Zac
@redpandasntofu.bsky.social
annoying vegan anti-automobile type. i make graphs for a living and might occasionally post one or two
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this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
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1m people allegedly in boston today. the scale of this is just crazy. i think record-breaking www.wcvb.com/article/more...
More than 1M descend on Boston Common for Pride, No Kings rallies
The Boston Pride Parade and No Kings march converged Saturday in downtown Boston.
www.wcvb.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
1m people allegedly in boston today. the scale of this is just crazy. i think record-breaking www.wcvb.com/article/more...
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Car use and meat consumption drive emissions gender gap, research suggests
- French study of 15,000 people shows men emit 26% more pollution due to eating red meat and driving more
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- French study of 15,000 people shows men emit 26% more pollution due to eating red meat and driving more
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Car use and meat consumption drive emissions gender gap, research suggests
The French study of 15,000 people shows men emit 26% more pollution due to eating red meat and driving more
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Car use and meat consumption drive emissions gender gap, research suggests
- French study of 15,000 people shows men emit 26% more pollution due to eating red meat and driving more
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- French study of 15,000 people shows men emit 26% more pollution due to eating red meat and driving more
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Everyone involved in this process, end to end, must face a sort of Nuremberg trial
NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA.
Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.
Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.
April 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Everyone involved in this process, end to end, must face a sort of Nuremberg trial
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I am apoplectic about this. The first thing you say about Ted Bundy is that he killed women, and then if you really feel like it you can talk about how charming he was or whatever. The first thing you say about RFK is that he’s pro-measles.
April 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I am apoplectic about this. The first thing you say about Ted Bundy is that he killed women, and then if you really feel like it you can talk about how charming he was or whatever. The first thing you say about RFK is that he’s pro-measles.
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Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved
There’s a certain kind of person who thinks Keynesian stimulus is “putting off” a necessary correction and I’m always amazed how many of them there are.
What if MAGA did the Great Leap Forward?
April 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved
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Bad day to post about anything besides everyone's tanking 401(k)s, but:
I have an illustrated piece on the life of a dairy cow, finally out in the world! The dairy industry is brutal. There's really no good reason to mass produce another mammal for its maternal milk
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
I have an illustrated piece on the life of a dairy cow, finally out in the world! The dairy industry is brutal. There's really no good reason to mass produce another mammal for its maternal milk
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The life of a dairy cow
The surprising truth about milk is hiding in plain sight.
www.vox.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Bad day to post about anything besides everyone's tanking 401(k)s, but:
I have an illustrated piece on the life of a dairy cow, finally out in the world! The dairy industry is brutal. There's really no good reason to mass produce another mammal for its maternal milk
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
I have an illustrated piece on the life of a dairy cow, finally out in the world! The dairy industry is brutal. There's really no good reason to mass produce another mammal for its maternal milk
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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i want nothing more than for jd vance to become a pariah whose name is a burden on him for the rest of his life.
JD Vance claims the Maryland father the Trump administration mistakenly deported to a slave prison in El Salvador wasn't "father of the year" bc he had "traffic violations," and says "we do not ask permission from far left Democrats before we deport illegal immigrants."
(He's talking about judges)
(He's talking about judges)
April 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
i want nothing more than for jd vance to become a pariah whose name is a burden on him for the rest of his life.
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Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.
March 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.
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The Trial of John Snow
"Yes, your honor, I did indeed remove the handle from the Broad Street Pump."
"Yes, I realize now it is immaterial that cholera is waterborne, not miasmatic."
"Yes, your honor, I plead guilty to directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes."
"Yes, your honor, I did indeed remove the handle from the Broad Street Pump."
"Yes, I realize now it is immaterial that cholera is waterborne, not miasmatic."
"Yes, your honor, I plead guilty to directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes."
March 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The Trial of John Snow
"Yes, your honor, I did indeed remove the handle from the Broad Street Pump."
"Yes, I realize now it is immaterial that cholera is waterborne, not miasmatic."
"Yes, your honor, I plead guilty to directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes."
"Yes, your honor, I did indeed remove the handle from the Broad Street Pump."
"Yes, I realize now it is immaterial that cholera is waterborne, not miasmatic."
"Yes, your honor, I plead guilty to directing people to believe one idea over another regarding health outcomes."
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oh is it bad when you put people out of work for political reasons
Fox News criticizes people celebrating Tesla's stock value decline because "there are 80,000 people employed by Tesla."
March 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
oh is it bad when you put people out of work for political reasons
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for a week or so during the election Vance was reminded by interviewers that he had once compared his running mate Donald Trump to Hitler. Vance assured us that he had changed his mind - but really seems like he changed his mind about Hitler, not Trump
"Europe is on the brink of civilizational suicide," US Vice President Vance told Fox News. "Countries don’t control borders, restrict free speech. If Germany takes in millions more incompatible migrants, it’ll destroy itself. America can’t save it."
March 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
for a week or so during the election Vance was reminded by interviewers that he had once compared his running mate Donald Trump to Hitler. Vance assured us that he had changed his mind - but really seems like he changed his mind about Hitler, not Trump
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everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
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i mean, the whole thing is that earnestly believing in anything — literally anything — is at odds with all of their worldviews. that's the thing that unites trump, musk, vance, miller, and most of the cabinet heads. they all think that principles, values, and beliefs are for suckers.
There’s not even like a coherent ideology anymore. It’s just “would this piss off people with actual earnest beliefs about the world? Yes? Okay do it.”
March 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
i mean, the whole thing is that earnestly believing in anything — literally anything — is at odds with all of their worldviews. that's the thing that unites trump, musk, vance, miller, and most of the cabinet heads. they all think that principles, values, and beliefs are for suckers.
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I LOVE MORALISTIC GARBAGE
I LOVE GLOBALISM
I LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN
AND THE ANTICHRIST WILL NOT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE
I LOVE GLOBALISM
I LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN
AND THE ANTICHRIST WILL NOT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE
it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality
February 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I LOVE MORALISTIC GARBAGE
I LOVE GLOBALISM
I LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN
AND THE ANTICHRIST WILL NOT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE
I LOVE GLOBALISM
I LOVE THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN
AND THE ANTICHRIST WILL NOT CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE
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The way we complain about egg prices and not the calamitous mass decimation of life forms from albatrosses to dolphins across the ends of the Earth or the billions of hens cooked alive in feeble attempts to stifle a pandemic arisen as a consequence of our greed says something about us, as a society.
Wow, finally happened: The average wholesale price for a dozen large white eggs has now broken $8, per USDA.
February 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The way we complain about egg prices and not the calamitous mass decimation of life forms from albatrosses to dolphins across the ends of the Earth or the billions of hens cooked alive in feeble attempts to stifle a pandemic arisen as a consequence of our greed says something about us, as a society.
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Nearly half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture.
Of this global agricultural land, 80% is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
Of this global agricultural land, 80% is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
February 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Nearly half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture.
Of this global agricultural land, 80% is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
Of this global agricultural land, 80% is used for livestock, despite meat and dairy making up a much smaller share of the world's protein and calories.
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this type of smug cynicism is corrosive to the very core of democracy
February 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
this type of smug cynicism is corrosive to the very core of democracy
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if the president can say “i don’t like the department of energy,” and within a week it’s closed, then the constitution means nothing, and the president’s entire claim to power is the loyalty of the military. either he is constrained by the constitution or he’s a dictator, there isn’t a middle ground
February 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
if the president can say “i don’t like the department of energy,” and within a week it’s closed, then the constitution means nothing, and the president’s entire claim to power is the loyalty of the military. either he is constrained by the constitution or he’s a dictator, there isn’t a middle ground
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Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
February 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
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At.
Gunpoint.
Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.
In any other country, we'd call it a coup.
Gunpoint.
Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.
In any other country, we'd call it a coup.
Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no.
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
edition.cnn.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
At.
Gunpoint.
Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.
In any other country, we'd call it a coup.
Gunpoint.
Musk is telling duly appointed and security cleared government officials that they will be shot if they don't turn over to Musk sensitive information to which he has no right.
In any other country, we'd call it a coup.
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We all like to yell at the Democrats, but it’s really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.
February 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We all like to yell at the Democrats, but it’s really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.
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That's all the more reason to do it
I would caution anyone entertaining this sentiment. Mass protests are likely to be dangerous. We no longer live in a country where the right to peacefully assemble exists for opponents of the regime.
We’re gonna have to march.
February 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
That's all the more reason to do it
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The most hysterical takes on 2015 were that Trump was a Nazi who would destroy the US economy and like... they were right to the last comma
It would be nice to see mainstream media acknowledge that every alarmist in their ranks about Trump and his henchmen has been correct, and every single "Let's all calm down" guy--a posture of blasé detachment that is consistently over-rewarded in legacy media--has called it wrong from day one.
February 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The most hysterical takes on 2015 were that Trump was a Nazi who would destroy the US economy and like... they were right to the last comma
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Just a guy watching tv and posting, with no sense that he’s personally responsible for massively disrupting most of the institutions involved and the lives of their personnel
January 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Just a guy watching tv and posting, with no sense that he’s personally responsible for massively disrupting most of the institutions involved and the lives of their personnel