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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 16h

Someone should put together a video of all the times he’s said he’s not aware of a major national issue.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 16h

I’m very very frightened!

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 1d

Dudes, I’ve lived in Houston since 1994 and we’ve been in traffic purgatory since then.

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 4d

Has anyone else noticed that lined running shorts are actually a Klein bottle?

Photo of an inside out pair of line running shorts that appears to have one continuous surface between the lining and the outside fabric, a structure hypothetically, only possible in four dimensional space.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 5d

We need to stop viewing our age as exceptional. People (including scientists) have been passionately wrong about the natural world for at least the history of the western world. As long as inquiry persists error gets corrected. What we need to advocate is continuing inquiry with minimum quackery.

Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

www.nytimes.com

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 8d

But it’s just for practice.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 8d

A lot of things are terrible but here is a small wonderful kindness.

These hermit crabs are using trash as homes. He’s fixing that | CNN

One night while documenting wildlife, photographer Shawn Miller discovered hermit crabs living in trash. Now, he’s on a mission to swap their plastic homes for proper shells with his conservation proj...

www.cnn.com

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 8d

Everyone who heard about Project 2025

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 8d

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun”

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 9d

It’s not that no one cares, is that’s everyone knows. But the funniest part of this news is the idea of asking Ken Paxton to investigate someone else’s corruption.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 12d

I don’t think so, because you know where the glutes actually are.

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 12d

Was just looking up an exercise (not with an AI search) and the AI results summary told me to focus on my front glute. I don’t think I learned about that one in anatomy class.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 14d

“Sapphire coated Jolly Ranchers” wins the science communication award of the week.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 17d

@drmlb.bsky.social

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 18d

That sets a new standard.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 19d

It’s a look, that’s for sure.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 19d

What it’s like teaching school in Texas.

I'm the Abilene ISD superintendent. Don't call my teachers 'demons'

"We can’t win in public ed anymore," writes Abilene ISD Superintendent John Kuhn. "If I make it to December, it’s gonna be a miracle."

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 21d

Also I just read @bethcato.bsky.social’s new book “A House Between Sea and Sky” and it was just the comfortable, comforting book for a week like this one.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 25d

@clclark.bsky.social The Unbroken is on this list!

Great Fantasy Novels With Unlikely Heroes

www.nytimes.com

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks for pointing out! There’s so much cool science everywhere, definitely including bird world.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · Sep 7

The most surprising thing about this is that 50 years ago it was only half. The golden age some people hearken back to never was.

Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hits the nail on the head: “Who is going to be checking the panties to be sure the right potty is used? …Will they hire someone already accused of checking panties?”

Yeah, the Texas Legislature passed a bathroom bill. But who'll enforce it?

Who'll make sure that your genitalia matches the sign on the door?

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · Sep 6

@therealfitz.com do you have badge commentary? :)

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · Sep 6

Why people think politicians are corrupt: The Texas Senate voted against delaying a groundwater grab on the same day the company behind it hired one of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s top advisors as a lobbyist. Also hired: a key senator’s ex-staffer, & a former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Greg Abbott.

Company behind East Texas water grab hires Dan Patrick-linked lobbyist

Conservation Equity Management hired Allen Blakemore, a political consultant to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, on the same day the legislation hit the Senate floor.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

Some people call her Maurice too.

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