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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 32m

Geez this is fantastic

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Steve Zorowitz @stevezorowitz.bsky.social · 13h

Just spitballing here, but if you're worried about the reaction of a guy if you don't give him the Nobel Peace Prize, YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE GIVING HIM THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 13h

good news @pwgtennant.bsky.social and @pausalz.bsky.social now posit can do everything for us, right?

Posit @posit.co · 13h

Announcing mall 0.2.0! 🎉 This update for #RStats and #Python brings more features to your data-driven NLP workflows using LLMs.

Connect directly to OpenAI, Gemini, and others, parallel processing, run NLP on string vectors, and new cheatsheet!!

Read the blog post: blogs.rstudio.com/ai/posts/202...

The mall hex next to its cheatsheet with an R and Python side

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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 13h

after reading a ton of trial reports, whether a study is industry funded versus academic can almost perfectly predict whether there is a CONSORT diagram....which i think is weird.

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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 1d

I am reading a trial in a certain journal and it just absolutely floors me that the methods come AFTER the references and a full list of all the very important trial authors. WTH?

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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 2d

The worst part is that none of this completely horrendous bullshit will ever impact their elite standing. Apparently there is no amount of knee bending, fraud, and horrible associations that can change that.

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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 7d

wtf?

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

lastcampaign.substack.com

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 7d

They're zip tying kids to each other

What do you call a country that kidnaps people, including children, & puts them in concentration camps, many of whom then disappear?

How would you describe a nation whose government gleefully roughs up reporters & disappears people who it simply dislikes?

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 8d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 8d

"No dataset can truly capture the suffering of colleagues killed while doing their job, of hospitals reduced to rubble, or of patients left without care."

These research authors describe how their study on war injuries in Gaza was born out of necessity
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 11d

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 11d

Radical idea that people running for office tell you their priorities and values and you vote based on that instead of them just telling you what they think you want to hear.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11d

My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe.

Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 14d

ok fine, ill listen in :-)

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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 14d

don't knock em, man, they are working on 'powerful ideas for a healthier world'...or something like that.

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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 16d

Every. Single. Time. Although i think the falling off the bike is me *truly* learning the method.

Donald Szlosek @dszlosek.bsky.social · 16d

Anyone else ever feel like this? #StatsSky #Statistics

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 16d

Being anti vaccines for babies is one of the surest signs of a declining civilisation. There could be no clearer evidence on childhood vaccination saving lives and preserving health and yet we’re being distracted by debating this issue.

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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 16d

So many people, for some reason, refuse to learn from history, and allow it to repeat itself, can we change that disturbing fact?

I don’t know…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17d

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 17d

Now this is a great idea!

Laura Veach @phoenixg75.bsky.social · 17d

Some people already committed what they were spending on Dis to PBS 🤷‍♀️

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ACOG @acog.org · 17d

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

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Tim Feeney @tfeend.bsky.social · 19d

Yes I do this to

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20d

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 21d

THE TOP 1% OF U.S. EARNERS NOW CONTROL MORE WEALTH THAN THE ENTIRE MIDDLE CLASS

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