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sapphi
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a completely androgynous docking system
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tea party type movement of the democratic party now
if any democrat votes yes on the cloture bill tonight i hope we can all come together and make their lives as miserable as possible
March 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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If any of these people represent you call them

DEM YES VOTES on censuring Rep. Al Green:
Ami Bera (Calif.)
Ed Case (Hawaii)
Jim Costa (Calif.)
Laura Gillen (N.Y.)
Jim Himes (Conn.)
Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.)
Marcy Kaptur (Ohio)
Jared Moskowitz (Fla.)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.)
Tom Suozzi (N.Y.)
These ten Dems should be fucking ashamed of themselves.
March 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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March 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...
Algorithms are breaking how we think
YouTube video by Technology Connections
www.youtube.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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A big power company wants to build a huge industrial complex near Paranal, the top astronomical site in the world (VLT, ELT etc.). Here is a petition for physics/astro professionals 🧪🔭, please consider signing. Even if you're not, pls help raise awareness by sharing the links in the petition. Thx! 🙏
Urgent Call from the International Astronomical Community for the Protection of Chile's Astronomical Heritage / Llamado Urgente de la Comunidad Astronómica Internacional por la Protección del Legado A...
This form aims to collect signatures from scientists from the physical and astronomical sciences to support the letter Urgent Call from the International Astronomical Community for the Protection of C...
docs.google.com
February 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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When ordered by Nazis to give lists of disabled people by disability severity, some doctors sent back exaggerated data to protect patients from forced work

They didn't know that the "most disabled" were to be killed first

The moral here isn't to tell the truth

It's to never co-operate with Nazis
February 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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... “total shutdown” is planned for March 15...

Website for the General Strike:
generalstrikeus.com
OPPOSE! PLEASE REPOST!
The General Strike
The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.
generalstrikeus.com
February 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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If you haven't been following what's been happening across the pond to science of all types, it's well worth reading this summary: physicsworld.com/a/us-science...

This isn't an abstract or peripheral thing - this is people's jobs, current projects, and deliberate destruction of existing systems.
US science in chaos as impact of Trump's executive orders sinks in – Physics World
US science hit by staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences
physicsworld.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Dear 🧪🔭⚛️:

Stop calling the anti-DEIA executive orders, bans, work stoppages, research stoppages, and whatever else “rollbacks.” The executive orders are Resegregation Orders. These are attempts to return us to segregation.“

jmjafrx.substack.com/p/the-resegr...
The Resegregation Orders (Tell the Stories)
We can heal. We can fight. We are the storytellers.
jmjafrx.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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If you are a member (or not) you can email their leadership about this.

President Theresa M. Koehler Theresa.M.Koehler@uth.tmc.edu

President Elect Alexander McAdam Alexander.McAdam@childrens.harvard.edu

They need to know this bullshit cannot be tolerated.
February 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Ugh, link here: 19thnews.org/2025/01/tran...

This is very red flag. And hasn't been big news.
February 3, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not
January 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Scientists are losing their salaries because the government is simultaneously racist and incompetent.
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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New: A Boston federal judge has temporarily blocked prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men's facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care in accordance with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump. www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...
US judge blocks transgender inmate's prison transfer under Trump order
A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men's facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care in accordance with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, her lawyers said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Scientists who think we can separate from politics are delusional and/or ignorant. Hopefully this funding debacle shakes some awake.
January 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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After seeing multiple statements by professional societies in the earth and space sciences this week refer to science as "bipartisan" or "nonpartisan" I feel very strongly that the least, the absolute LEAST, any of us can do right now is admit that science is deeply political at all levels
January 31, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Shout it from the rooftops!
January 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Chandrashekhar Azad the Indian freedom fighter once evaded British police looking for him on a train by disguising himself as the conducttor and escorting them from car to car helping them search
11. Who is the coolest person in history that no one has ever heard of?
January 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Can you imagine the courage of being a Pokémon who not only speaks but chooses to self-identify as a New Yorker?
January 22, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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The observations from #Gaia will continue to support and shape the work of astronomers for years to come.
#astronomy 🔭🧪
January 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
am i the only person who seems to hate jupyter notebooks. i find in my masters that a lot of my professors require programming assignments in jupyter notebook format, but theres so many issues. the code becomes impossible to work with if the assignment or project is large, theres so much space 1/
January 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM