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Joan E Lacono
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Jimmy Kimmel’s mother—standing against chaos, standing up for democracy. Accountability matters. No one gets a pass.” 🇺🇸‼️
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ellenlippert.bsky.social
Please run for President?
November 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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nancyginga.bsky.social
I love this! Don’t time to make a second sign though.
October 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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sharon19124.bsky.social
This is great!
October 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Thank you for your service to this great nation! So glad you are back on the air! We need laughter more than you can imagine right now and hope to see you at one of the protests tomorrow!
October 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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auddieinmi.bsky.social
This was so funny yet scary to hear Trump talk about these discounts - makes you see how dumb he really is is
February 7, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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spinster-auntie.bsky.social
No wonder his casinos failed & he can't accept he lost the 2020 election, he doesn't understand basic math! Counting, adding, subtracting, etc. all these things are too hard for his biggly brain.
February 6, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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jess-e-bean.bsky.social
Can’t even tell you how grateful I am that you’re not leaving us just yet. Congratulations, Jimmy, Guillermo and the whole JKL team!! Here’s to another great year of always ruining that moldy orange’s day.
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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jimmykimmel.com
I am pleased to announce another no-talent year!
December 8, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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jimmykimmel.com
Silver-lining…somewhere, right now, Matt Damon is sad.
February 9, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
#BOTD February 9th. I was today-yrs-old when I learned that 4 favorites of mine: Carole King, John Williams, Mia Farrow & Batman, all shared a birthday!!!! 🎂 🎂 🎂 🎂 ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ 👍 👍 👍 👍

#HappiestOfBirthdaysToThemALL
February 9, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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jensturm.bsky.social
I made a giant piece of pumpkin pie from fabric. I saw something similar at a chain store, but felt like I could do it better. I am happy with how it turned out. #quiltsky
September 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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alan-hensel.bsky.social
There is no perfect source of political information, but political ads are among the worst. They are an insult to your intelligence, even if you're an idiot. Ignore political advertising!
October 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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bnonews.com
Family of Alex Pretti, who was shot dead in Minneapolis today, releases statement:

"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump's murdering and cowardly ICE thugs."
January 25, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Average monthly job growth since April (Liberation Day):

USA:
==========+12k

Canada:
======================+22k.
January 9, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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devezer.bsky.social
I'd like to re-up this paper we published last year bec I believe it makes a fundamental contribution to theoretical metascience but it is woefully underappreciated. We address a key challenge in estimating the reproducibility of a result: The distance of a replication study from the original. 1/n
Screenshot of an article abstract. Title: Statistics in Service of Metascience: Measuring Replication Distance with Reproducibility Rate Authors: Erkan O. Buzbas and Berna Devezer Abstract: Motivated by the recent putative reproducibility crisis, we discuss the relationship between the replicability of scientific studies, the reproducibility of results obtained in these replications, and the philosophy of statistics. Our approach focuses on challenges in specifying scientific studies for scientific inference via statistical inference and is complementary to classical discussions in the philosophy of statistics. We particularly consider the challenges in replicating studies exactly, using the notion of the idealized experiment. We argue against treating reproducibility as an inherently desirable property of scientific results, and in favor of viewing it as a tool to measure the distance between an original study and its replications. To sensibly study the implications of replicability and results reproducibility on inference, such a measure of replication distance is needed. We present an effort to delineate such a framework here, addressing some challenges in capturing the components of scientific studies while identifying others as ongoing issues. We illustrate our measure of replication distance by simulations using a toy example. Rather than replications, we present purposefully planned modifications as an appropriate tool to inform scientific inquiry. Our ability to measure replication distance serves scientists in their search for replication-ready studies. We believe that likelihood-based and evidential approaches may play a critical role towards building statistics that effectively serve the practical needs of science. Keywords: replication distance; reproducibility rate; philosophy of statistics; scientific inference; idealized experiment; minimum viable experiment
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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lalahaenzy.com
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Where are the people who screamed nonstop about “FREEDUM”? Or was it all just about who was in charge at the time?
Screenshot of an X.com post by “evan loves worf” (@esjesjesj) asking, “Isn’t this what the right has been obsessively calling fascism for decades.” The post quote-tweets Republicans against Trump, which reports that DHS has been quietly demanding tech companies turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration. Below is a photo of a woman with long dark hair standing at a microphone, photographed at what appears to be a public event.
February 5, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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kubar69.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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thegodpodcast.com
Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.
October 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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mjfree.bsky.social
Just want to a moment to realize that we're gonna have to deal with this rapist racist pompous prick for 4 more years.

He's stolen so much joy & life from the majority of Americans.

Share this if you agree, and follow me so we can withstand this bastard together. Fuck the little pussy.
January 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
After latest release country should move on to Epstein trials.
February 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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michaeltheaney.bsky.social
I was very happy to be quoted today in The Atlantic in this excellent article by @galbeckerman.bsky.social: "Why It’s So Hard to Protest Trump 2.0." #50501Protest #protest
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
Why It’s So Hard to Protest Trump 2.0
Demonstrations have gotten smaller and more dispersed in Trump’s second term. Is that a bad thing?
www.theatlantic.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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pswnano.bsky.social
We are looking forward to having Prof. Nasim Annabi @uclasamueli.bsky.social give today's @uclacb.bsky.social Physical Chemistry Seminar
January 12, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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neildefty.bsky.social
Now we have AI judges. Ho ho ho!
(A reference to which - definitely Christmas - movie?)
daisychristo.bsky.social Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · Dec 18
130 judges have taken part in our Christmas film quote judging task so far - and the level of agreement with the AI is surprisingly high at 65%!

Have a go yourself - read more here substack.nomoremarking.com/p/using-ai-t...

And see what you think of the AI feedback...
December 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM