Laurel Brown

Laurel Brown

@docbrown.bsky.social

Currently a lawyer. Formerly a TV/entertainment reporter, historian, professional student, teacher, astrophysicist. Ask me about my next career move! Aka, docbrown_tv and really_mzungu.

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Ignoring the history of Arabic science (which is hard as someone who LITERALLY HAS A PHD IN THE HISTORY OF ARABIC SCIENCE) and factoring in the vagaries of who counts as "Arab," Arabs have won *many* Nobel Prizes, 2 Wolf Prizes, and at least 1 Fields Medal.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

My favorite kind of shitposting is definitely "your thing is not historically accurate" shitposting.

Nome@nome.bsky.social

Literally the first shot of this "historically accurate" Odyssey movie shows a boat that A) Has no steering oar. B) Is under full sail *and* full rowers while entering a cave, presumably to dock inside.

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Literally the first shot of this "historically accurate" Odyssey movie shows a boat that A) Has no steering oar. B) Is under full sail *and* full rowers while entering a cave, presumably to dock inside.

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

A Washington State resident literally died last week as a direct result of being accused of illegally registering to vote (she had to cross a border to see her doctor b/c WA geography is weird). Mr. Orangeface can f*ck right off with attacking WA's people on useless voting issues.

PBS News@pbsnews.org

The Trump administration on Monday asked Washington state to set aside any ballots received from more than 400 people it suspects registered to vote without U.S. citizenship. https://to.pbs.org/4iHuGVh

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Ask your doctor if Schadenfreude™ may be right for you.

Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

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Okay, look, I know obviously this is the most corrupt administration ever, and we should throw Jared down a well, but I just want to say... when you're committing $700M in crimes, USE A LAPTOP?! Don't do billion-dollar-crimes on a *phone*! Can't even buy _plane tickets_ on a phone!

Saw this post. Had a brief second of horror thinking we needed to cancel Art Garfunkel, which would be devastating. Then I realized this was a conversation about who took whose place in "Cecilia." Carry on.

Aeryn Christie@chaoskirin.art

It was Garfunkel. That's why they can't stand each other now.

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how all of these conversations would actually go

Philip Bump@pbump.com

Even if this were viable as a concept (that there's an afterlife; that it allows conversations with others; that enslavers are going the same place as you), who cares? Oh, are you mad at me, Ben Franklin? Tough shit.

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Fellow WA voters, let's bury this. I can't imagine any parent wants to subject their child to this vile "examination."

Doctors and nurses are voicing their objections. I-638 would require EVERY girl who wants to participate in sports to go through biological sex verification. That means expensive, invasive, and utterly gross examinations. Protect our kids and let them play. Vote NO on I-638

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me: post bluesky: no me: really? bs: yeah I didn't post it me: ok I'll just write it again. post. actually improved it so it's fine bs: I posted it me: cool bs: I posted the first one too me: bs: me: bs: me: bs: AI is the future 😃

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Replying to @maxberger.bsky.social

When democracy is restored in America, we also have to break up the media monopolies owned by regime allies.

Studying for the bar is -- usually -- a hell I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. But I'm okay with mandating it for anyone associated with the current administration.

Blue Heron Farm@blueheronfarm.bsky.social

Welp. That lady's got plenty of time to study for the bar exam now.

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Replying to @helldude.bsky.social

oh you made the computer sound like a guy? it can summarize answers really fast? well life-giving liquid just falls out of the sky and a delicious tomato can just appear magically out of dirt. id say "but your thing is cool too" but id be lying. your thing is dumb as fuck compared to a tomato

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They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.