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Carmina Iguana

@carminaiguana.bsky.social

Scientist-recluse of ambiguous background & demographic. Photon whisperer. Fully evidence-based, as my imaginary friends will attest. Still breathing, in a very blue hood in a blue city in a blue US state.

created November 20, 2024

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[snore]

3/9/2025, 10:35:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tens of millions of goobers in blue states, too, don't forget.

3/9/2025, 7:04:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, never deadname your 5-year old cat.

3/9/2025, 6:54:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Actually no, to be precise: they shouldn't have to divest them, but they bloody well should have to put them in a blind trust.

3/9/2025, 6:51:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Because Trump is stupid. QED.

3/9/2025, 2:32:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I suppose this passes for cleverness.

3/9/2025, 6:53:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wrong. Out of millions of Nazis, the Allies only executed about a dozen.

3/9/2025, 6:43:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

He's rich, not an oligarch. Please learn the difference.

3/9/2025, 1:42:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would like to hire her in 12 years.

3/9/2025, 1:40:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

I can relate

3/9/2025, 1:30:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If she's going to say something like that (and good for her), then why doesn't she simply have the stats at hand to back it up? Bad Journalism. No excuse whatsoever.

3/9/2025, 1:25:18 AM | 37 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nice, but don't be too impressed. They did it by building LNG ports.

3/9/2025, 1:17:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Make it 35 years.

2/9/2025, 9:32:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Let Texas secede and wither.

2/9/2025, 9:29:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The problem isn't with social media, but with social comedians.

2/9/2025, 9:28:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

"But all red-blooded Americans want you in Hell. On Earth."

2/9/2025, 9:23:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Cute, but Huntsville has always had a much, much larger role in the US space program than Denver has ever had.

2/9/2025, 6:16:03 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Too anti-Trump" "Jumbo Shrimp" "Right-wing Intellectual" Things that don't literally exist.

2/9/2025, 2:17:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If all the good baseball pitchers were removed, the world would be a batter place.

2/9/2025, 6:01:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wool does not break down in the human GI tract.

2/9/2025, 5:53:02 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

*Someone* has to make up for Elon's inablility to control his genitals.

2/9/2025, 4:02:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course it can. The vision is for NC, not for himself. Pro tip: In countries other than the US, people actually build for the future.

2/9/2025, 3:58:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Elon, someone has to make up for your inability to control your genitals.

2/9/2025, 3:54:29 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

You can change your name. JD Vance's real name is actually nothing like JD Vance.

2/9/2025, 1:08:48 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

And why do you pick on white men's names when the US govt also sports Summer Lee, Hope Baldwin, Hope Hicks, Dawn Adams, Faith Evans, April McClain-Delaney, and Grace Lankford?

2/9/2025, 1:07:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, yeah, actually we do.

2/9/2025, 1:02:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Wrong. The last thing US tariffs have is continuity. Check any graph for yourself.

2/9/2025, 12:58:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like they're scamming somebody--in the end, not you.

1/9/2025, 11:31:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Those who rely on prayers rarely have thoughts.

1/9/2025, 11:28:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Already better med credentials than RFKJr's

1/9/2025, 5:54:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That simply means he's met a lot of crap people.

1/9/2025, 5:45:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

..also, he would have deported Rafael Cruz.

1/9/2025, 5:41:11 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, no one ever had to work long hours before. 🤦‍♀️

1/9/2025, 4:08:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Watch that "we" shit

1/9/2025, 4:05:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Nothing to discuss. Just apply it.

1/9/2025, 5:54:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Dumb take. The medical cost was just the first couple of episodes, any other premise would have served. After that, he was just lying to himself about his real motivations--the whole point of the series. Guess you missed that.

1/9/2025, 3:18:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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...more TX commercial successes: Valero, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Chili's, ConocoPhillips, Container Store, FedEx Office, Frito-Lay, Gold's Gym, Halliburton, J.C. Penney, Rackspace, Sysco, USAA, Waste Management, Whole Foods, Dave & Buster's, Dr. Pepper, Fossil watches, GameStop, ...

1/9/2025, 3:08:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Just from one red state: Dallas TX: Integrated circuit Dallas TX: Handheld calculator Austin TX: Selective laser sintering (3D printing) Houston TX: gas chromatography Texas artists: Beyonce, Willie Nelson, Usher, Van Cliburn, Tanya Tucker, Selena, Commercial: Dell, Compaq, TI, 7-Eleven, Exxon

1/9/2025, 3:01:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Next: Dr Pepper.

1/9/2025, 2:19:31 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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We even grant voting rights to Republicans. Probably a mistake, but there it is.

1/9/2025, 2:16:49 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I said a prayer, too. Even God was taken aback at it.

1/9/2025, 2:15:30 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

News flash: The graph's "$100,000+"mostly means $100,000-200,000 / year which is neither "wealthy" nor a market for first-class plane tickets.

1/9/2025, 12:51:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

This one's converging pretty fast.

1/9/2025, 12:45:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Stroke

1/9/2025, 12:42:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Apparently, that's America.

31/8/2025, 4:20:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Besides everything?

31/8/2025, 4:06:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

So she's saying that her kids are smarter than she is.

31/8/2025, 4:05:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

So, Wrong: "Lady Gaga fans are gay." Right: "Lady Gaga fans are eventually gay." Got it.

31/8/2025, 2:57:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

(1) No. You don't just add monthly percentages. (2) Dollars were hardly worthless during the Weimar republic.

31/8/2025, 2:55:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Both brain-dead, so not all that different.

31/8/2025, 5:46:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Apparently commented on by the innumerate class: You pay insurance for the years you need insurance. But you pay Medicare for decades in advance before you need it. Very far from the same thing, so percentages are (duh, you say) of course not the same. Grow up, buy a clue.

31/8/2025, 2:40:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"You can't stop what's coming. They ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity."

31/8/2025, 2:25:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

That would be the FDA, not the CDC.

30/8/2025, 9:35:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looks like the way lawyers staple papers.

30/8/2025, 9:34:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Rats. Guess I won't be licking a hammerhead worm anytime soon.

30/8/2025, 7:15:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It does work that way for sub-fractions: millimeters, micrometers, nanometers, etc.

30/8/2025, 7:14:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I gather you've never had Dutch appelgebak. Sad

30/8/2025, 7:12:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, a raw potato is more palatable, but otherwise yeah.

30/8/2025, 6:46:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

What? He couldn't get a gig in Weleetka?

30/8/2025, 6:40:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Stop living in the past.

30/8/2025, 6:25:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

"Must" means nothing. Sanders is just howling at the moon to pretend he can make a difference.

30/8/2025, 6:22:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Bend Sinister (Nabokov) comes pretty close.

30/8/2025, 3:46:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

No point in running high-speed trains on tracks shared with freight. Everyone in the world knows this but the US. Which won't stop France from delivering high-speed trains hoping Americans will grow up some day.

30/8/2025, 3:34:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Nah, you have to compare cost per unit energy ($/kWh), not total bill which folds in amount of energy used (which can easily change 2X between summer months). When progressives learn something about statistics, they'll make arguments worth listening to. Until then--same crud as the Trumpist dolts.

30/8/2025, 3:00:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

LOL...as though private companies and governments never exploited workers.

30/8/2025, 5:23:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I know, terrible, calling Andy Kaufman a comedian.

30/8/2025, 1:13:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Since Jan 20, all my days end in "why?"

30/8/2025, 1:02:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So he's stating directly that Americans have less heart and worse mental health than Europeans. 🤷‍♀️

29/8/2025, 6:40:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And he even looks embalmed already.

29/8/2025, 6:28:22 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Never a TOW missile when you need one

29/8/2025, 6:26:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I hate it when cell phone photos reverse left and right /s

29/8/2025, 6:20:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Same is true of Johnny B Goode

29/8/2025, 6:19:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Back door of a farmer's house

29/8/2025, 6:13:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You could just rename it "Baja Scotland"

29/8/2025, 6:07:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Except that kids born to conservative families come to hate their parents and their parents' politics.

29/8/2025, 6:01:59 PM | 35 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You cannot run proper high-speed trains on tracks shared with freight. France knows this. Japan knows this. China knows this. Poor, sad US can't buy a clue.

29/8/2025, 3:48:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And yet the place is full of families of four--or more.

29/8/2025, 3:45:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Prayer is malformed self-talk

29/8/2025, 3:42:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Johnson is directly saying that Europeans are better and saner than Americans.

29/8/2025, 3:38:07 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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People actually put that stuff in their bodies??? [shudder]

29/8/2025, 3:31:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Wrong on several counts. 1. Trump would have to live that long. 2. It would hardly be Newsom. Walz maybe. 3. It would still be wrong. As ex- President, he's legally entitled to protection. I would prefer that that protection be in prison as the courts have already ruled it should be, but still.

29/8/2025, 3:28:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Meh, I have Jimi Hendrix on vinyl.

29/8/2025, 3:09:47 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's just slavery. Everyone should set their mitochondria free right now.

29/8/2025, 3:40:18 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Leave it to Christians from Texas to 69 in public.

29/8/2025, 3:37:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Civilization is very far from over. American civilization, yeah probably.

29/8/2025, 3:15:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'll be Smith, you be Wesson

29/8/2025, 12:35:15 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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CDC has nothing to do with that.

29/8/2025, 12:33:32 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I can only wish he had picked a better father.

29/8/2025, 12:30:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry to infect you with reality, but: in the US, having a million dollars doesn't make you anything close to rich and powerful. Not even close.

29/8/2025, 12:27:51 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Quit eating jalapenos and you won't get the runs.

29/8/2025, 12:23:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

> bluesky doesn't answer

29/8/2025, 12:19:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

More to the point: it never becomes an experienced developer. AI talks a long game, but they're playing the shortest of Ponzi schemes.

28/8/2025, 2:32:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Related to pastafarians

28/8/2025, 7:58:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nah, just a dumb time to be alive in America.

28/8/2025, 7:55:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He can't blow up the vaccine industry. Just the vaccine industry in the USA. Mere side issue to the world.

28/8/2025, 7:50:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

The top 20% are not "rich".

27/8/2025, 7:25:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They are in debt to whoever owns their bonds. Not difficult. Open a book, maybe.

27/8/2025, 7:24:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They were already in a church school when they were slaughtered. Shows what good praying does.

27/8/2025, 7:07:33 PM | 27 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's that stuff in the bag.

27/8/2025, 6:38:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carmina Iguana (@carminaiguana.bsky.social) reply parent

The president is a public servant, whether or not he fancies himself as one.

27/8/2025, 6:13:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view