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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 9h

looking at the MacArthur fellows and what a gem Matt Black is… truly amazing work documenting the land that made me, the land that feeds you- check out his work if you don’t know him

www.mattblack.com/the-valley

The Central Valley — Matt Black

www.mattblack.com

JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 10h

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 12h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 17h

central valley the best valley

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 23h

oh hell yeah, you made it to the greatest city in america!

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 1d

it’s called a thirst trap, grandpa

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, we all allowed the country to turn into a panopticon and use unlimited black sites and torture without any consequences- I think that really was an intentional table-setting for eventual domestic policies against the left

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 1d

he absolutely stood and clapped when he heard ‘diversity is not your strength’

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 2d

this is all you need to know about our current moment.. the only thing Id add is that they all think THEY are meritorious and anyone who has worked hard is DEI/woke

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

this is a lazy old man leading lazy people. this is why they love the internet and AI. no need to learn anything. you are a quick google away from winning this argument, and the next. no need to learn how to draw just use grok. "there's a crisis in physics" -- i heard it on youtube. boneheaded

JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 3d

No one has a single shred of dignity anymore. Can you imagine writing this? Taping this up?
It’s all top-down: deeply unserious people with no dignity or ability to feel shame, free of any accountability, tearing the foundation out of the country. Let’s see how it works out!

Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 3d

THE RADICAL LEFTISTS HAVE KILLED OUR BUSINESS
[also we got bought out by private equity who shuttered the store and fired everyone]
BUT IT WAS MOSTLY THE RADICAL LEFTISTS
also can we have a federal bailout 🥹

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 3d

one of my favorite moments in film- driving a tiny car that you ripped the seat out of into a light pole at light 50 mph and everyone hopping right out!

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 3d

That’s almost verbatim the same life advice I give my students when they’re spiraling over an MCAT or grades and in such a rush for the next thing- your life will be far more wild than you can think, my imagination is far too limited!

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 4d

may i introduce you to Clarence Thomas?

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 5d

terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 6d

god damn, roasted you like when Calvin dresses up like his dad

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 7d

The one thing Lincoln’s Second Inaugural gets right is that a lot of us are very sick people who will ensure that everyone pays a heavy price for their selfishness

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 7d

And among other reasons, a deal is never a deal with these people. Look at how he has treated trade partners. There will always be new asks. The time to say no is now, and in solidarity, before you rewire your institution to something unrecognizable such that saying yes to new demands is a given.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 7d

It's simply ending the partnership between government and academia that drove the most successful era of science anywhere ever. There's no eternal rule that required this system, it was a just a specific, creative innovation that worked. It seems wr will learn its value the hard way now.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve been reading since the SF weeklies in the 90s- of course we had to get in on this!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 8d

the president literally mumbling ‘you mean the pictures i’m being fed on tv aren’t real??’ after sending real troops against citizens

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 9d

i love the flight the gun is supposed to have made from a biker shooting to FBI who matched it to going back to biker who is killed and buried then has a funeral? where it’s given to his daughter? then the uncle gives it to his buddy at a key point just for it to fall back into biker hands

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 9d

underestimated: how quickly Trumps mind would deteriorate and how they clearly just spoonfeed him AI videos all day, real life Death of Stalin in real time and they just keep installing more gold in his office to keep him happy while they attempt to recreate the Antebellum

JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 9d

a stubborn insistence to find ‘a way to win’ within the rules being arbitrarily set and rarely followed by your opponent.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 10d

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 10d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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JT Hendrix @bmorechemistry.bsky.social · 9d

weird- i figured the first interview he’d give would be to Rumble or OANN.. maybe just a sit down with Grok and send those laugh-cry emojis back and forth? can’t believe you walked from such a serious and esteemed newsman like that!

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