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I agree

*snort* (and yes, I know more than one Jeff)

Also, can confirm that moving closer to people != seeing them more often. Like, gotta be right next door, otherwise ya see them once every three years on Main Street.

yup.

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I mean... I bet it would work.

Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.

No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership

This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

WOW. After yesterday’s Oval Office ambush of President Zelensky, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway’s leading marine fuel providers, announced that it will no longer refuel U.S. Navy vessels, urging other European firms to follow suit.

The United States is weaker and more isolated than ever.

Repost it. And read it.

CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

Make no mistake. This is an all-out attack on health in America.

Not only is the EIS vital to controlling infectious disease; it was where a remarkably high fraction of our public health leaders received formative training and experience.

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Republicans have been ordered by their billionaire Puppet Master to end Medicare as we know it.

Democrats have 215 members in the House who can stop this extreme effort.

All we need is three House Republicans to join us.

If you're going 'but don't those systems have fail-safes?' or 'deploying changes isn't that fast!' - read this. If you don't care if the deployment breaks things, you're not spending time on regression testing a damn thing.

If you like Alt Nat Parks in your feed, here is an official vetted list of other Alt (US Gov) accounts.

Any commercial organizations that rely on research sites for research for their products will have increased costs or reduced access to qualified sites as well, I presume. The effect will carry across more than just universities. (I don't read NYT so I can't tell if they mention that.)

Following this account means my doomscroll is interspersed with their screaming (it's really all they post), which is a handy way to remind myself to pause and loosen my jaw.

Unaddressed disasters are their way of throwing up their hands and saying 'not me, wasn't me!' at eugenics, so, yeah. Same for all marginalized populations, you have less, you can do less to fight back, you have to work harder even on the best days, your energy is consumed before the disaster.

Fortify yourself.

could we not sue EM instead? He's the one who was the active party.

Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.

Image is a post from jessdiaryofamom on threads. It reads, “For the love of all things holy, when you see people explaining away Musk’s Na*i salute today by saying that he didn’t know how it would be interpreted “because he’s autistic,” CORRECT THEM. Autism doesn’t make you racist, folks. That’s not how this works. That’s not how ANY of this works. Please don’t drag our autistic loved ones into that flaming mess. Just … no.”

Autism doesn’t make you racist, folks. That’s not how this works. That’s not how ANY of this works. Please don’t drag our autistic loved ones into that flaming mess. Just … no.

Beloveds,
We are here, together.
Hold on.
Breathe, and let your stubborn heart beat you through the night and into tomorrow.
If you cannot lead, use your strength to hold still until you can sort out who to follow.
They want us to rush.
Breathe, defiant.
Hold on.
We are here, together,
Beloveds.

I most definitely snort-laughed on this.

Meme of the guy scoping out the hot stranger while SO goes 'WTF dude?'

Meme photo is labeled:
Asshole guy = UU
Irked SO = Gray hymnal
Oblivious woman in red dress = Teal hymnal

Mifepristone as Weekly Contraceptive Performs 'Beyond Expectations' in Clinical Trials - Ms. Magazine Abortion Pill Mifepristone as Weekly Contraceptive Performs 'Beyond Expectations' in Clinical Trials, Says Dr. Rebecca Gompers

Have some good news! This is EXCELLENT. Also, yay, crowd-funded science!

welp, then.
another week starting
(if you start yours on Mondays
like I sorta do, depending on mode)
May it get some shit done
and not be garbagey
or not entirely garbagey
like, a good helping of worthwhile
and maybe something tasty
or friendly company
So on Sunday
we can say
(with a nod)
it'll do

Right? Fill the tank before the long drive. Uhh... but I don't wanna, it's boring, uuuuuugh.

I don't make resolutions, ever since I discovered the two perfect ones years ago:

1. Become a more terrifying version of yourself.

2. Do what you already do, but more so.

Some days when you're 89 years old
and the universe hasn't knocked ya dead yet
despite what seems like some good damn tries at it
you eat salmon jerky and tell gallows-humor jokes
and laugh until your eyes are wreathed with lines
in shapes drawn by magnets and iron

-for Baba (my mom), still goin'