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Scott Barolo

@sbarolo.bsky.social

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he • undistinguished professor of biology, PhD program director 🧪• not representing my employer • ill-qualified to recommend myself to strangers • hearing impaired • romance & other 📚 • #9ReplyGuys • no terfs

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · Nov 18

Uhh major institutions are starting to follow me, so let me say again:
This Account Is Almost Entirely Nonsense, Foolishness and Shenanigans

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 13h

Plant-based nicotine? What’ll they think of next

Poster ad for an e-cigarette claiming “100% Plant-Based Nicotine”

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 2d

He looks like he can hear you

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 2d

haha his little cardigan. lil picardi-cardi. picardigan.

jean-luc picard from TNG wearing a starfleet uniform in cardigan form

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

as always, the most accurate summation of modern politics ever created

comic from webcomicname.com, "different"

panel 1: pink blob creature: "I want things to be different"

panel 2: creature smashes everything

panel 3: creature stands in wreckage: "oh no"

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 2d

He looks like he can hear you

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 2d

haha his little cardigan. lil picardi-cardi. picardigan.

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 2d

Dante's seven factors of authentication

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 5d

If dogs are people—and they are—one month ago

Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations!

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 6d

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 6d

Wait, Tyler Cowen has been writing about how to find virgins since 2009 while he was a professor at George Mason University

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 7d

i look like i'm taking notes in this meeting but really i'm writing this

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 7d

I have stumbled on a cure for despair: set up a bunch of advising appointments with first-year PhD students.

Overall I was blown away by how mature and healthy they are. Motivated, empathetic, and brave enough to show vulnerability. Sure they’re anxious, and weak on time management, but who isn’t?

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 7d

We are not going to form a social consensus until we know what we believe in and then put our tits on and go get it. Get a fucking rudder and put it in your hand.

We don't have a social consensus. Criticially think your way into understanding where you draw the line, and then don't give an inch.

C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 7d

I'm gonna shamelessly cherry-pick this quote:

"Despite understanding themselves as critical thinkers, reactionary centrists are conformists at heart. And they are so unmoored in our current age because, increasingly, there is no social consensus for them to conform to."

That's it right there.

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AuDHD Andrew @ak0.bsky.social · 7d

People were *big* mad about banning indoor smoking. People were *big* mad about seatbelts being mandatory. People are always gonna be mad about something, if you're not willing to make people mad you're never gonna get shit done.

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 8d

yeah that one sneaks up on ya

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 8d

Some of y’all really fell for the okie doke of treating “wokeness” as a slur and turning around to tell marginalized communities to STFU because according to you fighting for our rights was “identity politics” and costs votes.
Now look you got the military on the streets like Pinochet

a man with a beard is talking to another man in a room .

Alt: a man with a beard is talking to another with the caption “congratulations you played yourself”

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🎃 Cat-O-Lantern Partsch Conlan 🎃 @catconlan.net · 8d

when I worked in an independent bookstore, the owner told me the most stolen book was one about getting your first period and if I saw anyone walking out with it, I should just let them go.

🎃Spooky Emily🎃 @emmy.baby · 8d

Okay, funny bookstore category

Book section labeled "Most Stolen Books"

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 8d

💯. Running errands together is intimacy, it’s a love language

Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 8d

wait a minute that is freakin amazing

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · 8d

Where I’m posting from

𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · 9d

Art by • Danny Flynn

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · Oct 8

Doing Octoblerone, where I eat toblerones every day for a month and draw absolutely nothing.

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haunted mentions @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 8d

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Scott Barolo @sbarolo.bsky.social · Jun 28

How did BBC Firth/Ehle Pride and Prejudice AND Ang Lee / Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility AND Root/Hinds Persuasion AND CLUELESS all come out in the same year?
And how can we get back to 1995? The definitive Northanger Abbey adaptation has yet to be made

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Alt: Alicia Silverstone in Clueless (1995)

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 8d

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one

I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things

It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

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SeaFlowerSpins @seaflowerspins.bsky.social · 9d

Off the loom this morning - saltmarsh. Mother yarns are handspun Shetland, and the tresses are from the Australian Tapestry Workshop. Herdwick & Nth Ronaldsay handspun in the sky.
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#handspunyarn #australianspinnersandweavers #canberraspinnersandweavers #australiantapestry #australian #craft 🧶

A small tapestry of a Scottish saltmarsh, about 20cm wide and 25cm tall. The marsh in the foreground is yellow-green shot with shades of russet brown, with a loch behind reflecting the sky. Hills rise behind the loch under a grey sky. The piece is an exploration of colour and an attempt to capture the wild beauty of Ardgour. It’s also an exploration of weaving technique as I prep for a larger tapestry.

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