bree ❀˖°
@celestial.gay
Nerdy 🏳️⚧️ girl ^_^ (she/they) 26
Software Engineer who does homelab stuff, reads Fantasy books, and runs for fun.
Oxford comma enjoyer.
RVA
Learning NixOS and Racket while doing OMSCS and working as a SWE
My views, not my employer's.
@ladyboy.forsale 💕
Software Engineer who does homelab stuff, reads Fantasy books, and runs for fun.
Oxford comma enjoyer.
RVA
Learning NixOS and Racket while doing OMSCS and working as a SWE
My views, not my employer's.
@ladyboy.forsale 💕
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"there is always room for you in my armsl"
November 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"there is always room for you in my armsl"
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I just got back home to finally sit down and watch the parade footage and it’s 100x more embarrassing than I expected. I totally forgot the weak nations that do these spend decades perfecting them. It looked like if Fyre festival did North Korea.
June 15, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I just got back home to finally sit down and watch the parade footage and it’s 100x more embarrassing than I expected. I totally forgot the weak nations that do these spend decades perfecting them. It looked like if Fyre festival did North Korea.
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If my microwave told me to do drugs and leave all my friends and family I would only do the drugs part
June 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If my microwave told me to do drugs and leave all my friends and family I would only do the drugs part
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i think about this a lot goodnight
June 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
i think about this a lot goodnight
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The algebraic laws of the Yuri monad are left to the reader as an exercise
June 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The algebraic laws of the Yuri monad are left to the reader as an exercise
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when eugenics is ascendant in a country, treating, curing, and preventing disease, disability, and death is indeed controversial. Those is power will say it’s “not worth the money” even if it costs very little.😕
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
when eugenics is ascendant in a country, treating, curing, and preventing disease, disability, and death is indeed controversial. Those is power will say it’s “not worth the money” even if it costs very little.😕
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Some people seem to think that if ChatGPT use corrupts the next generation’s ability to read and think, then those of us who are older and literate will benefit more from actually having those skills. With the awareness that we live in a society, I actually don’t think this will go well for anyone
May 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Some people seem to think that if ChatGPT use corrupts the next generation’s ability to read and think, then those of us who are older and literate will benefit more from actually having those skills. With the awareness that we live in a society, I actually don’t think this will go well for anyone
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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Sometimes it is important to say things very clearly and directly, so I wrote this.
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Trump Is Sending People To The Camps
“More than a prison, El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Sometimes it is important to say things very clearly and directly, so I wrote this.
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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sounds awful
It's not like the AI models will be accurate enough to prevent another thalidomide
It's not like the AI models will be accurate enough to prevent another thalidomide
FDA plans to phase out animal testing requirement for drug testing and replace it with “AI-based computational models of toxicity” and organoid toxicity testing www.fda.gov/news-events/...
FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement for Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Drugs
FDA Plans to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement
www.fda.gov
April 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
sounds awful
It's not like the AI models will be accurate enough to prevent another thalidomide
It's not like the AI models will be accurate enough to prevent another thalidomide
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Welp, the Secretary of Education thinks that schools are going to start using "A1 teaching."
She said it twice - A1, not AI.
First, it's stupid, but also: how can one have existed over the past two years and not know AI? It's not some niche thing that no one talks about 🤷🏻♀️
She said it twice - A1, not AI.
First, it's stupid, but also: how can one have existed over the past two years and not know AI? It's not some niche thing that no one talks about 🤷🏻♀️
April 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Welp, the Secretary of Education thinks that schools are going to start using "A1 teaching."
She said it twice - A1, not AI.
First, it's stupid, but also: how can one have existed over the past two years and not know AI? It's not some niche thing that no one talks about 🤷🏻♀️
She said it twice - A1, not AI.
First, it's stupid, but also: how can one have existed over the past two years and not know AI? It's not some niche thing that no one talks about 🤷🏻♀️
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Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US.
They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US.
www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...
They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US.
www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...
April 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US.
They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US.
www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...
They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US.
www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...
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you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead
April 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
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Telling a trans man he is "female" and must use the women's restroom, then attacking him for doing so is a mirror of the 'logic' applied to arrest a trans woman for being topless and then put her in a men's prison.
Our sex can be whatever is most rhetorically convenient for cis people to punish.
Our sex can be whatever is most rhetorically convenient for cis people to punish.
The rules are there to put trans people in impossible situations because the aim is to punish us for existing as trans people in the world. The logical contradictions and impracticalities are the point.
March 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Telling a trans man he is "female" and must use the women's restroom, then attacking him for doing so is a mirror of the 'logic' applied to arrest a trans woman for being topless and then put her in a men's prison.
Our sex can be whatever is most rhetorically convenient for cis people to punish.
Our sex can be whatever is most rhetorically convenient for cis people to punish.
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I love how tender this is.
By Ada Limón.
By Ada Limón.
February 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I love how tender this is.
By Ada Limón.
By Ada Limón.
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They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.
February 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.
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an adapted serenity prayer for the coming years
goddess, grant me the perspective to recognize things i cannot change
the will to change the things i can
and the luck to survive the difference
goddess, grant me the perspective to recognize things i cannot change
the will to change the things i can
and the luck to survive the difference
December 12, 2024 at 12:35 PM
an adapted serenity prayer for the coming years
goddess, grant me the perspective to recognize things i cannot change
the will to change the things i can
and the luck to survive the difference
goddess, grant me the perspective to recognize things i cannot change
the will to change the things i can
and the luck to survive the difference
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in drug-resistant bacteria: zinc- OR a lack thereof. Depriving bacteria of certain nutrients can cause important physiological changes, rendering them VULNERABLE to antibiotics, INCLUDING those they once resisted! Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
January 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have discovered a vulnerability in drug-resistant bacteria: zinc- OR a lack thereof. Depriving bacteria of certain nutrients can cause important physiological changes, rendering them VULNERABLE to antibiotics, INCLUDING those they once resisted! Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
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It never was about those things, but it has never been this blatant.
I tend to stay even-keeled about this stuff. I am not alarmist, I report the news as accurately as possible.
But the language is scary. It is precisely the dehumanizing language used to justify atrocity.
I tend to stay even-keeled about this stuff. I am not alarmist, I report the news as accurately as possible.
But the language is scary. It is precisely the dehumanizing language used to justify atrocity.
January 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
It never was about those things, but it has never been this blatant.
I tend to stay even-keeled about this stuff. I am not alarmist, I report the news as accurately as possible.
But the language is scary. It is precisely the dehumanizing language used to justify atrocity.
I tend to stay even-keeled about this stuff. I am not alarmist, I report the news as accurately as possible.
But the language is scary. It is precisely the dehumanizing language used to justify atrocity.