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Will @popher.bsky.social · 3h

Like any good scientific experiment, I will have to test the hypothesis a few more times this vacation

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 3h

And this little dude

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 3h

Other vehicles I've seen today include this which made my eyes roll

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine buying a truck and it still being so useless you can't even fit a bike in the bed.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 3h

It's on my bookshelf!

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 3h

Thank god for hotel minibar diet coke.

a woman is laying in bed next to a pig wearing sunglasses and the words `` bring me a diet coke ! ''

ALT: a woman is laying in bed next to a pig wearing sunglasses and the words `` bring me a diet coke ! ''

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 3h

I was thinking that looked really cool and then saw it was Adams paper haha. I'll have to chat to him about it

Will @popher.bsky.social · 5h

I think it's really important people (media) highlight that this is political violence. Just because it's being committed by the state doesn't mean it isn't political violence.

David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 9h

ICE is wreaking complete havoc on my lovely, peaceful neighborhood on the far north side of Chicago. Schools in panic mode, businesses closing. We are being terrorized by our own fucking government.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 5h

I'm just gonna say it's 8pm and I feel horrible. Maybe breakfast mimosas not the right choice lol

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 16h

Snap!

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 16h

Breakfast poolside mimosas to start the day.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 16h

Haha thank you :)

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you!!

Will @popher.bsky.social · 1d

No he didn't. The writers retconned most of wormhole physics as they needed to, and in the pilot when he walked backwards through it, it was fine.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 1d

First they disappeared brown men they claimed were bad. Then they disappeared their kids. Then they bombed fisherman thousands of miles away. Then they moved to prosecute, jail, and kill anyone who wasn't right wing.

It's happening, today.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 1d

The fact the Dems have to frame the shutdown debate around healthcare costs and not the fact the republic is entirely failing and becoming a fascist autocracy really speaks to the quality of the media and political literacy of the public.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 1d

It's plainly clear this Presidency has to be ended by Congress or by the States. He is beyond treasonous at this point.

Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 1d

Adam--wake up, it's worse.

Screen shot from CNN of Trump, Bondi, Noem, Patel and fifth person behind a table, with mics, in the State Dining Room of the White House. Tweet by "Really Anerican": "In a shocking moment, AG Pam Bondi suggests that the DOJ will execute American citizens they deem as Antifa, "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take this same approach with antifa." This attorney general is unhinged.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 1d

This man at the hotel bar thought that was the funniest thing

And then he tells me he's here with his wife for her birthday? Why are you talking to me sir. What's going on.

Then he tries to tell me the bartender looks like Andrew Garfield.
Dude. Who is paying you.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 1d

It was very tasty and it came with a little donut. Would recommend.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 1d

"who needs to learn"

Anyone who wants to be able to validate the code.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I'll get one but I couldn't get it before dinner or else I wouldn't have eaten anything of substance today.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 1d

For reference though I grew up in rural Scotland and I live in eastern Washington, so some days the right gust of wind can be pretty exciting to me.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 1d

Guys.

Palm Springs is really gay.
I'm not sure if anyone else knows this. But like, really gay.

(In the best way)

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 1d

In which @sararah.bsky.social advised me to get a date shake

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