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Dr Lisa

@youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social
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scientist / middle-aged mom / formerly a German immigrant to the USA / I drive a bicycle

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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I bought a used mechanical keyboard on ebay and replaced the switches with "thocky" ones, and i can't overstate how much this improves my workday.
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Even if cspan can't play the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme, we all heard it in our hearts.
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
POSSIBLE NEW IDIOMS oiling the swingset stop when you smell oatmeal placing ice cubes in orchids & hoping for bees subtle as stacked microwaves puppy, I ain’t a leg plink, plink! pearls coming off the strand rich in fruit peels backup singers taking a smoke break & THAT’S a Myanmar shave
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
100% can confirm, the kids loathe ai slop
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Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu · 24/09/2026
Is it Amsterdam? Copenhagen? No, it's Paris! After years of investment, the French capital has one of the best problems a city can have: bicycle congestion. So if Paris has done it, why wouldn't other cities follow? 📸 Such an amazing photo by @jbpssx.bsky.social
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“They were once men, great kings of men. Then Sauron the Deceiver gave to them nine rings of power. Blinded by their greed they took them without question, one by one, falling into darkness. Now they are slaves to his will. They are the Nazgûl, ring-wraiths, neither living nor dead.”
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
By the way if you happen to be married to someone who owns a shawl collar cardigan you are obligated to take a picture of them wearing in the fall and call them Mr. Autumn Man all day
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Republicans know that too, but they also know this is something they can make Dems flinch and equivocate about, which makes them look overall weak and indecisive. They did it with immigration last cycle, they did it with gay marriage 20 years ago. The only way to win is to tell them to eat shit
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
OMFG WOMEN: IT'S OK TO AGE AND GAIN WEIGHT COMPLIANCE WITH FASCISM WON'T LET YOU LIVE LONGER OR BE HAPPIER FUCK ALL THE SYSTEMS THAT WANT YOU TO HARM YOURSELF FOR THEIR APPROVAL (this psa brought to you by *the emmys*)
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s so awesome that every billionaire is insanely stupid
Mark Cuban: Hey @grok, which is more likely to create a human extinction event or series of events in the next 25 years, Al or Climate Change ?
Assign a probability to each
If the answer to either is yes, do your best to put a timeline for when you think it happens
If the answer is no. Explain why
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'd like to enter this into the "best thing I've seen on the Internet this month" contest. This racist piece of shit called ICE after these fellas built his fence to avoid paying them. They handled their business. And I love the music this is set to. "You've been, THUNDERSTRUCK!"
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They care about terrorism so surely they also arrested the masked goons smashing things at British ports right? Right?
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Lektüre für den Sonntagabend: Leider passend an einem Tag, der tatsächlich zur historischen Zäsur in der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte zu werden droht:
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Was auch immer heute passiert in Sachsen-Anhalt: Bitte erstarrt politisch nicht in Furcht und verschenkt Zeit und Energie. In vielen Ländern ist man das schon durch. Und es gibt mehrere Lehren, die man ziehen kann. 1. das ist nicht das Ende. Die extreme Rechte möchte es so darstellen.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 06/09/2026
I'm deadly serious about this: every Republican should be shown this photo on TV and asked if they repudiate/reject/renounce Musk. And if not, why not.
Musk doing his Sieg Heil salute
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I know it's not the most important takeaway but ...All of this for a *one year postdoc*?? I just know this guy has got to be the most insufferable coworker.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Take care everyone. Live your life in such a way that people are genuinely sad when you pass on.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026
People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026
I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"wokeness" didn't go too far. it remains a collection of majoritarian views stifled by a united coalition of the powerful
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If God is real and was cool, after his death D. Trump would be condemned to live one day as every single person he's harmed.
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Summer Is Almost Over and You Blew It open.substack.com/pub/thepom/p...
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Summer Is Almost Over and You Blew It
I'm here to affirm you: you're absolutely right, you did a terrible job.
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
One of my favorite things about having Angela Merkel as chancellor was that her husband was just some guy. I probably googled him 10 times and I still wouldn't recognize him on the street or remember his name.
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I went to a wedding in Italy, got pretty drunk, and while the Italian aunties were tearing up the dance floor, listened to my sister in law talk about how much she loves her lil brother (my husband) 10/10 recommend
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
they voted to assail queer people and terrorize my state and withhold disaster aid from my city and revoke abortion rights and wreck the economy and tear apart families because they didn't think it would ever happen to them. i voted for it to not happen to them. i hope they learn. that's all i got
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yes lockdown was really tough for kids. Lots of those kids are teenagers now so maybe as a thank you our establishments could stop deliberately making even more things worse for them due to a weird systemic hatred of our own youth
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"That’s it. That’s the story. They are naturally not putting it in those words, but instead talking about “gold standard science” and the “reproducibility crisis” and funding “bold inquiry” for “transformational breakthroughs”. This is all bullshit, and it’s important to realize that. "
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The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
you cannot technocrat your way out of the climate crisis. adaptation will be necessary to mitigate the damage, but every call to concede is a call for more destruction, more death, more suffering for the sake of immediate convenience. it should be treated with unforgiving scorn
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The Odyssey is a nice example of the problem with every effort to "understand" Trumpers. There's nothing to "understand" here: this man has no idea what happens in Homer's epic, he's an arrogant dimwit with a made-up version in his head that he uses as an excuse to be weird and racist. That's it.
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I love when conservatives make their own version of art that makes them uncomfortable, and then they all have to pretend that it doesn't suck shit.
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The thing about deeply boring people is that they get very upset when other people aren't boring like them.
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 16/07/2026
If only a dedicated group of scientists had warned us about the record heat, torrential flooding, continental scale wildfires, and apocalyptic orange skies
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is just a letter from a grandpa who loves Trump but also there are tons of old maga ladies whose goal in life is to take care of a man! It's just that they look like old ladies and spend their time at church.
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Every day my twins ask what my least favorite song is, just to hear me expound on Aerosmith's "Don't Wanna Miss a Thing". So we're riding our bikes to school and somehow I'm shouting, "and the guy who sings the song is the dad of the lady from the movie, so, like, that's weird, too!"
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 08/07/2026
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The core error is treating “white, male, and kind of an asshole” and “working class” as the same thing, or at least thinking it’s the key to working class appeal. Can be seen in over-determining the close 2024 election, fixating on the “manosphere,” romanticizing masculine-coded types of work, etc.
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It amazes me how easy is is for Americans to win good will from the world, despite everything. People making tiktoks about waffle house & ranch sauce & how ordinary Americans are fun and friendly and lovable. And then the dumbest asshole on Earth always steps in to fuck it up.
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
American Meteorologists starting to see the effects of Musk cuts to NOAA
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Here's Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately
Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it.
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Dr Lisa @youlooklikeabeth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Waldo Geraldo Faldo
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
First the endless saga of the Knickerbockers & now the soccer &, baby, I can’t nod my head in vague support forever.
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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."
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