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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️

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🧬 Genomics PhD & As. Director of #scicomm at Tempus (All views my own) 🧑‍🔬 Founder of @beyondxandy.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ (they/he) Trans progressive atheist feminist 🎲 Gamer 🖖 Trekkie 🌱 Plant gay 😻 Cat dad 🏠 Chicago https://www.linkedin.com/in/jey-mccreight/

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · Mar 28

As someone whose PhD was in human population genetics and evolution:

Race is a social construct

Gender is a social construct

Both have biological *components* but are incredibly complex - not neat, discrete, immutable categories

Fascists are the ones denying scientific reality

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · Mar 28

So the official position of the white supremacist government is, unsurprisingly, that “race is a biological reality.”

Apparently, not believing this is “insane.”

Important to note that for fascists, ALL the identity categories (race, sex, etc.) have to be “real” and frozen so they can manage them

“Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”

Apparently it’s bad that the Smithsonian has an exhibit that “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct”

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 11h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 12h

It really feels like one of the purposes of AI video is to get us to a point where no video we see on social media and no photograph can be trusted or assumed to be true, and we fully enter a post-truth world.

Truth is used to fight oligarchs, so they seek to destroy truth itself.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 12h

rib, and i cannot emphasize this next part enough, bit

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 19h

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 14h

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 16h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 12h

They are eugenicist capitalists. They want to purge the sick, weak, and poor and replace them with AI

I know I sound like someone wearing a tinfoil hat but that is literally what's happening 😵‍💫

Nikki 'Samyazan Scion' Ophan @nikkiophan.bsky.social · 12h

very cool that everyone on this site's immediate take is "OMG HOW STOOPID CAN U BE, FIRING EVERYONE WHO MAKES SURE AMERICANS DONT ALL DIE OF DISEASE!!! MAKES NO SENSE!! THEYRE SO STOOOPID!!!"

nah they just want a shitload of people to die, straight up thats the goal, purge undesirables, mass death

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 15h

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 15h

To be clear I'm not saying this to deny your experience, I wholly believe you. I just know I'm a trans man who didn't start with male-presenting ADHD. There is probably all sorts of complex developmental and hormonal stuff at play here.

Too bad all that research is on the banning list now 🤪

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 15h

Transmasc geneticist with ADHD here. I'm glad you shared this because I find it fascinating. I wonder how common of an experience this is among trans women and if it has been studied at all

One of the earliest effects of starting T was my ADHD went from female-typical presentation to male-typical

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 16h

I think I need to re-watch DS9 to get me through this winter

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17h

Good for you.

Everyone else: Watch DS9. Let the Bell Riots radicalize you.

countblanc @countblanc.bsky.social · 18h

i'm working my way through Deep Space 9 for the first time right now and just bumped into an episode that takes place in 2024 America where the boys participate in an armed civil uprising. lol.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 20h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 16h

That's great. I definitely don't mean to imply that it's hopeless or people aren't fighting! Just that this has been the plan of Republicans for a very long time

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 18h

My parents were both public school teachers. 30 years ago I said I wanted to be a teacher like them

They begged me not to and explained how the education system is being destroyed by rich Republicans. By the time I was an adult, teachers won't be able to actually teach

I hate that they were right

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 18h

Somewhere in the recent past, a coup overthrew the spirit of education with the stuff of schooling, and we've seen the system remade entirely in that image.

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Let companies and employers produce workers and let our schools produce citizens. There is no vision of a thriving public education without reclaiming the central mission of schooling as the place where we live diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 19h

This is my neighborhood. Confirmed activity a couple blocks from me. Chicago friends, be aware!

Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 21h

ICE spotted and verified all over Uptown, Edgewater, Lincoln Square and Ravenswood today. Be safe and let everyone know. AND FUCK ICE!

ICE Detention at Leland and
Magnolia on 10/10 around 10:56am
The Rapid Response Network verified the presence of 2 federal agents who detained one person at Magnolia and Leland. Agents were in a black Chevy.
If you see ICE activity, please contact the Family Support Network at 855-435-7693.

ICE Detention at 5445 Sheridan on 10/10 at 9:25 am
The Rapid Response Network verified the presence of three federal agents at
5445 Sheridan, between Catalpa and Balmoral. One person was detained while working on landscaping. Agents were driving a black Jeep Wagoneer.
If you see ICE activity, please contact the Family Support Network at 855-435-7693.

ICE Sighting outside of Ravenswood
Elementary on 10/10 ~ 9:40am
The Rapid Response Network verified the presence of federal agents around the school (on Paulina just south of Montrose). There was an unsuccessful attempt to detain one individual.
REQUEST FOR SUPPORT: Be present around the school from 3-4:30pm to monitor school pick up
If you see ICE activity, please contact the Family Support Network at 855-435-7693.

ICE Detention at Western and Foster on 10/10 at 8:40 am
The Rapid Response Network verified the presence of federal agents at Foster & Western. At least 6 people were detained. Agents remain in the area. Agents are driving a silver Pontiac minivan.
If you see ICE activity, please contact the Family Support Network at 855-435-7693.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away.

More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 19h

Chicagoans should report ICE sightings to 855-435-7693

Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 19h

This is my neighborhood. Confirmed activity a couple blocks from me. Chicago friends, be aware!

Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 21h

ICE spotted and verified all over Uptown, Edgewater, Lincoln Square and Ravenswood today. Be safe and let everyone know. AND FUCK ICE!

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H.S. Kallinger (he/they) @xakana.bsky.social · 21h

Being anti-GenAI is not being anti-science. TF? It's not even precisely technophobic.

Quite frankly, being pro-GenAI in its current form is being anti-science, as it ignores the multidisciplinary aspects of science itself and how technology must bring more good that harm, which GenAI does NOT.

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 21h

ICE are pathetic, un-American, fascist thugs

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21h

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”

collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...

The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

collectivefutures.blog

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