Daniel Paul Bollen

he/him | PhD Candidate @MITBiology studying worms and microbes | Humanist | Progresssive | Environmentalist | 🌹🌇🧬🔬
opinions very much my own

[Daniel Paul Bollen @danpbollen]

New rule: no tweets that make good-intentioned people feel bad.

[Daniel Paul Bollen @danpbollen]

Seriously considering deleting this app. It's been real, folks.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

Journalists who cover Elon Musk have been suspended on Twitter tonight: @Donie O'Sullivan from CNN, Aaron Rupar and the Washington Post's @drewharwell.

Rupar tells me he has "no idea" why it happened.

[Lauren Kaori Gurley @LaurenKGurley]

BREAKING: The Senate voted down a deal, 52-43 that would have granted rail workers 7 paid sick days.

This was the crux of the rail strike standoff. Railroad workers in the U.S. do not receive a single paid sick day.

[Dr Florence H R Scott @FlorenceHRScott]

One of my favourite things that ever happened is when William Shatner went to space, came back and had an existential crisis like 'there's nothing there'. Think about it daily

[ｋ @lawfulspice]

when you're mean to me this is who you're being mean to btw

[Daniel Paul Bollen @danpbollen]

@gramnegativity 1750s Doctors are allowed to have pet hypotheses based on zero evidence, as a treat. This one just happened to be correct.

[Daniel Paul Bollen @danpbollen]

The US Gov should allow Elon to recoup some of his losses by buying Twitter for $0.05 on the dollar and making it a public good.

[Daniel Paul Bollen @danpbollen]

Reminder that the status-quo is not apolitical and many (including some egomaniac billionaires) benefit from it!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

To independent-minded voters:

Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic.

[David Fadul @david_fadul]

There are three main policy issues I go into in the piece:

1) Student debt cancellation

2) Pardoning federal marijuana offenses

3) Combatting climate change

If I had the space, I’d have talked about gun control and taxing the wealthy. But the point is, Dems have done a lot.

[Jonathan 'Boo and Vote' Cohn @JonathanCohn]

YES on 1: faith, labor, & community groups vs. corporate elites without a social conscience

YES on 2: dentists & nurses vs. insurance execs

YES on 3: local & independent businesses vs. large retailers

YES on 4: civil rights advocates & labor vs. xenophobes & reactionaries

[Leah Gardner @leahgardnerart]

destruction mode: on

[Elisa Granato @Prokaryota]

spent two months troubleshooting A Lab Thing and it turned out to be something really dumb

[Daniel Paul Bollen @danpbollen]

@S__Baksh I've heard this sentiment before and can confirm that that person was also an asshole.

[hi ✋😳 @singingflesh]

A Gingerale will cure ailments of the body and a Dr Pepper, ailments of the mind and spirit.

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

If you can’t relax, did you try imagining a cat making a big soup

[Daniel Paul Bollen @danpbollen]

Okay is Tesla just speedrunning making promises it can't deliver now?

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

Teslas Bot is going to remove the utterly most painful repetitive tasks in every industry. It’ll make things super efficient. I can only imagine how much efficiency the production line at Tesla will become. @elonmusk

[Daniel Paul Bollen @danpbollen]

@papertigersusa @cutty_146 @AllstonBrighton Much needed improvement. Drivers fly down this street.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

Voters, by definition...aren't children!