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Nick Walker Hirsch

@dreamseadrifter

They/them PhD Student in History of Technology, Science, the Environment and Medicine BA from UMD, CP; MA from UC San Diego Born in VA, raised in NY, home is DC

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Fair enough.

Quick question:

What percent of adults born in the US between 1950 and 1981 have tested positive for dangerous levels of lead exposure?

07.03.2026 19:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, it's an "attack" when you bomb a country and they fight back.

07.03.2026 19:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lindsay isn't allowed to be gay anymore.

He's been excommunigayted.

07.03.2026 18:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

*drinks hose water out of nostalgia*

*dies*

07.03.2026 18:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Election*

07.03.2026 18:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So* not dodo.

I truly hate technology sometimes

07.03.2026 18:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But you're undermining your own logic.

If racists voted for Obama so they didn't feel racist, why wouldn't they do the same for Harris?

I'm not saying Obama's ejection is evidence that racism was over, I'm asking why her blackness would be more of a barrier than his was.

07.03.2026 18:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

She's responding to what she thinks people are going to say and not what they actually say, dodo it's unfortunately not going to be much of a productive exchange.

07.03.2026 18:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bluesky is for freaky weirdos. X is for weird freaks.

It's a subtle but real distinction that separates idiosyncracy from psychopathy.

07.03.2026 15:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Pretty sure that 38% of the country would support Trump if he just started feeding their own children into a wood chipper on live tv.

These people are beyond redemption.

07.03.2026 14:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

06.03.2026 19:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 13256 ๐Ÿ” 2860 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 318 ๐Ÿ“Œ 183

Again, horseman of the apocalypse shit.

This man is demonic.

07.03.2026 07:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anyone in congress going to address the indiscriminate murder demon here, or

07.03.2026 01:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What the fuck is he on about?

06.03.2026 23:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Close up of Josh's fake mouth and chin, with a square jaw and stubble

Close up of Josh's fake mouth and chin, with a square jaw and stubble

Close up of Josh's actual, more frog-like mouth and chin, with round jaw, baby-smooth cheeks and acne

Close up of Josh's actual, more frog-like mouth and chin, with round jaw, baby-smooth cheeks and acne

06.03.2026 17:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is what I'm doing when I'm not staring into the modern gestalt horrorvoid.

06.03.2026 16:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My bigger picture approach is to treat afro-caribbean knowledge systems with the same respectful framing as we do western proto-scientific systems that were ultimately just as epistemically distant from modern STEM.

06.03.2026 16:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Biggest challenge will be in studying it as a black box, closed system, and respectful of practitioners while still discussing it in a broader historical context.

06.03.2026 16:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Academic stuff:

Currently starting work on a paper about Obeah in a history of science context, where I research it with the same historiographical respect as I would when talking about the humours or Paracelsus.

#histsci #hsts #historyofmedicine

06.03.2026 16:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lol, I mentioned Amanda Askell and the dubious ethics of Anthropic helping blow up kids, and someone found my work email and tried to sign me up for her blog.

Weird way to try convincing someone it's not a cult.

06.03.2026 06:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bringing back the morals ethics duty and honor, every single general and soldier who perpetuates this war should be brought up on charges for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

All of them.

06.03.2026 06:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Set aside morals, ethics, duty or honor, of which Hegseth has none - he also doesn't understand that these rules and norms he hates so much are the only thing that's kept the rest of the world from joining forces and obliterating us.

06.03.2026 06:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The thing about rules of engagement is that they protect the "mighty" from the wrath of the weak.

If everyone knows you're just going to kill them without any restraint, then they have no reason to help you, and the US does not in fact have the budget, resources or manpower to solo the world.

06.03.2026 06:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think he's holding on as long as he can and has no plan for anything because he's flickering like a spent candle.

Just get his name on a bunch of stuff and go out without ever experiencing a single consequence.

A living and dying moral indictment of American capitalism, a monument to vulgarity.

06.03.2026 01:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I really am convinced, without hyperbole, that Trump is just trying to kill as many people as he can before he dies this summer.

And I am convinced he will die this summer. He isn't acting like someone who thinks he's going to live much longer.

He's acting like a nihilist at the end of life.

06.03.2026 00:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"We could do 'em all..."

What is "doing" them in this thing's brain?

Because it seems like he is literally just talking about indiscriminately bombing countries just for the sake of bombing them.

And does Rubio just really want Cuba carpet bombed? Hates everyone who lives there that much, huh?

06.03.2026 00:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thankfully, I don't have to take that position because I think Pete Hegseth is just as wrong as every violent theocratic monster has ever been.

He's a stain like all the other stains of history, and time and good effort will wash him away.

05.03.2026 21:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The thing is, if I believed that God was what Hegseth believes God is, the only moral choice would be Satanism.

If your God wants you to mass murder little girls and defend wealthy rapists, then your God is evil and I would rather go to hell that worship that.

05.03.2026 21:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No wars are holy.

05.03.2026 13:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

An LLM won't judge you because LLMs are not conscious, or intelligent, and they have no opinions. They are not alive, have no internality, and cannot care or feel things.

But they can reflect the biases of their training data and the people who created them.

05.03.2026 10:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0