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We don’t get to choose the times we’re born into, but we can try to shape the time our grandkids will be born into.
October 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We don’t get to choose the times we’re born into, but we can try to shape the time our grandkids will be born into.
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I will never use spicy auto-correct in my writing, because if I can't be arsed to write it myself, how can I ask you to read it? All the fuck-ups and typos are my own, and always will be.
October 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I will never use spicy auto-correct in my writing, because if I can't be arsed to write it myself, how can I ask you to read it? All the fuck-ups and typos are my own, and always will be.
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Absolutely contact your reps about this. For an easy way to do so, use this @resist.bot link (IG DMs work). When you sign this, it will send the letter to your reps. resist.bot/petitions/PZ...
I found a really good summary of why the White House's demolition process is illegal. It's in the comments of this architect trade journal/forum archinect.com/forum/thread...
October 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Absolutely contact your reps about this. For an easy way to do so, use this @resist.bot link (IG DMs work). When you sign this, it will send the letter to your reps. resist.bot/petitions/PZ...
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Srsly. Signal-boost, like/comment. And a big part of that support?
If they made something you like, buy it.
Independent artists aren't Wal-Mart; you can't just come back next week and expect what you were looking at to still be available for sale.
If they made something you like, buy it.
Independent artists aren't Wal-Mart; you can't just come back next week and expect what you were looking at to still be available for sale.
Support the artists you like now because tomorrow you might not be able to find them.
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Srsly. Signal-boost, like/comment. And a big part of that support?
If they made something you like, buy it.
Independent artists aren't Wal-Mart; you can't just come back next week and expect what you were looking at to still be available for sale.
If they made something you like, buy it.
Independent artists aren't Wal-Mart; you can't just come back next week and expect what you were looking at to still be available for sale.
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
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You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't
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Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.
October 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.
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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
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Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.
October 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.
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Honestly, at this point, I am pro zombies. I'll probably die, but I want to watch the "diseases aren't real" crowd deal with teeth.
October 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Honestly, at this point, I am pro zombies. I'll probably die, but I want to watch the "diseases aren't real" crowd deal with teeth.
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I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I think for me the most compelling answer for "why fund basic research?" (and the one most relevant to the people doing the work) is that humans are curious and finding stuff out makes us happy and fulfilled. Science is a thing humans like. Life would be more dull and sad if we didn't do it.
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The "AI" responses that Google gives about me and my work are consistently error-prone, which I know because I am me. If I know Google's "AI" responses give incorrect answers about things I know about, I can't trust it to give correct answers about things I don't know. So, no, I don't use it.
I’m surprised you don’t use ai answer engines in research you currently do with Google
October 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The "AI" responses that Google gives about me and my work are consistently error-prone, which I know because I am me. If I know Google's "AI" responses give incorrect answers about things I know about, I can't trust it to give correct answers about things I don't know. So, no, I don't use it.
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Walmart nostalgia is Blockbuster nostalgia, to me. The things you liked about it were pale imitations of concepts they stole from the places they ran out of business. You don't like Walmart, you like the shadows of the things they destroyed
September 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Walmart nostalgia is Blockbuster nostalgia, to me. The things you liked about it were pale imitations of concepts they stole from the places they ran out of business. You don't like Walmart, you like the shadows of the things they destroyed
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The Ones Who Visit Omelas Without Doing a Ton of Research But Then on the Tour of Omelas They’re Like “Wait What the Fuck Did the Tour Guide Just Say”
September 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The Ones Who Visit Omelas Without Doing a Ton of Research But Then on the Tour of Omelas They’re Like “Wait What the Fuck Did the Tour Guide Just Say”
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With alt text because this made me cry 😭
September 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
With alt text because this made me cry 😭
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Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.
September 20, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.
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With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵
Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7
Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7
February 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵
Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7
Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7
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If we ever win again and the new government is progressive it would be cool to have some sort of new deal situation where they hire tons of people to undo all the damage that’s been done, like fixing the govt websites and stuff. Huge public works stuff
September 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
If we ever win again and the new government is progressive it would be cool to have some sort of new deal situation where they hire tons of people to undo all the damage that’s been done, like fixing the govt websites and stuff. Huge public works stuff
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it's 2007. you're scrolling your favorite rss feeds in google reader. the internet ad market has led to a boom in mid-sized blogs that can employ tens of writers and editors in a relatively niche subject. you don't know it, but this is the last time journalism will be any good.
September 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
it's 2007. you're scrolling your favorite rss feeds in google reader. the internet ad market has led to a boom in mid-sized blogs that can employ tens of writers and editors in a relatively niche subject. you don't know it, but this is the last time journalism will be any good.
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and it's all because those kids are brilliant, they're shining stars, they're unequivocally BETTER THAN YOU.
nothing scarier than someone who's willing to *break the chain.* that's why they gotta be strangled with all the fury that the dead hand of tradition can muster.
nothing scarier than someone who's willing to *break the chain.* that's why they gotta be strangled with all the fury that the dead hand of tradition can muster.
September 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
and it's all because those kids are brilliant, they're shining stars, they're unequivocally BETTER THAN YOU.
nothing scarier than someone who's willing to *break the chain.* that's why they gotta be strangled with all the fury that the dead hand of tradition can muster.
nothing scarier than someone who's willing to *break the chain.* that's why they gotta be strangled with all the fury that the dead hand of tradition can muster.
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Anytime any Democrat is asked about trans rights, I’d like them to act like the asker is stupid.
“Yes, fucking of course they should have that right. What are you stupid? You think we should just discriminate against a vulnerable minority?”
Stop acting like your beliefs are embarrassing or wrong!
“Yes, fucking of course they should have that right. What are you stupid? You think we should just discriminate against a vulnerable minority?”
Stop acting like your beliefs are embarrassing or wrong!
September 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Anytime any Democrat is asked about trans rights, I’d like them to act like the asker is stupid.
“Yes, fucking of course they should have that right. What are you stupid? You think we should just discriminate against a vulnerable minority?”
Stop acting like your beliefs are embarrassing or wrong!
“Yes, fucking of course they should have that right. What are you stupid? You think we should just discriminate against a vulnerable minority?”
Stop acting like your beliefs are embarrassing or wrong!
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If there's one thing Covid should have demonstrated to everyone, it's that there are lots of people who would rather put their own communities & families at risk, would literally rather *die*, than submit to the call for solidarity. It's that repellant to them.
September 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If there's one thing Covid should have demonstrated to everyone, it's that there are lots of people who would rather put their own communities & families at risk, would literally rather *die*, than submit to the call for solidarity. It's that repellant to them.
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Over on the Other Place I would occasionally put this thread together, most recently during lockdown, four years ago in fact, and I realised I'd not done it here. So, bear with, and feel free to mute as this is an epic (genuinely, I’m not sure we won’t reach hitherto non-invoked thread limits tbh).
September 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Over on the Other Place I would occasionally put this thread together, most recently during lockdown, four years ago in fact, and I realised I'd not done it here. So, bear with, and feel free to mute as this is an epic (genuinely, I’m not sure we won’t reach hitherto non-invoked thread limits tbh).