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Scientist Mel
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@scientistmel.bsky.social
Scientist, content creator (YouTube, twitch), comedy, & educator BSBio&Chem,MAT,MS #TheScienceOf #ThisWeekInBS #NASASocial Views are my own.
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If you donated to Josh Turek without realizing he was running on a federally funded trans healthcare coverage ban, you can request a refund of your donation here: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...
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The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
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Laika Studios made an amazing new stop-motion movie called Wildwood that was 16 years in the making! In the age of AI slop, it is incredible to see this real art made by human hands❤️ Please support it by going to the cinema when you're interested! Behind the scenes: youtu.be/gZy36NLObaU?...
‘Wildwood’ director Travis Knight on AI: “A pencil is a tool. A paintbrush is a tool. A 3D printer is a tool. A digital capture is a tool. AI is not a tool. AI can go fuck itself.”
This is horrific and disgraceful
JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.
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This should be used in public speaking classes on what not to do. My God, she is terrible 
😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan
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I left Twitter because I was permanently banned for writing about fascism. . . . . .Because Twitter is now a fascist platform controlled by the richest fascist in the world. Some of us aren’t allowed there. So, the pro-X discourse seems like desperate (fascist) propaganda.
It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
This is funny to me because it was presented by Marsha Blackburn…who has refused to debate any Governor candidates and walks away from interviews. She is pro data center, ICE, fed occupation, and defunding of schools. No one is going to want to visit Tennessee for tourism given its hell hole state
S195 American Music Tourism Act of 2025 📜 Signed by President. https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/195 #S195 #congress119 #senate #republican #congress #newbill
Notice that women are always kicked to the curb…not the men…WOMEN. Kimberley isn’t a good token anymore
Trump asked Guilfoyle to resign as ambassador to Greece amid allegations of threats to allies, conflicts of interest and a $100K request to a donor. Her departure could hinder investigations, leaving prosecution decisions to Trump-appointed officials.
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Often, in earlier years I'd find myself carrying an opinion simply because someone I loved or admired held that view. It took a while, but all parties benefited, and still do, by my determination to recognise where I'm wrong, not buy an opinion, and to seek honest verifiable data. They pay for lies
One of the things I learned in the early 1990’s is that evangelicals will celebrate violence against people they hate. I worked with a woman who would minister to violent criminals in jail giving forgiveness to r*pists and then say gay people deserved AIDS. The goalposts move but hatred remains.
Prominent white evangelical leaders don’t want kids watching Ms. Rachel. They say Pride flags are dangerous. They want "Thou shalt not kill" posted in classrooms. But a live-streamed government-sponsored execution? That's just fine. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-pro-li...
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From a cult expert youtube.com/shorts/Oxlrn...
I watched some of Gillis’ monologue through a content creator… Y’all…when we said trans jokes are misogynistic…we meant it. This is the next step. Attack on trans people is an attack on women. Gillis made misogynistic jokes about women at gyms…a male dominated space. See the pattern yet?
Dan Levy doing what more men should do -- calling out Shane Gillis's misogyny. This is the top story on Variety right now, alongside a report on Russell Brand's rape trial beginning. In case we're still wondering why women are angry variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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Zelenskyy on the Yandex bot purge: "when our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots."
Zelenskyy tells Warsaw forum that Ukraine honoured Trump's energy ceasefire while Russia continued bombing Ukrainian energy facilities. He also linked Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres to a decline in bots spreading hate and division online.
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So... youtu.be/V1X1oskAOHk?... I can't find the video, it's in the back of my mind... I can't remember if it was Cherokee, but someone made a dub of one of the Star Wars in an indigenous Native American Language.
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I’ve seen a lot of people criticize individuals for commenting on Susan Dell’s looks… When people use the term “Mar-a-Lago face” and make comments on plastic surgery and misuse of weight loss/diabetic medication … they’re speaking against fascism 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 
I’ve seen a lot of people criticize individuals for commenting on Susan Dell’s looks… When people use the term “Mar-a-Lago face” and make comments on plastic surgery and misuse of weight loss/diabetic medication … they’re speaking against fascism 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 
JFC…Vance is pushing eugenics 🐂 💩
Q: You mentioned you want people like Elon Musk to come here, but he didn't build his companies overnight. So how do you decide who is the next Elon Musk? VANCE: One, does the person fill a position that simply cannot be filled by an American worker? Two, is this person a truly elite human being?
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