David Nash
@dpnash1.bsky.social
Pokes at computers to pay the bills, does things like amateur astronomy, nature walks, reading, and cooking for fun. Used to poke at NMR samples to pay bills. Long-term polyfi relationship with 2 adults and has 4 awesome children. He/him.
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Don’t fake a disability. But much more important: don’t assume someone else is faking because they don’t look like your stereotype of what someone with a disability looks like. And don’t assume their abilities are the same every day (or even every hour). Disabled people are not the problems here. 😒
December 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Don’t fake a disability. But much more important: don’t assume someone else is faking because they don’t look like your stereotype of what someone with a disability looks like. And don’t assume their abilities are the same every day (or even every hour). Disabled people are not the problems here. 😒
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remember when some of y'all were welcoming her to the resistance ... please, next time she mildly criticizes trump, please remember she's still the enemy, trying to hurt my family specifically. and they aren't gonna stop with minors.
This is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill. Today she claimed, "For far too long, children have been sexually exploited under the malicious falsehood of so-called gender-affirming care."
The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors.
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
remember when some of y'all were welcoming her to the resistance ... please, next time she mildly criticizes trump, please remember she's still the enemy, trying to hurt my family specifically. and they aren't gonna stop with minors.
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The front of this year’s holiday card from our family… ❤️🎄🐕🦺
December 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The front of this year’s holiday card from our family… ❤️🎄🐕🦺
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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Ich hope thou knowest that thou art a miracle. Your being heere doth make the worlde a bettir place. Plese be kynde to yourselfe. Give helpe when you kan, and aske for helpe when you neede.
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Ich hope thou knowest that thou art a miracle. Your being heere doth make the worlde a bettir place. Plese be kynde to yourselfe. Give helpe when you kan, and aske for helpe when you neede.
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This.
I would pick (a) because I like the look of it, but I've never actually written the whole thing out. eV for the win.
I would pick (a) because I like the look of it, but I've never actually written the whole thing out. eV for the win.
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This.
I would pick (a) because I like the look of it, but I've never actually written the whole thing out. eV for the win.
I would pick (a) because I like the look of it, but I've never actually written the whole thing out. eV for the win.
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Okay, Bluesky poll time!
The proper spelling of this energy unity is:
○ Electron volt
○ Electron-volt
○ Electronvolt
○ All these spellings are okay
○ This is a made-up unit. Physicists can GTFO
114 votes · 23 hours left
The proper spelling of this energy unity is:
○ Electron volt
○ Electron-volt
○ Electronvolt
○ All these spellings are okay
○ This is a made-up unit. Physicists can GTFO
114 votes · 23 hours left
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Okay, Bluesky poll time!
The proper spelling of this energy unity is:
○ Electron volt
○ Electron-volt
○ Electronvolt
○ All these spellings are okay
○ This is a made-up unit. Physicists can GTFO
114 votes · 23 hours left
The proper spelling of this energy unity is:
○ Electron volt
○ Electron-volt
○ Electronvolt
○ All these spellings are okay
○ This is a made-up unit. Physicists can GTFO
114 votes · 23 hours left
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1. This is really cool, great idea
2. Who came up with these reaction choices, my sophomore organic text?
#chemchat
www.organicdivision.org/2025-organic...
2. Who came up with these reaction choices, my sophomore organic text?
#chemchat
www.organicdivision.org/2025-organic...
2025 Organic Reaction Championship - ACS Division of Organic Chemistry
www.organicdivision.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
1. This is really cool, great idea
2. Who came up with these reaction choices, my sophomore organic text?
#chemchat
www.organicdivision.org/2025-organic...
2. Who came up with these reaction choices, my sophomore organic text?
#chemchat
www.organicdivision.org/2025-organic...
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One of the biggest impacts I’ve seen from the unproven idea that people are wrongfully using disability accommodations is that people stop trusting people with disabilities and in fact further restrict, remove, and demonize accommodations for people with disabilities in general
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
One of the biggest impacts I’ve seen from the unproven idea that people are wrongfully using disability accommodations is that people stop trusting people with disabilities and in fact further restrict, remove, and demonize accommodations for people with disabilities in general
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Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Period.
This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
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Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!
NASA's pix of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS are now up science.nasa.gov/solar-system...
This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
This is the HiRISE/MRO image ⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Just want to emphasize here that this is an image of an INTERSTELLAR COMET taken by a camera orbiting MARS. Space is so cool!
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Since people asked, my top places for trans people right now are France, Australia (parts), Canada (parts), Spain (though politics there are tenuous), Iceland, Uruguay.
It's being reported that New Zealand has banned puberty blockers for transgender youth. I removed New Zealand from my recommendations to families fleeing a while back after the far right saw a surge in power in the country.
Sad day for NZ trans youth.
Sad day for NZ trans youth.
November 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Since people asked, my top places for trans people right now are France, Australia (parts), Canada (parts), Spain (though politics there are tenuous), Iceland, Uruguay.
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My problem here is not that GenAI can't give you formal answers to specific questions: it very much can. My problem is that the presentation of formal answers is not an aid to interpretation nor does it actually teach you fuck all. You need an expert to interpret what you're reading here.
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
My problem here is not that GenAI can't give you formal answers to specific questions: it very much can. My problem is that the presentation of formal answers is not an aid to interpretation nor does it actually teach you fuck all. You need an expert to interpret what you're reading here.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I loved this piece from @juliametraux.bsky.social on Elon and Aspie Supremacy.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I loved this piece from @juliametraux.bsky.social on Elon and Aspie Supremacy.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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One of the things most quietly grieved amongst practitioners is the half-century of history and work in learning systems and technologies which have historically been categorized as “AI”, and they’ve all been run over by LLMs, and by the hype cycles the industry has *built* around LLMs. A huge loss.
There are quite a few ethical and justice oriented AI people who talk about having lifelong love for a vision of AI that is being trashed by the current thing, and I wonder if any of those positive visions have been articulated somewhere? What is it ppl think AI is supposed to be instead of this?
November 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
One of the things most quietly grieved amongst practitioners is the half-century of history and work in learning systems and technologies which have historically been categorized as “AI”, and they’ve all been run over by LLMs, and by the hype cycles the industry has *built* around LLMs. A huge loss.
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For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.
Alice Wong
Alice Wong had an outsized impact on Disability justice. As a community organiser, activist, mentor, and co-conspirator, as writer, editor, and friend, she is irreplaceable.
nicolagriffith.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.
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Saturn’s rings remain disconcertingly thin
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Saturn’s rings remain disconcertingly thin
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I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
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NEWS FLASH Oregon: Newport City Hall meets Wednesday (11/12) on a proposed ICE detention center.
Indivisible + immigrant rights groups will be there
—peaceful and prepared.
Statewide solidarity:
❌🧊 NO ICE in Newport.
❌🧊 NO ICE in Oregon.
❌🧊 NO Fear in Our streets.
❌🧊 #AbolishICE.
Indivisible + immigrant rights groups will be there
—peaceful and prepared.
Statewide solidarity:
❌🧊 NO ICE in Newport.
❌🧊 NO ICE in Oregon.
❌🧊 NO Fear in Our streets.
❌🧊 #AbolishICE.
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
NEWS FLASH Oregon: Newport City Hall meets Wednesday (11/12) on a proposed ICE detention center.
Indivisible + immigrant rights groups will be there
—peaceful and prepared.
Statewide solidarity:
❌🧊 NO ICE in Newport.
❌🧊 NO ICE in Oregon.
❌🧊 NO Fear in Our streets.
❌🧊 #AbolishICE.
Indivisible + immigrant rights groups will be there
—peaceful and prepared.
Statewide solidarity:
❌🧊 NO ICE in Newport.
❌🧊 NO ICE in Oregon.
❌🧊 NO Fear in Our streets.
❌🧊 #AbolishICE.
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Lots of folks posting pix of aurorae tonight, as far south as Colorado at least. It's clouded here but I hope y'all can get a glimpse!
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Lots of folks posting pix of aurorae tonight, as far south as Colorado at least. It's clouded here but I hope y'all can get a glimpse!