James Pitt
this is all Tiktaalik's fault
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- Reposted by James Pitt2012: Republicans who got rid of fluoride in water ousted by voters 2025: Republicans ban fluoride in water statewide
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- Reposted by James PittThe federal government cancelled more than $30 million in grant funding for seismic retrofits slated to help thousands of California families who live in buildings that could collapse in a major earthquake. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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- Reposted by James PittNEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.
- NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
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- Reposted by James PittThe American Keir Starmer
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- Reposted by James Pittnever let anybody tell u that evil does not exist
- Reposted by James Pittwhenever i travel to speak to audiences — in places as different as green bay, wisconsin and durham, north carolina — i get more questions about why the media won’t call a spade a spade with trump, than i do about biden being old
- Reposted by James Pittpolitical journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”
- Reposted by James PittKristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
- Reposted by James Pitt“To counter Chinese influence in Africa, USAID…” USAID? The USAID that is being eliminated? That USAID? Sorry, kiddo, but your recommendation is too intelligent to get a good grade.
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- Reposted by James PittYou’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 James PittGenerative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
- Reposted by James PittAnd in an unlikely turn of events, jellyfish are just floating underwater bird feeders In the Arctic, baby fish seek cover inside the stinging tentacles of jellyfish, but birds, having figured out the bit, now swim underwater, through the tentacles, & eat them 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by James PittCBP quietly revoked protections for at-risk people in custody—including pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and those with serious medical conditions—calling them “misaligned” with enforcement priorities. The rules required basics like diapers, formula, and water. www.wired.com/story/cbp-re...
- Reposted by James Pittwhat are your top 5 technologies?
- Reposted by James Pittpillow has got to be in the top 5 all time technologies
- Reposted by James PittHundreds of thousands of Velella velella, more commonly known as by-the-wind-sailors, are drifting onto the coastline. Beachcombers say they look like "blue diamonds strewn across the beach."
- Reposted by James PittThis past winter was a tough one for #RSV. Yet a new study reports fewer infants needed hospitalization for the infection than in seasons past, suggesting the new RSV tools — maternal vaccination & monoclonal antibodies for babies 8 months & younger — are working. www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/c...
- Reposted by James PittActually this is the American Pope
- Spent some time with @kieraevebutler.bsky.social considering Casey Means, Trump’s surgeon general pick: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by James Pitt"insulin is the powerhouse of the earth" we're so finished
- Reposted by James PittWe need a quadrillion think pieces about how Trump is providing his gen z male followers with a positive male role model that's in touch with his feminine, creative side just to see what happens
- Reposted by James PittTrump has rejected half of all requests from governors for disaster relief. WA Gov. Bob Ferguson: “This is exactly the kind of situation that FEMA would historically support, and they're not doing it, and they're not providing any reason.” By @heyjohnryan.bsky.social www.kuow.org/stories/stat...
- Reposted by James Pitt- *one* subject - who massively under-reported her sleep - only looked at exome variants this genuinely is like if i had written a particularly mean-spirited parody of this genre of paper. mind-boggling
- Reposted by James Pitti am going to become the joker. terrible indictment of the sleep science subfield that fu and co are still able to pump out these awful short sleep gene papers. when will the fever break?
- Reposted by James PittOne of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.
- Reposted by James Pittmy theory is that the insane axis is orthogonal to the standard political one but it's a lot harder to be left-insane and palatable to centrists than right-insane and same, basically
- Reposted by James PittCasey Means is an ableist grifter who thinks disease and death are your fault for not buying the $45 olive oil from a “regenerative farm” that she has an affiliate link for. She did not complete residency and is not board certified in any recognized medical specialty.
- Reposted by James PittI feel like I’ve always got # 1 men fan hat on (while wearing # 1 women fan shirt and # 1 enby fan socks) I have so many great guys in my life that I wanna see thrive and grow. I want that for everyone and I’m so angry and sad that guys get brainwashed by assholes that ruin things for everyone.
- Reposted by James PittThough I did, circa 2020, have a couple people try to buy green coffee from me for drinking purposes (both disgusting and not possible! It’s riddled with bacteria and fungus, and isn’t water soluble until it’s been roasted!) because cooking things makes them carcinogenic, so I may just be naive!
- Reposted by James Pittone of the things that's so striking about so many of trump's nominees is how little actual executive and management experience they have, and, for most of them, when they *have* had managerial experience, they've been awful at it
- Reposted by James Pittideal 5e campaign: tiefling has compelling RP sex with half-orc while the gandalf cosplay build rewrites the player's handbook. average BMI of characters is 12.5kg ideal pf2e campaign: roll d20s to see if you can successfully purchase and sell fish. DM stares at you in silence until you pick dwarf.
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What its like to be a faculty member in Florida, elsewhere, and maybe your local university soon. Racists try to entrap you into saying something that the Governor has deemed is grounds for dismissal, or make false claims. Free speech on campus is clearly declining.- Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...
- Reposted by James PittRunning out of ways to express "what the fuck?"
- Reposted by James PittApple blossom is so lovely. This is Wynooche Early, an early season tart apple that makes wonderful applesauce and pies. It ripens for me in August, weeks before any other apples, & I do look forward to it. Now to hope that we don't get another hard freeze, as we often do. 🌱
- Reposted by James Pitton the war and necessary death, I've always liked this passage from Francis Spufford's Unapologetic
- Reposted by James Pittthe single best essay on the war - www.leesandlin.com/articles/Los...
- Reposted by James PittI got the best teaching evals of my career for a large course last semester— along with three teaching awards— after rebuilding my intro class around in-class handwritten essays. I simply do not believe that this is unsolvable or that students don't care about actually learning to do their work.
- In only two years, ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. James D. Walsh writes for @intelligencer.com: nymag.com/intelligence....
- Reposted by James PittWorld Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...
- Reposted by James Pitt1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️
- Reposted by James Pittthe database metaphor makes sense because of how much fans consume primitive details that are independent of context, there is also a type of fan that is concerned more with the "archive", in the sense of being obsessed with nonsensical facts about a single context
- Reposted by James Pitt[defense wheels out a tv with their own ai of the victim] hey man, thanks for killing me
- Reposted by James PittThe U.S. is on track to have the worst whooping cough outbreak since 1948. Some regions are reporting that they are struggling to do contact tracing of cases because they are ALSO managing measles investigations. And, of course, funding cuts to public health have resulted in fewer resources.
- Reposted by James PittA long time ago, the ads on my Twitter feed were for well-known brands. Then, they were for mobile games and drop shipping outlets selling doodads. More recently, they are no longer ads at all: they're either far-right propaganda messages or gibberish promoted tweets from mentally ill folks
