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Ian Ramjohn

@iramjohn.bsky.social

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Wikipedia expert at @wikieducation.bsky.social.  Plant ecology Ph.D. 🇹🇹Trinbagonian in exile https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2910-0526 (if you want to verify my account's authenticity)

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · Feb 19

I recorded this for my father's funeral today.
youtu.be/c6WWROsaCwY

Eulogy for my father, Ian Ramjohn (1931–2025)

YouTube video by Ian Ramjohn

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 6h

I literal translation did not prepare me for what it actually is.

They put that in their churches?!

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 6h

The strongest memory I have of him was that ad where he basically glared at the camera while maybe walked towards it? I started off thinking Kucinich was the strangest person in that race, but Gravel quickly set me straight.

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 6h

I remember Gravel as the furthest right in the race.

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 13h

This is interesting. I have both of those, but it wasn't until i got an adhd + autism diagnosis last year that began to unravel my life, and concluded that the anxiety and depression were probably caused by the experience of AuDHD.

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 14h

When you take that all together, you'd find that about 60% of people are precisely average in terms of IQ.

And that doesn't even get to statistically meaningful differences, or what it is that IQ tests actually measure.

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 14h

But that's not all. The instruments used to measure IQ are only accurate enough to estimate things within ~10-15 points. So 90 and 109 are indistinguishable from 100 given the inherent measurement errors

According to the test makers, there's no way to distinguish anything in that range.

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 14h

No. That's incorrect in many ways

68% people fall within one standard deviation of the mean, (for IQ that's 85–115). If the curve was flat across that interval, 2% of people would have a score of 100. But it's not flat, it rises (and falls) very steeply. I think 40% of people fall precisely at 100

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 16h

No, that's not "just statistics". In a normal (bell-shaped) distribution, most people are average and 68% lie within one standard deviation of the mean. For the most part, that means that 68% of the population can't be reliably indistinguishable from average.

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 16h

Does that mean they're saying their software is no-good and not serviceable?

Also if you're obliged to pay for something that's neither a good nor a service, what does that leave? A tax?

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks, putting it like that helps me. My problem is I'm trying to picture no pictures 😂

But I do understand just knowing something without having an associated picture or shape. I will always try to turn it into a shape and then take it apart, but I don't *have* to.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

because I'm too "normal", or because I completed my PhD and hold down a job, and otherwise don't match their perceptions of autism and adhd, that delegitimises my assertion that this is a disability.

(Maybe I'm wrong about how NT people react to being told they might not be NT and it is harmful.)

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

I think the second point is more important that the first.

If I put a label on an NT person's behaviour (say, masking) and relate it to autism and adhd, it probably isn't going to send them into a spiral of second-guessing and impostor syndrome.

But when an NT person tells me I can't be AuDHD...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 7d

Canis familiaris? Maybe Less Than You Think

We think of them as pets, but the vast majority of the world’s dogs--80%--live free-range in the environment. Understanding them could be key to helping urban wildlife thrive.

by @scibri.com

www.biographic.com/canis-famili...

Canis familiaris? Maybe Less Than You Think - bioGraphic

We think of them as pets, but the vast majority of the world’s dogs live free-range in the environment. Understanding them could be key to helping urban wildlife thrive.

www.biographic.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 4d

Brett Kavanaugh and his clerks need to read this --->

www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

www.reddit.com

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

I think Chihuahuas' skulls are too small for a dog's brain.

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Or they can just wait until your corpse attracts mice. That's a far more cat-sized meal.

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Been bitten by dogs three times. Twice by dogs that walked up behind me and bit me in the leg. Once by my friend's dog who had just pushed her head into my hand because I'd stopped petting her.

Sure, I've been bitten by cats many times. But that's because I teach them it's ok to bite me in play

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

When people ask me why I'm afraid of pigs, my answer has always been "they're like dogs, but smart"

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin) @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social · 1d

It has been shown time, and time again, that when you are able to provide basic support for folks, such as UBI, not only are they able to thrive, but there are significant increases in measurable indicators of economic health, such as purchasing power.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

I blanked on Rove's name, and all I could get was Turd Blossom 😀

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Trumpism is the bastard child of Norquist, and Gingrich, and Turd Blossom.

But even then, it's more than just a linear change - it couldn't have happened without the brutality of Bush's wars, and the inchoate rage they drummed up against Obama. And more than anything I think Covid gave up fascism.

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Reagan's message was America as a shining city on a hill. Reagan offered an amnesty for undocumented immigrants.

Reaganism put important building blocks in place that lead to Trumpism, and it allowed Trump's first brush with fame, but nothing about the path was deterministic

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

No, I'm not saying that.

I don't know what Reagan would have done had be been able to act with impunity. But when Reagan was elected, the end of WWII was as distant as 1990 is today - they might have hated the time's equivalent of "the woke" (communism) but everyone also still hated fascism.

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