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Colm Mulcahy @cardcolm.bsky.social · 2d

Very sorry to hear of your loss. You are right: YOU need to be strong and healthy to help your kids through these dark days.

It’s like they say on flights: in an emergency secure your own mask first before helping others.

Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 3d

I have had a terrible week and a half. After my beloved spouse died, I made my top priority my health. I don’t do all the right things, but I try to do a lot of good things for my health. I actually put my kids second, bc if I collapse they are in big trouble. I have a million things I need to do+

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 1h

No, no we did NOT have the same issues when Joe Biden was President. Quite the opposite. Joe Biden stood back as Republicans went after his son. He didn't use the immense power of his office to stop that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

BLITZER: But Trump posted instructing Bondi to take action on Comey, James, and Schiff. Comey and James have been indicted. So what do you say to Americans who look at this and worry that the DOJ is being politicized?

REP. CARLOS GIMENEZ: We had the same issues when Biden was president

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Paul Naish @paulnaish.bsky.social · 1h

John of Holland on Logical Consequence. The Late-Fourteenth-Century Development of the British Logical Tradition www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

John of Holland on Logical Consequence. The Late-Fourteenth-Century Development of the British Logical Tradition

The treatise on logical consequence attributed to John of Holland and composed around 1370 is preserved in two currently known copies, namely Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, ms. 2660, fols. 24r–36...

www.tandfonline.com

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1h

16 October 1944 | 600 prisoners who were selected by SS doctors at the men's hospital of Auschwitz II-Birkenau (sector BIIf) were murdered in the gas chamber and crematorium III.

A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

Black and white historical photograph of gas chamber and crematorium III at Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp,, showing a long building with a prominent chimney and surrounded by barbed wire fence.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 1h

A porcelain dish, Nabeshima ware, Okawachi official kilns, Hizen (Imari city), Edo period (1680-1720).

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Colm Mulcahy @cardcolm.bsky.social · 1h

Tony O’Farrell addresses the crowd today at Broombridge for the (36th?) annual Hamilton Walk.

Eoin Gill, Marcus du Sautoy, Colin Wright and yours truly in the mugshot!

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Edward Vogel @mathartforall.bsky.social · 4h

One of my favorite equations

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 2h

"I realized that for many people I had made a mockery of national security and executive privilege by using them, as they saw it, to cover my own guilt."

THE MEMOIRS OF RICHARD NIXON 977 (1978)

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 2h

Ah yes, the old ‘I take photos with extremists but have no idea who they are’ defense. Classic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 1h

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

www.cbsnews.com

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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 1h

“No one should be put into a WRAP. I don’t even think they strap animals like that.”

ICE shackled detainees, then stuffed them into full-body restraints — “bundled like a log,” “carried like a corpse” — for 16-hour deportation flights. This is happening in America.
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

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Colm Mulcahy @cardcolm.bsky.social · 1h

Saw them open for (gasp) Focus at Stadium in April 1976.

Not a match made in heaven:-)

John Creedon @johncreedon.bsky.social · 1h

An Irish Rock Classic from Dev tonight
8-10pm @rteradio1.bsky.social

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John Creedon @johncreedon.bsky.social · 1h

An Irish Rock Classic from Dev tonight
8-10pm @rteradio1.bsky.social

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Colm Mulcahy @cardcolm.bsky.social · 6h

Ever played this Hamilton game?

www.mathsireland.ie/hamiltons-ir...

Hamilton's Ireland

A new version of a game invented by William Rowan Hamilton in the 1850s. Suitable for all ages.

www.mathsireland.ie

Colm Mulcahy @cardcolm.bsky.social · 6h

Try a Hamilternion game!

www.mathsireland.ie/hamilternion

Hamilternion Games

A new family of card games using quaternions, the non-commutative algebraic structure discovered by William Rowan Hamilton (in Dublin, Ireland, on Monday, 16 October 1843), now celebrating their 175th...

www.mathsireland.ie

Colm Mulcahy @cardcolm.bsky.social · 6h

Actually, the Hamilton walk is next, starting in 90 minutes:

annevanweerden.nl/VictorianMar...

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Colm Mulcahy @cardcolm.bsky.social · 6h

For the day that's in it (the Dublin discovery of quaternions in 1843 annevanweerden.nl/VictorianMar...):

Ready for a deep dive on the family of William Rowan Hamilton?

Here's a new blog by THE expert on that, Anne van Weerden:

annevanweerden.nl/VictorianMar...

A Victorian Marriage : Sir William Rowan Hamilton — Background information

annevanweerden.nl

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · 9h

Trying to write a conference paper whilst looking after an 8 week old baby

a painting of a woman laying in a bed with a blue blanket and a white pillow

ALT: a painting of a woman laying in a bed with a blue blanket and a white pillow

media.tenor.com

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John Creedon @johncreedon.bsky.social · 7h

Peering in the glasshouse window on a grey day.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 22h

This is going to sound North American chauvinist, but can we please have maple flavor in some foods *without* the cinnamon?

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Dr. T. Flo @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 21h

It continues to amaze and confound me how whiteness plays out for white adult men in the US and beyond. "Young boys," who are over the age of 30, are given the benefit of the doubt. While BIPOC (i know people don't like this term) children (or even adults), never have that privilege.

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Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 7h

Looking up from the bottom of the Initiation Well at Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra, Portugal

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agofarrell.bsky.social @agofarrell.bsky.social · 8h

Look forward to hearing #KipThorne 's #Hamilton lecture tonight, after the #quaternion walk.

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Owen Maresh @graveolens.bsky.social · 8h

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