@tekym.bsky.social
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.
June 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost
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This fanatic is openly talking about fabricating a reason to suspend everyone's constitutional right to due process — and Trump has given him free rein.
Is there NO Republican in D.C. who will stand up to these constitutional arsonists?
Is there NO Republican in D.C. who will stand up to these constitutional arsonists?
White House considering suspending habeas corpus, Stephen Miller says
The move marks another escalation in the Trump administration's fight again the judicial branch.
www.axios.com
May 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This fanatic is openly talking about fabricating a reason to suspend everyone's constitutional right to due process — and Trump has given him free rein.
Is there NO Republican in D.C. who will stand up to these constitutional arsonists?
Is there NO Republican in D.C. who will stand up to these constitutional arsonists?
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As part of their plan to GUT the science mission at NASA, Trump and Musk want to cancel the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — a critical project that is on time, under budget, and nearly finished.
They want to flush those taxpayer dollars down the drain. How is THAT efficient?
They want to flush those taxpayer dollars down the drain. How is THAT efficient?
This critical NASA telescope is nearly finished — but Trump and Musk want to cancel it
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
youtube.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
As part of their plan to GUT the science mission at NASA, Trump and Musk want to cancel the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — a critical project that is on time, under budget, and nearly finished.
They want to flush those taxpayer dollars down the drain. How is THAT efficient?
They want to flush those taxpayer dollars down the drain. How is THAT efficient?
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they say any cardinal can become Pope
April 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
they say any cardinal can become Pope
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Did you know? The lead sponsor for SB1 in the House - Josh Williams - received a DEI scholarship to attend the University of Toledo.
Now he’s supporting ending diversity and inclusion for everyone else.
Pulling the ladder up behind him.
The WORST.
Now he’s supporting ending diversity and inclusion for everyone else.
Pulling the ladder up behind him.
The WORST.
April 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Did you know? The lead sponsor for SB1 in the House - Josh Williams - received a DEI scholarship to attend the University of Toledo.
Now he’s supporting ending diversity and inclusion for everyone else.
Pulling the ladder up behind him.
The WORST.
Now he’s supporting ending diversity and inclusion for everyone else.
Pulling the ladder up behind him.
The WORST.
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So basically our core biomedical agenda has gone from cancer and heart disease research with major investments in alzheimers/dementia research to jacking up the sperm count of teenage males and a new wild goose for the 'hidden causes' of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
April 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
So basically our core biomedical agenda has gone from cancer and heart disease research with major investments in alzheimers/dementia research to jacking up the sperm count of teenage males and a new wild goose for the 'hidden causes' of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Please take a moment out of your day to marvel at the elegance, agility and effortless natural grace of the penguin.
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Please take a moment out of your day to marvel at the elegance, agility and effortless natural grace of the penguin.
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heck of a "learning about a major news event from Bluesky jokes" morning
April 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
heck of a "learning about a major news event from Bluesky jokes" morning
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Trump’s tariff-driven national sales tax isn’t bringing jobs “roaring back” to the U.S. as he promised it would.
It’s hiking prices for all of us and costing Americans their jobs – and it’s hitting home in Western Maryland. www.reuters.com/business/aut...
It’s hiking prices for all of us and costing Americans their jobs – and it’s hitting home in Western Maryland. www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Volvo to cut up to 800 US jobs as Trump's tariffs bite
Volvo Group plans to lay off as many as 800 workers at three U.S. facilities over the next three months due to market uncertainty and demand concerns in the face of President Donald Trump's tariffs, a spokesperson said on Friday.
www.reuters.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Trump’s tariff-driven national sales tax isn’t bringing jobs “roaring back” to the U.S. as he promised it would.
It’s hiking prices for all of us and costing Americans their jobs – and it’s hitting home in Western Maryland. www.reuters.com/business/aut...
It’s hiking prices for all of us and costing Americans their jobs – and it’s hitting home in Western Maryland. www.reuters.com/business/aut...
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me: weird that gotye is already being sampled?? i feel like it's usually old songs
my husband: .....would you like to know how old that song is
me: i would not
my husband: .....would you like to know how old that song is
me: i would not
April 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
me: weird that gotye is already being sampled?? i feel like it's usually old songs
my husband: .....would you like to know how old that song is
me: i would not
my husband: .....would you like to know how old that song is
me: i would not
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Make sure that you regularly read to your birds, and teach them all about their heritage and history. It's a very important part of them growing up well rounded and worldly.
April 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Make sure that you regularly read to your birds, and teach them all about their heritage and history. It's a very important part of them growing up well rounded and worldly.
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The CFPB has returned BILLIONS to consumers who were victims of financial schemes, but the richest man in the world wants to destroy it. A judge paused Musk’s plan because it would “decimate the agency.”
This pause must become a full STOP.
This pause must become a full STOP.
Judge pauses Trump administration's plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire nearly everyone at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been paused by a federal judge, who says she's “deeply concerned” about the plan.
apnews.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The CFPB has returned BILLIONS to consumers who were victims of financial schemes, but the richest man in the world wants to destroy it. A judge paused Musk’s plan because it would “decimate the agency.”
This pause must become a full STOP.
This pause must become a full STOP.
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Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
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Perfection
While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.
April 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Perfection
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Ready or Not 2 is now titled Ready or Not: Here I Come ♥️
Starring:
Samara Weaving
Kathryn Newton
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Shawn Hatosy
Néstor Carbonell
David Cronenberg
Elijah Wood
Starring:
Samara Weaving
Kathryn Newton
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Shawn Hatosy
Néstor Carbonell
David Cronenberg
Elijah Wood
April 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Ready or Not 2 is now titled Ready or Not: Here I Come ♥️
Starring:
Samara Weaving
Kathryn Newton
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Shawn Hatosy
Néstor Carbonell
David Cronenberg
Elijah Wood
Starring:
Samara Weaving
Kathryn Newton
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Shawn Hatosy
Néstor Carbonell
David Cronenberg
Elijah Wood
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it's always the turnout
Never seen it framed this way by all recent elections
Wild
Wild
April 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
it's always the turnout
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Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt).
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
April 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt).
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
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Rep. Jason Crow: "You know what I think the right thing, politically, to do is? Actually just do the right thing. If we do the right thing and we defend people, if we defend the innocent, if we defend our democracy, the politics tend to take care of themselves."
April 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Rep. Jason Crow: "You know what I think the right thing, politically, to do is? Actually just do the right thing. If we do the right thing and we defend people, if we defend the innocent, if we defend our democracy, the politics tend to take care of themselves."