AC Bauer
pensandneedles.bsky.social
AC Bauer
@pensandneedles.bsky.social
History, language, and bird nerd. Artist of varying types, some of them fiber. Occasional time traveler. She/her.
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just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.
December 19, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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WE ALREADY FOUND OUT. THE STUDIES HAVE BEEN DONE. THERE IS NO LINK. ITS BEEN KNOWN FOR YEARS AND THE GUY WHO STARTED THIS MESS WAS DISCREDITED AND HAD HIS LICENSE REVOKED FOR IT.
Scientists have already investigated this. The result? The doctor pushing this junk science had his license revoked for spreading deadly lies about vaccines.
December 8, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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okay, we're starting with this

Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already!

Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting)

Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up

actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...
November 21, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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Social media is an incredible powerful tool for professional crowdsourcing: all of us together know more than any one (or handful) of us.

But if someone's asking people with specific skills and experience for advice, and you don't have that, it is not helpful for you to guess random nonsense.
November 22, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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We are the stories we tell. Explore the fantastic medieval Irish manuscript Lebor na hUidre (Book of the Dun Cow), a treasury of early Irish literature: stories of kings, queens, heroes, saints, cattleraids & feasts
[MS RIA 23 E 25, p. 55: opening of Táin Bó Cúalnge www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2...
November 22, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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A 1500 Welsh language poem, on display in British Library 'Medieval Women' exhibition.

It explains how Annes, abbess of Llanllyr, commissioned the bard Huw Cae Llwyd to perform for a knight, in the hope he would grant her one wish - a pet monkey! Sadly, we don't know if Annes got her mwnci! 🙈🙉🙊
November 16, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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we fixed acid rain! we fixed the ozone layer! we beat polio! we’ve rescued scores of species from the brink of extinction! the despair many of us feel about climate change isn’t that it’s too big to fix. it’s that we know it is fixable but we’re being thwarted by greedy ghouls at every turn.
The other day I was like “you know something we heard a lot about as kids was acid rain, why don’t we hear about it anymore”

TURNS OUT we fixed it???
We! fixed! acid! rain! And we can fix climate change 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
October 25, 2023 at 3:08 PM
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The other day I was like “you know something we heard a lot about as kids was acid rain, why don’t we hear about it anymore”

TURNS OUT we fixed it???
October 25, 2023 at 1:31 PM