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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 11h

People with chronic pain eventually develop a 'game face' that basically I think of as Resting Pain Face. It's stoic and tends to smooth out pain responses. I bet this would be a FANTASTIC way to gaslight CRPS and FM patients.

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 20h

I listened a couple times in the 80s. the degree of misogyny was so telling.

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 22h

Does he know how Trumpy it sounds to say "no one is more supportive of [this thing I made more difficult] than me"?

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IRPP @irpp.org · 22h

How can we make good policy in an age of misinformation?

Join us on November 18 in Ottawa for the IRPP’s 2025 Fall Lecture with @caulfieldtim.bsky.social, author, scholar & leading voice on science and truth.

🎟️ Tickets and Details: irpp.org/irpp-event/f...

How to Escape the Fake: Making Good Policy in the Age of Misinformation - IRPP

Join us for an evening of dialogue and networking with Canada’s dynamic public policy community. This year’s IRPP fall lecture will feature Canadian author and scholar Timothy Caulfield, one of Nort...

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 23h

via @marydudziak.bsky.social The Germans are basically funding 3 year asylum professorships for US academics seeking to flee the country for the remainder of the Trump Administration.

VolkswagenStiftung @volkswagenstiftung.de · 27d

New opportunity for professors in the humanities & social sciences in the US: Our Transatlantic Bridge Professorships support research & exchange in Germany & the US (€300,000 for up to 3 years). Apply from Jan 15, 2026. 🌉🇩🇪🇺🇸 More: 👉 www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/f...

Transatlantic Bridge Professorships

The programme is aimed at professors at US universities who are conducting research on the future of democracy, fundamental rights and academic freedom, or the future of transatlantic relations and wh...

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The Real McCoy @rippermd41.bsky.social · 1d

Most people aren’t asking you mask at all times.

They ask that you mask in essential places: public transit, hospitals, doctors’ offices, pharmacies etc.

Places high risk people can’t avoid.

But if you hate wearing masks? Then advocate for indoor air quality: ventilation, filtration, etc.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 1d

Curious what you mean by a need to be radically reimagined? I would love to hear more about that if you ever find the time to write about it.

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 1d

Having read both, Moby Dick fits the same amount of slog into more words, which is a double edged sword. To me, MD was more meaningful and worth reading, but that isn't necessarily saying much, and that's a LOT of pages for that much slog.

Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 1d

I went through an Irving phase almost by accident. there's a line from Hotel New Hampshire I still think about.

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s a bookshop dot org link so you don’t have to buy it from Amazon. My purchase supported my neighborhood indie bookshop.

Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism

Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism

bookshop.org

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David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a free book with plenty of examples, and an explanation of the theory behind it. Srdja Popovic was instrumental in Otpor!, the Serbian revolutionary group, and has since formed CANVAS, a group that trains revolutionaries all around the world.

www.amazon.com/dp/B08HB7JTH...

The cover of "Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism" by Srdja Popovic and Sophia A McLennen.

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 2d

sigh. right?

Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 2d

that's what I was thinking too - I am almost completely ignoring the even smaller study I found with n=18!! I am curious, though, about the sdifferent systems affected

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 2d

Chicagoans

Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth @leniann.bsky.social · 5d

Please do not post videos of people being abducted by ICE if their faces are not blurred. Connect with your community defense networks. Here on the northside plug into One Northside where school zones are a top priority

Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 3d

I stumbled across a different GWAS on a much smaller sample recently; it points mostly to chromosomes 6 & 10. The 12 SNPs they identify as relevant are all for genes that didn't show up in this study. I am not sure what to make of it?

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Genome-wide association analysis identifies genetic variations in subjects with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

Myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS, is a multifactorial and debilitating disease that has an impact on over 4 million people in the United States alone. The pa...

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 3d

I did not do well on a vegetarian diet myself. After I'd gone back to meat someone suggested that maybe it was an issue of trace elements I hadn't been getting the vegetarian way....🤷‍♀️

I wish I was one of those who can do well as a vegetarian, but not everyone is.

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Michelangelo Landgrave @landgravephd.bsky.social · 16d

Just want to thank folks contributing to the #psjminfo job status update section of the site. It's a small thing, but I know people appreciate knowing the status of jobs.

www.politicalsciencejobs.org/status-updates

PS Jobs - Status Updates

This is a listing of job market updates. You can submit updates here.

www.politicalsciencejobs.org

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 4d

....and I JUST figured out what it's supposed to be, more fool me

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From the srilanka community on Reddit: The Lion in the Sri Lankan Flag

Explore this post and more from the srilanka community

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 4d

Here's a map of #NoKings protests next weekend. Find one near you. Even if you don't want to register, make a plan to pick one and go.

www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 4d

I actually like it, but it would have been better if it had called back to the actual zoot era instead of the wannabe pimples that tried to bite that style.

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 4d

agreed! plus I think it distorts the proportions of his body. Someone on a leaner build might look better with that kind of headdress, but in his case it just manages to diminish his natural glory.

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 4d

I *love* everything above the logo on the photo, and as my eye kept traveling further down, my spirits kept sinking....

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 4d

i thought so! but don't they usually look better fitted?

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 4d

it's almost like the little hip wings are arguing with the big headdress.

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Kira Curious @kikicurious.bsky.social · 4d

did you see the bit where he claimed she called him to say she accepted in his honor because it should have gone to him, and then he imagined he didn't say she was right? clearly demented.