Ian Tingen
tingenism.bsky.social
Ian Tingen
@tingenism.bsky.social
Red blooded // ivory tower trained // blue collar raised
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My name is Ian. I am a behavioral designer & former professor. Nice to meet you!

I'm red-blooded, ivory-tower-trained, and blue-collar raised:

I am an American man, the first in my family to go to college - and a phd program.

Dad was an HVAC tech, mom stayed at home.

Follow me here or YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@ting…
Field is on the right for a reason. #nokingsday
June 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Reposted by Ian Tingen
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.
June 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hi #Mavs fans. This is my letter to you.

Your management fucked you over.

It sucks.

youtu.be/iVauxXAM5Ms?...
First Cup ☕️ - Luka Doncic - A Letter to Mavs Fans from a Suns Fan in LA
YouTube video by Tingenism
youtu.be
February 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Dear liberal friends (especially white women) :

I know that you’re conditioned to see black art and darken the boundary of struggle - to reflexively exclude yourself and others

Drop that for a beat. Consider:
February 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Please tell me I’m not the only one who was cheering loudly for Irv in this weeks episode of #Severance 🌊
February 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Despite everything going on in the world, there are some people who are dedicated to finding a better tomorrow and a better today.

@mohusseini.com is one of them.
@filmmakerjulie.bsky.social and I are screening our doc at IKAR next week and having a discussion with the amazing Rabbi @sharonbrous.bsky.social

You can get details and RSVP at the link in the reply below.

An amazing honor!

(you can also watch the event (and film) virtually)
February 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Reposted by Ian Tingen
What I hope you take from this is that you actually need to help people get to where you're at. That is work which *you* have to do. You cannot simply say "it's not my job to educate you"

I understand it's exhausting and many people truly should not have to take that on. But those who can should.
February 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A truth long known by workers:

“… recoveries (were driven) by (healthcare, education, retail and restaurants) …

the manufacturing workers —largely U.S.-born white and Black men without any college education— didn’t participate in these recoveries.”

Cc: @mohusseini.com @richardreeves.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reposted by Ian Tingen
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I’m not always a fan of AI, but

I’m definitely a fan of intellectual honesty and vulnerability wherever I see it

Those values are the best way to move action AND knowledge AND values forward!

@anthropic.com I’d definitely love to chat with your social psych staff.
January 22, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The cardinal sin in academia is strength:

to embrace the diversity of truth
to accept and break limits
to speak up
to self-correct

This tacitly tells scientists truth is a function of how they speak,

rather than *what they do*

This error is fatal; it dishonors good work!

#science #academia
January 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
TikTok ban coming down as expected; important part highlighted,

full scotus opinion here

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
January 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
With a lot of the left leaning voices I enjoy leaving #threads, I have to maintain a multiple platform presence to stay out of echo chambers

Who are some good people focused on class issues that you follow here on Bluesky?

@mohusseini.com , @trebory6.bsky.social ?
January 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
@dplouffe.bsky.social on @podsaveamerica.bsky.social:

“…we had to raise people's concern and the threat level of a Trump second term. I think if you look at our internal data (…) we did a lot of that. We just didn't get it to the extent that we needed to to win.”

#DemDV

youtu.be/61uYVF86Wd8?...
First Cup ☕️ - Democratic Domestic Violence - Leaving the Democratic Party
YouTube video by Tingenism
youtu.be
December 17, 2024 at 12:47 AM
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December 10, 2024 at 10:27 PM
There are some details about the assassination that you might’ve missed.

I’ve been stuck on them, and I explain why here.

#unitedhealthcare
#design
First Cup ☕️ - Design of a M💀rd💀r - Deny, Defend, Depose
YouTube video by Tingenism
youtu.be
December 9, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Has anyone started posting photos of people / family who have had their claims denied by insurance?

Especially looking for those who have suffered damage to their health or died because of the denied claim.

I’m looking for the human face of the death toll.

#insurance #claimsadjuster
December 8, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Since 2019 I’ve lost my dad and two uncles, among many other things.

What have I learned from all of that loss?

youtu.be/q94HPLjAAd4?...
First Cup ☕️ - Hope + Will - Dealing With Loss
YouTube video by Tingenism
youtu.be
November 18, 2024 at 5:56 PM
My name is Ian. I am a behavioral designer & former professor. Nice to meet you!

I'm red-blooded, ivory-tower-trained, and blue-collar raised:

I am an American man, the first in my family to go to college - and a phd program.

Dad was an HVAC tech, mom stayed at home.

Follow me here or YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@ting…
November 12, 2024 at 9:36 PM