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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 18h

Stray #cat Mendel 🐈‍⬛ was asleep on the patio furniture this morning :)

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 20h

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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Lisa S Gardiner @lisasgardiner.bsky.social · 10h

Hopping in here to share how scientists and engineers are solving the problem of Sargassum seaweed blooms. Amid the 2025 chaos, there are still people trying to help the environment. nautil.us/new-life-for...

New Life for Rotting Seaweed

New Life for Rotting Seaweed: Problematic piles of Sargassum could serve as useful raw material for a variety of products.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

New England can only dream of California’s bold “eat my ass and hair” approach to rich sociopaths trying to keep people off the state’s 100% public beaches.

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 1d

HAHAHAHAHAHA get fucked you rich asshole

Carlsbad homeowner ordered to remove private gate to public beach, fined $1.4 million

John Levy was penalized by state Coastal Commission for a string of Coastal Act violations stretching back years

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 14h

Hopping onto this thread! A piece I wrote in @aeon.co in the Plague Years about how black holes are like #seamonsters:

aeon.co/essays/how-b...

How black holes are like sea monsters at the edge of our vision | Aeon Essays

Like sea monsters on premodern maps, deep-space images are science’s fanciful means to chart the edges of the known world

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 16h

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 18h

Today I’m thankful my hair grew back. (Last year at this time I was prepping for mastectomy). There are good things.

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 18h

Stray #cat Mendel 🐈‍⬛ was asleep on the patio furniture this morning :)

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 21h

Hey, happy #friday! I’ve decided to post a list of things I’ve written that have nothing to do with the garbage fire we call 2025. Cause we could use a flipping break. Have some #HISTORY & #SCIENCE! 🧪

elemental.medium.com/what-really-...

What Really Happens in a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber?

Fountain of youth or fatuous fad, hyperbaric oxygen therapy requires a lot of nerve

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 21h

And here is a piece I wrote on #lyme disease—I have quite a lot of essays on Medium, and need to get back in the habit of providing y’all with weird #science.

brandy-schillace.medium.com/once-bitten-...

Once Bitten: the Silent epidemic of Long Lyme Disease

What if one of the worst epidemics of chronic illness was also it’s most ignored? What if that wasn’t entirely an accident?

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 21h

.I did a lot of work on #cloning research a few years ago—

I’ve decided to post a list of things I’ve written that have nothing to do with the garbage fire we call 2025. Cause we could use a flipping break. Have some #HISTORY & #SCIENCE! 🧪

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Chasing Eve:

Is Cloning the Future?

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 21h

.Honestly, if you’re a science writer, hop on in to this thread.

I’ve decided to post a list of things I’ve written that have nothing to do with the garbage fire we call 2025. Cause we could use a flipping break. Have some #HISTORY & #SCIENCE! 🧪

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Pig Brains and Butterfly Goo

The strange science of life, death, and consciousness

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 21h

.And here’s another! #head #transplant

I’ve decided to post a list of things I’ve written that have nothing to do with the garbage fire we call 2025. Cause we could use a flipping break. Have some #HISTORY & #SCIENCE! 🧪

brandy-schillace.medium.com/yes-you-can-...

Yes, You Can Transplant a Head

A bizarre experiment in the 1970s proved this in primates —now an Italian surgeon suggests that are humans next

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 21h

(This had a second part:)

brandy-schillace.medium.com/the-future-o...

The Future of Clones

Part two of Chasing Eve — have we really cloned a human?

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 21h

.I did a lot of work on #cloning research a few years ago—

I’ve decided to post a list of things I’ve written that have nothing to do with the garbage fire we call 2025. Cause we could use a flipping break. Have some #HISTORY & #SCIENCE! 🧪

brandy-schillace.medium.com/chasing-eve-...

Chasing Eve:

Is Cloning the Future?

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 21h

.Honestly, if you’re a science writer, hop on in to this thread.

I’ve decided to post a list of things I’ve written that have nothing to do with the garbage fire we call 2025. Cause we could use a flipping break. Have some #HISTORY & #SCIENCE! 🧪

brandy-schillace.medium.com/pig-brains-a...

Pig Brains and Butterfly Goo

The strange science of life, death, and consciousness

brandy-schillace.medium.com

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 21h

.And here’s another! #head #transplant

I’ve decided to post a list of things I’ve written that have nothing to do with the garbage fire we call 2025. Cause we could use a flipping break. Have some #HISTORY & #SCIENCE! 🧪

brandy-schillace.medium.com/yes-you-can-...

Yes, You Can Transplant a Head

A bizarre experiment in the 1970s proved this in primates —now an Italian surgeon suggests that are humans next

brandy-schillace.medium.com

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 21h

Hey, happy #friday! I’ve decided to post a list of things I’ve written that have nothing to do with the garbage fire we call 2025. Cause we could use a flipping break. Have some #HISTORY & #SCIENCE! 🧪

elemental.medium.com/what-really-...

What Really Happens in a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber?

Fountain of youth or fatuous fad, hyperbaric oxygen therapy requires a lot of nerve

elemental.medium.com

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 1d

Dante was Catholic and the Inferno is full of Popes.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden @handle.invalid · 1d

This presumes that the essence of Catholicism is the worship and/or veneration of clergy, particularly the Pope, and that’s never been a settled thing within Catholicism.

I mean, yes, these guys are ridiculous, but not because they argue with the pope. Catholics argue with the pope. It’s a thing.

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Infinite Women @infinite-women.com · 1d

One of the things @bschillace.brandyschillace.com and I chatted about when we discussed women and autism for the IW podcast youtu.be/KtBUUF24OBs?...

Women and Autism with Dr. Brandy Schillace

YouTube video by Infinite Women

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 1d

OK this is everything.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

doomscroll break

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 1d

An amazing victory! Congratulations to these courageous workers!✊

SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 1d

In these tough times, Michigan’s home care workers remind us what collective power looks like.

32,000 workers fought, won, and reclaimed their union. 💜💪 #UnionStrong #UnionsForAll

April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 1d

In a moment when our democracy feels fragile & our freedoms under attack, 32k home care workers in Michigan are giving us something powerful: hope. These powerful workers fought, won & took back their union. Congrats to the workers w/ MI Home Care Workers United & @seiuhcmi.bsky.social #UnionsForAll

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

Surely he won’t get it. But if he does…
And if he doesn’t…
I hate this timeline.

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