Mary Lawrence

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Stunning Lula victory in Brazil is another sign of how easily we all let ourselves get psy-op-ed by the right's expressions of confidence into, you know, believing them. We really have to get over that habit!

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Do not wait till after he’s 😵 to release the Epstein Files. Impeach, bring him to trial, and lock him up for the rest of his miserable life.

Remember to take time to cuddle. Happy Caturday 🥰

Narrowing down the Science Week events I might go to

It doesn't matter if 6M or 8M people attended the #NoKings rallies on October 17th. . . What matters is that these #GetOutTheVote events had absolutely no comparable nationwide mobilization from Republicans. Now let's turn that energy into votes and #FlipTheHouseAndSenateBlue Below: Los Angeles

Ukraine's survival requires an anti-Putin, anti-invasion Congress

"He never liked talking to people who he knew had pre-programmed things to say. He wanted people who were genuinely speaking from their heart and with conviction and sincerity. And that's how he was. That's how he approached things." www.npr.org/2026/10/18/n...?

Not just Putin's Puppet, he is a traitor, and very soon he will face the consequences of all his treasonous acts.

James Talarico Knows.......

Banned books make wonderful gifts. Trust me on this.

Fly Home To South Africa, Please...

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

Wow.

Fantastic response. Take that baton and RUN 🏃

Did James Talarico tell his grandmother that he thought he might be gay? Oh, no! That was JD Vance! Has James Talarico been in a 15 year mentor-protégé relationship with gay billionaire Peter Thiel? Oh, no! That was JD Vance! Did James Talarico pose in drag? Oh, no! That was JD Vance!

First year of college I worked at my campus call center contacting donors. We'd get bonuses for donations of $250+. After hours of hangups, one elderly woman pledged $500. My bonus was $50, more than my hourly pay for the whole night. I took the $ and never went back.

"Under a fascist regime that wants to gut education & suppress information, libraries highlight the importance of giving everyone access to learning & knowledge. They provide a model for an antifascist future" - @prisonculture.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/2... This whole piece is so good!!

May it all come crashing down... 🔥

THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN U.S. HISTORY. IF WE ALL VOTE. 🗳️ #AccountabilityIsComing11/3/26

Norway has removed all of its $2tn Investment Fund from Israel linked banks, as it continues its policy of BDS against Israel. Well done Norway.

I am going to keep posting this for people with short memories.

This is important. The social media division and chaos and anger is likely coming from Russian bots.

Ukraine is the defender of the free world.

Tell me this is fake…. Do it. 💥🇺🇸✌🏽💙🥊

Somebody needs to push back and start banning books that promote white supremacist patriarchal heteronormative framework.

Things I will be watching instead of an execution: water boil paint dry leaves fall my language cat videos

"We want ICE the fuck out of our neighborhood." Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson delivered an impassioned, unfiltered address in Marble Hill following an ICE agent-involved shooting that left a man hospitalized.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/06/m...

The message from United Auto Workers members in their recent internal elections, in which President Shawn Fain and his slate are poised to win big, is clear, argues former Fain Chief of Staff Chris Brooks: they want their union to keep fighting.

“The alarms were sounding. The institution kept functioning as though ringing were part of the ventilation system.” 🔥🧯 www.courant.com/2026/10/08/o...

Wow. We can’t believe this 🥹. Barnes & Noble just put WTF America?! on their Most Anticipated Nonfiction list. We wrote this for this community, and you're the reason it's having this moment before it's even out. Thank you, truly. If you haven't preordered, the link's here 👉 bit.ly/wtf-america-...

We need to pull our shit together, because it’s October 2 and November 3 will be here before we know it. Anger is understandable. Exhaustion is understandable. Neither can become an excuse to sit this out.

the tech industry is about to invent books

Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?

At the rate independent restaurants are closing due to $ and 🦠, we’re basically going to be left with a choice between McDonalds and dirt

One of the most beautiful events in NYC. Bring your cats, dogs, hamsters, and turtles this Sunday (October 4th) to the 2026 Feast of St. Francis and Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in NYC. This is happening today. This video was posted last year.

AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?"

Bernie's Correct.......

Christa Pike's botched execution is a horrifying reminder of the cruelty & inhumanity of the death penalty. State-sanctioned killing is barbaric and it's time we end this unjust punishment once & for all.

Every one of the Supreme Court Justices who voted to kill Christa Pike should be excommunicated. They are not pro-life.

Creepy Nazi Mike Johnson says his nightmare scenario is Democrats taking over Congress and actually investigating the orange felon and fascist republicans for the endless crimes they’ve committed against the United States. Sounds great to me scumbag, let’s add jail time to that.