Philosopher working outside of academia for now. Father to a great kid. Husband to a great wife. Trying not to be a jerk anymore. #OCD #Bipolar2

Joined March 2020
American politics is like if Cha Cha Slide was playing and got stuck skipping on “Slide to the right!” for all of eternity.
5
7
60
1,365
digging the flipped colour scheme
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
2
55
485
12,276
Museums are great.
27
799
46
9,078
275,340
Hi friends, I have an opportunity to purchase the entire quantity of chemo I need for my entire treatment in bulk, but in order to do so I have an immediate fundraising need. I need to raise $17,000 to, in the long run, save $175,000, and save my life.
4
13
6
30
8,760
Brian retweeted
caroline mccarthy 🦝@caro29 Sep 2023
What did Dianne Feinstein confess on her deathbed
9
139
5
1,139
108,640
What makes academia so enticing is that the pay sucks, there is no job security, and no one respects you
33
435
39
7,651
314,732
Brian retweeted
Molly Jong-Fast
@MollyJongFast26 Aug 2023
This seems like an important data point thenation.com/article/societ…
276
3,244
235
8,004
820,294
That’s because they don’t exist.
Replying to @jonathanstea
You have obviously never been treated by a good homeopathic Doctor.
93
98
6
1,758
77,537
Conspiracism is exhausting. Everything real is fake, everything fake is real. Everyone is lying to you except the people I tell you are telling the truth, but sometimes they have to lie. Experts are quacks, quacks are experts. It's a deadening way to live.
Everything is a conspiracy. Nothing is as it seems. Everything is connected. Agenda. Media. Government. I’m a bit disappointed in myself for not thinking this news story would get picked up in my second feed of conspiracy theorists.
11
119
6
484
55,707
Iowa Supreme Court justices going off
77
798
141
2,898
242,769
One of the most gorgeous ammonites I’ve ever seen.  I find myself getting lost in the intricate beauty of this specimen. It comes from Madagascar and is about 110 million years old.   Incredible prep skills by juarezfossil (on Insta). 👏
14
231
7
1,078
75,571
Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵
685
19,048
3,703
79,306
20,263,873
I have reinstalled Twitter to respond to this story and make sure my voice is fully heard. I am Casey. My real name is Alex but my mom decided it would be best to hide it for anonymity. But this is my story, not hers. This is not the free press’s story.
Caroline was told that a puberty blocker would relieve her child's psychological distress. That's not what happened. More reporting from inside Washington University's Transgender Center by @EmilyYoffe : thefp.com/p/i-felt-bullied-m…
874
23,690
2,367
109,544
26,928,369
there's a kid annoying his exhausted mother in the row next to me on a small plane right now so I asked him, "Have you ever thought about how weird it is that sounds existed for billions of years before ears evolved to hear them?" and now he's looking quietly out the window.
96
1,098
78
24,383
1,289,796
How did @azcentral get so much wrong about the Super Bowl/sex trafficking hoax, effectively promoting the myth? Lack of skepticism for one. But the big problem was that it ignored the voices of sex workers. 1/ frontpageconfidential.com/ar…
2
18
2
39
42,478
Today, I'm announcing I will not issue any execution warrants during my term as Governor. When one comes to my desk, I will sign a reprieve every time — and I’m asking the General Assembly to send me a bill abolishing the death penalty in Pennsylvania once and for all.
2,687
3,132
976
31,898
6,273,836
This isn't "BOMBSHELL NEWS🚨🚨🚨" - it is abuse of data to arrive at a conclusion, and naked grifting. This tactic is very common in antivaccine activism and really scares people, so lets look at why its utter nonsense, and how to spot it in the wild. A thread 🧵
116
1,407
169
5,523
942,664
Watch hundreds of years of yellowing varnish being removed from this Jacobean Panel Portrait of a Noblewoman painted in 1617 in England 📹restoration and video by Philip Mould
1,577
17,052
3,809
212,629
35,738,097