An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Welcome :) it’s nice here and we have sensory fidgets

So important to get that diagnosis and glad you did while he was still in grade school. Didn’t get mine until 25 when I’d already had the misfortune of going for my PhD.

NARRATOR: WE DID NOT IN FACT GET IT TOGETHER IN TIME

How fucking messed up do you have to be to get to the point where you say shit like ‘The problem is teens and young adults, from ages 15-19 the fertility rate is down…’

Brewers yeast, and I thought that was the Sam Adams guy.

Either way don’t do that.

At least those ads give us a denominator

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Thanks for clearing this up, or rather uprezzing it.

I knew the Long American Century would end, probably during my lifetime. I just didn’t think it would end this stupidly. Maybe I should have.

That’s not why he’s doing this but *you should buy his book.* I learned so much about a series of events I thought I knew quite a bit about.

My likelihood ranking is a close 1-2 between Iraq War (either) style air attack or no change at all, with nukes being a distant but nonzero third. Just can’t rule out that he’ll declare nuclear war after he gets embarrassed filling his adult diaper in front of a reporter.

Umm, “Chicka chicka boom boom?” Been a few years…

It’s also political because everything involving the use of power incl. mandating a redistribution of resources is political whether we like it or not.

I wonder what will happen to gas prices if we nuke Teheran. I imagine it would be a significant supply disruption, but maybe also a significant demand disruption! I guess we wait and see.

/parody

Fine by me

So many documentaries and articles about that disaster have photos or video of kids and teachers watching it live on their classroom AV rack. Not surprising that scene works its way into the collective consciousness.

Dear elected officials that represent me,

This is an open letter informing you that these "policy issues" are non-negotiable, and in lieu of taking up phone lines way more often than anyone should have to, please review regularly:

Genocide - bad
Gays - good
Nazis - bad
Trans - good

1/274

How does Kim Caldwell still have a job?

How I wish we had the kind of Democrats who would publicly commit to transporting Donald Trump to the Hague for trial when his rotten regime falls.

Ton of chances. Couldn’t convert. Hell of a run.

I am not sure people understand the degree to which foreign grad students (and especially Chinese ones) are propping up our universities.

yet another reason to leave substack (before they make it even harder to leave):

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it:

International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

Try again but this time with thinking

Two fancy cocktails I forgot the names of

Here’s to another 44 with @jpdmath.bsky.social

Just scrolled past a post that said, "Please stop anthropomorphizing other people!" and I'm starting to think that dictionaries should be distributed free the way phone books used to be. Words have meaning, y'all. That's kind of how language works.

Bad time to play your worst game of the year

This was the peak of Twitter.