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Mar Hicks

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Historian of technology & labor. Professor now, sysadmin before. Tells dad jokes (sorry). Find me on the other sites too.

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@histoftech
Mar Hicks
10 months
The 2025 dad joke thread is over on the other app šŸ¦‹
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Mar Hicks
2 years
The dad joke thread for 2024 begins:
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@punishedskagboy
king vonnegut
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@clowneatingpig the other oncologist would also shit talk the kid’s mom saying she only wanted her son on painkillers cuz she couldn’t control him otherwise. meanwhile the kid would literally be crying from the pain. really harrowing stuff.
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@punishedskagboy
king vonnegut
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@clowneatingpig my mom is a oncologist and the other doctors would shit talk this kid who they took off painkillers after chemo cuz they believed he was his faking pain. my mom was the only one willing to listen to him and the mom so she did some scans and turned out the cancer relapsed
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@futurism
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Brace for impact. https://t.co/YKfZo5zOT6
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@AltdeGrace
Grace
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Anti-maskers (slackers) were trolling people back in the day too.
@DEC0L0NIZE
En(during COVID)
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even over a fucking century ago (1918 influenza pandemic) top of the list: "wear a mask!"
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@phl43
Philippe Lemoine
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If you feel like you're bad at your job and it's making you depressed, just consider that, as the investigation of the recent heist revealed, the password to access the Louvre's videosurveillance system was "Louvre".
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@fillthewhole
Lara - Covid is Airborne
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In 2002 I was a young Neuroscientist working in 5 stroke wards across the NE. In 3 years I saw one person aged 30 who’d had a stroke. At that time it was seen as a rare occurence. My research was in hemispatial neglect (inattention if you will). Well we need to pay attention now.
@mryoung151
Martha-JD, MBA, PCC-😷
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'Doctors dismissed my stroke because I was 26' - BBC News
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Mar Hicks
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Relatable (if you haven’t iOT’d your house)
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Mar Hicks
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welcome to the era of [citation needed]
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@melnickjeffrey1
Jeff Melnick
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After class a student approached and told me she was a big fan of my work but alas she meant what I do on here.
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@snackowska
rhubarb snackowski
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liberalism is so dismissive of anything it deems utopian (i.e., not pragmatic, realistic, rational, etc), but it's utopian itself - it imagines itself as a neutral ground from which to critique all other positions, but a neutral ground doesn't exist, so it's a no-place, a utopia
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Mar Hicks
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highly inflammatory post
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@xriskology
Dr. Ɖmile P. Torres šŸ›‘
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Saw this and immediately deleted my account with @academia.
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@mcsquared34
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welcome to the era of [citation needed]
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@TheGoth8
The Goth
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@blablafishcakes I asked Google AI for 2025 paparazzi photos of Belinda Carlisle one month ago. It didn't know that the current year is 2025, it blamed me for it's mistake and then said it was having a hallucination.
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@pot8um
potatum
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billionaires aren't ethical just because they make music that you like!!!! i formally invite you to be serious
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the category is ethical billionaires
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@sethharpesq
Seth Harp
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The biggest capital outlay ever, for a product that no one will pay for. OpenAI loses ten billion dollars a quarter. There is no path to profitability for subprime AI. These absurd data centers will stand sentinel over the ruins of our fake economy like moai on Easter Island.
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@callanable
Callan
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thanks, little free library
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Mar Hicks
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It’s telling how many left-leaning people love to call others ā€œstupidā€ and ā€œinsane,ā€ but are uncomfortable using words like evil or immoral to describe them.
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