Scott Martin

Biological Sciences Librarian, Univ of Michigan. He/him/his. Office hrs Tu/Th 2-3PM via Zoom: Opinions/mistakes are mine.

[Scott Martin @ScottMLibrary]

Remember yourself. Play loud. Dance hard. Love fiercely. Never give in. #resist

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The rest is silence, or its nearest kin;
For Noise is Silence in a garish bag
Which carries, but no thing of sense contains.

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...and I'm out. Elmo's actively replatforming the worst of the worst assholes and treating his employees like shit. I've got better places to be.

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

Twitter has reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, editor of the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer. His account was suspended nearly a decade ago.

[Katelyn Jetelina @dr_kkjetelina]

Flu data out today. Holy crap.

[Joaquín Beltrán Free Palestine @joaquinlife]

Please share far and wide that there are no monoclonal antibody treatments available. SARS-2 has mutated to the point that our monoclonals no longer work. Our goal should be to not get COVID and avoid reinfections. Wear an N95 as SARS-2, FLU, and RSV are surging.

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@spaceweather9 Likewise; Me Lost Me and Nathalie Stern sound like promising matches to my tastes.

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Support musicians; buy music. /thread

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Happy #BandcampFriday! A few items from my cart this month (🧵):

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https://t.co/BF5SAbu52C

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

This is still my favorite methods diagram from a scientific paper

STEP 1: Intimate kissing
STEP 2: Probiotic intake
STEP 3: Intimate kissing

[akivamcohen.bsky.social @AkivaMCohen]

So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you.

I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.

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@gerge42 @emptywheel If you can’t do your own research, why should anyone else do it for you?

Also: "challenge." It’s 2022. Learn to use your spell check.

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@teapot_rabbit @UrsulaV Squamous, perhaps. Or rugose. One of those old-timey Lovecraftian adjectives.

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@emptywheel His second-smartest move in this case.

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@UrsulaV Is the lower-left one a solicitor sacrosanct?

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@UrsulaV Couple of solid galliform paladins there.