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My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.

Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

someone explain in terms a starving five year old can understand what this supreme court order means bc it sounds like more starving

your honor, every single crunchwrap is more supreme than this court

I just keep thinking “Elon Musk just got a trillion dollars”

ACC Commission helps NE GA Food Bank keep Athenians fed as SNAP delay continues | Athens Politics Nerd The ACC Commission has agreed to give $150,000 to the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia as some Athenians continue to wonder when they will receive food

A food emergency is spreading across Athens in the wake of the federal freeze of SNAP food assistance benefits.

As Athenians wait for a fraction of their normal benefits this month, the local gov has stepped up to help fund the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia.
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No major flu deaths surge expected in Scotland after 80% vaccine uptake and in cleaner hospitals The national flu immunisation programme for 2025 to 2026 slideset Professor John Robertson OBA The above is from the Over 5 million under 65s with a long-term health condition could miss out flu va…

No major flu deaths surge expected in Scotland after 80% vaccine uptake and in cleaner hospitals talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/07/n...

idk who needs to hear this but the President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.

A Reuters headline saying “Trump Administration asks Supreme Court to let it withhold SNAP funding”

Pleeeeeease let us starve people, Robe Daddies? Pretty please? 🥺

Supreme Court Issues Emergency Order To Block Full SNAP Food Aid Payments The food program serves about 1 in 8 Americans, mostly with lower incomes.

The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. airlines cancel more than 1,000 flights on first day of cuts tied to government shutdown.

People keep telling me that GenAI is the inevitable future but if that’s true, why does it need so many government subsidies and other assistance ? (rhetorical)

Farmers' Almanac says it will cease publication after 208 years, citing financial challenges A 208-year-old publication that farmers, gardeners and others keen to predict the weather have relied on for guidance will be publishing for the final time.

Farmers' Almanac says it will cease publication after 208 years, citing financial challenges

Even Maine (which is the most conservative of the northeastern states) approved red flag gun laws and denied increasing voter ID and absentee voting restrictions. The latter two proposals were republican backed

Someone’s in denial about Georgia, PA, and VA lol

Republicans have officially caused the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

Folks aren’t getting paid, families are wondering if they'll have food on the table — and now they’re closing off airspace right before the holidays. (1/2)

the portly tortoiseshell cat marzipan standing atop a sofa on her hind legs, holding onto the doorframe she's leaning on

hi can we play Attacking You

Listen to more Nina Simone.

gregshum 2h That's me in the corner. That's me in the spotlight. Awaiting my conviction. The tweet above over a photo of Trump ignoring a person receiving medical attention who passed out in the Oval Office

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Of course the president can’t subvert the Constitution by lying that there’s an emergency. If lying that there’s an emergency is a magic loophole granting the executive branch the powers of Congress, there’s no point to Article I.

The fact that this is even a question is a sign of degradation.

One of the slave power secessionist complaints was that Northern juries kept acquitting people who obstructed the Fugitive Slave Act. But even when the bastards had the federal government on their side, there was no way around the Sixth Amendment's requirement of not just a jury but a local one.

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”

― Edward O. Wilson

HIRE ALICE

Let any whose prejudices would keep them from performing their jobs well do the same.

standing outside someone's office is not threatening behavior you fucking snowflakes

Speaker Johnson kicked me out of his office. Here's why.

SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now.

Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it.

Don’t forget this.

Might start using this picture of our foster dog Goose to respond to information I find surprising, bewildering, or intimidating.

(Goose, who we don’t think has lived in a house before, is perpetually surprised, bewildered, and intimidated.)

Tired of looking at botoxed the fuck out faces on the big screen