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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD

@pghsciencenerd.bsky.social
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My name isn’t really Loretta. Yinzer science goblin. Mall rat (RIP Century III).

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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 9m
Harvest Moon Chocolate in Tarentum >>>>>>> Sarris
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 19h
MY SON CORNELIUS I found him on the street
A large black former street cat looks judging at you as he relaxes on a couch
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Someone talked me into going to Bud Murphy’s, may Satan have mercy on my soul
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@claricewillow.bsky.social IS THIS YOU
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Mad Auntie Kristy @auntiekristy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Semi regular reminder that Jesus didn't tell women what to wear he told men to gouge their eyeballs out.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026
i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember when my great grandma stole muffins from the Golden Corral and then lost them in her huge ass purse
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Greet my son Cornelius
A large black cat with green eyes named Cornelius
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨🚨 WIENER DOG AT AMOS HALL STARBUCKS
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Have you met my CDS son?
A large male black cat with green eyes
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ITS COLD AHT
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Idea: Maybe we shouldn't be treating 7th grade girls volleyball like the Thunderdome? It's not just bad for the parents (who hate each other due to playing time) and culture (watch ESPN for ten seconds), it burns out the kids and makes them worse adults AND athletes. Sports are supposed to be fun!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bought my mom these most ridiculous Kurt Geiger shoes at the mall (she looks great in them) despite her protests. WE USED TO BE ON WELFARE NOW WE ARE NOT LET ME BUY YOU THESE OBNOXIOUS SHOES
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m at the Long John Silvers EXTRA CRUMBS
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Why is it still sticky outside at 6 am Please stop this
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11/09/2026
Higher Ed is under attack. Send America's Compact for Higher Education to your school's president demanding they endorse now: tr.ee/3OB6R2 United we stand. Divided we fall.
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Demand your school's leadership publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Email your school's president urgently asking them to publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
COOK IT AND SHARE WITH FRIENDS
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If Republicans were truly pro-family, then they’d be paying ALL parents of kids under age 18 to stay at home full time and provide free intensive parenting/human development classes and unlimited free individual, couples, and family therapy sessions so people could focus 110% on their families
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
WHO’S CAT IS THIS
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Part of me always wonders if the antivax moms of neurodivergent kids are quick to blame vaccines because looking in the mirror and seeing their own neurodivergence is just too painful, or if they are just eugenicists in denial
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
People who were done dirty but ended up being in the right: Sinead O’Connor Monica Lewinsky Magneto
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Shelley Clark @shelleydclark.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“The desire to control wombs is very central to authoritarian systems.” RIP Gloria.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
the horrors persist but so does The Museum of English Rural Life
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s 5:30 am why the hell is it so humid outside right now
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I miss the Tik Tok at Kaufmann’s
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s Saturday and you can find this bitch in her natural habitat The mall
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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
get a covid vaccine as a tribute to dolly parton challenge
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A coffee shop where I spent my formative years is having a 30 year anniversary party MY TIME HAS ARRIVED
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 21/08/2026
I want my tax dollars to give the people of Gary, Indiana their power back instead of being used to murder and imprison children.
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Also *gestures wildly to the general state of things*
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Xploshi @xploshi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
the Mario Galaxy planet off in the distance with a boss waiting on it
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hot dogs are charcuterie sandwiches @riothobbit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
i like how all the dark triad psychopaths and machiavellian narcissists are trying to paint autistic people and trans people as the 'big mental health scare that is threatening the species' like, no, assholes, it's you guys.
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The absolutely wild thing about coming to terms with being an unsupported AuDHD kid raised by emotionally immature parents, one of which was a violent malignant narcissist, is that I cannot rationally explain why I’m not dead
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm honestly not super invested in the origin debate. I also don't really care how life started. In both cases, I'm interested in how it then evolved. But I will say "It escaped from a lab" and "It's mild and everyone should just get it" said by the same people is quite the combination of claims.
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We’ve reached “Carnival poop cruise” Status for the US Navy
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In honor of me yelling “take that shit back to Cranberry” to a group of rowdy suburban teens in downtown circa 2009, I will be yelling “take that shit back to the bike lane” at poorly behaving cyclists trying to run over pedestrians on the sidewalks of Oakland
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
WHY IS IT SO STEAMY AND GROSS OUTSIDE
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I love Dolph Lundgren
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
logging on
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Why is she so cute
A cute tuxedo cat is laying in the bread loaf position next to a seal stuffed animal
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I really hope Count Binface wins his election today England, do the right thing
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Pittsburgh Scanner @pgh-scanner.com · 11/08/2026
Allegheny-West. 725 Allegheny Ave - Wendy's. Caller says some old guy is trying to trash the place and fight people. He's at the right place.
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This one’s for you @sheepthemoon.bsky.social “If you don’t live with the foots, you don’t know the foots” youtu.be/iP7SbP-Qxjw?...
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Pennsylvania Bigfoot Conference
YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/08/2026
People are furious of course but this is one of the funniest things that's ever happened. He's been posting memes of himself hanging out with Douglas MacArthur and George Patton and he snuck off the plane in a box of pizza rolls
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Loretta Hackenbush, PhD @pghsciencenerd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I woke up from the storms and Professor Beefaroni needed snuggles 😻
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