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Curtis Frye

@curtisfrye.com

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Online course developer, writer and speaker. My company, Technology and Society, sponsors Atletico London FC (Tier 5, Eastern Region Women's Football League). techsoc.com.

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Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · Aug 15

I’m proud to announce that, through my company Technology and Society, my wife Ginny and I will sponsor women’s football club Atlético London for the 2025/26 season.

A closeup shot of the badge for the home shirt of women's football (soccer) club Atlético London for the 2025/26 season. The badge features the letters AL in a circle extending beyond the top edge of the main badge, a dragon representing the London City flag, and the red-and-white vertical strips of Atlético Madrid. A broad, jagged line of red extends down the shirt against a white backdrop. Part of the techsoc.com sponsorship crest appears below the badge.

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Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 15h

American University is offering free professional training for fired and furloughed federal workers.

American University offering free training for fired and furloughed federal workers

The Classes Without Quizzes program at American University offers free learning opportunities to laid-off and furloughed federal employees. There are sessions on AI, leadership in times of disruption ...

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 22h

i really have nothing to post about so uh space is cool and look at these pretty pictures of it thank you

$A wider field view of Westerlund 1. A dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.$

A nebula made up of cloudy gas and dust in the form of soft and wispy clouds and, in the center, thin and highly detailed layers pressed close together. Large, bright stars surrounded by six long points of light are dotted over the image, as well as some small, point-like stars embedded in the clouds. The clouds are lit up in blue close to the stars; orange colors show clouds that glow in infrared light.

A star cluster within a nebula. The center of the image contains arcs of orange and pink gas that form a boat-like shape. One end of these arcs points to the top right of the image, while the other end points toward the bottom left. Another plume of orange and pink gas expands from the center to the top left of the image. To the right of this plume is a large cluster of white stars. There are more of these white stars and galaxies of different sizes spread throughout the image.

$Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image. At bottom center is a glowing pale yellow, cave-like structure, its top tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its center. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward eight o’clock. Above the arched top of the dust cave, 3 groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the center, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the cloud. The largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. At top center, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, this time vertically. To the left of this star is a more wispy, indistinct region.$

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Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 16h

Unsolicited "Watch this trick!" pic.

A photo of Gazzo (Garry Osbourne) after the finale of his signature cups and balls routine. Gazzo is wearing a bowler hat, dark gray sport coat, and a white t-shirt with a red design on it. He is outside busking and is in front of a gray stone wall. He stands behind a performance table on which is his wand, three copper cups, six oranges, and a melon. He is pointing to camera left and saying something into his microphone. Probably asking for money.

Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 1d

Shakespeare and the King James Version of the Christian Bible. Gotta love the classics.

The one case my list doesn't quite cover is to use "thine" rather than "thy" before a vowel. It's implied but not obvious. Your "thine own" makes that usage explicit.

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Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 1d

My favorite way to remember usage:

I love thee.
Thou hast my love.
My love is thine.
I love thy shirt as well.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 1d

My good friend and Excel expert Oz du Soleil is a kaleidoscope connoisseur. If you reach out to him he can give advice about buying and building them. www.youtube.com/@OzduSoleilD...

Excel On Fire (Oz du Soleil)

Excel on Fire is committed to a vision of a world with clean, trustworthy data--using Excel as our main weapon. Thus, we have a mission (we = you and me) to whoop Crap Data wherever it turns up. To a...

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Wade Minter @wademinter.com · 1d

Time flies #LetsGoCanes

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Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 1d

That's your first cue of the regular season, @wademinter.com!

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 2d

Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award.

A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world.

Paul Seabright's The Divine Economy is now available in #paperback! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People by Paul Seabright

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Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 2d

Another bit of progress against rhetoric masquerading as science (and math).

Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social · 2d

Today's blog post: Court of Appeals of Georgia Finds “One-Leg Stand” and “Walk and Turn” Field Sobriety Tests are Not Scientific Tests: tinyurl.com/yu6b7znd

Court of Appeals of Georgia Finds "One-Leg Stand" and "Walk and Turn" Field Sobriety Tests are Not Scientific Tests under Daubert

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juux @juux.com · 2d

omg part deux

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Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 2d

I don't share many of my chess games because I'm a mediocre casual player, but I'm a bit proud of this checkmate I found.

Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 2d

Helluva game.

NHL (Bot) @notnhl.bsky.social · 2d

The /NHLFlames take this edition of the Battle of Alberta in a shootout! 👏 #NHLFaceOff

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 3d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 2d

So many times. So many times. Good editors are sent from the heavens.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 2d

Autobuy.

Christine Corcos @lpcprof.bsky.social · 2d

Physics For Cats. #catcanoe #catsky
www.tomgauld.com

Cover of Tom Gauld's new book Physics for Cats. Shows many black cats sitting on an Escher-like construct against a purple background.

Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 2d

An insightful interview with Alex Baker, the stalwart goalkeeper for Atletico London. ATL is the women's team Ginny and I sponsor through my company, techsoc.com. Women's football matters, especially at the grassroots level.

Exclusive: Atlético London’s No.1: Alex Baker on Resilience, Rebrand, and the Road Ahead

When you speak to Alex Baker, it’s clear you’re talking to someone who has lived and breathed football across every level of the women’s game. The Atlético London goalkeeper, who joined the club ju…

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Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 2d

We are go for Calgary Flames hockey. I repeat: We are go for Calgary Flames hockey.

Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 2d

From my childhood: Staunton or Weyers Cave.

Now: Couch St.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 3d

You wouldn't know my Thanksgiving. It lives in Canada.

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Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 3d

I wonder if it's akin to the Ikea Effect, where people put together sensibly inexpensive flat-pack furniture that thousands if not millions of others have done but view it with immense pride. www.hbs.edu/ris/Publicat...

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Curtis Frye @curtisfrye.com · 4d

Enh. Can't know where we're going if we don't know where we came from.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 4d

I’m bringing the term “Mulge” back to the people to describe PR copy & AI trash being used for filed stories at outlets.

Mulge originates in the comic “High Noon” from Three Word Phrase and feels good to say. threewordphrase.com/highnoon.htm

Three Word Phrase, by Ryan Pequin

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 4d

This grew out of @edzitron.com and I looking for a shorthand to describe garbage we were seeing online over decade ago. The garbage has not improved or lessened with time.

Mulge. Use it today!

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