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Astro fan, part-time barbarian, MSTie. | Facts matter. Compassion is punk. Vaccines rock. Support your local library. 📚 | She/they.
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Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
"We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."
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If, like me, you need a break from all the bullshit, this is a fun read from the leader of the Apple Snack Gang. (Is there a hashtag??)
The full report on this alleged food crime, now posted at ye olde blogge:
In Which I Eat The Food Crime Known As Kraft Apple Pie Mac & Cheese
You may have heard the news — and if not, you may have felt it in your bones, a paroxysm of worry squirming in your marrow like worms — that Kraft put out an apple pie mac and cheese. A…
terribleminds.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If, like me, you need a break from all the bullshit, this is a fun read from the leader of the Apple Snack Gang. (Is there a hashtag??)
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Call now. You can use the @5calls.org app, they have a script for this.
Unless you're repped by @padilla.senate.gov, whose turned off his voicemail bc he doesn't care about his constituents.
Unless you're repped by @padilla.senate.gov, whose turned off his voicemail bc he doesn't care about his constituents.
Democrats are considering a Republican deal to reopen government with a promise of a later vote on extending health-care tax credits—but no guarantee.
One Democrat says it'd amount to "unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double."
One Democrat says it'd amount to "unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double."
Democrats Consider GOP Deal to Reopen Government, With Promise of Later Vote on ACA Subsidies
Democrats are considering a Republican offer to reopen the government with a promise of a later vote on extending ACA health-care tax credits.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Call now. You can use the @5calls.org app, they have a script for this.
Unless you're repped by @padilla.senate.gov, whose turned off his voicemail bc he doesn't care about his constituents.
Unless you're repped by @padilla.senate.gov, whose turned off his voicemail bc he doesn't care about his constituents.
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If you care about other people, please call congress and demand a guarantee on ACA subsidies.
Millions of people depend on the ACA to prevent mountains and mountains of suffering.
202-224-3121
Millions of people depend on the ACA to prevent mountains and mountains of suffering.
202-224-3121
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If you care about other people, please call congress and demand a guarantee on ACA subsidies.
Millions of people depend on the ACA to prevent mountains and mountains of suffering.
202-224-3121
Millions of people depend on the ACA to prevent mountains and mountains of suffering.
202-224-3121
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Building the highwayman shot from Over the Garden Wall (2014), created by Patrick McHale, Cartoon Network Studios
Storyboards by Patrick McHale, animation by Nick Cross
Storyboards by Patrick McHale, animation by Nick Cross
November 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Building the highwayman shot from Over the Garden Wall (2014), created by Patrick McHale, Cartoon Network Studios
Storyboards by Patrick McHale, animation by Nick Cross
Storyboards by Patrick McHale, animation by Nick Cross
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Hello! This is an important one, so it won’t be the last time I post it. The Land Defenders on Hunters Mountain are gearing up for winter. They are resolute. But they need supplies, they are winterizing the cabins they built, there is food and firewood and gas for generators needed.
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Hello! This is an important one, so it won’t be the last time I post it. The Land Defenders on Hunters Mountain are gearing up for winter. They are resolute. But they need supplies, they are winterizing the cabins they built, there is food and firewood and gas for generators needed.
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The Essence Of Life - 24x30” acrylic on canvas. Available.
November 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Essence Of Life - 24x30” acrylic on canvas. Available.
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Alia, mother to toddler, aunt to two young kids, has raised only £966.
Please support her if you can.
Share.
Thank you.
Her campaign is listed on lifeline4gaza.com.
chuffed.org/project/1395...
Please support her if you can.
Share.
Thank you.
Her campaign is listed on lifeline4gaza.com.
chuffed.org/project/1395...
PLEASE HELP ALIA TO FEED HER FAMILY AND COMPLETE HER STUDIES!
Hi there, my name is Hollie and I am creating this campaign today so that we can raise some money to support my friend Alia, and her family who are currently in occupied Gaza and they are suffering gr...
chuffed.org
October 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Alia, mother to toddler, aunt to two young kids, has raised only £966.
Please support her if you can.
Share.
Thank you.
Her campaign is listed on lifeline4gaza.com.
chuffed.org/project/1395...
Please support her if you can.
Share.
Thank you.
Her campaign is listed on lifeline4gaza.com.
chuffed.org/project/1395...
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This year has been hard, navigating life under an increasingly authoritarian regime. More corruption, more distortion. But we can still create with honesty. And I get to do that for a living bc you all support my work. I'm so so grateful.
I hope you spend a little time art-making too 💫
I hope you spend a little time art-making too 💫
November 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This year has been hard, navigating life under an increasingly authoritarian regime. More corruption, more distortion. But we can still create with honesty. And I get to do that for a living bc you all support my work. I'm so so grateful.
I hope you spend a little time art-making too 💫
I hope you spend a little time art-making too 💫
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Yep. Can't even buy rotisserie chicken.
Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Yep. Can't even buy rotisserie chicken.
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I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.
We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.
The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist
"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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I'm running a book giveaway! #hopepunk #solarpunk #cyberpunk #steampunk
SIGNED PAPERBACKS (US only)
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/BMB1dnrQ3cuh...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for audiobook code giveaway + my spicy romance books!
#booksky
#SNAP
SIGNED PAPERBACKS (US only)
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/BMB1dnrQ3cuh...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for audiobook code giveaway + my spicy romance books!
#booksky
#SNAP
November 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'm running a book giveaway! #hopepunk #solarpunk #cyberpunk #steampunk
SIGNED PAPERBACKS (US only)
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/BMB1dnrQ3cuh...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for audiobook code giveaway + my spicy romance books!
#booksky
#SNAP
SIGNED PAPERBACKS (US only)
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/BMB1dnrQ3cuh...
First-come, first-served!
See 🧵for audiobook code giveaway + my spicy romance books!
#booksky
#SNAP
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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it just rules to see so much visible proof that people really do hate these fascist motherfuckers
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
it just rules to see so much visible proof that people really do hate these fascist motherfuckers
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
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New: Citing need for cost-cutting, NASA is quietly closing buildings at Goddard, giving employees days to pack up highly specialized equipment or risk it getting thrown away, raising alarm. "The things they’re doing don’t actually seem to save money,” one employee said. www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
www.cnn.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
New: Citing need for cost-cutting, NASA is quietly closing buildings at Goddard, giving employees days to pack up highly specialized equipment or risk it getting thrown away, raising alarm. "The things they’re doing don’t actually seem to save money,” one employee said. www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
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During Gar Week 2025, between Tuesday and Wednesday, offer your name ideas for the hybrid gar!
#GarWeek #Conservation #Fisheries #GarLab #FishSciComm #SciComm
#GarWeek #Conservation #Fisheries #GarLab #FishSciComm #SciComm
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
During Gar Week 2025, between Tuesday and Wednesday, offer your name ideas for the hybrid gar!
#GarWeek #Conservation #Fisheries #GarLab #FishSciComm #SciComm
#GarWeek #Conservation #Fisheries #GarLab #FishSciComm #SciComm
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Looking for a different gift idea this year? How about a #kakapo adoption? Adoptions are open again until 25th Nov, with postage or email options. These fund a significant proportion of our programme and make a real difference to the #conservation work we do. Thanks! www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...
Adopt a kākāpō
Kākāpō adoptions are a special way to support the conservation of this taonga species. You can adopt a kākāpō for yourself or as a gift.
www.doc.govt.nz
November 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Looking for a different gift idea this year? How about a #kakapo adoption? Adoptions are open again until 25th Nov, with postage or email options. These fund a significant proportion of our programme and make a real difference to the #conservation work we do. Thanks! www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...
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It is once again "shove thing in rice cooker" season
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It is once again "shove thing in rice cooker" season
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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
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2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world.
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
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That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world.
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
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I wrote something about the 25th anniversary of ISS habitation and the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station Archaeological Project
theconversation.com/25-years-of-...
theconversation.com/25-years-of-...
25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space
Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.
theconversation.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I wrote something about the 25th anniversary of ISS habitation and the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station Archaeological Project
theconversation.com/25-years-of-...
theconversation.com/25-years-of-...
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Live in the Northern Hemisphere and want to see a comet older then the Solar System? Nice overview of upcoming pre-dawn visibility for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with small amateur telescopes 🔭🧪
All Eyes on Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will soon exit the Sun's glare to enter the morning sky. Get ready for the observing opportunity of a lifetime.
skyandtelescope.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Live in the Northern Hemisphere and want to see a comet older then the Solar System? Nice overview of upcoming pre-dawn visibility for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with small amateur telescopes 🔭🧪
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Your worth is not tied to your health.
It’s not tied to your productivity.
Capitalism and ableism teach us that our value is tied up in how much we “produce” for others.
It’s not.
You have value just as you are. We all do.
It’s not tied to your productivity.
Capitalism and ableism teach us that our value is tied up in how much we “produce” for others.
It’s not.
You have value just as you are. We all do.
November 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Your worth is not tied to your health.
It’s not tied to your productivity.
Capitalism and ableism teach us that our value is tied up in how much we “produce” for others.
It’s not.
You have value just as you are. We all do.
It’s not tied to your productivity.
Capitalism and ableism teach us that our value is tied up in how much we “produce” for others.
It’s not.
You have value just as you are. We all do.