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🏕️ What do tents tell us about #homelessness? In #Socius, Drs. Snedker, McKinney & @clanfear.bsky.social report on a street-level tent census in #Seattle—revealing undercounted, clustered, and rising unsheltered #homelessness during #COVID. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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Joshua Tom @joshctom.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Fixed a typo for you @nytwirecutter.bsky.social

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Joshua Tom @joshctom.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

After several weeks of Republican photo ops in front of CECOT this is what I imagine happening 2000 years ago

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Joshua Tom @joshctom.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Coming back to a project after a long break.

media.tenor.com

a young boy is sitting in front of a shelf with toys and says `` let 's see where were we ? ''

ALT: a young boy is sitting in front of a shelf with toys and says `` let 's see where were we ? ''

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Joshua Tom @joshctom.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Genuinely thought this was just a “Muppets Christmas Carol” gag

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Joshua Tom @joshctom.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Something the parenting books don't prepare you for is that Paw Patrol doesn't take place in a dog society, it takes place in a human society that has outsourced essential services *to* dogs.

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Joshua Tom @joshctom.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I often think about this quote from Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday", which illuminates so much about our current moment. For my own research interests, the most damning indictment I can make about evangelical political culture is that it creates the kinds of cowards who admire great force.

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Joshua Tom @joshctom.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I take no small amount of pride in knowing that sociology is always one of the first targets of authoritarian and wanna-be authoritarian governments.

nytimes.com

Florida Tries a Subtler Way to Curb Progressive Ideology: Cut Sociology

Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.

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Joshua Tom @joshctom.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This "Wicked" marketing blitz has finally crossed a line

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Joshua Tom @joshctom.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The thing I'm looking forward to the most about our second daughter arriving is the wholly unearned adulation I will receive for being a father holding a baby while existing in public.

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Joshua Tom @joshctom.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

All of my normal hesitations about live-action versions of animated movies aside, that dragon cute.

youtube.com

How To Train Your Dragon | Official Teaser Trailer

YouTube video by Universal Pictures

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Joshua Tom @joshctom.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Undocumented students need to hear from their colleges that they will be supported and protected from whatever is coming down the line

washingtonpost.com

Live updates: Trump confirms plans to use military for mass deportations

Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.

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Joshua Tom @joshctom.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The name of this place is very confusing to those of us posting from Seattle

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