Love to see reporting by @marthabayne.bsky.social for the @chicagoreader.com brought to Congress. You’re welcome, America.

@searchlightnm.bsky.social is hoping to connect with people in New Mexico who have lost their jobs at: the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management. Reach me at [email protected]. Please RT.

I would like to see this month's national productivity stats

I don't know if anyone caught it during the Treasury rally today, but. Rep. McIver straight-up said that her Republican colleagues are leaving their phones off the hook because they don't want to hear from their constituents. THAT is what Dems should be preaching from every corner, every day.

do taxes go to the same address after a coup? asking for friend.

@washingtonpost.com if only there were a word for guys who attend white nationalist conferences and "have controversial ideas about race"

sharing for friends who may need to think about how to protect their marriages:

I saw elsewhere that Elon posted X will be banning people who criticize Trump et al. Can anyone still watching there confirm? Just as I was thinking maybe we should go back there (or go there, I was never much for Twitter) to reach even a minority of on-the-fence folx.

maybe stop calling it a "DEI purge."

this is modern journalism. @wired.com "built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains. The tool runs periodic scans, tracking whether sites remain accessible, how their servers respond, and if the domain names still resolve."

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

Reposting because we are the distribution system for independent news.

There are two kinds of person

Cooperative nail grinding with Kronos. If he bumps the dremel, I touch a foot; if he stays, I isolate the nail; if he stays, I bring the dremel close; if he stays, I grind briefly and treat. If he pulls his foot away I also treat, often off the towel to see how fast he comes back to play again.

It feels weird to post work stuff here. But I'm gonna, in part because I'd like to eventually just have one social media place.

Substack comes out in favor of Elon. read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

I should just get "can they do that" tattooed on my forehead

The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

It's interesting timing that every single service seems to be kicking off a big AI campaign just as all the owners barnacle themselves to Trump's ass and Trump seeks partnership and investment in AI. Today I turned off or diminished how it is used (hopefully) on every account I could.

well, they did in fact mean ownership by the US government: www.cbsnews.com/news/perplex...

Today we introduced an actual toothbrush instead of just the finger I was using to last time. I started with a finger cot and then decided to try a handled brush. You can see slight hesitation the first time I present it, but on the next rep that’s gone. (Hey, @skylight.social can I test your app?)

I fucking told you so.

funny story about stimulus control: I kept my foot super still for like 30 minutes yesterday, apparently perceiving this folded back blanket as Finn

New Bluesky video feed:

Barron's on TikTok: "Trump said on Sunday that he would like the U.S. to have ownership in a joint venture with 'the current owners and/or new owners whereby the U.S. gets a 50% ownership in a joint venture set up between the U.S. and whichever purchaser we so choose.'" 😐

I started working with Kronos on cooperative tooth brushing before the holidays. Today was our first session back at it after a month. We were able to introduce beef flavored toothpaste and some tooth rubbing today!

This is exciting. My favorite app is by far Instagram and I'd love to be able to replace it, not try to squeeze what I do into a more Twittery format: techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/b...

When this orthopedic bed was behind the couch, Finn rarely chose it, instead laying where he could see me. I moved the bed to the front of the couch, and voila, Finn has been choosing it. "Preference” is a product of, in part, all the possible paths to reinforcement available—or not—at a given time.

how many other countries have the need for a K-12 School Shooting Database with a category called "Most Recent 300"

using the deluge of post-Thanksgiving emails to prompt me to unsubscribe from the mailing lists of corporations that took one little purchase as license to email me on a near daily basis.

When you're teaching your dog to opt in to grooming and veterinary procedures, and introducing the various aspects of that kind of handling, don't forget about "peering intently." It's an often overlooked part of care that freaks a lot of dogs out.

One of my recent KPA students taught her dog to retrieve a med bag when he hears the Imperial March.

If you are an animal trainer interested in behavior science, or a behavior scientist interested in application with animals--this course is invaluable. I serve as a TA and it may be my favorite gig of all my gigs. Register now for January session: www.behaviorworks.org/htm/lla_info...

This is something that our culture doesn’t teach us about dog training, or behavior in general: You do not have to set up problem behavior to occur in order to then do something about it. Instead, you can: (1/6)

The lines on this sports court gave me an idea for a loose leash walking game: “shuttle runs” help practice walking close for varying distances and incorporate smooth turns.

I am prolly not gonna follow you if I can't figure out who you are from your handle, so DM me if I know you maybe.

When shaping goes well, it feels like magic: whoa, she started rewarding just looking at the thing, and somehow now the dog is climbing onto the thing and sitting on it! But the problem with magic is that it's hard to reproduce. Here, some concrete advice on raising criteria when shaping behavior.

to pin the "mutuals" feed (see what I just reposted) to your homepage, click the hashtag in the upper right corner, search for "Mutuals" among the existing feeds, and opt to pin it to your homepage.

If you’re new to Bluesky and wishing to have a more Facebook-like experience, be sure to add the “Mutuals” feed which only shows posts from the people you follow who follow you back. This is the most like “friends”.

Write yer reps.

Differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) is widely misunderstood in dog training as "reinforcing any acceptable behavior" when in fact it's reinforcement delivered contingent on the passage of time without unwanted behavior. A brief explainer: kikiyablondogtraining.com/kiki-blog/20...

I need this outfit to make a Facebook replacement.

This is one of the things I do in my role as a teacher of trainers. Today is the last day to apply to join my next Karen Pryor Academy cohort. I’ll also be teaching a group that meets in person in Dallas next year. karenpryoracademy.com/workshops/?f...

Repeating the cue? Yes I am. You may have learned that it’s a no-no, but as Ken Ramirez has pointed out, giving a recall cue just once when the animal can’t see you may not be enough to help them locate you. Here I was hiding from Finn at Prairie Wolf so I gave the cue until he came into view.

Hi! I’m a dog trainer and a teacher of dog trainers. I was never much for Twitter, so I’m here to see if Bluesky can eventually supplant Facebook. What I will miss most is knowing where to find most of the folks who are important in various aspects of my life, so I am hoping they will migrate too.

Hi new Bluesky users! You might hear that Bluesky "doesn't have an algorithm", which is kind of true, kind of not. Bluesky has the concept of "feeds", which are tabs that provide you different algorithms of content that you can subscribe to and view. I'll talk a little bit about that here: 🧵