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Loomacy and Lace
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I mostly play with string. 🧶
(She/They,🖤🩶🤍💜) neurodivergent, disabled, small-scale textile artist, forever wishing for the spoons to DO everything I can envision.
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This isn't just work stopping. This is cell lines dying. In vivo tissue going bad. Fly lines dropping. Research materials going bad.

A lot of that stuff you can't just pick back up. Once it's gone it's gone, or will take years to reconstitute.
More from inside NIH:

Per a source with knowledge, for all internal research (of which there is like $10 billion worth or so), ALL purchasing shut down as of yesterday.

That means gloves, reagents, anything involved with lab work, which means a lot of that work will stop.
January 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Despite how many people have used the terms “first world” and “third world,” even before they were completely out of date, they didn’t in fact mean “rich countries” and “poor countries.”

Please read the whole thread before popping off to showcase a misunderstanding
PEEVE:

The phrase “first world problems”

A thread

1. Let’s begin by pointing out the political concepts expressed by first, second, third, and fourth world designations were always sketchy oversimplifications dating to the Cold War, making them definitively outdated today in the 21st century
September 23, 2023 at 4:29 PM
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August 21, 2023 at 7:36 PM