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The research fairy

Hijacking one of those deepfake AIs to make a version of The Expanse but where the cute boys kiss

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Arriving at at 15:00 on a weekday is my new favorite travel hack.

Absolutely empty. No lines. No waits. Just a quiet corner table at the reasonably overpriced wine bar.

Two hours later: the zoo fills.

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Sigma ζ (she/her)

It is endangering to society to create an out-group that you’re going to allow people to attack for no reason whatsoever.

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ZealProphet27

Hey...

Do me a favor.

Unclench your jaw.
Take a deep breath.
Walk around and stretch.
Drink some water.
Have a snack.
Don't forget your meds!

Remember how amazing you are. You've got this. You'll be okay. I'm proud of you.

I'm so so glad you're here. <3

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Scott Barolo

CW: Sexual harassment in STEM 

Re-posting this 🐤 thread from 2018 which, sadly, is still relevant:

#WomenInSTEM who talk about #harassment and sexual misconduct get a lot of antagonistic & unhelpful replies.
@shrewshrew and I (a woman & a man in science) tried to categorize them. #9ReplyGuys

THE NINE TYPES OF REPLY GUYS 🧵

#1: THE LIFE COACH

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Florence Ashley

✨The people at Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity chose my work on the myth that 80% of trans kids ‘grow out of it’ as the lead article for their latest issue, making it available for free! Make sure to read and share!🌈

psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-80

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Anne Helen Petersen

Okay am I really going to use this, this time around?

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Kitchen Knowledge 

Brown Sugar is just sugar mixed with molasses. 😘

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Marcin ✌️:blobSmileSweating:

So my wife took our 4 year old daughter to the mall yesterday and they came back with astronaut Barbie and later in the evening built a Lego rocket for her. A+ parenting from my wife right there 👏

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If you don’t know what a popover is, or you’ve never had a good one, I weep for you. I’ve made them so many times that I don’t even need a recipe.

The same can’t be said for the cookies: the recipe my mother used came from her mother who usually sourced her recipe’s from her friends and her bridge club.

My grandmother passed earlier this year. I hadn’t spoken with her, or anyone else on that side for years. Originally, this was because of a legal battle over her estate, of which I was trustee for a time; in the final year, because I’d come out as trans, and that was a few bridges too far for their brand of 1950’s liberalism.

Thankfully, I was able to find a recipe online that lined up well with my memory of the key ingredients. I made them last night, and the results were deeply soothing.

Highly recommended.

goodlifeeats.com/recipe-exchan

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My father’s family was Jewish. If my mother’s family ever had a religion, they chose not to share it with their children. Neither of my parents were even the slightest bit religious.

Holidays at my parent’s house were crow-assembled: bits and bobs of different traditions—nothing sacred, nothing pure; nothing consistent from one year to the next.

So, when the holidays come up over the horizon, I don’t have a lot of rituals to cling to. The tidings I crave are really just two baked goods that were usually to be found in my parents’ kitchen around the end of the year:

1. chocolate gingerbread cookies (light on the ginger, heavy on the cloves);
2. popovers.

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David Radcliffe

May God grant me the confidence of a large language model.

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Sufficient Daisy

It's cool how we can talk about being women on here without randoms popping up every few minutes to ask what a woman is :P

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🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana

I once got literally 10 pages from the end of a novel, before the big reveal or whatever, realized I'd been unsatisfied throughout the entire book, didn't care about the main character or the outcome and despite the sunken cost and time investment to get to this point, it literally wasn't worth it to me to read another word.

So, I put down the book without ever reading through the rest of the pages, and I started another one.

This post isn't about transitioning, but it could be.

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Adam Hall :donor: 🇳🇿 🇺🇸

If your web/app won’t let me paste a password your web/app is shitty

If your Corp policy is to make me change my password every 30/60/90 days your security is shitty

If I can’t use passwordless and/or authenticator sign in, you’re making us both less safe.

Do the right things. #InfoSec

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Ten🏳️‍⚧️

When I was a kid, my dad got fired from his job as a road worker for theft.

I refused to believe he could do such a thing, but when I got home…

The signs were all there.

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Abby Normal

#Cats as #art.

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I won’t lie, I feel some pride whenever I come in to the office. 🥰

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Tilly Bridges

we have started a #Fringe rewatch and oh hey HELLO there’s my crush on Anna Torv still going strong I see

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Mark Doyle

The obvious solution to AI-generated student essays is AI-generated instructor feedback.

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