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Today we, a supermajority of Registered Nurses at Cayuga Medical Center, are proud to announce that we are forming a union with @CWAUnion and have formally requested voluntary recognition.

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Got this for twenty bucks (without the frame) at a local art fundraiser. It's beat up but it's real.

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Take time to read this. The extraordinary, disturbing story of a woman who died alone & anonymous in an institution where she never belonged, & a journalist who identified her after being assigned what he thought was a bullshit obit - thartribune.com/the-haunting... @elongreen.bsky.social

How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.

Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?

The photo below was included in DOJ's data dump yesterday. Once people noticed that Trump was pictured with young girls--children--the photo was deleted. Not only is Trump's DOJ flagrantly violating the Epstein files law, this shows how cynical they are, and how stupid they think Americans are.

Journal article: “the data are available on request” The data:

Thus redacted Zarathustra

ELISE NAVIDAD

Huge news: after many years, my bipartisan bill with Senator Todd Young to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force against Iraq was signed into law. This is a historic win for Americans and allows us to close the book on this forever war.

Do you know your polling fundamentals? What is a representative sample? How are surveys conducted? What is a margin of error? If you need a refresher or a reference for your students, visit the Roper Center site: https://bit.ly/4p5agWB

So when are the files being released?

A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).

Providence police chief IDed Brown shooter as Claudio Neves Valenti, 48, Portuguese national and a Brown student whose last known address was in Miami. Said he took his own life tonight. Tips, video from public led police to an MA car rental place, which provided his rental agreement and real name.

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

Its like watching that fish flopping around at the end of that Faith No More video

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Pour one out for Dan Bongino

Now this is scholarship

Special credit to @johnkenny.bsky.social @andraroescu.bsky.social Stuart Smedley & Nick Or who did the hard, sometimes boring work of converting data. And thanks to @kathleenweldon.bsky.social @peterenns.bsky.social and everyone at @ropercenter.bsky.social for their collaboration on the project.

For the historical polling nerds out there, an article about our project with @ropercenter.bsky.social that digitised ~800 surveys by Gallup poll in Britain between 1955 and 1991 has been published in JEPOP. The merged dataset contains over three-quarters of a million respondents.

Rob Reiner, who directed such beloved Hollywood classics as 'This Is Spinal Tap,' 'Stand by Me' and 'When Harry Met Sally' after starring in the trailblazing sitcom 'All in the Family,' died Sunday along with his wife, Michele, in their Brentwood home. bit.ly/48UWXSi

HOLY SHIT

To learn more, about the the history of how people have defined humans and monsters in relation to everything from apes to zombies, check out HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. It makes a great gift for a science or history nerd! Book link in bio. 3/3

Lol

This is insane.

Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

Explore ICPSR's data by subject, including #PoliSci #Econ #Sociology #HigherEd #Health #Psych... with over 20k studies, there's #data here for everyone: https://myumi.ch/D8rdx

Trump appears 4 times in newly released Epstein photos released by House Democrats. Here they are. www.cnn.com/2025/12/12/p...

Just learned that my kid's history teacher gave them an optional assignment to "talk to dead presidents" using AI and I am NOT happy.

I’m teaching a course on data wrangling with R & the tidyverse for @stathorizons.bsky.social in January. Filled to the brim with ways to do the stuff you have to do before you can run any of your spiffy models and that often breezily gets glossed over even though it’ll take up 90% of your time.

Darwin's Orchid in bloom at the Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory.

Shot. Chaser.

This looks fantastic.

Oy

I wonder how much of AI "it tells me I am transforming into a god" cultism involves a digital version of Stendhal Syndrome, a cheesecake superstimulus very deliberately tailor made by the billionaires who created it to do so.