skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026In Dolly Parton's song, "In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)", are these lines from the chorus: "No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again" Would seem she lived those lyrics. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026You can't yell "unitary executive" into a canyon without "dictator" echoing back. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026"Thomas contended that the ruling 'devalues' American citizenship and misinterprets history by extending protections to children of 'foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens.'" Really? Based on what evidence? This doesn't rise even to the level of an opinion -- it is merely an utterance. Shame. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Dear Google: Stop making AI "summaries" of replies to my emails. Believe that I do enjoy reading entire replies to said emails. What I don't enjoy is having unrequested and unhelpful commentary thrust into my correspondence. I'm sure that Gemini has better things to do. Thank you. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I'm sorry, but it's high time we introduce 47 to nurse Ratched. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026The US is not the size of the Oslo metro area. Hello, NetJets? 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026This doesn't scale forever. There's a point at which people say, "I'll go elsewhere." I'm not at that point yet, but it's on the horizon. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 24/02/2026This administration: "We've shown that we have a disregard for the law and human lives, but we want this, we want it now and we'll destroy you if we can't get it. Kneel, vassals!" 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Every citizen 18 and over, unless ineligible under a court-ordered conservatorship, should be able to vote with the utmost ease. Anything less is manipulation by the state. 000
Reposted by skĕp′tĭkThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/01/2026Americans have become more or less inured to Donald Trump’s incoherent ramblings. In Davos, Europeans were inclined to call the President’s behavior what it is: out of control. Read Susan B. Glasser’s column: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2P-VmL 514023
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 16/01/2026This is what happens when a government, backed by the wealth it has gained over the past three decades, invests in its research universities. We, on the other hand... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...nytimes.comChinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip 030
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026My ten-year-old self is so happy to have lived 50 years ago: "36% think parents should face CPS investigation for letting a 10-year-old play unsupervised at a park for three hours." 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 13/12/2025"reactionary Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff" is not a phrase I expected to appear in 2025, but it's been quite a year. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Abigail Jackson said in a statement: “President Trump has assembled the most talented and impressive administration in history..." huh. 010
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Why is there still controversy over two consenting adults marrying? Any. Two. Consenting. Adults. This is not hard. This is common sense and common decency. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Everyone in the administration should get a participation trophy. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025The only thing I like about the dark days of the approaching winter is the arrival of the season's stouts. Cheers! 010
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Isn't that a bit redundant? Chocolate is inherently sexual. 010
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025So instead of letting someone purchase things, work, and pay taxes, we'll spend gobs of money rounding them up, holding them and then sending them somewhere else. Sounds like a plan. 010
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Ah, but they're still all over southern California, in every shade imaginable. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Sometimes I think it's deliberate; sometimes I think it's ignorance. But at no time is this the way for a country's leader to act. 010
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Also happy that axolotl translocation efforts continue as far as Kansas. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025One day, I'll be gone and my adult children will need to pay their own cell phone bills. #familyplan 010
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025That looks tasty. Care to hop on a plane to the U.S. with a case? Oh, wait, that's not advisable these days. 020
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Yes, I remember that 19 1/2 percent car loan. Couldn't pay that off fast enough. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Going to school in the 60s and 70s, religious freedom never came up in class. Sometimes, as kids, we'd debate it during our free time. We didn't need permission; we didn't need "rights" handed down from the adults. All we needed was no pressure. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Since the 80s we've had a huge talent rush into finance, leaving us to import our engineers and physicians. Yeah, and that works until it doesn't. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025"I want only the most ambulatory people with the luxury of the most flexible of schedules to vote [for me]." ftfy. Oh, and we'll use only one of the most manipulable of systems, the paper ballot. 010
Reposted by skĕp′tĭkCraft Beverage Places @craftbevplaces.bsky.social · 31/08/2025The History & Legacy Of The West Coast IPA #craftbeverage #craftdrink www.rfr.bz/b234b92 021
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025We're still a couple of months away from cooler temps in southern California, but y'all are making me stout-thirsty. 010
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025I feel that I need to embark on a world beer tour. Wales may be a good start. 100
Reposted by skĕp′tĭkPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 31/08/2025🧪Jim O'Neill, the acting CDC director, is a tech investor w/o a biology degree or the relevant experience. Susan Monarez was fired b/c she refused to endorse anti-science directives. Multiple officials resigned as they were forced to pick ideology over science. Every accusation is a confession. 1611246
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Hypothesizing, testing and reproducing results is so tedious. How much more efficient to simply pull the truth out of one's lower orifice. 110
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025He needs to retire to an island where he may commune with the fowl decorating his tie. 000
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025How about we scrap the ineffective income tax for a consumption tax that protects the poor, bolsters the middle class and taxes the rest effectively enough to finance a government that is not too large to be unwieldy, yet not too small to execute its promise to the people? I do love my fever dream. 010
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 31/08/2025An effective progressive tax could bring about the most abundance for the most people while still allowing for many to become wealthy. 010
Reposted by skĕp′tĭkThe Lever @levernews.com · 31/08/2025This is the one Labor Day graph that tells you the actual problem in America. The problem is not that America lacks abundance. The problem is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding America’s abundance. www.levernews.com/the-labor-da... 9443185
Reposted by skĕp′tĭkLA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 12/08/2025LA County is about to find out what happens when you fire weather experts. CA weather offices responsible for LA fire warnings will remain “criminally understaffed” after Trump admin cuts while new hires get on board, former NWS meteorologists warn. lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-c...lapublicpress.orgLA County is about to find out what happens when you fire weather expertsCalifornia weather offices responsible for Los Angeles fire warnings will remain "criminally understaffed" after Trump administration cuts while new hires get on board, former NWS meteorologists warn. 05221
Reposted by skĕp′tĭkMartha Bhattacharya @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social · 11/08/2025🪰🧪 Model organism databases provide the raw materials for our understanding of evolution. Sequences on these databases help human databases predict how bad a mutation might be, based on its conservation. This is how platforms like FlyBase contribute to modern medicine. Terrible news. 32913
Reposted by skĕp′tĭkPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 05/08/2025🧪When someone uses phrases like "science needs dissent" it means that they want unproven theories to have equal weight. It is common place for scientists to question data or challenge ideas in different settings. There is plenty of open, intelligent "dissent" in science, backed by evidence. 2288
Reposted by skĕp′tĭkkinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 05/08/2025🍂 🏛️ Senator Patty Murray (WA) on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report Aug 5 🧪 The President "has illegally impounded research funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in violation of the Impoundment Control Act (ICA)" gao.gov/products/b-337203 02717
skĕp′tĭk @skptc.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Like this West Coast IPA from Sacramento. Crisp and piney. 000
