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Ian Ramjohn

@iramjohn.bsky.social

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Wikipedia expert at @wikieducation.bsky.social.  Plant ecology Ph.D. 🇹🇹Trinbagonian in exile https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2910-0526 (if you want to verify my account's authenticity)

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · Feb 19

I recorded this for my father's funeral today.
youtu.be/c6WWROsaCwY

Eulogy for my father, Ian Ramjohn (1931–2025)

YouTube video by Ian Ramjohn

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 3h

In 2022, researchers noticed little human footprints—remnants of an ancient playground—inside the fossilized tracks of a giant ground sloth.

Learn more on #InternationalSlothDay. https://scim.ag/42PLNfl

Ancient human playground found inside sloth footprints

Fossilized tracks of a giant ground sloth are stamped with tiny human feet

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 6h

Absolute bombshell from @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social:

Meta's internal research found that Instagram's algorithms preferentially displayed harmful content to vulnerable teens.

I'm glad I left Instagram back when I did, even if it was for other reasons (their anti-LGBTQ policies).

Exclusive: Instagram shows more ‘eating disorder adjacent’ content to vulnerable teens, internal Meta research shows

Meta researchers found that teens who report that Instagram regularly made them feel bad about their bodies saw significantly more “eating disorder adjacent content” than those who did not, according to an internal document reviewed by Reuters.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

get his ass kenny

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 8h

“I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us."

Kenny Loggins Demands Removal of 'Danger Zone' From AI Clip of Trump Dumping Poop on Protesters

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 3h

Bateman and the Joker

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 3h

so uhh

SNAP is apparently not going to be able to pay November benefits if the shutdown continues past 27 Oct

fellow faculty- if that happens, we're about to see a lot of hungry students on our campus. now's a good time to look into what your institution has available if you don't know already

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t feel the same attachment to this building that Americans do, but even for me this is a gut punch.

This is what the fourth plane was supposed to do, isn’t it?

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 4h

WHAT THE FUCK

One side of the White House has just been ripped out

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 4h

To counterbalance my quibble: I once thought it would be interesting to know what the carbon footprint of a Google Maps route query is. Because the traveling salesman problem is computationally very very hard. Turned out that was a dumb question in an interesting way.

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 4h

Why doesn’t Congress write better laws? Couldn’t they just say that AG-appointed US attorneys can’t serve more than 120 days in aggregate? Can’t plain text be replaced by idiot-proof text?

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Politico @politico.com · 6h

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 7h

And if this is true there’s a total breakdown

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 7h

Ellis: How are ICE agents required to identify themselves?

Byers: With badge numbers and names.

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 7h

If this is the case then higher ups have lost all control of their field agents

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 8h

Harvick: "We take these (temporary restraining orders) very seriously, your honor." Not only did agents get an email, it was discussed at morning briefings and agents who are assigned here will also be briefed on it, he adds.

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 8h

While I agree his take there is kinda weird, lots of Christians don’t believe the bible was dictated by god

Mainstream seminaries teach the idea that different authors and redactors. I mean, Deuteronomy was “found” during repair work in the Temple. That’s up there with gold plates and magic glasses

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 8h

I imagine fish have a hard time operating guns, so I think you’re right on that point.

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 8h

What does it say when one quote is disqualifying and the other isn’t?

I’m not saying Wahhaj is unproblematic, but your idea of what speech is beyond the pale illustrates your own extreme (but very mainstream American) world view. And it shows how Muslims can never be good enough

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 8h

How is this different from every Christian who prays the Lord’s Prayer? “Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven” doesn’t just express the view that it’s better, they’re praying for it to happen.

Is every Christian who has prayed that prayer sincerely equally bad?

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 10h

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench for a hearing about to use tear gas during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social:

Judge Set to Question Federal Officials About Use of Tear Gas During Immigration Raids

U.S. District Judge Sarah Ellis said Thursday she was “not happy” that immigration agents appear to have violated her order not to use tear gas and other weapons against journalists, protesters and an...

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 9h

i didn't fight in the Wikipedia MOS:DASH wars just to start using hyphens in place of em dashes

Caterpillar ist satt @siberianpine.bsky.social · 10h

"but I use that and I'm not an LLM" - I don't care. Also you have to start using hyphens even when you mean to use an em dash

Molly White @molly.wiki · 11h

"it isn't just X—it's Y" is by far the most annoying ChatGPTism

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 9h

Wikipedia taught AI how to write. That’s why it uses spaced mdashes

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 11h

Also thank you for stepping in.

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 11h

Smart advice (but I lack the good sense to shut up sometimes).

But honestly, her mother is a high-colour "Spanish" Trini of my generation (and her father is a "white" Dominicano). So I'd definitely see her among "our own folks".

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 11h

But that aside, racially ambiguous people live in a world where self-identification and perception aren't the same.

I knew I was nonwhite before I knew what race or whiteness was. But that doesn't change the fact that some people on here think I'm white, and will read what I say through that lens

Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 11h

She's not from the DR, she's American. Child of a (white-passing) Dominican and a Trini mother. Her African heritage comes from her mother

I embrace her as a fellow Trini; I don't think she's non-Black. But many people *do* (evidenced by her wiki article having 4 citations after "Afro-Latina")

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 12h

Sure. But (speaking from a lifetime's experience) self-identification is never totally separate from perception when you're ethnically ambiguous.

Regardless of how things should be, how they are matters.