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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 15h

Absolutely delightful

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com

Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 17d

The worst, the absolute worst

In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 17d

Why are you like this, Steve!?

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 21d

Oh my god, this explains everything

🎃 Taylor S. Pumpkins 🎃 @taylorschu.bsky.social · 22d

Maybe we are in the bad place because none of us forwarded those emails to 5 friends

Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 21d

Never miss a chance to remind people that what makes humans "special" is our ability to form effective communities

'We certainly weren't exceptional, but now we're the only ones left': In new PBS series 'Human,' anthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi explores how humans came to dominate Earth

In her new show, Ella Al-Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to global hegemony.

www.livescience.com

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · 25d

( was anyone actually championing "cancellation" as a tool? I never saw anyone campaigning to "cancel" anyone. I DID see people expressing critiques and opinions, and then their opponents crying "cancel culture!" to rally conservative opposition )

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Sep 6

I scream this in my head, like, once a week, then I flop over and distract myself with the first dumb YouTube video I find - recently, (new) Smosh

Amy Colleen (sewistwrites) @amycolleen.bsky.social · Sep 1

I just want to feel normal again! And have my brain intact! And be at the top of my game and get enough sleep and feel together and composed and have a gold pony of my very own and a unicorn that sneezes Skittles

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Aug 29

I needed this

Kiba @kiba.bsky.social · Aug 29

Find your sunshine

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Aug 29

Responsible people exist

Climate.gov will re-launch under new URL thanks to a secret team of web ninjas | CNN

A small group of writers and researchers are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline, including the climate.gov website.

www.cnn.com

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Aug 23

Yes, obviously

A solution to declining birth rates? More supportive men, economist finds

Low fertility rates in the U.S. and around the globe pose problems for economic growth.

www.axios.com

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · Aug 18

People weren’t healthier “back in the day.”

In 1960s, life expectancy was in the 60s vs. 79 today.

Testicular cancer? 95% fatal.
Today? 95% survivable.

Same with MANY cancers.
Infections. Vaccine-preventable illness.

We live longer & healthier lives today bc of science.

youtu.be/rDx7LrBiMH0?...

People were not healthier 60 years ago.

YouTube video by Andrea Love, PhD

youtu.be

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Aug 9

HUH

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 8

take heart in this fab essay and forthcoming book: archaeologists find that when empires fall, the powerful fare badly but the commoners fare better!

people want to cooperate and thrive. what happens next is still up to us.

aeon.co/essays/the-g...

The great myth of empire collapse | Aeon Essays

Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides

aeon.co

Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Jul 30

As a person with a chronic illness, I can tell you that I've almost *felt* my brain doing this calculation and deciding it can't allocate the resources required to, say, properly focus on doing my taxes

Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Jul 25

I love this show - so I'm sad, but it sounds like this will be one of the rare American TV shows that actually finishes its story with creative integrity

Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Jul 21

Somerville is the best

memsomerville.bsky.social @memsomerville.bsky.social · Jul 4

Care for an amusing election story? In #SomervilleMA we have an election underway for "Bike Path Mayor".

[Ahem: Community path]

www.nbcboston.com/news/local/s...

Cats are running for mayor of a Mass. bike path. Locals think it's ‘meow-velous.'

A group of cats are campaigning for Bike Path Mayor in Somerville. One promises to “Make Cats Outside Again,” another is part of the Com-meow-nist Party.

www.nbcboston.com

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Jul 14

WOW these comments tho

Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · Jul 14

just spent a week in Toronto and can confirm

nymag.com/intelligence...

The cover of the current issue of New York magazine, featuring a beaver throttling a bald eagle and the coverline "You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are"

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Jul 8

"the team gathered data from 253 populations across 121 primate species...
for 70 percent of the primates, either males or females could be at the top of the pecking order"

Alpha Male Primates a Myth, Researchers Find in New Study

New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more nuanced power dynamics in the relationships of our close relatives.

www.sciencealert.com

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Go Birds💚🦅 @okoyessmile.bsky.social · Jul 7

“Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed House Bill 25-1149 into law earlier this month to establish comprehensive statewide #BlackHistory #education standards for K-12 public schools.” Denver 7.

Good! We’ve had the Amistad law on the books here in Jersey for a while now! More states please!

New Colorado law establishes black history, education standards in public schools to commemorate Juneteenth Denver is seven books into a new state law that aims to ensure young Colorado receive a deeper understanding of black American history

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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · Jun 29

Do you ever feel a slight vibration in, say, your thigh, and assume it's your phone, only to find your phone isn't in your pocket, and has your thigh recieved a message, and if so, how on earth are you going to access it?

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Jul 1

I’m convinced that people like Zuckerberg do not get/actively dislike what it means to be human and are determined to inflict their terrifyingly inhuman fantasies of technology controlling our lives on the entirety of humanity

You don’t schedule meetings, it does.
You don’t organize your travel, it has already booked it.
You don’t wonder what job to apply for, it is already editing your résumé and simulating the interview.
You don’t ask what to wear, it saw your calendar and laid out your outfit.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Jul 4

There is no bond like the bond between two coworkers who are both annoyed by the same third coworker

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · Jul 4

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Jun 30

This is incredible

Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · Jun 30

The bar is high, but I think this is the dumbest anti-Zohran argument I've read so far www.nationalreview.com/2025/06/is-z...

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Jun 29

this is so real - every molecular biologist has some pathway they'll never forget because, like, it reminded them of a band name and they dissociated for a few minutes imaging what instrument each of the enzymes would play

Lysosomal Storage Diseases

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

youtube.com

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Jun 28

I love snapdragons, I just wish the rest of the plant was as pretty as the flowers :/

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Jess @tiredchaotic.bsky.social · Jun 28

I can smell the damp wood and hear the bird calls :)

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