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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Dec 22

meet our reindog

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Dec 12

great dialogue piece between great columnists www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...

Opinion | Three Columnists Wrestle With the Lionizing of Luigi Mangione

What other kind of company inspires this sort of hatred?

www.nytimes.com

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Dec 12

best feeling when non-academic colleagues just randomly bring up a colleague's work and how it is making them think in new ways – @jessicacalarco.bsky.social's Holding it Together audiobook!! congrats again www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco: 9780593538128 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 29

warning to anyone who uses the @blueark.app import from X to blueksy — takes way longer than stated and appears in feed as if uploads from years ago are happening at the moment of upload 🤦🏻‍♂️ maybe i should have just started fresh…

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 27

hey Dan! agree :)

Quick note that this is an archive from a few years ago (I did an upload thing that makes it look like it was from the other day, sorry)

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hi Emily! Thanks for the awesome and important work here. Sociologist by trade working in both academia and industry:

- gscholar – scholar.google.com/citations?us...
- Work – Google: research.google/people/10485...; USC: arnicusc.org/people/matt-...
- Personal page: mattrafalow.org

Thank you!

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 26

There’s an app for that! chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 25

heads up, over the next few days @blueark.app is uploading my tweet history from x to here. apparently the ux isn’t making it look like it’s archived. sorry in advance! should be done in a day

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 25

WEIRD! oh dear..

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 25

lol Sarah all my tweets are being auto loaded to Bluesky, this one is from 2019. But thank you nonetheless 😂♥️

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 25

just deleted #facebook, #tiktok, and #x/#twittter and have never felt better. glad i have bluesky left to shout this from the rooftops.

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 24

I know this twitter import feature is fully giving flashbacks!

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 24

just used @blueark.app to copy over my tweets so I can delete that musky 🚮 app forever.

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 23

day 6 of posting maxine instead of weberian hullabaloo

#dogs #sociology

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 22

day 5 of posting maxine, and her preference to sleep under beds rather than in them, instead of sharing an Important Thread on My Research 🧵🪡👇🏻

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 21

day 4 of posting maxine instead of digital sociological gibberish

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 21

day 3 of posting maxine instead of bourdieuian nonsense

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 20

ok this is cool

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · Nov 19

6. Custom feeds on Bluesky are the first implementation of algorithmic choice. Instead of using a single black-box For You algorithm, you can create and subscribe to your own.

Now, there are over 50k+ custom feeds on the network! Check them out:

bsky.app/feeds

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 20

and this is maxine in a usc hat, still judging.

matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 20

k i’m gonna keep this a dog account until i decide i like this place. here’s maxine judging me in a white sweater.

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 18

ok starter packs? academics: where’s education technology and/or platformed creation plz? 🫶🏻❤️

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 17

so what kind of social space do we want here?

do we want old twitter again, with clout and profit to the loudest and most followed?

do we want to repeat glorifying inflammatory takes that divide?

what else could this be?

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 17

hi butterfly folks this is my dog max

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 17

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matt rafalow @mrafalow.bsky.social · Nov 17

testing the sky follower bridge chrome plugin (ty @lilchen.bsky.social!) to port over my fam. though, honestly, starting small here sounds kinda nice, too.

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