Joe Spagna

Bio-entomologist, family person, educator, public servant. I study spiders. He-him. Opinions and ideas expressed here are mine, not those of my employer.

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Dear Fellow Dems- besides it being awful and ghoulish, counting on COVID to kill enough GOP voters to impact swing Congressional elections won't do much. A Thread 1/

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@lukeweston Could this result in... wait for it... later-eel transfer?
I'll see myself out...

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@melnickjeffrey1 Pancho and Lefty (about a dozen good versions)
Most Velvet Underground (u pick)
25 minutes To Go- Johnny Cash

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@inlandemperor My wife has been watching... I would have found out eventually. LOL.

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@inlandemperor Dang!

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@MonicaCMiller @melnickjeffrey1 Oh, and "skibidi" is, as it sounds, a substitute-word with no particular meaning at all. It's based on this guy (which I find sorta terrifying, but gets 10s of millions of views)
https://t.co/26gPXJQbh8

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@melnickjeffrey1 The sleeve-hate is real here. I ran my lake's summer swim team for a decade. Severe sleeve shortage among my Fellow Dads.

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@MissCat54268879 @ArielEsq305 @notcapnamerica OnlyFaaaaaaans

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@melnickjeffrey1 Christ, and the Dr.'s gonna say, yeah, tests got no markers for anything major. Just keep taking your meds, tryn' lose a little weight, you're fine. Goddamnit Mountain Goats!

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@KenHomanSJ My guess- you'd become an ad hoc exception... "I hate Jesuits... but you're ok, you're one of The Good Ones." That's how people deal with cognitive dissonance, maintain their correctness, while allowing an unlimited number of personal exceptions.

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@Artemisapphire @ModernPapist @TaylorRMarshall should be "Isn't a vocation..." left key word out somehow.

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@Artemisapphire @ModernPapist @TaylorRMarshall Exactly. Isn't a literal "calling from God?" Why would God call someone, and also make them scared of half the human race? I hope God calls strong people to serve.

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@melnickjeffrey1 I love reemergence of once-popular names, or just ones that feel slightly anachronistic.
One of my Mom's friends named her twin girls Honor and Remembrance. They went by Ani (prononouced like, DiFranco) and Remmy. So cute.

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@melnickjeffrey1 Had a nice conversation yesterday with my student with family in the West Bank. I didn't have much advice, just let him know I'm grateful his family is ok, for now. It's part of the job, I guess.

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@Seanfucious Meth is a hell of a drug.

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@melnickjeffrey1 I saved my school's club hockey team's season by providing evidence that their captain was actually enrolled in a program, and on course to graduate. Not quite the same, but I'm sure you understand the connection.

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@dereknystrom1 @melnickjeffrey1 I miss Vic.

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@racheledini1 If someone is particularly muscular, say they are "swole." That ish is vintage 2014. :-)