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Thomas A Caswell
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I am a soft-condensed matter physicist by training, but am now Research Software Engineer working to enable scientist to use computers to do science via open source software.

Project Lead of Matplotlib and PSF Fellow

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“Why do women, especially women of color leave physics?”

Oh I dunno maybe because you do have to be fucking crazy on a level to put up with this shit for your entire career and not walk away bsky.app/profile/chan...
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In the meantime, he got the professional networking opportunity, and I didn’t. And Lawrence Krauss gets to write nasty things about me in the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times gets to write about me like I’m a crazy queer bitch who hates men.

That’s the other side of these emails
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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"People I don't agree with deserve to suffer" is conservative thinking.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."
Can We Spot It? (Question: How can we identify native American fascists at work? ) An American fascist seeking power would not proclaim that he is a fascist. Fascism always camouflages its plans and purposes. Hitler made demagogic appeals to all groups and swore: "Neither I nor anybody in the National Socialist Party advocates proceeding by anything but Constitutional methods." Any fascist attempt to gain power in America would not use the exact Hitler pattern. It would work under the guise of "super-patriotism" and "super-American-ism." Fascist leaders are neither stupid nor naive. They know that they must hand out a line that "sells." Huey Long is said to have remarked that if fascism came to America, it would be on a program of "Ameri-canism." Fascists in America may differ slightly from fascists in other countries, but there are a number of attitudes and practices that they have in common. Following are three. Every person who has one of them is not necessarily a fascist. But he is
August 1, 2024 at 9:36 PM