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LardDragonEzra

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Lab Tech, Dietary Aide, and large guy on the internet. Page will contain art, photographs, random thoughts, and some cool science I should share. 37, Gay/Ace, He/Him. PFP by @syncrotrace.bsky.social Header by me.

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · Nov 7

Welcome everyone to my page. My name here is Ezra or Ez.

While I am a hefty creature on the internet, I'm also a fan of Doctor Who and Star Trek, a lab technician at Rutgers, amateur photographer, and train-rider.

Please feel free to chill.

Fascists will be blocked on site.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 14h

My HPLC was definitely overlooked

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery

The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality.

www.nature.com

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 9h

The law is nothing more than a bunch of bipedal tailless primates high on their own farts finding ways to masturbate by torturing others. Everything else is just horseshit placating nonsense. Because I guarantee that if ypu treat a judge like they treat us, they'll cry, lacking all self-awareness.

LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 9h

But instead we get a bunch of fuckstain lawyers that want to create idiotic loopholes by playing semantics games.

"Abusing kids is illegal. But calling it conversion therapy makes it legal to abuse kids. But abusing kids is still illegal."

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 9h

Fuck that noise.

The legal system wants to shove its head up its ass, then it should do it literally. I hear judges are legally able to break their own spines, cram their heads up their rectums, and continue to live with their heads in an anoxic environment, feeding on their own waste.

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 9h

I'm a couple months out from having to do training on abuse again, where I get to hear about laws prptecting residents from abuse. But SCOTUS is going to give the go ahead to allow patients to be abused?

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 9h

No. Every state should double down on their laws against conversion therapy and define the practice as abuse. Because the alternative is to force SCOTUS to recieve some conversion therapy themselves.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

With SCOTUS set to legalize conversion therapy, I think it's important for states to get around this decision by implementing new legislation applying private rights of action to practitioners of conversion therapy by their victims with large damages and long statutes of limitations.

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Nescire Jaska @necirejaska.bsky.social · 9h

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 16h

Which would only explain a subset of males, but not everyone else. Which is the purest giveaway that this whole thing is bullshit.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 19h

We'll see in 2 weeks.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 20h

I just signed this. I may write a letter to UVa as well.

P.S. *Always* investigate petitions before you sign. The group behind this, according to my own research, looks legit.

Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 21h

If you are an alum of:

Vanderbilt
UVA
UT Austin
U of Southern California
Dartmouth
Brown
MIT
U Penn
U Arizona

Your alma mater is RIGHT NOW weighing the costs and benefits of giving up its independence and abandoning academic freedom. SPEAK UP NOW:

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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

alumni.controlshift.app

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 22h

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 1d

Of course we can't be sure whether or not there's a singularity because of the presence of a horizon...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.bsky.social · 2d

Made it easier to share with credit

Panel from original Batman comic book, a brooding Bruce Wayne is thinking out loud: "CRIMINALS ARE A SUPERSTITIOUS COWARDLY LOT. SO MY DISGUISE MUST BE ABLE TO STRIKE TERROR INTO THEIR HEARTS. I MUST BE A CREATURE OF THE NIGHT, BLACK, TERRIBLE.. A. A..."

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The frog costume guy stands in opposition to ICE thugs in Portland

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 1d

The bar for politicians to fight for trans people is so low it's in the mantle.

FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 1d

"I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights."

Then don't expect trans people to sacrifice themselves for your rights either. We are all free or none of us are, and if you can't stand and die on this hill, your country isn't worth dying for.

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I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can't protect ANY groups if we can't win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That's not "erasing" them; it's long-horizon strategy.
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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 5d

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Jovithor @jovithor.bsky.social · Sep 28

His little companion awaits him at home, giving him an extra reason to smile 🐈‍⬛

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fatbearsmallchair @fatbearsmallchair.bsky.social · 1d

Confirmed Toast hates chores and Mutt smells like pancakes

Toast (a very large blue hippo) and Mutt (a coyote mixed with gorilla).

Panel 1 : Mutt comes into the living room to tell Toast it's time for dinner and to set the table.
Panel 2 : Toast screams "MUTT"
Panel 3 : Toast is sitting in the dark and says "You SMELL"

Toast (a very large blue hippo) and Mutt (a coyote mixed with gorilla).

Panel 1 : Toast is sitting creepily in the dark
Panel 2 : Toast turns on the flashlight and says "LIKE PANCAKES"
Panel 3 : Toast laughs manically and Mutt stands there stunned

Toast (a very large blue hippo) and Mutt (a coyote mixed with gorilla).

Panel 1 : Mutt is pictured while Toast continues to laugh and then coughs, and then laughs some more
Panel 2 : Mutt holds up a plate of pancakes and says "Yes, because that's what I made for dinner"
Panel 3 : Toast approaches Mutt fast and says "You know what I like more than pancakes?"
Panel 4: Toast says "Husband" all creepy-like, Mutt blushes and says "Your flirting won't get you out of setting the table."

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 1d

Got my ticket. Ready to board.

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Caligari @caligari.bsky.social · 1d

#Fantasmicalloween Day 8: Ghost Train Conductor

I know there’s no conductor in this, that’s an engineer, but I really wanted to design a ghost train locomotive. I found this one super fun to work on!

#Drawlloween

A sketchbook page showing a drawing done with fountain pen and ink.

A glowing green train locomotive seen from the front, covered in spooky details and unnecessary spikes and such. A skeleton engineer leans out of a side window.

Inks used: The Farewell Poem of Yesterday and The Thorn Songs of Crown from Kitty Inkpot.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Three SCOTUS cases saw movement this week targeting LGBTQ+ people: A conversation therapy case, a shadow-docket case on trans passports, and a sports ban that will determine equal protection for trans people.

Writer S. Baum details all of them in our latest.

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Three Supreme Court Cases Targeting LGBTQ+ People See Movement This Week

From sports to passports, these cases may determine the vitality of trans rights in the U.S. for generations to come.

www.erininthemorning.com

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LardDragonEzra @larddragonezra.bsky.social · 1d

So that place is where you are a Bodega Cat?

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Luke☕ @fattydragonite.bsky.social · 2d

''Hurf... Haaah... Man these letters are *heavy*. They must have a lot of words written on them...''

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