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VC, Life Science, Biotech, Space Nerd
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Honestly, if Netflix saved “Wheel of Time” all would be forgiven. Well, maybe not all but most.
December 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Honestly, if Netflix saved “Wheel of Time” all would be forgiven. Well, maybe not all but most.
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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Also: does Ken burns have a Reconstruction documentary? Do we have any good comprehensive video essays we can put on during the workday that get granular about what it attempted, how it got ratfucked, and the ramifications thereof
Nick Offerman in Death by Lightning is PEAK Offerman
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Also: does Ken burns have a Reconstruction documentary? Do we have any good comprehensive video essays we can put on during the workday that get granular about what it attempted, how it got ratfucked, and the ramifications thereof
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@dianadimicco.bsky.social will we be getting a RiftboundOP account here on bluesky?
December 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
@dianadimicco.bsky.social will we be getting a RiftboundOP account here on bluesky?
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rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
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My previous lead fell through, so...
Does anyone in Western Washington have an electric piano with weighted keys that they no longer use and would be willing to give away?
I have a ten year old ADHD kid whose heart is set on one for Christmas but it's not in our budget this year.
Does anyone in Western Washington have an electric piano with weighted keys that they no longer use and would be willing to give away?
I have a ten year old ADHD kid whose heart is set on one for Christmas but it's not in our budget this year.
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
My previous lead fell through, so...
Does anyone in Western Washington have an electric piano with weighted keys that they no longer use and would be willing to give away?
I have a ten year old ADHD kid whose heart is set on one for Christmas but it's not in our budget this year.
Does anyone in Western Washington have an electric piano with weighted keys that they no longer use and would be willing to give away?
I have a ten year old ADHD kid whose heart is set on one for Christmas but it's not in our budget this year.
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is it a good idea to
1) decide that a technology is militarily important,
2) deport as many people as you can who do it to your biggest rival for that technology,
and
3) also deport a bunch of other scientists who have nothing to do with it, but who now have a reason to be upset with you
1) decide that a technology is militarily important,
2) deport as many people as you can who do it to your biggest rival for that technology,
and
3) also deport a bunch of other scientists who have nothing to do with it, but who now have a reason to be upset with you
Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.
Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
is it a good idea to
1) decide that a technology is militarily important,
2) deport as many people as you can who do it to your biggest rival for that technology,
and
3) also deport a bunch of other scientists who have nothing to do with it, but who now have a reason to be upset with you
1) decide that a technology is militarily important,
2) deport as many people as you can who do it to your biggest rival for that technology,
and
3) also deport a bunch of other scientists who have nothing to do with it, but who now have a reason to be upset with you
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conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
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you do not have to believe that society can be saved, or is worth saving. you have to at least believe something can be
November 28, 2025 at 5:35 AM
you do not have to believe that society can be saved, or is worth saving. you have to at least believe something can be
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When I was growing up the common line was “we won’t act on climate change until it’s too late.” COVID proved that we won’t act even after it’s too late. 1 million deaths got turned into a boring standard partisan debate point within a few months.
Following this period, during which public health officials and electeds did whatever they could to limit viral transmission, there were 77k Covid deaths in December. At the peak of the December/January wave, you could stand outside in northeast LA and it was ambulance sirens every 5-10 minutes.
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 AM
When I was growing up the common line was “we won’t act on climate change until it’s too late.” COVID proved that we won’t act even after it’s too late. 1 million deaths got turned into a boring standard partisan debate point within a few months.
Warrior Nun S2
The 100 S2
The 100 S2
Name your fav season of TV
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Warrior Nun S2
The 100 S2
The 100 S2
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
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Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Bill Ackman gotta be on the third draft of a tweet longer than Middlemarch right now
Had to vote in person for the first time in over a decade and.... man even with poll workers doing an excellent job it still took two hours to get my ballot cast. It is truly insane that in this day and age that many people are still forced to do this.
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Had to vote in person for the first time in over a decade and.... man even with poll workers doing an excellent job it still took two hours to get my ballot cast. It is truly insane that in this day and age that many people are still forced to do this.
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new NoVA winemom yard sign just dropped
In This House We Believe:
-Black Lives Matter
-No Human Is Illegal
-Women's Rights Are Human Rights
-Science Is Real
-[redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871]
-Love Is Love
In This House We Believe:
-Black Lives Matter
-No Human Is Illegal
-Women's Rights Are Human Rights
-Science Is Real
-[redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871]
-Love Is Love
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
new NoVA winemom yard sign just dropped
In This House We Believe:
-Black Lives Matter
-No Human Is Illegal
-Women's Rights Are Human Rights
-Science Is Real
-[redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871]
-Love Is Love
In This House We Believe:
-Black Lives Matter
-No Human Is Illegal
-Women's Rights Are Human Rights
-Science Is Real
-[redacted due to 18 U.S. Code § 871]
-Love Is Love
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In those days nobody thought anything of you until you'd seen the sandwich. Felt the splatter of tuna salad across your tabard. Felt sweet onion teriyaki dressing soak your hand.
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In those days nobody thought anything of you until you'd seen the sandwich. Felt the splatter of tuna salad across your tabard. Felt sweet onion teriyaki dressing soak your hand.
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You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.
Elon Musk endorses Cuomo for mayor of New York and makes sure to add some racism in there: “…Mumdumi or whatever his name is.”
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.
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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
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MMT is entirely correct about the economics + resources angle but struggles to deal with the politics of the crisis is where I'm at
I mean, they are right, you can print money with deficit spending and tax it back to prevent inflation. The issue is that this isnt new, and its very hard for democratic governments to execute on higher taxes into inflation
October 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
MMT is entirely correct about the economics + resources angle but struggles to deal with the politics of the crisis is where I'm at