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I’ve come to realize that THIS is what the saying “Absolute power corrupts absolutely” actually means. The human brain is built to exist within a community of peers, and without corrective feedback, the brain goes wildly off the rails.

oh but don't worry he didn't stop there, he also invented: -shottky diode (made practical, books.google.com/books?id=EUT...) -the ATM (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utimaco...)

just building on this thread shitting on RFK, the mosfet, the literal foundation upon which all modern electronics (particularly computers) is built, was invented by an egyptian guy named mohamed atalla en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed...

Literature: Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel (1988) but tbh if you think "the Arabic world has never written any literature" then congrats on surviving that brain amoeba, sorry it ate so much of your brain, here's the DISAMBIGUATION PAGE on Arabic literature to get up to speed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

Wolf Prize: Omar M. Yaghi, 2018 (and bonus again, Nobel in Chemistry, 2025!), "for his contribution to the field of reticular chemistry", considered a pioneer in reticular chemistry, (artificial materials engineered at the *molecular* level. More awards than I have posts, but moreover, best pic:

Fields Medal: Michael Atiyah, 1966 (and bonus, Abel Prize, 2004), mathematics, developed something called K-theory, which is, uhh, let me see here..."the study of a ring generated by vector bundles over a topological space or scheme." 35+ honorary degrees, British Order of Merit, and a TON more.

Nobel Prize: Ahmed Zewail, 1999, Chemistry, considered the "father of femtochemistry", dealing with chemical reactions that happen on the 1⁄1 000 000 000 000 000 second time scale, professor of both chemistry and physics at CalTech, something like 19 honorary degrees, French Legion of Honor knight

No you know what I'm still mad about this, fuck you, you utter plague of rancid fats, I'm gonna learn MORE about this to tell you to go fuck yourself with an electron microscope let's learn about some Arabic contributors to science that won THE EXACT AWARDS he mentioned

you write 500,000,000 in ARABIC NUMERALS you slack-jawed brain-dead carbon sink of an undead racist, go try and prove germ theory wrong firsthand by huffing e. coli cultures

it's really, really fucking infuriating to be ruled by public officials so unbelievably, unfathomably, stupidly fucking racist such that you can't really finish your thoughts on the matter out loud because they are in fact public officials

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

Turning the knobs on kakistocracy and idiocracy to 11…

“He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.”

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

Such a heart-breaking story…

Hey @democrats.org ! Pay to run this as an ad on the gas pump screens in every competitive state, every day between now and Nov 3.

I talked with Matthew Soerens of World Relief about the first year the U.S. will likely resettle no Christians fleeing persecution. Listen to the whole conversation: austinkocher.substack.com/p/president-... @matthewsoerens.bsky.social

D+ TWENTY FOUR

I would say this: I don't care what you think about trans people. The essence of America is that people here get to live their lives however they want, as long as they're not hurting anyone else. You don't get a vote on that. Trans people aren't hurting you, so leave them alone.

IT WAS LITERALLY THE PARTY PLATFORM

The cruelty is the point. Shame on this administration and shame on the people who voted for this. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...

The solution is to charge them all with conspiracy.

@weissmann.substack.com @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social I’m listening to your recent Illegal News episode, and the Dan Sullivan thing has precedent from just a few years ago: www.npr.org/2021/03/19/9...

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

telling that periodically someone would go "man dolly parton can't really be all that" and then they'd go look into it and come back with "actually she's even better than we thought"

Here’s my proposal: We declare August 25 a national holiday, dedicated to children’s literacy. Every year, on Dolly Day, we spend the day exchanging books and listening to music. In the meantime, here’s the link to donate: donate.imaginationlibrary.com

Glad to find out I’m not 100% super-mega-weird for thinking, when I first heard this news earlier today, that this would be a grand occasion for Canada to “do that @doctorow.pluralistic.net stuff”… (y’know, that STUFF)

If Bluesky was really as dead as they say, could I do THIS?? (okay I am going to need this to do big numbers)

When a ceasefire agreement doesn’t involve ceasing to fire…

@johncarreyrou.bsky.social I hope you’re digging into this— This is insanity on par with Bad Blood.

This man gleefully and illegally caused the premature and painful deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was told at the time his actions would cause their deaths, and he thought it was funny.

The Lieutenant Governor of Indiana is hosting a Nazi rally.

Funny you should ask… www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/r...

The thing is, legislators know that their vague laws don’t cover cases like this. They’ve been told. If they actually cared about women, they’d seek out experts to ensure that their laws protect exceptional cases. They do NOT care. They are 100% OK with women dying or having horrific outcomes.

Trump called up his Brownshirts. He sent them to attack the Capitol. He pardoned them of crimes they were convicted of by juries of their peers. Now he’s rewarding them, using taxpayer money, & empowering them to commit violence on his behalf again in the future. Following the fascism playbook.