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lraine.bsky.social
@lraine.bsky.social
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CompSci professor, proudly woke, with eclectic taste in music
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If education doesn’t teach you to resist injustice, it has failed. John Dewey B&W portrait of a balding man in glasses
September 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Breaking: US Government now offering citizens option to donate via Venmo and PayPal to help reduce $36.7 trillion debt. [image of ugly orange dude in red hat followed by hand with cash in it] The Onion writers on suicide watch cause they can't even begin to compete with this shit.
July 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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seen at my local drug store this week...
"Loss of Mother" card greeting card section but one card shows 2 dinos looking at the ark and saying "Oh crap! Was that today?"
July 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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A long time ago we had empires run by emperors. Then we had kingdoms run by kings. And now we have countries....
July 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Dude in red hat: Yeah, I voted for Trump but I didn't vote to kill Medicaid or food stamps or sell out to Russia or make prives higher or wreck the economy or let disease spread almost unchecked or make an enemy of Canada or wreck Social Security or turn this country into a virtual disctatorship! I didn't vote for America to become the laughing stock of the God damned world! Dude in blue: Yes. Yes, you did.
May 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Just what did those NSF terminations attack? Education mostly and predictably. Data from grant-watch.us/nsf-data.html, plot created by Joe Champion.
bar graph showing that nearly $200M was cut from STEM education grants, about $40M from social and behavioral sciences, then less from computing, then geosciences, then biological science, then engineering
May 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Hello My name is <strike> Indigo Montoya <\strike> Science You killed my <strike> father <\strike> Funding Prepare to die
May 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Bonnie says come and get it
Cat under rocking chair, rear feet in the air, looking like she wants to get laid
May 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Well, this is just a theory, but I'm pretty sure that "It's raining men" and "Let the bodies hit the floor" are about the same event just from wildly different perspectives.
April 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Crazy how Katy Perry and Lauren Sanchez going to "space" for 10 minutes is supposed to "inspire women", but the women who already worked at NASA are *checks notes* getting fired and getting their bios removed from the site.
April 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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From a friend elsewhere:
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul: "The whole tariffs debate is so fundamentally backwards and upside down. It's based on a fallacy and the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... like I have a trade deficit with my grocery store.” Holy shit everything really is upside down! Rand Freaking Paul is making sense!
April 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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The Futures aren’t Bright, the Futures are Orange And in today’s financial news, a sharp fall in the competence and capability markets have led to a rise in dolour against such a pounding and a yen to return to a rational world. The SADSAQ index has plummeted by a further 22%, following severe marble losses. Intelligence and acumen slumped by 34% and 45% respectively, while credibility tumbled, grazing both knees and fracturing its collarbone. Elsewhere, the FFS 100 index has seen a 12% rise in incredulity, as shares in buffoonery and idiocy continue to soar in response to another record-breaking day for the US president at the laughing stock exchange. Brian Bilston
April 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Goals: Be like her
Cat in bed with one leg sticking out
March 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Gotta respect the classics #IdesOfMarch
caesar salad dressing bottle stabbed with knife
March 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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We're close to Cybertrucks having more rights than women.
March 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Map of the gulf named Gulf of SpaceX Debris
March 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Hey, millennials and zoomers who are dealing with your first bout of WW3 panic: Find yourself a GenX friend to see you through it. We spent the entirety of our childhoods prepping for nuclear war, alone, while eating Pop Tarts cold from the foil. We got you.
March 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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My #girlswhocode #collegeloops club hosted a local high school GWC club today. We need more of this to empower and encourage each other! #sisters
Girl playing vr game while others watch
February 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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My cat’s favorite toy is a sock.
He’s not too bright but happy.
Orange cat with gray sock in his mouth
February 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Movies you've watched more than six times - gifs only
Steve McQueen tossing a ball in lockup (Great Escape scene)
February 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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As everyone scrambles to figure out next steps...
Don't miss out on reduced registration rates for the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting to be held in Denver, Wednesday, April 23, to Sunday, April 27! The early bird deadline for registration has been extended to March 10. We are extending the deadline due to the disruptions faced by many researchers related to executive branch actions on grants and contracts.
February 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Post a female character that you love

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Janeway from Star Trek
February 20, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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I think I read that book...
Cover of Lucifer's Hammer by Niven and Pournell. Large letters surrounding the earth and moon.
February 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Person standing in front of a column of Tesla trucks as though they were tanks.
February 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Please @petebuttigieg.bsky.social ?
tweet asking Pete Buttigieg to be the Democratic Press Secretary and give daily press briefings.
February 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM