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Brian Holt

@brianholt.bsky.social

I teach psychology at a local small college as a tenured faculty member, tend to overthink things, so I try not to overthink things here, I like basketball, have dyslexia, and think stats are pretty cool.

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"there are now! I'm just letting the data speak for itself" /s

27.10.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! My novice impulse is to simply take the rook but now I have learned something.

22.10.2025 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So Black rook takes queen, which is then taken by the white knight.

But I'm not seeing a check at that point. King can't be taken by knight from there. And king could even take the knight.

22.10.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not much of a chess player but why can't the rook take out the queen?

22.10.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen . ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .
20.10.2025 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Feed them before bed.

05.10.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I should work on a List for community colleges

05.10.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"be professional"

05.10.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah!! That makes more sense. Thank you for clarifying

05.10.2025 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Construction workers aren't known for their connections to business/govt meetings, I would think.

02.10.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How reliable is that source?
Also, lame about the lane change

02.10.2025 03:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm glad the pup is ok

02.10.2025 02:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The laundry basket?

02.10.2025 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I could have sworn he gave clownstick the first presidency when he reopened the Clinton email case.

26.09.2025 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok what is the machine and who made it?!?

23.09.2025 03:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No. Get the idiots to just stay home.

22.09.2025 05:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I need to get back to cleaning up my feed by seeing more #stats posts.

11.09.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's the bishops and Bene Gesserit .

09.09.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Newt Gingrich.

04.09.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thoughts and prayers

30.08.2025 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did I read Joel's point as a conundrum or did he leave out a word?

07.08.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

While driving to visit family in eastern Washington my toddler called a tumble weed a "weed ball". So much better.

May take on new meaning during the teen years.

30.07.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Still me.

24.07.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:

Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the β€œradical Left” the more acute threat.

04.07.2025 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4502    πŸ” 1484    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 75

Cramps from the clutchings

08.06.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Education, if done right, is anti-conservative

02.06.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a sort of clown article. It's deeply ignorant or intentionally propagandistic.

02.06.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sadly, that explains a lot.

25.05.2025 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why does President Trump perceive Harvard as his enemy? Doesn’t he know it’s a place where racist narcissists can receive tenure in the psychology department?

by Stephen Pinker

25.05.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1223    πŸ” 138    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 5

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