Erin Hoffman
@eronhistorion.bsky.social
Tech, education, laser cutting, covid isn't over
Hope is a discipline
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Hope is a discipline
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To summarize, home molecular virology can tell you about:
- viral load ("when should I go back to work?" "should grandma come visit?")
- which particular virus someone has ("did my kid get me sick or do I have something new?")
Very interesting stuff, however impractical!
- viral load ("when should I go back to work?" "should grandma come visit?")
- which particular virus someone has ("did my kid get me sick or do I have something new?")
Very interesting stuff, however impractical!
6 years and 300+ experiments later, I've concluded that sequencing all the viruses going through my house is actually slightly useful, while still wildly impractical of course!
lab.rbyers.ca/essays/20260...
lab.rbyers.ca/essays/20260...
The Utility of Home Molecular Virology | RByers Lab
lab.rbyers.ca
February 14, 2026 at 8:13 PM
To summarize, home molecular virology can tell you about:
- viral load ("when should I go back to work?" "should grandma come visit?")
- which particular virus someone has ("did my kid get me sick or do I have something new?")
Very interesting stuff, however impractical!
- viral load ("when should I go back to work?" "should grandma come visit?")
- which particular virus someone has ("did my kid get me sick or do I have something new?")
Very interesting stuff, however impractical!
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Nowhere do I find the social pressure to conform more intense than the TSA screening line. Resistance is a practice and it matters
February 7, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Nowhere do I find the social pressure to conform more intense than the TSA screening line. Resistance is a practice and it matters
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Minimizing the window where I read about how our world is a joke and we're at the mercy of megalomaniacal evil perverts. Logging on to the work zoom. "Heyyyy I'm good! How are you?"
February 4, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Minimizing the window where I read about how our world is a joke and we're at the mercy of megalomaniacal evil perverts. Logging on to the work zoom. "Heyyyy I'm good! How are you?"
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Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
February 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
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I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
January 25, 2026 at 2:32 AM
BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.
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A 2026 tale bsky.app/profile/chan...
This is really not funny but it is also extremely funny
January 23, 2026 at 2:35 AM
A 2026 tale bsky.app/profile/chan...
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When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
List and Shout | Lydia Kiesling
The labor involved in making lists was as close to the opposite of a transcendent reading experience as a disillusioned culture worker could get.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:18 PM
When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
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Hey, people are permanently losing their eyesight at some of these protests and have been for some time. These people, the ones that have put their bodies on the line, are among the people who would benefit from your usage of alt-text when posting protest related imagery.
January 17, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Hey, people are permanently losing their eyesight at some of these protests and have been for some time. These people, the ones that have put their bodies on the line, are among the people who would benefit from your usage of alt-text when posting protest related imagery.
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ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM
ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.
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Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
January 14, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
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If you own a space¹ and want to keep it healthy you need to proactively ban scum from it, it's in your own best fucking interest too Exhibit 7345828196:
¹: be it a physical space, or a discord, or a multiplayer game, whatever
bsky.app/profile/ence...
¹: be it a physical space, or a discord, or a multiplayer game, whatever
bsky.app/profile/ence...
My gay cousin* shared something that has been happening in my hometown.
A group of lesbians, fed up with not having any dedicated lesbian bars to go to, decided to start a weekly meet-up in a regular bar.
Spoiler: it didn't end well.🧵
A group of lesbians, fed up with not having any dedicated lesbian bars to go to, decided to start a weekly meet-up in a regular bar.
Spoiler: it didn't end well.🧵
January 11, 2026 at 12:09 PM
If you own a space¹ and want to keep it healthy you need to proactively ban scum from it, it's in your own best fucking interest too Exhibit 7345828196:
¹: be it a physical space, or a discord, or a multiplayer game, whatever
bsky.app/profile/ence...
¹: be it a physical space, or a discord, or a multiplayer game, whatever
bsky.app/profile/ence...
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In 1995, Sandra Bullock was the first person ever to buy movie theater tickets online, in promotion for her new film THE NET.
January 3, 2026 at 12:01 AM
In 1995, Sandra Bullock was the first person ever to buy movie theater tickets online, in promotion for her new film THE NET.
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huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun
January 2, 2026 at 12:47 AM
huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun
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I'M UPSET AT COMPUTERS
THEY USED TO BE COOL NOW THEY JUST MAKE ME MAD ALL THE TIME
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
THEY USED TO BE COOL NOW THEY JUST MAKE ME MAD ALL THE TIME
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
January 2, 2026 at 2:18 AM
I'M UPSET AT COMPUTERS
THEY USED TO BE COOL NOW THEY JUST MAKE ME MAD ALL THE TIME
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
THEY USED TO BE COOL NOW THEY JUST MAKE ME MAD ALL THE TIME
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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They still haven't accepted that the South lost, so no.
do they know sauron loses
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
December 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
They still haven't accepted that the South lost, so no.
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my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)
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went to bed with a mass shooting, waking up with a different mass shooting
December 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
went to bed with a mass shooting, waking up with a different mass shooting
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Attention NYC: We made it past the earliest sunset of the year.
No, it's not on the solstice. That's the shortest day, but the earliest sunset is sooner and the latest sunrise is later.
So those of us who, like me, are primarily offended by early sunsets have officially survived rock bottom.
No, it's not on the solstice. That's the shortest day, but the earliest sunset is sooner and the latest sunrise is later.
So those of us who, like me, are primarily offended by early sunsets have officially survived rock bottom.
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Attention NYC: We made it past the earliest sunset of the year.
No, it's not on the solstice. That's the shortest day, but the earliest sunset is sooner and the latest sunrise is later.
So those of us who, like me, are primarily offended by early sunsets have officially survived rock bottom.
No, it's not on the solstice. That's the shortest day, but the earliest sunset is sooner and the latest sunrise is later.
So those of us who, like me, are primarily offended by early sunsets have officially survived rock bottom.
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social I'm just listening to the raw milk Maintenance Phase and...
"It's such a miracle that [tuberculosis] is not a live issue any more"
I genuinely regret to inform (remind?) you that this is not true in most of the world
"It's such a miracle that [tuberculosis] is not a live issue any more"
I genuinely regret to inform (remind?) you that this is not true in most of the world
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s top infectious killer. Nearly 4500 people lose their lives and 30 000 people fall ill with TB each day. TB is contagious and airborne. It is caused by bacteria (Mycoba...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social I'm just listening to the raw milk Maintenance Phase and...
"It's such a miracle that [tuberculosis] is not a live issue any more"
I genuinely regret to inform (remind?) you that this is not true in most of the world
"It's such a miracle that [tuberculosis] is not a live issue any more"
I genuinely regret to inform (remind?) you that this is not true in most of the world
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* You know how Van Halen had a contract rider demanding bowls of M&Ms with the brown ones removed?
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
In Search of Van Halen's Brown M&Ms
Contract riders and the meaning of a modern pop star
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November 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
* You know how Van Halen had a contract rider demanding bowls of M&Ms with the brown ones removed?
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive:
They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever!
BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it.
Snack Stack exclusive: