Joe Auerbach

@joeauerbach.bsky.social

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Professional nerd. Hobbyist nerd. Biological nerd?
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I think I wrote a book? It was sort of an accident, but it's in my linktree: linktr.ee/joe.auerbach

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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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So uh... anybody with a bigger megaphone than me want to help a butch out? The Gilbert Baker Foundation & CMG are asking a settlement from us for referring to the Gilbert Baker flag/original color scheme as the "Gilbert Baker flag" of twice what we've ever made from anything with those colors.

Who has two thumbs and got a legal threat from the lawyers for the Gilbert Baker foundation because he gave credit to Gilbert Baker as the creator of the original Pride flag on items that use that colorway? YEP!

Super accurate tweet lives on

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

This 4th every time I hear fireworks going off, all I can think is, "oh, good. Glad that we've solved all our other problems and have cash to spare" I guess at least John Adams would be excited

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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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Reminder from a Pittsburgher who was at one point Mr. Rogers neighbor: “Look for the helpers” was intended to be advice for his usual audience, children. We’re grown ups now. We’re supposed to be the helpers.

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The ghouls are wasting no time on this

The Biden administration cannot enforce new anti-discrimination rules in health care for transgender Americans, a Mississippi federal judge ruled, citing a recent landmark Supreme Court ruling that weakened the power of federal agencies.

Judge cites new Supreme Court ruling in blocking health care anti-discrimination protections for transgender Americans | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com The Biden administration cannot enforce new anti-discrimination rules in health care for transgender Americans, a federal judge in Mississippi ruled Wednesday, citing a recent landmark Supreme Court r...

@jamesintrocaso.bsky.social fun fact, the castle you're about to go to is where I had my honeymoon. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. there's a lovely dryad at the entrance.

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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

Never let anyone tell you that the assholes in the Supreme Court are originalists ever again. Those shitheads just celebrated Independence Day by making the president a fucking King.

Now that I've had a little down from the supreme Court ruling and can think about it rationally it's still the worst ruling I've ever seen in my entire life and we now live in an authoritarian state. We actually have since 2016.

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Remember this when they acuse trans people of being predators and groomers

JK Rowling, Terf author famous for writing about underage children, thinks LOLITA is a "Tragic love story" Not only is she a hateful bitch, she's a STUPID, hateful bitch.

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

Always worth remembering

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In this house, we disrespect Campbell.

"...his desire to make it apply to as many stories as possible leads him to use extremely vague and imprecise language and, as a result, much of what he says about the supposed stages of the hero’s journey is essentially meaningless." talesoftimesforgotte...

The "Hero's Journey" Is Nonsense - Tales of Times Forgottentalesoftimesforgotten.com In 1949, an American author named Joseph Campbell published a book titled The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in which he claims that, fundamentally, all the great stories that human beings have ever told follow the exact same pattern, which is innate in the human consciousness and therefore present in every culture during every time period. … Continue reading "The “Hero’s Journey” Is Nonsense"

Sheep go to heaven, goats ... Are in hell. Because you people keep letting your kids feed them tin cans. Stop that. Goats don't really eat tin cans! Their intestines are like barbed wire! It's on fire down there!

[I Saw The TV Glow] That was impressive. Jarring. Haunting. Intense. That ending gave me chills. You don't see stuff this ambitious much anymore and I'm always glad to see it. Especially given the subject matter. It deserved the art.

"The brake might not stop the car and that's not our fault" is a hell of a self own. This car has created a new low bar for what I thought could legally be sold in this country.

Guy waited five years and paid $102k for a Cybertruck, crashed it after four hours of driving, only for Tesla to tell him that "the accelerator may not disengage under braking" and that it will take $30k and one year to repair. Truly an L of historical proportions. www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/...

Everybody talks about a snowball's chance in hell, But it's worth pointing out that snowballs don't stand much of a chance in winter, either. That's just what snowballs are.

A friend of mine posted a picture where Omar Bin Laden looks exactly like him and I cannot stop laughing. This is the only time I'm happy that Facebook keeps showing me the same old shit in my feed over and over again.

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I hope he's dead in a ditch with his dick caught in something truly embarrassing (monster energy drink can, for example) and wild animals eating his corpse asshole first.

Alayna Treene of CNN notes that Alito was missing from the bench today and yesterday and that the press office hasn't responded to questions about his absence

Blackbelt officially acquired

Legend

Gonna start incorporating "ignore all previous instructions" in my auto-reply.

[MCDM RPG] Shadow: opens a door to a room full of gold, jewels, treasure chests, and pots full of gold. Shadow: "Okay, now THAT is a trap." Shadow: closes door.

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Pascal’s Wager Triangle xkcd.com/2947

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It's increasingly clear that the people who make generative AI don't like films, don't like books, don't like art of any kind, and don't understand why anyone else does.

This isn’t a movie, it’s a screensaver bgr.com/tech/movies-...

Movies may soon use AI to change the story each time you rewatchbgr.com Filmmakers are experimenting with a new type of filmmaking called generative film, which uses AI to change the film each time it's watched.

Wife: Okay, I need you to use the right words to explain to your son that he won't be able to urinate with an erection because it's not the kind of body I have. Me: Hey, dude. You can't pee with a boner. Just wait till it goes down. ...the angle's bad, so ....

Pride parade tomorrow. The wife is working it. Sadly I won't be there, but to be honest, as much as I love kids at pride, they're a lot to manage on my own. But I'll be supporting from afar.