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@kirec.bsky.social
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Data scientist, occasional thing-knower

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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 1h
i mean you might be able to squeak it with roald dahl. trivial with redwall, shame about the animal racism
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 4h
an interesting take
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 4h
I *hope* I'd be generally correct but it's possible I'm better at in person cat handling than at internet pictures of cat
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Lava monster @lavamonster.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Avasarala speech bubble
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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 8h
FYI.
Screenshot of Threads post from moniquetheoracle:
If you live in California I seen a major earthquake, cracking open a mountain that has an entity inside of it. I don't know if it has already happened but it is going to happen. then this entity is gonna go and wake up the other entities. These entities are energetically Giants. some people are going to see these beings and others won't but they're about to destroy Californias ungrounded tunnels.
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 19h
lollll
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 19h
i think pritzker is doing well but he's framing all of it in "these fuckers are hurting illinois so illinois will step up and protect and support our people" and that is, quite frankly, boring
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 19h
please do not shoot cat with missile
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 19h
don't be mean to alligators
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 20h
okay look, balding men are people too
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 20h
in my last job one of my favorite coworkers was a bangladeshi feller who was so profoundly grateful to be able to do data science saving and improving lives in Texas
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 10/10/2026
no idea who made this but I think of that random person with gratitude every time I heat up any sort of wraplike food object in the microwave
two scenes from an X-Men animated program: in the first, scott summers and jean gray are making out; he is labeled "microwave heat" and she is labeled "plate." in the second, we are more distant from the couple, and wolverine is standing in the foreground, labeled "my burrito."
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Lars Chittka @larschittka.bsky.social · 20h
Bumblebees prefer shorter over longer strings and connected over disconnected ones in string‐pulling tasks but prioritize connectivity over spatial proximity when the two are in conflict - Wen - 2026 - Insect Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Bumblebees prefer shorter over longer strings and connected over disconnected ones in string‐pulling tasks but prioritize connectivity over spatial proximity when the two are in conflict
We investigated how bumblebees balance efficiency and accessibility in string-pulling tasks. When given strings of different lengths attached to rewards, they consistently chose the shorter one. They...
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 20h
...same?
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 20h
he knows what he did
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 20h
this is all profoundly stupid shit, but either they believe it and are profoundly stupid or disbelieve it and are doing hype in a very odd way
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@Amtrak_CA

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson

@porkbelt

.@Amtrak_CA With all due respect, this is terrible advice for trains
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
nooooooooo
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My question here is simple; of those 185k people who've attended a briefing, was a single one not already worried about climate change and wanting further action?
theguardian.com
Britons kept in dark about scale of climate crisis, say viewers of ‘first-of-its-kind’ emergency briefing
Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public health
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
good* to know, tho i'll stand by the protester safety guideline in a general sense
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
it's, like, most of the way to being a normal mac and cheese recipe. minus the cheese puffs.
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
just as an aside, "picking up nonlethal grenades to huck em back at the cops is dangerous" is important safety advice it's satisfying, it does keep tear gas and flashbanging and what have you away from you and your friends, and if it goes awry i hope you weren't too excited about that appendage
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
hell same
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i don't think that's an especially honest description of the thing
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
can we remove the word "slop" from the online vocabulary
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
yeah man idk
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
no no, the corpo cop chief who tells Karn to settle down about those two losers who racismed and extortioned their way into getting gunned down in the opening scenes
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A tough thing about working on food systems and land competition is that it’s contentious by definition, because there are many growing demands on a finite global land area. Intensive vs extensive ag, meat/dairy, biofuels/biomaterials, nature-based solutions—there can’t always be more of everything.
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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
[Kellogg marketing meeting, 1955] Boss: Who has a name for our boring new cereal? Employee: How about “K”? Boss: Hmm. Not special enough. Employee: Alright, hear me out…
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🎃🦇👻 Sam Miller 👻🦇🎃 @kaisermiller.family · 07/10/2026
This is The Lock Picking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is the Panama Canal. Now, these sealed chambers that raise and lower ships aren't the kinds of locks that I normally deal with, but if we walk over to the control room, we will find something very familiar on the door...
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Boolassa @dalassa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Going to be a naysayer on this but I can’t find a news item from the American Chestnut Foundation about this and the links in the article go to individual social media posts.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
you should play Tentpole by the way, this is more interesting than it has any right to be
Tentpole screenshot
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
...jonathan pryce?
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i have serious data visualization complaints, but also it's objectively worse than previous el ninos, so, eh, 7/10
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh so he *is* an economist
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No better case for the billionaire tax than how hard they’re working to defeat it
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i will say, comparing el nino temps in el nino area to a (fairly short, but eh) dataset consisting mostly of not-el-nino temps is dodgy visualization decisions
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
that's a good line, and i'm saying this as a mostly quant guy
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
innae god buh allah... ...englishpigs?
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I've rewritten this a few times and considered quoting it - some of the most moving messages I've recieved. A man who'd seen someone he knews death livesteamed on their facebook - but whose reaction was to try and reject hate. To find a better way.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My main memory of October 7th is reaching out to a Jewish friend to check he and his family were okay - and the sorrow, compassion and grace he expressed. He rejected hate and vengence, and expressed horror at what was likely to come. I'll always compare that to those who celebrated or march today
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
diabolical
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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 07/10/2026
My great-grandfather had a very determined parrot. It ate a Scrabble set that was carelessly kept too close to its page, but sadly no one experimentally probed the effect on its vocabulary.
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i do believe he was the most unpleasant man i have ever met
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i feel they died heroically. but not too heroically, don't want to scare the tourists. we can give them posthumous medals and a pleasant little funeral
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
mustache guy was the single most competent imperial-adjacent person in the show immediately identified everything that happened, recommended the course of events that would lead to overall maximum happiness and minimal disaster
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kirec.bsky.social @kirec.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i don't think that's the popular image of it
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
looking at the gambling stats in the United States and Brazil, and the CCP's old-style Communist puritanism has done a great service to the Chinese public by keeping gambling underground or limited to Macau casinos.
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