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Joel Vazquez, Ph.D. 🏳️‍🌈 🐌🌹
@joelvphd.bsky.social
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(PISSED OFF) Risk assessment #toxicologist , desperately trying to help in a crumbling world. Open for scientific inquiry! Degrowth advocate 🐌

🌹 - IYKYK

https://choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/

📚 Currently reading: The Song of Achilles-Madeline Miller
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gtconway.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
joelvphd.bsky.social
So my cat and I had a conversation the other day. She's not a fan of being told what to do 🤣
October 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
joelvphd.bsky.social
This is so damn wholesome, I want these kinds of problems!
brutumfulmen.bsky.social ChrisTurkey N Cakes 🦃 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @brutumfulmen.bsky.social · Sep 30
Honestly? Not a bad problem to have! 😁
A series of Tumblr posts, all from the user yotoob: Post 1: We've bought a new house. And our new next door neighbours (two delightful gentlemen) will not stop being nice. - bought us a seagull proof refuse bag (yes, they are actual things) - loaned us garden tools when we didn't have any - invited us around for Friday night drinks so we could meet the other people on the lane - one of them brought me a bunch of sweetpea flowers that he'd picked from his garden - and tomorrow he's coming to cut our hedge for us with his electric hedge trimmer thing idk, and all I have to do is hold the ladder. Basically, I am UNSETTLED and am now having to enter into an arms race of niceness and I am already so behind oh god. Long story short - I just baked a lemon drizzle cake, and it looks great but I can't even eat it because MR AND MR NICE MUST RECEIVE AN OFFERING. Post 2: ABSOLUTE CRISIS I GAVE THEM THE LEMON DRIZZLE AND THEN THEY INVITED ME IN TO HAVE A SLICE AND A COFFEE WITH THEM AND GAVE ME A TOUR OF THEIR HOUSE AND LET ME HOLD THEIR PUPPY. AND THEN THEY CAME AROUND TO HELP ME BAG UP THE HEDGE CLIPPINGS. THESE MEN ARE NICENESS PROS AND I CANNOT WIN. Post 3: HELP WE HAD AN HOUR LONG POWER CUT ON THE STREET AND IN THAT TIME THE OTHER MR NICE CAME AROUND WITH MATCHES AND CANDLES 'JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY. IT WAS BARELY DARK. BASTARDS - I'M GOING TO HAVE TO HOST A DINNER PARTY AREN'T I?
September 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
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September 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
joelvphd.bsky.social
With the way the world is turning out right now, I am the living embodiment of this meme..
a cartoon character says i don 't want to live on this planet anymore .
Alt: Professor Farnsworth from the TV show Futurama says "I don't want to live on this planet anymore."
media.tenor.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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bencanham.bsky.social
I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol.
Not because of vaccines.
Not because of some headline.
I’m autistic because that’s how
my brain works. Stop treating us
like a problem. Start listening to us.
September 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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dgcomedy.bsky.social
Jesse Watters just called for the bombing of the UN on national television. FCC? Nothing? Crickets? Got it.
September 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
joelvphd.bsky.social
New season of Futurama! They dropped the full season at once and had the audacity to say "Pace yourself" in the opening scene 🤣👌
September 16, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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dly.bsky.social
the one trick mods don’t want you to know
A Bluesky appeal for suspension. The reason for appeal is a line from Mean Girls: I don't think my father, the inventor of Toaster Strudel, would be too pleased to hear about this
September 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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econaturalist.bsky.social
Karma is a bitch.
September 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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captmarkkelly.bsky.social
I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.
September 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
joelvphd.bsky.social
Literally trying to drown out the voices of SA survivors as they speak out with a military flyover is particularly heinous, classless, and straight up disgusting.
September 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
joelvphd.bsky.social
This fills my soul with joy 😭❤️
authorstuartmiller.bsky.social Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · Sep 2
Video credit: itsjuliencohen

Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me"

This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵

#VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental
September 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
joelvphd.bsky.social
Fucking pathetic...
jasongarcia.bsky.social Jason Garcia @jasongarcia.bsky.social · Aug 30
The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.
August 31, 2025 at 6:44 AM
joelvphd.bsky.social
I'd love to put him up on a stage and make him identify mitochondria on a slide. Just watch him melt under that pressure.
clayranck.bsky.social Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · Aug 27
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them?

This is an insane person.
Acyn @Acyn X.com RFK JR: I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation-you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection TEXAS "MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN" LEGISLATION ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. Health & Human Services Secretary 0:12 From CSPAN C-SPANG* 15:04 • 8/27/25
August 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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darrigomelanie.bsky.social
Immigrants aren’t stealing your jobs.

But employers are stealing $50 billion in wages from workers each year.
August 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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brutumfulmen.bsky.social
Trans rights are, in fact, and always will be, human rights. And I will fight you about this. Pass it on.
gettheorion.bsky.social The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · Aug 19
Trans rights are, in fact and always will be, human rights. Pass it on.
utterrunacy.bsky.social Runa @utterrunacy.bsky.social · Aug 19
Trans rights are, in fact and always will be, human rights. Pass it on.
August 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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tlecaque.bsky.social
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
August 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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walshfreedom.bsky.social
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
Slavery was bad.
August 20, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
I refuse to believe we are going to relitigate slavery. SLAVERY. It’s too much.
August 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
joelvphd.bsky.social
Another day, another job rejection 🫠 honestly not sure how much longer I can keep this up, it's exhausting on so many levels... Might have to start searching abroad, science is practically dead in the US at this point...
August 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
joelvphd.bsky.social
Couldn't have gotten a better selection for my name 👌👌
August 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM