Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Good. Makes me glad I voted for her.

General strike when

Please apply if you are interested in marine biogeochemistry and microbial dark oxygen production. Deadline: November 17th.

yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir

Or a beret. Or an ushanka.

Mamdani is going to impose Shoggoth Law. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.

BOOKER NO

Every time I have to drive on the turnpike I feel bad for people whose only experience of New Jersey is the turnpike. Literally the worst aspect of the entire state.

I highly recommend The Ugly Stepsister if you like feminist takes on traditional fairytales, scathing commentaries on unrealistic beauty standards and the way society pits women against each other, and graphic body horror

They want impunity to beat us and shoot us after they starve us

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

What could Elon Musk’s $1 trillion compensation package fund if it were returned to the people? www.instagram.com/p/DQxKWX-E4L...

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world

My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

Spicy take alert but Disco Elysium is kind of like Pink Floyd: The Wall, except instead of a rockstar who ODs and wakes up a fascist because his wife left him, a cop ODs and wakes up a communist because his wife left him

“I’m wearing lipstick here, c’mon let’s go!” - me flirting

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Guillermo del Toro is the only person I trust to either adapt any of Lovecraft’s work or make a film about the Leeds Devil that isn’t schlocky garbage, and I don’t need to elaborate as to why

things that arent the future of civilization - chatbots - crypto - robot butlers - cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people things that actually are the future of civilization - free clean energy

Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty. But beware...

Regarding the death of James Watson, I can only say that you should live your life in such a way that when you die, a large number of people who never met you don’t respond with “GOOD, FUCK ‘EM”

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Increased mutation rates and diversity are dominant features of Geobacter multiheme cytochromes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs

*This* is political violence

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology

I need another man to tell Ross to his face to shut the fuck up. Put some stank on it.

Another day another horror story, and not the kind we like

“While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” —Eugene V. Debs

They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?

Sherrill whooped Ciattarelli’s ass, and NJ remains blue. And Mamdani took NYC! Maybe there’s some hope left for us after all.

I took my new dress to the movies. We saw Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, naturally.

Oh my god

Warning. ⚠️ If you are writing an NSF GRFP, new this year, you need official transcripts to apply. Beware. They will not review applications without official transcripts. ‼️

I call this horror punk pole, aka it was too cold in the studio to take off my jacket

It also means that anyone who gets entry to that class (i.e. through scholarships) should bend to class interests. The goal is to "get out" not to lift up. Chomsky said this exact thing about "elite" media.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

as my fellow Teen Voguers come over here I’ll be sharing their accounts, throw them a follow, offer them work, and we’ll be launching a gofundme/something similar soon!

In this house we do not screen the call of Cthulhu. Cthulhu does not get sent to voicemail. We do not leave Cthulhu on read.

This concept goes against the work of Luria and Delbruck, Newcombe, and the Lederbergs that supported the hypothesis that bacterial evolution is driven by random mutations. Just got through lecturing on those experiments in my molecular microbio class. Might have students read this paper and discuss

"Why don't people support welfare programs?" Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness. White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

Just looking for two guests for my #MattersMicrobial podcast. Slots open between 7AM and noon on Friday, November 28th and Friday, December 26th. DM me, email, and please spread the #GoodMicrobialWord. Always looking for #MicrobialEnthusiasts.

This paper has been a must! Great collaboration with @mkrupovic.bsky.social and @yifanzhou.bsky.social, a N&V by a legend of halophilic archaea tinyurl.com/yc3dcv72, and one picture of one of our expeditions to Dallol making the cover of the November issue of @natmicrobiol.nature.com rdcu.be/eLtCH

Seeing conservative commentators joyfully mock poor people and their children horrified at the prospect of going hungry really puts a laser focus into how completely full of shit they were while clutching their pearls over “political violence”.