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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1h

She must be part Wichigotan

A package of uncooked “gummy bear bratwurst” which are exactly what they sound like, from Grundhofer’s Old-Fashioned Meats

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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 5h

What right-wing elites are trying to do to universities reveals their total disinterest in education as not just a public good but as a *practice*. To them, college isn’t for learning; it’s a credentialing service that offers ongoing opportunities to network with other wealthy elites.

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Adrian Randall @anidealhusbando.bsky.social · 4h

don’t mess with Chicago priests named Father Dowling

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 7h

For Trump, the cruelty is the point.

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 13h

At least it’s an ethos

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14h

De-Fi is a big fat Su-Fi

and I will never again make another Dane Cook reference, I feel so dirty

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14h

Roman statues on Twitter: “Finally, Benedict is gone and the Seat of St. Peter need not suffer any further wokeism”

Chicago Pope: “Hold my Malört”

NPR @npr.org · 14h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

n.pr

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14h

“Instead of recovering your account, perhaps you’d rather simply not have an account? You can just use bizarre applets other people wrote to automate their home theater-slash-brewery-slash-goon cave instead!”

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14h

What could be more un-American than counterprogramming the Puppy Bowl

Turning Point USA announces 'All-American' halftime show on Super Bowl Sunday

Weeks after Bad Bunny was announced as the headliner for the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show, Turning Point USA shared plans to host their own show.

www.usatoday.com

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1d

It’s a literal fish cake, for all we know it could be the next churu-level viral cat sensation

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1d

In the future - if one exists - watching how otherwise-numerate sycophants repeated Trump's absurd >100-percent-decrease talking points will be a prime example of how authoritarianism works #numeracycounts

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1d

"Good food, good fun, and a whole lotta crazy crap on the walls"

Tavern owner-cum-restauranteur Moe Szyslak wears suspenders and a red-white-vertical striped shirt, standing in a wood-wainscoted bar and grill style restaurant in his commercial where he exhorts the viewer to "Come on down to Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag".

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Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 1d

There's a nice article by Siobhan Roberts about the Bridges 2025 conference in Eindhoven in the NY Times. I can now say that I am in The NY Times! (A photo credit for the shot of Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Edmund Harriss,... but still!) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...

Every Artist Has a Favorite Subject. For Some, That’s Math.

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1d

www.boston.com/sports/bosto...

Boston.com headline: "After arrest, Paul Pierce says he was just 'old' and 'tired', not drunk

Peter and Brian Griffin sit on a screen porch, buried hip-deep in empty beer bottles. Lois appears to scold them for being drunk. "I'm not drunk!" Peter protests. "I'm just exhausted 'cause I was up all night drinking."

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1d

Maybe the real antifa was the witches we burned along the way

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1d

“Just the TIP, promise” (the Tax Incentive Program)

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1d

Me at the frogs futures market: BUY BUY BUY

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 1d

Inviting a mathematician to connect two entirely unrelated concepts is like inviting a small kitten to pspspspspspsps

a close up of a cat with green eyes looking at the camera .

Alt: a close up of a cat with wide green eyes looking at the camera .

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 2d

Has anyone seen Babish and Jack Smith in the same room

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 2d

The best moments in education arise from reversal of expectations

Windows XP dialog box
“Error: Task failed successfully.”
OK button

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 2d

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time