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Explaining to my wife that I cannot simply “read the books I’ve already bought and haven’t read” like some kind of peasant.

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."

-Anne Frank

Even Marjorie Taylor Greene admitted the GOP could end the shutdown anytime they wanted, they control all the branches of government. Broken clock’s right twice a day.

We know who lynched Trey. There’s blood on those white hoods! #notohate

Apple removes ICEBlock app after criticism from Trump administration Google also removed similar apps from the app store for Android devices, although ICEBlock was never available on the Google Play store.

Spoke with @scottbudman.bsky.social @nbcbayarea.com about Apple capitulating to DOJ pressuring they take the ICEBlock app down. They did. What’s next for a govt that has tech in its pocket & a quest for silencing speech it dislikes? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Black people who have been suicidal will tell you hanging themselves from a tree outside was always off the table.

I was just telling my partner this morning over coffee, "these people lost 250 years ago, this is more important to know than who won the fucking 'civil war' in this country. They've been planning this for 275 years." Prop 2025 was just the latest, and horrendously, the greatest effort to date.

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

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Spot on.

Imagine if Trump and MAGA found out Jesus was from the Middle East and had olive brown skin. DO NOT SHARE THIS!!!!

One time my very southern maternal grandmother said somebody looked like both a "young chicken" and a "skinned squirrel" and I'll be DAMNED if that wasn't exactly what the person looked like 😭

China folk: what are the internet scandals/outrages that you remember most in the last 25 years? Off the top of my head -

Deng Yujiao
Li Gang incident
Guo Meimei, maybe the prototypical posting-driven event.
"Brother Watch"/Yang Dacai
Under the Dome
Big V crackdown/claimed scandals
MaskPark

Nationalize all Golf Courses

That way, when government shuts down, so does golf. You'll never see another shutdown again.

Some times in America we have the exact right President in office to lead in crucial moments (i.e. Lincoln). But at other times we have the exact wrong President in office (i.e. Andrew Johnson). Today we have the worst President in our history in office at a most crucial moment.

@olemissfb.bsky.social vs @vandyfootball.bsky.social @secfootball.bsky.social #championship yeah baby!

As it should be. Trump will NEVER be eligible for a peace prize. There is justice in the world.

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
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#Vanderbilt plays American football the way American #SECfootball ought be played.

Frontiers | Psychology's Questionable Research Fundamentals (QRFs): Key problems in quantitative psychology and psychological measurement beyond Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) Psychology's crises (e.g., replicability, generalisability) are currently believed to derive from Questionable Research Practices (QRPs), thus scientific mis...

#amplifier #mustread Uher, et al. (2025). Psychology’s Questionable Research Fundamentals (QRFs): Key problems in quantitative psychology and psychological measurement beyond Questionable Research Practices (QRPs). Frontiers in Psychology, 16. doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Publication drop, published online this month, August 2025: #assessment #learningoutcomes #observationorientedmodeling www.rpajournal.com/analyzing-sm...

New publication drop: #multimethod #research
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New publication drop: #mixeddesign #research doi.org/10.61669/001...

people love bringing up japan when it comes to deporting immigrants/ creating a homogenous society, but if you bring up japan's anti-gun laws it's "woah woah woah"

I'm convinced that several journals (Sage, Taylor & Francis) have used AI for 2/3 of the article reviews since I started trying to publish around seven years back. That's what led to me read Hubbard's (2015) *Corrupt Research*.