Saavik Pie Ford 🥧
@saavikford.bsky.social
CUNY Astro prof, AMNH research assoc, runner, astronomer, crafter, camper, gardener, mom, all opinions completely my own (she/her)
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Saavik Pie Ford 🥧
@saavikford.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Welcome new followers!
I’ve been described as a border collie with opposable thumbs who can do math (& swears a lot). I post about many things, including astrophysics, other sciences, politics, stuff I’ve made, teaching, complaints, occasional medieval history, Irish stuff, NYC, travel, bears…
I’ve been described as a border collie with opposable thumbs who can do math (& swears a lot). I post about many things, including astrophysics, other sciences, politics, stuff I’ve made, teaching, complaints, occasional medieval history, Irish stuff, NYC, travel, bears…
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It is what they do NOT tell you in the general history books that make it interesting.
Like Pilgrims were recruited to farm tabaco in Virginia but were left on Plymouth Rock more or less because they were so miserable the captain wouldn't take them any further.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZj...
It is what they do NOT tell you in the general history books that make it interesting.
Like Pilgrims were recruited to farm tabaco in Virginia but were left on Plymouth Rock more or less because they were so miserable the captain wouldn't take them any further.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZj...
Thanksgiving – Myths and History | Office Hours
YouTube video by Dr. Roy Casagranda
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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It is what they do NOT tell you in the general history books that make it interesting.
Like Pilgrims were recruited to farm tabaco in Virginia but were left on Plymouth Rock more or less because they were so miserable the captain wouldn't take them any further.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZj...
It is what they do NOT tell you in the general history books that make it interesting.
Like Pilgrims were recruited to farm tabaco in Virginia but were left on Plymouth Rock more or less because they were so miserable the captain wouldn't take them any further.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeZj...
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Absolutely NOT! It is an abomination! An ABOMINATION I say! Cast out the foul dark beast!
Okay pie debaters , here you go:
I’m intrigued
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Absolutely NOT! It is an abomination! An ABOMINATION I say! Cast out the foul dark beast!
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1 minute of our bunny eating an apple peel
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 AM
1 minute of our bunny eating an apple peel
There are FOUR pies.
My middle name is Pie.
My middle name is Pie.
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
There are FOUR pies.
My middle name is Pie.
My middle name is Pie.
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1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
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This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
BBC Now Calling Trans Women 'Biological Males Who Identify As Women'
These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1. It would appear that in recent reporting, the BBC is now using the phrase "biological male who identifies as a woman" when they mean to talk about a transgender woman.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
This is an incredibly demeaning way to talk about transgender women in news pieces.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Academics need to tell families and friends, especially at holidays, that there are forbidden questions:
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
Because @lollardfish.bsky.social says we should promote our books: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477313138/
November 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Academics need to tell families and friends, especially at holidays, that there are forbidden questions:
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
How's that book coming?
Oh, you are still working on that book?
Does it usually take that long?
How much money will you make?
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fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
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"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
November 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"An essential step in the fascist march to acceptance and power was to persuade law-and-order conservatives and members of the middle class to tolerate fascist violence as a harsh necessity in the face of Left provocation."
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
(2004)
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I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
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wonder how, exactly, America fucked him over- did we deport somebody or did we fail to get somebody out?
CBS is reporting the suspect ID-ed as 29 year old Afghan national who entered US in 2021.
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
2 National Guard members shot in Washington, D.C., suspect in custody, officials say
Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot a few blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., and a suspect is in custody, officials say.
www.cbsnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wonder how, exactly, America fucked him over- did we deport somebody or did we fail to get somebody out?
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Just realized I hadn't posted pictures of the actual sticker
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Just realized I hadn't posted pictures of the actual sticker
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"We have a first amendment right to coordinate our market activity" is not going to be a viable claim, guys
BREAKING: RealPage is suing New York, challenging a new state law that bans landlords from using algorithms to set rents.
RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
RealPage claims that its software, which landlords have used to collude on rents, is protected by the First Amendment.
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"We have a first amendment right to coordinate our market activity" is not going to be a viable claim, guys
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The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
DOGE no longer has ‘centralized leadership’ under White House tech team, personnel head says
The team that was altered to house DOGE — formerly the U.S. Digital Service — is also still doing its own technology work across agencies.
www.nextgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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If anybody needs an ethical place to buy art supplies, I suggest these folks.
(Blick is not ethical, sorry to say. They're trying to create a monopoly.)
shop.stlartsupply.com
(Blick is not ethical, sorry to say. They're trying to create a monopoly.)
shop.stlartsupply.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
If anybody needs an ethical place to buy art supplies, I suggest these folks.
(Blick is not ethical, sorry to say. They're trying to create a monopoly.)
shop.stlartsupply.com
(Blick is not ethical, sorry to say. They're trying to create a monopoly.)
shop.stlartsupply.com
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forgot to share my research with the rest of the class, but she was married for some time to a Jeffrey S Waldbillig & her full name for a long time was Iwona Beata Horyn Waldbillig.
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
forgot to share my research with the rest of the class, but she was married for some time to a Jeffrey S Waldbillig & her full name for a long time was Iwona Beata Horyn Waldbillig.
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🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: AGN variability: hidden signals in the noise
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
STFC | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester
STFC Studentships in Physics and Astronomy. University of Leicester
le.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🔭🧪🎢 PhD Project focus: AGN variability: hidden signals in the noise
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
We're advertising this project with Prof Simon Vaughan, analysing AGN with methods that go beyond traditional models and assumptions
For details of all our PhD projects look here: le.ac.uk/study/resear... 🔭🧪🎢
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Comet Lemmon and the Milky Way
Credit: Lin Zixuan ([email protected]), Tsinghua University
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112... #APOD 🧪🔭
Credit: Lin Zixuan ([email protected]), Tsinghua University
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112... #APOD 🧪🔭
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Comet Lemmon and the Milky Way
Credit: Lin Zixuan ([email protected]), Tsinghua University
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112... #APOD 🧪🔭
Credit: Lin Zixuan ([email protected]), Tsinghua University
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25112... #APOD 🧪🔭
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I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
“After Ferreira was detained, Dos Santos Rodrigues said Michael Leavitt Sr. and his father, Bob Leavitt, reached out to her.”
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
“‘They just kept saying, ‘Tell her to self-deport,’” she recalled. “Self-deport to where? Brazil is not her home.’” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
‘Brazil is not her home.’ Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, brought to US as child, detained by ICE. - The Boston Globe
Bruna Ferreira, 33, was brought to the United States as a child in 1998. She is now in removal proceedings in Louisiana.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.
As a newly elected department chair… why am I thinking of this AO3 entry today? No reason, I’m sure…
(It is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and a student needs a snake for her defense.)
(It is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and a student needs a snake for her defense.)
archiveofourown.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
As a newly elected department chair… why am I thinking of this AO3 entry today? No reason, I’m sure…
(It is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and a student needs a snake for her defense.)
(It is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and a student needs a snake for her defense.)
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We talk wild turkey (their decline, and resurgence) on today's episode of science quickly.
Reminder wild turkeys, like pumpkins (squash), potatoes, and cranberries are indigenous to the Americas (turkey and cranberries from north America specifically).
Reminder wild turkeys, like pumpkins (squash), potatoes, and cranberries are indigenous to the Americas (turkey and cranberries from north America specifically).
Wild Turkeys Went from Almost Gone to Millions Strong
Wild turkeys once nearly disappeared, but today they’re thriving.
www.scientificamerican.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
We talk wild turkey (their decline, and resurgence) on today's episode of science quickly.
Reminder wild turkeys, like pumpkins (squash), potatoes, and cranberries are indigenous to the Americas (turkey and cranberries from north America specifically).
Reminder wild turkeys, like pumpkins (squash), potatoes, and cranberries are indigenous to the Americas (turkey and cranberries from north America specifically).