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Doctor Science ❌👑#NoKings2 Oct18

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scientist, mom, writer, fangrrrl. Tikkun olamnik. She/her mostly because I'm old & lazy. Re-posts are not endorsements, nor do they always make sense.

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Doctor Science ❌👑#NoKings2 Oct18 @doctorscience.bsky.social · Jun 6

New pinned 📌 post:
To get pictures of my cat, press 👉 #Purrcy 👈.
To get my liveblog of the latest @indivisible.org weekly update, press 👉 #WhatsThePlan 👈, choose "See #WhatsThePlan posts by user", then click the "latest" column.

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Travis Baldree @travisbaldree.bsky.social · 3h

Love is real @ NYCC

Photo of Travis with the incredible Chuck Tingle

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Doctor Science ❌👑#NoKings2 Oct18 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 3m

exactly! but in China it was taken *even more seriously*, like government policy seriously. There was a whole genre of "Pictures of Tilling and Weaving" illustrated Manuals, to help administrators & officials in the field promote good practices
www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/S...

Gengzhitu 耕織圖 (www.chinaknowledge.de)

Gengzhitu 耕織圖 is a book on agriculture and sericulture written by Lou Shou 樓璹 (1090-1162).

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 1h

It’s been such a warm Fall here, but apparently that’s changing tonight!
But for now, we still have a few of the fancy sparrows visiting while they rest up before continuing their journey.
One of my favourites is the Harris’s Sparrow and this one was having a good drink!
#Birds 🪶

A Harris’s Sparrow standing in a small creek with its reflection. Its striped tones of dark brown and tan are lit by the morning sun and the creek is a dark black. There are a couple pink rocks by the creek also catching the sun

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 9h

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 9h

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 22m

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 22m

One of the best phrases I've ever learned for working with kids is, "thank you for your no."

It gives me such happiness to see them make their own choices for their little bodies, and to be able to affirm that as a good thing

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 28m

Some little kids are not really shy, they just choose who they want to give their energy to & refuse to give it unless they want to. We could all learn from that boundary setting.

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Doctor Science ❌👑#NoKings2 Oct18 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 19m

Yes! Men were taxed grain, women were taxed textiles. "Man plows, woman weaves" was a standard catchphrase for the basic gendered division of labor. Modern economists estimate that the two taxes us. had approx. equal cash value, tho more stress was laid on grain tax

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 13h

That fierce engineer problem-solving brain, after a career detached from societal concerns and ambiguity, without the humanities training... it's like a loose nuke of philosophy.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13h

There's lots of ways this is expressed.

One is the Peter Principle: tech CEO promotes such as a programmer to a management position where the job is just to send 3 emails a day.

Suddenly that engineer is in a sinecure job, endless free time, and a direct line to the CEO about his weird ideas.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 1h

premee has VERY good books if you have coins

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 3h

"What do you mean" Well sometimes people ask me "So, do awards help with book sales?" and anyway, not universally. I definitely do NOT believe that I (or indeed any author!) am entitled to book sales. But I, uh. Can't live on mine. :)

a screencap from the ISFDB showing 'highest ranks authors and editors since 1950 by decade,' then the top 12 list showing premee mohamed at #3 for the 2020s. then a royalty statement indicating $209.10 total earned over a six month period, and, quite reasonably, an arrow pointing to a beetle with a clown face labeled 'me'

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 4h

So to summarize:

- There is a pattern where Vought makes the RIFs too wide, apparently to flood the zone with sh*t and see who will draw protests.
- They restore some people after outrage and work by us.
- But we are still left with many who remain fired at the end.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2h

This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4h

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4h

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

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🦌 The Deer Whisperer 🦌 @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes I think Callie is an IKEA cat.🐈 #Caturday

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 8h

Lovely Wife has been out of town for less than 48 hours and the speed at which I reverted to “I use the same one bowl and one glass for all meals and simply rinse them in between uses” has been startling. Sad University Boy ever lurks
just below the surface.

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 3h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 4h

Not many visitors to the map center today. Didn't make much money.

But I did get to watch a mother and daughter pore over Anton Thomas's 'Wild World' map together for like an hour. The complete delight of a child being excited about learning is such a gift.

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Veronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 3h

Sure, Cocoa. It's not like I need my laptop or anything.

(Still very glad he's home, he went missing for a month and arrrghhhh)

A black cat, looming over me, with the tiniest blep. He looks weirdly like a British shorthair, even though he's 100% Manky Street Kitten. He is wide eyed and a bit weird looking, but he has excellent whiskers. He is sitting on my laptop.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 5h

Today is Primidi the 21st of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate hemp.#JacobinDay

More information on hemp

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 8h

Did you miss it this week?

I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Goes like this.

Via the people now called creators, audiences are migrating to the social layer in the internet stack. Maybe there's a way to move with, rather than against that.

newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...

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