sethmsparks
@sethmsparks.bsky.social
Marketing director. Writer/speaker. I like 🧠 brains, 🎮 games, 💻 media, 🖌️experience design, and 💙 feeling joy. #Nerdfighter #BeSci #TeamHuman #baseball #iowa / signal ->sethmsparks.01 /
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sethmsparks
@sethmsparks.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Here’s some “about me” for the search result pages and algorithm.
🎆 Marketing
☑️ User Experience (UX)
🧠 Behavioral Science
🪜 Instructional Design
🎮 Video Games & Dev
🎓 Education (EdSky)
🎲 Board & TT Games
📚 Books (BookSky)
🎥 Movies (MovieSky)
⚾️ Baseball
🌽 Iowa (IowaSky)
🎆 Marketing
☑️ User Experience (UX)
🧠 Behavioral Science
🪜 Instructional Design
🎮 Video Games & Dev
🎓 Education (EdSky)
🎲 Board & TT Games
📚 Books (BookSky)
🎥 Movies (MovieSky)
⚾️ Baseball
🌽 Iowa (IowaSky)
I read this. It’s as frustrating as it is terrifying.
The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
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The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
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No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
Amazon.com: No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson: 9780593229866: Harris, Gardiner: Books
amzn.to
April 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I read this. It’s as frustrating as it is terrifying.
The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
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The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
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Something I wrote for my curious friends out there. Curiousity leads to exposure, exposure leads to knowledge, knowledge leads to smart decisions. If you ready, let me know what you think.
Always scout mode.
Why curiosity is the key to clarity.
readysethgo.beehiiv.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Something I wrote for my curious friends out there. Curiousity leads to exposure, exposure leads to knowledge, knowledge leads to smart decisions. If you ready, let me know what you think.
To be lonely is one thing, but there's a kind of lonely that isn't about absence... but about a presence unfulfilled.
Needing not noise, but someone who sees the same moonlight and doesn't look away.
Needing not noise, but someone who sees the same moonlight and doesn't look away.
March 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
To be lonely is one thing, but there's a kind of lonely that isn't about absence... but about a presence unfulfilled.
Needing not noise, but someone who sees the same moonlight and doesn't look away.
Needing not noise, but someone who sees the same moonlight and doesn't look away.
Thinking about changing all my social handles to Spark Tuah. Bc, why the hell not.
March 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Thinking about changing all my social handles to Spark Tuah. Bc, why the hell not.
Privacy doesn’t protect itself.
March 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Privacy doesn’t protect itself.
I teach an "Integrated Co-Taught" geometry class. Which means it has 2 math teachers, one with SPED cert. 50-ish percent of the class have IEPs. People are now using our materials bc "what's good for a 'SPED' kid is usually good for all kids!" Duh.
As I sat in my son's annual IEP meeting, it's deeply frustrating and sad to think that you need special education accommodations for things that should be considered universal choices & supports. 🤷🏼♂️
March 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
In Iowa City w/ @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social for the Everything is Tuberculosis Book Tour.
March 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
In Iowa City w/ @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social for the Everything is Tuberculosis Book Tour.
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Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
March 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Trump’s commerce secretary Howard Lutnick says if Social Security skipped a check, his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain—and if you would, it indicates you are probably a fraudster. Insane.
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Our “golden age” is making this country dumber, meaner, darker and scary www.thegazette.com/staff-column...
Opinion: Fear and scrubbing rule at UI
The Pentacrest on the campus of the University of Iowa. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette) Well, the University of Iowa’s webpages are …
www.thegazette.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Our “golden age” is making this country dumber, meaner, darker and scary www.thegazette.com/staff-column...
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This CNN piece today is really good clear succinct. In plain language with examples of impacts. Musk and his DOGE team at Social Security are driving the agency to total system collapse. www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/p...
‘A disruptive effect’: How slashing staff at the Social Security Administration is sparking fears the system could collapse | CNN Politics
Millions of Americans could soon feel the impact of the deep staffing cuts being planned at the Social Security Administration, which is undergoing a massive reorganization that the acting commissione...
www.cnn.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This CNN piece today is really good clear succinct. In plain language with examples of impacts. Musk and his DOGE team at Social Security are driving the agency to total system collapse. www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/p...
Gonna be a long job to reissue new SSNs to every American.
Y’all. Oligarchs are literally stealing everyone’s financial data while hiding virtually all of theirs in secrecy and offshore accounts.
Breaking news: The Department of Health and Human Services has granted associates of the U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive child support database with troves of income data, overriding the objections of career employees.
March 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Gonna be a long job to reissue new SSNs to every American.
Chaos is a ladder.
One of those old creaky ones that wobbles while you’re climbing it and you’re never really sure if it’s going to hold, or buckle under you and leave you crippled in the hospital.
One of those old creaky ones that wobbles while you’re climbing it and you’re never really sure if it’s going to hold, or buckle under you and leave you crippled in the hospital.
March 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Chaos is a ladder.
One of those old creaky ones that wobbles while you’re climbing it and you’re never really sure if it’s going to hold, or buckle under you and leave you crippled in the hospital.
One of those old creaky ones that wobbles while you’re climbing it and you’re never really sure if it’s going to hold, or buckle under you and leave you crippled in the hospital.
Daredevil opening contained more CGI fighting than the first three seasons combined.
Great work Disney. 🤮
Great work Disney. 🤮
March 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Daredevil opening contained more CGI fighting than the first three seasons combined.
Great work Disney. 🤮
Great work Disney. 🤮
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“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
When you know you’ve watched Futurama too much…
February 28, 2025 at 4:46 AM
When you know you’ve watched Futurama too much…
Well damn. That means they're going to significantly raise the price of the normal Premium sub. www.macrumors.com/2025/02/21/c...
Cheaper 'YouTube Premium Lite' Ad-Free Tier Reportedly Coming Soon
Google will imminently launch a new, more affordable YouTube "Premium Lite" tier in a bid to appeal to viewers who don't really watch...
www.macrumors.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Well damn. That means they're going to significantly raise the price of the normal Premium sub. www.macrumors.com/2025/02/21/c...
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Bernie Sanders Iowa City event toay. If you can't make it you can watch the livestream on YouTube and please share widely to help grow the movement. #iowa #oligarchy #resistance #bernie
FIGHTING OLIGARCHY (LIVE at 12:30PM ET)
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
www.youtube.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Bernie Sanders Iowa City event toay. If you can't make it you can watch the livestream on YouTube and please share widely to help grow the movement. #iowa #oligarchy #resistance #bernie
Privacy does not exist. But my book review for Mindmasters by Sandra Matz does. youtu.be/1dn6o-379u0
#booksky #privacy #predictive #targeting #psychology
#booksky #privacy #predictive #targeting #psychology
Your Privacy Doesn't Exist - But It Could (If You Read This Book)
YouTube video by vlogwithseth
youtu.be
February 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Privacy does not exist. But my book review for Mindmasters by Sandra Matz does. youtu.be/1dn6o-379u0
#booksky #privacy #predictive #targeting #psychology
#booksky #privacy #predictive #targeting #psychology
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Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
www.cnn.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...
Fun! // ISU student's report leads to arrest of neo-Nazi sex predators, officials say who13.com/news/iowa-ne...
ISU student’s report leads to arrest of neo-Nazi sex predators, officials say
AMES, Iowa — The Iowa State University Police Department is crediting a student for helping bring down what the Department of Justice dubbed a “neo-Nazi child exploitation enterprise…
who13.com
February 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Fun! // ISU student's report leads to arrest of neo-Nazi sex predators, officials say who13.com/news/iowa-ne...
The opening sequence of S3:E3 of Invincible is still ruining me 24-hours later.
@marcbernardin.bsky.social - I don’t think you’re watching this, but if you are would love your thiughts.
@marcbernardin.bsky.social - I don’t think you’re watching this, but if you are would love your thiughts.
February 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
The opening sequence of S3:E3 of Invincible is still ruining me 24-hours later.
@marcbernardin.bsky.social - I don’t think you’re watching this, but if you are would love your thiughts.
@marcbernardin.bsky.social - I don’t think you’re watching this, but if you are would love your thiughts.
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There's nothing wrong with cable news hosts like Rachel Maddow telling their viewers to follow them here on Bluesky... but it is absolutely leading to an influx of older users who think every website works like Facebook. And it's becoming a moderation problem.
www.garbageday.email/p/bluesky-s-...
www.garbageday.email/p/bluesky-s-...
February 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
There's nothing wrong with cable news hosts like Rachel Maddow telling their viewers to follow them here on Bluesky... but it is absolutely leading to an influx of older users who think every website works like Facebook. And it's becoming a moderation problem.
www.garbageday.email/p/bluesky-s-...
www.garbageday.email/p/bluesky-s-...
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“You want a regulatory system where consumers know they’re getting a healthy, safe product that was produced in a way that was ethical,” says @austinfrerick.bsky.social. “When you get rid of that, you’re incentivizing the worst people.”
Meat Industry Group Asks Trump to Deregulate Meatpacking and Factory Farms
Amid a deregulatory blitz, trade group pushes for rollback on environmental regulations, worker protections and food safety.
buff.ly
February 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
“You want a regulatory system where consumers know they’re getting a healthy, safe product that was produced in a way that was ethical,” says @austinfrerick.bsky.social. “When you get rid of that, you’re incentivizing the worst people.”