Darren Simmons
@darrensimmons.bsky.social
He/him. Mathematician (ask me about groups!). Erstwhile fan of sport. De facto anarchist, not having a great time these days. Atheist, but usually not a jerk about it. Used to be @mathman_85 at the old place.
Views expressed are my own.
Views expressed are my own.
Pinned
Noticing that even I’m getting new followers, so…
I’m Darren. I’m a mathematician, and I teach math for a living, but most of the things I post about aren’t related to either of those things. Mostly, I tend to post about politics and current events, occasionally sports, sometimes media. Welcome.
I’m Darren. I’m a mathematician, and I teach math for a living, but most of the things I post about aren’t related to either of those things. Mostly, I tend to post about politics and current events, occasionally sports, sometimes media. Welcome.
I'll be playing ball one more time on stream this year in about five minutes. Check it out here:
www.twitch.tv/mathman_85
www.twitch.tv/mathman_85
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I'll be playing ball one more time on stream this year in about five minutes. Check it out here:
www.twitch.tv/mathman_85
www.twitch.tv/mathman_85
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It’s my birthday, but it’s also unfortunately the third anniversary of the day I got the Covid infection that disabled me. This year has been the hardest with the disease. I encourage you to be careful this holiday season, wear a mask and test, do not get or give Covid to anyone.
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
It’s my birthday, but it’s also unfortunately the third anniversary of the day I got the Covid infection that disabled me. This year has been the hardest with the disease. I encourage you to be careful this holiday season, wear a mask and test, do not get or give Covid to anyone.
OH GOD MAKE ME UNSEE IT
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
OH GOD MAKE ME UNSEE IT
Dear nonexistent gods, do I feel old today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Dear nonexistent gods, do I feel old today.
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🚨 REMINDER:
Good opsec is REALLY important — even when what you're doing isn't actually illegal!
Good opsec is REALLY important — even when what you're doing isn't actually illegal!
NEW: The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of NY immigrants' rights volunteers organizing court watch+ labeled activists “anarchist violent extremist actors.”
Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE
Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org
Joint FBI/NYPD report shows law enforcement accessed private planning convo of ppl monitoring ICE
Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
🚨 REMINDER:
Good opsec is REALLY important — even when what you're doing isn't actually illegal!
Good opsec is REALLY important — even when what you're doing isn't actually illegal!
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Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday
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Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ.
Playing some baseball on stream at the bottom of the hour (23:30 UTC). Check it out here:
www.twitch.tv/mathman_85
www.twitch.tv/mathman_85
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Playing some baseball on stream at the bottom of the hour (23:30 UTC). Check it out here:
www.twitch.tv/mathman_85
www.twitch.tv/mathman_85
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For those not on insta:
From her account on FB (text in alt tag).
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
For those not on insta:
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It is absurd to act as though people simply have no idea that, clinically (I guess?), there are different categories for adults who are sexually attracted to people under the age of consent. We all know! We've all heard the terms hebephile and ephebophile before, we're not stupid.
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It is absurd to act as though people simply have no idea that, clinically (I guess?), there are different categories for adults who are sexually attracted to people under the age of consent. We all know! We've all heard the terms hebephile and ephebophile before, we're not stupid.
As if I needed any more reason to hate my shite hometown, somebody has posted a sign with a white nationalist slogan referring to the "great replacement" conspiracy theory on one of the local bridges. Such a wonderful place that has such people in't.
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
As if I needed any more reason to hate my shite hometown, somebody has posted a sign with a white nationalist slogan referring to the "great replacement" conspiracy theory on one of the local bridges. Such a wonderful place that has such people in't.
This is hilariously pathetic. OF FUCKING COURSE the game whose protagonists are literal ecoterrorists AND OBJECTIVELY CORRECT IN-UNIVERSE—setting aside approximately everything else about the plot and characters—is not merely “somewhat woke”. Come on.
"Somewhat" this is bullshit give them the credit they deserve Barrett is woke as fuck
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is hilariously pathetic. OF FUCKING COURSE the game whose protagonists are literal ecoterrorists AND OBJECTIVELY CORRECT IN-UNIVERSE—setting aside approximately everything else about the plot and characters—is not merely “somewhat woke”. Come on.
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Worth noting that Krauss is still a darling of the anti-woke movement and has been doing the rounds for his new book about how wokeness destroyed science. Antiwokeness is inseparable from this fuckery.
![From: Lawrence Krauss
Sent: 4/5/2018 10:16:55 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Re:
Importance: High
Let's do a men of the world conference.
Kevin spacey
Bill Clinton
Al franken
Woody Allen
Lawrence M. Krauss](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zknk3rjsatent75sdbbopown/bafkreibmta5pbbhrot75z4pfdhnstcylc37outh36bvyzcdoce2ervnydy@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Worth noting that Krauss is still a darling of the anti-woke movement and has been doing the rounds for his new book about how wokeness destroyed science. Antiwokeness is inseparable from this fuckery.
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I think it’s fucked up that landlords ask for recommendations from your last landlord before accepting you as a tenant.
So there’s so much incentive for tenants to just accept the abuse of a current landlord, if complaining will affect their ability to move.
So there’s so much incentive for tenants to just accept the abuse of a current landlord, if complaining will affect their ability to move.
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I think it’s fucked up that landlords ask for recommendations from your last landlord before accepting you as a tenant.
So there’s so much incentive for tenants to just accept the abuse of a current landlord, if complaining will affect their ability to move.
So there’s so much incentive for tenants to just accept the abuse of a current landlord, if complaining will affect their ability to move.
ALL hierarchies of dominance, including but not limited to capitalism, partiarchicalism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia must be eradicated, money abolished, and society organized entirely horizontally at as local a level as is possible, focusing on meeting everyone’s needs of living.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
ALL hierarchies of dominance, including but not limited to capitalism, partiarchicalism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia must be eradicated, money abolished, and society organized entirely horizontally at as local a level as is possible, focusing on meeting everyone’s needs of living.
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its almost a month since lia smith, a trans woman who was in college sports until trump took office and banned her from competing, committed suicide
her death has a wikipedia page but has yet to receive an ounce of news coverage in
@nytimes.com
@washingtonpost.com
@apnews.com
@cnn.com
her death has a wikipedia page but has yet to receive an ounce of news coverage in
@nytimes.com
@washingtonpost.com
@apnews.com
@cnn.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
its almost a month since lia smith, a trans woman who was in college sports until trump took office and banned her from competing, committed suicide
her death has a wikipedia page but has yet to receive an ounce of news coverage in
@nytimes.com
@washingtonpost.com
@apnews.com
@cnn.com
her death has a wikipedia page but has yet to receive an ounce of news coverage in
@nytimes.com
@washingtonpost.com
@apnews.com
@cnn.com
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Also, the caving started around the time 12 major airports grounded all private flights.
Never again 'blue no matter who'
Pick the best fucking person and back the hell out of them, and see what could happen.
Never again 'blue no matter who'
Pick the best fucking person and back the hell out of them, and see what could happen.
Democrats helped Republicans kill a ten billion dollar industry in order to cave on the shutdown.
of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Also, the caving started around the time 12 major airports grounded all private flights.
Never again 'blue no matter who'
Pick the best fucking person and back the hell out of them, and see what could happen.
Never again 'blue no matter who'
Pick the best fucking person and back the hell out of them, and see what could happen.
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They literally had a caucus meeting to decide who would vote against the filibuster. It's not an accident that no one up for reelection in 2026 is on this list save Fetterman, who is legit bonkers.
Schumer planned behind closed doors to do this & all agreed.
All of them are traitors. All of them.
Schumer planned behind closed doors to do this & all agreed.
All of them are traitors. All of them.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
They literally had a caucus meeting to decide who would vote against the filibuster. It's not an accident that no one up for reelection in 2026 is on this list save Fetterman, who is legit bonkers.
Schumer planned behind closed doors to do this & all agreed.
All of them are traitors. All of them.
Schumer planned behind closed doors to do this & all agreed.
All of them are traitors. All of them.
So, snow. A few centimeters, even. Already.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
So, snow. A few centimeters, even. Already.
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This is a must read
Seems all too common for a person to have some early success in life, see it as proof of their genius and downplay any luck or privilege that could have gotten them there, and then become incapable of self reflection and growth
See also Dawkins, JK Rowling, etc...
Seems all too common for a person to have some early success in life, see it as proof of their genius and downplay any luck or privilege that could have gotten them there, and then become incapable of self reflection and growth
See also Dawkins, JK Rowling, etc...
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
This is a must read
Seems all too common for a person to have some early success in life, see it as proof of their genius and downplay any luck or privilege that could have gotten them there, and then become incapable of self reflection and growth
See also Dawkins, JK Rowling, etc...
Seems all too common for a person to have some early success in life, see it as proof of their genius and downplay any luck or privilege that could have gotten them there, and then become incapable of self reflection and growth
See also Dawkins, JK Rowling, etc...
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Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
BREAKING: James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix whose work reshaped medicine, forensics and genetics, dies at 97.
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA, has died at age 97
Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died. He was 97.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person
Don't idolize bad people
No gods, no masters. Forever.
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
No gods, no masters. Forever.
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I’m just saying, I directed a movie for basically no money that debuted in the 90s on rotten tomatoes and got distribution with no stars attached, I did not get a single call and couldn’t even find a rep as a director. This was not the case for any of the male directors I went to AFI with.
She's absolutely right. As a producer with several films in development with female directors, I can say it is an absolute uphill battle to get execs to fund their projects. Great scripts are sitting on shelves while a generation of our most talented women sit idle.
www.avclub.com/kristen-stew...
www.avclub.com/kristen-stew...
Kristen Stewart declares "state of emergency" over gender inequality in film
Kristen Stewart declares "state of emergency" over gender inequality in film
www.avclub.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I’m just saying, I directed a movie for basically no money that debuted in the 90s on rotten tomatoes and got distribution with no stars attached, I did not get a single call and couldn’t even find a rep as a director. This was not the case for any of the male directors I went to AFI with.
Give EVERYBODY eat.
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Give EVERYBODY eat.