Dr. Tessa Fisher
@tessafisher.bsky.social
Postdoc researching exoplanet biosignatures, Univ. of Arizona | Astrobiologist | Trans Lesbian | Wife | SFF Writer | Lukewarm Ecosocialist | Union Woman | One Half of @asabpod.bsky.social | She/Her| 🌹
www.tessafisher.com
Words and opinions are my own.
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Dr. Tessa Fisher
@tessafisher.bsky.social
· Jul 23
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If you want to feel old, we are now further from the formation of the Kenorland Supercontinent than the formation of the Kenorland Supercontinent is from the formation of the Solar System.
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 AM
If you want to feel old, we are now further from the formation of the Kenorland Supercontinent than the formation of the Kenorland Supercontinent is from the formation of the Solar System.
What makes it difficult is there really aren't a lot of guides out there for how to deal with potentially giving up on a dream due to factors completely beyond your control. I guess the closest would be elite athletes who get career-ending injuries?
Anyhow, don't mind me, just wrestling with the mounting dread that the career I've dreamed of since I was 12 and spent the last 10+ years training for may be ripped away from me for the benefit of egos and wealth of the country's most painfully mediocre men, and there's not much I can do about it
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
What makes it difficult is there really aren't a lot of guides out there for how to deal with potentially giving up on a dream due to factors completely beyond your control. I guess the closest would be elite athletes who get career-ending injuries?
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My longstanding "get the Indivisible moms into socialism" philosophy stays winning.
The No Kings Alliance stands with the Starbucks baristas on strike. Don’t shop at Starbucks while workers fight for fair pay, better staffing, and an end to union-busting. Power still belongs to the people who make this country run: nocontractnocoffee.org/#pledge
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
My longstanding "get the Indivisible moms into socialism" philosophy stays winning.
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The biggest blackpill for me was a poll that found that, despite Trump's abysmal approvals and Dems cleaning house lately, an hypothetical 2024 rematch would still be a tossup. The insane reality is that a majority of US voters really experienced the Biden years as some kind of epochal catastrophe!
“I’m not gonna lie to you about the economy like Biden and trump and say it was great“
“Achtually the economy was great under Biden, the guy we dumped 4 months out from the general here are some charts“
If you think the 100% true fact that the economy was good under Biden is relevant youre dumb
“Achtually the economy was great under Biden, the guy we dumped 4 months out from the general here are some charts“
If you think the 100% true fact that the economy was good under Biden is relevant youre dumb
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The biggest blackpill for me was a poll that found that, despite Trump's abysmal approvals and Dems cleaning house lately, an hypothetical 2024 rematch would still be a tossup. The insane reality is that a majority of US voters really experienced the Biden years as some kind of epochal catastrophe!
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Ranked-choice voting didn't *mathematically* change much in Portland, mostly the same people won who would have with FTTP. But it sure did lower the level of rancor a bunch, letting voters have more "expressive power" without worrying about spoilers
i am...skeptical about implementation here state-by-state but it could absolutely strengthen coalition unity and decrease alienation of the primary electorate.
1) UHHHHHHHHH...... WHAT??????
2) TOTAL MAMDANI CULTURAL VICTORY
2) TOTAL MAMDANI CULTURAL VICTORY
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Ranked-choice voting didn't *mathematically* change much in Portland, mostly the same people won who would have with FTTP. But it sure did lower the level of rancor a bunch, letting voters have more "expressive power" without worrying about spoilers
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Trump, to a country full of people who were so mad about inflation that they voted for senile Mussolini: get ready for price increases now that pre-tariff inventory is running out! I know you dweebs LOVE that shit!
“That heavy inventory purchase is now, however, wearing thin, and soon Tariffs will be paid on everything they apply to, without avoidance, and the amounts payable to the USA Will SKYROCKET, over and above the already historic levels of dollars received.”
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Trump, to a country full of people who were so mad about inflation that they voted for senile Mussolini: get ready for price increases now that pre-tariff inventory is running out! I know you dweebs LOVE that shit!
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The typical (and finally, I think, fading) American stereotype of the French as cowardly is utterly incorrect. If anything, historically they have had the opposite problem
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The typical (and finally, I think, fading) American stereotype of the French as cowardly is utterly incorrect. If anything, historically they have had the opposite problem
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After Iraq, I wondered if there was *anything* a conservative administration could do to really lose the popular mantle of "pro-military." It appears Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are engaged in a long-term experiment to find a definitive answer
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
After Iraq, I wondered if there was *anything* a conservative administration could do to really lose the popular mantle of "pro-military." It appears Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are engaged in a long-term experiment to find a definitive answer
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According to today’s WSJ, over half of GDP growth is represented by dumping money into the Mauna Kea volcano. Stopping this may anger the volcano gods, so we must press on.
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
According to today’s WSJ, over half of GDP growth is represented by dumping money into the Mauna Kea volcano. Stopping this may anger the volcano gods, so we must press on.
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What made the Nazis "the Nazis" was a very 20th century thing: industrial-scale death for its own sake. Other totalitarian societies existed, other genocides have happened. The Nazis really were different. That did make them special, even in a world of British and French empires that did genocides.
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
What made the Nazis "the Nazis" was a very 20th century thing: industrial-scale death for its own sake. Other totalitarian societies existed, other genocides have happened. The Nazis really were different. That did make them special, even in a world of British and French empires that did genocides.
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why do all the men who make it their fucking mission to outlaw HRT, all take HRT
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
why do all the men who make it their fucking mission to outlaw HRT, all take HRT
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Sometimes I’m like “maybe I can tell my wife about online” and then I realize some of online is like “the Netflix comedy lady’s villain origin story is being furious at Jeopardy Sam for supporting building more housing” and then I’m like nah.
the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Sometimes I’m like “maybe I can tell my wife about online” and then I realize some of online is like “the Netflix comedy lady’s villain origin story is being furious at Jeopardy Sam for supporting building more housing” and then I’m like nah.
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Thanks be that our enemies are so incompetent
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Thanks be that our enemies are so incompetent
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Good.
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Good.
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
My God, it's returned! As the prophecy foretold!
Lappier Than Thou - Sbemails 210 - robots
The Cheat goes undercover to infiltrate the robot characters that hardly ever show up.
homestarrunner.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
My God, it's returned! As the prophecy foretold!
Today was my last day in office at my postdoc (my contract doesn't technically end until Sunday).
The index finger of my right hand has been twitching involuntarily on & off throughout the day--don't know if that's due to anxiety over unemployment, or the 2 cups of strong coffee I had this morning
The index finger of my right hand has been twitching involuntarily on & off throughout the day--don't know if that's due to anxiety over unemployment, or the 2 cups of strong coffee I had this morning
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Today was my last day in office at my postdoc (my contract doesn't technically end until Sunday).
The index finger of my right hand has been twitching involuntarily on & off throughout the day--don't know if that's due to anxiety over unemployment, or the 2 cups of strong coffee I had this morning
The index finger of my right hand has been twitching involuntarily on & off throughout the day--don't know if that's due to anxiety over unemployment, or the 2 cups of strong coffee I had this morning
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so many peoples' problem with Zohran is that they are inventing a confrontational class war political approach that he never, ever offered and being mad he's not secretly more radical than he pretended to be as if it's a betrayal
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
so many peoples' problem with Zohran is that they are inventing a confrontational class war political approach that he never, ever offered and being mad he's not secretly more radical than he pretended to be as if it's a betrayal
Not going to lie, as schlocky as they sometimes were, I kind of miss the era of hyperliteral SFF book covers from the 1980s-1990s
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Not going to lie, as schlocky as they sometimes were, I kind of miss the era of hyperliteral SFF book covers from the 1980s-1990s
You should be required to read @edzitron.com's entire body of work before being allowed to post on LinkedIn about AI
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
You should be required to read @edzitron.com's entire body of work before being allowed to post on LinkedIn about AI
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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The Sun Belt: a concept invented by Storm Thurmond in 1971 to spread the plantation owner mindset outside of the Old Confederacy
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The Sun Belt: a concept invented by Storm Thurmond in 1971 to spread the plantation owner mindset outside of the Old Confederacy
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maybe they should come up with something new instead of just slight upgrades and, frequently, downgrades with all the bullshit they’re trying to shovel in that nobody really wants or uses
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
maybe they should come up with something new instead of just slight upgrades and, frequently, downgrades with all the bullshit they’re trying to shovel in that nobody really wants or uses
Saw Predator: Badlands last night, and I kind of love how the movie uses almost the exact same plot-beats as a buddy cop movie, or possibly a rom-com.
(This is not a criticism, mind you--it was one of the tightest-written action films I've seen since Fury Road)
(This is not a criticism, mind you--it was one of the tightest-written action films I've seen since Fury Road)
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Saw Predator: Badlands last night, and I kind of love how the movie uses almost the exact same plot-beats as a buddy cop movie, or possibly a rom-com.
(This is not a criticism, mind you--it was one of the tightest-written action films I've seen since Fury Road)
(This is not a criticism, mind you--it was one of the tightest-written action films I've seen since Fury Road)