A. Meyers
@allinagrid.bsky.social
Nobody in particular. A particular nobody.
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Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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(can't help but notice who gets to be "young" and full of talent and who doesn't.)
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
(can't help but notice who gets to be "young" and full of talent and who doesn't.)
I have described the experience of the last year - watching my spouse and colleagues and friends have their careers and our lives upended - as like being beaten to death with a rubber chicken.
It's absurd the whole time, but I'm still dying over here.
It's absurd the whole time, but I'm still dying over here.
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I have described the experience of the last year - watching my spouse and colleagues and friends have their careers and our lives upended - as like being beaten to death with a rubber chicken.
It's absurd the whole time, but I'm still dying over here.
It's absurd the whole time, but I'm still dying over here.
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do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
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I have muted so many words but you all keep getting around them
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I have muted so many words but you all keep getting around them
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It’s not over but when it is I will never, ever forget the “serious people” who buckled and compromised and abetted the torture and crime and murder for a fascist lottery ticket.
I think the core point is that trump had a honeymoon in which capital/media/political opposition all decided he was the one true voice of america. he did a lot of horrible things with that (including murdering 100s of thousands), but didn't consolidate power...
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
It’s not over but when it is I will never, ever forget the “serious people” who buckled and compromised and abetted the torture and crime and murder for a fascist lottery ticket.
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It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
this thread is a delight
(poppy bagel with scallion cream cheese, which unfortunately makes me look like a poser, but at four years older than Mamdani and not a new yorker, I have probably been doing it as long as him.)
(poppy bagel with scallion cream cheese, which unfortunately makes me look like a poser, but at four years older than Mamdani and not a new yorker, I have probably been doing it as long as him.)
Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.
One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.
October 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
this thread is a delight
(poppy bagel with scallion cream cheese, which unfortunately makes me look like a poser, but at four years older than Mamdani and not a new yorker, I have probably been doing it as long as him.)
(poppy bagel with scallion cream cheese, which unfortunately makes me look like a poser, but at four years older than Mamdani and not a new yorker, I have probably been doing it as long as him.)
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I am once again asking people who encounter a poll to ask whether they have the necessary information to fully understand at a minimum a) who was surveyed and b) what they were asked
October 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I am once again asking people who encounter a poll to ask whether they have the necessary information to fully understand at a minimum a) who was surveyed and b) what they were asked
extremely not excited about how I have spent a lot of time refining a research question about US civ-mil relations, especially with regard to the Guard, in hope of making it a PhD application, just in time for real world testing.
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
extremely not excited about how I have spent a lot of time refining a research question about US civ-mil relations, especially with regard to the Guard, in hope of making it a PhD application, just in time for real world testing.
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Marching out into the deep woods and telling the first fae I see my whole and true name, I'm fuckin done here time to go
September 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Marching out into the deep woods and telling the first fae I see my whole and true name, I'm fuckin done here time to go
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I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture
September 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture
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"This has been a bad week for the Army for anyone who cares about us being a neutral institution," one commander at Ft Bragg told Military.com." Great reporting; this is how it's done.
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance
As President Donald Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
www.military.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"This has been a bad week for the Army for anyone who cares about us being a neutral institution," one commander at Ft Bragg told Military.com." Great reporting; this is how it's done.
Every year Gallup releases their public approval of American institutions numbers I send a variation on the same essay to my colleagues on civilian approval and oversight of the military, along with some nice, clear analysis about civilian approval and budgets for personnel programs and VA.
decades of “thank you for your service” thrown away in service of kidnapping day workers from Home Depot
shit-ass trade for the military, I gotta say
shit-ass trade for the military, I gotta say
"fuck you." "go home." "get the fuck out of here." scenes from the deployment of the american military against americans
June 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Every year Gallup releases their public approval of American institutions numbers I send a variation on the same essay to my colleagues on civilian approval and oversight of the military, along with some nice, clear analysis about civilian approval and budgets for personnel programs and VA.
I'm in these pictures and I don't like it, etc.
Anyway, continuing to look for solid programs with faculty interested in civ-mil research that aren't in the US 🫠
Anyway, continuing to look for solid programs with faculty interested in civ-mil research that aren't in the US 🫠
America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain
economist.com/science-and-...
economist.com/science-and-...
May 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I'm in these pictures and I don't like it, etc.
Anyway, continuing to look for solid programs with faculty interested in civ-mil research that aren't in the US 🫠
Anyway, continuing to look for solid programs with faculty interested in civ-mil research that aren't in the US 🫠
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Finally, an encyclical about the designated hitter
May 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Finally, an encyclical about the designated hitter
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Greenwich Mode Time is that all times occur at the same frequency, except for a 2pm meeting on a Tuesday afternoon, which occurs more frequently because it lasts a hundred years.
OK, people have brought up "Greenwich Median time" an "Greenwich Mode Time" but because this is a super smooth distribution, Greenwich Median Time would be (I think) exactly the same as Greenwich Mean Time and because times are not absolute values, Greenwich Mode Time cannot exist.
April 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Greenwich Mode Time is that all times occur at the same frequency, except for a 2pm meeting on a Tuesday afternoon, which occurs more frequently because it lasts a hundred years.
having just concluded a week in the UK where I kept my mouth shut unless I absolutely had to, on account of being painfully aware of being American right now... yeah.
(and yeah, I'm aware how much we smile, but like. I simply have not been able to unprogram the socialization to do it)
(and yeah, I'm aware how much we smile, but like. I simply have not been able to unprogram the socialization to do it)
Many Americans who travel abroad try so hard not to be ugly Americans that they kinda make it weird
always found it funny that the whole "ugly american" thing has been around long enough that a lot (most?) tourists now overcompensate for it, so the actual american stereotype now is more like "unsettlingly nice"
April 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
having just concluded a week in the UK where I kept my mouth shut unless I absolutely had to, on account of being painfully aware of being American right now... yeah.
(and yeah, I'm aware how much we smile, but like. I simply have not been able to unprogram the socialization to do it)
(and yeah, I'm aware how much we smile, but like. I simply have not been able to unprogram the socialization to do it)
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New study analyzed 145 years of U.S. congressional speeches and found a clear shift away from evidence-based language toward more intuition-based language—especially since the mid-1970s.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition - Nature Human Behaviour
This research explores the linguistic traces of evidence-based reasoning and intuitive decision-making in congressional speeches from 1879 to 2022. The analysis suggests that evidence-based language h...
www.nature.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
New study analyzed 145 years of U.S. congressional speeches and found a clear shift away from evidence-based language toward more intuition-based language—especially since the mid-1970s.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
My very first day of grad school was a lesson on how to use data to mislead people, and by god that's ended up being the most useful thing I do the most in my work, but it's no less maddening that it's necessary.
April 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
My very first day of grad school was a lesson on how to use data to mislead people, and by god that's ended up being the most useful thing I do the most in my work, but it's no less maddening that it's necessary.