Neekerbreeker 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Neekerbreeker@social.cleverlibre.org
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Chemist, science defender, medical writer. Tolkien & LeGuin fangirl but will read cereal boxes and ketchup bottle labels in absence of other material. ❤️ Classic rock, words, mythology, clouds, maps, paleoanthropology, and the history of timekeeping 🕰️ (Profile banner, Irina Irbis, ArtStation)
Joined Nov 2022
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RIP Angelo Badalamenti, whose music I think about almost every day.
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My Nieces didn't know who Bill the Cat was. I was asked to describe caffeine...
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So far (in the past couple years) I've had a handful of really good exchanges with people on the Fediverse. Obviously, I haven't been that frequent of a user. Hosting my own service has helped motivate me to get more involved, and in any case, I've realized that the platform is only as good as who you use it with.
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All those high profile Republicans insisted that Herschel Walker would make a great senator, but since he didn't get the job I'm sure they'll insist that he be elected RNC chair.
Right guys?
Right guys?
*crickets*
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Heavy emphasis on European rather than Indo-, but this is a fun chart from Kenneth Katzner's book The #Languages of the World (new Routledge edition, 1995) #linguistics #words #IndoEuropean
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Needless to say, it says a lot about #elonmusktwitter that an algorithm added a sensitive content warning label to my tweet with our live @columbiaclimate #SustainWhat chat just now asking "Can Thriving Online Include Thriving on Mastodon?" https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWwbgovnxQ
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My pronouns are she/her, I follow science, and I support Dr. Fauci.
@elonmusk@twitter.com’s one player (albeit with influence). We must address a much larger global problem of anti-science rhetoric, #disinformation, and #hate.
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I haven't done one of these in a while. My friends at Democracy Town introduced me to the Fediverse. We also sought refuge from the bird site.
My bio tells you most of what I'm about and that URL, climatemarch.org is my family.
Here's a trailer to the documentary I played a supporting role in. If it was a movie, I would have been part of the stage crew; low-key and behind the scenes.
http://climatemarch.org/the-race-to-save-the-world-earth-day-2021/
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Join us at 1pm ET live to figure out what @joinmastodon can and can't do for you in building a more sustainable world - and social web. https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/can-thriving-online-include-thriving-on-mastodonquestion
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@kairyssdal Doing my live @columbiaclimate #SustainWhat #ThrivingOnline chat on making the most of #mastodon at 1pm ET today! @SethBaum will share his learning. 3 ways to watch (no signup). htt…
https://twitter.com/Revkin/status/1602354715949502468
@oldmeanroy Nice playing!
I moved to (southern) CA a few years ago, and I see impromptu sidewalk music (and other art/performances) much more often than other places I've lived in the US. The culture in CA feels more like some of the EU cities I've visited and liked!
Thanks for sharing!
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Trying to post a youtube video i made a while ago.
Jamming with a guy in Big Sur.
https://youtu.be/Zbnh78qCMdk
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If you know my history, you know I grew up as part of ACT UP, the AIDS activist group in the 80s and 90s. I've protested every President, multiple drug companies, and federal officials. 1/
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Will Musk’s latest antics (targeting Dr. Fauci and mocking inclusivity) reignite the #TwitterMigration to #Mastodon?
@protecttruth @MAD_democracy Hear, hear!!! Thank you, VERY well said!
I work in drug development and I keep trying to get my co-workers to become active on social media for exactly the reasons you give. They don't realize how serious these problems are, and they're ideally educated and experienced to help fight back.
Sigh...will keep trying but we need so many more informed pro-science voices in the public eye/ear.
@stancarey "Strong Language" is awesome! Thanks for the update! And for making the time to write a new post.
Blogging is more time-consuming than many readers realize. It can be very hard to keep up, especially if the blogger works a full-time job. I love blogging but finding time and building a following are a lot of work.
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Trooper, trucker, sailor, fishwife: What we swear like when we swear like a something.
New for Strong Language, with thanks to the many Mastodonians who helped with #translation:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2022/12/11/trooper-trucker-sailor-fishwife-what-we-swear-like-when-we-swear-like-a-something/
#swearing #language #languages #linguistics #etymology #CorpusLinguistics #sociolinguistics
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Welcome @WardQNormal to Mastodon! Happy to see you here! *waves*
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The intro to my talk today at the Data for Policy 2022 meeting in Seattle.
We know what happens when organisms who evolved to forage in a world where sugar and fat are rare develop the capacity to fulfill their evolved desires and put a junk food aisle in every store.
What happens when information foragers who evolved in a world where information was sparse are able to construct a media ecosystem to feed their evolved desires?
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Chemist, science defender, medical writer. Tolkien & LeGuin fangirl but will read cereal boxes and ketchup bottle labels in absence of other material. ❤️ Classic rock, words, mythology, clouds, maps, paleoanthropology, and the history of timekeeping 🕰️ (Profile banner, Irina Irbis, ArtStation)
Joined Nov 2022
