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Katharine the Geek

@katharinethegeek.bsky.social

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Just your average queer scientist 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 👭🏼. Wife, mom, teacher, anti-fascist. I solve nonlinear PDEs for food.

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 8h

Both?

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 9h

I admire her ability to keep a straight face in response to that idiotic question.

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 9h

Even though Torch and Husky were (in terms of ground troops) smaller scale than the eastern front, the Luftwaffe had to divert a lot of planes (esp. transport) that could have been used in Russia. IIRC Husky was a factor in the decision to terminate Zitadel early.

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 10h

No, it was a common unit for measuring lengths of line. Indeed, its use as a unit of depth derives from measuring depth using lines.

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 10h

We USA-ans use a prime for money: a nickel is 5 pennies, and a quarter is 5 nickels. But still not as crazy as an 11.

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Nurse RoRo @nurseroro.bsky.social · 1d

Dear WH Press Corp
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Start demanding answers. Portland isn’t on fire. Chicago isn’t at war. Seattle isn’t thanking him.
ANTIFA isn’t assaulting ICE agents
Hold him accountable for the lies.
Refuse to ask anything else until he answers these.
Demand the proof

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 14h

Or just random criminals? Without markings, no way to tell.

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 14h

however, they are clearly identified by USPS markings and are numbered.

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 15h

Complacency is in the American DNA.

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 16h

That’s Illega;. Funds can only be spent if authorized by congress. The President is is not a king.

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 17h

Chasing goose meme: “and how were they displaced?”

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 23h

Cross necklaces. Don’t forget the cross necklaces.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 1d

65 if you count in hexadecimal, maybe.

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 1d

65 if you count in hexadecimal, maybe.

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 1d

He’s no libertarian. He wants the government to regulate our private lives.

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 1d

How does he know what college kids look like? The idiot has probably set foot on a university campus.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 1d

January 6th thugs = ICE thugs…

Political cartoon by: Clay Jones

ICE agents standing in front of small children saying to each other: It’s easier putting children in zip ties than it was storming the Capitol…

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 1d

He’s pretty much saying he wants a riot.

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 1d

He’s also giving away the he wants a riot.

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 1d

That’s Obersturmführer Müller to you, pal.

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t even particularly like writing. But if I’m going to write, I want my writing to express my own ideas accurately, not some LLM’s guess at what my ideas might be.

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 2d

It's always been targeted. The randomness is in which weirdo decides to become violent.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 2d

Students successful in TPUSA (via recruitment and harassing people) are in line for cushy positions in the right-wing think tank industry or Republican politics upon graduation. That is what the most outspoken ones work for, and ruining lives is a plus.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Can you hear the words coming out of your mouth, Megan?

Yes, the guy who received so many threats because of your own actions he had to flee to Europe isn’t the real victim. No. You are, because people called you out.

Megyn Doyle, a student at Rutgers and the treasurer for the Turning Point USA chapter who started the Change.org petition to remove Bray, told Fox News Digital in a statement that Di Filippo's petition is slanderous.
"The petition once again proves that Conservative students are always on the receiving end of hate when speaking about concerning issues," Doyle said.

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