I love a really vague data request oohhhh baby yeah continue to give me nothing to go on, I love it

Panini has all the energy and curiosity of a smart dog, but without the smarts.

I don't know why we don't still have scratch-and-sniffs. They were awesome.

This is impressive, they’ve invented catfishing for catfish

Motherfuck, now I have to add "Harry Potter" to my mute list for some reason. Don't explain why, I absolutely the opposite of give a fuck. I'm assuming it's the TV show.

I look at pregnant people as young as 15 in my research. I say people because aside from being gender inclusive, I will not refer to pregnant children as "women".

Sometimes I think about one of the really nice girls a year ahead of me, who came straight from one of the Ivies and blazed through her PhD so fast. So very fast. And then I think about my friend who took ten years to finish, working full-time, with YOUNG kids. We are not equal in academia.

OK so honestly, it's very rare a single day goes by without me thinking "I can't fucking keep doing this" followed by "Well, I haven't failed at it yet, guess I can keep going a little while longer". To be clear, I'm talking about working full time while doing my PhD. It very sucks a lot.

SO MUCH American wealth creation has been a direct result of a large and thriving American consumer class. That class has been systematically, slowly undercut for 40+ years to increase wealth concentration to the would-be aristocracy. These are rich men, but they are not smart men.

THE SYSTEM THAT EXISTS IS THE ONE THAT PERMITS PEOPLE TO BECOME BILLIONAIRES. IT'S RUN BY - GUESS WHO - BILLIONAIRES. YTMND

A lot of people out there need to learn the difference between manifesting and running their mouth. Running your damn mouth isn't going to manifest shit.

If you call it "race science" and not "scientific racism", that should be your tip off that you aren't informed enough about it to hold an opinion about whether it technically qualified as science at one time, let alone to argue about it.

As a biologist with a love of science history, the wanton conflation of eugenics and scientific racism (by people on both sides of the argument) ongoing in a thread for the last few days is actually painful. Scientific racism was and is embraced by many eugenicists, but they are NOT. THE. SAME.

Insta-blocking anyone who speaks positively about this show. Rowling is a bigot who is actively campaigning to make trans lives worse so if you watch this show I will assume you are a transphobe, end of.

Incredible to put reports out like this and decry the lack of progress for women in the workforce while simultaneously working 24/7 to kill Preschool for All. Wait, did I say incredible? Oops, I meant SHAMEFUL.

Why are enormous C-suite salaries not treated like theft from shareholders? Surely those salaries cut into profit and are functionally just legalized embezzlement. If your CEO alone is paid $20 million+ per year, isn't that basically $19 million+ that should have gone to shareholder dividends?

Ever done something that worked great, thought "Great, I can use this for my other project", and then a week later completely forgotten what you named it or where you put it? Fucking middle age

My Panini stickers came!

It's probably a good idea to listen to the people who were saying "abolish ICE" ten years ago and pay attention to what dangers they're pointing out now and maybe get on board with that stuff too

justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome" sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted

For the cost of dropping bombs on Iran, Opinion Columnist for the New York Times Nicholas Kristof argues the U.S. could fund universal pre-K, guarantee healthcare subsidies, and solve famine across the world. Instead, the Pentagon is requesting $200 billion from Congress. www.ms.now/ali-velshi/w...

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Nobody can back-seat drive a woman's career like a random man who has never done her job.

All these unelected political geniuses nobody's ever heard of come out of the woodwork to talk about what woman politicians should do for their careers.

If it's such a good idea, why don't *you* go head and do it.

It's ironic that every ISP I've ever used has the slowest, most horribly constructed website imaginable.

Thinking about getting some obnoxious Trans Mom merch, like maybe a bumper sticker and T-shirt

A progressive tax rate wasnt enough. The top income tax bracket was above 90% up until 1965, yet here we are today. We must have a wealth cap ratio and economic democracy. It's common sense that wealth is power. Just because they arent "the government" doesnt mean they dont govern our country.

The enemy of my enemy is not de facto my friend. Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is ALSO my enemy, because they want me and my friends and family dead just as much as my enemy does.

They've already made it abundantly clear that they intend to use them for citizens who disagree with the administration.

Of all the things AI has ruined, the way it's ruined search functions is the one that pisses me off the most.

Also, Strattons are tenacious as fuck. Just saying.

Went roller skating today for the second time in yearrrrrsssss and the first time in skates I could actually wear comfortably, and got knocked on my ass by small children twice, fell on my ass all by myself once.

Best. Retraction. Ever.

Gonna save this one and break it out on the DAY OF.

Now the youngest has managed to wake up the next-youngest in order to tell her that he's *so tired*. He also had to come in and drop off a cat right next to me, being exaggeratedly "quiet", for reasons. I am only sort of getting the quiet time I asked for, but at least it's entertaining.

A new study finds that US COVID deaths were undercounted by nearly 20%. While COVID revisionists and antivaxxers are trying to con people into thinking governments did too much, the data says the opposite: Governments didn’t implement public health measures effectively enough to save more lives.

I asked for an hour of quiet time before I have to be a person today, so the youngest, who is 12, is trying to get the next-youngest, who is 14, to engage in noisemaking. She is not having it.

I have determined that the age at which children stop immediately launching into full-bore noisemaking mode upon awakening is 13. It's a small sample, so the confidence interval is wide, but I think my results are valid.

I am going to sound like An Old, but I really hate the current "flash a bunch of images as fast as possible" trend. It gives less "cool image collage" and more "Max Headroom dystopia".

I wish I could say I find that surprising, but they've been decreasing in anything of any actual value for a while now so it's probably the natural next step for them to become just a clickbait-generating bot.

I remember when everything started moving to apps and I was morally offended at the idea of having to download all these little programs to access services when the Internet was right there and you know what, I was right

No one on earth looks as happy as him and all of us are jealous he can just fly the fuck away from all this horseshit

"emotional labor" truly peaked when that lady took chili to the neighbour

Welllll shit. One of the few things that brought me joy during a very hard time in my life. I don't even *want* to be as cynical as I would have had to be to see this coming.

How am I so far out of the loop that this is just now entering my consciousness???

The USPS IS NOT LOSING MONEY. THE USPS IS SPENDING TAX DOLLARS ALLOCATED TO IT BY THE BUDGET. THE USPS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO ZERO OUT ITS BALANCE SHEET IT IS NOT A BUSINESS IT DOES NOT HAVE SHAREHOLDERS. IF THE USPS IS OUTSPENDING ITS BUDGET IT SHOULD BE ALLOCATED MORE BUDGET.

It's the last day of the term and due to a series of miscommunications fueled by everybody involved being overwhelmed and burnt out, I don't know if I'm doing more edits today or not. Since I'm also overwhelmed and burnt out, I'm defaulting to not.

Facebook is so fucking weird, aside from being just a horribly-designed interface run by an evil lizardman, because it's full of people with no boundaries who joined for different reasons at different times, and they're all convinced that the way they use Facebook is The One True and Only Right Way.