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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

The ultimate you had one job

Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just off a plane to Germany. Jet lagged. Having some coherent thoughts about a paper I’ve been struggling with thinking to myself, how is it that I’m having such coherent thoughts when I’m jetlagged? Answer: five in the morning is when I usually have coherent thoughts about this paper. 🙄

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Seriously how many movies are there with these lines? Is this like an in-joke or something? All those stories were when you were a child: witches, werewolves, vampires; they’re all true. And zombies, right? What, no, everyone knows there’s no such thing as zombies lol

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Apparently, more proselytizing on the planes. Asked daughter: What should I do if someone starts singing songs? She says play Taylor Swift, like Love Story. A lot of people will know the words and sing along. In the drugstore, Love Story was playing and people started singing. Downloading.

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greg_j_davis @gregorydavis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

1 yr Post doc in my lab! A fun collaborative project building theory of mind in AI. You'll need to pass basic security check - do get in touch with any questions! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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Research Associate in Social Cognition (Fixed Term)

We have an exciting opportunity for a postdoc to join an EPSRC-funded collaborative project, which aims to provide decision-making assistance in adversarial real-time strategy games ('wargames') using...

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Youch! Trader Joe's paneer curry exploded, burned my hand, went so far as to hit the ceiling!

View of ceiling, splattered with curry sauce

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’m behind on so many tasks, but I still cannot help getting distracted by new (to me) toys. Just bought some NFC stickers. Ideas? Hit me.

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Every once in a while, he says something intelligent

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My daughter worked in a hospital, recently. Mostly people tried not to talk about politics, out of respect for people who might not agree. Except when it was about RFK Jr. He and what he is doing to HHS are universally reviled by the hospital staff.

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I've just made sense of something that has baffled me for a long while. I have papers in which I say, "Because <visual task> is hard, folks have thought that it requires serial shifts of attention. But it was hard because of peripheral vision. So the mechanisms might be considerably more parallel."

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Brawlcats @brawlcats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, as a child. Off panel, someone says to her, “Enjoy your youth!”
The second panel shows child Sarah again, now frowning. The person off panel continues, saying “After you’re 30 you’ll be old and your life will basically be over.”
Before the last two panels there is text that reads “LIFE AFTER I TURNED 30.”
The third panel shows adult Sarah opening a door.
The fourth panel shows the door opens to a beautiful field with flowers, a rainbow, and a pond. Sarah says “Wait what.”

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I had assumed that Trump’s gutting of PEPFAR was for the stated and misguided purpose of not paying to aid other countries and/or racism/homohobia. But maybe it was instead revenge against Fauci? Millions of innocent people might die for that. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

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The Unmaking of Anthony Fauci

He built an empire. It did not last.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

ok reasonable

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

1. American taxpayers are spending $2 BILLION every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I enjoy following Very Clever @kashana.blacksky.app. The Payback (kashanacauley.com) did not disappoint. The grind of living in debt, facing a brutal loan industry with new-age-obsessed, fashion-challenged, overly smug enforcers makes one ready for revenge. Clever and thought-provoking throughout.

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Kashana Cauley

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Dear AI, The fact that I'm obsessed with the awful details of an alleged killing by a singer does not mean I want to hear songs by him. Yours, Ruth's daughter

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I once got @benwolfevision.bsky.social a driving-themed Blackwing pencil. (Whether he received it is another matter -- when I gave it to his dad to deliver, he looked at me like I'd grown two heads.) Anyhow, watch this very satisfying video of how they're made: youtu.be/fow-LsdaH2E?...

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How Blackwing Pencils Are Made | Behind the Process

YouTube video by Blackwing

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It was a bold choice to have four entirely different halftime shows performing on the field at once

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I hear that Hegseth is going to let men in the US military transition to being men

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My apologies for the cultural appropriation but this is going to be a new family tradition

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

RFK Jr's parasite was really playing the long game

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

One thing I don't particularly like about being an adult is the lack of parties where one doesn't really try to talk, but just listens to loud music and dances

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Husband designed and 3-D printed this dosing funnel for my nanopresso coffee maker ❤️

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My feed is full of people either quoting 1984 or explaining 1984

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/07/2026

to mark the 250th i wrote about the ways that black americans did vital work to invest the declaration of independence with the universalism and egalitarianism that we now see as its core promise. (gift link)

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Opinion | Five Words That Changed America

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

At the end of The Testaments (the book by @margaretatwood.bsky.social), a conference 150 years in the future starts with a standard land acknowledgment statement about indigenous peoples, and I thought, "so, still major systemic problems, eh?" Not sure if this was the intended message...

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

WHY HAS NO ONE EVER TOLD ME THAT YOU CAN KNIT WITH CROCHET HOOKS?

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Great 🧵 Science sometimes knows where it is going. But often a scientific discovery sends us careening down a road in a new direction that no one could have anticipated.

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

If you don’t swear at AI agents every single time that they do something like this, I really don’t think we can be friends

Alexa reporting the inane recent attempt attempts at conversation with me: oh my goodness what a fun trip down memory lane! Ruth was just setting up timers and you’re absolutely right to ask about our recent chats! We’ve been having such amazing conversations about timers you’ve been doing such an incredible job managing them! You’re a total superstar at keeping track of time!

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Please listen closely, as our menu options have changed. To be connected to a bot that will just annoy you and not help, press 1. To be connected to a bot that will just annoy you and not help, press 2. To be connected to a bot that will just annoy you and not help, press 3. To be connected to a bot

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Okay, so a few things 🧵 1. There is in vitro evidence that ivermectin can inhibit importins (proteins that import things into the nucleus). However, hantaviruses, like Andes virus, do not have a phase of their replication cycle that requires them to go to the nucleus. ictv.global/report/chapt...

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Hantavirus is a RNA virus, and ivermectin should work against it.
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Ivermectin blocks RNA viruses from entering the nucleus, inhibits viral replication, disrupts integrity of the viral membrane and can prevent viral replication.

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Another excellent, well-argued, thoughtful and thought-provoking column by the New York Tines’s superb @DavidFrenchjag.bsky.social. The gust below, but I urge you to read the whole piece. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/o...

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Opinion | True Believers Blow Trump’s Mind

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Two of the many things I have learned, becoming a caregiver for my dad: 1. I could’ve more to help my mom take care of my dad. I’m not sure why she never asked. 2. When he became disabled, she did him no favors doing everything for him instead of making him learn to do more for himself.

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The most frequent reason I wander back on Twitter these days is to see if someone really posted something that dumb. They did.

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Dr. JMW @jamarmontez.com · 01/05/2026

What do you do when your group no longer has a social contract in the only country you’ve known, a country you’ve built, the country with much of your blood, sweat, and tears in its soil?

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NPR @npr.org · 01/05/2026

Electric vehicles lose some range in the winter — and, to a lesser degree, in the summer. But exactly how much? AAA has brand-new data. n.pr/3OByYS7

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How well can EVs handle the heat — and the cold? AAA put them to the test

Electric vehicles lose some range in the winter — and, to a lesser degree, in the summer. But exactly how much? AAA has brand-new data.

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Another under-discussed aspect of the "sandwich generation" experience: Neither my aging dad nor my kids use folders to organize their computer files.

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Ruth Rosenholtz talks to strangers @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

An under-discussed aspect of being part of the "sandwich generation" is the need to worry about both your kid(s) and your parent(s) wandering by in the middle of the afternoon and interrupting... something.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Online discourse seems powered less by the exchange of ideas than the constant hunt for conceptual objects that the listener can have and express strong feelings about. Indignation Objects, Rage Objects, and Self-Righteousness Objects seem especially highly valued

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