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How stubborn is the Admiral? Well, unlike every other cat I've lived with, she refuses to move when I get out the vacuum or power mop. #CatsOfMastodon #Stubborn

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One of my favorite things about the chickadees of that they almost always grab more than one seed when they fly in/fly out. Efficient. And it's funny to see their beak stuffed full. #BirdsOfMastodon #SunflowerSeeds #Chickadee

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Happy #Caturday bird watching.

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My sports taxonomy: 1. Hit the thing over the thing (eg: tennis, volleyball, baseball) 2. Put the thing in the thing (eg: hockey, basketball, golf, soccer) 3. Bring the thing to the place (eg: rugby, football, ultimate) #sports

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Speaking out for democracy and US higher education: https://bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEdSign #HigherEd #USPol #Sociology #SocialPsych

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Sniff the breeze. #CatsOfMastodon #OpenWindow

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Oh my goodness, an open window. #VermontSpring

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I don't want to seem paranoid, but I think the squirrels are spying on me. #SquirrelsOfMastodon #SunflowerSeeds #Spying

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More than 700 members in attendance at a mass meeting of my union tonight to discuss how we organize against racist nativism and the rest of the authoritarian agenda of the current US administration. #LaborSolidarity #HigherEd #IfProvokedWeWillStrike

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“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.” — Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team #space

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#SilentSunday

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#USPol The fascists are responsible for bringing fascism to power in the US. But the Democrats are responsible for being a completely inadequate party of resistance. Democrats need new leadership. Now.

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No money for Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters And they need to be primaried.

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Discussing "Race over Religion: Christian Nationalism and Perceived Threats to National Unity" by Perry, Whitehead, and Grubbs (_Soc of Race & Ethnicity_, 2023) in my religious nationalism course today. This might be the most important piece of survey research on CN. Christian nationalists are […]

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The Admiral is singing her favorite song, Lament of a Starving Cat. I'm usually treated to an extended rendition of this tune between breakfast and second breakfast. #CatsOfMastodon #Breakfast #SecondBreakfast

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Bird watching. #CatsOfMastodon #BirdsOfMastodon #SquirrelsOfMastodon #SunflowerSeeds

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Mobilization for #MahmoudKhalil in NYC tomorrow. Share far and wide 🙏. Solidarity with Mahmoud. #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

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What have I done/failed to do this time? #CatsOfMastodon

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The Admiral doesn't #EkEkEk at the birds like most cats. She meows at them. Loudly. I like to think of her as an old lady yelling, "you kids, get off my lawn." #CatsOfMastodon #BirdsOfMastodon

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I didn't want to alarm anyone, but it is snowing here again. #VermontWinter

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$0.56 That's what it costs in the US to send a postcard to the White House. On March 15, let's send POTUS the biggest flood of negative mail in our country's history. Tell Trump EXACTLY what you think of him. Let it rip (no threats). Bury this man and his aides under a mountain of honest […]

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I'm struggling to get grant paperwork processed, and my supervisor isn't even making an effort. That's just lazy.

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I'm doing an independent study course with a sociology undergraduate who wants to learn to do analysis with Python. She's interested in looking at NYC 311 data. I'm going to show her how to do some basic plotting this week. 311 Service Requests from 2009 […] [Original post on sciences.social]

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I have, on this platform on several occasions, declared Outlook to be the worst application every created for any purpose. I stand by that declaration. But in fairness, I must also say that I find teaching students to use Excel and OData is much easier than jumping directly to the Python […]

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🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122 Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.

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Am I rooting against my country? No, I’m rooting against the criminals and nihilists who are actively sabotaging it. #uspol

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In my course on Christian nationalism in the contemporary US, we're using subculture identity theory and social identity complexity theory to explore the relationship between CN and antipathy toward racial, religious, and cultural minorities. Much of the work in this area has been done by […]

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#RuralSociology https://barnraisingmedia.com/usda-doge-trump-musk-mass-terminations/

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I find Trump as repulsive as most people here, but as a German, one thing I want to push back on is focusing on one man. Hitler's rise was possible because he was able to exploit the racial hatred and conspiratorial thinking that already existed. It's MAGA acolytes that see Trump as an […]

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#USPol I'm proud of my neighbors. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/01/metro/jd-vance-vermont-visit-sugarbush-resort/

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[US Politics] #USPol It may be spurious, but there does seem to be a correlation between the thickness of the oompa-loompa makeup and the depravity of the fascist theatrics.

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I stand with #Zelenskyy 🇺🇦 Screw you dictator #Trump

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Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/firefox-deletes-promise-to-never-sell-personal-data-asks-users-not-to-panic/ I've mentioned elsewhere that I'm very happy with @Waterfox. That's still very disappointing.

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It's very hard not to sink into despair right now, especially if you are directly threatened by MAGA doctrine and policy. Facts and truth are under assault. Lies and willful ignorance are in full ascendance. Many have started down the road toward compliance and accommodation. Others will […]

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The people throwing the Nazi salutes and the systemic targeting of vulnerable communities aren't what bother me the most. They're awful, don't get me wrong. But what truly bothers me is the people who downplay these things, who tell us it's not so bad, that see fear of all of this as unjustified.

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Wait, what? By using #Firefox, I now grant Mozilla "a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use" any data I "upload or input"? That seems, uhm, rather broad. Wtf. I want my old Mozilla back. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

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More snow. #VermontWinter

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I think a big part of what's happening with billionaires like Bezos is that they saw that Elon Musk became a mask-off fascist and paid virtually no price for it, leading them to (probably correctly) think they could do the same.

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#HigherEd #USPol This is an unacceptable assault on academic freedom: https://nypost.com/2025/02/25/us-news/kathy-hochul-orders-cuny-remove-hunter-college-palestinian-studies-job-posting/

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My lesson for 5th graders with the spirographs and programming is going really well. Yesterday we lost track of time, I had to shoo them out of the room. But, we were having so much fun making the patterns and trying to get the program to match them exactly. And I think they were doing the […]