Rachel P-M
@rpmastronomy.com
Former astronomer trying to be a current astronomer. Jeopardy! Champion.
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this looks like an after school program where young people help out seniors at home
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
this looks like an after school program where young people help out seniors at home
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WHYYYYYYYY
OpenAI Launches Baffling 'Group Chats,' So You and Your Friends Can Hang Out with ChatGPT
OpenAI Launches Baffling 'Group Chats,' So You and Your Friends Can Hang Out with ChatGPT
OpenAI wants you to include ChatGPT in your group gab.
gizmodo.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
WHYYYYYYYY
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so, so good. run it as a political ad.
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
so, so good. run it as a political ad.
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Stop normalizing crimes by elected officials. Stop tolerating them. Stop pretending they will quit if you ignore them. Stop assuming that people will vote for you "just because we're not that Other Guy."
Normalize impeachment.
Normalize impeachment.
November 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Stop normalizing crimes by elected officials. Stop tolerating them. Stop pretending they will quit if you ignore them. Stop assuming that people will vote for you "just because we're not that Other Guy."
Normalize impeachment.
Normalize impeachment.
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I’d like to add stop accepting “im just a smol bean” from electeds. They *wanted* this job, and that job is to actively further our interests
Stop normalizing crimes by elected officials. Stop tolerating them. Stop pretending they will quit if you ignore them. Stop assuming that people will vote for you "just because we're not that Other Guy."
Normalize impeachment.
Normalize impeachment.
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I’d like to add stop accepting “im just a smol bean” from electeds. They *wanted* this job, and that job is to actively further our interests
I used to get a number of these when I was an academic, and that was pre-chatbot. I can only presume it's so much worse now.
(Although in 2021 I got a series of increasingly unhinged ones that started as scientific theories and ended with conspiracy theories about Harris and I had to call the FBI)
(Although in 2021 I got a series of increasingly unhinged ones that started as scientific theories and ended with conspiracy theories about Harris and I had to call the FBI)
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I used to get a number of these when I was an academic, and that was pre-chatbot. I can only presume it's so much worse now.
(Although in 2021 I got a series of increasingly unhinged ones that started as scientific theories and ended with conspiracy theories about Harris and I had to call the FBI)
(Although in 2021 I got a series of increasingly unhinged ones that started as scientific theories and ended with conspiracy theories about Harris and I had to call the FBI)
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) says someone showed up to her D.C. office today and made white supremacist threats. Capitol Police had to intervene.
This was hours after Trump said Democrats in Congress should be executed.
"When leaders promote hate, hate shows up."
This was hours after Trump said Democrats in Congress should be executed.
"When leaders promote hate, hate shows up."
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) says someone showed up to her D.C. office today and made white supremacist threats. Capitol Police had to intervene.
This was hours after Trump said Democrats in Congress should be executed.
"When leaders promote hate, hate shows up."
This was hours after Trump said Democrats in Congress should be executed.
"When leaders promote hate, hate shows up."
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I know what you're thinking, and YES, this means I'll finally be able to make a complete count of all the Jeopardy! contestants who list this fact in their bio!
Bluesky users include about 50 Jeopardy! champions who put that info in their bio! And 10 who use a photo with the host as their profile pic
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I know what you're thinking, and YES, this means I'll finally be able to make a complete count of all the Jeopardy! contestants who list this fact in their bio!
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🔹 If you do go to the CDC website, stay clear of anything on vaccines, reproductive health, environmental science or health equity
🔹 Data systems are still largely protected by CDC scientists. Flu and wastewater data, for example, are good to go
🔹 Data systems are still largely protected by CDC scientists. Flu and wastewater data, for example, are good to go
November 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🔹 If you do go to the CDC website, stay clear of anything on vaccines, reproductive health, environmental science or health equity
🔹 Data systems are still largely protected by CDC scientists. Flu and wastewater data, for example, are good to go
🔹 Data systems are still largely protected by CDC scientists. Flu and wastewater data, for example, are good to go
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What do you do?
🔹 At this time, I suggest to largely stay away from the CDC website
🔹 This is the time to find trustworthy navigators outside of the federal government, like AAP, ACOG, or healthychildren.org, and many credible scientific communicators
🔹 At this time, I suggest to largely stay away from the CDC website
🔹 This is the time to find trustworthy navigators outside of the federal government, like AAP, ACOG, or healthychildren.org, and many credible scientific communicators
November 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
What do you do?
🔹 At this time, I suggest to largely stay away from the CDC website
🔹 This is the time to find trustworthy navigators outside of the federal government, like AAP, ACOG, or healthychildren.org, and many credible scientific communicators
🔹 At this time, I suggest to largely stay away from the CDC website
🔹 This is the time to find trustworthy navigators outside of the federal government, like AAP, ACOG, or healthychildren.org, and many credible scientific communicators
Impeach the motherfucker
There is one and only position that makes any sense if you really take it seriously: say openly and unapologetically that he must be removed from office. Not just call on people to condemn it, not just fret about norms. He is literally trying to kill you. Act like it.
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Impeach the motherfucker
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I hope this guy doesn't turn out to be a milkshake duck
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I hope this guy doesn't turn out to be a milkshake duck
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remember how the msm took it seriously when trump and co blamed the democrats for heated rhetoric after charlie kirk died? that was bullshit then. but especially since trump is calling for democrats to be murdered today.
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
remember how the msm took it seriously when trump and co blamed the democrats for heated rhetoric after charlie kirk died? that was bullshit then. but especially since trump is calling for democrats to be murdered today.
Ugh...we just got an email from my child's preschool that someone in his class has hand, foot, and mouth disese
November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Ugh...we just got an email from my child's preschool that someone in his class has hand, foot, and mouth disese
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Getting ready for the upcoming ACIP meeting, I see. If your kids haven’t had their first MMR dose, get it as soon as you can.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Getting ready for the upcoming ACIP meeting, I see. If your kids haven’t had their first MMR dose, get it as soon as you can.
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This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.
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the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 AM
the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale
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It's happened
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
It's happened
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So to sum up the message from these members of Congress:
“We can’t be bothered to exercise our constitutional power to remove the president to protect our military and intelligence personnel from illegal orders, so we will just ask those same patriots to resist on our behalf.”
Inspiring!
“We can’t be bothered to exercise our constitutional power to remove the president to protect our military and intelligence personnel from illegal orders, so we will just ask those same patriots to resist on our behalf.”
Inspiring!
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
So to sum up the message from these members of Congress:
“We can’t be bothered to exercise our constitutional power to remove the president to protect our military and intelligence personnel from illegal orders, so we will just ask those same patriots to resist on our behalf.”
Inspiring!
“We can’t be bothered to exercise our constitutional power to remove the president to protect our military and intelligence personnel from illegal orders, so we will just ask those same patriots to resist on our behalf.”
Inspiring!
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21 fucking Obgyns were involved in her care. She was hospitalized three times before 9 weeks. This was murder, pure and simple - a conspiracy to just try to keep her body operating long enough to get her to viability.
NEW:
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.
She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.
Then she died.
www.propublica.org/article/texa...
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
21 fucking Obgyns were involved in her care. She was hospitalized three times before 9 weeks. This was murder, pure and simple - a conspiracy to just try to keep her body operating long enough to get her to viability.
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Glad to read the announcement that the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program will continue!!
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Glad to read the announcement that the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program will continue!!
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one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.
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yes! cutting edge science!
November 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
yes! cutting edge science!