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@pibackwards.bsky.social
I like to read, play video games, and embroider. I used to be a math grad student.
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Little Rock, the capital city of Tom Cotton's home state of Arkansas, has one of the highest violent crime rates of any city in the United States.
D.C. doesn't even crack the top-10.
D.C. doesn't even crack the top-10.
August 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Little Rock, the capital city of Tom Cotton's home state of Arkansas, has one of the highest violent crime rates of any city in the United States.
D.C. doesn't even crack the top-10.
D.C. doesn't even crack the top-10.
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Re-upping our explainer on how to defend yourself and your neighbors from ICE. Plenty of resources linked in here; share far and wide with your networks. 51st.news/how-to-defen...
How to defend your neighbors (or yourself) from ICE enforcement in D.C.
Trump has threatened mass deportations, but D.C. residents still have rights. We've rounded up strategies to protect yourself and your community.
51st.news
May 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Re-upping our explainer on how to defend yourself and your neighbors from ICE. Plenty of resources linked in here; share far and wide with your networks. 51st.news/how-to-defen...
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Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each:
- person who reposts this post
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Help us hire Christina and Martin Full-Time!
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August 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each:
- person who reposts this post
- new follower @51st.news ws gets
- new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets
- new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets
- new follower I get
And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
- person who reposts this post
- new follower @51st.news ws gets
- new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets
- new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets
- new follower I get
And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
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Sometimes my kids will watch a movie from the 90s and be like “this entire story would be fixed in three minutes with a cellphone” and I sincerely hope their kids say the same thing about UBI.
Universal basic income would ruin so many movie plots
December 22, 2024 at 5:21 AM
Sometimes my kids will watch a movie from the 90s and be like “this entire story would be fixed in three minutes with a cellphone” and I sincerely hope their kids say the same thing about UBI.
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Growing up autistic is being conditioned thru trauma to color inside lines we can't see. Then in adulthood, you feel sorry for us that we still childishly color inside the lines you say we never even needed.
November 4, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Growing up autistic is being conditioned thru trauma to color inside lines we can't see. Then in adulthood, you feel sorry for us that we still childishly color inside the lines you say we never even needed.
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The 11th annual international Gender Census 2024 is now open until at least 13th June 2024!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
May 13, 2024 at 1:29 PM
The 11th annual international Gender Census 2024 is now open until at least 13th June 2024!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
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The 8 year old and I have begun a nightly tradition of telling each other weird facts before bed. He has accused me of offering subpar facts so I’m soliciting your weirdest and most delightful and / or horrifying facts. At me!
May 7, 2024 at 8:07 PM
The 8 year old and I have begun a nightly tradition of telling each other weird facts before bed. He has accused me of offering subpar facts so I’m soliciting your weirdest and most delightful and / or horrifying facts. At me!
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If you're going to out looking for aurora tonight, remember to report the details of your sighting (or lack of sighting) to Aurorasaurus, an awesome community science project! aurorasaurus.org
May 10, 2024 at 10:37 PM
If you're going to out looking for aurora tonight, remember to report the details of your sighting (or lack of sighting) to Aurorasaurus, an awesome community science project! aurorasaurus.org
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The most disgruntled kitten model. Painting by Meta Plückebaum (1876-1945).
May 8, 2024 at 6:07 AM
The most disgruntled kitten model. Painting by Meta Plückebaum (1876-1945).
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I tried to see how well ChatGPT did at answering basic questions about numbers, and it ended up claiming six is an odd number (in an attempt to justify another mistake it had made). So no, it was never more than an opportunity for amusement.
May 4, 2024 at 7:37 PM
I tried to see how well ChatGPT did at answering basic questions about numbers, and it ended up claiming six is an odd number (in an attempt to justify another mistake it had made). So no, it was never more than an opportunity for amusement.
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directing a reporter to your organization’s media team is standard practice at every company on earth, but when protestors do it it’s held out as a sign of something nefarious
Wow Peggy Noonan and Michael Powell both report that they went to Columbia and the protesters didn't want to talk to them, this definitely reveals something about somebody
May 4, 2024 at 7:22 PM
directing a reporter to your organization’s media team is standard practice at every company on earth, but when protestors do it it’s held out as a sign of something nefarious
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ACLED did similar studies of the 2020 protests with the same kind of outcomes- almost like they’re going to call you violent no matter what you do, they’re going to call you terrorists no matter what you do etc etc etc- stop playing into respectability politics when talking about protesters
May 2, 2024 at 10:39 PM
ACLED did similar studies of the 2020 protests with the same kind of outcomes- almost like they’re going to call you violent no matter what you do, they’re going to call you terrorists no matter what you do etc etc etc- stop playing into respectability politics when talking about protesters
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Announcing... the "MaC Fund" for Math Grad Student Travel! Please share widely! Thanks.
afieldguidetomath.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/a...
afieldguidetomath.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/a...
Announcing the “MaC Fund for Math Grad Student Travel”
I have decided to create a fund to share my earnings with grad students in mathematics! We shall call it the "MaC Fund for Math Grad Student Travel," or the "MathAndCobb Fund," or the "MaCTikTok Fund,...
afieldguidetomath.wordpress.com
May 2, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Announcing... the "MaC Fund" for Math Grad Student Travel! Please share widely! Thanks.
afieldguidetomath.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/a...
afieldguidetomath.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/a...
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This is a lovely article from a physicist in Gaza that I thought 🧪 Bluesky might like electronicintifada.net/content/phys...
May 2, 2024 at 7:54 PM
This is a lovely article from a physicist in Gaza that I thought 🧪 Bluesky might like electronicintifada.net/content/phys...
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Is it wrong (rhetorical) that I look at this and immediately think "oh yes yet again disability accommodations never being used to help disabled people but proof they exist and work but are only trotted out when abled people deem them useful for their own ends."
Columbia effectively closes its main campus for the rest of the school year. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05...
All final exams, ‘academic activities’ on Morningside campus will be remote for rest of semester
All final exams, assessments, and other “academic activities on the Morningside Heights campus” will be fully remote for the rest of the semester following the New York Police Department’s Tuesday eve...
www.columbiaspectator.com
May 1, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Is it wrong (rhetorical) that I look at this and immediately think "oh yes yet again disability accommodations never being used to help disabled people but proof they exist and work but are only trotted out when abled people deem them useful for their own ends."
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YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
May 1, 2024 at 6:45 PM
YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
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saw a tweet by gldivittorio that said 1 reason rapidly spreading college protests are being fought so hard is the 3.5% rule. Historically it takes just 3.5% of a population to challenge the govt before it can't resist change. For the US that's about 12 million, there are 18 million college students.
The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
www.bbc.com
May 1, 2024 at 7:50 PM
saw a tweet by gldivittorio that said 1 reason rapidly spreading college protests are being fought so hard is the 3.5% rule. Historically it takes just 3.5% of a population to challenge the govt before it can't resist change. For the US that's about 12 million, there are 18 million college students.
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😂
What history glazes over is how much training civil rights activists had. It feels somehow purer and more righteous maybe, when it fact the reason it worked is because it was extremely organized. Rosa Parks didn't just randomly decide she wasn't leaving her seat that day.
What history glazes over is how much training civil rights activists had. It feels somehow purer and more righteous maybe, when it fact the reason it worked is because it was extremely organized. Rosa Parks didn't just randomly decide she wasn't leaving her seat that day.
Tangent:
There's this bizarre assertion in the mind of the anti-activist that if it's not spontaneous then it's not valid,doesn't count, etc. The only explanation I can come up with for this is that rule would make activism far less effective. It's like they're saying, "No fair! You planned ahead!"
There's this bizarre assertion in the mind of the anti-activist that if it's not spontaneous then it's not valid,doesn't count, etc. The only explanation I can come up with for this is that rule would make activism far less effective. It's like they're saying, "No fair! You planned ahead!"
May 2, 2024 at 1:11 AM
😂
What history glazes over is how much training civil rights activists had. It feels somehow purer and more righteous maybe, when it fact the reason it worked is because it was extremely organized. Rosa Parks didn't just randomly decide she wasn't leaving her seat that day.
What history glazes over is how much training civil rights activists had. It feels somehow purer and more righteous maybe, when it fact the reason it worked is because it was extremely organized. Rosa Parks didn't just randomly decide she wasn't leaving her seat that day.
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the beatings will continue until youth turnout improves
May 1, 2024 at 12:14 PM
the beatings will continue until youth turnout improves
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If I show up at protests and red card police while in my soccer referee uniform - will you all collectively bail me out?
May 1, 2024 at 1:24 PM
If I show up at protests and red card police while in my soccer referee uniform - will you all collectively bail me out?
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The police who beat UNC students today came from as far as 160 miles away. Happy to drive three or four hours to beat students.
In any case please shut the fuck up about outside agitators unless you mean the police very few of whom even live in the cities they menace.
April 30, 2024 at 11:27 PM
The police who beat UNC students today came from as far as 160 miles away. Happy to drive three or four hours to beat students.
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You don't get to say 'we regret that the protesters escalated' and 'community safety is our top priority' when the protesters are students who haven't hurt anybody and your response was calling in, like, a hundred unaccountable guys with guns
May 1, 2024 at 1:52 AM
You don't get to say 'we regret that the protesters escalated' and 'community safety is our top priority' when the protesters are students who haven't hurt anybody and your response was calling in, like, a hundred unaccountable guys with guns
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I just want people to note the vastly different responses from the NYPD and DC police. GWU asked DC cops to crack down on student protesters at Foggy Bottom. University police and DC police chiefs refused, told their cops to stand down.
Police chiefs have options in their response.
Police chiefs have options in their response.
WKCR reads new presidential email:
NYPD came at university’s request
“left with no choice”
leadership/board of trustees met for best plan overnight
decided it was law enforcement matter
claim led by individuals not affiliated with university
response to protesters, not cause they’re championing
NYPD came at university’s request
“left with no choice”
leadership/board of trustees met for best plan overnight
decided it was law enforcement matter
claim led by individuals not affiliated with university
response to protesters, not cause they’re championing
May 1, 2024 at 2:04 AM
I just want people to note the vastly different responses from the NYPD and DC police. GWU asked DC cops to crack down on student protesters at Foggy Bottom. University police and DC police chiefs refused, told their cops to stand down.
Police chiefs have options in their response.
Police chiefs have options in their response.
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this is quite literally what mathematics research is like
April 29, 2024 at 1:47 PM
this is quite literally what mathematics research is like