@allisonbetus
Quantitative social scientist. PhD in Communication. media effects | intergroup dynamics | white supremacist extremism Pubs: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l-41bdcAAAAJ&hl=en Rgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Allison-Betus
a good half of our problem is low hundreds of dipshits gassing each other up on particular websites. if half those guys end up in prison and the websites are gone or neutered, well
Washington DC. You sold out the first two shows at DAR constitution hall in less than a day. Adding a third show. Join the waitlist here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Maybe something good will happen soon
Boycott Grammarly, please.
i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly
I will resume posting about human misery soon but right now you need to know that you can separate tenebrio molitor pupae from adults by simply placing a paper towels over them
The adults will cling to the towel & you can just brush them off into the beetle bin
The Art of Grieving in Public by Megan Falley open.substack.com/pub/andreagi...
Saw by ContaPoints
I'm not suggesting that worms have etiquette but I feel like leaving a molt right on the banana peel has to be bad manners
My favorite thing about farming mealworms is that nearly every single statement on their care can be followed by "but you don't have to. They'll be fine."
Insect oil to fuel: Optimizing biodiesel production from mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) oil using response surface methodology
First frass harvest today
I learned a lot & made a huge mess
Amazing how a bunch of sociopaths who think of people as things are telling us things are people.
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This is tiniest & most confusing ratio I've ever received
I'm almost ready to scale up my tenebrio molitor farm
I just need a few more bins
The next upgrade after that will require a good air filter & some other equipment
"The only ones who need to be worried right now is the Iranians who think they're gonna live"
-Pete Hegseth, Very Normal Guy
Folks, do you think turning a portion of an ice cream cake into a milkshake would work?
The book I ordered arrived :)
This is a missing piece that I & some retired Marines were trying to figure out when this story broke.
Every tattoo is in their file. New tattoos are updated. This tattoo is strictly prohibited & he absolutely would've known WHY immediately.
He has no plausible deniability, it's all lies.
this is also very stupid because the totenkopf, specifically, is maybe the *single* skull and crossbones design that you could pick which is *unambiguously* nazi shit, out of the infinite number of skull and crossbones designs you could get tattooed, that's the *only* one that has *no* other meaning
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
Andrew Tate has been detained by Saudi Arabia.
So that’s nice!
Relaxing background noise
This video has helped me fall asleep any number of times
youtu.be/5Xb0Ybg0AlY?...
White supremacists do sometimes date or marry Jewish people. They justify it with mental gymnastics, like designating their partner as one of the good ones or finding reasons to think of them as technically not Jewish
apparently the deadline's been extended to 3.9 -- and inventing christianity would still *love* to hear from folks working broadly in 2nd/3rd century christianities. please send us your abstracts; we're your intellectual "home" at #SBL.
From the abstract:
"We find clear and consistent evidence that whites who receive their political news from Fox News are significantly more likely to support core tenets of the GRT [Great Replacement Theory] than those who do not."
led by: @jesserhodesumass.bsky.social
available: cup.org/4d01aYr
All it takes to debunk the theory that thousands of kids were pushed into gender-affirming surgeries is to talk to literally any trans person who has tried to get gender-affirming care of ANY kind. It's extremely difficult.
