Babbage9010
@babbage9010.bsky.social
Scientist, quantitative by nature; organic farmer.
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Every accusation is a confession.
December 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Every accusation is a confession.
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Not as bad as "Russia or China" is a terribly low bar! Each day of this administration, they break multiple laws, disregard legal actions, renew on agreements... we are in autocracy now, and daily slipping further into that deathly abyss. It is indeed deadly already, esp but not only for immigrants
"Countries that slide from democracy toward autocracy tend to follow similar patterns…Our country is still not close to being a true autocracy, in the mold of Russia or China. But once countries begin taking steps away from democracy, the march often continues."
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Not as bad as "Russia or China" is a terribly low bar! Each day of this administration, they break multiple laws, disregard legal actions, renew on agreements... we are in autocracy now, and daily slipping further into that deathly abyss. It is indeed deadly already, esp but not only for immigrants
If you personally know any of our generals being called in for their new oaths (why else need an in-person meeting), please call them and offer your support for their support of our Constitution... the need for our unwavering support never been more immediate and more important.
In 1935 German leadership called a surprise meeting and informed their previous oath to uphold the Weimar constitution was now void and they instead must swear a personal oath to the Führer. Many claimed they didn’t like the order, but they did it anyway.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals
The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
If you personally know any of our generals being called in for their new oaths (why else need an in-person meeting), please call them and offer your support for their support of our Constitution... the need for our unwavering support never been more immediate and more important.
Of course not, but 1st amend rights just don't matter anymore. Our NPR station is fundraising right now, but it won't be long before the corporate sponsors all *choose* to end support. And the public university overlords *choose* to end support. The writing on the wall is writ large and clear.
Yes. And. Even if he had, the government doesn’t have a right to intervene. The use of the FCC to regulate protected speech is textbook anti-constitutional.
Important to keep remembering and repeating that Kimmel didn't mock Charlie Kirk or celebrate his death in the monologue. He mocked the president's lack of feeling and criticized the regime.
September 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Of course not, but 1st amend rights just don't matter anymore. Our NPR station is fundraising right now, but it won't be long before the corporate sponsors all *choose* to end support. And the public university overlords *choose* to end support. The writing on the wall is writ large and clear.
Stephen Miller: If you say a word against Charlie Kirk, you are on The List.
An incredibly disturbing tweet from Stephen Miller twelve hours ago. He purports to identify a "depraved," "malicious" "ideology" but doesn't name it. He describes it as an amorphous evil defined by its opposition to anything he likes. And anything he likes is sunny and good. Goebbels would approve.
September 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Stephen Miller: If you say a word against Charlie Kirk, you are on The List.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities
Voltaire
Voltaire
September 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities
Voltaire
Voltaire
You call it "thoughtless" Senator Paul? This was not in the least thoughtless; it was a fully thought out, full-throated authoritarian justification of political murder. And indeed a celebration of that murder, and a call for more of it.
Senator Rand Paul directly and forthrightly takes on JD Vance:
"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."
"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial."
September 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
You call it "thoughtless" Senator Paul? This was not in the least thoughtless; it was a fully thought out, full-throated authoritarian justification of political murder. And indeed a celebration of that murder, and a call for more of it.
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Holy hell, more like this:
September 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Holy hell, more like this:
August 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
California threatening congressional redistricting is a back burn to the Texas wildfire. More like this!
August 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
California threatening congressional redistricting is a back burn to the Texas wildfire. More like this!
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Perfection.
![[Person with ponytail wearing lab coat hands balloon to another person in front of a springboard, a magnet hanging from above, and then a target] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL to Person 2: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall. [caption] Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreid7lnvd7afmasx3nxi6anxmyhbatpaw54za3kiw3eaoclrf722faq@jpeg)
May 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Perfection.
Hell yeah, always.
Repost if you’re still calling it the Gulf of Mexico. ✋🏽
May 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Hell yeah, always.
Tis the season around here...
May 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Tis the season around here...
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It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
April 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.
I wish I could laugh at this. But they're serious, and not just Mormons or Christian Nationalists either, rank and file they've adopted this stance. They say Marx posited class warfare, but now libs posit white males vs all the poor downtrodden acronyms. Ergo, DEI+ is Marxism, plain and simple.
It seem insane for a US Senator to say we've all been subjected to "a relentless bombardment of Marxist propaganda." But what he means by this is 1) there was a Burger King ad with an interracial couple and 2) Star Wars Episodes VII-IX had a female lead.
March 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I wish I could laugh at this. But they're serious, and not just Mormons or Christian Nationalists either, rank and file they've adopted this stance. They say Marx posited class warfare, but now libs posit white males vs all the poor downtrodden acronyms. Ergo, DEI+ is Marxism, plain and simple.
My first car was a '74 Pinto, orange, called "The Flam" by my college friends. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...
It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News
We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...
fuelarc.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
My first car was a '74 Pinto, orange, called "The Flam" by my college friends. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...
This is THE most optimistic take on MuskMelon removing access to the Keeling data (and everything else) that I have heard yet.
There is a building wide power outage. Our lab had a warning up since Friday. Don’t know about other the other 3 labs. It will be back up tomorrow.
February 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is THE most optimistic take on MuskMelon removing access to the Keeling data (and everything else) that I have heard yet.
No Spoiler screenshot, but my wife just got today's Wordle on her very first guess.
January 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
No Spoiler screenshot, but my wife just got today's Wordle on her very first guess.
Thank you.
January 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Thank you.
As an earth scientist, and even though I (purposely) choose to live well away from likely earth&climate disaster alleys, I so relate to the feelings expressed here.
I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real: I feel like I am safe in saying that we are not thriving on our changing planet – and we will not in the coming decades My house in Altadena burned down in the wildfires on Wednesday. It all happened...
I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real
I’m a climate scientist and my house in LA burned down. My work has never been more real: I feel like I am safe in saying that we are not thriving on our changing planet – and we will not in the coming decades My house in Altadena burned down in the wildfires on Wednesday. It all happened...
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
As an earth scientist, and even though I (purposely) choose to live well away from likely earth&climate disaster alleys, I so relate to the feelings expressed here.
I started grad school the summer this came out, and I heard Wally talk about it soon after. I was thoroughly enamored with his approach, and taught my Env Sci students about the Big Experiment we were living through until I quit teaching. It is still a powerful lens for picturing our inaction.
Just heard somebody say that climate scientists expect change to be gradual to explain current policies. Not true.
Nearly 4 decades ago, Wally Broecker wrote about abrupt climate change that arrives suddenly and dramatically.
www.nature.com/articles/328...
Nearly 4 decades ago, Wally Broecker wrote about abrupt climate change that arrives suddenly and dramatically.
www.nature.com/articles/328...
December 20, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I started grad school the summer this came out, and I heard Wally talk about it soon after. I was thoroughly enamored with his approach, and taught my Env Sci students about the Big Experiment we were living through until I quit teaching. It is still a powerful lens for picturing our inaction.
Thanks for the Non-Paywalled link! We need this so often!
A new perspective in Nature Climate Change argues that the discourse around climate tipping points risks "oversimplifying the diverse dynamics of complex natural and human systems and for conveying urgency without fostering a meaningful basis for climate action." www.nature.com/artic...
‘Tipping points’ confuse and can distract from urgent climate action | Nature Climate Change
Tipping points have gained substantial traction in climate change discourses. Here we critique the ‘tipping point’ framing for oversimplifying the diverse dynamics of complex natural and human systems and for conveying urgency without fostering a meaningful basis for climate action. Multiple social scientific frameworks suggest that the deep uncertainty and perceived abstractness of climate tipping points render them ineffective for triggering action and setting governance goals. The framing also promotes confusion between temperature-based policy benchmarks and properties of the climate system. In both natural and human systems, we advocate for clearer, more specific language to describe the phenomena labelled as tipping points and for critical evaluation of whether, how and why different framings can support scientific understanding and climate risk management. The tipping points framing is widely used in climate discussions but receives mixed feedback. This Perspective critiques it for oversimplifying the complexities of natural and social systems and failing to drive effective action, and offers recommendations for future improvements.
www.nature.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Thanks for the Non-Paywalled link! We need this so often!