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Kiki Yablon

@kikiyablon.bsky.social
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MA in applied behavioral science; Karen Pryor Academy faculty, CPDT-KA; ex-journalist and sometime guitar player. kikiyablondogtraining.com

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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Love to see reporting by @marthabayne.bsky.social for the @chicagoreader.com brought to Congress. You’re welcome, America.
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Alex Heard @aheard.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@searchlightnm.bsky.social is hoping to connect with people in New Mexico who have lost their jobs at: the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management. Reach me at alex@searchlightnm.com. Please RT.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I would like to see this month's national productivity stats
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I don't know if anyone caught it during the Treasury rally today, but. Rep. McIver straight-up said that her Republican colleagues are leaving their phones off the hook because they don't want to hear from their constituents. THAT is what Dems should be preaching from every corner, every day.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
do taxes go to the same address after a coup? asking for friend.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@washingtonpost.com if only there were a word for guys who attend white nationalist conferences and "have controversial ideas about race"
washingtonpost.com
Trump administration hires hardcore pro-Trump ideologue to run public diplomacy at State Department
The Trump administration has hired a “Make America Great Again” ideologue to run the State Department’s worldwide public diplomacy efforts
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
sharing for friends who may need to think about how to protect their marriages:
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The Nine Documents - Legal Must-Haves for LGBT Couples, ft. Angela Giampolo
Podcast Episode · American Fever Dream · 01/23/2025 · 44m
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I saw elsewhere that Elon posted X will be banning people who criticize Trump et al. Can anyone still watching there confirm? Just as I was thinking maybe we should go back there (or go there, I was never much for Twitter) to reach even a minority of on-the-fence folx.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
maybe stop calling it a "DEI purge."
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
this is modern journalism. @wired.com "built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains. The tool runs periodic scans, tracking whether sites remain accessible, how their servers respond, and if the domain names still resolve."
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Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 02/02/2025
Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
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Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Reposting because we are the distribution system for independent news.
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🐀Amber Jayne @ Gunmetal Olympus Bundle 2 !!! @ambernymph.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
There are two kinds of person
Two bluesky posts discussing Google removing the ability to disable AI results in search string; one gives a technical code which still has the effect, while the other points out that AI results don't appear if you swear
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Cooperative nail grinding with Kronos. If he bumps the dremel, I touch a foot; if he stays, I isolate the nail; if he stays, I bring the dremel close; if he stays, I grind briefly and treat. If he pulls his foot away I also treat, often off the towel to see how fast he comes back to play again.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It feels weird to post work stuff here. But I'm gonna, in part because I'd like to eventually just have one social media place.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 29/01/2025
Substack comes out in favor of Elon. read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...
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The fight for free speech in 2025 and beyond
On Substack’s ongoing commitment to freedom of the press
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I should just get "can they do that" tattooed on my forehead
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 27/01/2025
The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
It's interesting timing that every single service seems to be kicking off a big AI campaign just as all the owners barnacle themselves to Trump's ass and Trump seeks partnership and investment in AI. Today I turned off or diminished how it is used (hopefully) on every account I could.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
well, they did in fact mean ownership by the US government: www.cbsnews.com/news/perplex...
cbsnews.com
Perplexity AI proposes TikTok merger with 50% U.S. government ownership stake
Perplexity is seeking to create a new $300-billion public company with TikTok's U.S. business and include investments from other investors.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Today we introduced an actual toothbrush instead of just the finger I was using to last time. I started with a finger cot and then decided to try a handled brush. You can see slight hesitation the first time I present it, but on the next rep that’s gone. (Hey, @skylight.social can I test your app?)
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/01/2025
I fucking told you so.
Elon Musk doing a sieg heil on TV.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
funny story about stimulus control: I kept my foot super still for like 30 minutes yesterday, apparently perceiving this folded back blanket as Finn
Photo of a woman's computer on her lap and feet extended forward on bed, with a black blanket in a triangular shape touching her ankle
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AZITA @theeazita.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
New Bluesky video feed:
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Barron's on TikTok: "Trump said on Sunday that he would like the U.S. to have ownership in a joint venture with 'the current owners and/or new owners whereby the U.S. gets a 50% ownership in a joint venture set up between the U.S. and whichever purchaser we so choose.'" 😐
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I started working with Kronos on cooperative tooth brushing before the holidays. Today was our first session back at it after a month. We were able to introduce beef flavored toothpaste and some tooth rubbing today!
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This is exciting. My favorite app is by far Instagram and I'd love to be able to replace it, not try to squeeze what I do into a more Twittery format: techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/b...
techcrunch.com
Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
When this orthopedic bed was behind the couch, Finn rarely chose it, instead laying where he could see me. I moved the bed to the front of the couch, and voila, Finn has been choosing it. "Preference” is a product of, in part, all the possible paths to reinforcement available—or not—at a given time.
A 9-year-old black dog lies, legs out, on an Orvis orthopedic bolster bed, in dim evening light
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
how many other countries have the need for a K-12 School Shooting Database with a category called "Most Recent 300"
Screenshot from the NY Times that says "An unlikely suspect: Of the shootings on school grounds so far this year where gender was identified, only nine suspects were female compared with 249 who were male, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, an independent research project."Screenshot from the K-12 School Shooting Database showing a menu under "View Data" that includes the option to see the "Most Recent 300"
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
using the deluge of post-Thanksgiving emails to prompt me to unsubscribe from the mailing lists of corporations that took one little purchase as license to email me on a near daily basis.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
When you're teaching your dog to opt in to grooming and veterinary procedures, and introducing the various aspects of that kind of handling, don't forget about "peering intently." It's an often overlooked part of care that freaks a lot of dogs out.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
One of my recent KPA students taught her dog to retrieve a med bag when he hears the Imperial March.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If you are an animal trainer interested in behavior science, or a behavior scientist interested in application with animals--this course is invaluable. I serve as a TA and it may be my favorite gig of all my gigs. Register now for January session: www.behaviorworks.org/htm/lla_info...
behaviorworks.org
How Behavior Works: LLA - BehaviorWorks.org
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This is something that our culture doesn’t teach us about dog training, or behavior in general: You do not have to set up problem behavior to occur in order to then do something about it. Instead, you can: (1/6)
Yellow square with black text says "You don't have to 'catch them in the act'" with a small logo for Kiki Yablon Dog Training
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The lines on this sports court gave me an idea for a loose leash walking game: “shuttle runs” help practice walking close for varying distances and incorporate smooth turns.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I am prolly not gonna follow you if I can't figure out who you are from your handle, so DM me if I know you maybe.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
When shaping goes well, it feels like magic: whoa, she started rewarding just looking at the thing, and somehow now the dog is climbing onto the thing and sitting on it! But the problem with magic is that it's hard to reproduce. Here, some concrete advice on raising criteria when shaping behavior.
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Kiki Yablon Dog Training — Chicago, Illinois
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
to pin the "mutuals" feed (see what I just reposted) to your homepage, click the hashtag in the upper right corner, search for "Mutuals" among the existing feeds, and opt to pin it to your homepage.
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AZITA @theeazita.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If you’re new to Bluesky and wishing to have a more Facebook-like experience, be sure to add the “Mutuals” feed which only shows posts from the people you follow who follow you back. This is the most like “friends”.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Write yer reps.
wired.com
Senate Democrats Are Running Out of Time to Pass a Shield Law to Protect Journalism
The PRESS Act, which would protect journalists from government spying, enjoys broad bipartisan support and has passed the House—but it’s unclear whether the Senate will take it up.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Differential reinforcement of other behavior (DRO) is widely misunderstood in dog training as "reinforcing any acceptable behavior" when in fact it's reinforcement delivered contingent on the passage of time without unwanted behavior. A brief explainer: kikiyablondogtraining.com/kiki-blog/20...
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Kiki Yablon Dog Training — Chicago, Illinois
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I need this outfit to make a Facebook replacement.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
This is one of the things I do in my role as a teacher of trainers. Today is the last day to apply to join my next Karen Pryor Academy cohort. I’ll also be teaching a group that meets in person in Dallas next year. karenpryoracademy.com/workshops/?f...
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Last chance: Become a certified dog trainer with Karen Pryor Academy. Virtual Format (Central Time Zone) Led by Kiki. Yablon. Learn online and hone your skills through four virtual workshops held on Sundays and Mondays at 10 AM (CT). Apply by November 12.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Repeating the cue? Yes I am. You may have learned that it’s a no-no, but as Ken Ramirez has pointed out, giving a recall cue just once when the animal can’t see you may not be enough to help them locate you. Here I was hiding from Finn at Prairie Wolf so I gave the cue until he came into view.
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Kiki Yablon @kikiyablon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hi! I’m a dog trainer and a teacher of dog trainers. I was never much for Twitter, so I’m here to see if Bluesky can eventually supplant Facebook. What I will miss most is knowing where to find most of the folks who are important in various aspects of my life, so I am hoping they will migrate too.
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Wade Minter @wademinter.com · 07/11/2024
Hi new Bluesky users! You might hear that Bluesky "doesn't have an algorithm", which is kind of true, kind of not. Bluesky has the concept of "feeds", which are tabs that provide you different algorithms of content that you can subscribe to and view. I'll talk a little bit about that here: 🧵
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