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Nicolas Bray (he/him)

@yarbsalocin

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Computational/molecular bio(techno)logist, I guess. I enjoy thinking about things and hope the feeling is mutual.

Joined October 2013
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Nicolas Bray (he/him)
3 years
Look how fucking cute he is.
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4 years
@IanKarmel To achieve one megadeath, the maniacs would have to kill an average of 100 people each. Based on historical maniac data, that seems unlikely.
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@Communism_Kills @8BigNasty @see_karma @mirandacgreen "This bad behavior by men is actually womens' fault." Great, thanks for sharing.
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@lexi4prez @kenklippenstein I know the whole global environmental catastrophe thing is more important but I like how this woman is like "Wow, look how amazing my husband is" and his amazingness consists of...having a lot of money.
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4 years
@Curious_Kurz The guy is hilarious.
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@mrjonasbryson @JonahFurman @LukewSavage I mean, I think they just think police should be able to kill whoever they feel like so why would it?
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@Liv_Agar I feel like it's not even the worst Lolita cover though, thanks to this blurb.
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3 years
@EoinHiggins_ Okay but can we also acknowledge that this person doesn't exist.
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Imagine being this person and having people show up to wave the Israeli flag in your face. No, really, imagine it.
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Nicolas Bray (he/him)
1 month
Can someone explain to me why I'm supposed to be more outraged by the person in the foreground than those in the back, who have gone to a protest against a genocide to wave the flag of the country which is committing that genocide?
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3 years
@abl_crt @logophobe @uncledoomer @dr_voidsrus_esq This tweet alone justifies a trip to the reeducation camp.
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Nicolas Bray (he/him)
3 years
@kenklippenstein I think that now the entire point of the Supreme Court is to have unpopular decisions. To do the things that the Republican Party wants done but knows there isn't popular support for.
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@solveiggold Is there anything good inside you? Anything at all?
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3 years
@berningman16 That was a good tweet by @AOC so I'm not sure what the problem is supposed to be there.
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3 years
@Robin_Hoody @brianjbilly @DylanTweetin No. He's just never bothered to pay attention to anyone else's problems.
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@TNGoldenBoy How do you know that they don't know who Arafat is when you've said multiple times that they won't talk to you?
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@isaiah_bb She actually said she was *stabbed* in the eye. This was an obvious lie but that didn't make a difference to anyone who propagated her claim.
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Nicolas Bray (he/him)
3 years
@disco_socialist @elijahdaniel *trying to think of a way to insult an idiotic racist rapist* ah, I've got it: I'll call him gay
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@christapeterso Aren't we all, in our own way, an enormous egg?
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3 years
@SaddestRobots @GBBranstetter It's almost like...I don't want to sound crazy but it's almost like the well-being of people in these situations isn't the actual motivation here?
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3 years
@lavern_spicer @IlhanMN Decent human beings don't lie about other people laughing at 9/11.
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4 years
@robrousseau @MaxBoot Excuse me, he has officially declared that an oopsie, it is in very poor taste to bring it up.
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3 years
@Sonja_Drimmer @ArmsteadVan @lastpositivist @KhakiMalarkey I had assumed that she was just a completely clueless person who'd been shown this photo by her parents without context but...she's part of a military history podcast?!
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4 years
@fungistien @briggityboppity Damn, this is embarrassing for you.
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6 years
@yaf @DineshDSouza Are there two people named @DineshDSouza ? Because surely you're not referring to this one:
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Sure, let's do this.
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4 years
@MarkQuest @SynthCool @JFrankensteiner @sarahcpr What did political correctness have to do with the video you were commenting on
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@Very__Regular *yankees team doctor while thinking about the giant jar of teeth he sleeps with every night* oh yes they all need to come out for, uh, for the pitching. for making the pitching better.
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3 years
@PromoPremiers @nameoftheyear Oh and by the way, if you think the Super Soaker thing is bad, wait until you hear about Thomas Jefferson.
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2 years
@AndrewCFollett @TampaWoman1965 @whignewtons Exactly what kind of surprise do you think I'm going to get from talking to people who wanted to ban my wife from entering the country?
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6 months
@saminthecastles @MrSnacktime This is so embarrassing for you.
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4 years
@christapeterso This was fun.
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4 years
@ANNIE_HAM Not the poet we need. But the poet we deserve.
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3 years
@mustachetoilet @limitlessjest Out of nowhere?? No way. Ask to shake his hand and then gently caress it afterwards.
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4 years
@Aaron4KS37 Yeah, whenever I really regret doing something, I make sure to accuse people who bring it up of subscribing to a medieval heresy.
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@Jclearfield2 @timotheeology You seem to be assuming that @timotheeology would think it's a good thing to free a slave.
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@Very__Regular Reminds me of this card I saw on a gas station notice board in Ohio.
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4 years
@gayarchist @djbaskin People spreading a deadly disease is everyone's business. You should have figured this out many months ago.
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@lotus__point @dash_eats You're completely empty inside. Just a human suit being worn by nothing.
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Nicolas Bray (he/him)
4 years
@number1shred @AOC Yeah, dictators are always talking about decreasing the level of policing. This is a thing that actually makes sense, in my brain.
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@Alkibiades_ You do realize that all this is a very pathetic coping mechanism on your part, right?
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11 months
@DerekNeverFails @GarlicCorgi The fact that you're getting this worked up over an obvious joke suggests that what you care about here is not actually antisemitism but rather your self-conception as a ~Nazi hunter~.
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3 years
@mattklunt94 @zei_squirrel The nutritionist would presumably simply decline to perform the brain surgery. This guy, on the other hand...
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4 years
Has anyone done this yet
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@BrokenAgate @chillcuteboy How could you possibly believe this like nine months into this thing.
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4 years
@clairlemon Wow, what a very realistic exchange.
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3 years
@CaitlinPacific @jonkay Speaking of not the best people, remember this?
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@TheRogue_Elf If you made these up yourself, you should feel bad about lying like this. If someone else made them up and you fell for it, you should feel bad about being so gullible.
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3 years
@JohnT15 @JonLemire Of all the reactions to this news, yours might have been the weirdest.
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4 years
@BungaHead @CurtisHouck @ComfortablySmug To be clear, there's nothing wrong with markup languages or people who work with them. But as a follow-up to incredibly smug superiority, it's very funny.
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4 years
@annakhachiyan @AZEALIA_2020 @registardus "I dare you to come talk to me"
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@bigger_tex @bocar_a @haralduhlig @JustinWolfers @and_joy_ No one is questioning your legal right to be a racist piece of shit. But don't expect other people not to notice.
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4 years
@ScottAdamsSays @TheAlanNoble Well, damn, I thought you were delusional too but - since being fired really is very similar to being hunted and killed - you do have a point here.
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@powellAtlantic @moorehn @itslaylas "Lost in the fighting" is open to the interpretation that they were combatants.
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3 years
@Floofle_Puff @kotcheck @MnDPS_BCA Imagine how depraved you'd have to be to think that the police should just execute anyone who's running from them.
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4 years
@clairlemon If your goal here was to demonstrate that you know absolutely nothing about academia then congrats, you did so quite efficiently.
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5 years
A few days ago, University of Alabama biology professor Jeffrey Morris posted the tweets below and then wrote a blog post defending them. I wanted to say a few words about why we need to find this kind of thing unacceptable, as opposed to absolutist ideas of academic freedom.
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@christapeterso The thing that really bugs me is that no one seems to have any explanation for the type of damage observed. Lots of people insisting that it couldn't have been any Israeli weapon but then it doesn't seem to make any sense that it could be a rocket from Gaza either.
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Imagine sharing your personal pain with a stranger like this, hoping to humanize your dead family members in the eyes of those watching this slaughter, and have this be all they make of it. Shameful. Utterly shameful.
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What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive? My essay :
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3 years
@TDunbass @zoltar91282 @Breaking911 Why is his interpretation of the actions even relevant? We have video. We know what happened.
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3 years
@Daniel_N_Jesus @michaelmalice If the message you're trying to send is that you're a psychopath then, yes, that would do it.
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@LizRummy It's not clear what part of the performance he enjoyed? Seems pretty clear to me. He enjoyed Curtis Mayfield getting paralyzed.
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4 years
@mvgold_ @zt3v3p Weird, no response from @zt3v3p . Almost like he actually didn't give a shit at all and just thinks it's fine to run over black people when he feels like it.
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4 years
@MWZH1 @redditships "(price gouging isn’t a thing)" Lol
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4 years
Imagine having a PhD in math and getting so worked up over people doing stuff like pointing out that 2 + 2 = 11 in base 3, that you say something like this. (The Banach-Tarski paradox does not - in any sense! - imply that 1 = 2.)
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@RepThomasMassie Wow, powerful stuff. Thanks for sharing.
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3 years
@nmeofdst8vM660 @TheStalwart I'm glad you find all these people dying so funny.
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4 years
@PrisonPlanet @joachimorjoe Oh, thank goodness. I was worried for a second there that you were going to sprint full speed head-first into a wall, thereby owning me and all the other libs.
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3 years
@devilnutz2651 @burnerpaige One who isn't so insecure that he denies himself delicious beverages?
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@RhiannonDauster @Katja_Thieme Meanwhile, here's libs of tiktok woman complimenting a guy who had just gotten suspending for posting images of child sexual abuse.
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@sfrsteel @abdurrrrx1 You know that he would have you feed to pigs if he could make five dollars off of it, right
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@BungaHead @CurtisHouck @ComfortablySmug Lmao, I just noticed "markup language".
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@BeijingPalmer @lastpositivist Something tells me that this is not a serious account.
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@LizardRumsfeld @Frankie64312931 @ConceptualJames "We have decency on our side", he said to the guy randomly talking about murdering a trans person.
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@token_blue @RepThomasMassie I know this is hard for sociopaths to understand but there are a lot of people out there who actually care if other people get sick and die.
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4 years
@TheFrostyMac @CopingMAGA To the degree they actually think Trump is a good and virtuous person, it's because their sense of virtue involves harming a lot of people. Nazis thought Hitler was good and virtuous. Doesn't mean anything.
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@helloiambear @annakhachiyan They don't care. They don't care at all.
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6 years
@CarterFliptMe @KevinMKruse Like, let's say that not only was that quote authentic but it was discovered tomorrow that LBJ was actually the Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan. Would that somehow change the broad patterns that @KevinMKruse has so thoroughly documented here?
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3 years
Two tweets from @pmddomingos , eight hours apart.
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@nobody_stop_me @_lajena @whysimonewhy This is one of the most "not mad, actually laughing" tweets I've ever seen.
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@Daniel_N_Jesus @michaelmalice If the message you're trying to send is that you're a psychopath then, yes, that would do it.
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Eisen very very obviously did no such thing. This is utterly despicable.
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3 years
@brainyisnewsexy @kittynouveau Teslas can take on many forms. Do not let them deceive you into releasing them from the circle.
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@chrismcintyre @LFPress Standing up for what you believe in is only admirable if what you believe in is good. Hitler stood up for what he believed in. Hitler should not be applauded.
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@PLZgoDIEE @murderxbryan "Money doesn't matter! What matters is being yourself! Also, you're poor!"
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4 years
@SignallerVirtue @TheDogWhoBarks @MahyarTousi You look like you're about to cry.
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@powellAtlantic @tomzellerjr @nytimes For you, of all people, to say this is truly ridiculous.
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@nadineamason1 @YardleyShooting They've gotten to Wikipedia too. Very sad.
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@SteveGuest Do you ever feel bad about doing stuff like this, Steve?
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4 years
@adam_schitt @Yascha_Mounk Yeah, the fact that people who attend Harvard Law and go on to run the country look at this like a game being played with friends rather than a matter of life and death is why everything is so incredibly fucked.
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@MrMoosebones @Leftwatch2 @Cernovich @vv1lder No, the implication is that he actually did rape women and then claimed that them failing to sufficiently fight back constituted consent.
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5 years
How am I supposed to trust anything from people who produce a graph like this?
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4 years
@gayarchist @djbaskin "Your lives are not my problem!", he shouted while shooting a gun randomly towards a group of people
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3 years
@NateSilver538 @CT_Bergstrom Holy shit, dude. Holy shit.
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3 years
@Chinchillazllla @DgirlLb I like how you Britified this response.
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8 months
@bendreyfuss Yeah, people should definitely stop doing this real thing that people are actually really doing in the reality which we live in.
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3 years
@SwipeWright @pmddomingos Can you supply some examples of people where a misstep cost them everything? (Just kidding, I know you can't.)
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