Nick Garcia
@nwgarcia.bsky.social
Medical Laboratory Scientist, biologist by training, fan of comedy, punk rock, heavy metal, guitar, comedy, movies, cooking, animal videos, and politics. Region Rat, NWI
Look, I'm the just the most recent human in a long line making this offer to small, charismatic fauna:
Don't hurt my kids and let me have an occasional snuggle, and you can sleep inside and have regular rations. We can do an eval in like 50 generations and maybe you can qualify for bed privileges.
Don't hurt my kids and let me have an occasional snuggle, and you can sleep inside and have regular rations. We can do an eval in like 50 generations and maybe you can qualify for bed privileges.
November 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Look, I'm the just the most recent human in a long line making this offer to small, charismatic fauna:
Don't hurt my kids and let me have an occasional snuggle, and you can sleep inside and have regular rations. We can do an eval in like 50 generations and maybe you can qualify for bed privileges.
Don't hurt my kids and let me have an occasional snuggle, and you can sleep inside and have regular rations. We can do an eval in like 50 generations and maybe you can qualify for bed privileges.
Caribbean Blue Cocoa
Your GI JOE name is the color of your shirt followed by your first pet's name.
GO.
GO.
November 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Caribbean Blue Cocoa
Oh, you a pretty boy, huh?
A wild turkey on full display among the autumn leaf litter. There were no hens around, but he was still strutting his stuff and posing for me.
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#birds #wildlife #nature 📷
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#birds #wildlife #nature 📷
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Oh, you a pretty boy, huh?
I have no idea what is going to happen, I just keep hoping there is a Dem Senator who has a copy of this thing and is at least privately signaling to DoJ that if they redacted it, they will be happy to leak the unredacted version.
Mike Johnson's current argument is that the Epstein files contain national security secrets that must stay classified.
That Epstein was so very intimately involved in the CIA and FBI, for some reason. Don't ask why. Definitely do not ask why the world's biggest pedophile was told all these secrets
That Epstein was so very intimately involved in the CIA and FBI, for some reason. Don't ask why. Definitely do not ask why the world's biggest pedophile was told all these secrets
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I have no idea what is going to happen, I just keep hoping there is a Dem Senator who has a copy of this thing and is at least privately signaling to DoJ that if they redacted it, they will be happy to leak the unredacted version.
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You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
You know what media is NOT bending the knee in the Trump era? College journalists! The Harvard Crimson's brutal takedown of the lecherous ex-prez Larry Summers is just the latest example of students showing a failing 'grown-up' media how it's done
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Me doom scrolling at 1 am
“It is possible I have in fact not been”
“It is possible I have in fact not been”
I hope you guys have been taking care of your mental health during this administration. I know it’s been a lot but the fight is not over. We must press on!
November 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Me doom scrolling at 1 am
“It is possible I have in fact not been”
“It is possible I have in fact not been”
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
"Wow I can't believe you would insult the murderer sitting next to me. That's so rude."
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"Wow I can't believe you would insult the murderer sitting next to me. That's so rude."
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good people of Charlotte, NC: now is the time for your PTAs to organize carpools and walking busses for students whose parents are at risk
helping people live their daily lives is a huge part of fighting ICE
helping people live their daily lives is a huge part of fighting ICE
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
good people of Charlotte, NC: now is the time for your PTAs to organize carpools and walking busses for students whose parents are at risk
helping people live their daily lives is a huge part of fighting ICE
helping people live their daily lives is a huge part of fighting ICE
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The fight has come to NC, and it just hit close to home. Our daughter teaches in Durham public schools and she said almost all of the Latinx kids are not in school today. ICE is targeting everyone who "looks Hispanic", citizen or not. I am even more angry today-kids need to go to school!
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The fight has come to NC, and it just hit close to home. Our daughter teaches in Durham public schools and she said almost all of the Latinx kids are not in school today. ICE is targeting everyone who "looks Hispanic", citizen or not. I am even more angry today-kids need to go to school!
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Oh dear. What have I done now?
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Oh dear. What have I done now?
Do not fail to notice that at the end she says she would've called in a favor with Trump if Kat had been nicer to her, because they all like that Trump's justice system is just a patronage system and the only thing any of them care about is people groveling for their approval.
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Do not fail to notice that at the end she says she would've called in a favor with Trump if Kat had been nicer to her, because they all like that Trump's justice system is just a patronage system and the only thing any of them care about is people groveling for their approval.
Look, a couple defectors flip the House. I get it. But I don't understand pissing off your own base to say this. And just as a continuing conversation - a tent can be large, but it has posts and walls - boundaires. It's not an n-th dimensional hyperspace. What do Dems BELIEVE IN?
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Look, a couple defectors flip the House. I get it. But I don't understand pissing off your own base to say this. And just as a continuing conversation - a tent can be large, but it has posts and walls - boundaires. It's not an n-th dimensional hyperspace. What do Dems BELIEVE IN?
My favorite coworker is a very sweet older hospital lab tech who has an encyclopedic knowledge of the site policy, is extremely literal, can't stand having all the fluorescent bulbs on, and can hear a machine beeping seemingly through walls.
one of the surgeons on the show just said that he's been having the exact same lunch for eight years and i'm glad autistic people are in medicine lolol
Started watching the show CRITICAL on Netflix - it's a docuseries on trauma hospitals in London and telling the stories of everything doctors, paramedics, and nurses do to help people facing life changing injuries. It tells the stories with great care to the patients, too.
November 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My favorite coworker is a very sweet older hospital lab tech who has an encyclopedic knowledge of the site policy, is extremely literal, can't stand having all the fluorescent bulbs on, and can hear a machine beeping seemingly through walls.
They obviously ARE pricing out people who can't pay $15 for a Big Mac meal, but they are also losing business from people who have the $15 but know they can get something better than McDonald's for $15. If you charge fast casual prices, you better have fast casual quality.
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
They obviously ARE pricing out people who can't pay $15 for a Big Mac meal, but they are also losing business from people who have the $15 but know they can get something better than McDonald's for $15. If you charge fast casual prices, you better have fast casual quality.
"Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion. He wasn't a murderer. You can't say that. He didn't get convicted of murder." That's how Dershowitz sounds lol.
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion. He wasn't a murderer. You can't say that. He didn't get convicted of murder." That's how Dershowitz sounds lol.
Every time a conservative misinterprets a work with a morally compromised protagonist, Marty Scorsese and Vince Gilligan should get an alert, and send them a formal announcement saying they've each donated $500 to an up-and-coming queer author in the conservative's name.
This is also an insult to Nabakov who actually knew pedophilia was wrong
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Every time a conservative misinterprets a work with a morally compromised protagonist, Marty Scorsese and Vince Gilligan should get an alert, and send them a formal announcement saying they've each donated $500 to an up-and-coming queer author in the conservative's name.
You can think the way problems of inclusion are being handled are annoying, but a lot of those complaints are veiled appeals to return to exclusion. The resolution is not to go back to EXclusion, it is finding less annoying ways to do the INclusion.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
You can think the way problems of inclusion are being handled are annoying, but a lot of those complaints are veiled appeals to return to exclusion. The resolution is not to go back to EXclusion, it is finding less annoying ways to do the INclusion.
Not to get too picky about this, but my recollection is that a nothingburger is a story with no actual substance (hence the name), not a story the public doesn't care about.
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Not to get too picky about this, but my recollection is that a nothingburger is a story with no actual substance (hence the name), not a story the public doesn't care about.
This is monumentally stupid.
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
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November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is monumentally stupid.
Thanksgiving is coming and I'm remembering the time someone on this site said, "I need a gravy separator, help me pick one, please" and a bunch of posters descended to say that it is a useless, wasteful tool, because you should just be putting all the fat in your sauce.
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Thanksgiving is coming and I'm remembering the time someone on this site said, "I need a gravy separator, help me pick one, please" and a bunch of posters descended to say that it is a useless, wasteful tool, because you should just be putting all the fat in your sauce.
The President of the United States is Don Dimello. This will make sense to only the biggest nerds imaginable.
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The President of the United States is Don Dimello. This will make sense to only the biggest nerds imaginable.
It is amazing to watch Republicans insist the free market can fix healthcare when it is not a free market. You cannot shop for healthcare, and you cannot decide you're not in the market if you don't like prices right now.
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It is amazing to watch Republicans insist the free market can fix healthcare when it is not a free market. You cannot shop for healthcare, and you cannot decide you're not in the market if you don't like prices right now.
If you didn't know about We Are Lady Parts, it's ok, it's on Peacock. But now that you know about it, it's up to you to fix it, because that show rules.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If you didn't know about We Are Lady Parts, it's ok, it's on Peacock. But now that you know about it, it's up to you to fix it, because that show rules.
Yeah, Roger. It IS weird that the ACA is this elaborate, expensive, inefficient system that requires a ton of finagling to keep afloat, because it involves maintaining the private insurance market as much as possible. Why IS that, I wonder?
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Yeah, Roger. It IS weird that the ACA is this elaborate, expensive, inefficient system that requires a ton of finagling to keep afloat, because it involves maintaining the private insurance market as much as possible. Why IS that, I wonder?