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Doctor Science ❌👑#NoKings2 Oct18

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scientist, mom, writer, fangrrrl. Tikkun olamnik. She/her mostly because I'm old & lazy. Re-posts are not endorsements, nor do they always make sense.

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Doctor Science ❌👑#NoKings2 Oct18 @doctorscience.bsky.social · Jun 6

New pinned 📌 post:
To get pictures of my cat, press 👉 #Purrcy 👈.
To get my liveblog of the latest @indivisible.org weekly update, press 👉 #WhatsThePlan 👈, choose "See #WhatsThePlan posts by user", then click the "latest" column.

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 1h

Need more spooky frogs. With totally accurate skeletons.

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it's an inflatable frog costume but black with a white skeleton painted on it which is totally accurage

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1h

“Do you know how to read?”
“No. It is one of the black arts.”
He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 2h

Of fucking course they fucking dropped Marwan Barghouti from the prisoner release list.

Who is Marwan Barghouti? Marwan Barghouti is the most beloved politician in Palestine. He has been in Israeli prison for over 20 years and has continued to advocate for a two-state solution even behind bars.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 3h

I was sometimes an obnoxious student. In (college) Spanish class we were asked to write an essay about ‘the world of my childhood.’ Mine began: The world of my childhood was approximately spherical. It had seven continents and two polar ice caps. In many respects it resembled the world of today.

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Doctor Science ❌👑#NoKings2 Oct18 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 2h

is there a way to buy non-amazon epubs? I read on a kobo ereader, you see ...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2h

How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan?

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 7h

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts!

Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking!

Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November.

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a woman with short bown hair, glasses, and tassel earrings, wears a purple KN95 and looks cool as hell in her biology is bigger than binaries shirt, in orange

a woman with green glasses takes a selfie lookin' cool as hell in her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt. She's also got ice cream, that lucky dog.

a woman with long brown hair and glasses hangs out in the back yard with her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt

A man with a hat and sunglasses stands in hero-pose with his biology is bigger than binaires shirt (orange)

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Doctor Science ❌👑#NoKings2 Oct18 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 2h

There's a lot of debate about how sauropod digestive systems worked, but this is one of the favored theories!
Because ... there isn't enough fossil dino poop, if they pooped in BIG lumps. But if it was pellets, that would explain it

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Skeletal Viking Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight in Things I've Yelled At The Dogs, An Occasional Series: "You get VERY EXPENSIVE dog food, there is NO NEED to eat mushroom manure!"

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Nekrởtzar @nekrotzar.bsky.social · 2h

ICE wasn’t prepared to face amphibious units.

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Mallory Glass @mglaz.bsky.social · 2h

slate.com/news-and-pol...

How We Used Laughter to Topple a Dictator

Excerpted from Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow...

slate.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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GONZO the ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 2h

Behaviores Report: yez, once agin, 100% goode and perfikt

Orange and white cat, 100% good and perfect

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Tzfardea Tzedek 🐸 @jsx.bsky.social · 2h

A meme image of Marco Rubio whispering to Trump, captioned:

"A third frog has hit Portland"

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 2h

anyway good night

Fluffy gray tabby asleep in yesterdays sunbeam.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 2h

Just got reminded that I wrote a song many years ago called "I Am So Smart"

The first line was, "I got a PhD in being me"

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MaAAAAAAARGH 🧟‍♂️ Reeve @cmraman.geek.org · 3h

One of my students used to collect rattlers at Castle Rock and keep them in his basement. This lasted until his mom found out.

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Doctor Science ❌👑#NoKings2 Oct18 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 2h

no one who is ACTUALLY cool thinks that

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 2h

Octopus @ 3982m. Casper lives this far down I think? Idk if that's what this one is. @nautiluslive.org #CookIslands #MarineLife

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Tiff Hudson @tiffhudson.com · 9h

Kudos to Native Plant Guy for freezing when you said Stop.

My parents were sitting on opposite sides of a campfire when Mom said, "Tom, don't move." Dad jerked around in his chair and said, "What? What?" really loudly, nearly pulling the pin on the skunk grenade that had walked up behind him.

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Jess G. @atomicakita.bsky.social · 9h

I possibly cemented an already eccentric reputation at work when discovery of an (adult and sizeable) prairie rattler sitting just off a very busy path in a building we were working in caused an outburst of "AWWWWWWWW LOOKA THA NOPEROPE".

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Lars Eric Holm @leholm.bsky.social · 8h

This is a r-shirt I gifted my youngest some years back — because of “trash panda” — and it’s one of her favorite shirts.
I personally especially like “sea flap flap”

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 4h

Worth a friendly reminder that the next set of nation-wide No Kings protests are set for October 18th.

There's probably one in your area.

I am not generally a crowds or protests sort of person, but there's one in my town and I'll be at it on the 18th.

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 5h

I strongly suspect that trump thinks basically everyone in trump states is a loyalist and everyone in blue states is an enemy.

which sounds ridiculous, but he is really that ignorant and uncurious.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7h

From a strategic perspective, I'm struck by how the Trump administration seems to view its strategy as using 'red states' to hold down 'blue states' but the actual gap between Illinois and Texas is fairly small - IL is D+6, TX is R+6 or so. These aren't even 55/45 states, they're both 53/47 states.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 5h

Toad walked up and down a few times. The seeds did not start to grow.

Toad put his head close to the ground and said loudly, “Now seeds, start growing!”

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