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I’ve angered famous men. Scribe @thinkingautism.com‬: https://tinyurl.com/TPGA-NL. Books: PHALLACY+TAILORED BRAIN+. Journalist, words@ SciAm++. Biologist: embryos/gonads+. Human-crafted work. Pro-woke/antifascist. Very Texan 🤠 https://tinyurl.com/526jrcuv
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My feed just now:
Two back-to-back posts. The first one is a meme quote post from @bcdreyer.social about Mamdani that reads: "Mamdani is going to implement Shari Lewis law. Everyone will be required to stick their fists up a lamb's a ... Excuse me, there's someone at the door." It is a quote post of another meme post from @spavel.bsky.social that reads, "Mamdani is going to implement SSHaria law. Communications will be end to end encrypted." Just below that is a completely unrelated post of a shiba inu-looking dog stamping its paw into the rear of a large stuffed LambChop toy. The post, from @stellerarts.com, reads, "My husband keeps getting our dog increasingly larger lamb chop toys. The one he got today is larger than she is lol"
November 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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& ofc, she's the only one actually doing any work

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Social media post from the University of Cambridge that reads, "The death of the Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of DNA, James Watson, has been announced. he was 97. Together with Francis Crick, he identified the double-helix while working the Cavendish Laboratory Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. They famously announced that they had "discovered the secret of life" in the now-legendary Eagle Pub in 1953. Tap the link in the comments to read about one of the 20th century's greatest scientific breakthroughs. Illustration by Quentin Blake for Cambridge's 800th anniversary." There is a cartoon attached that shows three figures representing Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Francis Crick, with a double helix superimposed across the trio. Franklin is wearing a red skirt suit and looking into a microsope. Watson is holding what looks like a pint of beer and chatting with Crick, who is hold some paper down by his side in one hand and is waving a pen around with the other hand while he chats with Watson.
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
What an absolute tell it is to pretend that looking @ events from the perspective of the non-victors somehow is feckless, leftist orthodoxy instead of what should be the uncontroversial act of learning how to use critical thinking&perspective-taking to gain greater understanding abt our past&present
Critics say the growth of these programs, which aim to teach about historical events from the perspective of marginalized and oppressed groups, has turned colleges into feckless workshops for leftist political orthodoxy.
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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The linked "actual story" is "Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? &if so, can conservative feminism fix it?". Feminism is actively anti-conservative. "Conservative feminism" cannot exist. NYT is so committed to "both-sidesism," it manufactures the "other side."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...
Every bit of this is disheartening on its face. But it’s actually worse than any first-blush irritation, that familiar annoyance that comes from encountering still another textbook exercise in witless triangulation. Because what this sort of reporting ultimately means is that if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, which you can then put on some think-tank stationery? Then, my friend, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage. For no matter how unhinged the position you’ve taken, or paid someone marginally credentialed to sketch out on your behalf—“Can Woman Think?: We Investigate,” “Is the Negro a Man: A Reconsideration”—that opinion will, by virtue of such provenance, possess all needed evidentiary gravity for the Times. And then some. (Only yesterday the Times ran this actual story, which is not parody.)
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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With alt-text and image credit is Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Trump, an elderly white man in a blue suit with a red tie, stands facing the camera behind a desk. He has a look of confused irritation in his face, his eyes cast slightly to his left, and appears strangely static. To his left is a cluster of people kneeling to assist a man who has just collapsed in the Oval Office. The contrast is one of clueless and callous insouciance against the dynamic drama of a human emergency
November 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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This was a sign in a medical office building. It ended with “call Fred if you see her,” with the phone number. I have so many questions for Fred
FRED'S CAT IS HIDING IN THE OFFICE. PLEASE KEEP THE DOORS SHUT SO SHE DOESN'T ESCAPE. LEAVE THE DOOR TO THE ONE SMALL OFFICE OPEN SO SHE CAN GET FOOD AND WATER. Call FRED
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Karl coming in on his little cat feet
Fog just starting to edge its way across the Golden Gate Bridge in the darkness. In the glow of the bridge lights, the fog is still transparent enough to allow a view on the north tower
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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She knew she was beautiful 🦆
A female mallard standing on a rock nest to some water. She is seen from behind with her head turned to the left of the frame so that her profile is visible. She is actually quite pretty The same female mallard with her head now turned toward the right. She truly has style
November 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Truly what a shithole pls don’t visit
The North tower of the Golden Gate Bridge looms against a blue sky as fog rolls in over the hills of the Marin headlands
November 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Karl the Fog engulfs the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge
November 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
This woman is obsessed
A Wall Street Journal story by notorious TERF Pamela Paul with the headline “The Growing Divide in the Rainbow Coalition More gay people are speaking out against the gender ideology of trans and queer activists.” It shows the trans etc part of the rainbow flag torn from the rainbow-striped part of it
November 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Headless bird thread for Halloween! 🪶
A white swan butt and its black feet are visible as a swan ducks head under water for snacks
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
Sunset shades of rose
A coastal sunset on San Pablo Bay with layers of pink and blue in the sky and pink and green in the estuarine/marsh interface with a tiny dilapidated structure in the distant center
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Swan butt
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 AM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
I wish we still used humans for so many things
Uh, largely prescribed by state law, what's under, uh, under what's called the Surplus Lands Act. Uh, and so the city would, uh, release an RFP specifically for horrible housing developers who would then respond to that with their.
October 29, 2025 at 2:27 AM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
TIL that this use of “cribs” goes back a ways. This is from a Sherlock Holmes story
Screenshot of text that reads, “(Curi)ous, is it not? A gang of burglars acting in the country might be expected to vary the scene of their operations, and not to crack two cribs in the same district within a few days. When you spoke…”
October 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Quote with an image you can hear.
Image it the THX logo that used to appear on movie screens accompanied by a pretty awesome accelerating surround sound
October 19, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Of note
A series of 18 images of people on UT Austin's "President's Committee" of people deciding the fate of liberal arts at Texas's flagship university. Of the 18 people, 14 appear to be men, and most appear to be white. There is also an image of the school logo, a burnt-orange silhouette of a longhorn
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Party Down nailed it
Image of a leader of the fictional California College Conservative Union Caucus leader, a heavy-set man with non-stylin' brown hair and sideburns, glasses, and a pink shirt, looking in a puzzled way at Ken Marino, who plays the catering team lead in the show and is wearing a pink bowtie.
October 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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This was in a clinical note I just received, part of the overview list of systems, and it is the absolutely strangest thing I’ve ever seen in an after-visit clinical note and no, no one actually asked me this question
Cardiovascular: Did you get poisoned
October 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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“Just like being tall, all autistic people, regardless of how their status arises, could benefit from the same kinds of considerations and accommodations for shared autism-associated traits”

buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
There are many roads to what we humans view as "being tall," but in the end, the outcome is, well, being tall. We don't spend a lot of time discussing tall people as being "profoundly tall" or subdividing them in some way based on their tallness. We don't have pages of handwringing in the news media and scientific literature about how to prevent tall people from existing or indirectly implying that aim by going on and on about causes. We don't perseverate in op-eds and 24-hour news channel commentary on how tall people discompose us at movies and public events because we can't see over them. We don't talk about how distracting tall people are, how much space they require just to exist, or what a burden their clinical needs are on society, and we don't ask why we have to have tall people around at all when they are just so much trouble for not-tall people (te he clear. Llive with and them. We don't talk about how distracting tall people are, how much space they require just to exist, or what a burden their clinical needs are on society, and we don't ask why we have to have tall people around at all when they are just so much trouble for not-tall people (to be clear, I live with and love several tall people). And one other thing: You can't take the tallness out of someone, not in any ethical way. "Tall" is just what they are.
October 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
ejwillingham.bsky.social
The moon as seen from the edge of the continent
A wedge of land seems to be pointing at the moon risen over a calm Pacific Ocean amid a few wispy clouds
October 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Even a mere factual observation of how many GOP senators there are&could reach compromise on health care&end the shutdown just goes…unsaid. So many headlines w/ “this Dem senator could end the shutdown” &really? They’re the ones who have to give in? Not the fucking GOP? This is just unfiltered WH PR
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement that not just federal workers but all Americans are being harmed by what she called Democrats' decision to shut down the government. "Any lapse in funding, this one brought on by the Democrats, has consequences," Jackson said. "The Democrats can reopen the government anytime they want."
October 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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This you?
A tweet from Jay celebrating the day the Bluesky user count topped 18 million
October 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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A trio of cygnets napping
Three large cygnets with mottle brown and white feathers floating in greenish water, each with their head tucked into a wing
October 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM