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Joel

@polyparadigm.bsky.social

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Materials scientist:some range and depth, interested in making arcane topics a little more accessible. Prior place photo was from the aughts; figured I should update.

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 14d

I am noticing that even some fairly scholarly people on here don’t seem to really distinguish between “socially constructed” and “fake”

It feels important to the project of fascism that we conflate these two ideas

Most social constructs have a fake counterpart they’re constructed in opposition to

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2h

EPSTEIN FILES

I suggest to you, that most of you have it wrong.

It's not Trump being in the files that's so problematic. It's that it's largely his leverage against a lot of rich/powerful people.

A British working royal was there for fuck's sake. Bill Gates got divorced over this.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 8h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 3h

Median United States voter, 62, has “gullibility age” of newborn infant, failed casino owner wagers

Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 3h

oh baby disease tracking is gonna get so much worse

Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 10d

Remembering when the CDC/FDA tracked all foodborne diseases

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 3h

Median United States voter, 62, has “gullibility age” of newborn infant, failed casino owner wagers

Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

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Basketball Jones 🏀🦁 @shawnjohn.bsky.social · 20h

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 7h

this man's name is written in the book of life

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 7h

2 fully depreciated 17-year-olds maybe

Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 7h

Crude oil is traded in “blue barrel” units, which are 42 US gallons

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 7h

Right: none of the ancient runes; rather, the fake ones dreamed up by willfully ignorant cosplayers in a fit of romantic bigotry

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 8h

whatever's in the epstein files must be *really* nasty news for R's

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 16h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 8h

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 12h

🎶thread🎶 (as the kids say) on riot-control agents.

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 12h

Since many of you cannot read my 2019 piece on tear gas in Nature, I will kindly replicate it for you:

Kaszeta, Dan. "Restrict use of riot-control chemicals." Nature 573.7772 (2019): 27-29.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 12h

Russell Vought has announced that "mass firings [RIFs] have begun."

Lawless. The RIFs in the spring were illegal, as Judge Illston outlined. Yes, the conservative SCOTUS supermajority lawlessly signed off. But the Calvinball Court is not doing law.

Congress can stop this. A thread: 1/

'RIFs have begun.' Vought announces start of mass firings during government shutdown

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

www.pbs.org

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 12h

Frogby is a fan of the Portland frogs

my little frog Frogby in the style/colors of the Portland protest inflatable frog costume, his eyes are red, he has a lighter belly and darker spots on his arms and legs and is smiling

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 16h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 11h

Same tbh, and several of our neighbors too

Southeast Portland is pretty great

Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 11h

Pastel-colored unicorn maybe?

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 14h

There were SCOTUS efforts to subvert elections too, most prominently Bush v. Gore and Shelby v. Holder

Joel @polyparadigm.bsky.social · 15h

As the title might suggest, Proust and the Squid gives an overview of the two fronts of cognitive science (downward from phenomena of function toward mechanism, vs. upward from anatomy toward systems) focused on what we know about literacy; I recommend it to anyone asking questions like yours above

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 16h

as a cognitive scientist, I can confirm we don't know how humans think

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