AmoeBaHumbug
@amoebahumbug.bsky.social
Scientist in academia, fighting for science & people.
Swirling thoughts. Many Interests. Human.
Lots of favorite TV shows.
Swirling thoughts. Many Interests. Human.
Lots of favorite TV shows.
Pinned
Remember sitting in history, thinking “If I was alive then, I would’ve…”
You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done.
You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done.
Read this, and then again. We can stop this, but requires us pulling together with action and courage.
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My department at CU Boulder is now accepting applications for our MA in Media and Public Engagement and our fully funded PhD in Media Studies. We’re especially interested in PhD applicants exploring Digital Humanities. Feel free to reach out if you have questions.
www.colorado.edu/cmci/academi...
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Graduate Programs
www.colorado.edu
October 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
My department at CU Boulder is now accepting applications for our MA in Media and Public Engagement and our fully funded PhD in Media Studies. We’re especially interested in PhD applicants exploring Digital Humanities. Feel free to reach out if you have questions.
www.colorado.edu/cmci/academi...
www.colorado.edu/cmci/academi...
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I don’t give TWO shits whether or not a person works. I RESPECT & HONOR THEM NO MATTER WHAT. Working is not the GOAL of life! We live in a capitalist society in which we are groomed to believe that our worth is directly connected to our work. It’s NOT. We work til we DIE. FUCK THAT!
October 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I don’t give TWO shits whether or not a person works. I RESPECT & HONOR THEM NO MATTER WHAT. Working is not the GOAL of life! We live in a capitalist society in which we are groomed to believe that our worth is directly connected to our work. It’s NOT. We work til we DIE. FUCK THAT!
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If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP.
A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.
I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.
A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.
I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.
October 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP.
A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.
I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.
A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify.
I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.
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The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders. We can no longer wait to be led by those with the power and authority to lead. You must lead, I must lead, all of us must lead. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION
(not a typo)
(not a typo)
October 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION
(not a typo)
(not a typo)
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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“I do have a lot to say about the federal prison in Atlanta, where ICE transferred me on Monday, July 7.
The prison is not only old, ugly and gloomy, but it is also designed to drive people crazy.”
bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
The prison is not only old, ugly and gloomy, but it is also designed to drive people crazy.”
bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
Journalist Mario Guevara Speaks - Letter from ICE DETENTION FACILITY — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
The only journalist detained by ICE on US soil, sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner.
bittersoutherner.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
“I do have a lot to say about the federal prison in Atlanta, where ICE transferred me on Monday, July 7.
The prison is not only old, ugly and gloomy, but it is also designed to drive people crazy.”
bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
The prison is not only old, ugly and gloomy, but it is also designed to drive people crazy.”
bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
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Actually surprised this hasn’t gotten more circulation on the TL
Looks like this was the event: www.casino.org/news/atlanti...
Looks like this was the event: www.casino.org/news/atlanti...
September 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Actually surprised this hasn’t gotten more circulation on the TL
Looks like this was the event: www.casino.org/news/atlanti...
Looks like this was the event: www.casino.org/news/atlanti...
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No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.
September 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.
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I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
September 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.
What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
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I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.
September 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.
A colleague used copilot as a means to query an online dataset. 80% of the lookups were “convincing” hallucinations. And this should have been simple 1:1 matching.
This technology must not be used when lives and well-being are on the line.
This technology must not be used when lives and well-being are on the line.
Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures.
Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims.
Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims.
Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.
September 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
A colleague used copilot as a means to query an online dataset. 80% of the lookups were “convincing” hallucinations. And this should have been simple 1:1 matching.
This technology must not be used when lives and well-being are on the line.
This technology must not be used when lives and well-being are on the line.
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When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.
September 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.
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The thing is, every time you defend Newsom as a great candidate and what “we” need, you’re telling trans people that you’re willing to throw them under the bus
You can sit in my mentions and whine about how I’m criticizing Newsom too much and I will continue to highlight how your transphobia sucks
You can sit in my mentions and whine about how I’m criticizing Newsom too much and I will continue to highlight how your transphobia sucks
August 31, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The thing is, every time you defend Newsom as a great candidate and what “we” need, you’re telling trans people that you’re willing to throw them under the bus
You can sit in my mentions and whine about how I’m criticizing Newsom too much and I will continue to highlight how your transphobia sucks
You can sit in my mentions and whine about how I’m criticizing Newsom too much and I will continue to highlight how your transphobia sucks
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Hi, immunologist here:
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
August 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Hi, immunologist here:
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
(a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes)
RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation”
That’s NOT how immunology works.
He is an anti-science profiteer.
Start calling him such.
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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ngl I kind of think Sam Altman should be tried criminally? is that … feasible?
August 27, 2025 at 1:26 AM
ngl I kind of think Sam Altman should be tried criminally? is that … feasible?
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HELLO: As I mentioned on Friday, I got laid off from my role at Splinter. I have now migrated my long-dormant newsletter, Gravity Is Gone, to a better home (Ghost), and will start writing and reporting over there. I would *love* it if you would sign up.
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Gravity Relaunched
The media industry: great fun forever.
Last week, I was laid off from my role as deputy editor of Splinter, where I spent about a year and a half covering — among other things — climate change, scien...
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August 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
HELLO: As I mentioned on Friday, I got laid off from my role at Splinter. I have now migrated my long-dormant newsletter, Gravity Is Gone, to a better home (Ghost), and will start writing and reporting over there. I would *love* it if you would sign up.
www.gravityisgone.com/gravity-rela...
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Hey mainstream media colleagues: you cannot be deported to a country you are not from. That’s kidnapping and trafficking. Call it that. You are lying if you say otherwise.
August 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Hey mainstream media colleagues: you cannot be deported to a country you are not from. That’s kidnapping and trafficking. Call it that. You are lying if you say otherwise.
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The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
August 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
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A friend in NYC ran into these on 5th Ave. today and wow that is a lot of promo!
So yes, I’ll be giving the Gotto lecture in NYC at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian on Sunday September 28 if you’re in town
So yes, I’ll be giving the Gotto lecture in NYC at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian on Sunday September 28 if you’re in town
August 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A friend in NYC ran into these on 5th Ave. today and wow that is a lot of promo!
So yes, I’ll be giving the Gotto lecture in NYC at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian on Sunday September 28 if you’re in town
So yes, I’ll be giving the Gotto lecture in NYC at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian on Sunday September 28 if you’re in town