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Bob Calder

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Study how marginalized groups are empowered by the internet. Retired teacher - web development and thinking skills. AAAS Section X, Science and Society Nobody is safe until everybody is safe My old Blogger: http://www.bobcalder.net/

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · Jan 27

I will follow you back if you're an academic in history, computational sociology, or hard science. If you make things with your hands like art or furniture, that's cool.

I will block you if you trade anything or offer advice on trading whether it's crypto or securities.

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rosemaryblewis @rosemaryblewis.bsky.social · 1d

What a dowdy, dour 🐊.
There was even a rally in Sopchoppy!

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

A data center that doesn’t even exist can raise your electricity bill www.vox.com/climate/4650...

A data center that doesn’t even exist can raise your electricity bill

Consumers are finally pushing back on AI-driven data expansion. Will it matter?

www.vox.com

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

Storytelling Methods Alter How Memories Are Stored in the Brain, Neuroscientists Find www.scientificamerican.com/article/stor...

Your Brain’s Memory of a Story Depends on How It Was Told

Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories

www.scientificamerican.com

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 15h

Did they tell you about when Jack Williams paid her (someone at any rate, maybe her) to dig because the state archaeologist (at the time) didn't believe Ft Mose was where it is?

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 1d

#Florida senator lies about her own constituents, who put on 80 "No Kings" rallies around the state.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Ashley Moody: "The I Hate America rallies and theatrics are over"

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 18h

White house press twit is an expert at manufactured outrage. Just saying.

Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 18h

I decided to go for a ponytail. Currently at the worst look stage.

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Christopher D. Brown Ph.D. @cdbrow1.bsky.social · 22h

Remember when Obama was preparing to go to war against America?

www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna51718...

Obama is stockpiling our ammo, claim GOP congressmen

Democrats and the NRA have found something they agree on: the government isn't stockpiling ammo.

www.nbcnews.com

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 1d

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Justseeds Artists' Cooperative @justseeds.bsky.social · 1d

New risograph from Australian illustrator and unionist Sam Wallman in the shop! justseeds.org/product/what...

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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 20h

Want to protect your community from cyber threats? It’s easier than you might think.
Join @aspenpolicyacademy.bsky.social’s free #CyberCivicEngagement webinars, developed with support from @CraigNewmarkPhilanthropies.
📅 Oct 23 & Nov 20
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Cyber Civic Engagement - Aspen Policy Academy

Check out our new training program that transforms individuals into effective cybersecurity policy advocates.

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough.

VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing.

https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 20h

Still over 1000 a day. Unsustainable because they don't have training. So more die.

Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 1d

We really need to start popping people in the mouths for how they talk about Muslims

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 1d

New book A TOWN WITHOUT PITY is a compelling story of miscarriages of justice and compassion, both in the same small #Florida town during overlapping times. floridapress.blog/2025/10/21/a... @floridapress.bsky.social

A Town without Pity

“A Florida backwater—twice thrust onto the national stage over controversies decades apart—is again centered in this fishbowl of a book, a page-turning examination of the machinations of a municipa…

floridapress.blog

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 1d

This and crusty baked goods. Ah. France!

Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 1d

Former presidents can go to jail if they are guilty of criminal offenses without causing democracy to collapse
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sarkozy enters jail over campaign financing - France's first ex-president behind bars

Nicolas Sarkozy, president from 2007-2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison.

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David Kerstetter, Ph.D. @fishguydave.bsky.social · 1d

The Department of Biology at UNC-Chapel Hill is searching for an organismal biologist whose research is focused on resilience.

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Assistant Professor (Organismal Biologist)

The Department of Biology at UNC Chapel Hill will employ a tenure-track position in Organismal Biology at the Assistant Professor level.The Assistant Professor studies resilience using the organism as...

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-scary dr. booty @justbrady.bsky.social · 1d

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 1d

Today, Homeland Security applies terror tactics in order to create fear in victim populations.

Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 1d

In order to create a fear response, you need to have circumstances that justify it. Did the 9/11 attack create a situation that propaganda and marketing experts used to their advantage?

Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 1d

New article in Skeptical Inquirer.
Teaching Critical Thinking in Authoritarian Cultures
by Nancy Burkhalter

independent.academia.edu/NancyBurkhal...

Nancy Burkhalter - Profile on Academia.edu

I teach critical thinking and academic writing to students at all levels and especially to nonnative English speakers. I also prepare students to take writing…

independent.academia.edu

Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 1d

For Science.
Demand the resignation of RFK Jr
scienceaccountability.org/petition/

Petition - Science Accountability Institute

Demand RFK Jr. Resign: Petition for a Healthy America Join over 4,000 who have already signed including six Nobel Prize […]

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 1d

There may be things that force different behavior, but it's a rule of thumb sort of "truism". There are reserves and there may be a few really big lawsuits that get adjusted when they close out.

Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 1d

You don't close out a year for five years because of reserves and long tail claims.

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