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Faye McNeill
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@Columbia prof, aerosol science, atmospheric chemistry, air quality (esp. in India), climate, chemical engineering, and whatever else is on my mind 🌇 she/her
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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Incredible update: "This article was updated to note that CNN reports there were at least four party balloons shot down by DOD, not just one."

gizmodo.com/one-mexican-...
Mexican Cartel 'Drones' Near El Paso Airspace Were Actually Party Balloons: Report
FAA initially ordered the closure of airspace over El Paso for 10 days before backtracking.
gizmodo.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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a variant of “everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about” is “sometimes a coworker is nodding and listening on the walk to coffee while responding to dm scams”
February 11, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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The FAA has abruptly lifted its unprecedented ten day closure of El Paso airspace. Previously, no advanced notice was given and no justifiable explanation had been provided. This rash decision will erode trust in public safety.
February 11, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Damn @chemrxiv.org got a glow up
February 11, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Hahaha this is amazing

He goes over to wake up a kid sleeping on some chairs

There's always a kid sleeping in the corner at a real wedding

The details!!!!
February 9, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...
The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico
The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.
www.latitudemedia.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Sports reporter with NBC News reporting that the couple in Bad Bunny’s halftime show got married for real
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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Great politics should look like a party you want to join
February 9, 2026 at 2:44 AM
That was incredible
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
The NFL and Bad Bunny are really giving small minded people an amazing opportunity to show their asses
February 8, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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This meeting could’ve been a karate match
February 5, 2026 at 2:33 AM
gaslit into thinking 20 °F is warm: the Faye McNeill story
February 3, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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The answer is love
Full Bad Bunny speech
February 2, 2026 at 2:52 AM
*looks ruefully into the middle distance in Chemical Engineer*
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

Victorian Authors: Thomas Hardy

Educational Psychology

Introduction to Astronomy (we had a planetarium!)

Radical Political Theory

Intermediate Latin
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college (Gen X Edition):

Race and Ethnic Relations

History of the Middle East

History of Modern Russia

Music History: Baroque

Student Teaching at a Junior High in Pottstown, PA
February 1, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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Engineer and inventor Douglas Engelbart was born #OTD in 1925. His team at SRI developed or contributed to the computer mouse, hypertext, networked computers, and graphical interfaces, all of which were presented in 1968 at what is referred to as the “Mother of All Demos." 🧪

Image: ARC Bootstrapper
January 30, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Why is all the licorice from Australia now? Was it always from Australia? 🤔
January 29, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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I once read a thread on sexism in international relations/spying where women were instructed to make wrong claims about X whenever they wanted to get secret information on X; a man would just disclose the key info by means of mansplaining
January 26, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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“You guys just got to the last page?”
January 24, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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"My detractors insist that all of my enemies are imaginary and that I am picking fights with bogeymen simply to satisfy my own deluded fantasies. That just shows you how threatened some people are by the incredible job I'm doing cleaning up La Mancha."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-d...
I, Don Quixote, Vow to Conquer Greenland
“In a free-wheeling speech to world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump…touched on his desire to obtain Gree...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 22, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Too fluent in passive aggression for Gmail's AI Overview to pick up on it
January 21, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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replace rfk jr with this guy
January 19, 2026 at 2:43 PM