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The ruling class did a spectacular job convincing the masses that the “vulnerable” are both expendable and at fault for high taxes & government waste. We aren’t. End stage capitalism is at fault. The billionaires lining their pockets are at fault. And to them we are ALL expendable.

The German National Library of Science and Technology is building a backup copy of arXiv (in case something happens to the original...) blog.tib.eu/2025/05/13/d...

What does blue smoke mean? Or purple? Someone said black smoke is goth gender reveal and I am DOWN for that, but I STILL HAVE ??? ... OK so blue is ... we've chosen one of the merfolx? How about purple? I think purple must be a cat, right? We chose a cat. Imma convert on the spot for cat.

Alas Sesame Street. I am somehow continually astonished at the self-narrative of "we are the villains, and we dig that." Who writes themselves into *their own story* as the bad guy? That's rhetorical, re psychology of sociopathic narcissists, but I remain agog. Kermit (Jim), where art thou, now?

Episodic reminder for those who have never lived in AZ and find this behavior unprecedented. Rewatch the movie ‘Raising Arizona.’ Erstwhile Arizonans know this movie isn’t fiction, it’s a documentary. I mean I love AZ but wowzer the batguano shit that goes down is of epic proportions.

Today, we're launching a dedicated action hub for the crisis threatening NASA science. Find actions, latest news and up-to-date resources at: www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc... #ProtectNASAScience

🏳️‍⚧️ Silence equals complicity. #trans #transrights #lgbtq #rats #art

Good for the @agu.org. news.agu.org/press-releas...

This is a great action list for those facing NSF terminations. I would add one key point: Be in touch with legal counsel at your institutions and universities. There is a lot to dispute in these terminations.

Hugely worrying, wondering this. I'm guessing certain local NOAA outlets/locations will do their best to keep people updated as long as they can. States might try to bridge them for a while. But the main central account is already infected by the dogs, as we from the below. bsky.app/profile/noaa...

Because being a grad student somehow didn’t suck enough.

having tons of ideas for projects I don't finish, on my onlyPlans

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PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

I am become depression, despairer of worlds. Because all this needed to be more challenging and I apparently need to build more character. I’d say I have so much character at this point I’m capable of making up several bands of dnd players all by myself. Probably all bards with emo poetry …

This table was downloaded on Feb 21 when ROSES 2025 was published and public for a few hours before being taken down for revision of 'EO compliance'. Late items marked in red. Due dates less than 60 days off marked in yellow. This will be updated as more due dates are missed.

BBC Report: "Inside The Desperate Rush to Save Decades of Us Scientific #Data From Deletion" www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... #webarchives #dataresecue @eotarchive.org @datarescueproject.org @archive.org

In addition to outer space, they are moving forward with the GMES and Africa programme to build capacity for and to conduct earth observations. Critically important and timely as US earth science is being dismantled. May our global vision of space exploration always include preservation.

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

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OK so at first I'm all this is very barf. Then I remember that when in UK I regularly eat nutella on toast and honestly this is probably chemically equivalent.

This is me. I am cat. I am also person asking me - cat - what cat wants and getting nowhere.

If you use NOAA data, archive now before the rest is pulled down. Don't wait. 🔭🌪️⛈️🌀🧪 Communities have been archiving any science data possible; it'll all get wiped eventually so save what you can.

These Democratic senators need to hear from their constituents right now. Urge them to reject the GOP’s voter suppression bill and protect our freedom to vote. KELLY (AZ) WARNOCK (GA) PETERS (MI) SHAHEEN (NH) HASSAN (NH) CORTEZ MASTO (NV) ROSEN (NV) Call your senators: indivisible.org/reso...

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Couldn't have said it better myself.

From Skylar Grayson/Cole Meldorf/Abby Lee/Drew Lapeer/Catherine Slaughter: NASA is facing severe budget cuts that would cancel missions ready for launch, put tens of thousands out of jobs, and set science back decades. We need your help to ask Congress to prevent this! astrobites.org/2025/04/15/h...

Trying to make macaroons for the first time and I don't have enough of all the right ingredients. So lots of substitutions and attempts to avoid critical failure modes, say like um too runny. Trying to hold cookie batter together using starch. But even if fail the coffee+pecan cookies are baking...

#13 HOA Prefers The neighbor's yard is spotted generously with dandelions She's embarrassed - all those golden dots in her overgrown lawn Across the sidewalk from uniform expanse, so green, I daily spy Craving wild weeds #NaPoWriMo #Poetry #PoetrySky #AmWriting #WriteSky

#12 Smol Sad Tiny haiku - full of truth in the middle line then it breaks like my heart. #NaPoWriMo #Poetry #PoetrySky #AmWriting #WriteSky

It's cloudy out, threatening rain, but the temperature is cool and the breeze is lovely and I have the windows open enjoying the air, the laughter of kids on the playground, the scent of cut grass, and the sound of all the neighbors trying to mow really, really fast.

Mae Jemison is also one of very few real astronauts to have also appeared in Star Trek. She's now a professor at Cornell, among many other distinctions 🧪🔭

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This is also my writing strategy today, except instead of "Spite" I have "chewing my own leg off to escape trap and by gawd I'm gonna tear into those mfkers when I find them."

“Yeah I’m hanging in, a bit stressed, but staying focused … I think. Little under the weather maybe. No not really sleeping I guess … um, why do you ask?”

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Shame on Planned Parenthood of Arizona for dropping their trans patients because of threats from Trump. What happens when they make you stop providing abortions? Birth control? PReP? Gonna roll over then too? These orgs complying are cowardly.

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#11 Just FYI I have eaten the beef bao that were in the freezer and which you had thoughtfully stashed for my dinner Thank you they were delicious so spicy and so soft #NaPoWriMo #Poetry #PoetrySky

#10 Homesick aching perfection blaze and burn prickly, poisonous desert beautiful soul seeped down caliche deep, ever being, even unviewed unvisited, unreachable long past your brief time in this place, on this world it will be enough certainly, perhaps, maybe #NaPoWriMo #Poetry #PoetrySky

Visit marsh. Talk to frog. Meet fae. Party hard. Do crimes. Wake up face down behind the Cosco. Realize you are "on the nest." Nine months later bear changling child. Child turns eighteen, morphs into frog, and disappears into the marsh - child was the only one who knew the password for the xbox.

Covid remains a consistent threat to health, along with the other stuff having a heyday out there like Flu B, measles, and tuberculosis (FFS). Mask up, wash hands, keep some distance, and save a life. Might be yours, as they say.

The US science community relies on a massive network of post-bacs, graduate students, and post-docs, many of whom are foreign nationals. We train these students and in return we get a ginormous scientific output that makes us a stronger nation - BUT this system is now under attack. (1)

I realized that first thing after I wake up I go all Emmet from the Lego movie - I get up and actually stay "Good morning sun, good morning tea, good morning unemptied trash that won't get emptied since I'm already exhausted, good morning emails that I'm existentially too terrified to answer ..."

Annnnd ... yes! I laughsnorted tea out of my nose again. So, so many possible jokes ... my brain is esplode.

NASA forced the firing of fantastic JPL employee, Neela Rajendra today. And JPL hardly waited more than a few minutes to erase her from their records. This timeline fucking sucks.