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Dave Klassen

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Mars clouds scientist, physics and astronomy prof; Episcopal lay minister; genealogy, RPG, LotR, comics; he or they pronouns

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Gets my vote.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

24.02.2026 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(They never did)

23.02.2026 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm really seething at all the "don't worry, you're just hysterical" assholes.

23.02.2026 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Didn't take any picsβ€”but I did get my old snowblower up and running so at least I can get out tomorrow.

This is one of the reasons I left MN and don't plan to go back (sorry fam).

23.02.2026 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

😈

23.02.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Start making all kinds of new states; start chopping blue states into 1–3M-person states (if WY at 500k can be a state, NYC can be 5 2-M person states). And add 10 justices.

23.02.2026 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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23.02.2026 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bingo! I have to fill out a form for *each* *assignment* if I'm going to dock points for cheating. It has have my syllabus attached, a copy of the student's work, a copy of the work I'm using as comparison that let me say it's cheating, and all the silly particulars of my course.

23.02.2026 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Chewed up all the books...by violating copyright.

22.02.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And that training probably violates copyright laws.

22.02.2026 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who is selling ICE the facilites? Name and shame!

22.02.2026 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How about Andrew Jackson? Maybe he was 1.5 dimensions? Gotta be the reason trump loves him so much.

22.02.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How can ICE pull anyone over?! They aren't police.

22.02.2026 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Both of them were 100% out of line. A dedication isn't "professional"β€”are they confusing it with "acknowledgements"? I think they are. Someone needs to tell them they are wrong.

21.02.2026 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Open Borders was super illuminating. Thank you!

21.02.2026 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Socialist

21.02.2026 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yup. I'll *never* understand limiting the wealth of a nation to the amount of shiny metal you dug out of the ground, only to put back into the ground. Labor creates more value and wealth; if more people are doing productive things than you have shiny metal to account for, you're screwed.

21.02.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Right?! All we need do is recover the capital they took for themselves and we'll be just fine.

21.02.2026 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm trying to figure out the middle ground between "everybody deserves civil rights" and "only white, straight, men deserve civil t"...

15.02.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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two men in suits are standing next to each other and one of them is asking the other if he looks tired . Alt: Doctor Who asking a governmental aide if the Prime Minster looks tired

Someone should tell her she looks... tired.

14.02.2026 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The best part of using this GIF for when bad things happen to Cons and Fascists is Clarkson is a huge Tory.

14.02.2026 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just FYI: I love telling students these days I know a "laboratory astronomer" as it blows their mind you can "create a planet atmosphere" in the lab.

14.02.2026 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I *love* the idea of threatening the machine! πŸ˜†πŸ˜†πŸ˜†πŸ˜†

14.02.2026 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

One reason I went computation/modeling after being observational and at the whims of weather. I never even considered laboratory science. I'm not that brave.

14.02.2026 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How can you tell you're talking with an extroverted physicist?

They're staring at your shoes instead of their own.

08.02.2026 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yes Very Sad Anyway Loki Sad GIF ALT: Yes Very Sad Anyway Loki Sad GIF

Suicides?!?

07.02.2026 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The day he mocked the reporter should have been his end.

07.02.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Each district should have 50k people.

07.02.2026 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let's start making all kinds of new states; the official rule should be no state can have any less than 2M people and no more than 5M people. That would go a long way to democratizing the Senate.

Representation by arbitrary land areas is complete BS.

07.02.2026 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientistβ€”because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

06.02.2026 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 47130    πŸ” 19329    πŸ’¬ 1349    πŸ“Œ 795