@bostonrick.bsky.social
Retired health care provider/educator/administrator. Married 25 years and proud father of a brilliant young teacher.
Spread the word
March 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Spread the word
Daisy fast asleep on daddy’s leg
December 12, 2024 at 6:19 AM
Daisy fast asleep on daddy’s leg
As a get, I welcome and respect those of all genders to serve their country in every capacity.
Canada's top military commander Jennie Carignan calls out the GOP for questioning women in combat: After 39 years as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify women's contribution to defense and service in their country...
December 4, 2024 at 3:02 AM
As a get, I welcome and respect those of all genders to serve their country in every capacity.
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Tomorrow, is historic: @chasestrangio.bsky.social the first Transgender lawyer to ever argue at the Supreme Court argues for transgender rights for adolescents and gender affirming care. Find out what you need to know in 60 seconds: youtube.com/shorts/7RH9v...
Chase Strangio is first TRANSGENDER lawyer to ever appear before the SUPREME COURT!
YouTube video by Legal AF
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December 4, 2024 at 2:54 AM
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Sure! Let the rich take all of the money that I paid into Social Security and Medicare. I dare them to try and see the reaction of the 68 million people when someone tries to take it from them.
December 4, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Sure! Let the rich take all of the money that I paid into Social Security and Medicare. I dare them to try and see the reaction of the 68 million people when someone tries to take it from them.
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NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform.
With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.
With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.
Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification
At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.
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December 4, 2024 at 12:26 AM
NEW: Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform.
With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.
With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has a lot to do. She sat down with WIRED to talk about it.
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If this doesn't scream "lead the United States Navy" then I don't know what does.
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December 3, 2024 at 5:24 PM
If this doesn't scream "lead the United States Navy" then I don't know what does.
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Yes we are biased, but these are the best recaps you can read at the end of every day to stay informed.
Resistance HQ Bulletin 17, 12/3/24. This one is jam packed with everything you need to know about what happened on a very busy day of political maneuvering by people in both parties. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Resistance HQ Bulletin 17, 12/3/24
… The Pete Hegseth nomination is in trouble, with two other Trump nominees already dropping out.
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December 4, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Yes we are biased, but these are the best recaps you can read at the end of every day to stay informed.
Hard to believe that we have to deal with these idiots for another 4 years
December 3, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Hard to believe that we have to deal with these idiots for another 4 years
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And it couldn't have happened to a more odious site.
Thank you, Bluesky.
Thank you, Bluesky.
November 14, 2024 at 5:23 AM
And it couldn't have happened to a more odious site.
Thank you, Bluesky.
Thank you, Bluesky.
Words of wisdom from our past
December 3, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Words of wisdom from our past
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For someone who's never read project 2025 before,he sure picked a lot of people to be in his administration that wrote the damn book.
December 2, 2024 at 9:51 PM
For someone who's never read project 2025 before,he sure picked a lot of people to be in his administration that wrote the damn book.
December 2, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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A preliminary (AI assisted)
transcription & first English translation of John Locke's review of Newton's Principia
#HPS #philsky ⚛️
transcription & first English translation of John Locke's review of Newton's Principia
#HPS #philsky ⚛️
I've always been annoyed that there was no text and translation of John Locke's review of Newton's Principia, published in the March 1688 volume of the Bibliotheque Universelle et Historique.
So I made one using some digital stuff.
Not perfect, but better than nothing.
medium.com/@craig_walms...
So I made one using some digital stuff.
Not perfect, but better than nothing.
medium.com/@craig_walms...
John Locke’s Review of Newton’s Principia Mathematica: A Working Text and Translation
Created using AI as something of an experiment
medium.com
December 1, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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Christine Ladd-Franklin was also a student of C. S. Peirce (founder of pragmatism) during his brief tenure as logic professor at Johns Hopkins & publishing in his 1883 coauthored logic book her paper "On the Algebra of Logic"
#HPS #philsky #WomenInSTEM #WomenInPhilosophy #pragmatism #logic
#HPS #philsky #WomenInSTEM #WomenInPhilosophy #pragmatism #logic
Psychology pioneer Christine Ladd-Franklin was born 177 years ago today. In 1887 she became the first American woman to publish a psychology paper, and then went on to a career applying evolutionary theory to the psychology of color.
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#WomenInSTEM
#PsychSky
#NeuroSky
#HistSci
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Christine Ladd-Franklin and the Color Wars of the Late Nineteenth Century.
Color is among the most familiar of our sensations, and at the same time also one of the most foreign. Whereas any child can tell you that Big Bird is yellow, any philosophy major can just as easily p...
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December 1, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Christine Ladd-Franklin was also a student of C. S. Peirce (founder of pragmatism) during his brief tenure as logic professor at Johns Hopkins & publishing in his 1883 coauthored logic book her paper "On the Algebra of Logic"
#HPS #philsky #WomenInSTEM #WomenInPhilosophy #pragmatism #logic
#HPS #philsky #WomenInSTEM #WomenInPhilosophy #pragmatism #logic
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Watch our latest #SoupCentral video titled "Post-Truth Politics - How Emotion Beats Facts in Today's Politics" on YouTube:
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Post-Truth Politics - How Emotion Beats Facts in Today's Politics
YouTube video by The Soup Central
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December 1, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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