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Recently retired scientist. Still adjusting. I want to understand…everything. And I make stuff.

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scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 21d

Went to a big sporting event last night. Have always been a loud, albeit off-tune, national anthem singer.

But last night the anthem hit different. I mumbled my way through.

I’ll never forgive the bastards who made me question my love for the US.

How dare they.

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 18h

Old joke:
“I gave my wife $1 million and told her to spend $1000 a day on whatever she wanted. In three years she came back and asked for more money.
So I gave her $1 billion with the same instructions. She didn’t come back for 3000 years.”

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 19h

Transitions are hard. Transition from Erickson to Andersen was ugly. Transition from Andersen to Smith was ugly.

But this is worse. This is year two.

Your average 2A Oregon HS team can get off a field goal attempt, but this team can’t.

The trajectory of this team is straight down.

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 21h

He’s not wrong.
Dude’s got a cannon for an arm, but dances backwards more than Ginger Rogers.

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 1d

They are on record as wanting a “100% American“ workforce.
Only way to achieve that is to have a permanent under-class of poor whites, minorities and children that are forced into farm labor because they have no other options.
A return to feudalism.
Which is a stated goal

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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 2d

To all the fake Christians out there…

We see you.

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scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t the makers of Tylenol have lawyers?
Is this not some form of defamation? Surely there must be some form of legal redress.

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scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 2d

The $$$ is in detention, not deportation. Deportation $$$ go overseas, detention $$$ line local pockets.
Every time they detain a US citizen, they still get paid, even though the citizen is eventually released. Every night they are held is an additional paycheck.

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 2d

I should have added, you can cut and paste the link.

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 2d

There is a local TV station (KATU) that has a 24-hr live feed from ICE HQ, that shows the “protests” of a handful of very calm crowd.

katu.com

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scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 3d

And I’m sure those studies will be unbiased, hypothesis-driven, scrupulously analyzed data sets, right?

a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls making a funny face .

ALT: a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls making a funny face .

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scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. Road cams, sky cams, etc

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scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 3d

There are multiple WebCams around the city of Portland. I keep trying to push out links, so people can see Portland in real time.

Reality is available for those who care to look.

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scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 4d

No, no…
IT fucks HIM.

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 4d

Apparently, also in the works, the Melania stamp.
It cost $50, but it licks you back.

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 5d

Because it’s easy propaganda and it works with their base.
If it weren’t trans, they’d find something else.

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 5d

The Voodoo Donut wars will go down in National Guard lore. The letters from the front are heartbreaking…

“My dearest Penelope, supplies are dwindling…they are out of both glazed and bear claws. Our entire unit was reduced to a single dozen crullers. Pray for us.

Your loving husband,

Jedediah”

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 6d

Just when it seemed MTG was on the verge of sanity, she’s restored my conviction that she’s Looney Tunes.

a looney tunes logo with a cartoon pig on a red background

ALT: a looney tunes logo with a cartoon pig on a red background

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scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 7d

Never underestimate the total commitment of your hard-core Elon jock-sniffer.
Any driving one of those portable toaster ovens has a demonstrated willingness to flambee themselves to make a statement.

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 7d

“Portland is burning to the ground…”

I must’ve missed all the smoke when I was in Powell‘s last weekend. What a crock.

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scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 7d

Losers at life, cosplaying a win.
An administration of trolls.

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 8d

Friends are on a long planned trip to several national parks in Utah.
Just heard from them that it is anarchy at the campgrounds.
No Park Rangers, mounds of uncollected trash, overflowing Porta potties, reservations being ignored, people generally being un-restrained assholes.

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 8d

The state I live in has had assisted suicide for decades.

90% of those who use it have hospice or palliative care.

It’s about fearing loss of autonomy and independence.

scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 9d

One of the formative images of my youth.
And ten days later - Jackson State, though that one is often overlooked for some reason…
Almost like those students didn’t matter. Almost exactly like that.

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 10d

I made a comment about the US government attacking a Chicago apartment building like SPECWAR breaching a terrorist compound in Kandahar and the responses were "Uh, uh, you made a typo!"

The typo was more important than Trump sending in the Gestapo.

In case you were wondering how we ended up here.

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scienceintheend.bsky.social @scienceintheend.bsky.social · 11d

My personal favorite: “I promise I will give your opinion all the consideration that it deserves“.