*This isn't true, but the post is a good example of the sort of low-stakes pointless stuff people argue about on Bluesky *Good people should claim the flag rather than abandon it
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 2mo agoDo Americans not understand that their flag is essentially understood as a hate symbol globally?
OMEN ALERT Our team on the ground at the Kennedy Center reports....RAINBOW
General question for all - does job insecurity seem a lot worse now post Trump?
At the elementary school my (high school age) daughter volunteers at, over 20 kindergarteners have “unexpectedly left the country” over the last month. 😢 & 😡
Realizing I’ve lived ~1 mile from FOUR synagogue/church mass shootings is sending me.
I didn’t believe it yesterday (when it was sunny and 80 degrees), but it is truly snowing today. For real heavy wet snowflake snowing for over an hour with no sign of letting up!
In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.
Hi #rstats - seeking advice/tips for wrangling survey data. I’ve got 4000+ columns. Column names are a mess (long questions, a second row of categorical answers sometimes, special characters). There are duplicate respondents with different assigned ids. What are your clean up workflows/packages?
Live in such a way that you trigger white Christian nationalists.
No One Sure Why Kristi Noem Wearing Firefighter Helmet, Night-Vision Goggles, High Heels, Wet Suit theonion.com/no-one-...
This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
The local Facebook page/subreddit any time a new city project is announced
Texans, flee the nanny state and come up north to enjoy the land of the free. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/t...
Texas Legislature on verge of completely banning THC products after key House vote
The House approved the ban after previously considering proposals to preserve the industry by tightening regulations.
texastribune.org
Biden (in my humble opinion) was a decently good president who appears to be living his best life post presidency. WTF @bsky.app with all the pearl clutching posts where alternate reality future Biden, in his second presidency, *may* sometimes need a wheelchair?!?
#rstats - how do you wrangle large datasets? Think Medicare files that need to be linked, pivoted, merged, filtered etc across years. Do you just use SAS, try data.table, set up a arrow/duckdb linked file repository? I’m at a crosswords of either learn SAS or keep banging my head against R
🧵 We got a pretty nasty load of bad news yesterday on the future of Social Security. It's not hyperbole to say we've passed the point of no return on Trump/DOGE's efforts to kill the agency...
If the Trump administration were honest that they are only deporting our worst criminals, Donald would already be in El Salvador.
MAGAts Confess They Cannot Compete with Penguins on Level Playing Glacier www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/04/m...
MAGAts Confess They Cannot Compete with Penguins on a Level Playing Glacier - emptywheel
When MAGAts applaud Trump's tariffs they are confessing that they think they need help to be able to compete with a colony of penguins.
emptywheel.net
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.
Unbelievable turnout in this ruby red district for the Darrell Issa empty chair town hall!
Protesters booed and jeered Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin after he left an event for Patrick Henry's famous speech at St. John’s Church. Love this for him. 🍿
"Substituting butter with plant-based oils, particularly olive, soybean, and canola oils, may confer substantial benefits for preventing premature deaths." Butter and Plant-Based Oils Intake and Mortality jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Cohort study. Nutrition research hard. Still, interesting...
Butter and Plant-Based Oils Intake and Mortality
This cohort study investigates associations of butter and plant-based oil intakes with risk of total and cause-specific mortality among US adults.
jamanetwork.com
The men sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison: - A tattoo artist seeking asylum who entered legally. - A teen who got a tattoo in Dallas because he thought it looked cool. - A 26-year-old whose tattoos his wife says are unrelated to a gang. - A barber whose family says he has no gang ties.
