Awkward Heretic
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Trying to stay sane. Science, politics, healthcare, philosophy, social justice. He/him or they/them.
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If I suddenly followed you and you can't figure out why, it's probably because I recognized you from Twitter in the old days.
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Picking up your car from the bar the next morning isn’t a walk of shame—it’s a badge of honor. It means you made the smart call, got home safely, and kept the roads safer for everyone. Celebrate your choice, maybe with a cup of coffee.
December 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Picking up your car from the bar the next morning isn’t a walk of shame—it’s a badge of honor. It means you made the smart call, got home safely, and kept the roads safer for everyone. Celebrate your choice, maybe with a cup of coffee.
So I'm 48. Being a grownup should be easier.
Our friends invited us to a Christmas party, & we showed up first. I found out that they'd met my former manager, who I'm still mentally working through the shit she put me through.
Y'all, I got through it. That was hard, but I guess that's growing.
Our friends invited us to a Christmas party, & we showed up first. I found out that they'd met my former manager, who I'm still mentally working through the shit she put me through.
Y'all, I got through it. That was hard, but I guess that's growing.
December 21, 2025 at 5:06 AM
So I'm 48. Being a grownup should be easier.
Our friends invited us to a Christmas party, & we showed up first. I found out that they'd met my former manager, who I'm still mentally working through the shit she put me through.
Y'all, I got through it. That was hard, but I guess that's growing.
Our friends invited us to a Christmas party, & we showed up first. I found out that they'd met my former manager, who I'm still mentally working through the shit she put me through.
Y'all, I got through it. That was hard, but I guess that's growing.
I had a really strange conversation with a coworker the other day. I realized that the GOP has managed to convince even moderate Democrats that there is a "far left" component of the Democratic party that is dictating the direction of the party, when nothing could be further from the truth.
December 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I had a really strange conversation with a coworker the other day. I realized that the GOP has managed to convince even moderate Democrats that there is a "far left" component of the Democratic party that is dictating the direction of the party, when nothing could be further from the truth.
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This is what seasoned diplomats call a "WTAF moment."
Trump just declared that "For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION..."
What assets?
Trump just declared that "For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION..."
What assets?
December 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This is what seasoned diplomats call a "WTAF moment."
Trump just declared that "For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION..."
What assets?
Trump just declared that "For the theft of our Assets, and many other reasons, including Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, and Human Trafficking, the Venezuelan Regime has been designated a FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION..."
What assets?
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what are we even doing here
The FDA under MAHA control: Weakening the quack Miranda warning on supplements (and a double standard: impossible testing standard for vaccines, none for supplements) sciencebasedmedicine.org/fda-under-ma... via @sciencebasedmedicine.org @gorskon.bsky.social
The FDA under MAHA control: Weakening the quack Miranda warning on supplements
The FDA sent a letter to the supplement industry assuring that it would make it easier for them to hide disclaimers (which we like to call "quack Miranda warnings") about unproven health claims for su
sciencebasedmedicine.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
what are we even doing here
I am an atheist.
However, though we may not agree on the nature of the universe, I don't hate you.
Most people of every faith are decent people who just want to live, eat, love, marry, maybe have kids, and live their lives in peace.
I do not support Islamophobia OR antisemitism.
However, though we may not agree on the nature of the universe, I don't hate you.
Most people of every faith are decent people who just want to live, eat, love, marry, maybe have kids, and live their lives in peace.
I do not support Islamophobia OR antisemitism.
December 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I am an atheist.
However, though we may not agree on the nature of the universe, I don't hate you.
Most people of every faith are decent people who just want to live, eat, love, marry, maybe have kids, and live their lives in peace.
I do not support Islamophobia OR antisemitism.
However, though we may not agree on the nature of the universe, I don't hate you.
Most people of every faith are decent people who just want to live, eat, love, marry, maybe have kids, and live their lives in peace.
I do not support Islamophobia OR antisemitism.
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Someday he will be gone. But we will never forgive or forget the people who supported him.
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Someday he will be gone. But we will never forgive or forget the people who supported him.
You know, when I get critical of democrats, the blue no matter who liberals get mad at me, because they claim it got us nazis. Nope. That was the democrats.
www.salon.com/2016/11/09/t....
www.salon.com/2016/11/09/t....
How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately "elevated" Donald Trump with its "pied piper" strategy - Salon.com
An email released by WikiLeaks shows how the Democratic Party purposefully
www.salon.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:02 AM
You know, when I get critical of democrats, the blue no matter who liberals get mad at me, because they claim it got us nazis. Nope. That was the democrats.
www.salon.com/2016/11/09/t....
www.salon.com/2016/11/09/t....
Can anyone speak to whether or not ranked choice voting has had an impact on Maine's state politics? I'd love to see more of it, but I'm still not entirely convinced that it makes a real change.
December 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Can anyone speak to whether or not ranked choice voting has had an impact on Maine's state politics? I'd love to see more of it, but I'm still not entirely convinced that it makes a real change.
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@gabrielurbina.com okay, I gotta know... in episode 6, was there at all in any way a reference to the late 90s-early teens band Ludo from St Louis? Could be a coincidence, but... anyhow
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
@gabrielurbina.com okay, I gotta know... in episode 6, was there at all in any way a reference to the late 90s-early teens band Ludo from St Louis? Could be a coincidence, but... anyhow
When Republicans (or let's be real, democrats) say they aren't racist, we should remember the Black Panther Party. They supported education, self determination, and employment for black communities. They armed themselves for self defense. Aren't these GOP values?
Our country called them terrorists.
Our country called them terrorists.
December 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
When Republicans (or let's be real, democrats) say they aren't racist, we should remember the Black Panther Party. They supported education, self determination, and employment for black communities. They armed themselves for self defense. Aren't these GOP values?
Our country called them terrorists.
Our country called them terrorists.
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Time we demand that our elected officials showed some guts.
I don't want to hear that they are afraid of him. If that inhibits them from doing the right thing, they need to resign.
I don't want to hear that they are afraid of him. If that inhibits them from doing the right thing, they need to resign.
December 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Time we demand that our elected officials showed some guts.
I don't want to hear that they are afraid of him. If that inhibits them from doing the right thing, they need to resign.
I don't want to hear that they are afraid of him. If that inhibits them from doing the right thing, they need to resign.
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Why is this terrifying?
Because for decades, IQ47 has refused to admit the Central Park 5 are innocent, even when they were proven innocent in a court of law.
He’s never been grounded in facts, only by his feelings, which we all know are steeped in hatred.
Because for decades, IQ47 has refused to admit the Central Park 5 are innocent, even when they were proven innocent in a court of law.
He’s never been grounded in facts, only by his feelings, which we all know are steeped in hatred.
White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries.
theintercept.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Why is this terrifying?
Because for decades, IQ47 has refused to admit the Central Park 5 are innocent, even when they were proven innocent in a court of law.
He’s never been grounded in facts, only by his feelings, which we all know are steeped in hatred.
Because for decades, IQ47 has refused to admit the Central Park 5 are innocent, even when they were proven innocent in a court of law.
He’s never been grounded in facts, only by his feelings, which we all know are steeped in hatred.
I want to point out that there are still folks living today in the US who were never issued birth certificates. A friend's mother, who grew up as a black woman in the Jim Crow south, is no longer with us but never had one. There are other folks still alive who grew up in similar circumstances.
December 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I want to point out that there are still folks living today in the US who were never issued birth certificates. A friend's mother, who grew up as a black woman in the Jim Crow south, is no longer with us but never had one. There are other folks still alive who grew up in similar circumstances.
It's important to remember that the 14th amendment was written to make sure all children of formerly enslaved people, and people born into enslavement, were given the citizenship they were entitled to. It also was written to give the federal government the power to remove citizenship from any...
December 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It's important to remember that the 14th amendment was written to make sure all children of formerly enslaved people, and people born into enslavement, were given the citizenship they were entitled to. It also was written to give the federal government the power to remove citizenship from any...
"and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" was meant to make sure that diplomats' children born in the US couldn't claim citizenship. It had nothing to do with the immigration status of parents.
#14thamendment #birthrightcitizenship
#14thamendment #birthrightcitizenship
December 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" was meant to make sure that diplomats' children born in the US couldn't claim citizenship. It had nothing to do with the immigration status of parents.
#14thamendment #birthrightcitizenship
#14thamendment #birthrightcitizenship
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I don't think people are really processing the fact that the sitting U.S. President and his team — and maybe the Supreme Court — and maybe half the Congress — want to force us to accept that we should obey the President and not the Constitution.
I don't know what news would be bigger than that.
I don't know what news would be bigger than that.
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I don't think people are really processing the fact that the sitting U.S. President and his team — and maybe the Supreme Court — and maybe half the Congress — want to force us to accept that we should obey the President and not the Constitution.
I don't know what news would be bigger than that.
I don't know what news would be bigger than that.
The gerrymandering debates, quite rightfully, have stirred up lots of talks about fairness.
As a Californian who supported our gerrymandering, I want to support states creating the following law: we pledge to stop gerrymandering when every state does the same.
It's the only way we get fairness.
As a Californian who supported our gerrymandering, I want to support states creating the following law: we pledge to stop gerrymandering when every state does the same.
It's the only way we get fairness.
December 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The gerrymandering debates, quite rightfully, have stirred up lots of talks about fairness.
As a Californian who supported our gerrymandering, I want to support states creating the following law: we pledge to stop gerrymandering when every state does the same.
It's the only way we get fairness.
As a Californian who supported our gerrymandering, I want to support states creating the following law: we pledge to stop gerrymandering when every state does the same.
It's the only way we get fairness.
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The Democratic Party's formula for the last 50 years has been "Let's be friendly with extreme wealth and maybe we can also get modest policy wins sometimes." The last 10 years and this year in particular should be conclusive proof of how badly this has failed. But we're stuck with it anyway
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The Democratic Party's formula for the last 50 years has been "Let's be friendly with extreme wealth and maybe we can also get modest policy wins sometimes." The last 10 years and this year in particular should be conclusive proof of how badly this has failed. But we're stuck with it anyway
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Trump and his rich boy allies are about to find out a few things, aren’t they? The Indiana Senate told them to kick rocks.
December 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Trump and his rich boy allies are about to find out a few things, aren’t they? The Indiana Senate told them to kick rocks.
I'm seeing Tidal pays the highest rates, any musicians on here able to speak to their experiences with it?
If I suddenly followed you and you can't figure out why, it's probably because I recognized you from Twitter in the old days.
December 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I'm seeing Tidal pays the highest rates, any musicians on here able to speak to their experiences with it?
Does anyone know of a music streaming service that pays artists fairly? I'd like to ditch spotify. Bandcamp is great and all, but it doesn't do streaming, and I want to be able to hear new music without first buying it.
December 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Does anyone know of a music streaming service that pays artists fairly? I'd like to ditch spotify. Bandcamp is great and all, but it doesn't do streaming, and I want to be able to hear new music without first buying it.