Maddy Love

Unsure about other states but here in Minnesota the state health department has a surveillance program where they do subtype samples from hospitalized patients. They've been doing this for well over a decade

Just a reminder that there's good in the world, and good people: this year's Project for Awesome raised more than 3.7 million bucks. My sincere thanks to everyone who donated, and to Hank and John and everyone at #P4A for doing this.

projectforawesome.com

Today's accidental coffee art is the #millenniumfalcon
#coffee
#starwars

At my local derby bout and saw the name of the junior derby group...and instantly thought of you @ursagets.excessively.gay

Hoping you're having a great day

Didn't they just do that with the nuclear safety people too?

Homemade mac n cheese, with some freshly made roast beef, BBQ sauce and crispy onions

Basically my fave dish from Noodles n company made at home

Someone fell asleep

a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it ALT: a drawing of a fist with a purple bracelet around it

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

What a nice beautiful & comfortable blanket! @minnesatan.bsky.social have the best merch #satan #Minnesota

I'm in #Minnesota, sitting in my car with the window down and sunroof open eating lunch in January.

This should not be normal.

A powerpoint title slide titled AccessiLoons Levi Dokken, he/him Mandy Temple, she/her Matt Axelson, he/they #SoccerForEveryBody: A Conversation on Accessibility and Inclusion. On the right side are a series of black grey, red, and teal triangles, with the accessiloons logo on a winged person in a wheelchair. In front of this screen are from left to right, is Levi (a white man in a wheelchair wearing a NM United soccer jersey), Matt (a white man with a NM United hat and a black T-shirt) and Mandy (a white woman with dark blonde hair, wearing a graphic t-ahirt). In front of them a woman wirh greying hair and a grey t-shirt.

Super happy to and proud to learn about how to build a more inclusive supporters group. Thank you to the AccessiLoons For putting this on #SoccerForEveryBody

#ISConIce

Just got home from work at 1130pm...had a small bowl of cereal.

Need #help finding local orgs i can support and work with to make a difference.

I don't just wanna bitch, I wanna work towards a better tomorrow & against the shit happening today

YouTube video by Center for Inquiry When Skeptics Disagree | Steve Novella

Steve’s CSICon talk is out! He talks about when and why skeptics disagree and how we should handle disagreements within the skeptical community.

youtu.be/D3z5kIANta0?...

New episode of #ThePitt tonight :)

Wait? Are you here already?

The lamination and deliciousness of kouign aman made by my local cottage bakery Albright's Delights

These are close to the most delicious things I have ever put in my mouth

#Kouign #bakery

There is a part of me relieved the bigots are trying to ban gay marriage in Idaho, and putting their racism on their sleeve. It's the part that holds out hope this country is better than this, and maybe this will be enough for voters to see just how bad things are/can get..& hope we can do better

To be clear, our opposition to these bills and to the cultural rhetoric that is justifying them isn’t rooted in a reflexive opposition to the positions of our traditional opponents. It’s not the case that because they’re for it, we must be against it. Rather, these attacks on the humanity and dignity of our fellow Americans are deeply rooted in religious disapproval. During debate over a Florida bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors and prohibit all trans people from using bathrooms that align with their gender, Rep. Webster Barnaby said, “This is the planet Earth, where God created men male and women female! … The Lord rebuke you, Satan, and all of your demons and all of your imps who come and parade before us.” An Ohio state representative, Gary Click, denied that his bill banning similar treatment was religiously motivated. But in a sermon he delivered four years ago, Click claimed that homosexuality and the idea that someone could be trans are the work of Satan, being used to undermine the family.

But lastly, and perhaps most importantly, our advocacy around these issues and our willingness to speak out is because of our commitment to each other as a community. Atheists, including our members and supporters, are far more likely than the average American to be supportive of, and indeed members of, the LGBTQ community. That isn’t to say that the support is universal. There are unquestionably atheists who want to believe that the advocates of these laws are merely concerned that young people are making potentially life-altering decisions about their medical care too quickly or too easily, and that there is some wide-ranging campaign by “political correctness” stifling important debates.

But that presumption of good faith is not warranted when the legislative “fix” they propose is criminalization—not just of incredibly rare medical interventions but also social transition, books involving LGBTQ characters, drag shows, and bathroom usage—and when the rhetorical justification includes comparisons to Nazi medical experimentation and pedophilic “grooming.” Pretending that their purported concerns are merely policy disagreements is to miss the forest for the trees and borders on willful blindness. That’s not a discussion, and it isn’t a good-faith policy debate. Rather, it’s the same dehumanizing and religiously motivated pushback directed at a tiny and vulnerable minority that we’ve seen for years anytime LGBTQ people gain more mainstream acceptance. It’s the same frantic calls to “protect the children!” from imagined threats that have been used for decades to justify overly broad and far-reaching legislative solutions to problems that don’t actually exist.

And it should give us all pause when people who we thought shared our values instead embrace—or, at the very least, excuse—the cruelty of extreme Christian nationalists who make no secret of their motivations and justifications for their actions.

I also wrote about this more than a year and a half ago in our members magazine.

"Why should atheists care about protecting the rights of trans people??" they ask.

Gee, such a mystery.

Don't fuck with #Tairn

#FourthWing #Empyrean

Haven't read just pure entertainment fiction in a bit. Loving this series.

Yeah I keep my feed as locked down as possible, and really only interact with my own feed and a few groups. I tend to stay out of pretty much anywhere else. FB is now essentially just the comments section of an early aughts internet bulletin board

stack of lab documents 8 inches high

Lab life....I have signed nearly every single one of these pages from 2022...being a lab supervisor is like practicing for closing on a house. I get to shred these all today now that the 2 year record retention window for 2022 is closed.

I'm assuming the #Greenland thing Trump is doing is a bid to give us more control and access to fossil fuels in the arctic and access to new shipping lanes that will be open year round as the climate warms.

Looking forward to attending the American Atheist conference for the first time :)

Looking forward to seeing you there!

10 days of work down, another 8 to go till my next day off. Fuck capitalism.

But like a live fish, I bet it slaps... #oldpeopleusingslang