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metacognition zealot & public library evangelist, writing about law, ethics, media, and SFF. I was a guest on Women at Warp once. “Terrifyingly brilliant. Brilliantly terrifying.” — opposing counsel “Very special.” — my mom https://www.laseneschale.com/

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · Feb 13

“Can you believe Elon asserted that it’s a crime for a journalist to disclose the identifies of his crew, while he doxxed the daughter of the judge who is faithfully applying the law?”

Yes.

What you see as “hypocrisy” on his part is just authoritarianism. 1/🧵

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 2h

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 5h

There’s a special place in Hell for the Latine people who have elected to work for ICE and CBP. And it’s really fucking hot.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 7h

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 6h

I weep.

Google Scholar Homepage with an AI assistant

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 9h

There’s some poetic justice in his box office numbers staying under 18–just like his victims. May every studio that keeps casting him see nothing but failure

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 1d

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Writing something about ICE and sweet Jesus it is so incredibly dark what they are doing to these cities. We have all seen the videos, but when you wade into the details of their actions, it is extraordinarily bleak.

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 12h

Page one??? Buddy, what are you talking about—we’re not even in the first *volume* anymore, let alone the first chapter.

Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 1d

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 13h

The niche of my law practice is representing women, minorities and whistleblowers in vindicating their civil rights in employment.

Having done this work for years now, I have come to understand something that I feel like sharing this morning:

White people and Black people have a VERY different

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 13h

I’m not a Christian anymore because of religious trauma, but I still appreciate liberation theologians and the energy they are bringing to the current moment.

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 13h

For those who are not aware, taking the Monstrance out of the church is an act of reverence. The fact that they’re taking it to people who have been kidnapped to affirm they are children of god is a big deal and a critical counterpoint to the brand of Christianity the Republican regime is invoking.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 13h

Free speech zones walked so free speech curfews could run.

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

“Free speech curfew” is one of the most authoritarian and dystopian terms I think I have ever heard.

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 13h

“Marked for Destruction” is the perfect metaphor for what the Republican regime is doing to this country.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 1d

Florey Institute scientists found that male mice infected with SARS-CoV-2 before conception produced offspring with higher anxiety, linked to RNA changes in their sperm.

The study suggests COVID-19 infection in fathers may affect future generations.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner - Nature Communications

Whether paternal pre-conceptual SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm RNA content, or effects offspring phenotypes, has not been previously investigated. Here authors report changes in sperm noncoding RNAs in SARS-CoV-2 infected sires and increased anxiety-like behaviors in offspring.

www.nature.com

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Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 1d

Le squelette quasi-complet d'un fossile de crocodile datant du Jurassique a été dévoilé dans l'Hérault, une découverte "exceptionnelle".
www.franceinfo.fr/culture/en-i...

EN IMAGES. Le squelette quasi-complet d'un fossile de crocodile datant du Jurassique a été dévoilé dans l'Hérault, une découverte "exceptionnelle"

Le squelette a été apporté au musée par un promeneur, curieux, qui l'avait trouvé par hasard à quelques dizaines de kilomètres de Montpellier.

www.franceinfo.fr

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · 20h

Anything less than leave it in the ground, stop burning fossil fuels will never be enough and that is the crux of the matter.

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 1d

Climate warming's already amplifying hazards such as heatwaves, extreme rainfall, dangerous fire weather, droughts, floods, & sea-level rises & in turn multiplying threats & risks of compound events

🇦🇺's fossil fuel exports contribute accelerated pollution & CC impacts no matter where they're burned

Labor is close to a deal on environmental law reforms. There are troubling signs these will fall short

Labor is close to a deal on its environmental law reforms. Will they strong enough to protect nature?

theconversation.com

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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale ↙️↙️↙️ (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 1d

Cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 3d

I'm looking for recommendations for more books like these - about the history of geology or connected to major geologic events from the past in any way. ⚒️ #Geology

Four books. "Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves" by Michael J. Benton.
"The Map That Changed the World" by Simon Winchester
"Ghosts of the Tsunami" by Richard Lloyd Parry
"Ein Riss durch die Welt" by Simon Winchester

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The US caps the income of disabled people but not billionaires.

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Andy Merrill “Brak” & I maybe love🫘 @amerrill2.bsky.social · 6d

There needs to be a Star Trek show where Jeffrey Combs plays every character.

Kind of like Orphan Black but Star Trek.

unic0de @unic0de.bsky.social · 6d

He's my favourite ten guys from Star Trek

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Nirmalya Kajuri @kajunut.bsky.social · 4d

"Black holes give off the impression of being dark and brooding, absorbing all the light around them. But they are secretly musical."

I wrote about the music of black holes in my latest post. 🧪⚛️

open.substack.com/pub/nirmalya...

Black Hole Beats

Ringing Black Holes can give Ringo Starr a run for his money

open.substack.com

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 4d

Some of my octopus prints for World Octopus Day this October 8! 🧪🐡🐙

First up my lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. The fins reminded scientists of ears of the elephant in Disney’s 1941 film Dumbo.

My 9.25” x 12.5” Lino block print of a Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. The octopus is mostly bluish with red at the top and on its ear-like fins. Its tentacles are brown and all spiralling up close to its body. The dark water around it is blue-black.

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