Joel
@polyparadigm.bsky.social
Materials scientist:some range and depth, interested in making arcane topics a little more accessible.
Prior place photo was from the aughts; figured I should update.
Prior place photo was from the aughts; figured I should update.
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Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936
Right: 1936 electoral map
Right: 1936 electoral map
November 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936
Right: 1936 electoral map
Right: 1936 electoral map
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When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored?
Started. Going.
Started. Going.
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored?
Started. Going.
Started. Going.
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This Day in Labor History: November 30, 1999. The WTO protests begin in Seattle. Carefully constructed coalitions between labor, environmentalists, and other activists were blown up by anarchists who hijacked the protests for their own purposes, leading to a violent response from the Seattle cops!!!
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 30, 1999. The WTO protests begin in Seattle. Carefully constructed coalitions between labor, environmentalists, and other activists were blown up by anarchists who hijacked the protests for their own purposes, leading to a violent response from the Seattle cops!!!
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Republicans in rural Georgia are voting for Democrats for the first time in their lives in order to stop expansion of data centers and escalation of their utility bills, leading to landslide upsets
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
‘The New Price of Eggs.’ The Political Shocks of Data Centers and Electric Bills
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Republicans in rural Georgia are voting for Democrats for the first time in their lives in order to stop expansion of data centers and escalation of their utility bills, leading to landslide upsets
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
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A brilliant post.
Disciplinary literacy isn't a literacy specific to a discipline; it is universal literacy as manifested in a discipline.
Etymology and morphology taught across disciplines provides a linguistic schema which aids access to all subjects. Prefixes and suffixes are cross-curricular.
Disciplinary literacy isn't a literacy specific to a discipline; it is universal literacy as manifested in a discipline.
Etymology and morphology taught across disciplines provides a linguistic schema which aids access to all subjects. Prefixes and suffixes are cross-curricular.
New Blog Post 📝
Etymology in science usually stops at just photosynthesis, but I use it almost every single lesson.
Here are a few stories of some of my lessons and the impact teaching etymology has made on pupil understanding and literacy.
inquestion.co.uk/2025/11/28/e...
Etymology in science usually stops at just photosynthesis, but I use it almost every single lesson.
Here are a few stories of some of my lessons and the impact teaching etymology has made on pupil understanding and literacy.
inquestion.co.uk/2025/11/28/e...
Chlorine is Green, Zoos Have Life and Kings are Killed: Using Etymology in Science
It started with a happy accident. I had finished a lesson with my Year 8s and, surprisingly, we had powered through the material with 15 minutes to spare. My plan for the next lesson was to introdu…
inquestion.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
A brilliant post.
Disciplinary literacy isn't a literacy specific to a discipline; it is universal literacy as manifested in a discipline.
Etymology and morphology taught across disciplines provides a linguistic schema which aids access to all subjects. Prefixes and suffixes are cross-curricular.
Disciplinary literacy isn't a literacy specific to a discipline; it is universal literacy as manifested in a discipline.
Etymology and morphology taught across disciplines provides a linguistic schema which aids access to all subjects. Prefixes and suffixes are cross-curricular.
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The reason I want to see Secretary Hegseth and Admiral Bradley charged with murder, based on what we know, isn't because I hate the US military. It's because I served in the US military and respect it, and want to see its honor restored.
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
The reason I want to see Secretary Hegseth and Admiral Bradley charged with murder, based on what we know, isn't because I hate the US military. It's because I served in the US military and respect it, and want to see its honor restored.
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The current government of Honduras accomplished a big thing:
They ruled ZEDEs (Zone for Employment and Economic Development) unconstitutional. Retroactively.
Prospera, a ZEDE = Unconstitutional
Network State = Unconstitutional
You need a coup to reverse that.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/...
They ruled ZEDEs (Zone for Employment and Economic Development) unconstitutional. Retroactively.
Prospera, a ZEDE = Unconstitutional
Network State = Unconstitutional
You need a coup to reverse that.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/...
November 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The current government of Honduras accomplished a big thing:
They ruled ZEDEs (Zone for Employment and Economic Development) unconstitutional. Retroactively.
Prospera, a ZEDE = Unconstitutional
Network State = Unconstitutional
You need a coup to reverse that.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/...
They ruled ZEDEs (Zone for Employment and Economic Development) unconstitutional. Retroactively.
Prospera, a ZEDE = Unconstitutional
Network State = Unconstitutional
You need a coup to reverse that.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/...
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Yeah. Before the fall, CK's act—and his fandom—rested on the premise that his worst self wasn't his true self. Now it's the opposite, and that's just not interesting as comedy.
He is just generally an alt-right, unrepentantly racist and transphobic piece of shit. He is also a genuinely bad comedian, much in the way that thin-skinned assholes often are 🤷♀️
www.gq.com/story/louis-...
www.gq.com/story/louis-...
Louis C.K. Targets Trans People and Parkland Shooting Survivors in a Leaked Set
He's still trying to make his comeback happen.
www.gq.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Yeah. Before the fall, CK's act—and his fandom—rested on the premise that his worst self wasn't his true self. Now it's the opposite, and that's just not interesting as comedy.
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I was forced to see this now you do too
Don’t share
Don’t share
November 30, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I was forced to see this now you do too
Don’t share
Don’t share
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Tell us, old man, how shall we be employ’d?
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Tell us, old man, how shall we be employ’d?
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dads are finding out about generics
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
dads are finding out about generics
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The best American flag is the battle flag of Tecumseh Sherman’s 23rd Corps, made from the tattered remains of Confederate banners.
November 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The best American flag is the battle flag of Tecumseh Sherman’s 23rd Corps, made from the tattered remains of Confederate banners.
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iggy calls a christmas tree a fishing tree because it originally had twine around it and he thinks twine is like fishing line. he's laying in bed in the dark saying hello, mama. hello, papa. hello, fishing tree
November 30, 2025 at 3:11 AM
iggy calls a christmas tree a fishing tree because it originally had twine around it and he thinks twine is like fishing line. he's laying in bed in the dark saying hello, mama. hello, papa. hello, fishing tree
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We are still, I assure you, New York Fucking City.
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We are still, I assure you, New York Fucking City.
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this guy is betting on a future with accountability for today’s crimes, so we should too
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
this guy is betting on a future with accountability for today’s crimes, so we should too
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"The incidence of myocarditis found for young men after SARS-CoV-2 infection is larger than what we found for myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination."
The research of Vinay Prasad
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The research of Vinay Prasad
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
COVID‐19 vaccine induced myocarditis in young males: A systematic review
In reporting rates of myocarditis post COVID19 vaccination, breaking down rates by age, sex, dose, and manufacturer results in higher reported estimates than studies that report overall rates in the ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"The incidence of myocarditis found for young men after SARS-CoV-2 infection is larger than what we found for myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination."
The research of Vinay Prasad
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The research of Vinay Prasad
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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"I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better than to have us feel awful about who we are."
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better than to have us feel awful about who we are."
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Average folks kettled ICE
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Average folks kettled ICE
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
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Many happy returns to the Public Universal Friend! 🎉
Seriously, everybody ought to take ten minutes or so and read something about the Public Universal Friend
You are not prepared for the PUF
Seriously, everybody ought to take ten minutes or so and read something about the Public Universal Friend
You are not prepared for the PUF
just this second learning about (and reading up on) the Public Universal Friend, whose birthday is today
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Many happy returns to the Public Universal Friend! 🎉
Seriously, everybody ought to take ten minutes or so and read something about the Public Universal Friend
You are not prepared for the PUF
Seriously, everybody ought to take ten minutes or so and read something about the Public Universal Friend
You are not prepared for the PUF
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"quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically"
Let's all make that a 2026 goal!
Let's all make that a 2026 goal!
Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.
Our members keep getting papers.
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"quadrupling down on being a pain in the ass, politically"
Let's all make that a 2026 goal!
Let's all make that a 2026 goal!
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update on the glittery squash: definitely mix it with sparkling water
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
update on the glittery squash: definitely mix it with sparkling water