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Jason Merkin

@jasonmerkin.bsky.social

dad and scientist. wrestler and cyclist. probably too sarcastic for my own good.

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this would presumably have a pretty dramatic effect on court-shopping and directing cases to people like Kacsmaryk, no?

15.05.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The modern nfl quarterback has just wholly passed the Chicago Bears by. A lot of mid qbs have had 4000 yards yet no Chicago qb has.

10.05.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"chicago got a pope before they got a 4000 yard passer"

08.05.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

US exports to Canada and the EU have cratered. But US exports to El Salvador are booming.

30.04.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1440    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 13

missed opportunity to call it "pretty rad"

30.04.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Be patient" is what no president has ever said when things are going well.

30.04.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2023    πŸ” 370    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 12
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GitHub - ArcInstitute/xsra: An efficient CLI to extract sequences from the SRA An efficient CLI to extract sequences from the SRA - ArcInstitute/xsra

Extracting @NCBI SRA files with fasterq-dump can require 17x the size of the accession while decompressing. Our new tool xsra extracts sequences at 5x throughput with significantly less disk usage, built-in compression, and optional BINSEQ outputs

github.com/arcInstitute...

29.04.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

how does it compare to specials in 2022 and 2024?

30.04.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

02.04.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 23598    πŸ” 7228    πŸ’¬ 155    πŸ“Œ 165
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The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

01.04.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 40731    πŸ” 8493    πŸ’¬ 946    πŸ“Œ 454
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Fact check: Liberals say that Trump is like Hitler but Trump is only planning a reich that lasts 100 years.

13.03.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 910    πŸ” 121    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 4

The Democratic Party right now is pretty close to fβ€”ing useless.

12.02.2025 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4828    πŸ” 614    πŸ’¬ 487    πŸ“Œ 58
Photo of Elon Musk and his little booger picker making Trump their cuck in the oval office. Trump is either making a poopie in his pants or slowly realizing that he's not really in charge. Or both. Could be both.

Photo of Elon Musk and his little booger picker making Trump their cuck in the oval office. Trump is either making a poopie in his pants or slowly realizing that he's not really in charge. Or both. Could be both.

[record scratch] Yup. That's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. See, I wanted revenge on Joe Biden. And this guy said he was the richest man in the world and he'd help me. He'd even let me sit in the chair and play president. He said I wouldn't even look like a cuck...

12.02.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1386    πŸ” 182    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 20

I'm old enough to remember when SJP was up in arms crying genocide and ethnic cleansing. Now the president they helped elect is pushing for actual ethnic cleansing.

11.02.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The ordinarily cautious and conservative ABA is blowing the whistle: The break-the-glass moment has arrived.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

11.02.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3292    πŸ” 1091    πŸ’¬ 136    πŸ“Œ 95

β€œI promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countriesβ€”uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire.”

Brilliant.

06.02.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2364    πŸ” 512    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 11

I suppose, in retrospect, that the time he sent an armed mob to kill people he didn't like, including his vice president, might have offered some hints to his character, but that's really just hindsight talking.

02.02.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 644    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3

Point well taken though. The lines are probably from Mexico, and just wait till we get tariffs on Italian imports

03.02.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's not that bad. It's only about 10% more expensive, assuming half the alcohol is mezcal.

02.02.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Leaning Tower of Treason.

26.01.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 16376    πŸ” 2887    πŸ’¬ 761    πŸ“Œ 154

only when measured in Kelvin

22.01.2025 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love it.

21.01.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.

Terrible.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

20.01.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 729    πŸ” 220    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 45

I wonder what Afghan vets think about this.

21.01.2025 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 332    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 4

my crabbiest millennial view is: I see you sent some kind of 'voice note' in this chat window, too bad I'm not listening to it because this is a chat window

17.01.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Theory i read was.....expected crowd size

18.01.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

also, be from one of the preferred ancestries or countries. immigration law had strict quotas on "undesirables"

16.01.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 Kivett v. North Carolina State Board of Elections II Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina trial court DENIES Republican Party motion to throw out 60,000 votes cast in the November 2024. www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...

13.01.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 17715    πŸ” 3511    πŸ’¬ 768    πŸ“Œ 414
Elon Musk tweeting:

woke_mind_virus found at 127.0.0.1
woke_mind_virus deleted rm -rf

Elon Musk tweeting: woke_mind_virus found at 127.0.0.1 woke_mind_virus deleted rm -rf

When you pretend that you know how to use Linux

13.01.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3

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