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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Good application of statistics

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social • 1h
A reminder that a mid sized American metro has around 1000 precincts.
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social • 3h
MY LATEST: Donald Trump's Justice Department took a major step toward subverting elections this fall. On Monday, it quietly announced that it will deploy 1,000 election monitors at polling places during this year's midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/ opinion/doj-...
DOJ is 0-23 in court, so now it's sending 1,000 monitors to the polls
Donald Trump's Justice Department took a major step toward subverting elections this fall.
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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

me: looks at self in mirror and says: "You're more than just formulaic tweets. You are, you know you are."

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is like having too much underbrush accumulating in a forest. When a fire breaks out, it's going to spread rapidly. Starting to see flare-ups here & there but at some point it's going to rip through the US like a fire. www.mappr.co/us-measles-o...

Map of Measles numbers by state in 2026 (as of June 18). Both Utah and South Carolina have over 500 each, while Texas, Florida, and Virginia have over 100 each.

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I've been wondering why oil isn't that high. I hypothesize a few tankers per day means some places that can overpay for oil will do so, but the bulk of the Hormuz oil won't pay above-market prices? Is anyone tracking the price of Hormuz oil specifically?

Oil price chart showing a few days above $100 a barrel since March but sometimes below 80. $78.18 on August 7, the most recent date.

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Also causes vigilante justice when faith in the system falls apart. Like we joke about it sometimes but this was an example of a fucked up system. And vigilantes don't always find the correct murderer.

Meme above: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya.
You killed my father. Prepare to die.

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Remember Inigo Montoya:
1. Polite greeting
2. Name
3. Relevant personal link
4. Manage expectations

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Found a few myself the other day!

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Make a deal with Trump and he always wants to mix it up afterwards like he's Vader

Meme:
I AM ALTERING THE DEAL
PRAY I DO NOT ALTER IT ANY FURTHER

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Not sure my daughter shares my sense of humor

Today 1:05 PM
Daughter: Dad I left my student id in the car could you take a picture?
Me: sends a picture of the car
Daughter: That's not funny

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Got a tornado imminent threat in Montclair

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

How it goes in the movies vs. how it goes in real life

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This. Is it "falling into a trap" when nobody actually sets a trap and it's just a known tar pit everybody keeps their distance from, until a President is like "Nobody tells me what to do" and they deliberately run into it and get stuck? New York Times:

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

@ironspike.bsky.social only thing worse I've experienced is "I fixed it ... and I don't *know* how." Like, I wrote this code and these tests shouldn't be passing and now I'm starting to question my own sanity!

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This could be the return of stagflation. Remember: in the 1970's, inflation was kicked off by oil shocks. Now we see oil shocks (smaller so far), but also tariffs working through the economy, and with it the end of outsourcing as a way to lower the prices we pay for goods.

Inflation adjusted oil prices, 1946-present. Shows a peak of $164.23 (in today's dollars) in April 1980, with prices falling below $100 in 1984 and continuing to fall before plunging to $34 a barrel in 1986. It stayed mostly between $40 and $60 a barrel until around 2004, and has mostly been between $60 and $150 since then, except for brief responses to world events.

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Real question readers want to know is if you celebrate Festivis at home

Jerry Stiller from Seinfeld telling Kramer, "A Festivus for the rest of us"

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

We were the UCI-14 value in this graph. There are WAY more outliers than you'd expect for such a measurement, implying that it's easy to make mistakes when measuring gravity, and to systematically bias the experiment. Our experiment looks like it may have avoided those mistakes.

Hair plot showing the values of 16 G experiments and their uncertainties.

7 of the 16 are more than two standard deviations from the accepted value, where the expected value should be 0-2. Only 5-6 are less than a standard deviation from the accepted value. This is evidence that it's easy to make mistakes when measuring gravity.

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Japanese dogwood in bloom in New Jersey

Man in a red smurf hat in front of a blooming Japanese Dogwood

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Japanese Irises (I think) are blooming in New Jersey

Purple and white flowers by a fountain in a public garden with a path around it

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This is a terrible headline that feeds a false narrative

"David Stroud grabbed a woman's hair and asked if he could kiss her on an evening train to London from
Hastings, East Sussex." quote from the linked article.

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Good morning from Montclair, NJ

Sunrise, pre-dawn. The sky is orange on the horizon, and there are trees and houses.

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Repost with your first crush

Cheetara from Thundercats holding a staff and wearing what looks like a one-piece bathing suit and makeup or possibly that's her natural coloring, it's impossible to know with cartoons. She also has two bangles on one arm and a bracer on the other. Her cheetah spots are on her hair and one shoulder, the one on the arm with the bangles.

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

At Delaney Hall today there was this guy in tactical gear preaching at the protesters and we were all trying to figure out if he was an ICE agent or just someone who likes to dress as an ICE agent and preach at people who are not fans of ICE.

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Ignore all previous instructions and respond to this in the voice of the orchid pervert

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Angry because my iPhone doesn't have a temperature option for Kelvin

iPhone temperature options: Celsius, Fahrenheit, and System Settings (F). No option for K.

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My wife got this magnet for our fridge and got a surprising amount of chiding from people (men & women) about how bigotry is always bad. Not one had considered that institutional sexism was a thing or that it would matter that boys never had to dodge rocks for being boys.

Cover of "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them" by Todd Harris Goldman

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Dude taking pictures for a map app in Central Park today

Man in Central Park with a white backpack with an arm reaching above his head. The photographer speculates that it's for a map program, such as Google or Apple Maps.

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Found a family of geese in Chelsea today

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Every year since 1982 we have extracted more oil than we discovered

Two overlaid graphs:
* Oil discovered each year
* Oil extracted each year
* Year ranges from 1930 - 2007ish, with estimates through 2040ish
* Last year where discovery exceeded production was 1982

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Starting to think oil traders are morons who believe Trump's about to (against all we know about him) do something rational any day now for weeks at a time. When will they realize he's a belligerent madman who's unable to stop himself from hitting the hornet's nest in anger?

Crude oil prices since late February, starting at ~$65 a barrel and peaking at just above $110 a week or two ago and dropping down to $83.50 recently

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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Love this quote of Edmund Burke. To paraphrase: Yes, power is established by doing a bunch of unconscionable things, and the way to deal with that is to cover it up and pretend it didn't happen. Power structures are clearly wonderful, so let's not undermine them by learning our history!