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Matt Davis

@coolpapa22.bsky.social
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Mathematician, educator, knower of things.

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Sometimes inspiration came from unexpected places. Hamilton would often bring her daughter, Lauren, to the lab with her on nights and weekends. Lauren, then four years old, liked to play astronaut in the team's simulators, and one day, pressing buttons at random, she caused a spectacular software crash. Hamilton investigated and found that Lauren had confused the program by keying in a pre-launch sequence, called P01, "in the middle of the mission," she says.She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely. But they let her make a note of it. When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission —the first manned flight orbiting the moon—it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back. "I remember saying to a couple of guys there, 'It's the Lauren bug!' she says, laughing.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The airplane muzak I am currently listening to has played, in succession, the recent covers of Only Wanna Be With You and I Love You Always Forever. I would prefer to be pandered to with the actual music of my youth, not these grotesque simulacra!
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Erika Ishii's inclusion is not a "controversial announcement". This is elevating weird gamergaters' boring whining as deserving of attention. There's no "sides" to this, there's no "issue": It's a talented performer who's done nothing wrong being hated for who they are.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Blue Jean Committee will not be opening for Ed Sheeran on this tour.
A still from the Documentary Now episode "Gentle and Soft". Four men in denim from head to toe stare at the camera.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
LOOK WHAT THEY TOOK FROM US
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The weeks after 9/11 were filled with unhinged Islamophobia and any claim that we were completely united explicitly places them on the outside of who you consider to be American
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/07/2026
1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Absolute chimneys from Simeone there.
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This, from food safety attorney Bill Marler, is so much better than anything I've seen from the FDA.
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Taylor Farms Posted Its Own Recall. It Went to 27 States, Not 5 — and the List Includes Bags Sold in Grocery Stores.
Taylor Farms has posted a recall notice on its own website. As of this morning it is still not on FDA's recalls page, which means the only
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Roll4Rights @roll4rights.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
our charity auction kicks off July 24th at Noon EST and runs until August 1st at 2 PM EST all proceeds benefit the Immigration Law and Justice Network! take a look at the link in our bio to see all our listings! @dropout.tv @samreich.bsky.social @vicmmic.bsky.social @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Put this skeet in the Louvre.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Continuing my habit of speaking about the dead as I did when they were alive. Sad to see him go.
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 30/11/2023
If we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Nice of Fox to summarize the radness of the DSA platform.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The schism will be livestreamed.
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Fuck em, ok? We love you. 🏳️‍⚧️
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
No one should mistake that not only did the vast majority of these defendants do *nothing but show up to a protest* but several are trans women who will now spend the rest of their lives being tortured by the state. This was targeted. This was a show trial.
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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
RELEASING TOMORROW
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Lynn Plourde @lynnplourde.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Jane Yolen has passed...450 books...the matriarch of children's books...what a gift she was and will continue to be as her books and legacy will live on forever. 🫂💔
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Dialogue: a journal of Mormon thought @dialoguejournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
With Arnold Friberg in the news, check out this deep dive with co-editor Caroline Kline speaking with Kate Davis about her provocative Spring 2026 article, “Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg.” www.dialoguejournal.com/podcasts/hom...
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
From the latest special issue of @dialoguejournal.bsky.social Vol. 59, Iss. 1, check out the #OpenAccess article "Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg" by @katedavisphd.bsky.social. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/art...
Cover of Dialogue, Volume 59, Issue 1, Spring 2026
On the covers: Angela Ellsworth, Seer Bonnets (2009–2010), nine bonnets, corsage pins, fabric, steel, and white oak, dimensions variable
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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...
In a Public Notice released on April 22, 2026, the FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to "transgender and gender non-binary programming" and "the discussion or promotion of gender identity themes."
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Why is Marcel sniffing a line up of cat food cans? Because today is his FIRST BIRTHDAY so we went out and got a bunch of adult foods and let him pick a can. 🥳
Photo of a black-and-white tuxedo cat with one eye sniffing at a line of 5 ounce cans of cat food that are lined up on the floor in front of him.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"im not worshipping a golden calf! im not worshipping a golden calf", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Slightly diminish a book Love in the time of norovirus.
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I have put together some careful thoughts here... 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
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American Mathematical Society @amermathsoc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A chart from a textbook published in 1600 matches letters and numbers. What was it for, and what does it tell us about the process of mathematical discovery? Read "Puzzling Like the Seventeenth Century" by Ursula Whitcher. Read more: mathvoices.ams.org/featurecolumn/20…
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Kate Davis @katedavisphd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
What started as a joke tweet became an AAR paper, and is now the most fun article I have ever written. Thank you @dialoguejournal.bsky.social for giving it a home, and elevating it with truly the most camp images. I am so excited to bring these glistening and brawny men to the queer studies issue!
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Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg - Dialogue Journal
A tan, bare-chested man stands in the foreground to the right, half turned away from the viewer. His right foot is perched on a rock, causing his studded leather kilt to hike up, exposing a…
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Do any of my math people on here have experience with the Möbius placement test through the MAA/DigitalEd? (Even just knowing a ballpark cost would be great - I love digitaled's selling point on their website of "radical cost transparency"...gentle reader, they will not tell me the cost.)
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I didn't even think it was possible for me to have MORE reasons not to give Starbucks any money, but they actually pulled it off.
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 12/04/2026
Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by 300k despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country. Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.
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Budapest Pride 2025: A Record Crowd Stands Up for Democracy
This weekend in Hungary’s capital Budapest, Human Rights Watch staff witnessed the city transform—if only for one brilliant afternoon—into a beacon of resistance. Budapest Pride was more than a celebr...
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Babybel Bandit @greblin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Pregnant women in this country have fewer rights than a corpse. And they wonder why birthrates are falling.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12/03/2026
42 people. millions of trans people are being tortured by their governments because of 42 people.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
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Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Cartoon. 
Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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Jay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
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Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@mhdksafa for the record: cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people either (from 2023)
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards
Alt: A man in a suit is saying "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards"
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Fellas is it gay to eat dessert?
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Really cool and weird little browser game I stumbled across: cubestudio.itch.io/nuworm You know, if you're into that kind of thing.
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nuworm by noa
Travel through 50+ puzzles and learn how to move.
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root@eruditorum.œrg @root2702.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
The man who is unwilling to wear a flu mask usually is of the kind who expects everybody to listen to him when he speaks
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The Spooky Dude @2house2fly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
Crosstitch guide image reads “this machine kills fascists” with clipart images of an onion, a sub and a bottle of mustard
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Matt Davis @coolpapa22.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
There are two justice systems.
Picture of a headline: "A Minnesota woman who cast her dead mother's ballot for Trump in 2024 must write an essay on voting"Picture of a headline: "The Black woman sentenced to six years in prison over a voting error. Pamela Moses was sentenced to six years in prison for trying to register despite a felony conviction but officials admitted making a series of mistakes"
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The E.P.A. canceled a $20 million flood protection grant to Alaska months before a remote village was inundated.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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A Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
For Episode 34, @yarntheory.bsky.social joins to talk about structure, art & endings, relationships, and much more in Melissa Scott's 1993 cyberpunk space-Venice thriller BURNING BRIGHT: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/06/a...
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A Meal of Thorns 34 – BURNING BRIGHT with Ursula Whitcher
Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Ursula WhitcherTitle: Burning Bright by Melissa ScottHost: Jake Case…
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