An Angry Scientist

@anangryscientist.bsky.social

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Biotech professional, He/him. Interests are culinary arts, gardening, TTRPGs, history, and social justice. ACAB, love and solidarity to trans folks.

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Finished the final muslin for the “old jeans made new” pants, turns out the correct adjustment was 0.5” additional width. Marked and cut the corduroy, pretty happy with the usage once I accounted for the nap of the fabric.

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I was impressed as hell by the end of Centaurworld.

the whole ‘actually, killing the villain makes us just as bad as him’ trope had done incomprehensible damage to society and i’m not kidding

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The most honest "take" that anyone can write now is: "I have no idea what Democrats should do."

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OK Bluesky comrades, who can afford to donate at least $5 a month to @psabortionfund.bsky.social? They are an all-volunteer led abortion fund based in South Carolina. They do such good work. Will you join me as monthly subscribers? donorbox.org/support-the-... - they need a min of $10,000 a month.

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If, like me, you’re a brown USian & formed an impression of what European countries were like from white accounts, you’re in for a rude awakening if you actually travel there! Especially when not a tourist/accompanied by white-passing friends. Boy howdy they do not take kindly to the likes of us!

There is an American exceptionalism embedded in the idea that y'all think you can just pick up and leave and go wherever you want. It's cute you think you'd be welcomed. Americans aren't exactly popular in the world.

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Congrats to all the profs at elite law schools who loudly vouched for John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch when they were nominated. Hope you placed your students in some nice clerkships.

One of my favorite fusion recipes; take a chuck roast, prep it like you would pork butt for Carnitas, and add garlic, ginger and the masala for beef Nihari. I call it niharnitas; serve as tacos with fried onion crema and pickles turnips on flour tortillas/naan.

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abolish golf. environmental nightmare, only used as a networking tool for rich dicks, takes up public space that could be used communally. throw it in the fucking garbage

is there anything more sinister than golf

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Reiterating that the mask bans being proposed by both democrats and republicans throughout the US right now are not only designed to repress your first amendment rights to protest safely, but are also straight up eugenics which will kill the immunocompromised.

Just FYI we’re entering a summer Covid wave right now (especially western regions in the US); you can see it in the CDC wastewater plot here (and anecdotally a bunch of my friends are suddenly testing positive). www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

Wastewater COVID-19 National and Regional Trendswww.cdc.gov CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System, U.S. National trends

Desperately trying to find more time and energy for sewing, looking forward to the holiday weekend. Mark 2 muslin for the pants pattern I’m working on is coming along well. Already chomping at the bit to start on subsequent projects, it’s a problem.

Had a great day; got a steal on some seersucker shirting from a secondhand fabric store, made a kick ass southern-inspired dinner, then traced out the mark 2 muslin for the pants I’m working on.

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new shady peer review item just dropped: "everyone who's never had to depend on this person to actually do their job really enjoys working with them"

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*Mitch Hedberg voice* This used to be a drug dealer's car. It still is, but it used to be one also

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That's one way to disarm the police

The Supreme Court upholds a federal ban on gun possession for anyone subject to a domestic violence restraining order.

Supreme Court upholds federal ban on guns for domestic abuserswww.npr.org The decision was the first major gun ruling since 2022 when the high court broke sharply with the way gun laws had previously been handled by the courts.

Once again, if you work on building these awful programs or the infrastructure that lets them be developed, you suck and I hope every Lego and puddle of pet mess in the world finds its way under your feet in the dark of night.

The non-consensual duping of people's identities is easily one of the top most violative (and horrifying) trends to come out of the genAI space. Real 'breaking all of the norms that bind together any kind of human society' hours.

This thread is full of incredible works, and just goes to show the beauty folks are capable of. Needed it today; a little joy of creation.

ok we haven't done this in a while but let's do a SHOW AND TELL THURSDAY respond to this post (either in a reply or quote or both) with something you made that you're proud of. everything counts; you can show me a pie you made if you want. if you're selling it, link the shop. use alt text.

Any body else having a really hard time with their temper in this heat wave? I’ve been breaking new ground in career burnout for a while lately, but this week it’s been a lot harder to keep “go fuck yourself” behind my teeth when anyone asks me for something at the job.

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I loathe air conditioner shaming. It’s bizarre Puritan nonsense that gets vulnerable people killed in heat waves. (Did you know a lot of people who die in heat waves HAVE AC, but never turned it on?). Shut it down wherever you encounter it.

Interesting article to run prior to a weekend where we expect a devastating heat wave and label it as “climate solutions”

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Bitcoin consumes about 2.5% of US electricity, about the same as all residential cooling. An article decrying *that* electricity usage as a personal moral failing would be much less tone deaf.

Interesting article to run prior to a weekend where we expect a devastating heat wave and label it as “climate solutions”

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Add a little joy to your life with Georgie - Big Head Garfield, located in North Myrtle Beach, SC. Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/georgie-big-head-garfield-69983639/sc/north-myrtle-beach/head-butt-hotel-sc438/

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They're not gonna deport 20 million people. They're gonna deport the labor organizers, the guys who ask for raises, the guys who leave the pork processing plant to get a better job elsewhere. Our agriculture sector runs on immigrant labor and draconian immigration laws are about giving bosses power

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“Non-lethal” rubber bullet blinds a journalist in one eye, leads to blindness in the second, and causes dementia and now fatal traumatic brain injury. To be clear: a rubber bullet fired AT her HEAD, while she was flashing journalist credentials and not close to protestors or police. Fatally shot.

When cops shot Linda Tirado in the George Floyd protests, they destroyed one of her eyes with a rubber bullet. The subsequent brain damage is proving fatal. Linda needs funds for hospice Venmo: Linda-Tirado-3 PayPal: Bootstrapindustries@gmail Zelle: 806.433.6075

Police Blinded Her With a Foam Bullet. Suing Them Was When the Pain Beganrubberbullets.longlead.com When less-lethal weapons are misused, journalist Linda Tirado learned, there are no consequences — except for the people at the wrong end of the launcher.

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Gift article: U.N. Humanitarian Chief: World Leaders Are Failing Us www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/o...

Opinion | U.N. Humanitarian Chief: World Leaders Are Failing Uswww.nytimes.com They are breaking the compact between ordinary people and those in whom power is vested.

I love charcoal grilling so damn much. Would do it all summer if I could, it’s just so great any time.

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Another from BBC

I have lost count of how many stories I have read now of Palestinian fishermen being deliberately shot by zionist forces. It is a major tactic of their deliberate campaign of starvation.

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I haven't talked about Linda except in occasional flashes of rage. She sat on the other end of the phone with me during so many long nights. I did the same for her later, because combat ptsd and her ptsd were basically the same animal. I am having a hard time with her dying. Please help my friend.

Here is the update on Linda Tirado’s need for hospice from her blog

Story Thirty-Ninelindatirado.substack.com This time, it’s for Linda.

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Fuck.

I dont know if yall know @killermartinis.bsky.social over here, but there was just an update on her substack. She could use our help on this, her last, chapter. lindatirado.substack.com/p/story-thir...

Story Thirty-Ninelindatirado.substack.com This time, it’s for Linda.

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This is a campaign I support with all my heart. I have personally spoken to Noor (Abd Alrahman’s mom) and have had an open chat line with her for several months now. They are real people trying to survive in Gaza until they can get out. Please help them if you can 🙏🏻 The GFM is for leaving Gaza.

Please don't ignore my message, it may be the last thing I write, we are not okay, our only option is to evacuate outside the Gaza Strip, please help us any donation that can help 🙏🏼♥️ @noorhassan.bsky.social @sonofnoor2.bsky.social www.gofundme.com/f/save-noor-...

Save Noor Hassan and her family, organized by David Walkerwww.gofundme.com Nour and her sister Nasra from besieged Gaza are living in difficult conditions because o… David Walker needs your support for Save Noor Hassan and her family

Y’all VPN heads get at it

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This is the updated snitch line targeting trans people, and it's up and live now. bsky.app/profile/slig...

Updated snitch line for "Sex-based distinctions in privacy spaces" is up as well. It would be terrible if instead of bigoted Utahns reporting tall women/gender non-conforming people, others reported wild goose chases to waste oppressive resources. hotlineform.utah.gov/sex_basis_co...

Hotline Form | Errorhotlineform.utah.gov