MargottheK
@margot-ooo.bsky.social
Nerdy geek, anxious optimist, believer of the scientific process, fatalistic humor. I contain multitudes 🏳️🌈 (she/her)
Anyone who has a US federally backed income driven loan, check your loan portal. Today. Now. www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
Student Loan Borrowers Are Reporting Huge Spikes In Monthly Payments As Repayment System Buckles
Student loan borrowers are starting to see dramatic increases in their monthly payments as the Department of Education struggles under court orders and staff reductions.
www.forbes.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Anyone who has a US federally backed income driven loan, check your loan portal. Today. Now. www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...
Make some noise folx!! Trans history is our history, don’t let the government erase it 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Make some noise folx!! Trans history is our history, don’t let the government erase it 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Dismantling any shred of exceptionalism we may have had in science. Disgusting
These are research grants awarded through evaluation of their merits by scientific peers, in which the investigators are carrying out important, ground-breaking work. They're being targeted because, as required by NSF guidelines, they include some investment in benefits for the broader community.
Ted Cruz released a spreadsheet of NSF grants found to be "questionable projects that promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda."
There are more planetary sci grants here then I expected. Are you here?
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
There are more planetary sci grants here then I expected. Are you here?
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
February 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Dismantling any shred of exceptionalism we may have had in science. Disgusting
Rest in peace warrior
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
The suicide letter they won't publish
zerodoesntsleep.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Rest in peace warrior
Once again, sci-fi is not fiction, it’s prophecy.
Been thinking about Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" lately.
February 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Once again, sci-fi is not fiction, it’s prophecy.
Do better ASM
It has been brought to my attention that my article has been censored to exclude certain terms:
asm.org/Articles/202...
web.archive.org/web/20250114...
#MicroSky
asm.org/Articles/202...
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#MicroSky
February 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Do better ASM
Library joy for #BHM via Mychal Threets ❤️
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
February 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Library joy for #BHM via Mychal Threets ❤️
Black History is our collective history. Lift up Black voices this month and every month
asalh.org/about-us/abo...
asalh.org/about-us/abo...
ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month | About Black History Month
Learn about Black history by exploring your local community, reading books by Black authors, and visiting Black or African-American history museums.Explore a
asalh.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Black History is our collective history. Lift up Black voices this month and every month
asalh.org/about-us/abo...
asalh.org/about-us/abo...
This is true 2025 energy
Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
February 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This is true 2025 energy
JFC 🤦♀️ and the MMWR hasn’t been published in 2 weeks. This is how clinicians get info on outbreaks, and without it… I hope enough of us survive to put things right
BREAKING NEWS: Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
www.npr.org
February 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
JFC 🤦♀️ and the MMWR hasn’t been published in 2 weeks. This is how clinicians get info on outbreaks, and without it… I hope enough of us survive to put things right
I should be surprised but I’m not. Is this what 🍊 meant by turning on the water in California? What a shit show
sjvwater.org/decision-to-...
sjvwater.org/decision-to-...
Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after sending locals into a mad scramble – SJV Water
Water managers were relieved Thursday evening after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off of a sudden decision earlier in the day to dump massive
sjvwater.org
February 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I should be surprised but I’m not. Is this what 🍊 meant by turning on the water in California? What a shit show
sjvwater.org/decision-to-...
sjvwater.org/decision-to-...
I hope someone is gathering these data and sending them out to a trusted steward. Bless the saboteurs, the leakers, and the whistleblowers.
Data on the CDC's website are being removed to comply with the Trump administration’s ongoing attempt to scrub federal agencies of any mention of gender, DEI, and accessibility, Katherine J. Wu reports:
The CDC Is Altering Data to Follow Trump’s DEI Order
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
www.theatlantic.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I hope someone is gathering these data and sending them out to a trusted steward. Bless the saboteurs, the leakers, and the whistleblowers.
They want you to forget our shared history, don’t let them!! Make noise, advocate, and most of all, remember. They can’t erase all of our memories.
I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
January 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
They want you to forget our shared history, don’t let them!! Make noise, advocate, and most of all, remember. They can’t erase all of our memories.
Coach Gowron FTW
The loudest voice is often the one you should listen to least. Words of hate, of bigotry, are meant to drown out reason and fairness, to sow confusion and hostility. Listen carefully, not to those who would oppress, but to those who speak against it. Even a whisper can be a roar of defiance.
January 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Coach Gowron FTW
Great thread
Many people have asked me how can they best stay informed and protect their health while we navigate the indefinite pause on communications from NIH, CDC, & FDA. Here’s a thread on concrete steps YOU can take to protect yourself & your community. 🧵
January 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Great thread
Uncle George speaks, we must listen and act
Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.
History is repeating. Pay attention.
January 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Uncle George speaks, we must listen and act
Full moon:
The astronomy nerd in me 🤩
The hospital worker in me 🥃
The astronomy nerd in me 🤩
The hospital worker in me 🥃
January 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Full moon:
The astronomy nerd in me 🤩
The hospital worker in me 🥃
The astronomy nerd in me 🤩
The hospital worker in me 🥃
Reposted by MargottheK
It’s like we got the crappiest 7-day trial of 2025 ever but the terms of service won’t let us cancel
January 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
It’s like we got the crappiest 7-day trial of 2025 ever but the terms of service won’t let us cancel
Reposted by MargottheK
Hey, it’s one of those Mexican firefighters who came over here to take our jobs. And save our kittens.
January 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Hey, it’s one of those Mexican firefighters who came over here to take our jobs. And save our kittens.
These two 😍 The joy and love are irrepressible 💕
Who needs rom-coms when we have TikTok?
This gay couple's meet-cute is making TikTok believe in love - INTO
Malvin and Britton have officially stolen the internet's hearts.
buff.ly
January 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
These two 😍 The joy and love are irrepressible 💕
This 👇
I would love to see a bunch of musical artists and celebrities put on a nationally televised tribute concert for Pres. Jimmy Carter on inauguration day with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.
December 30, 2024 at 3:04 AM
This 👇
My babka would totally agree 🥣
Skyrim was right: soup DOES heal you for 10 points of health and 10 points of stamina.
December 22, 2024 at 3:47 PM
My babka would totally agree 🥣
I also nominate ‘wahala’ for the word of 2025
I think everyone should get to know the west African term “wahala”.
It generally means “chaos”, “confusion”, or “drama”. A clusterfuck.
I’ve been on a mission for years to use it more regularly in my work.
Because—- *gestures at everything*
See wahala?!???
It generally means “chaos”, “confusion”, or “drama”. A clusterfuck.
I’ve been on a mission for years to use it more regularly in my work.
Because—- *gestures at everything*
See wahala?!???
December 19, 2024 at 6:56 PM
I also nominate ‘wahala’ for the word of 2025