Disabled people tried to warn you. We said the “better off dead” narrative being weaponized against us would be used for other groups of people. The fascists won’t ever stop. They see everyone else as less than. Expendable. Not worthy of life. Its eugenics on a massive scale

Green Lantern fans are incredibly annoying, and I know if you're a real Green Lantern fan you agree

"I don't like Trump but..." no shut the fuck up, nobody needs to hear you gloat about an illegal war launched by war criminals.

When you see the media spin this war, bear in mind that every single propaganda tactic has just been tested in spinning biden's genocide of Gaza. The exact same playbook, the exact same kinds of lies, the same inevitable violence against protesters: we literally *just* went through this.

All true but it's frustrating that we might have been spared a lot of this but for the Lancet publishing Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent study in 1998

We are devastated to learn about the passing of the great palaeontologist Hans Sues. May his legacy live on through all that knew him and the students he mentored. Our thoughts are with his family at this incredibly difficult time 💔. 🔊 www.paleonerds.com/podcast/hans...

For all of Bluesky's culture problems -- and I think we can be honest and note that it does have them -- I really do find it intensely distressing how many people have chosen to actively remain on X, a website basically explicitly designed to drag everyone who uses it to the right

Morning Bluesky Happy Sunday

The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing. Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist. Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird Media: trans activist criticizes media

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

One time a political science major told me to only vote on policy. Looking back, I disagree. For example: the theory of evolution isn’t a policy position, but it’s acceptance or denial can tell you a lot about someone’s character as well as what they would do if elected.

Eugenics is wild. You've some dudes going "have you noticed how better read, educated and musical we are in relation to the rest of population. Must be our genes" No. Dude, you are inanely affluent, went to a private school, you're not special, you're a participant in active class stratification.

I once again feel compelled to remind folks that you feel science news/new scientific developments are bad and destructive because you are not reading science news: You are reading techbro press releases, regurgitated uncritically by outlets that long ago fired all their science/tech beat reporters.

Nobody should have a favorite politician.

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

The one rule regarding dinosaur integument is that we should never underestimate its diversity

"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants" No you don't. If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.

as someone who pushes hard against conspiratorial thinking in my professional and political life, it is deeply irritating when, on top of the untold human harms Epstein caused, it turns out he was at the center of at least half a dozen actual conspiracies

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

You hate Disney because you’re homophobic. I hate Disney because they closed Dinoland USA. We are not the same.

Fun Fact: Did you know the first dinosaur fossils taken to space in 1985 belonged to Maiasaura peeblesorum? This was clearly a mistake, they should have launched Jack Horner into space and not let him return.

We don’t owe them anything. They spent a decade ignoring obvious evidence implicating the most guilty while fabricating insane accusations against the innocent.

The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it

Asked our server why my soda is room temp and they said “we no longer serve ICE”.

My time to shine: newts have sex by the male laying down spermatophores and then waving his tail and head butting the female until she sits on one and takes it into her cloaca.

I don't exaggerate when I say that Andrew Wakefield should be tried for mass murder. We'll never know how many people have died or will die as a direct result of his fraudulent study.

People who know me personally always claim I “know everything about dinosaurs”. That isn’t true and I’m glad it isn’t, if I knew everything about dinosaurs there would be nothing for me to learn about them and they would no longer be interesting to me.

Loud noises are one of my few sensory issues, blow away on those whistles!

It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.

Also, the arctic vortex wandering south like this IS an indicator of climate change, as it is due to the destabilization of the jet stream and oceanic currents.

Elderly people often assume that I was named after Spencer Tracy. I wasn’t, but I do have a surprising amount of things in common with him aside from sharing a first name.

I keep seeing posts stating that ICE cannot enter your home or a private business without a judicial warrant. While that is legally correct, in reality ICE routinely violates the law by forcing their way in, often by smashing down doors, before violently assaulting people. Trumpism is fascism.

Turns out Big Government is great when you get to be on the side of the government

Flags with extinct animals on them: - California (California grizzly bear) - Chernyshevsky District, Russia (Kulindadromeus) - Doronogovi, Mongolia (sauropod) - Srednekolymsk, Russia woolly (mammoth)

I think back to when I was in my teens and see how dumb I was, then I look at adults over twice my age and see that they are as dumb as I was when I was in my teens. How did they stop growing as people half a century ago???

Having served in multiple countries run by ruthless dictators, I am accustomed to their tactics for keeping their populations under control. One of them is to employ a legion of fake opposition figures who promote the false narrative that "all parties are the same, so why bother voting?"

Citizens United is nothing more than a dark money pipeline that enabled deranged, greed and power diseased megalomaniacs to avoid fair taxation, purchase the government and steal all the representation from We the People.

I think history will eventually confirm Trump appointed a bunch of incompetents and then swiftly went senile, leaving the country in the hands of fascists who aren't entirely sure how to actually fash

The Vice President of the United States is a fascist.

I used to be a right winger, I don’t like admitting that, but it’s true. One of the many reasons I changed my mind was finding out what the reactionary right actually thinks about autistic people. I saw our current scapegoating coming ten years ago, they don’t want us to exist.

Tonight thinking about this all-time @ndrew.bsky.social banger

coming around on the idea that a politician is a type of cop

The wrong ICE is melting.

Fuck ICE.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

I was getting down from a three-step step ladder at a time when I was used to using a two-step step ladder. I missed the last step that wasn’t usually there and landed on my right foot weird, I was limping for days.

Listen you braindead MAGA chucklefucks, we're not "defending Nicolás Maduro", we're defending congress' constitutional right to declare war. Read a book dipshit