JetteDuffy

JetteDuffy

@jetteduffy.bsky.social

Former Comp. Chemist/structural biologist, now team coach. Many interests, not enough time. Need a camper van and a map. No MAGA, No DMs.

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You know, if I were a guy with a history of grabbing women by the p*ssy and hanging around with convicted sex traffickers, I don’t think I’d post this. It makes him look weak, vulnerable and desperate, amirite?

This is how Donald acts when his party loses Congress. He’s gotta take it out on somebody. It’s not just Ukraine. We’re all going to suffer until January and we have no idea what his anger will unleash on the rest of us.

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One of the many things I love about El-Sayed is that he's willing to engage with someone hostile if it gets them to admit the premises behind that hostility, to the extent that it becomes impossible to avoid the underlying bigotry. You want to go there, fine, but he's gonna make you own it.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Riiiiiggghht. Let your leaky chief of staff go right before a major election and replace her with a mega hardass evil super villain. What could possibly go wrong? Someone keep Susie off the second floor.

I was 3. I saw my mom get baptized into a high demand religion & picked up on something that was deeply disturbing. I wasn’t old before my time but I knew I understood conversations that other kids my age wouldn’t understand. My mom called it creepy. She was sentimental like that.

This is nonsense. I read both but when it comes to women authors, I’m more likely to read LeGuin and Atwood over chick lit. Plus, there are plenty of good make authors. They’re not all a-holes.

Question: is Trump deliberately destroying the US as some kind of achievement or does he just not care what happens to it as long as he’s making money and has the most power on earth?

It looks like the end of maga and Trump happened because he’s threatening to tear down a powerful symbol of america ascendant in the form of arts, culture and a charismatic president on the brink of greatness. Talk about not reading the room. It feels like an Arab spring moment.

Trans ppl are not going to like this. 1.) to protect your rights, you need to win 2.) in order to win, you need all those normies who outnumber you- bigly. 3.) ergo you need to show the normies that you have something in common with THEM and you feel their pain. 1/2

They have too much on their plate right now and your reassignment surgery and HRT is not on their radar. You might try forming a movement called “Trans for Paid Maternity Leave” or “Trans against data centers”. See where I’m going with that?

I just watched a short on YouTube from a travel content creator where she complained that the only thing her AirTag did was show where her luggage was at all times and other than that, it did nothing useful. 😐 She has 1.1 M subscribers.

How about if the tell you they never loved you, thought you were creepy and are now a total loser after getting laid off? Then call you from a relative’s land line to say you don’t have any friends because no one likes you? Can you go no contact then. What’s the threshold?

Took the elevator up this morning with a nice guy who was clearly listening to Everybody Wants to Rule the World leaking from my headphones and said “Have a nice day” when I got off the floor before him. Gen Jones kindred spirit.

The Correspondent looked intriguing until I read Anne Patchett’s blurb praising it. I can’t stand Patchett after her stupid State of Wonder book with her ignorance of drug discovery featuring yet another🙄 greedy mad scientist. Now I can’t buy The Correspondent. The publisher killed it for me.

In response to Neon (who has turned off comments), why are you blaming “scientists”?? The way this works is scientists invent things that cost a lot of money to research. Vulture capitalists like Elon buy those patents and do whatever they want with them.

You don’t go into science thinking that a rich psychopathic a-hole is going to use your work to crash stuff into the moon. Once the patents are bought, the psychopath makes the decisions and all the money. Jeez, ignorance of science isn’t limited to maga nuts.

Well, that didn’t take long. There are two toddlers who got on the bus when I did and almost immediately started to protest and cry. That means I will have go listen to this all the way home. 🤦‍♀️

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This is working out well. I’m going to have to wear them in ikea where they sneak up behind you in the bedding section and let loose with the loudest scream finely tuned to vibrate your last nerve.

Well, that didn’t take long. There are two toddlers who got on the bus when I did and almost immediately started to protest and cry. That means I will have go listen to this all the way home. 🤦‍♀️

I don’t get it. Why is Maine so short on Democrats who can run for Senator? What about Heather Cox Richardson running as an independent? I’d contribute to that campaign.

He got so many other things right but why can’t he see that the political landscape has shifted so far right that only a strong yank from the left will get us anywhere near the New Deal again? I just don’t get it.

#PRT #Pittsburgh. That’s it. I’m done with the P1. It’s too dangerous. I got pushed by some teenage b*tch today, lost my balance, phone went flying. I had surgery on my eye a few weeks ago& can’t risk this. Last week my car was vandalized in the park and ride. Nope. After 13 years, never again.

I guess we should have seen it coming but the #PRT buses in #Pittsburgh are PACKED. And there seems to be fewer of them. They used to come about every 3-4 minutes on the busway. This morning it was about 10 mins & the crowds on the busway are huge. Gas prices are killing us.

Had a conversation with a relative in a high control religion tonight. Ok, it’s a cult. Anyway, I asked her what would happen if aliens showed up. Spoiler alert: religious people are going to be basket cases.

If Trump and Farage have ever been in the same room together, I’d plaster those pics all over the place. Also any time Trump said he and Nigel were buddies. Or whenever Victor Orban said something nice about him. Guilt by association.

I get why some journalists are going to the White House Correspondents dinner. It’s newsworthy that Trump is finally going to attend. Gotta cover it. Network and cable probably don’t have to be there. Let the independent media cover it. 😏

Why do people insist on using the word “utilize”?? Why not just “use”? It’s right up there with “levelset” as words to never “use”. And why in god’s name do people say “levelset” in the first place? Are they carpenters? Brick layers?

Just a partially informed American here (Harris/walz voter). Starmer might not be the ideal politician but do you REALLY want to change horses now, when Trump is running with scissors? It is possible that he didn’t know everything. Focus on de-Brexitizing yourselves.

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Chemist Reatha Clark King was born #OTD in 1938. Her calorimetry work on gaseous fluorine compounds at the National Bureau of Standards contributed to NASA's investigations of various rocket fuels for the space program. She was the first Black woman to work as a chemist at NIST. 🧪 👩‍🔬