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teacher of mathematical habits of mind,
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Hello all refugees from twitter. hopefully we can recreate the #mathblueskyblogosphere...
As Forster said, "only connect"

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I cosign every single word of this

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Pitiful. Look West Virginia, either you go big or you go home.
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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he's just a genuinely horrible person
Aside from everything else, we have technology such that material prosperity and pro-climate policy are inextricably linked.
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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I can't speak to this more practically, but you should not use TurboTax for a myriad of reasons (including they lobby to make it so you can't do taxes easily without them). Not everyone can afford to use an accountant (or needs one) but TaxSlayer is fine.
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.

TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Remember according to Republicans, 15 year old girls are actually adult women while 30-something year old men with government jobs are just wee little lads who aren't responsible for their racist and Nazi memes because boys will be boys.
Fox News displaying a poll with the first age bracket for women and men being 15-44.

Once again, 15 year olds are children.

They are kids.

They are not adults, they can’t consent to sex, and pedophilia must not be normalized.
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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fwiw the R vote share in this poll is consistent with consensus.

The difference between this poll and other polls is that they pushed leaners and leaners essentially all broke Dem.

that doesn’t seem all that unrealistic to me right now
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:

*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats

On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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morning!

so, it's my birthday today and I'm now 50 (yikes) but it turns out i have a present for YOU! a new episode of @americanmedieval.bsky.social w/ the exceptional @sarahebond.bsky.social!

we talk dinosaurs & the American obsession w/ Rome (among other things...)

Listen now!
The “Fall of Rome” with Sarah Bond
Podcast Episode · American Medieval · 11/19/2025 · 1h 4m
podcasts.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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If anything like these numbers persist and are true, even if they’re a 50% overestimate of the D-R margin, it’s apocalyptic for the republicans.
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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This is pretty intense foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/11/t...
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Matty trying to shadowbox the rest of this site on climate change is so genuinely funny, man
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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i refuse to believe that he thinks this is persuasive
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud
House Dems unite to tell GOP to stop "demonizing" trans people with "dehumanizing" slurs - LGBTQ Nation
Rep. Nancy Mace's "tra**y, tra**y, tra**y!" tirade is just one example.
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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i forget who first said it but the basketball hall of fame should have a wing dedicated to halftime performers and it should be called the red panda wing
Red Panda steals the show on ESPN.
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.
BREAKING: Deputy White House Chief of Staff James Blair said the administration is eyeing ways to give millions of Americans $2,000 dividend checks from tariff revenue without congressional approval, per Bloomberg.
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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"Quiet, Piggy" reactions from yours truly:

1. Soft misogyny in public is a tell for hard misogyny in private.

2. Not a single male reporter clapped back at Trump's "quiet piggy" comment.

3. I've seen no main page coverage from the biggest outlets. Absolutely part of the problem.
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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If the wolves team up with the orcas, we’re cooked
November 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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I do think you can understand the present state of world affairs better if you believe that the worst person alive has, since 2017, been the most powerful person alive the majority of the time.
there is not a single Republican legislator who is a worse person than Trump is and whatever remains of each of their consciences has been sublimated to his whims for a decade now
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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it's the j*hnny d*pp "defamation" lawsuit method. it's a way of continuing and repeating the abuse through forcing the survivor's private life into the open, lying, DARVOing, humiliating, slandering. it's about never ever letting them escape unpunished.
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I'll also note that the author of this article Emily Bazelon is having a hotdog suit moment since she helped kick up the moral panic around gender affirming care with her NYT Magazine article in 2022.
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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If you're wondering "hmm Bazelon that name seems familiar," then yes, Simon is the son of the NYT journalist who has advanced the cause of transphobia so much.
this is just a wild thing to tweet a week after democrats won a statewide in Georgia by 20 points. completely divorced from the current electoral environment
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM