Samantha Friedman
@vanish726.bsky.social
Chemistry PhD, Wellesley alumna, YC alumna (W16), angel investor (temporarily on hiatus). Raman spectroscopy, nanoparticles, and G-quadruplexes were my things. Now, I knit a lot to quell my anxiety about the fascists.
a PhD in chemistry does not necessarily teach you how to load a staple gun, but it did teach me that i can look up how to do it. thanks, YouTube!
May 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
a PhD in chemistry does not necessarily teach you how to load a staple gun, but it did teach me that i can look up how to do it. thanks, YouTube!
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When fascism flexes its muscles, it’s time to make feminism dangerous again.
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I left behind an authoritarian state to move to the US. Now I see my new home falling to the same dark forces | Mona Eltahawy
Coming from Egypt, I know a dictatorship when I see one. The same can’t be said for the white voters who brought Trump to power, says author Mona Eltahawy
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April 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
When fascism flexes its muscles, it’s time to make feminism dangerous again.
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Politics is more clear when you remember that the "waste" in "government waste" is the profit that some rich asshole isn't making off labor in the public sector whose only purpose is the common good.
April 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Politics is more clear when you remember that the "waste" in "government waste" is the profit that some rich asshole isn't making off labor in the public sector whose only purpose is the common good.