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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her)

@mightyani.bsky.social

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Physicist, Chemist, Software Developer, and Machinist; Bassoon She-ro; Solder Slinger; Yarn Hoarder; Kitty Huffer; Bully Buster; Ally. I'm not afraid. 🚫👻💚

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · Nov 14

Walking up to the metal detector entrance at a con in full GB2016 kit always got me like

a woman is wearing a headset and making a funny face

Alt: Holtzmann from Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, making an "uh oh" face

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 4h

we already have these, they're called Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games

Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 4h

"Socialism" is what they call it when we demand the societal benefits we deserve for paying taxes.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you.

I would add that they used to be sorry they got caught, but now they don't care about getting caught, because the infrastructure to be a racist piece of shit has been put in place to such a degree now that they GET PAID to be racist pieces of shit.

Lee Atwater's lifelong wet dream.

Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 9h

Fascists despise science and scientists unless they can be used in the implementation and perpetuation of fascism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 10h

I am also a GenX daughter of Boomers and can tell you at point blank range that in Oklahoma they did NOT hide their racism and misogyny.

Especially my dad.

Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 11h

This is why the right-wing fascists on the current SCOTUS were appointed: to decide on the outcome they want to effect and write their opinions to support it

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 12h

There's a fun little colliquay where Alito is flatly mischaracterizing what happened at the lower court and Nelson and now Sotomayor or trying to correct him. But Sam is resistant to facts that show he's wrong so, for the second time this morning, he's just ignoring the facts.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 12h

KBJ is doing her best to explain HOW LAW WORKS to Brett and Amy but those two have long decided not to care about that.

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 12h

A photo of a clarinet with the text:

THIS MACHINE ENRAGES FASCISTS

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 22h

jfc just let Camelot die nobody under 60 gives a shit about the Kennedys

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

I'm shocked, SHOCKED!

Well, not that shocked 🫩

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

Can we stop talking about autism like it's some kind of debilitating venereal disease?

Please replace "85% of the risk" with something like "85% of the chance.

Acceptance of autistic people starts with the language used to describe us.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 6d

4/ As for the implication that babies taking Tylenol will increase their risk of autism, we know that autism is rooted in brain development, with differences in neuron growth and connectivity forming in utero during the first trimester. Autism doesn't develop from medications taken after birth.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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sam @samveep.bsky.social · 1d

The undercover footage in this video... just wow. Our new massive international investigation into a surveillance company selling untraceable tech that can find you anywhere.

Every view and comment on this helps get in front of more eyes—and that means we can keep doing this work! Thank you!!

This Secret Tech Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You

YouTube video by Mother Jones

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

And if a Nazi buys the bar, it's most definitely a Nazi bar

Text: "If the bar lets Nazis in, it's a Nazi bar."

With an image of Sissy SpaceX giving the Nazi seig heil salute on the night of the United States presidential election in 2024.

Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

ummmm...

Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 2d

A Christian pastor in Pennsylvania wanted to teach his congregation to "overwhelm your enemy" when spreading the Gospel.

So he aimed an AR-15 directly in their faces.

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-christia...

A Christian pastor aimed an AR-15 at the congregation to "run out the unbelief"

Philip Thornton's stunt at Legacy Faith Church turned the teachings of Christ into a twisted sermon on violence and power

www.friendlyatheist.com

Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

A meme of the really old hobbit at the end of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King who looks pretty annoyed that Frodo, Merry, Pippin, and Sam came back to The Shire in all of their Gondor/Rohan/Elven drip. The text above him says:

In the early 2000s, when The Lord of the Rings trilogy came out, I felt more like Frodo, Merry, or Pippin.
Nowadays, I relate more to this guy.

Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 1d

PublicSquare is a website that lists local and online MAGA businesses.

I use it to make sure I'm NOT giving money to fascists.

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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social · 2d

put this in my book and it made some folks MAD mad but others lmk it was how they learned about this, so, worth it

"Preston, I was joking."
"Oh." He gave her a deeply uncomfortable look. "The thing is—I'm autistic. Winning people over-" He drummed one hand against his thigh. "It's a statistically proven fact that autistics are judged unlikable by neurotypicals." Her mouth fell open, and he rushed on as if she was going to interrupt again. "But it doesn't matter, because I'm good at my job, and it's important to me. Did you know the therapies used to force autistic kids to act in ways seen as normal have the same origins as the conversion therapy that tries to force kids not to be queer? Some people want to erase us all. The clubs and books for every kid, showing every kid-dis-abled too-they say we exist. That it's okay that we do. As we are." He directed his entire intense gaze at her, piercing and earnest even through his glasses. "That's life chan-ging. Life saving for some kids."

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 2d

jfc it always comes back to Nazis

a woman with red curly hair is sitting at a table with her mouth open

Alt: Merida from Brave going UGH and headdesking

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Insufferable INTJ (She/Her) @mightyani.bsky.social · 2d

We are sexy baddies 🙂‍↔️

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 2d

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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