Un Valid
@everythingnothing.bsky.social
Fan of microbes 🦠 All of the pronouns. Aspiring wrecker of civilization.
I make my living as an R&D scientist, but I’m working on a novel and a garden and sometimes learning bass.
I make my living as an R&D scientist, but I’m working on a novel and a garden and sometimes learning bass.
I had a dream I saw a dump truck with thousands of rocks painted as various pride flags. They were being gathered and destroyed. At first it made me very sad, then it made me think of all the people who had painted those rocks and still had that impulse in their hearts.
April 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I had a dream I saw a dump truck with thousands of rocks painted as various pride flags. They were being gathered and destroyed. At first it made me very sad, then it made me think of all the people who had painted those rocks and still had that impulse in their hearts.
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Quit freaking out. Remember that in 10,000 B.C., when America had ZERO international trade, a family could afford a house like this on a single income.
April 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Quit freaking out. Remember that in 10,000 B.C., when America had ZERO international trade, a family could afford a house like this on a single income.
I inherited a nice couch from my grandparents a decade ago. Its cushions are worn out, so I’m getting new ones made. It’s distressing that doing this will cost the same as a new couch. Like I know why, economies of scale yada yada. But still. Cheaper to get a new thing than fix an old one.
April 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I inherited a nice couch from my grandparents a decade ago. Its cushions are worn out, so I’m getting new ones made. It’s distressing that doing this will cost the same as a new couch. Like I know why, economies of scale yada yada. But still. Cheaper to get a new thing than fix an old one.
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woke and DEI get removed, economy instantly crashes.
April 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
woke and DEI get removed, economy instantly crashes.
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April 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I have some dal but no rice or flatbread. Which is amore unacceptable accompaniment: tortillas or tortilla chips?
April 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I have some dal but no rice or flatbread. Which is amore unacceptable accompaniment: tortillas or tortilla chips?
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Good morning! Please come on a bee adventure with me, I promise you won't regret it. 🐝 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/ther...
Beehold the U.S. Native Bees Hiding in Plain Sight This Spring
Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more important than honeybees
www.scientificamerican.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Good morning! Please come on a bee adventure with me, I promise you won't regret it. 🐝 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/ther...
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Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now
April 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now
The number of people in the comments who don’t remember the original context on this one is pretty amusing.
Clear Channel has released a list of songs not to play in the wake of the stock market crash
April 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The number of people in the comments who don’t remember the original context on this one is pretty amusing.
Very cool work, though looks like this should be understood as a potential recycling technique rather than as a way to mitigate PFAS contaminated sites.
Amidst everything else, this seems like great news! apple.news/AZchIcDkbRAu...
Scientists have finally found a way to destroy the dangerous 'forever chemicals' in your home — BBC Science Focus Magazine
These harmful chemicals have been linked to several types of cancer March 26, 2025 For more than 70 years, so-called ‘forever chemicals’ have been used to make products all around us, from non-stick c...
apple.news
April 3, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Very cool work, though looks like this should be understood as a potential recycling technique rather than as a way to mitigate PFAS contaminated sites.
My kid, who has been struggling with reading, just spontaneously read the title to “Catch 22” and therefore I got to explain what a catch 22 is, and now I can die happy.
April 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
My kid, who has been struggling with reading, just spontaneously read the title to “Catch 22” and therefore I got to explain what a catch 22 is, and now I can die happy.
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"Feminism is bourgeois ... which as a member of the aristocracy, I resent."
April 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Feminism is bourgeois ... which as a member of the aristocracy, I resent."
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🧪 Wow! This is potentially huge. Link to the original papers in the article
www.abc.net.au/news/health/...
www.abc.net.au/news/health/...
Shingles vaccine linked to 20 per cent drop in dementia
The shingles vaccine could be an effective intervention for dementia, with a large "natural experiment" in Wales finding a substantial drop in dementia risk for those who received the vaccine.
www.abc.net.au
April 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
🧪 Wow! This is potentially huge. Link to the original papers in the article
www.abc.net.au/news/health/...
www.abc.net.au/news/health/...
This is extremely striking.
Israel is one of the most prolific murderers of journalists in history
April 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This is extremely striking.
Brandon Sanderson heard our cries for more trans representation among body-stealing immortals and gave us Lady Leshwi’s girldick.
April 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Brandon Sanderson heard our cries for more trans representation among body-stealing immortals and gave us Lady Leshwi’s girldick.
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if nothing else credit to cory booker for the longest speech a stanford guy has ever given without announcing a product that will doom us all
April 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
if nothing else credit to cory booker for the longest speech a stanford guy has ever given without announcing a product that will doom us all
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Over the course of the 12th & 13th centuries in Europe, the layout of the page in books became increasingly complex, due to changes to reading practice with the rise of scholasticism & the university. The sophisticated architecture of the page compresses an amazing amount of info into this space.
April 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Over the course of the 12th & 13th centuries in Europe, the layout of the page in books became increasingly complex, due to changes to reading practice with the rise of scholasticism & the university. The sophisticated architecture of the page compresses an amazing amount of info into this space.
I don’t know that this is “crazy” so much as “it’s completely consistent for a bunch of billionaires who made their money contributing nothing to human welfare to dislike people who have the desire to do good in the world unconnected from the profit motive.”
The crazy thing about firing all of these federal employees is that they tend to be underpaid, super hardworking, in it for the right reasons, idealistic people who could’ve worked in industry or pharma and made way more money but they truly believed in the mission and the good they were doing.
April 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I don’t know that this is “crazy” so much as “it’s completely consistent for a bunch of billionaires who made their money contributing nothing to human welfare to dislike people who have the desire to do good in the world unconnected from the profit motive.”
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I have zero patience for people whining about the price of foreign video games right now. There are millions of people in this country who're about to be unable to afford food, housing, healthcare, and electricity.
April 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I have zero patience for people whining about the price of foreign video games right now. There are millions of people in this country who're about to be unable to afford food, housing, healthcare, and electricity.
I’m getting tired of “every accusation is a confession”.
New in PN: Musk is the autopen
"Trump is trying to undo Biden’s presidency by claiming he was too incompetent to exercise power while some shadowy figure was running things instead. The juxtaposition is jarring as we are daily confronted w/a POTUS who's vigorously, confidently *not doing his job*"
"Trump is trying to undo Biden’s presidency by claiming he was too incompetent to exercise power while some shadowy figure was running things instead. The juxtaposition is jarring as we are daily confronted w/a POTUS who's vigorously, confidently *not doing his job*"
Elon Musk is the autopen
And Trump is incompetent.
www.publicnotice.co
April 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I’m getting tired of “every accusation is a confession”.
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Hopefully Strom Thurmond took some time out of his busy schedule burning in hell to get the news that he was just beaten by a black man.
April 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Hopefully Strom Thurmond took some time out of his busy schedule burning in hell to get the news that he was just beaten by a black man.
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Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to many election analysts.
This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state.
The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin.
This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.
This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state.
The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin.
This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.
April 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to many election analysts.
This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state.
The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin.
This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.
This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state.
The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin.
This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.
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New political outlook on American politics just dropped
April 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
New political outlook on American politics just dropped
Technical explanations of various research I’ve done interspersed with descriptions of various bands and sci-fi/fantasy novels I’ve read.
What would you talk about for 19 hours?
April 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Technical explanations of various research I’ve done interspersed with descriptions of various bands and sci-fi/fantasy novels I’ve read.