jimrenwick.bsky.social
@jimrenwick.bsky.social
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A thread . Please read . Because when Black women say this and have for years and get hit with

“You know who I am “ and “this is spreading awareness”

No it’s enabling abuse and exploiting “friendship”
Imagine you have a friend. Let’s call him Rick Reasonable.

Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.

Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Boiling Water
The corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.
www.the-reframe.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Shots fired:

"the minority of researchers who used the R programming language were more likely to report outlier estimates than researchers who used Stata."
After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics
We use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions—specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretat
papers.ssrn.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Somehow I expected this to be a bit more frantic.
October 18, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #124,787!

Congratulations!
September 17, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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If you want to understand how we scaled to handle this influx like we did, this blog post from @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com goes over a lot of our design and implementation decisions
Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)
Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
September 1, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Custom feeds are really the killer feature for this site, so I wrote a quick and dirty guide to making custom feeds on Bluesky:

www.southernfriedscience.com/a-quick-and-...
A quick and dirty guide to making custom feeds on Bluesky
So, you’ve made it! The remnants of science twitter have at last begun to coalesce around a new microblogging platformed owned by questionable individuals with inadequate content moderation t…
www.southernfriedscience.com
February 7, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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Someone at this party just said “imagine having to call your crush on a LANDLINE” and I promptly dissolved into crispy-ass dust
October 22, 2023 at 12:21 AM
And we drove through Kansas before that...

Bottom 2 so far.
Why is there nothing in Ohio?
August 9, 2023 at 2:25 AM
Why is there nothing in Ohio?
August 9, 2023 at 2:24 AM
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Generally I believe in science except for how they say clothes do not stop UV rays. That’s fake folks. They do. Big sunscreen wants me to become fully nude and rub lotion on my ass every day but I will not.
July 14, 2023 at 6:14 PM