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Val Syverson@vjpsyverson.bsky.social |
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Paleontologist, teacher, parent, biophile, intellectual omnivore. Topics: natural history, nerd stuff, the culture war. Allergic to puns. Postdoc, UC Merced. Looking for my next job in research/teaching/museums. (protogynous, he or they; Dr.) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Val Syverson
@vjpsyverson.bsky.social
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The timing still stinks to high heaven, and I’d bet money that they’ve been sandbagging this info for a while and just released it now so as to inflict maximum damage to trans people, but also it sure fucking sounds like he did it.
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Val Syverson
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Yeah, ok, I had not listened to the episode, but I just read this transcript and now I'm inclined to believe all of it. I cannot credit them with the ability to make this up. Well, fuck, there it is then.
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Val Syverson
@vjpsyverson.bsky.social
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oh ffs
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Val Syverson
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oh thank goodness
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Val Syverson
@vjpsyverson.bsky.social
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Actually, I read it as saying the opposite, that "scared girl" was the one he was already seeing; am I missing something? Your reading makes it /way/ more fucked up, obviously...
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Val Syverson
@vjpsyverson.bsky.social
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Voters' guide for 2024 California propositions, courtesy of the amazing @alfredtwu!
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Val Syverson
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I guess that explains why it was the one that finally got everyone in my family...the vaccines have been working for us up to now, but this variant got away. Well, damn.
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Paul Crider
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This means the discourse on Project 2025 is having an effect. Every media outlet should hammer this. Biden ads and other Democrat ads should flash highlights from Project 2025 with scary voice-overs.
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Val Syverson
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yes, exactly but apparently we're not supposed to actually SAY this out loud, because that counts as doing a Rape Apologism for some reason, and also as being a traitor to the trans community (?) for cis approval (??)
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Val Syverson
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Aargh ok this isn’t a productive conversation and I’m giving up on it
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Val Syverson
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Specifically I suck at picking up on the phatic functions of speech, so if there’s a lot of that going on I’m probably legit missing it. However, in this case we don’t actually have to guess at intentions, we can just ask the person who said it
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Val Syverson
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I think I must disagree with you on something fundamental about communication, then, because I think the words you choose to say are the part that should contain the meaning. I’m told I’m kinda autistic though and I do tend to miss stuff on the pragmatics side
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Val Syverson
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She isn’t “dismissing” anything. JFC, people, read what’s actually written instead of what you’re expecting to find.
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Kingfisher & Wombat
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If someone can’t tell the difference between supporting rape culture and basic fact checking, it was probably only a matter of time before I pissed them off somehow. Again, it is ENTIRELY possible this is 100% true and worse than we think! I just want a source other than a single podcast.
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Val Syverson
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I am, fwiw.
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Matthew Downhour
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I’m starting to think the DSA does not have our best interests at heart
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Val Syverson
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I think you may have made a bunch of erroneous assumptions about my identity and motives. I’d actually rather risk giving a week of extra benefit of the doubt to a rapist, especially when my opinion is irrelevant, than risk helping terfs ratfuck the discourse again.
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Val Syverson
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I'm sure they do, but I'm /not/ sure I have them yet.
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Val Syverson
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"Kremlin-sponsored fake news" is an old enough meme at this point that it's tempting to write it off. But, no, it's still happening, now with the help of LLMs, and they're still trying to help Trump win and Ukraine lose. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Pavel
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.
AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...
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Val Syverson
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I'd agree, if that's what she was doing. But in this case it's not a matter of "TERF reporting can't be trusted because they're anti-trans bigots", it's a matter of "it's well documented that TERFs lie like breathing, so we should probably be a little cautious about the source".
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MissyLissa.bsky.social
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Kevin, I am not a historian, so IDK, but has there ever been a President in American History who used a mobility aid? And, if so, would you say this president who was so weak as to need, say, braces or a wheelchair, is considered to be one of the top President’s ever?
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Faine Greenwood
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Suprise: unwashed fascist ghoul Matthew Walther - who wrote a column that the New York Times just published advising Americans not to vote - did in fact vote in 2020 and 2022. It’s time for us to stop tolerating these ratfucking liars.
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Cooper Lund
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This 4th of July, take a little time to think about how the Left can try to reclaim patriotism from conservatives. Seems like the story of a country that cast off a king and fought a civil war to free the slaves is fertile ground given our present moment.
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Val Syverson
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So, in case you missed it (like I did), last week Biden pardoned everybody who was court martialed under DADT.
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
This is estimated to affect about 14,000 people: www.axios.com/2024/06/26/b...
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John Scalzi
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As far as I'm concerned anyone telling people not to vote, in this election or any other, is doing for malign purposes, and the only correct response is "Well now I am going to vote EVEN HARDER."
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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i really am going to be logged off for the holiday but i would like to drop off a parting thought: publishing a monarchist anti-voting take on the fourth of july is the strongest possible indication of someone's core, true values
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Faine Greenwood
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I have absolutely dealt with elderly relatives with cognitive decline and met me fucking tell you, I’d rather take the nice addled old man over the kind of addled old man who becomes unspeakably cruel every single time.
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Faine Greenwood
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Personally, I’d much rather pick the slightly addled friendly old man over the actively deranged addled old man who talks all the time about ushering in a bloody authoritarian reign of global terror. It makes me feel insane that this does not seem to be obvious to a lot of other people.
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Faine Greenwood
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It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)
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Val Syverson
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A number of things which I would really prefer my child to be able to observe from a safe distance.
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Tamreen
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for a sense of scale, the last time this happened plants evolved not a specific species or something. Literally just Plants
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Chad Loder
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French far-right candidate to withdraw after photo emerges of her wearing Nazi cap.
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Kaitlin Ruiz
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the number of times i've seen someone on here go on about how biden has dementia / is a bloodthirsty autocrat / needs to die... then i look at their bio and they're from new south wales or alberta
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Jamison Foser
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The only thing I'm confident in predicting is this: "Democrats should nominate someone who isn't Joe Biden" <a short time later> "No, no. Not like that!"
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Katie Mack
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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like
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Elad Nehorai
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Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.
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Tom Brown
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Kelp off of Goleta:
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Preeti Chhibber
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apropos of uhhhhhhh everything, reposting this again
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Val Syverson
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That's awesome! I remember noticing how much engagement the specimen prep fishbowl at the Page Tar Pits Museum always got, so I'd imagine that anything actually interactive would be even more effective. Sounds like you did actual study tho? (full disclosure: I am also a natural history museum nerd)
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Val Syverson
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whoa, you got a Bird Poop Guy, nice! congrats
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Val Syverson
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They did something like that at UMich the year after I left, and iirc I think they explicitly mentioned liking the Burke design!
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Saeed Jones
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*looks directly at camera*
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Val Syverson
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ughh now I remember why I try to avoid using iDigBio
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Val Syverson
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Oh, hell yeah. I haven't been there in ages, I have no idea what it even looks like these days. OK, this has been upgraded to Nebulous Future Plan status now, let's see what I can do!
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Val Syverson
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Next time I'm coming up there, I'll let you know, maybe we can hang out! You seem like someone I'd like IRL.
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Val Syverson
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combining TERFs and cocaine, that'll fuck you up for sure
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Val Syverson
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Man, if I didn't have a teaching gig in Merced next Monday, I'd seriously think about it. I have relatives in Seattle I'd like to visit, too. Terrible timing for this heat
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Val Syverson
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O_O it's gonna hit 108 F today where I live where are you and can I come over, I'll cook you dinner
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