TheStatsRobot🔬🐸
@thestatsrobot.bsky.social
I do stats, science, plants...and melancholy but not the romantic kind.
Biostatistician. Straight malewife.
he/him. 5'4 (derogatory)
SAVE SCIENCE
Biostatistician. Straight malewife.
he/him. 5'4 (derogatory)
SAVE SCIENCE
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Remember, kids, no matter how much horseshit you're shoveling, there's always a credulous reporter willing to call it brownies.
I like listening to Ezra Klein do an interview with a set of econ journos, because you get to hear just absolutely how insanely wrong and dumb they are about EVERYTHING.
December 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I like listening to Ezra Klein do an interview with a set of econ journos, because you get to hear just absolutely how insanely wrong and dumb they are about EVERYTHING.
People are dunking on Stancil simply because they are preconditioned to decide everything he thinks is wrong and because Kat is so beloved online everything she does is amazing. But in reality he has way more experience in campaign finance than any of the noodleheads attacking him.
For instance, playing fast and loose with donor money and campaign finance law is a dangerous game.“Oh, I thought we should try something fresh” isn’t a legal defense. Likewise, using resources efficiently is important. You are unlikely to transform the electorate
December 27, 2025 at 6:13 AM
People are dunking on Stancil simply because they are preconditioned to decide everything he thinks is wrong and because Kat is so beloved online everything she does is amazing. But in reality he has way more experience in campaign finance than any of the noodleheads attacking him.
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Remember that Trump lives for the aesthetics, not for achievements. Pressing the missile button is what mattered to him, not whether it achieved anything.
"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
"sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"
December 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Remember that Trump lives for the aesthetics, not for achievements. Pressing the missile button is what mattered to him, not whether it achieved anything.
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i love zelder majority mask. jk i dont play nintendo
December 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
i love zelder majority mask. jk i dont play nintendo
How much independence do you think this DOJ was functioning under before?
I worked for DOJ. I don't think people realize how dangerous it is for the White House to takeover the daily operations of the Justice Department.
December 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
How much independence do you think this DOJ was functioning under before?
Denver is so fucked
December 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Denver is so fucked
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It's true. I'm one of the ones not lying, and I basically only buy small studio indie games. AAA would not "win me back" with more limited games because I'm not winnable. So why bother?
The thing about people saying that they would like to pay more money for fewer games that are shorter with worse graphics is that they are, by and large, lying. The ones who aren't have already been captured by Itch
Every studio is frantically looking to cut costs of output because most studios are very financially squeezed, and the likely alternatives to things like AI & other tool assistance is not "employ more people," it's probably "employ fewer & work them harder," or "don't make games."
December 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
It's true. I'm one of the ones not lying, and I basically only buy small studio indie games. AAA would not "win me back" with more limited games because I'm not winnable. So why bother?
In Denver two days before Christmas and I can't really bake cookies because it would heat the house up too much. Because, in case you were wondering, it's been almost 80 degrees.
December 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
In Denver two days before Christmas and I can't really bake cookies because it would heat the house up too much. Because, in case you were wondering, it's been almost 80 degrees.
I too would rethink having the stain of a racist, fascist act named after myself.
Not only is this Supreme Court order making it harder for President Trump to send national guard into American cities welcome, Justice Kavanaugh seems to want to pull back from his earlier concurrence where he suggested race and ethnicity could be the basis for immigration checks. Now he says this:
December 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I too would rethink having the stain of a racist, fascist act named after myself.
We aren't actually going to invade Venezuela. Trump is, at his heart a coward, and is obsessed with aesthetics and image. ACTUALLY invading would require so much action and so much work, it's anathema to him. He wants the image of a hard leader with a powerful military not an actual fight
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We aren't actually going to invade Venezuela. Trump is, at his heart a coward, and is obsessed with aesthetics and image. ACTUALLY invading would require so much action and so much work, it's anathema to him. He wants the image of a hard leader with a powerful military not an actual fight
We are just soooo fucked lol
December 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
We are just soooo fucked lol
Did Ezra Klein write this? "Bari Weiss is spiking stories the right way."
Bari Weiss was right about how to improve the “60 Minutes” CECOT report, Graeme Wood argues—but her “drama-detector, so refined when seeking out news stories, seems to have failed her when avoiding it in her own newsroom.”
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Did Ezra Klein write this? "Bari Weiss is spiking stories the right way."
Thus far they have been allowed to withhold foreign aid, SNAP, planned parenthood medicaid funding. Thus far they've been allowed under whatever silly guise they want to withhold allocated funding. Why would this be any different?
1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Thus far they have been allowed to withhold foreign aid, SNAP, planned parenthood medicaid funding. Thus far they've been allowed under whatever silly guise they want to withhold allocated funding. Why would this be any different?
As opposed to now when our power systems are expertly decentralized and do not rely on singular big buildings full of fire.
Burgum claims "national security concerns" created by wind turbines are detailed in a "classified report" & pertain to "radar interference," adding that "if you wanted to attack a population center on the east coast our country, you would send a swarm of drones right through one of these wind farms"
December 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
As opposed to now when our power systems are expertly decentralized and do not rely on singular big buildings full of fire.
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It’s man
December 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It’s man
They're going to take some Frigates, put a coat of paint on them and rename them all. The regime only cares about visuals and aesthetics, not results. As long as HE can believe they're real, that's all that matters.
NYT - President Trump will announce that the Navy is to build a new "Trump-class" battleship, which will become the centerpiece of the president's vision for a new "Golden Fleet." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/...
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
They're going to take some Frigates, put a coat of paint on them and rename them all. The regime only cares about visuals and aesthetics, not results. As long as HE can believe they're real, that's all that matters.
I don't get it. This place is fine, just missing some people I want to talk to.
December 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I don't get it. This place is fine, just missing some people I want to talk to.
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No but legit have we checked if Big Balls' nextcloud server is running? I assume all government documents are on a 15 year old dell sitting in his unvacuumed apartment.
y'all i'm so sorry. i was hosting those epstein files on my icloud but i accidentally deleted them so i could re-download Angry Birds, i'm trying to get them back up
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
December 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
No but legit have we checked if Big Balls' nextcloud server is running? I assume all government documents are on a 15 year old dell sitting in his unvacuumed apartment.
Once again Yglasias and his blob don't want "democrats" they want a set of *respectable* republicans. They want 2012 Romney who is ok with gay people (AND ONLY GAY PEOPLE.)
This is why I'm really starting to hate the data bros.
Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue."
Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues"
Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"
Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue."
Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues"
Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"
December 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Once again Yglasias and his blob don't want "democrats" they want a set of *respectable* republicans. They want 2012 Romney who is ok with gay people (AND ONLY GAY PEOPLE.)