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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 8h

If hypothetically I were taking those steps, I might not be posting about them on socials until they were good and ready?

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 14h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 1d

Still recovering from being a "basic" researcher

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Andrew Mercer @awmercer.bsky.social · 1d

Terrific piece from @gelliottmorris.com this morning.

Whenever you ask if something “might” happen or “may” be necessary, it’s very easy for respondents to think of scenarios where the answer is yes, no matter how unlikely.

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 5d

General principle: blue ststes still have plenty of red residents

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 5d

Anyway, this happened this week.

Stay above the fray, stay in your lane, do not bend the knee ✊

We have power.

Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 17d

I’m going to say something abt domestic abuse that I think applies to our current situation:

Abuse increases when the abuser feels they are losing their control.

Also, here is the Power and Control Wheel.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5d

The reality is that the US Department of Homeland Security has been openly seized by unapologetic white nationalists who freely indulge in neo-Nazi rhetoric and use their huge and growing paramilitary army to mount massive attacks on communities of color in the US in a campaign of racist oppression

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 5d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 5d

3rd arm: old-school social researchers

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 6d

biretta doubles as buckler +1

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 6d

Pillars from a Catholic church, repurposed into load-bearers for a Muslim mosque, then refurbished *again* as a Catholic cathedral (with many Islamic inscriptions and designs left intact).

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 7d

Well, there's one thing they can agree on

make gifs at gifsoup.com is displayed at the bottom of this photo

Alt: video of man standing in way of tank column at Tiananmen Square

media.tenor.com

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 7d

for starters:

* elected
* threats from anarchism, etc. are hallucinated
* furthest thing imaginable from a military man

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 7d

There are, of course, many differences which the argument just ignores. The exercise reminds me of Iriarte's fable:

«Son galgos, te digo.»
«Digo que podencos.»

in which the last earthly act of two rabbits is to argue whether those dogs are greyhounds or podenco hounds.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

You’re Comparing Trump to the Wrong Fascist Dictator

The “Is Trump Hitler?” debate misses his sinister parallels to another 20th-century European tyrant.

slate.com

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 7d

warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/ret...

WHAT NORMS ARE AT STAKE WITH A RETIRED GENERAL AS SECDEF?

Before the events of 6 January in the nation's capital, WAR ROOM received several submissions dealing with the topic of the military's relationship with "politics." It's an extraordinarily complex dis...

warroom.armywarcollege.edu

Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 7d

To be honest, when the norm barring service members as SecDef was first breached, I did not have "disgruntled ex-officer who overturns the ethical principles he was disciplined for" on my list of dangers.

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 7d

Biggest letdown since Killer Mike

Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 7d

"Son of man" then makes most sense as "son of female man, Mary."

Still, I think the actual usage as it slipped from Old into Modern English is "man, and I guess female 'men' as well, but really mostly dudes"

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 8d

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

British Politics' Midlife Crisis

Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

benansell.substack.com

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 9d

Tabletop role-players have known this for decades: smoke bomb, invisible monster detector, dust explosion, emergency rations, air draft detector ...

Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 9d

a man in a suit and tie is talking about the garden

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking about the garden

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Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 12d

Field independence, I'd guess? I've known this puzzle since I was a kid.

Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 13d

Let's hope it stacks up to Brass Eye's "Nonce Sense" episode

Roger Giner-Sorolla @rogerthegs.bsky.social · 13d

A goose with long experience chasing "states' rights" defenders

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