Janet D. Stemwedel
Academic philosopher, lapsed chemist, occasional science writer, perpetual ethics booster. All views my own. (she/her)
- Reposted by Janet D. StemwedelI think it's time for a thread in which, when I remember, I rank the darkness of the day's installment of the comic strip Hi and Lois from 0 to 10 Quiet Desperation Units. 0 QDUs is some innocuous strip about Trixie and the sunbeam, 10 QDUs is this
- Reposted by Janet D. StemwedelSending love to everyone for whom this Mother’s Day stuff is impossibly painful for any one of a million reasons. You’re not alone, even if Hallmark and social media are especially cloying today. In fact, you’re part of a pretty massive club, even if it’s a shitty one. 💕❤️🩹💕
- Reposted by Janet D. StemwedelMost rail services in the US still use polluting diesel locomotives. Recently, our commuter rail system in San Francisco, @caltrain.com, was electrified. Good news: we found DRAMATIC air quality improvements once the electric trains replaced the diesels. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
- Science stops being self-correcting when the government purges the corrections on ideological grounds.
- Reposted by Janet D. Stemwedelpulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years
- You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
- Reposted by Janet D. StemwedelFunny the way the "bigger tent" always needs to include right wing grifters and not abolitionists and socialists.
- Fascists don’t care that their leaders are corrupt.
- Reposted by Janet D. StemwedelWhen you watch these heartbreaking videos showing the cruel and thuggish behavior of ICE agents, remember that these people are not being FORCED to commit these acts — they do so willingly. They could quit their jobs at any time. They could say “enough!” ICE agents CHOOSE to do what they do.
- Reposted by Janet D. StemwedelBut remember, *you* can only have two dolls and five pencils
- Reposted by Janet D. StemwedelBTW, going along with this kind of farcically outrageous corruption—in media “analysis”, horse-race commentary, the judiciary, and above all in Congress—should not be thought as some sort of “institutional failure”. It’s a choice. It’s something public players are choosing to accept or support.
