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Joel Gever

@joelyjoelyjoelyjoe.bsky.social

Neuroscientist (UCD, University College London, UCSF), lifelong Californian, literally slipped on a banana peel…twice (two different continents, two different banana peels)

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You’re not old, you’re seasoned.

05.08.2025 16:01 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

True. Complacency and apathy is the real problem here

12.07.2025 02:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We used to be the good guys (most of the time). Now the Evil Stephens (Miller and Bannon) have manipulated their useful idiot (Trump) into doing the worst things in our name. How did we become the bad guys?

11.07.2025 23:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I found the perfect treatment for low blood pressure: MAGA lies. Every time they open their lie holes, my blood pressure spikes.

10.07.2025 16:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My heart has been broken by Texas too many times, but please, Jasmine, win.

10.07.2025 16:00 — 👍 113    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Right, caught them totally by surprise because they only had weeks of explicit warning.

25.06.2025 14:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I think Elon OD’s within the next 5 years

05.06.2025 18:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We also prefer representatives who don’t think there are Jewish space lasers causing fires to clear land for high speed rail (ie NOT complete morons)

04.06.2025 18:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, hit back at Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who went viral after telling a town hall audience member that "we all are going to die" in response to concerns over Medicaid cuts. bit.ly/3Sw9Uu8

01.06.2025 16:42 — 👍 137    🔁 46    💬 14    📌 3
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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

31.05.2025 00:35 — 👍 35544    🔁 11211    💬 1109    📌 824
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Folks don’t miss a beat 😂

30.05.2025 12:40 — 👍 22677    🔁 4575    💬 556    📌 222

They get $1000 plus $100,000 of future debt from tax cuts for rich people.

30.05.2025 22:36 — 👍 91    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

How is he out in the sunlight? Shouldn’t he be turning into ash?

30.05.2025 21:16 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kristi Noem vs. Harvard: What Their Language Reveals. 'In the life of the human spirit, words are action,' a US president said long ago. Let's look at words from a cabinet secretary who doesn't know what 'habeas corpus' means, vs. a university that does.

Kristi Noem doesn't know anything.

It shows.

(By me.)

fallows.substack.com/p/kristi-noe...

26.05.2025 23:10 — 👍 223    🔁 47    💬 11    📌 1

A reminder: Ru and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners steadily throughout the war. The latest exchange isn't a sign of progress towards a diplomatic solution. Ru remains as committed as ever to its maximalist goals; it's planning a summer offensive on Kharkiv.

russia will only stop when it's stopped

24.05.2025 16:31 — 👍 129    🔁 27    💬 4    📌 3

As long as the people at the top are total fuckwits, he’s probably right. Have zero staff, it will make no difference.

24.05.2025 01:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You don’t want to disturb the neighbors with loud, annoying gunshots while defending your property from Haitians trying to abduct and eat your cats, so I support allowing silencers. Bump stocks are also helpful for fighting off pet eating immigrants.

22.05.2025 17:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have a proposal. Alberta wants to secede from Canada and California DEFINITELY wants to get away from MAGA, so how about a trade? California for Alberta, straight up. Hey, Canadians, would you take that trade? I would do it in a heartbeat.

22.05.2025 15:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I wrote a speech for Trump's Golden Dome defense. Get ready to feel something. | Opinion After watching President Trump announce plans for a $175 billion “Golden Dome” missile-defense system, I took the liberty of preparing him a speech.

I wrote a speech for Trump to deliver about his $175 billion Golden Dome defense shield. Get ready to feel something.

“The second word is DOME. I love domes. They’re like a ball, only half.”

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

22.05.2025 15:29 — 👍 55    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 1

He found your number on the wall of a bathroom stall

21.05.2025 16:26 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can we Blue States just secede already and let the Red States form the Third World kleptocracy they so fervently desire? They’re. Just. So. Stupid.

21.05.2025 01:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ru’s primary goal has always been to take Ukraine’s sovereignty, not territory. The land grab is only for leverage towards achieving that end goal. This was true in 2014, in 2022 and now. That’s why territorial concessions by Ukr would solve nothing, that’s why Ru insists on things like…

07.11.2024 16:32 — 👍 275    🔁 100    💬 7    📌 11

It’s always a good day when there’s one less murderer in the world. More please, Ukraine.

20.05.2025 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

American Science is like the Mexican sailing ship: going backwards through human error with pieces breaking off, and just as with that tragedy, people will die or suffer unnecessarily. Chaos and stupidity have measurable and significant effects. Elections matter. Don’t ever do this again, America

20.05.2025 16:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bullshit. I’ve been doing drug research for 30 years. The chaos in HHS (NIH, FDA, NSF) is causing significant damage to biomedical research. Everything is slowing down: university research, venture capital investments…etc.

20.05.2025 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’m a neuroscientist at a small biotech researching medicines for neurodegenerative diseases. I know with certainty that the chaos in the FDA is slowing the funding of potentially life saving research. VC firms, like all investors, dislike uncertainty. There is no upside to what is happening in HHS

20.05.2025 16:29 — 👍 54    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Too late. We all still hate you. Forever.

20.05.2025 16:24 — 👍 140    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve been meaning to read that book. I knew he inherited half a billion and he would have been WAY richer if he had just parked it in the stock market. He’s a terrible businessman but as you say, he’s lucky. But I never imagined he could be THIS lucky. He commits crimes and lies and…nothing happens

20.05.2025 00:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nobody knows when AGI will arrive. I think you guys are too confident. It could be here sooner than you think. We should prepare for it rather than fiddling around trying to get manufacturing jobs using tariffs. That’s the point.

19.05.2025 22:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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