Dr B Learned Hand @pvsundarb@qoto.org

Elon Musk just raided America's doomsday seed vault.

Yes, you read that right. The vault meant to protect humanity’s last defense against agricultural collapse, stripped and sabotaged.

This isn't hyperbole. The seed bunker held our future. Our protection from famine, disease, climate disasters, destroyed by reckless arrogance.

Elon Musk fired critical scientists, placing centuries of agricultural heritage at immediate risk.

America relied on those seeds. America relied on those scientists. America relied on that bunker.

62,000 unique wheat strains, 600,000 genetic lines, our lifeline in a crisis, now endangered.

Without regular care, these seeds die. Without these seeds, we lose our ability to respond to threats.

Without that ability, we lose food security itself.

This is a direct assault on humanity's survival.

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) treated our collective security as disposable, gambling with millions of lives. Farmers, families, and children. Everyone is harmed.

If you're thinking someone else will handle this, you're wrong. If you're assuming private industry will step in, you're wrong.

If you're comfortable waiting to act, you're complicit.

Apathy won't fix this, waiting won't reverse it.

You must immediately demand:
- Full reinstatement of the fired scientists.
- Secured federal funding protecting the seed vault permanently.
- Legislative safeguards ensuring this can never happen again.

Call your representatives. Share this message. Demand accountability from Musk, DOGE, and our government.

Act now, because your future depends on it. Your children's survival, planet's stability, and the nation's integrity are at stake.

It is urgent, necessary, and morally essential.

Stand up, speak out, and fight for our shared future.

A post on cleaning data for students in data analytics: https://hackscience.education/2025/03/17/data-cleaning/

An update: last night I started reading #CarelessPeople and I cannot emphasize enough HOW GOOD it is. A real page-turner.

No wonder #Meta executives are trying to shut down its promotional tour. They come across as shallow, greedy and irresponsible.

The author wrote in the prelude that working there was "like watching a bunch of fourteen-year-olds who’ve been given superpowers and an ungodly amount of money, as they jet around the world to figure out what power has bought and brought them." 🔥

Does it feel hopeless right now? Do you feel powerless? Let me offer you the following facts:

1. Tesla is tanking so hard right now they had to parade a bunch of cars in front of the fucking White House just to try to boost sales.

2. Target and Walmart have seen sales tank so drastically in the last month they are immediately rolling back their anti DEI stances.

3. Congress has never in history seen this amount of call volume. They typically get 40-50 calls a minute. They are currently trying to field upwards of 1,600-2,000 calls every minute.

4. The Resistance has been so vocal at town halls that the GOP had to officially instruct Republican congressmen to stop doing them.

5. This administration hasn't been able to make a single tariff stick for longer than 3 days because of all the fallout.

You. Are. Powerful.

They expected you to just put your head down and roll over and do nothing. Instead you resisted. You fought back. You showed up. And you continue to show up.

You're showing up for education. For veterans. For trans folk. For women. For immigrants. For people of color. For free speech. For international allies. You're showing up for what's right and you're refusing to obey fascism in advance.

And what's more, there is no coordinated response among the elected officials, judges, and appointed GOP heads. They're floundering. All of them. They weren't expecting this. And they have no idea what to do about it.

No way in heaven they didn't do that on purpose 😂😂😂

#religion #christianity #christianlifeinternational #clit #allclitsarebeautiful #sexjokes #conservatives

I sat down with the creator of the viral JD Vance meme to discuss the viral trend cycle and how the crypto community has seized control of the meme https://www.usermag.co/p/the-cryptoification-of-jd-vance-meme-creator-dave-mcnamee-speaks

What if you fly? 🦋✨ Meet Flitter Flutterwing, ready to spread magic and chase dreams! 🌟💫 https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/what-if-you-fly-flitter-flutterwing-lisa-s-baker.html

#FlitterFlutterwing #WhatIfYouFly #fly #fairy #fun #wordart #art #arte #artwork #digitalart #eclectic #silly #quote #inspriation #wallart #homedecor #greetingcards #stationary #CreativeToots #BuyIntoArt #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #fedigiftshop #giftideas #funfairy #fantasy #whimsical #playful

My heart is full, and more hopeful. A sibling sent me videos today of them participating in a large protest in WA State. They have been complacent about voting and getting engaged in any form of resistance (except complaining) for many years. But today they showed up, sign in hand, and marched with others to protest.
🤍 🪧 💙

Always important to find someone that partially induces a cardiac event #Valentines #ValentinesDay #Love

The most interesting uses of #technology arise when we find new uses... those not intended by the inventor. In biology, these are exaptations. So, if we want to advance technology... adopt (start using new stuff), adapt (what you do to leverage technology), and exapt (to find new uses).

I would just like to say that these signs in the DFW airport bathrooms are peak social engineering, and I do hope Dan Patrick enjoys all the phone calls from people upset about the government photographing their hairy bits.

#egv #texas #fightback #transrightsarehumanrights #socialengineering #trollingtheGOP

Trump hopes Americans don’t realize what the CFPB does.

So I wrote this piece on why CFPB exists, the billions it has saved us, & why dismantling it devastates working people. This is class warfare & we cannot afford to lose.

No paywall. Please read & share:

https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/cfpb-is-suspended-we-are-all-at-risk/?ref=lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid-newsletter

Here's tonight's ~80 percent waxing gibbous Moon. It's 378,481km (235,177mi) distant from the Earth. After quite a few days of snow and rain we had a super clear night tonight, so I took advantage of it. And I would have forgotten to do so if not for @catherineryanhyde, posting her shot of the Moon a little earlier, thanks!

Sony A7rIII, Sony 200-600mm lens at 600mm, f/8.0, 100ISO, 1/100sec. RAW processing: Darktable on a Linux box.

#AstroPhotography #Moon #Photography #Darktable #Linux

Los Angeles County Democratic Party
‪@lademocrats.bsky.social‬

Any claims about California taking more than its fair share of FEMA aid are blatantly FALSE. California has had the most natural disasters of any state in the last ten years, and still is only fifth on the list of FEMA aid recipients.

In 1854, American physician Edward Bliss Foote published a book called "Medical Common Sense: Applied to the Causes, Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases and Unhappiness in Marriage". The book provided explicit advice on contraception, which was fairly revolutionary at the time. But unfortunately, he managed to get a lot right for entirely the wrong reasons...

It was a USAID program that brought my dad and his young family to India in the 1960s. I guess it's a blessing he's not around to see the vandalism that's engulfing the government. https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/113930618026604809

If you spot ICE in San Francisco, or if someone you know was detained by ICE in San Francisco today and needs immediate legal assistance, call the SF rapid response hotline at 415-200-1548. This is just for San Francisco (there may be another hotline like this in your city elsewhere).

https://sfilen.org/resources/sf-rapid-response-network/

More tips/resources from Mission Local: https://missionlocal.org/2025/01/immigrants-resources-before-trump-inauguration/

Journalists really need to stop referring to #ElonMusk's "Department of Government Efficiency" as if it were real. It's not, until and unless Congress creates and funds it. A president can listen to advice from anyone, but that's not the same as building an actual federal agency. Don't perpetuate a fraud. #journalism