Fern Rosemary
@microbialscraps.bsky.social
life long learner
nature enthusiast
currently reading: the rooster bar
current favorite artist: townes van zandt
last watched movie: mrs harris goes to paris
nature enthusiast
currently reading: the rooster bar
current favorite artist: townes van zandt
last watched movie: mrs harris goes to paris
idk how to explain it but this is the same feeling as being a gold star lesbian
January 15, 2026 at 5:43 PM
idk how to explain it but this is the same feeling as being a gold star lesbian
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"Members of both parties should stand together to mourn this tragedy and demand an impartial investigation. Anything less would be not just indecent but unjust." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
ICE Shooting Should Be Mourned — and Investigated
The simple question that Army lawyer Joseph Welch posed to Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 — “Have you no sense of decency?” — helped end a witch hunt that was tearing the country in two.
www.bloomberg.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
"Members of both parties should stand together to mourn this tragedy and demand an impartial investigation. Anything less would be not just indecent but unjust." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
just went to my local city council meeting and was brought to tears by my community standing up against the proposed zoning for a data center on our land. i’m so proud of my community
#supportlocalpolitics
#supportlocalpolitics
January 14, 2026 at 1:18 AM
just went to my local city council meeting and was brought to tears by my community standing up against the proposed zoning for a data center on our land. i’m so proud of my community
#supportlocalpolitics
#supportlocalpolitics
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Once you start thinking about how many pieces of technology were developed to share dubiously consensual pictures of women's bodies, you can't stop seeing it. I wrote about it here. www.vox.com/culture/4747...
Grok’s nonconsensual porn problem is part of a long, gross legacy
Elon Musk claims tech needs a “spicy mode” to dominate. Is he right?
www.vox.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Once you start thinking about how many pieces of technology were developed to share dubiously consensual pictures of women's bodies, you can't stop seeing it. I wrote about it here. www.vox.com/culture/4747...
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Kristi Noem On Renée Good Murder: ‘We Will Find The Immigrant Who Did This’
January 12, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Kristi Noem On Renée Good Murder: ‘We Will Find The Immigrant Who Did This’
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Great article, this is what matters most on Earth right now. Forget the chaotic fascist. Repeat: forget the orange noise!
January 11, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Great article, this is what matters most on Earth right now. Forget the chaotic fascist. Repeat: forget the orange noise!
January 12, 2026 at 2:04 AM
i want to travel the amazon rainforest SO BAD
January 11, 2026 at 8:19 PM
i want to travel the amazon rainforest SO BAD
the hardest part about being in my early twenties is that i never feel like im doing the right thing. i have so much longer left to live i don’t want to waste my time on this earth but im so overwhelmed with all the options available to me i feel stuck
January 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
the hardest part about being in my early twenties is that i never feel like im doing the right thing. i have so much longer left to live i don’t want to waste my time on this earth but im so overwhelmed with all the options available to me i feel stuck
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"Now the legal penalty for not complying fast enough, or complying with the wrong set of conflicting instructions being screamed at you by multiple people, or reflexively hitting the gas when there’s a gun pointed at your face, is death by firing squad."
Regime Declares Open Season On White Women, Anyone Else Who Leaves The House
Also if you can read this, you’re on a list.
ino.to
January 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
"Now the legal penalty for not complying fast enough, or complying with the wrong set of conflicting instructions being screamed at you by multiple people, or reflexively hitting the gas when there’s a gun pointed at your face, is death by firing squad."
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Fully agree: the budget is a huge win AND things are definitively not OK. An entire generation of early career scientists has been severely affected, many more senior scientists have been pushed out of jobs, and there’s a lingering air of uncertainty that will affect decision-making for *years*.
This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!”
But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling.
If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling.
If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...
Congress Is Reversing Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Fully agree: the budget is a huge win AND things are definitively not OK. An entire generation of early career scientists has been severely affected, many more senior scientists have been pushed out of jobs, and there’s a lingering air of uncertainty that will affect decision-making for *years*.
who else loves #townesvanzandt
i’m looking for some mutuals with similar taste
i’m looking for some mutuals with similar taste
January 10, 2026 at 8:45 PM
who else loves #townesvanzandt
i’m looking for some mutuals with similar taste
i’m looking for some mutuals with similar taste
i started the rooster bar yesterday and could only get 10 pgs in… does it get better or is the book just bad? i’ve seen quite a few bad reviews of the book so i’m a little skeptical
January 10, 2026 at 8:34 PM
i started the rooster bar yesterday and could only get 10 pgs in… does it get better or is the book just bad? i’ve seen quite a few bad reviews of the book so i’m a little skeptical
ALSO i finally finished remarkably bright creatures and WOW!! such a fun read im so sad that it’s over
January 10, 2026 at 8:33 PM
ALSO i finally finished remarkably bright creatures and WOW!! such a fun read im so sad that it’s over
ran 2 miles yesterday, biked five miles today! hopefully by the end of february i can be running 5 miles
January 10, 2026 at 8:32 PM
ran 2 miles yesterday, biked five miles today! hopefully by the end of february i can be running 5 miles
just finished the audiobook version of bell hooks from margin to center. that was the most definite five star rating i’ve ever given a book
January 10, 2026 at 8:31 PM
just finished the audiobook version of bell hooks from margin to center. that was the most definite five star rating i’ve ever given a book
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I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount
January 10, 2026 at 4:07 AM
I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount
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The legendary David Bowie died 10 years ago today. 🤍
A look back at ‘Blackstar,’ his final masterpiece released two days earlier…
A look back at ‘Blackstar,’ his final masterpiece released two days earlier…
David Bowie's 'Blackstar' Turns 10
When I awoke that Sunday morning, I was so confused. My wife, not much of a music fan, mentioned she’d just read some news about David Bowie. I replied something along the lines of, “Yeah, he just rel...
stereogum.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:41 PM
The legendary David Bowie died 10 years ago today. 🤍
A look back at ‘Blackstar,’ his final masterpiece released two days earlier…
A look back at ‘Blackstar,’ his final masterpiece released two days earlier…
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Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
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can we finally agree that liberals aren't leftists and just stop wasting time and energy
January 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
can we finally agree that liberals aren't leftists and just stop wasting time and energy
the longer i use bluesky the more i enjoy it! i especially love the science community here yall are great
i throughly enjoy that bluesky allows you to see specially posts from people you’re following and doesn’t force you to view their discover page lie some other social media apps try to do
i throughly enjoy that bluesky allows you to see specially posts from people you’re following and doesn’t force you to view their discover page lie some other social media apps try to do
January 4, 2026 at 11:29 PM
the longer i use bluesky the more i enjoy it! i especially love the science community here yall are great
i throughly enjoy that bluesky allows you to see specially posts from people you’re following and doesn’t force you to view their discover page lie some other social media apps try to do
i throughly enjoy that bluesky allows you to see specially posts from people you’re following and doesn’t force you to view their discover page lie some other social media apps try to do
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🧪 A fascinating discussion of the disjunct between biological systems and digital computation, that really emphasises the vast gulf between the neurons in our brains and the nodes in a computer-hosted neural network.
When we try to formalize a neuron computationally, we don't translate biology into code—we perform a violent collapse.
www.ocrampal.com/what-a-neuro...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
www.ocrampal.com/what-a-neuro...
#philosophy #science #psychology #AI #intelligence #physics #biology #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence
What a Neuron Teaches Us About Computation's Limits
When we try to formalize a neuron computationally, we don't translate biology into code—we perform a violent collapse. We lock causation into fixed arrows when biology lives in causal ambiguity. We sy...
www.ocrampal.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:11 PM
🧪 A fascinating discussion of the disjunct between biological systems and digital computation, that really emphasises the vast gulf between the neurons in our brains and the nodes in a computer-hosted neural network.