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Matt Salomone

@matthematics.com

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Associate dean, Bartlett College of Science & Math, Bridgewater State University. Mathematics enjoyer. Views mine. ¹Best known for other work. 📍 Plymouth, MA

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 10h

“Lance” is a more convincing alias if you’re with your mister, rather than mistress

Homer Simpson complains in his kitchen to a seated Marge and John [John Waters] that gays “took our best names, like Bruce and Lance and Julian”

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 12h

"The answer to all three is 'Fried Green Tomatoes'" -Manjula Nahasapeemapetilan

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 13h

Pitch: one day to commemorate the living Marios, and a second to remember the many fallen Marios. Like Veterans Day and Memorial Day.

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 14h

“Tenure” is becoming a meaningless word used to justify underpaying faculty

a group of men standing next to each other with the words " you keep using that word " on the bottom

Alt: a group of men standing next to each other with the words " you keep using that word " on the bottom

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 14h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 15h

They did, but even they’ve thrown “meritocracy” over in favor of a spoils system

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 16h

If GOP is indeed steadfast in destroying the College Board, the progressive agenda is to make sure nothing replaces it. The College Board is an EdTech tapeworm inside K-16 gobbling away from both ends. I’m pretty sure its GOP critics just wish they owned the tapeworm.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 16h

the college board's not a progressive organization

Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 16h

I've proctored dozens of AP and SAT tests at my school and never earned a single dime for any of it.

They profit off an army of teachers providing them free labor.

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 15h

Dog Man is goated in household as well

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 17h

it's worth combatting right-wing allegations that the college board is a "progressive" monstrosity

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 17h

Pretty sure that’s the purpose of inflatables, to pack small

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 18h

Fascinating, thanks! I guess my preference for one-pedal driving is much like my preference for three-pedal… more about the experience than the efficiency

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 18h

Galaxy-brained cranky woo lords have treated “quantum” like a magical incantation for years, it’s about time it hit the mainstream

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18h

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 18h

Bad news--we had to lay off the undergraduate academic advisers to make room for The Glowing Quantum Monolith

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 19h

Source? (Genuinely asking, I haven't heard this assertion before)

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 19h

Much like the mispronunciation of "Kamala", the refusal to correctly render "Mamdani" has become a right-wing shibboleth.

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 20h

Yep, and the narrative is presented in the media as a textbook Appeal To Authority

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21h

Who is this Mandani chap I’ve been hearing so much about?

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 21h

Yep. See also “The Sin of Empathy”

Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 21h

He’s already got one tho

Billboard reading “HAVE A SUPER MAR 10” in a blocky font on a Super Mario Bros level background

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 22h

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 23h

This is how I imagine JK Rowling when she posts.

JK Rowling says "ha ha.. h-heh. I won! I won!" She sits alone in the dark, bathed in the late of her computer screen. We pull back to see her in a large dark empty room. She continues "I won." Seeing the full scope of her cavernous workplace, she appears small and alone. She says, once again, "I won..."

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 23h

Can’t believe how Roberts, Vought, &c. villain-monologued through the entire 2024 campaign and the modal response was “ehh, surely they don’t mean it”

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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 23h

Harrison Butker is missing kicks because of Woke

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1d

"Politics in the second Trump era can be mostly defined as people Posting adversarially in public"

- a quote that will one day make for a fantastic essay question

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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