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WYFP? Italian Space Lasers aren't the cause of the insurrection saga
2020’s best wacky GOP theory: It was only a stray Italian satellite stealing votes from Trump and Kari Lake. There’s only one more step to the mounting of a laser on it.Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham never...
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WYFP: Talkin' About Police Reform
Say Their Names: Tyre Nichols. Keenan Anderson. Christopher Lee Mercurio. Darryl Tyree Williams. Jackson Lieber. Jaahnavi Kandula. Billy DeWayne Couch. Manuel Esteban Paez Teran.It’s only February 17...
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WYFP - One Fish, Two Fish, Zebrafish, Zebrafish.
Finally, I got to play with the fishes do some research in the lab last Friday afternoon for several hours with a couple of other students and Dr. C. She’s the one who organizes the lab and keeps...
View ArticleWYFP - Fishy Futures
The more time I spend working on lab stuff, the more I like it. This week I did coding again, and it’s slow and somewhat complicated work to remember how to do, but I oriented myself and got on it for...
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WYFP: This Again?
I've been here before, unfortunately. My laptop charge cord is no longer working. My battery is leaking and I no longer have a laptop to play with in my apt. At the same time, one of the common area...
View ArticleWYFP - The Big Event
Today was “The Big Event” at my college and we listened to boring speeches, had a donut and got sent to a middle school to clean the outside of the building. We only spent about 2 hours there, but we...
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WYFP? Truth, Retruths, and Previous Guy
Trump invoking a “radical left” only makes us laugh but it is unfortunate that such name-calling/dog whistling also includes the antisemitic trope against George Soros. Will there be a gag order."The...
View ArticleWYFP - Science!
Last weekend I went to a regional psych conference with Dr C and some other students, and it was pretty good — we put up our posters about our research and talked to people about it. We also went out...
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WYFP: Bang Bang
I first heard the term, bang bang, in the late 70’s while reading an article in Photographer magazine about Susan Meiselas’ work in Nicaragua. It’s come to mean many things but foremost it’s what war...
View ArticleWYFP - Almost Over (Open Thread)
The end of the semester is nigh, and I am glad. It’s been a rough one for me — I overthought myself out of an A and a B in one of my classes, I’ve been unwell, my antipsychotic got hung up in...
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WYFP? red states threatening us with a good time
MFP: the red states now tell us what a GOP-run nation looks like, and Scaramucci now predicts Trump will withdraw before 2024 because of ‘health reasons’. what an America run by the GOP looks likexI'm...
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WYFP: Trump's Crimes Against Art
In 1980, when New York developer Donald J. Trump, purchased the old Bonwit Teller building, he promised to preserve old freizes (one shown above) and grillwork and donate them to the Metropolitan...
View ArticleWYFP - Time, Faith and Inspiration
So I have been pretty lax overall in my Yiddishkeit for a while now, and it’s both an issue — and it’s not. I light Shabbat candles, I usually have a nicer than usual dinner and maybe a piece of...
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WYFP? Open Thread
MFP:xHouse Republican negotiators declined an offer from the White House to freeze government spending in the 2024 budget as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling, Axios has learned....
View ArticleWYFP - So Far So Good
So another week has gone by with too much time on my hands, but it’s been mostly ok. I check the fish tomorrow, and then I just have to chill until Friday when I get paid again. Good thing too,...
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WYFP: Attacking The Right To Protest
Just when I had an easy open thread planned, the newsshows me a story I have to bring to your attention. On Wednesday, Atlanta police arrested 3 members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, a non-profit...
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WYFP? Open Thread
xPeople seem puzzled as to why Trump kept the documents. That’s easy. To feel important. To pretend to be the president. And to have something to sell when the other scams failed.— Timothy Snyder...
View ArticleWYFP - Soft Selling Democratic Ideas
It’s been another week and here we are. More candidates in the republican race and lots of rampant stupidity from them, but I guess that is just par for the course these days. It’s also Pride month,...
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WYFP? toilet policing and other dominance games
Fascinating are people who have such inerrant ideological commitments that they are unable to accept a range of meanings for certain concepts like “socialism”. They don’t understand the possibility of...
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WYFP: Some Independence Day
Well, I had a nice, fun diary planned but SCOTUS just crapped all over it yesterday.I used to believe Justice Thomas would never think of overturning Loving vs. Virginia. I no longer believe that. He...
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