Leon Elcock

they do this all of the time. They beat people and arrest them for celebrating.

“Our audience is Chuck Schumer. Why doesn’t the public think we’re cool?”

Like nah I want radical big hearted activists who have a deep love and desire to see the world better making technology.

Not these social-climbing, amoral, head-in-the-sand, “a better world is not possible,” mfing liberals.

If things go right, maybe in a century there could potentially be a new medicine that helps some people with something, that’s why we need to do all the most predictable things and never be brave.

Feels like a huge waste of time.

Living on the copium of future fame and breakthroughs. Hubris-maxxing, if you will.

I don’t buy any of the bs about bio being good for the world. Can’t be without massive change in approach. Tech advancement in and of itself is luxury issue imo. All the possible benefits are all far out, speculative, intangible.

What jobs can molecular biologists do that give a feeling of pride?

This start-up shit is cooked. This certain social milieu of actors just continually moves in ways I personally find disgusting and despicable.

It's core to the entire tech project to believe that technical solutions will fix social problems.

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

same along racial lines.

One of the big asymmetries in US politics is how Republicans getting more votes from men is a major crisis for the Democratic party that must be addressed, perhaps by abandoning some values, while Democrats getting more votes from women is a nonissue for the Republican Party, not worth discussing.

Absolutely this! Work is the *primary form of discipline* in our society, y’all. Notice the first thing the regime did was to fire, defund, or “investigate” workers & workplaces they viewed hostile, both in private & public sector spaces.

I think this is why unions can be so important. With a union at your back, you feel a lot better about saying no

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

When I say Steven Miller will face no tribunals etc, many people are furious at me. But I am correct because the current system would have to evaporate for this to happen and there's little evidence that people want to fully destroy the system. They want to tweak it.

TRANS PEOPLE ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE

Meanwhile, the Israeli army is now destroying the aid they refuse to allow to be distributed to people they are deliberately starving to death.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Ikr that one scene with music was absolutely amazing

a lot of academics mad in the quotes ( as they should be )

@sassycrass.bsky.social died homesless

millions distributed to have white dudes study that work only to make racist quizzes

And I’ve been asked to work for free to save those centers

Meanwhile I ALWAYS had a day job

We said something

One of the most impactful scenes I’ve witnessed. My jaw was on the floor. Tears welled in my eyes. The inarticulable translated through song.

And the moment has a sound bed beneath it. It was hard to hear in the theater but clearer on our home system. It’s the aural texture of the abuse, the pain, the trauma. It becomes the rhythm section for his singing. Literally showing what the blues is.

Loved that scene.

They hold a religious belief in nation-states that I do not at all share.

Spoke to some folks about bioweapons and biosecurity. These people are so different from me. Worried about terrorists? I’m worried about state violence!

Philando Castile should be here today—celebrating another birthday and watching his daughter grow up. Instead, his now 13-year-old daughter is spending another year without her father, and a community is reeling without his presence.

i thought we were all in the mid to late 20s. y’all were grown in 2008? i was about to graduate from 5th grade!