Note for Democratic politicians: you don't have to start your condemnations of ICE raids with "We all want to catch violent criminals, but..." Just say "These raids have nothing to do with catching criminals and everything to do with terrorizing innocent minority groups."

literally think about this daily we just gave the world to like 5 people and nothing works anymore

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I substantially underestimated corporate and institutional cowardice in the US.

Hey. It’s that time of year. Get your fucking flu shots AND your covid boosters. The 5G reception is unbelievable. #weredoingshots

Mood for my work for the next four years:

A bunch of y’all started following me the last few days. I’ve been totally inactive here for a while. What absurdity of mine lured you over here?

Not to get too political but I agree with the new VP candidate that it’s probably best for everyone if we don’t have kids starving and bleeding on themselves in school, even if their parents are poor

“Urgent task” “Only three months” Do words have meaning anymore?

Is there a group on social media you’ve given up on arguing with entirely? A group that’s not worth the time or mental bandwidth for the sub-basement level possibility of a payoff? Personally, I’ll discuss vaccines and try to convince someone who’s undecided, but I don’t fuck with anti-vaxxers.

Got into an argument with vegans on twitter. Regret arguing with vegans. And twitter.

My roommate keeps telling me I should start a podcast. I look at the podcast landscape and I’m petrified to inaction. I know my writing matters to like four people but I’m not convinced a microphone wouldn’t just add to the hum of noise. What makes a podcast matter to you?

The idea is to show women that any man could do this to us at any time, anywhere, with impunity

I know this isn’t the right option for everyone but… People told me I was overreacting to the onslaught of anti-roe legislation when I had my fallopian tubes removed. If I could do it over again, I’d have asked them to take the uterus too. We’re just a womb to these monsters.

This is the only non-twitter-twitter I’m bothering with at this point. *table flip*

Email two years ago from an editor at Men’s Health saying “indeed, fuck chiropractic, tell me more.” Article this summer from Men’s Health saying “fuck yeah check out this awesome chiropractor.” I haven’t indulged in day drinking in a while.

Welp, packing it in.

Stumbled across “bonesmashing” and “transmaxxing” from the incels of TikTok and honestly the internet was a mistake.

Jesus Christ. Demanding Jews identify themselves, singling them out, and condemning them. At Stanford.

Today I witnessed people I know pretty unambiguously defending terrorism. Hooboy that’s enough discussion about the war for me.

🧵The Rev Science feed is now up & active, with inaugural members (hold on...this'll be a longer reveal as the scientists have *really* blessed BlueSky with their collective presence): - @chrisbecke.bsky.social - @conradhackett.bsky.social - @earth-science.bsky.social - @epidemiology.bsky.social

The Silent Decay: How Institutional Silence Amid Challenges Risks Societal Collapse 🩺

I hate to admit that the antivaxxers are winning, but arguing with them will quickly make you consider licking a Petri dish of smallpox. These ghouls.

A tentative agreement has been reached to end the WGA strike!!! #wgastrong #unionstrong

The fact that the MSM is writing "Is masking coming back?" articles instead of "How do we prevent another mass-casualty event?" shows that we've entirely lost the plot. We're more concerned about our convenience than whether another 1.1M Americans die of COVID.

Hey. It’s that time of year. Get your fucking flu shots AND your covid boosters. The 5G reception is unbelievable. #weredoingshots

The 1990s and 2000s were a heyday for nerds. Tech was now cool and we could unabashedly embrace our enthusiasm for math, science, etc. We've backslid. Today's tech founders compete to be like "Fuck math. I hunt Siberian wild boar in the nude using a knife made from only my own frozen excrement."

“They could say-“ They who? People who already hate us and believe in conspiracy theories? Shucks, that would hurt my feelings. Put it on every fucking front page.

They tried to trick us. They tried to divide us. They tried to break us. But we held strong. So now — if they’re smart —they’ll finally try the only thing that will work: sitting down at the bargaining table to make a fair deal.

I think you’ll appreciate this. Support for “doing your own research” is associated with COVID-19 misperceptions and scientific mistrust 🩺🧪

I have two levels of stress: can’t eat at all, or emotional support peanut butter. I always get one when I could use a few weeks of the other.

The hard truth about rebuilding a post-divorce social life is you have to take the initiative, not the friends who feel like you left them. Your marriage alienated them, you do the work to fix things. The harder truth- Sometimes you just get to cry for a few days when you realize it's too late.

Here are this week's 5 minute sketches! Brittle star Banana slug Demodex Lady beetle Endoproct (I had never heard of these before!) Mantis shrimp Lightbulb tunicate #SciArt

I feel like the definition of being at “high risk” from covid really needs to include “high probability of messing up your health and life for months or years” not just “likely to immediately kill you.” A 9% chance that I’m gonna be sick for at least three months is a pretty high risk!

As someone smarter than me said, there are two takes on Elon Musk: one is that he's Henry Ford, and the other is that he's Henry Ford. It just depends on what you actually know about Henry Ford.

I received an email promoting a new book from someone with a PhD in quantum aromatherapy and I am dumber for having read that phrase. Quantum aromatherapy. A PhD in quantum aromatherapy. Fuck you.

It’s Thursday and I just published my first column of the week. It’s a five-day-a week column. This week’s been a fucker.

My internet has been down since the middle of the night Monday. “Just use mobile hotspot” is unfortunately not as helpful of a suggestion as we all would like it to be. Because five minutes for this article to load was a bit much but, to be fair, fucking satisfying. Byyyeee enjoy prison asshole.

Was told “you are having a contest & being rude” in response to saying- -Opiates aren’t airborne, don’t cause hair loss -Acids&bases aren’t incompatible, mixing them won’t cause death -Caustic=basic -Mixing ammonia & bleach in a syringe-how??-won’t cause airborne opiates. Tf is wrong with people?

This is my “I told you fuckers so” face.

Hey y’all. My brother from a less sweary mother is here. Follow @sethandrews.bsky.social. ❤️

Whatever I did in my life to become that person to whom everyone sends the article about a woman’s parasitic brain worm in Australia… Shit’s working out.

And that they support free speech and are against censorship

EXCLUSIVE: The failed SpaceX launch left acres of damage that had US wildlife officials and biologists in disbelief, documents seen by Bloomberg show

SciRoomie has landed! Follow Eva at: @evataylor.bsky.social

Regulations can be tricky to roll out but pretending the current state of this fuckery is the fault of any entity other than Meta is goddamn ridiculous.

It has been more than 6 years (of experts debunking this with scientific evidence). If they thought they were experiencing radiation poisoning from polonium exposure would they discount nuclear physicists? I doubt it. So why are drugs, & specifically fentanyl, the exception to common sense & reason?