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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People have asked why we aren't involved with Neil deGrasse Tyson...this is why. @standupforscience.net does not endorse candidates with accusations of sexual misconduct and we do not collaborate with people who have accusations of sexual misconduct. PERIOD. Welcome to the matriarchy.

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Allegedly the “friend” who invited her to the party: Ingalls The pre-med student that sent the “free p—y” message in Snapchat: Newell CHI PHI XI CHAPTER and CORNELL have a huge problem.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“As young as 2” 😳

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Proximity to consequence is a fact about where someone has stood. Most advice comes from people who study outcomes. Good leaders know the edges of their own knowledge. The person who’s lived inside doesn’t just know more, they know differently. Clip: Lioness, S3E2 “No Sorrow Like the Survivor”

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

10 YEARS LATER:🚨 Is Donald Trump a Sociopath? www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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Is Donald Trump a Sociopath?

Taking his biographer’s claim seriously

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

With a historic $124 trillion "Great Wealth Transfer" underway, 42% of U.S. adults continue to rely on their parents for financial support, including some in their 50s and 60s. Study: news.northwesternmutual.com/2026-06-01-A... Survey: news.northwesternmutual.com/2026-06-01-A...

A screenshot of a digital article card titled "Takeaways by Bloomberg AI" featuring three bulleted key insights about financial dependence on parents, with several lines of text highlighted in yellow. Bullets text as follows, (Bullet 1): A survey by Northwestern Mutual says many Americans, including some in their 50s and 60s, rely on their parents for financial help, with 56% of respondents saying it is harder to achieve financial independence today. (Bullet 2): The Federal Reserve's annual survey on financial well-being reported an increase in the reliance on parents to pay the bills, with about 23% of respondents needing some outside help in 2025. (Bullet 3): The increased reliance on parents may reflect a cultural shift, with making it on your own no longer something to be proud of or even aspire to, and may exacerbate inequality for people who don't have families who can afford to help them.

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The current administration is, again, incorrectly interpreting the law. Thinking the CHIPS Act means the government has ownership of private companies. A CFR expert warns of a "potentially illegal shift" and calls for strict legal guardrails. I'm looking at all you "but he's a businessman" people.😒

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A simple, delicious breakfast recipe! 😍 Adas Medames (crushed lentils w/tahini & soft-boiled eggs), adapted from Sami Tamimi's vegetarian cookbook “Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from My Palestine,” focusing on traditional Palestinian vegetable and grain dishes. youtube.com/shorts/OgGcu...

This is the hardcover cookbook Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine by chef Sami Tamimi. The cover features vibrant, modern illustrations of lemons and other produce against an orange textured background. Released in July 2025, the book contains over 100 vegetarian recipes celebrating Palestinian cuisine.

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Inside Telecom: Iran discovered 7,000 tons of antimony, a critical defense mineral, potentially escalating tensions with the Western world (including the US, EU, and Israel) amid global supply chain disruptions.

A screenshot of an online international telecoms business magazine, from "Inside Telecom" titled "Could Iran's Extremely Rare Mineral Discovery Be Another Incentive for US-Israel War?" written by Nour El Souki and dated June 20, 2025.The image is split into two columns: Left Column: Displays the article headline under a "TECH" tag, the author's byline, a reading time of 3 minutes, and a view count of 39,393. Below this metadata is an image showing rough, dark, metallic grey mineral rock fragments against a blue background, followed by social media sharing icons. Right Column: Contains excerpts from the article text. The text states that in March 2025, Iran announced the discovery of 7,000 tons of the rare mineral antimony. It notes this occurred while China, Iran's BRICS ally, was disrupting global supply chains during a minerals war with the US. The article emphasizes that solar grids and military soldier gear depend heavily on antimony, which is sought after by the Western world (including the US, EU, and Israel) while China currently monopolizes it.

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Lebanon has been subject to Israeli military campaigns tied to "buffer-zone" expansion (Greater Israel Project) and control over water resources (the Litani River) and southern territorial expansion including: Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and significant parts of Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

60+ years later, the pattern repeats. Congo. Sudan. Palestine. Lebanon. Iran. Venezuela. Cuba. Anywhere Black or Brown people live. American society acts stunned or offended when taught the buried fact: apartheid and Nazi lawmakers studied Jim Crow as their model.

In 1962, James Baldwin said: "White people were, and are, astounded by the Holocaust in Germany. They did not know that they could act that way. But, I very much doubt whether black people were astounded."

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 03/07/2026

Israel drops the world’s biggest non nuclear bomb on Lebanon. Corporate media is silent. The United States must hold these war criminals accountable.

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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Ten of Israel’s most well-documented crimes in #Gaza in 1000 days of genocide.

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere.” —Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

“Our problem in communicating with friends is that we have an illusion of insight. Getting close to someone appears to create the illusion of understanding more than actual understanding.” —Nicholas Epley www.forbes.com/sites/travis...

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8 Secrets Of Great Communicators

Great communication skills are a powerful tool to have in your arsenal. Here are eight proven strategies that you can use to improve yours today.

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"Our community mindset as a nation has been deeply eroded. Deeply." — Jemele Hill, host of Spolitics Live @jemelehill.bsky.social

Screenshot from Jemele Hill, host of SPOLITICS Live video showing the Jemele seated at a microphone in front of bookshelves filled with books and personal items. The video title at the top reads, “How did Spencer Pratt Become A Political Darling? Easy, He Picked On The Homeless.” Closed captions read: “Americans, when I say they’re selfish, I don’t mean that they’re selfish in the sense that they never care about anybody else, but our community mindset as a nation has been deeply eroded. Deeply.”

Screenshot from Jemele Hill, host of SPOLITICS Live video speaking from a home office lined with bookshelves. The video title at the top reads, “How did Spencer Pratt Become A Political Darling? Easy, He Picked On The Homeless.” Closed captions on screen read: “So, how can we be selfish? We’re selfish because charity does not break systems. Charity does not break inequality.”

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Family privilege is the best privilege. Keke and Sara were coworkers on GMA3. They had so much fun together on that show—it carried into the future. Where you work and who you work with can make or break your trajectory, and having people that respect and protect your name is a blessing.

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New project in progress. It's been fascinating, deeply sad, and impossible to stop thinking about. More to come. Research & Design: Tomi Choyce | AI-assisted visualization

Infographic titled "The Inverted Outcome Hypothesis: A research inquiry into attention, crowdfunding, and the unequal distribution of public response.”

The infographic compares two scenarios side-by-side.

On the left, a red-themed panel titled “Rage Gets Reach.” It shows a breaking news scene with police lights and crowds holding up phones. Text reads: “Outrage. Controversy. Sensationalism. The algorithm amplifies it.” Engagement metrics are listed: 500K views, 20K shares, 15K comments, 25K likes, and $150K raised. A caption at the bottom states: “Fast. Loud. Rewarded.”

On the right, a green-themed panel titled “Need Struggles for Attention.” It shows a woman sitting at a laptop with her head resting on one hand, appearing stressed. A crowdfunding campaign titled “Help Maya Get Through This Semester” is displayed. Text reads: “Real people. Real emergencies. Real need. The algorithm de-prioritizes it.” Metrics show 50K views, 2 shares, 1 comment, 3 likes, and $250 raised toward an $8,000 goal. A caption at the bottom states: “Quiet. Urgent. Ignored.”

Between the two panels is a central graphic with people icons and the text: “People saw both. Why did only one mobilize action?”

Across the bottom, a section titled “What Shapes the Outcome?” identifies five contributing factors:

Crowdfunding Psychology – How people give, trust, decide, and are influenced.
Algorithmic Amplification – Platforms reward engagement, not need.
Social Anchoring – Early signals set expectations and shape outcomes.
Emotional Bandwidth – Care requires capacity; people are stretched in different ways.
Collective Behavior – People have power together but do not always act together.

The overall design contrasts public attention given to sensational content versus urgent personal need, illustrating how algorithms and social dynamics influence visibility, engagement, and support.

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Who Rides Out the Storm? The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps www.nber.org/papers/w34366

National Bureau of Economic Research document titled, Who Rides Out the Storm? The Immediate Post-College Transition and its Role in Socioeconomic Earnings Gaps. Working Paper: 34366,
DOI: 10.3386/w34366,
Issue Date: October 2025

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

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The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started

Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"A friendship in 52 weeks of postcards." www.themarginalian.org/2016/09/07/d... #booksky

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Zora Neale Hurston’s life, her brilliance, joy, resistance, & pain reflect the individual cost of being an unapologetic Black woman in a world built to silence her. The patterns that shaped her life—dismissal, punishment, erasure for speaking boldly or shining too brightly—aren't relics of the past.

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Bandwidth Poverty: What Constant Survival Does to the Brain www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #science #economics #psychology #classwars

Two bar graphs from the study in Science titled “Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function” comparing cognitive performance between poor and rich participants under “hard” and “easy” financial scenarios. In both Raven’s Matrices and Cognitive Control tests, poor participants performed significantly worse during hard financial conditions, while rich participants showed little change. The graphs illustrate how financial strain is associated with reduced cognitive performance among people experiencing poverty.

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Zora Neale Hurston, like so many Black women, created within a world that failed to comprehend the magnitude of their work. What survives is often fragmented, delayed, partially destroyed, underfunded, misunderstood, or rejected—only to be rediscovered after the fact. #booksky #ZoraNealeHurston

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

COACH SULLY: “Shift your eyes to this monstrosity… one year. One President. Donating his salary is just a headline. It doesn’t offset the BILLIONS Trump is accumulating elsewhere.” 💰

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

CPJ calls on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, detained under new security and fake news laws. Read more: cpj.org/2026/04/cpj-... #FreeAhmed #FreeAhmedEldin

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

✍️ Sign the petition: Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is detained in Kuwait under new security and fake news laws. Demand Kuwaiti authorities immediately and unconditionally release him. ⤵️ cpj.movements.mov/pet/kuwait-r... #freeahmed #FreeAhmedEldin

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Sabra and Shatila: September 1982 by Bayan Nuwayhed Al-Hout (2004) #booksky doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

1982 is repeating! Lebanon has been repeatedly invaded... and it's happening again. #history

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A Wild Ransom @a-wild-ransom.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.” ~Maya Angelou #clouds #cottoncandyskies #nature #watercolor #art

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

"War is a feature of patriarchy."

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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

"Duty to Warn" supersedes professional neutrality. mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781250... @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky #psychiatry #psychology #mentalhealth #war #violence

Image of book cover for The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President (2017), edited by Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., is a Forensic Psychiatrist at Yale School of Medicine.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Disabled people need and deserve the social & economic support to live independent lives They shouldn’t be forced to rely on abusive caregivers, live in legislated poverty or be institutionalized Disability is not a moral failing. It’s a minority group you can join at any time

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

“I hope they use me. What am I here for if not to be used by good people for good things?” — Jane Fonda, 1979

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

"The U.S. has a pattern. We come in, we pretend like we're your friend, we get what we need, and then we f**king abandon you, and they slaughter your ass. And we do nothing." #unitedstates #allies #iraq #syria #kurds #turkey #westasia #geopolitics

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Tomi Choyce @tomichoyce.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Neurodivergent people receive more negative feedback over their lifetime than neurotypical people. Often for completely inconsequential things. When we're repeatedly told that everything we do and say is somehow wrong maintaining some sense of self-worth can be incredibly hard.

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Neurodivergent people receive more negative feedback over their lifetime than neurotypical people. Often for completely inconsequential things.

When we're repeatedly told that everything we do and say is somehow wrong maintaining some sense of self-worth can be incredibly hard.

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