Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD
@lluaces.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Associate Chair Psychology at Indiana University. Depression, psychotherapy research, technology, and data science. 🏳️🌈🇵🇷 Personal account.
https://medium.com/@lluaces
https://medium.com/@lluaces
“You know that scene in Stranger Things when Max is running from a horrible monster and the music is fire but demon dimension is crumbling around her? That.”
“The question was ‘how are you feeling?’”
“Yes exactly. Except the music is only ok”
“The question was ‘how are you feeling?’”
“Yes exactly. Except the music is only ok”
December 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“You know that scene in Stranger Things when Max is running from a horrible monster and the music is fire but demon dimension is crumbling around her? That.”
“The question was ‘how are you feeling?’”
“Yes exactly. Except the music is only ok”
“The question was ‘how are you feeling?’”
“Yes exactly. Except the music is only ok”
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The Trump Plan will give Americans the opportunity to pay for their healthcare. One problem has yet to be solved: The healthcare will be unaffordable.
Q: What is the Republican healthcare plan?
TRUMP: If the Democrats go along with it -- which they don't want to -- I want the money to be paid to the people to go out and buy their own healthcare.
TRUMP: If the Democrats go along with it -- which they don't want to -- I want the money to be paid to the people to go out and buy their own healthcare.
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Trump Plan will give Americans the opportunity to pay for their healthcare. One problem has yet to be solved: The healthcare will be unaffordable.
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5 minutes after FIFA gives him a fake medal Trump wants to rename American football.
December 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
5 minutes after FIFA gives him a fake medal Trump wants to rename American football.
A thing about me is that if I am driving someplace where I have never been, my brain immediately turns off. “Can this car swim? IDK I’ve never driven in Tulsa. Maybe?”
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A thing about me is that if I am driving someplace where I have never been, my brain immediately turns off. “Can this car swim? IDK I’ve never driven in Tulsa. Maybe?”
I just saw a sign that said “honk for union busting.” I almost honked but then I realized I wasn’t sure if it’s pro or against.
December 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I just saw a sign that said “honk for union busting.” I almost honked but then I realized I wasn’t sure if it’s pro or against.
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hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone
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An art installation titled "Regular Animals," features the likenesses of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and other tech moguls on robot dogs.
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
An art installation titled "Regular Animals," features the likenesses of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and other tech moguls on robot dogs.
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There is a second implicit argument: nonwhite voters should count for less.
What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
December 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
There is a second implicit argument: nonwhite voters should count for less.
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Bari Weiss has a CBS town hall set with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk.
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
Bari Weiss to moderate CBS News town hall with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk
Exclusive: event, scheduled to air on 13 December, will focus on ‘grief, faith, politics, and more’, according to internal files
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Bari Weiss has a CBS town hall set with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk.
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
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Fascinating and so much more true and factual than the outdated inaccurate illustration below that we might be used to.
Is Our Picture of Evolution Still Stuck in the Past? thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu... #ape #darwin #Evolution #human #monkey #naturalselection via @mitpress.bsky.social
Is Our Picture of Evolution Still Stuck in the Past? thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu... #ape #darwin #Evolution #human #monkey #naturalselection via @mitpress.bsky.social
Is Our Picture of Evolution Still Stuck in the Past?
We may have ditched the monkey-to-man meme, but the myth of humans as nature’s “pinnacle of evolution” persists in subtler ways.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Fascinating and so much more true and factual than the outdated inaccurate illustration below that we might be used to.
Is Our Picture of Evolution Still Stuck in the Past? thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu... #ape #darwin #Evolution #human #monkey #naturalselection via @mitpress.bsky.social
Is Our Picture of Evolution Still Stuck in the Past? thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu... #ape #darwin #Evolution #human #monkey #naturalselection via @mitpress.bsky.social
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4. 4 is the number of times I’ve binge-watched Season 3 of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
December 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
4. 4 is the number of times I’ve binge-watched Season 3 of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
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So far, in less than one year, Donald Trump has issued over TEN TIMES as many pardons as he did in his entire four-year first term. That’s a lot of criminals released onto our streets.
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
So far, in less than one year, Donald Trump has issued over TEN TIMES as many pardons as he did in his entire four-year first term. That’s a lot of criminals released onto our streets.
Oh my god cini minis are back
December 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Oh my god cini minis are back
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If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
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Wow.
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
Woah. Newsmax’s legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for a war crime.”
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
They’ve even lost Newsmax on this one.
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Wow.
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
"It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.”
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
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Opinion | It’s a Good Time to Be an English Professor
No, really. https://bit.ly/4otqnws
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
No, really. https://bit.ly/4otqnws
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Opinion | It’s a Good Time to Be an English Professor
No, really. https://bit.ly/4otqnws
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
No, really. https://bit.ly/4otqnws
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Honestly even if I agreed with their policies, the absolute buffoonery and foolishness of this would still be offensive
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Honestly even if I agreed with their policies, the absolute buffoonery and foolishness of this would still be offensive
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Trump looks to be unconscious as Linda McMahon winds down her remarks
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Trump looks to be unconscious as Linda McMahon winds down her remarks
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Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨
S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria.
S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse.
Thread below... 🧵
S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria.
S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse.
Thread below... 🧵
November 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨
S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria.
S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse.
Thread below... 🧵
S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria.
S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse.
Thread below... 🧵
When my mom gives me the phone to talk to relatives I’ve met one 20 years ago
Watching this with audio off knowing that Trump is just ranting into a phone is top notch comedy
"She hates Christianity" -- Trump rants on Mike Johnson's phone at a Van Epps rally
December 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
When my mom gives me the phone to talk to relatives I’ve met one 20 years ago
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So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
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Opinion: “Graduates who learn to treat dissent as socially risky rather than intellectually necessary will carry those reflexes into newsrooms, policy units and professional institutions.”
🖊️ Yashraj Garg #highered #AcademicSky https://ow.ly/lZRT50XyB9X
🖊️ Yashraj Garg #highered #AcademicSky https://ow.ly/lZRT50XyB9X
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Opinion: “Graduates who learn to treat dissent as socially risky rather than intellectually necessary will carry those reflexes into newsrooms, policy units and professional institutions.”
🖊️ Yashraj Garg #highered #AcademicSky https://ow.ly/lZRT50XyB9X
🖊️ Yashraj Garg #highered #AcademicSky https://ow.ly/lZRT50XyB9X
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Sometimes, clarity arrives after you start writing — not before.
#PhDDailyThought #AcademicChatter #phdchat #academicsky #phdsky
#PhDDailyThought #AcademicChatter #phdchat #academicsky #phdsky
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Sometimes, clarity arrives after you start writing — not before.
#PhDDailyThought #AcademicChatter #phdchat #academicsky #phdsky
#PhDDailyThought #AcademicChatter #phdchat #academicsky #phdsky