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“VOTING FOR THE MAYOR WHO PROMISED TO BLOW UP THE CITY DOESN’T MEAN I APPROVE OF THE MAYOR BLOWING UP THE CITY” A masterclass from @mikedrucker.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 293 comments

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

submitted 16 days ago • 259 comments

‘We Must Protect The Pure Aryan Bloodline,’ Says Child After 9 Minutes Of Unsupervised Facebook Access

submitted 42 days ago • 476 comments

Elon Musk has used the LA wildfires as an excuse to attack racial and sexual minorities, going so far as to highlight individual minority firefighters for his supporters to harass. But what are his true political beliefs?

submitted 43 days ago • 48 comments

Why are we ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment-Section 3? #NeverForgetJanuary6th

submitted 47 days ago • 4606 comments

This is a must-read and is also the first comprehensive post mortem I’ve read working off the vote cast data (which is the real deal) as opposed to the dubious exit polling.

submitted 50 days ago • 179 comments

During the election, I remember Republicans playing endless clips of "snatch and grab" sprees where a bunch of people get together and steal as much as they can as quickly as they can, but isn't that exactly what they just elected?

submitted 51 days ago • 29 comments

I wrote this about finding the optimal discrete character model structure. I hope this will be useful for empiricists. The main point is that relying only on the package default models is bad and can have nasty consequences or parameter estimates and ASR. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

So it would appear that a day or so after this was posted an AfD supporter drove into a crowd at a German Christmas market killing 5 people and injuring dozens.

submitted 64 days ago • 23 comments

Reposting this here, as this name is certain to come up often in the near future. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

"Hey checking in, haven't heard from you in a bit, hope you're doin OK" Yeah sorry I accidentally listened to one Elliot Smith song on November 7th it's fine

submitted 66 days ago • 20 comments

bullet proof...I wish I was

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

For some random reason I can't put my finger on, I've been thinking a lot lately about the jurors in the Martin Shkreli trial harpers.org/archive/2017...

submitted 77 days ago • 51 comments

FDA Recommends Adding Little Tabasco To That Bad Boy theonion.com/fda-recommen...

submitted 79 days ago • 43 comments