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Julia Chow @jumaichow.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

What does it mean when ‘new slang’ and ‘paint the town red’ are both in your top 5 songs on Spotify wrapped?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/12/2024

After I moved to Canada a couple of years ago I realized that I was no longer constantly running a massive stress routine in the background of my mind worrying about health care and guns. It was weirdly noticeable only when it stopped.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The Wizard of Oz being one of the most enduring works of American fiction while also being originally written hyper-specifically as a commentary on 1890s monetary policy is a good reminder that good execution beats good ideas.

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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Action Intent Links | Bluesky

Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The new Martha Stewart doc crystalized something for me. Stewart reminds me more of a pro athlete than an influencer. She sells lots of cookbooks and home goods for much the same reason Michael Jordan sold lots of shoes: Relentless proficiency is hypnotic. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Martha Stewart’s Empire Monetized More Than Just Domesticity

A new documentary reminds us that the lifestyle guru was also selling the pleasure of mastery.

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

During my many museum visits-you see some CRAZY stuff! Here's a goniasterid starfish, Ceramaster patagonicus-but with only FOUR ARMS! SEA SQUARE? Ocean RAVIOLI? ha! #echinoday (specimen at California Academy of Sceinces)

4 armed sea star with distinct border appearing like a square rather than a star

Oral surface of a sea star with only 4 arms rather than 5- Square like rather than star shaped

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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 13/11/2024

PSA: new xitter tos that claims all your tweets as ai training data goes into effect THIS FRIDAY you can delete your tweets using @blockpartyapp.bsky.social it’s free if you activate the free trial. don’t worry, no auto-charge at the end of the trial

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Julia Chow @jumaichow.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I think America would be in a better place if we just nicely asked the CEO of Costco to run the country.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

People are totally unprepared for what is about to happen to American higher education

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/11/2024

Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 17/10/2024

👋 Bluesky is an open social network that gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience. We're so excited to have you here! We share Bluesky updates & news from this account. A quick orientation thread: 🧵✨

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Julia Chow @jumaichow.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Where do I find all the crafty people here? Soup season calls for all the crochet/knot/sew etc. inspiration

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/11/2024

i’ll say i am darkly amused by the increase in web searches for “what are tariffs”

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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 09/11/2024

people keep being dumbfounded that folks “didn’t do their research,” before voting and i can’t repeat enough that many people can’t read. 1 in 5 americans cannot read english at a level high enough to make low level inferences.[1] 1. nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/201...

What are the rates of literacy in the United States?
Four in five U.S. adults (79 percent) have English literacy skills sufficient to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level inferences— literacy skills at level 2 or above in PIAAC (OECD
2013). In contrast, one in five U.S. adults (21
percent) has difficulty completing these tasks (figure 1). This translates into 43.0 million U.S. adults who possess low literacy skills: 26.5 million at level 1 and 8.4 million below level 1, while 8.2 million could not participate in PIAAC's background survey either because of a language barrier or a cognitive or physical inability to be interviewed. These adults who were unable to participate are categorized as having low English literacy skills, as is done in international reports (OECD 2013), although no direct assessment of their skills is available.

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Julia Chow @jumaichow.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Are taycouver ‘the culmination of the Eras tour’ tickets a remotely attainable goal at this point?

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