Matthew R Francis
Science writer, journalist, physicist, hat man, cat man, queer. Pfp by @makinaro.com . See my pinned posts if you're wondering why I disappeared and reappeared.
- less urgent but still telling: one of the nurses at a clinic I use told me the reason they stopped doing telehealth visits is because Medicaid stopped reimbursing those, and insurance companies follow Medicaid's lead on everything.
- Reposted by Matthew R Francisdemocrats love to go “we need to have a bigger tent!” and they don’t mean leftists or queer people what they mean is a rich guy who wants to destroy all democracy and replace it with technocracies
- Reposted by Matthew R Francisjust witnessed an irl Reply Guy in action gal: I love your sparkles! gal wearing sparkles: thank you! I have fun with them. random bystander: did you know women wearing sparkles are less likely to be trafficed? two gals: ???
- Reposted by Matthew R Franciswe need a real-life block option that doesn't get us sent to jail
- the cemetery right by my house has both a Hebrew cemetery and African cemetery inside it
- Reposted by Matthew R Francis“i asked chatgpt” yeah well i scrawled my query where the old gods dare not tread and carved the answers upon my very bones and when i could not remember, i excised the texts from shattered skeleton until, in my madness and pain, i was made free from that ai fuckery
- I need to unpack/shift stuff today but I also need to rest because Jeebus Hermione Chrysanthemum am I tired
- Reposted by Matthew R FrancisToday I learned that the author of this 1977 op-ed was the most important college mentor for the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
- as every good comedian knows, the more specific a joke is, the funnier it is. Would this be as funny with "several children"? No, no it would not.
- Reposted by Matthew R FrancisFunny the way the "bigger tent" always needs to include right wing grifters and not abolitionists and socialists.
