visionBoy
@rsek.bsky.social
Proud graduate of Forest Hills High School (NYC) whose reading careens wildly among neuroscience, Tudor/Stuart history, and Carl Hiaasen.
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Seriously, what other president is even remotely in his league?
There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets.
Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.
There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets.
Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Seriously, what other president is even remotely in his league?
There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets.
Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.
There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets.
Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.
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If this material is true, it is just another impeachable criminal act. The world is watching, the world is becoming more unstable and that is due, whether we like it or not, to the fact that the US is unstable.
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If this material is true, it is just another impeachable criminal act. The world is watching, the world is becoming more unstable and that is due, whether we like it or not, to the fact that the US is unstable.
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Mark Kelly is a heroic public servant. Donald Trump is a treasonous criminal. Period.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
Pentagon says it might recall Sen. Mark Kelly to military service for court martial over ‘illegal orders’ video | CNN Politics
The Pentagon said Monday that it is investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired US Navy captain, in light of “serious allegations of misconduct” the department has received against him, and co...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Mark Kelly is a heroic public servant. Donald Trump is a treasonous criminal. Period.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene came into Congress in 2021 worth about $700,000. She leaves five years later worth around $25,000,000. 😳 Congress is just a giant insider-trading scheme.
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene came into Congress in 2021 worth about $700,000. She leaves five years later worth around $25,000,000. 😳 Congress is just a giant insider-trading scheme.
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There is no evidence that spikes alone or oscillations alone are functional. Nor can there be. They are inseparable. They both correlate with function (but can give different messages). People who think it's only spikes are ignoring basic physics and artificially pulling apart a unified syatem
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
There is no evidence that spikes alone or oscillations alone are functional. Nor can there be. They are inseparable. They both correlate with function (but can give different messages). People who think it's only spikes are ignoring basic physics and artificially pulling apart a unified syatem
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It’s just another example of Quantbrain disease: where data and simple models, often arising as linear regression, get the wrong answers on complex systems.
Data do not tell us what messages “work” to change public opinion, and they don’t tell us what’s innovative, for the same reasons.
Data do not tell us what messages “work” to change public opinion, and they don’t tell us what’s innovative, for the same reasons.
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
It’s just another example of Quantbrain disease: where data and simple models, often arising as linear regression, get the wrong answers on complex systems.
Data do not tell us what messages “work” to change public opinion, and they don’t tell us what’s innovative, for the same reasons.
Data do not tell us what messages “work” to change public opinion, and they don’t tell us what’s innovative, for the same reasons.
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ICYMI - POPE LEO: “When people are living good lives for 10, 20 years… (Trump) is treating them in a way that’s extremely disrespectful, violent — We have to look for ways to treat people humanely and with dignity.” (H/T @CBSNews)
November 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
ICYMI - POPE LEO: “When people are living good lives for 10, 20 years… (Trump) is treating them in a way that’s extremely disrespectful, violent — We have to look for ways to treat people humanely and with dignity.” (H/T @CBSNews)
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Starting a new biz just in time for US Thanksgiving: Rent a Drunken Uncle. If you don’t have anyone to annoy, embarrass, and disrupt your Thanksgiving dinner, call me.
November 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Starting a new biz just in time for US Thanksgiving: Rent a Drunken Uncle. If you don’t have anyone to annoy, embarrass, and disrupt your Thanksgiving dinner, call me.
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Poke it up your ass trump...
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Poke it up your ass trump...
That has to be the greatest title ever. The image of a thick fish doing battle really captured my visual
Imagination.
Imagination.
Er müsste ja erstmal eine Angel haben. 🤷♂️
November 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
That has to be the greatest title ever. The image of a thick fish doing battle really captured my visual
Imagination.
Imagination.
I was delighted that Mamdani did NOT give the seemingly obligatory, but utterly stupid Trumpian, “thumb up”gesture. Instead, he folded his hands as most humans would.
Good morning everyone
Mayor Elect Mamdani wanted a photo of himself in front of the FDR Portrait in the Whitehouse...
But Trump had to be included
Of course !!
But FDR is rolling over in his grave
Trump has no clue nor does he care of who FDR was or WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED
Mayor Elect Mamdani wanted a photo of himself in front of the FDR Portrait in the Whitehouse...
But Trump had to be included
Of course !!
But FDR is rolling over in his grave
Trump has no clue nor does he care of who FDR was or WHAT HE ACCOMPLISHED
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I was delighted that Mamdani did NOT give the seemingly obligatory, but utterly stupid Trumpian, “thumb up”gesture. Instead, he folded his hands as most humans would.
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Respectfully,of course!
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Respectfully,of course!
The only reason to watch a Thanksgiving Day parade is to hope for a repeat of what happened in the 1997 Macy’s Parade when Barney the purple dinosaur balloon fell apart, traumatizing thousands of children but amusing adults even to this day.
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The only reason to watch a Thanksgiving Day parade is to hope for a repeat of what happened in the 1997 Macy’s Parade when Barney the purple dinosaur balloon fell apart, traumatizing thousands of children but amusing adults even to this day.
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the son he always wanted
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
the son he always wanted
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Every man needs to find a woman who looks at them like Trump Looks at Mamdani.
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every man needs to find a woman who looks at them like Trump Looks at Mamdani.
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How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 3:18 AM
How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
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Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Assistant Professor in Biology and Neuroscience Program - Waltham, Massachusetts (US) job with Brandeis University | 12848464
The Department of Biology and the Program in Neuroscience at Brandeis University invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor positio...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Re-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?)
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
@keithedwards.bsky.social I am sure that your uni’s chief info officer (or whatever the title) is proud of this accomplishment: making ordinary users’ lives more difficult.
My employer has added yet another step to the login process, so there are now THREE web pages to click through *each time I log in*. With a TTL of around 1 hour, this means I have to log into each individual system multiple times per day. This is a huge waste of time. 😔 #academia
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
@keithedwards.bsky.social I am sure that your uni’s chief info officer (or whatever the title) is proud of this accomplishment: making ordinary users’ lives more difficult.
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Pamphlets would be great. Don’t forget there was a pamphlet called Common Sense that changed history.
man we should bring back the pamphlet
Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Pamphlets would be great. Don’t forget there was a pamphlet called Common Sense that changed history.