
physics.mit.edu/faculty/mild...
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Mildred Dresselhaus | Renowned physicist known as the "Queen of Carbon." Key figure in nanotechnology. First woman Institute Professor at MIT, and champion for #WomenInSTEM. Recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2014. She was born #OTD in 1930.
physics.mit.edu/faculty/mild...
physics.mit.edu/faculty/mild...
The Riverian is in over his head, again.
Nate did a great job w/ his 2008 prediction of the elections. he did it by leveraging machine learning w/ ensemble models.
a common technique today, but back then it wasn't well known.
never duplicated. everyone else caught up and passed him.
Nate did a great job w/ his 2008 prediction of the elections. he did it by leveraging machine learning w/ ensemble models.
a common technique today, but back then it wasn't well known.
never duplicated. everyone else caught up and passed him.
This clown 🤡 predicted Ciattarelli would defeat Mikie Sherrill in the election for Governor of New Jersey ………
we can all agree - Nate Silver is an asshole.
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The Riverian is in over his head, again.
Nate did a great job w/ his 2008 prediction of the elections. he did it by leveraging machine learning w/ ensemble models.
a common technique today, but back then it wasn't well known.
never duplicated. everyone else caught up and passed him.
Nate did a great job w/ his 2008 prediction of the elections. he did it by leveraging machine learning w/ ensemble models.
a common technique today, but back then it wasn't well known.
never duplicated. everyone else caught up and passed him.
of course it's my business.
that stupid b-tch Susan Collins had a profound effect on my life with her Maine stupidity and cowardice.
don't forget to go f-ck yourself on your way out.
that stupid b-tch Susan Collins had a profound effect on my life with her Maine stupidity and cowardice.
don't forget to go f-ck yourself on your way out.
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
of course it's my business.
that stupid b-tch Susan Collins had a profound effect on my life with her Maine stupidity and cowardice.
don't forget to go f-ck yourself on your way out.
that stupid b-tch Susan Collins had a profound effect on my life with her Maine stupidity and cowardice.
don't forget to go f-ck yourself on your way out.
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It’s insane to me that people are still shocked that a career fraudster convicted felon’s main goal was to rob the US blind out of revenge as well as greed whilst sitting in the White House that he laced with tacky gold-plating and bulldozed for his ballroom. I hate him.
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It’s insane to me that people are still shocked that a career fraudster convicted felon’s main goal was to rob the US blind out of revenge as well as greed whilst sitting in the White House that he laced with tacky gold-plating and bulldozed for his ballroom. I hate him.
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Trump told Fox News he doesn’t believe that people are anxious about money.
Trump Brushes Off Americans’ Concerns About Affordability, Calls Polling 'Fake'
Trump told Fox News he doesn’t believe that people are anxious about money.
www.forbes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trump told Fox News he doesn’t believe that people are anxious about money.