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Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2d agoCombine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film.
Dan Cassino
@dancassino.bsky.social
Political scientist at FDU, Executive Director of the FDU Poll, studying masculinities and research methods.
Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2d ago
Hey @2000ad.bsky.social: I’m going to need Judge Dredd to go back to being an over the top parody, rather than a straight reporting of real life, it’s getting upsetting, thanks.
“And what do you call your act?” “The sanctity of life!”
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoWASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.
Two points on this apparent use of LLM chatbots over text. First, the artificially low cost of LLMs right now means that, for the first time in decades, actual push polling - trying to use purported polls to change the minds of a significant number of voters- may be feasible.
Microplastics Sommelier@leastactionhero.bsky.social · 3d agothis is already going well
It is sometimes a weird little niche I’ve carved out for myself. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Is Fixated On Ken Paxton’s Appearance — Experts Say This Might Explain Why
“I’m not sure if I like your look, I’m not sure if I like the way you dress, I don’t like the way you talk,” the president said about the GOP nominee.
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more business owners need to be like this
New poll from Natalie Jackson's (newish) shop Centerline Research and Strategy, with an interesting methodological twist: weighting by religious affiliation rather than party, with a note that Evangelicals (who skew MAGA w/in the GOP) were under-represented stuckmiddle.substack.com/p/introducin...
Introducing the Centerline National Poll
And why I weighted to religious affiliation and not partisanship.
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In “Hell I’ve made for myself” news , I’m now going to have to try and track down Sir Magazine’s “New Scientific Test for Maleness.”
Paul Tobin@paultobin.bsky.social · 4d agoMight not be posting for a while. Dealing with some stuff. My wife was captured by apes.
10 year old me, when I started playing Civilization II:
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 5d ago“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
Thermostatic partisanship is here with a vengeance, which should give pause to anyone thinking about weighting 2026 election polls to party ID, or any proxy thereof.
Michael McDonald@electproject.bsky.social · 5d agoGallup reporting D+11 in self-reported party id in latest 2026 Q3 release news.gallup.com/poll/654560/...
NYT really asking the important questions. What would Benjamin Disraeli think about the Eras Tour? What would Virgina Woolf say about cryptocurrency? Does Philip the Navigator have a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe?
The gap between RV and LV favoring Democrats makes sense this cycle. The LV calculation is going to be based, in large part, on ‘22 and ‘24, both bad years for Democrats. This is what we’d expect in any state other than NJ and VA, where we can use the ‘25 gov race.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last wk.Fox News releases two new polls. —Iowa: Josh Turek (D) up 49/47 for Senate. —Texas: James Talarico (D) up 51/49 for Senate. That's among likely voters. Strikingly (& against CW?), Dems lead by more among registered voters: Talarico +7, Turek +4.
Reading a 1900 masculinity influencer's book (as you do), and it's a combination of quotes that could come exactly from Andrew Tate and weird 19th century hang-ups (especially about masturbation).
These figures are going to be of great interest to my colleagues in the ASA consumption section.
Kathleen Weldon@kathleenweldon.bsky.social · 2w agoCoded response to open-ended question "what causes tuberculosis", put to those respondents who said it was not "a germ" Other answers from previous page include "inherit it" and "being too cold." But "too much bed sport" is the clear winner here.
Coded response to open-ended question "what causes tuberculosis", put to those respondents who said it was not "a germ" Other answers from previous page include "inherit it" and "being too cold." But "too much bed sport" is the clear winner here.
It’s not often that I find some innovation in NJ politics to be unequivocally positive, but including “I Voted” stickers in with mail-in ballots (at least in Essex County) is a great idea. (Now I just have to hold on to it for five weeks)
Going with "men insecure in their own masculinity also support Trump" as the explanation
Phil Klinkner@pklinkne.bsky.social · 2w agoI really love this chart. I'm guess that the correlation here (.85) is about as big as you would find for any other variable. Also, a less serious scholar than @tesler.bsky.social (namely me) would have made a crude Freudian reference to the slope of the line.
Teaching public opinion has always meant saying “The President is held accountable for the economy, but actually has very little control over it,” and I resent this administration forcing me to change my lecture notes.
Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2w agoManufacturing numbers are really booming right now, due in large part to the datacenter buildup. He really could've just played golf all year as inflation mellowed and gdp grew, but here we are.
Spent waaay too long coding whether each party in the ESS was considered to be right-wing populist, and the results are suprising. Not that there's a strong relationship between gender traditionalism and voting for a RWP party, but that the relationship is the same for both men and women.
What happens when economic change feels like a threat to masculinity? In Contexts, Dan Cassino examines how men’s political preferences change when the traditional breadwinner role becomes less secure. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536... #Sociology #Masculinity #Gender #PoliticalSociology
Is poly market gambling? What is mentally deficient with you that you even think it's a real question? Of course it's gambling. It's gambling that's pretending it's based on more serious and interesting ideas. 1/ www.ft.com/content/ec52...
Polymarket presses Europe to treat its bets as financial products
US prediction markets platform is seeking to be regulated as a financial services firm rather than under a patchwork of gambling legislation
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Sexism is a barrier. But a bigger barrier in 2028 to any woman candidate for President is the fact that many Democratic voters were traumatized by 2024, aren’t sure a woman can win, and don’t want to risk it. Heard *a lot* about this during the NJ Dem Gubernatorial primaries.
Nick Field@nickfield.bsky.social · 3w ago“This country has never elected a female president. Why are we pretending that this is not a factor?” Ocasio-Cortez said with a laugh. “That doesn’t make it impossible, but to act as though it’s not a factor in anything ever is really a form of, like, denialism” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
Don’t pay attention to internals. Ever. I don’t care if they support your priors. They’re being released to try and build a narrative about the campaign. If you’re paying attention, you are being manipulated.
The Simpsons: Just Don't Look Song
ALT: The Simpsons: Just Don't Look Song
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Got the chance to chat with Backderf and get amazing sketches in each of the books we bought for the event. I don’t know how he keeps it up for hours a day, over weeks of a book tour, but he was funny, insightful, and very generous with his time (even with a long line of folks waiting!).
Derf Backderf@derfbackderf.bsky.social · 3w agoToday in New York City! #graphicnovels #graphicnovel #comicbooks
I think we want to be careful about this format. alexandercoppock.com/graham_coppo...
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 3w ago
This piece does a fantastic job of integrating many of the recent developments in the study of masculinity and politics, while adding some really important pieces (gender and SDO!), and setting up a framework for future research. Great stuff.
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 4w ago#OpenAccess from Politics and the Life Sciences - Rethinking masculinity in politics: Measuring what matters - https://cup.org/4y2k1tO - Claire Gothreau & @amandafriesen.bsky.social #FirstView
