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@amberying.com

Robots and neuroscience and sex. (But not that way.) Disabled and glorious. Leftist activist who works in biotech. Taiwanese American. Queer AF. #BiInSci. Sincere and earnest. Our struggles are intertwined. (she/they) #CambMA https://linktr.ee/amberying

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The bar is in hell because we don't press for better standards.

06.03.2026 23:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean I can do the same and I don't claim to be POTUS material.

06.03.2026 23:27 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I'm doing well! I forgot about the hashtag! Thanks for the reminder!

06.03.2026 16:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

ME: Time to change the kid's diaper. Because everyone poops. JOHN: Even Claude? ME: Claude isn't an everyone.

06.03.2026 16:36 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm biased as a biologist but I think that consciousness and intelligence requires being alive. Life has a fuzzy boundary but there are some requirements that aren't so fuzzy, e.g. self-replication.

GenAI is neither alive or conscious. Stop messing with these concepts without knowledge or respect.

06.03.2026 16:36 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

When humans string words together from past predictions of what you would like the most, we call them charlatans. But when machines do it, we call them gods.

06.03.2026 16:09 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1

I can't make the local protest despite being in #CambMA but I can join online! (And you can, too!)

06.03.2026 15:54 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Watching The Pitt via recaps by MDs because it is way less intense that way (and the industry knowledge is an additional bonus).

05.03.2026 00:06 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't think he is either.

04.03.2026 22:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He's a train wreck. The scary kind.

04.03.2026 22:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not that he had the New England vote in the first place, but way to make us mad about your cultural and practical ignorance.

04.03.2026 21:52 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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RFK Jr. demands Dunkin', Starbucks to prove drinks are 'safe' Robert F. Kennedy threatens to crack down on Dunkin' and Starbucks for their sugary drinks at a Make America Healthy Again event.

To be fair, RFK Jr. wants to ban ALL iced coffee, not just Dunkin', because he thinks that there is way too much sugar in it. (If the quote is correct, he clearly doesn't know what he's talking about because the nutrition stats are publicly available online.) buff.ly/fV1VPUZ

04.03.2026 21:49 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 2

A lot of blaming voters, not enough blaming voter suppression

04.03.2026 14:55 👍 645 🔁 165 💬 10 📌 13

How I arrived on Bluesky:

03.03.2026 23:49 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Hank Green | Mola Cult Shirt Designed by Pepper Raccoon and printed on Shaka Wear Super Max Heavy cotton, it's your first (only?) chance to join the Mola Cult.

AHHH!! I hope your kid likes it!!

There is also another mola shirt: store.dftba.com/products/han...

03.03.2026 17:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hank Green | Whatever's Wrong With Me It's Working This product is has two prints. One on the front with a pocket-sized print and one on the back. This shirt is open for pre-order through March 5th. Get it now!

I just found this shirt and I kinda want it.

store.dftba.com/products/han...

03.03.2026 17:34 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

this is for all those asian horse girls everywhere

03.03.2026 12:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This game is about to release into Early Access TODAY and I have a spare giveaway key. I'll post it into the replies for anyone to grab once this post reaches 500 reposts

03.03.2026 11:02 👍 2072 🔁 979 💬 90 📌 33

It’s happened. Someone said the pun. The Taipei personality pun.

03.03.2026 12:34 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

As long as we don’t get our basic needs met, there will be others exploiting and manipulating us all.

03.03.2026 01:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New England cherishes its local elections—but many disabled voters are locked out “It's a really heartbreaking example of who gets left behind in systems that are not built for everyone.”

For a few hundred years, towns across New England have conducted Town Meeting Days via floor votes, which can be inaccessible to disabled people. This situation shows how accessibility and tradition can go head-to-head. My latest for @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

02.03.2026 21:56 👍 179 🔁 75 💬 6 📌 8

anyways critical support to strippers, masseuses, FSSW, any and all variations of in person and digital sex work.

Give us decrim, safe work environments, bodily autonomy, sick pay, federal work protections, and a 5% maximum on fees.

Kill the puritan inside your head🖤

03.03.2026 01:27 👍 48 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 1

TIL cooking with peanut oil. (It's amazing.)

02.03.2026 22:31 👍 22 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

In other news, I am WAY MAD that the asshole predatory conservative right has claimed feminine floral sundresses. I can't believe that there will come a day where I will have to reclaim DRESSES.

02.03.2026 21:56 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Anyway, know your enemy. It's not just the conservative institutions that prey on impressionable people but also the adults that choose these lifestyles for that intangible taste of status and meaning that they can't manufacture for themselves.

02.03.2026 21:53 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

This is the countermovement, suggesting that the progressive sex liberation movement leaves women ugly and lonely. The fear of being unwanted and alone is a strong driver for anyone to seek communities that promise acceptance and status.

This is the female version of alphamaxxing.

02.03.2026 21:50 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1

YES THIS PLS

02.03.2026 18:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe a "collection"?

"Resources" also does the job just fine.

02.03.2026 16:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So many of our people got massacred, and are still getting massacred, by "Marxist Leninist" regimes, and I see people on these apps arguing about interpretations of passages from their books like they're doing a bible reading, canonizing these dudes.

02.03.2026 02:47 👍 217 🔁 34 💬 10 📌 5

YOU ARE FAAAAAAAMOUS

02.03.2026 03:53 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0