Kent
@kml90.bsky.social
Social Psychologist & Neuroscientist. I make bad coffee and worse jokes
This is my seventh cup of coffee and do you guys taste that sound?
October 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This is my seventh cup of coffee and do you guys taste that sound?
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The thing about the "diversity isn't out strength" shit is that it doesn't matter? It's too late! It's been too late since before there was a country! Maybe a different country would be better, but tough shit, that's not the one we got. Either learn how to deal with reality or fuck off.
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The thing about the "diversity isn't out strength" shit is that it doesn't matter? It's too late! It's been too late since before there was a country! Maybe a different country would be better, but tough shit, that's not the one we got. Either learn how to deal with reality or fuck off.
I am literally and figuratively Reviewer 2 on this paper
October 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I am literally and figuratively Reviewer 2 on this paper
Went to a conference this weekend and, man, I should have just gotten my haircut instead of being lazy
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Went to a conference this weekend and, man, I should have just gotten my haircut instead of being lazy
Maybe the real Donner Party were the friends they ate along the way.
July 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Maybe the real Donner Party were the friends they ate along the way.
Guy who prefers the footbridge problem because he's a Luddite and won't use a simple machine
June 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Guy who prefers the footbridge problem because he's a Luddite and won't use a simple machine
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Either the Administration brings him home or the judge must order the United States Marshals to go get him.
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Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago
Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
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April 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Either the Administration brings him home or the judge must order the United States Marshals to go get him.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
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There is no such thing as a lost 2 year old. Monstrous thing to suggest
BREAKING: Louisianans just rejected a ballot measure that would have paved the way for more children to be prosecuted as adults.
It lost by roughly 30%.
Here’s how a supporter had justified it: “Some of these kids are already lost when they’re two years old.” Context: boltsmag.org/louisiana-am...
It lost by roughly 30%.
Here’s how a supporter had justified it: “Some of these kids are already lost when they’re two years old.” Context: boltsmag.org/louisiana-am...
“Some of These Kids Are Already Lost When They’re Two Years Old” - Bolts
Louisiana leaders want more leeway to charge kids as adults. A measure on the March 29 ballot would enable lawmakers to move more teenagers into the adult criminal system.
boltsmag.org
March 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
There is no such thing as a lost 2 year old. Monstrous thing to suggest
Antigone to her father: You motherfucker...
March 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Antigone to her father: You motherfucker...
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2) is true for other polities as well.
and insofar as this is effective, I frankly don’t think “some third-world countries have horrific prisons and America should be better than those” is all that significant a stray to catch.
and insofar as this is effective, I frankly don’t think “some third-world countries have horrific prisons and America should be better than those” is all that significant a stray to catch.
March 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
2) is true for other polities as well.
and insofar as this is effective, I frankly don’t think “some third-world countries have horrific prisons and America should be better than those” is all that significant a stray to catch.
and insofar as this is effective, I frankly don’t think “some third-world countries have horrific prisons and America should be better than those” is all that significant a stray to catch.
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I think this is complicated because 1) what Gurmendi says here is straightforwardly true but 2) part of the goal here is for Americans to appeal to Americans to be better and American exceptionalism is one of the best methods by which to do that
Again, please: if a Western state does it, then the prison conditions are not “like those of a third world state”. They are quite literally like those of a Western state, but your Murican Exceptionalism programming is getting in the way of your progressivism so you can’t see it.
NEW: As the Trump administration ramps up arrests and heavily limits releases on bond, conditions at ICE’s Krome detention facility in Miami have deteriorated into that of a third world prison, with people forced to sleep on concrete floors jammed in like sardines in appalling conditions.
March 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I think this is complicated because 1) what Gurmendi says here is straightforwardly true but 2) part of the goal here is for Americans to appeal to Americans to be better and American exceptionalism is one of the best methods by which to do that
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Apropos of the today's executive order, here's my class slide which summarizes the results of vote audits over the past decade or so. To a pretty close approximation, individual-level voting fraud doesn't exist in this country.
March 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Apropos of the today's executive order, here's my class slide which summarizes the results of vote audits over the past decade or so. To a pretty close approximation, individual-level voting fraud doesn't exist in this country.
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Zero harm and ample upside in Democrats calling for impeachments and a special prosecutor. The VP, the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury, the DNI, and the NSC were all involved in the grossly negligent disclosure of specifics on combat operations.
18 U.S.C. § 793(f) makes it a federal crime to for people entrusted with information related to the national defense to, with gross negligence, disclose it to others in violation of that trust.
March 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Zero harm and ample upside in Democrats calling for impeachments and a special prosecutor. The VP, the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Treasury, the DNI, and the NSC were all involved in the grossly negligent disclosure of specifics on combat operations.
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DeJoy's arc from Resistance Enemy No. 1 to Biden's Strongest Soldier to actually resigning in protest is...fucking wild, man
Update: "A source familiar with the matter tells TIME that DeJoy had clashed in recent days with DOGE representatives assigned to the Postal Service...Musk’s lieutenants wanted more control over the USPS than DeJoy was willing to allow."
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Exclusive: Louis DeJoy Resigns as Postmaster General
Louis DeJoy has resigned from his role as Postmaster General of the U.S. Postal Service, according to a source familiar with the matter.
time.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
DeJoy's arc from Resistance Enemy No. 1 to Biden's Strongest Soldier to actually resigning in protest is...fucking wild, man
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You'd best start believing in Timothy Snyder books--you're in one
NEW: The ACLU has filed a sworn declaration from a Venezuelan woman who ICE sought to turn over to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, who declares that "I heard two US government officials talking and they said 'there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.'"
March 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
You'd best start believing in Timothy Snyder books--you're in one
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well because everyone knows the answer: they were discussing national policy on signal in order to avoid generating a paper trail
Everyone is blaming Waltz, but why did no one—not even the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard—say that they should not be discussing classified information on Signal.
"A senior administration official told POLITICO on Monday afternoon that they are involved in multiple text threads with other administration staffers on what to do with Waltz"
"'Half of them are saying he’s never going to survive or shouldn’t survive'"
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
"'Half of them are saying he’s never going to survive or shouldn’t survive'"
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
March 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
well because everyone knows the answer: they were discussing national policy on signal in order to avoid generating a paper trail
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This was my immediate response to the election results, where I warned that civil society was going to irrevocably shift because of this, but that it was important to maintain your own sense of right and wrong--and to let that guide your actions--even when nobody else is.
I think it holds up.
I think it holds up.
You are not obliged to let your moral compass spin with the election results. You have a right to hold unpopular opinions. You have a right to your own damn principles.
Remember that. Please.
Remember that. Please.
They Cannot Conquer For Ever
American Indian Movement flag, Wounded Knee, 1988 (Source) I have not talked much about the election on here this year because I had very little of interest to say. I was hoping Harris would win. I…
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March 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This was my immediate response to the election results, where I warned that civil society was going to irrevocably shift because of this, but that it was important to maintain your own sense of right and wrong--and to let that guide your actions--even when nobody else is.
I think it holds up.
I think it holds up.
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EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR!
“There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion – in the bloody religions of the heathen. There are fanatics in superstition. But there can be no fanatic, however warm their zeal, in the true religion..."
March 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR!
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When I visited Thaddeus Stevens' grave last year, the two things I was deeply moved by were the photo of the Negro Civic League of Southeastern Pennsylvania gathering there in 1918, at the height of Jim Crow, and the plaques outside the school a block away with poems about him written by the kids.
March 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
When I visited Thaddeus Stevens' grave last year, the two things I was deeply moved by were the photo of the Negro Civic League of Southeastern Pennsylvania gathering there in 1918, at the height of Jim Crow, and the plaques outside the school a block away with poems about him written by the kids.
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I had a thing I was going to say about this and how every routine-ish go around on approach is now ZOMG WE *ABORTED* OUR LANDING BECAUSE WE WERE 2 INCHES AWAY FROM HITTING A PLANE ON THE RUNWAY, but seeing it's a politico employee....yeah, Trump crash plane, please tell all your colleagues
Soooo this flight went fine but on tonight’s return flight to DCA we had to abruptly abort our landing after touching down to avoid crashing into another plane on the runway. After another loop around we landed safely but it was quite scary.
Flying out of DCA today, pilot acknowledged people are anxious given recent “high profile aviation events” (euphemism of the century) & assured us that he & his copilot have 45 years of combined experience and will “take good care” of us. Also asked folks to not take things out on flight attendants
March 23, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I had a thing I was going to say about this and how every routine-ish go around on approach is now ZOMG WE *ABORTED* OUR LANDING BECAUSE WE WERE 2 INCHES AWAY FROM HITTING A PLANE ON THE RUNWAY, but seeing it's a politico employee....yeah, Trump crash plane, please tell all your colleagues
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The ACA was cool because it made it illegal to deny you access to health care for needing access to health care
the things it banned were so horrifying that people straight up don't believe they were real
the things it banned were so horrifying that people straight up don't believe they were real
March 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The ACA was cool because it made it illegal to deny you access to health care for needing access to health care
the things it banned were so horrifying that people straight up don't believe they were real
the things it banned were so horrifying that people straight up don't believe they were real
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Impossible to explain that pre aca, having an insurance policy that you paid for regularly didn’t actually mean you had insurance. Insurance companies would regularly just cancel your policy if you got sick.
The ACA was cool because it made it illegal to deny you access to health care for needing access to health care
the things it banned were so horrifying that people straight up don't believe they were real
the things it banned were so horrifying that people straight up don't believe they were real
March 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Impossible to explain that pre aca, having an insurance policy that you paid for regularly didn’t actually mean you had insurance. Insurance companies would regularly just cancel your policy if you got sick.
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kinda being negatively polarized into not even giving trump credit for warp speed. wow, there was a pre-existing community of scientists out there who happened to be working on mRNA vaccines for coronaviruses, and you allocated some more funds to them? what you want, a cookie?
the single most consequential thing that naive ‘orange man bad’ heuristics would have mislead you on is probably Operation Warp Speed, and since he retroactively went anti-vax and appointed an essential oils crank to HHS, it’s not even that big a miss.
March 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
kinda being negatively polarized into not even giving trump credit for warp speed. wow, there was a pre-existing community of scientists out there who happened to be working on mRNA vaccines for coronaviruses, and you allocated some more funds to them? what you want, a cookie?
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the future of the democratic party is a coalition of the wokest people on tumblr and absolutely dead-eyed pursuers of the national interest and the maximization of GDP
funny that the two groups in the political class who have been the least enthusiastic about trump term 2 are like neocon blob guys and economists
I feel like the econ policy people have been less annoyingly centrist on Trump than the rest of the think tank ecosystem purely because the only concrete policy he’s pursued in two months are tariffs, which like none of them like
March 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
the future of the democratic party is a coalition of the wokest people on tumblr and absolutely dead-eyed pursuers of the national interest and the maximization of GDP
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March 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM