@ravneetgrewal.bsky.social
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As always, Trump is using a tragedy to inflame racist, xenophobic tensions.
December 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
As always, Trump is using a tragedy to inflame racist, xenophobic tensions.
I can never remember to use BlueSky. That dang Facebook has such a hold - it's just a numbers thing.
Does anyone know of any good Math podcasts? I love reading Terence Tao's Mathstadon blog, but I can't do that while doing other things.
Does anyone know of any good Math podcasts? I love reading Terence Tao's Mathstadon blog, but I can't do that while doing other things.
September 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I can never remember to use BlueSky. That dang Facebook has such a hold - it's just a numbers thing.
Does anyone know of any good Math podcasts? I love reading Terence Tao's Mathstadon blog, but I can't do that while doing other things.
Does anyone know of any good Math podcasts? I love reading Terence Tao's Mathstadon blog, but I can't do that while doing other things.
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What is a humanist?
Well, let us get you started!
Well, let us get you started!
July 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
What is a humanist?
Well, let us get you started!
Well, let us get you started!
One of our era’s core problems: the powerful often lack the breadth or incentive to develop real wisdom. Privilege without reflection is unsustainable. We need generalists who respect expertise—not tech bros making big calls with no grasp of history or its lessons.
July 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
One of our era’s core problems: the powerful often lack the breadth or incentive to develop real wisdom. Privilege without reflection is unsustainable. We need generalists who respect expertise—not tech bros making big calls with no grasp of history or its lessons.
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This is how for-profit healthcare works:
You pay a private company to help cover your healthcare expenses.
Your doctor has to ask this company before treating you.
The private company then decides if they will cover it. If they say “no,” they make more money.
It’s immoral.
You pay a private company to help cover your healthcare expenses.
Your doctor has to ask this company before treating you.
The private company then decides if they will cover it. If they say “no,” they make more money.
It’s immoral.
May 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is how for-profit healthcare works:
You pay a private company to help cover your healthcare expenses.
Your doctor has to ask this company before treating you.
The private company then decides if they will cover it. If they say “no,” they make more money.
It’s immoral.
You pay a private company to help cover your healthcare expenses.
Your doctor has to ask this company before treating you.
The private company then decides if they will cover it. If they say “no,” they make more money.
It’s immoral.
Deficit spending is scary for immigrants from post colonial worlds. We are constantly on guard for the next crisis and over estimate what large chunks of money can do without reserves of energy, mental health, social networks.
April 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Deficit spending is scary for immigrants from post colonial worlds. We are constantly on guard for the next crisis and over estimate what large chunks of money can do without reserves of energy, mental health, social networks.
The very thin silver lining of the last several months is witnessing Kai Ryssdal throw all caution to the wind and let out his true feelings. It makes me feel less alone, and it's hilarious.
Veneer of discipline? Whaaaaat?
With Latest Missteps, Veneer of Discipline in 2nd Trump Term Falls Away www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
With Latest Missteps, Veneer of Discipline in 2nd Trump Term Falls Away www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...
With Latest Missteps, Veneer of Discipline in 2nd Trump Term Falls Away
The mistakes, miscommunications and flip-flops are piling up after an early run defined by a flood of major policy changes that were rolled out at breakneck speed.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The very thin silver lining of the last several months is witnessing Kai Ryssdal throw all caution to the wind and let out his true feelings. It makes me feel less alone, and it's hilarious.
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Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
I basically never drink. At the same time, I'm not dogmatic. I had some Trillium wild sour ale mid-day to cope with the destruction of organized human civilization. My true personality comes out easily given my low alcohol habituation; I find this person adorable, but also a little crazy.
April 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I basically never drink. At the same time, I'm not dogmatic. I had some Trillium wild sour ale mid-day to cope with the destruction of organized human civilization. My true personality comes out easily given my low alcohol habituation; I find this person adorable, but also a little crazy.
Remember this day? 😭
Not that I agree with everything the Obama Administration did. Here's some food for thought on the economics of deporting immigrants.
www.npr.org/2024/12/05/n...
Not that I agree with everything the Obama Administration did. Here's some food for thought on the economics of deporting immigrants.
www.npr.org/2024/12/05/n...
April 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Remember this day? 😭
Not that I agree with everything the Obama Administration did. Here's some food for thought on the economics of deporting immigrants.
www.npr.org/2024/12/05/n...
Not that I agree with everything the Obama Administration did. Here's some food for thought on the economics of deporting immigrants.
www.npr.org/2024/12/05/n...
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The biggest mistake of the tariff push is that it’s based on the idea of bringing the jobs that our communities lost, BACK to our communities. It’s living in the past.
Places like my state of Ohio need manufacturing jobs and the best way to do so is to innovate. 1/2
Places like my state of Ohio need manufacturing jobs and the best way to do so is to innovate. 1/2
April 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The biggest mistake of the tariff push is that it’s based on the idea of bringing the jobs that our communities lost, BACK to our communities. It’s living in the past.
Places like my state of Ohio need manufacturing jobs and the best way to do so is to innovate. 1/2
Places like my state of Ohio need manufacturing jobs and the best way to do so is to innovate. 1/2
We do live in a really very beautiful world. I love it so much.
April 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
We do live in a really very beautiful world. I love it so much.
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The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest.
It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.
It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.
April 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest.
It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.
It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.
I've been doing math to try to resist the urge to read the news and burst into tears. The Pythagorean theorem (also could fairly be referred to as Babylonian triples) is fundamental to our mathematical understanding of our world. Wish more humans were addicted to knowledge and not strife.
March 31, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I've been doing math to try to resist the urge to read the news and burst into tears. The Pythagorean theorem (also could fairly be referred to as Babylonian triples) is fundamental to our mathematical understanding of our world. Wish more humans were addicted to knowledge and not strife.
Man, I just feel sick with worry every day for organized human society, but tons of people I know are just going about their regular lives, buying random shit on Amazon and shit. I feel like I'm an alien.
March 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Man, I just feel sick with worry every day for organized human society, but tons of people I know are just going about their regular lives, buying random shit on Amazon and shit. I feel like I'm an alien.
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BREAKING: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has *blocked* the dismantling of CFPB. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
March 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
BREAKING: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has *blocked* the dismantling of CFPB. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Think about this...
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Think about this...
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Our for-profit health care system is not only broken & cruel, it's extremely wasteful.
While we spend billions on stock buybacks, CEO compensation & denying needed care, Medicare for All would save $650 billion & 68,000 lives a year per CBO & Yale University. Let's get it done.
While we spend billions on stock buybacks, CEO compensation & denying needed care, Medicare for All would save $650 billion & 68,000 lives a year per CBO & Yale University. Let's get it done.
March 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Our for-profit health care system is not only broken & cruel, it's extremely wasteful.
While we spend billions on stock buybacks, CEO compensation & denying needed care, Medicare for All would save $650 billion & 68,000 lives a year per CBO & Yale University. Let's get it done.
While we spend billions on stock buybacks, CEO compensation & denying needed care, Medicare for All would save $650 billion & 68,000 lives a year per CBO & Yale University. Let's get it done.
We are healthy-body-weight, politely-assertive, boundary-setting machines. Woot woot. Humanists of Lexington. Who wants to join my new social justice club?
March 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
We are healthy-body-weight, politely-assertive, boundary-setting machines. Woot woot. Humanists of Lexington. Who wants to join my new social justice club?
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone Weil
Simone Weil
March 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone Weil
Simone Weil
Growing up for me meant finally realizing that I don't really need any one place - I can love all kinds of people, learn pretty much any language, adjust to any cuisine. Also, assholes and saints are everywhere, so it's all about the same.
March 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Growing up for me meant finally realizing that I don't really need any one place - I can love all kinds of people, learn pretty much any language, adjust to any cuisine. Also, assholes and saints are everywhere, so it's all about the same.
I have to admit that I am having very mild Amazon and Target withdrawl. But it's so worth it.
March 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I have to admit that I am having very mild Amazon and Target withdrawl. But it's so worth it.
The United States needs to move "right to repair" laws rapidly through the legislative bodies. As the use of materials hazardous when disposed of in our environment has increased rapidly over the last 100 years, the disposable culture is causing exponential harm to our planet and bodies.
March 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The United States needs to move "right to repair" laws rapidly through the legislative bodies. As the use of materials hazardous when disposed of in our environment has increased rapidly over the last 100 years, the disposable culture is causing exponential harm to our planet and bodies.
