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Map to the corners; all of them.

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What a bunch of shysters

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Gone again. Threats.

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By which you mean the one really putting Evil into large scale action.

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Hamas apparently isn’t listening and is refusing a ceasefire

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You must.

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This has worked for me several times.

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Those envelopes don’t stuff themselves, pal

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UAW = U Are Welcome

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This is, sadly, what restraint looks like.

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Johnson’s being 100% performative here. He has to be seen cosseting insurrectionists. A meaningless gesture like this is probably better than something that actually matters.

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Right impulse on the horse.

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I like to fantasize that all this is driven by a gnomish Oxford lexicographer on a personal mission to eliminate the verb “google” from the Iron Tongue of English.

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Well then re-define it as something that can, silly!

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The ship will right itself.

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“We want the world and we want it now”

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Nixon wore dress shoes, black socks, and slacks at the beach and since then everything is fair game

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Don’t speak this too loudly! Banishing TechBros to Mars’s lifeless orb is greatly to be desired, and if they can be flattered rather than forced into the rockets so much the better

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The only good thing about Mars colonization is that maybe, just maybe, Musk and his ilk will finally “go Galt” and leave us forever to die like worms beneath a desiccated wasteland. The simple possibility of that blessed day is reason enough to agitate for their Martian folly.

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You may ask “Why would #Venezuela invade #Guyana for oil? Don’t they have plenty?”

Venezuelan oil is “heavy”, like asphalt, with lots of sulfur (“sour”). Technically challenging for their degraded infrastructure.

Guyana’s, in contrast, is light and sweet. Easier to bring to market.

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Yeah they love that. Little known fact: the Pulp Fiction “gimp” was a WPP exec.

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Old habits die hard.

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Well then you lose that sweet monogramming

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Jeebus. I was starting to wonder why Menendez was pushing all those carve-outs for leprechauns.

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This happens often enough to suggest it’s kind of a perk of job

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Come be my colleague!

A broad open-rank search in areas of quantitative / computational biology - Program for Mathematical Genomics, Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University.

Feel free to reach out with questions and please share.
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Yeah, I grew up in New Mexico. If reconstruction was discussed at all it was in terms circulated by United Daughters of the Confederacy, who more or less controlled the discourse for most of the 20th century.

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Confederate revanchists succeeded because they never, never, never gave up

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It’s crucial to constantly remind Americans that Jim Crow and Confederate racist revanchists actively reversed real progress. The dominant view is like: “things were uniformly bad but evolved to get better post-1960s”. No. Evil people actively and often literally killed progress post-1865.

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This is like if a Trump tweet had multiple PhDs

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Something about the way “hmmm, interesting” comes across

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Actual People doing Trust and Safety with an adequately staffed, well-paid moderation team S’il vous plaît, merci

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And then there are Civil War re-enactors, who are sadly becoming a rare breed.

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There is a special place in Hell for scientists who try to own an area of investigation by refusing to share key published reagents. Literally like "sorry, can't send the library, but wait for our upcoming paper on the subject you study".

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Indeed, it is their sacred duty to kick Lucy's football.

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My problem with Bluesky is that posting effectively feels like it requires real craft, and thus effort. This is in contrast with "yargleblargle blarg send tweet."

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One of the threads I kind of regret nuking when I deleted all my Twitter comment was the thread portraying Viktor Shokin as a sort of immortal cryptid that I pursued under the authority of a shadowy paranormal government agency.

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So rare for such an epic pwn of flat-footed racist mouth breathers to be on the ballot. A thing of strength and beauty.

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An essential tension in most of The Offspring’s work

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