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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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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 29m
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 · 4h
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.
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 8h
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Justseeds Artists' Cooperative @justseeds.bsky.social · 7h
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 · 2h
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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 6h
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 · 2h
Still over 1000 a day. Unsustainable because they don't have training. So more die.
landbeforetim.bsky.social Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 22h
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 · 8h
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…
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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 7h
This and crusty baked goods. Ah. France!
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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.

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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 · 23h
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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 7h
Today, Homeland Security applies terror tactics in order to create fear in victim populations.
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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 8h
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?
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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 8h
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…
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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 10h
For Science.
Demand the resignation of RFK Jr
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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.
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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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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 1d
Nailed it! Is that a plastic coating?
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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 1d
A Bubble: Donald Trump has not yet consolidated anything like absolute political power. But parts of our society — the Republican Party and a number of supposedly independent institutions like, say, CBS — are in effect living inside a bubble in which they operate as if he has. via Paul Krugman
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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 1d
Experimental setup including double blind with controls and a decent number of subjects? People always say, but it's students. But when it goes on for 20 years with no improvement, it's time.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2d
1/ The Russian warblogger Maxim Kalashnikov says that on parts of the front line, the ratio of killed and wounded is "almost 1:1 already". His friend Yuri Yevich blames Ukrainian drones for preventing evacuations at any time of the day or night. ⬇️
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puckfutin.fellas.army PuckFutin @puckfutin.fellas.army · 17d
"We don't abandon our own!" The russian occupiers from the evacuation team couldn't properly tie a wounded comrade to his motorcycle with a tourniquet, so they simply threw him into the woods. They'll write him down as "missing in action".
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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 2d
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Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 3d
can’t unsee this one
protester holding sign with illustration of stephen miller that says ‘pee-wee german’
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