Doc Stef
@stephvkortchak.bsky.social
ORISE Fellow at FDA 💊 Microbiology/Immunology PhD GMU ‘17 ‘23 🦠💚 Miniature painter (comms open) 🎨Super Nerd🎧Board Gamer 🎲 Destiny2 player 🎮Views are my own🏳️🌈
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Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Device…hoarding. Because you don’t go get a new one while yours is still fine.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
Apparently I am also practicing car hoarding, house hoarding, husband hoarding, dog hoarding, computer hoarding, furniture hoarding and art hoarding.
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They thought we, being radical leftists apparently, would put a "DOGE sucks" type of message onto government websites or into government communication systems
My evidence for that: the right did exactly this to government websites. So they were projecting what they planned to do onto us.
My evidence for that: the right did exactly this to government websites. So they were projecting what they planned to do onto us.
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They thought we, being radical leftists apparently, would put a "DOGE sucks" type of message onto government websites or into government communication systems
My evidence for that: the right did exactly this to government websites. So they were projecting what they planned to do onto us.
My evidence for that: the right did exactly this to government websites. So they were projecting what they planned to do onto us.
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Just got hit with the "we regret to inform you but your Bluesky account has been suspended" scam which is rich considering that a) I'm ON Bluesky and can see that it's not, and b) I don't even HAVE a Discord
Anyway, be careful out there 🤘🏼
Anyway, be careful out there 🤘🏼
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Just got hit with the "we regret to inform you but your Bluesky account has been suspended" scam which is rich considering that a) I'm ON Bluesky and can see that it's not, and b) I don't even HAVE a Discord
Anyway, be careful out there 🤘🏼
Anyway, be careful out there 🤘🏼
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This was one of my favorites:
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This was one of my favorites:
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“Polyworking”? POLYWORKING?!?
*runs screaming into the ocean, never to be seen again*
*runs screaming into the ocean, never to be seen again*
Workers turn to 'polyworking' to combat frozen salaries and inflation
Working professionals in the U.S. are taking on side jobs to supplement their incomes amid frozen salaries, inflation and fear of layoffs.
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“Polyworking”? POLYWORKING?!?
*runs screaming into the ocean, never to be seen again*
*runs screaming into the ocean, never to be seen again*
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Cute crab migration time!! 🦀
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Cute crab migration time!! 🦀
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Love trans people as much as you hate JK Rowling
Love Native people as much as you hate Christopher Columbus
Love immigrants as much as you hate ICE
Support marginalized communities even when you aren’t dunking on someone who hurts them
Love Native people as much as you hate Christopher Columbus
Love immigrants as much as you hate ICE
Support marginalized communities even when you aren’t dunking on someone who hurts them
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Love trans people as much as you hate JK Rowling
Love Native people as much as you hate Christopher Columbus
Love immigrants as much as you hate ICE
Support marginalized communities even when you aren’t dunking on someone who hurts them
Love Native people as much as you hate Christopher Columbus
Love immigrants as much as you hate ICE
Support marginalized communities even when you aren’t dunking on someone who hurts them
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Please amplify, friends, and raise your voices. The world lost an entire generation to AIDS. Heads up @oneaid.bsky.social @friendsofusaid.bsky.social @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social
1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
November 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Please amplify, friends, and raise your voices. The world lost an entire generation to AIDS. Heads up @oneaid.bsky.social @friendsofusaid.bsky.social @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social
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Post-convention blues can hit hard, especially combined with the holiday season ramping up this week. If you were at #PAXU or the ST TREK CHI con, or any other con, read this from @takethis.org
www.takethis.org/2017/09/how-...
www.takethis.org/2017/09/how-...
How to Handle Con Crash Like a Pro - Take This
You waited for your favorite con all year. You followed it on Twitter and Facebook. You had three screens ready to rapidly refresh and get your tickets as soon as…
www.takethis.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Post-convention blues can hit hard, especially combined with the holiday season ramping up this week. If you were at #PAXU or the ST TREK CHI con, or any other con, read this from @takethis.org
www.takethis.org/2017/09/how-...
www.takethis.org/2017/09/how-...
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
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For real. Don't ask why not, don't act like it's weird, don't offer over and over again, and don't speculate about why with other people. Just offer a non-alcoholic alternative and move the fuck on.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
For real. Don't ask why not, don't act like it's weird, don't offer over and over again, and don't speculate about why with other people. Just offer a non-alcoholic alternative and move the fuck on.
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I genuinely wonder if the reason we've been plagued by uncle stories for at least 40 years of "Well my bud didn't get a job and they told him it was because they did an affirmative action hire" isn't because the uncle is lying, but because some bloodless HR psycho just wanted them to stop calling.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I genuinely wonder if the reason we've been plagued by uncle stories for at least 40 years of "Well my bud didn't get a job and they told him it was because they did an affirmative action hire" isn't because the uncle is lying, but because some bloodless HR psycho just wanted them to stop calling.
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If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
If you're an author being published by small and tiny presses, please shamelessly promote your work, however much your temperament might militate against it. I've seen many wonderful authors at this level so quickly forgotten when they die, you deserve all the readers you can get while you're alive.
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Here’s another pearl you can take from this weekend.
You need to consume to create.
Take interest in what your peers are creating, to be curious, want your contemporaries to run pace beside you. Consume their work.
You need to consume to create.
Take interest in what your peers are creating, to be curious, want your contemporaries to run pace beside you. Consume their work.
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Here’s another pearl you can take from this weekend.
You need to consume to create.
Take interest in what your peers are creating, to be curious, want your contemporaries to run pace beside you. Consume their work.
You need to consume to create.
Take interest in what your peers are creating, to be curious, want your contemporaries to run pace beside you. Consume their work.
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Artists!!!!!
I want to feature your work in my Three wins series, otherwise I’m taking a cover photo from a publication and I feel weird about that, plus I wanna amplify your work, so if you have a piece about:
Social Security, disability, Libraries, censorship, universities or gender identity
1/
I want to feature your work in my Three wins series, otherwise I’m taking a cover photo from a publication and I feel weird about that, plus I wanna amplify your work, so if you have a piece about:
Social Security, disability, Libraries, censorship, universities or gender identity
1/
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Artists!!!!!
I want to feature your work in my Three wins series, otherwise I’m taking a cover photo from a publication and I feel weird about that, plus I wanna amplify your work, so if you have a piece about:
Social Security, disability, Libraries, censorship, universities or gender identity
1/
I want to feature your work in my Three wins series, otherwise I’m taking a cover photo from a publication and I feel weird about that, plus I wanna amplify your work, so if you have a piece about:
Social Security, disability, Libraries, censorship, universities or gender identity
1/
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No industry is perfect. But the imbalance is hard to miss. One sector must prove its products are safe & effective. The other profits by avoiding that responsibility. If we care about transparency and accountability, scrutiny shouldn’t be one-sided. (Source: For The Greater Glory of Science) #EpiSky
November 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
No industry is perfect. But the imbalance is hard to miss. One sector must prove its products are safe & effective. The other profits by avoiding that responsibility. If we care about transparency and accountability, scrutiny shouldn’t be one-sided. (Source: For The Greater Glory of Science) #EpiSky
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If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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We would reeeaaaaally like to know who is putting this hot garbage on the CDC website (def not us!).
And the footnote! “Bill Cassidy made us keep the truth in there and we’re complaining publicly about it”.
Quick! Someone get these whiny little babies their vaccines!
And the footnote! “Bill Cassidy made us keep the truth in there and we’re complaining publicly about it”.
Quick! Someone get these whiny little babies their vaccines!
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
We would reeeaaaaally like to know who is putting this hot garbage on the CDC website (def not us!).
And the footnote! “Bill Cassidy made us keep the truth in there and we’re complaining publicly about it”.
Quick! Someone get these whiny little babies their vaccines!
And the footnote! “Bill Cassidy made us keep the truth in there and we’re complaining publicly about it”.
Quick! Someone get these whiny little babies their vaccines!
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Vaccines don’t cause autism.
No matter what the 🧠🪱 says.
No matter what the 🧠🪱 says.
Penn and Teller on Vaccinations
YouTube video by UltraMiraculous
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Vaccines don’t cause autism.
No matter what the 🧠🪱 says.
No matter what the 🧠🪱 says.
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Is this what you wanted, Senator Cassidy? Is this TRAVESTY enough to salve your conscience for your vote?
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Is this what you wanted, Senator Cassidy? Is this TRAVESTY enough to salve your conscience for your vote?
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A an angry reminder that
1. There is no causal link between vaccines & autism
2. Autism has a strong genetic component, involving ~500 genes
3. Tylenol is not linked to autism
4. RFQuack failed to get a journal to retract a large Danish study that showed no link btwn aluminum & autism
A an angry reminder that
1. There is no causal link between vaccines & autism
2. Autism has a strong genetic component, involving ~500 genes
3. Tylenol is not linked to autism
4. RFQuack failed to get a journal to retract a large Danish study that showed no link btwn aluminum & autism
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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A an angry reminder that
1. There is no causal link between vaccines & autism
2. Autism has a strong genetic component, involving ~500 genes
3. Tylenol is not linked to autism
4. RFQuack failed to get a journal to retract a large Danish study that showed no link btwn aluminum & autism
A an angry reminder that
1. There is no causal link between vaccines & autism
2. Autism has a strong genetic component, involving ~500 genes
3. Tylenol is not linked to autism
4. RFQuack failed to get a journal to retract a large Danish study that showed no link btwn aluminum & autism
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For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.