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Saavik Ford
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So now we’re fat shaming animals? Let the elderly chonk enjoy his chonk…
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2024 followers 1519 following 5536 posts
CUNY Astro prof, AMNH research assoc, runner, astronomer, crafter, camper, gardener, mom, all opinions completely my own (she/her)
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Saavik Ford
@saavikford.bsky.social
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So now we’re fat shaming animals? Let the elderly chonk enjoy his chonk…
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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Bringing lynx home to Ireland wouldn't just help revive ailing ecosystems.
Sharing the land again with this exquisite cat would add a spark of frisson to our own lives, expanding our imaginative universe into new realms.
Let's do this. #Rewilding 🌍
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Katie Mack
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Went to a clinic today for a routine medical thing and was once again amazed by the number of people who are happy to hang out and just freely breathe in all the air juice inside the germ emporium
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non-binary disaster bisexual
@persian-slipper.bsky.social
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I really hate feeling like I'm the only one playing The Air is Lava.
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Chris Levesque
@levesque-chris.bsky.social
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This entire “the sky is falling” post-debate narrative is about getting that atmosphere of chaos back by any means possible. It’s an abject failure of journalism and ethics boosted by a publisher who got his feelings hurt when Biden wouldn’t give NYT an interview.
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Saavik Ford
@saavikford.bsky.social
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I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords…
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Pookleblinky
@pookleblinky.bsky.social
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Someone should build a big ol terrarium for insects, with an increased O2 atmosphere, let us see just how big we can get em to grow. Imagine a bumblebee the size of a dog in a 30% O2 atmosphere
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Saavik Ford
@saavikford.bsky.social
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We’re sky-living ents? Well that DOES explain some faculty meetings…
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Saavik Ford
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The ‘correct’ answer is communism. My irate hubs has a rant that starts, ‘Oh so the threat was an ideology, and not, idk, fucking NUCLEAR WEAPONS?!? Or possibly a particular state, the SOVIET UNION?!?’ It goes on from there, for some time, honestly…
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Alison Atkin
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I'm really interested in any information on practical actions now to show Labour their position on trans and queer lives isn't supported. I'm going to write my MP once parliament is back in session and try to attend a surgery. Do open letters actually help? What else can we do? (Genuine question!)
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Saavik Ford
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Is that because you ‘well actually’d’ some of the answers? The ‘What was the greatest threat to the US during the Cold War?’ ‘correct answer’ has always made hubs irate 😂
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Saavik Ford
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I am in Dublin (yay!)… And awake after basically no sleep on the flight & catching a 2hr nap (uh, less yay?)… At least it’s sunny!
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Peter Coles 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇮🇪
@telescoper.bsky.social
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I am thinking of setting up a new anti-golf party with the slogan "tough on golf, tough on the courses of golf". The four key policies are: 1. Anyone who plays golf to be banned from public office. 2. All golf courses to be restored to nature. 3. er.. 4. That's it.
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Saavik Ford
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I’m just saying I love the idea of Justice Mystal. We could conceivably close the budget deficit by selling tickets to decision reading days…
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Saavik Ford
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You know… commercial aviation is extremely safe. But small private planes less so (think of many politicians & musicians lost in small craft crashes). Maybe we should be ENCOURAGING Thomas & Alito to take MORE flights with Harlan Crow?
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Saavik Ford
@saavikford.bsky.social
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Someone at JFK has a sense of humor (sign in the outdoor pet relief area in terminal 5, also where humans who are terrified of catching covid can safely eat outdoors)
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote
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Paul Crider
@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com
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This but unironically.
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Saavik Ford
@saavikford.bsky.social
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Goddamn it’s already sold out and I missed it!! 😭😭😭
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Saavik Ford
@saavikford.bsky.social
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Yeah, effective tone/presentation tactics are variable, but the badge thing works very much subconsciously, & I’ve also had folks say near the end of an appointment, ‘Oh I just actually READ your badge, I thought you also worked here!’
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Saavik Ford
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Walking in with my JHU branded tote bag on my shoulder also gets attention. Speak as much in technical terms as you can about your condition, as clinically & neutrally as possible (sometimes this is just impossible if you’re simply down bad, but, when poss) Cheap psychological tricks, but they help
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Saavik Ford
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Wear a badge/nametag thing. Like I have several for all my institutions but just wearing one on a lanyard makes them think you might work there—put your student ID in a plastic holder & clip it to your shirt. I also did my PhD at Johns Hopkins (in astrophysics so totally not related!) but I find
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
@kendrawrites.bsky.social
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For the record: voting matters. So does turning up to school board meetings. Community board meetings. Planning and zoning board meetings. Making public comments on pending rules. Contacting public officials. Protesting. Running for office yourself.
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Saavik Ford
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Not an amazing photo but I swear this is a photo of a bald eagle about to nab a fish from the lake in Lassen National Park from our trip there in July 2021. Happy Birthday USA, let’s keep working at this ‘building a better country’ thing, ok?
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Saavik Ford
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ApocalypticaNow
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Today I learned
naacp.org/articles/dor...
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John Scalzi
@scalzi.com
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Sorry, folks, this year "no vote" is a vote for fascism, don't be that person, voting is a necessary if not entirely sufficient act
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Zeb Larson
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Any time I publish something with Teen Vogue, the fact-checkers lay siege to me. EVERYTHING has to be backed up. And you know what? As exhausting as it is in the moment, it makes a better piece.
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David M. Perry
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CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.
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Benjamin Tausig
@burrata.bsky.social
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The history of the name of Astoria, Queens helps teach us that it’s never worth it to try to suck up to rich people
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Emma Evans
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This is the right emotion. We should all, ALL, be very very angry at the destruction of our country and who is responsible. NO, YOU MOVE.
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Tiffany (parentheses overuser)
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Joe Biden is fucking boring, which doesn’t sell newspapers. Ramin Setoodeh reported Trump’s severe memory issues in his new book, but bc it also reveals his successful strategies for manipulating media, WaPo & NYT relegated reports on its contents to their book review sections.
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Thomas Nguyen
@nuge.bsky.social
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This is the ideal male form. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.
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Seth Masket
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I’m not saying the paper of record is trying to hound the president from office out of a fit of pique because he won’t sit down for an interview, but if it were, how different would things look? www.politico.com/news/2024/04...
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Pestilence
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He’s got a valid point. If they want to play this game then teachers who are disgusted by it play dirty.
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Saavik Ford
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It’s called malicious compliance and it is beautiful when we’re at the point where evil laws are being enforced…
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Saavik Ford
@saavikford.bsky.social
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Thanks, me too!
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Saavik Ford
@saavikford.bsky.social
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Can I be invited to this party? 🥹👉👈
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Al Petterson
@eyelessgame.bsky.social
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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.
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Saavik Ford
@saavikford.bsky.social
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Like I’ve said before, sometimes the universe is an asshole. This is one of those times. Yes, I’m going to keep taking it personally…
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Saavik Ford
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I mean I’d probably not hate flying 1st class? For me it’s almost all down to the claustrophobia (I also get motion sick at the drop of a hat, so if there’s juuust enough turbulence on a flight to make the most sensitive person puke, I will be that 1 person… but I still make 19/20 flights puke-free)
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Saavik Ford
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No I know. I am just sad about it 😭
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Saavik Ford
@saavikford.bsky.social
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I’m cool with whatever lets me just skip the airplane part, seriously! You can fix me up after if my arm ends up sticking out of my back or something… 😉
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Saavik Ford
@saavikford.bsky.social
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Yeah… but I *really* hate flying 😂🤣😂
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Saavik Ford
@saavikford.bsky.social
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Or maybe we could get fast ocean going vessels but idk how fast, say, a US nuclear submarine can make the crossing? But I think it’s still at least multiple days? For fast I think we’re stuck in the air?
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Saavik Ford
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Be rapid transport that’s climate neutral that I don’t loathe?
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Saavik Ford
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I’m holding out for Star Trek transporters… Slightly more seriously I think climate neutral is probably going to mean biofuels or something like that (so circular emissions), but per person emissions scale inversely with passenger density. So with my claustrophobia, I don’t think there’s ever gonna
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Alyssa Long
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If you have read Consort of Fire, you have read some of the outcome of Robin’s world building consult and it is EXCELLENT. I suspect this will creep up tomorrow but right now you should go fight the person who thinks they’re gonna run away with it 😂
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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The New York Times Crisis of Confidence: badly shaken in the wake of bad editorial decisions, many are calling for the paper to resign.
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