Vivian Leigh
@stopdropandroll.bsky.social
Transportation geek, cycling evangelist, hoping for a greener tomorrow. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Here in Paris I don’t search for the exit or startle when a car backfires. There’s sensible gun laws here and gun violence is few and far between. My heart ACHES for all the innocent children in the US bc of some antiquated law put in place centuries ago.
Sorry to tell my haters that my life is pretty perfect here and I’ve never been happier.
September 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Here in Paris I don’t search for the exit or startle when a car backfires. There’s sensible gun laws here and gun violence is few and far between. My heart ACHES for all the innocent children in the US bc of some antiquated law put in place centuries ago.
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I guess it’s his motherland
Nothing I can write makes this funnier than it already is.
March 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I guess it’s his motherland
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IS THIS STILL AVAILABLE in my nightmares
March 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
IS THIS STILL AVAILABLE in my nightmares
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I know the Apartheid Clyde jokes may be unfamiliar to folks not friendly with Black Twitter but I keep finding it odd that so much of the analysis re Musk’s behavior and goals is being framed through other systems of organized kleptocracy and supremacy and not via the one he comes from
February 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I know the Apartheid Clyde jokes may be unfamiliar to folks not friendly with Black Twitter but I keep finding it odd that so much of the analysis re Musk’s behavior and goals is being framed through other systems of organized kleptocracy and supremacy and not via the one he comes from
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some america first beers spotted in denmark:
January 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
some america first beers spotted in denmark:
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Wow. January has been the longest year.
January 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Wow. January has been the longest year.
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One of my good friends lost his house in the Eaton fire in Altadena. I know everything is bad right now, but consider buying them some basic necessities? www.amazon.com/registries/g...
January 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
One of my good friends lost his house in the Eaton fire in Altadena. I know everything is bad right now, but consider buying them some basic necessities? www.amazon.com/registries/g...
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Chicago Crystals. Lake Michigan on this day in 2016 on Throwback Thursday.
January 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Chicago Crystals. Lake Michigan on this day in 2016 on Throwback Thursday.
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How many Scaramuccis is this?
January 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
How many Scaramuccis is this?
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The Nazi punchings will continue until morale improves
January 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The Nazi punchings will continue until morale improves
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It’s still illegal to do in Germany. The 1st thing they told us when we got to Germany in study abroad was that we should never do it. That it wasn’t a joke. I watched neo-nazis march through Dresden in 2010. It’s hard to fathom being so spineless or self-deluding to pretend that’s not what this is.
January 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
It’s still illegal to do in Germany. The 1st thing they told us when we got to Germany in study abroad was that we should never do it. That it wasn’t a joke. I watched neo-nazis march through Dresden in 2010. It’s hard to fathom being so spineless or self-deluding to pretend that’s not what this is.
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They banned tick tock? The empty mechanical time that flattens the lived experience of the durée into a quantitative measure?
January 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
They banned tick tock? The empty mechanical time that flattens the lived experience of the durée into a quantitative measure?
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finally going to watch twin peaks. i don’t have a lot of time so i’m gonna cut to the good parts and start halfway through season 2
January 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
finally going to watch twin peaks. i don’t have a lot of time so i’m gonna cut to the good parts and start halfway through season 2
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as I stayed up and scrolled and logged into the live feeds of the creators I loved, I was filled with great sadness and loss of community I’ve built.
Tik tok is social media which means it’s powered by people connecting with each other, and tik tok fostered many communities. Dismissing it as a dumb dancing app tells me you’re deeply out of touch with the world (as well as a boring garden variety asshole)
January 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
as I stayed up and scrolled and logged into the live feeds of the creators I loved, I was filled with great sadness and loss of community I’ve built.
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Biden gets to destroy even more of the environment on his way out. I hate AI.
Joe Biden signs executive order to speed AI data center construction
Joe Biden signs executive order to speed data center construction
Developing new AI tools is an increasingly energy-hungry endeavor.
buff.ly
January 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Biden gets to destroy even more of the environment on his way out. I hate AI.
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Look it's none of my business but is Mark getting a divorce or something
January 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Look it's none of my business but is Mark getting a divorce or something
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I am so worried about my friends in LA. They’re running out of water to fight the fires, and have dwindling resources. Fuck the police.
For the last 5 years, LAPD has received 3x the budget of LAFD.
The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget.
When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.
The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget.
When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.
January 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I am so worried about my friends in LA. They’re running out of water to fight the fires, and have dwindling resources. Fuck the police.