becca harrison

Scientist friends: Read this. All of this. Multiple times. Every day. @marklargent #AAASmtg #WarOnScience

I hate when I see tweets on here like “no one told me that you hit 30 and start forgetting everything” that’s the long covid beating your ass babe. It’s not normal.

Masking is resistance because the world wants you infected. One group because they don’t care about you and would rather you get sick and die than cost them anything, and the other because they feel bad about this and don’t want to be reminded. Aim to disappoint both those groups

The United States Postal Service, USPS, doesn’t “lose” money. It costs money. It’s a public service. Don’t fall for the privatization propaganda.

"The Case Against Universal Free Lunch"

Never forget how the world can cooperate to get oil through the Strait of Hormuz but couldn't cooperate to get food into Gaza. Everything is a choice.

folks don't wanna stop using AI so that communities aren't poisoned/run out of water, don't wanna mask to keep other from getting infected, don't wanna donate or even share mutual aid posts, literally don't want to do shit but point fingers at others. the problem is you too, boo.

Edward Norton: “The anxiety of these times is particularly intense right now. We know the world is effed up in ways that are unprecedented in our lifetimes. We live in this unbelievable onslaught of information. We see genocide being livestreamed to us. We see American citizens being killed by paramilitary people in our own streets for standing in solidarity with their neighbors. We’re seeing Epstein’s abuses titrated into us on a daily basis”

Millennials are the elite generation because they cranked out 12-page essays the night before they were due. No ChatGPT. No Claude. Just lo-fi beats playing in the background, Black coffee at midnight, footnotes that were somehow correct, and pure delusion. Grade was an A minus. Period.

I'm going to call this right now. We are going to have a large population with absolutely no critical thinking skills if they blindly trust AI for everything. We have all already seen it. They don't validate outputs. They don't really understand anything. They just ask questions, it looks good, and they go with it. There are going to be huge issues in every company as this continues over the years. The amount of technical debt and knowledge gaps are going to be insane. So much opportunity if you actually know what you're doing.

Living in the pandemicine for 6 years and people are still surprised at new illness outbreaks, while doing nothing to prevent them.

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter at all and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

Realizing that many of these people just dont have human networks. I have a friend who checks over tough emails. I have mentors who will look at grant apps. I belong to a writing group. I have a productivity/motivation group. I ask other profs to look over my assignments. 1/4

how do we think it would go if i tell my workers’ comp independent medical exam doctor that he (an orthopedic surgeon) is not actually qualified to offer an opinion on the causality of my rabies vaccine (from 9+ months ago) and my ongoing carpal tunnel-presenting parathesia.

“I don’t want to wear a mask all the time” Alright. Would you please wear it sometimes? Sometimes > never. Like just keep one in your bag, and put it on when you’re in an extra crowded place maybe?

@suchnerve the other day i was telling my mom 'i hope you're wearing a mask' and she goes 'oh not really, only if i'm grocery shopping or at the doctor or my immunocompromised friends ask me to.' god damn i wish most people did half that much most just let their germ clouds hang free.

RFK Jr and HHS have launched a new website dedicated to Long COVID. Please remain skeptical: They will offer more junk science than real solutions, and use this as another opportunity to spread misinformation about vaccines.

If you’ve ever had to navigate Workers’ Comp, this would not surprise you one bit.

if youre a womens sports fan long enough you develop the ability to tell if a man actually watches womens sports based on who he says his favorite female athlete is with shocking accuracy

It is unreal how much of humanity’s wealth is pissed away on toxic death machines used by the rich to pillage other countries. There is no problem on earth we cannot solve. We have everything we need to exist comfortably. Instead, we’re locked in a constant cycle of fucked shit.

@NerdeenKiswani "Can't afford a house back home? Disproportionately affected by policies that target you specifically? No problem, help us destroy someone else's and crush them with your boot". We don't hate this wretched place enough.