Tomasz Olczyk
@tolczyk.bsky.social
sociologist at University of Warsaw
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Love this place. Especially at this time od the day ani year
July 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Love this place. Especially at this time od the day ani year
Postanowiłem w tym wątku założyć sobie zeszyt lektur jaki miałem w klasach 1-3 podstawówki i wrzucać tu luźne impresje na temat książek i komiksów, które aktualnie czytam.
June 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Postanowiłem w tym wątku założyć sobie zeszyt lektur jaki miałem w klasach 1-3 podstawówki i wrzucać tu luźne impresje na temat książek i komiksów, które aktualnie czytam.
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They've banned Calvin & Hobbes.
Read that again.
Read that again.
How profoundly sad. The kids deprived of reading Calvin and Hobbes are the kids who need them the most. My brother put it best: "We know we’re fucked when they come for your cartoon stuffed tigers."
Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
pen.org/magic-tree-h...
Let's go sit in the grass and crack open "The Days are Just Packed."
pen.org/magic-tree-h...
‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America
The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.
pen.org
June 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
They've banned Calvin & Hobbes.
Read that again.
Read that again.
Creatures I come across on my way to work
May 22, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Creatures I come across on my way to work
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@amaragraps is building a spreadsheet/database of Russian hybrid operations and wants your help documenting!
Hi:
If you have seen me running 'threadreaderapp' on your X posts, I am putting some threads inside of my Hybrid War Tracker project for the Eastern Flank. This one will enter too. Goal: to build a shared awareness.
Here are the first ~200 records (~500 more to go)
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
If you have seen me running 'threadreaderapp' on your X posts, I am putting some threads inside of my Hybrid War Tracker project for the Eastern Flank. This one will enter too. Goal: to build a shared awareness.
Here are the first ~200 records (~500 more to go)
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Hybrid_War_Tracking.xlsx
docs.google.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
@amaragraps is building a spreadsheet/database of Russian hybrid operations and wants your help documenting!
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cont.
Westerners don't understand how Russia's operations work.
Events are mostly unreported.
We need more eyes.
After all my records are entered, the spreadsheet will be open for others to enter data too.
Overview of the project:
fundrazr.com/a2Xv4b
please share, and/or donate if you can.
Westerners don't understand how Russia's operations work.
Events are mostly unreported.
We need more eyes.
After all my records are entered, the spreadsheet will be open for others to enter data too.
Overview of the project:
fundrazr.com/a2Xv4b
please share, and/or donate if you can.
Hybrid War Tracker: Exposing Russia’s Under-reported Ops in 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱
🧭 What’s Happening? Russia and Belarus are conducting a continuously-accelerated and under-reported hybrid war on our 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 🇵🇱 Eastern Flank. There have been over 400 hybrid attacks — sabotage, cyb...
fundrazr.com
May 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
cont.
Westerners don't understand how Russia's operations work.
Events are mostly unreported.
We need more eyes.
After all my records are entered, the spreadsheet will be open for others to enter data too.
Overview of the project:
fundrazr.com/a2Xv4b
please share, and/or donate if you can.
Westerners don't understand how Russia's operations work.
Events are mostly unreported.
We need more eyes.
After all my records are entered, the spreadsheet will be open for others to enter data too.
Overview of the project:
fundrazr.com/a2Xv4b
please share, and/or donate if you can.
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Closing quote:
"Europe is still a peace project. We don’t have bros or oligarchs making the rules. We don't invade our neighbours, and we don't punish them. On the contrary, there are twelve countries on the waiting list to become members of the European Union. That's about 150 million people."
"Europe is still a peace project. We don’t have bros or oligarchs making the rules. We don't invade our neighbours, and we don't punish them. On the contrary, there are twelve countries on the waiting list to become members of the European Union. That's about 150 million people."
April 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Closing quote:
"Europe is still a peace project. We don’t have bros or oligarchs making the rules. We don't invade our neighbours, and we don't punish them. On the contrary, there are twelve countries on the waiting list to become members of the European Union. That's about 150 million people."
"Europe is still a peace project. We don’t have bros or oligarchs making the rules. We don't invade our neighbours, and we don't punish them. On the contrary, there are twelve countries on the waiting list to become members of the European Union. That's about 150 million people."
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Thanks to @patrickstotz.bsky.social I was finally able to replicate maps of german elections in 2025. One can see the difference between sequential and qualitative palettes.
March 31, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Thanks to @patrickstotz.bsky.social I was finally able to replicate maps of german elections in 2025. One can see the difference between sequential and qualitative palettes.
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I wrote a blog post about unusual election maps.
Including sample code to generate striped coalition maps and a hat tip to @wallacetim.bsky.social and his fantastic maps in The Two Americas of 2016 for the NYT (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...).
Including sample code to generate striped coalition maps and a hat tip to @wallacetim.bsky.social and his fantastic maps in The Two Americas of 2016 for the NYT (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...).
Unusual election maps — Let's make a map
A blog post about how to make multicolored, striped elections maps, showing potential coalitions in an unusual way.
www.letsmakeamap.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I wrote a blog post about unusual election maps.
Including sample code to generate striped coalition maps and a hat tip to @wallacetim.bsky.social and his fantastic maps in The Two Americas of 2016 for the NYT (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...).
Including sample code to generate striped coalition maps and a hat tip to @wallacetim.bsky.social and his fantastic maps in The Two Americas of 2016 for the NYT (www.nytimes.com/interactive/...).
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"Poland has delivered 20,000 Starlink units to Ukraine since Russia's invasion in February 2022, and has been funding their maintenance to support internet connectivity".
Poland is paying for Ukraine's Starlink subscription, its deputy PM says
Poland said on Saturday it has been paying for Ukraine's Starlink subscription and will continue to do so despite sources saying the United States could consider cutting Ukraine's access to the satellite internet system.
www.reuters.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
"Poland has delivered 20,000 Starlink units to Ukraine since Russia's invasion in February 2022, and has been funding their maintenance to support internet connectivity".
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Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
February 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
Mood now
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py7x...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py7x...
Gordy's gone bro.
YouTube video by Adam “adamafenix”
www.youtube.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Mood now
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py7x...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py7x...
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It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
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If it wasn’t clear before today, the US has switched sides.
Zelenskyy may as well have been arguing with the Russians today, as they would have made exactly the same points.
Zelenskyy may as well have been arguing with the Russians today, as they would have made exactly the same points.
February 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If it wasn’t clear before today, the US has switched sides.
Zelenskyy may as well have been arguing with the Russians today, as they would have made exactly the same points.
Zelenskyy may as well have been arguing with the Russians today, as they would have made exactly the same points.
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Poland are the best bros for the Baltics.
We must build nukes. And increase cooperation. Make sure Finnbros join too. When Belarus and Ukraine get better, them too.
Make Commonwealth Great Again!
Then drinks & sauna.
If You're from any of the mentioned places, repost or bolshevik confirmed.
We must build nukes. And increase cooperation. Make sure Finnbros join too. When Belarus and Ukraine get better, them too.
Make Commonwealth Great Again!
Then drinks & sauna.
If You're from any of the mentioned places, repost or bolshevik confirmed.
❗️Polish Prime Minister Tusk: "If Viktor Orban really blocks European sanctions at a crucial moment for the war, it will be absolutely clear that in this great game for the security and future of Europe, he is playing on Putin's team, not in ours. With all the consequences of this fact."
January 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Poland are the best bros for the Baltics.
We must build nukes. And increase cooperation. Make sure Finnbros join too. When Belarus and Ukraine get better, them too.
Make Commonwealth Great Again!
Then drinks & sauna.
If You're from any of the mentioned places, repost or bolshevik confirmed.
We must build nukes. And increase cooperation. Make sure Finnbros join too. When Belarus and Ukraine get better, them too.
Make Commonwealth Great Again!
Then drinks & sauna.
If You're from any of the mentioned places, repost or bolshevik confirmed.
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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Some of Poland's Christmas traditions may seem rather unusual to outsiders.
We look at seven of the most interesting festive practices - from keeping fish in the bath and talking to animals, to putting hay under the tablecloth and watching Home Alone.
We look at seven of the most interesting festive practices - from keeping fish in the bath and talking to animals, to putting hay under the tablecloth and watching Home Alone.
Carp in the bath, hay on the table and Home Alone: the most unusual Polish Christmas traditions
From talking animals to Macauley Culkin, here are seven of Poland's most interesting Christmas traditions.
notesfrompoland.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Some of Poland's Christmas traditions may seem rather unusual to outsiders.
We look at seven of the most interesting festive practices - from keeping fish in the bath and talking to animals, to putting hay under the tablecloth and watching Home Alone.
We look at seven of the most interesting festive practices - from keeping fish in the bath and talking to animals, to putting hay under the tablecloth and watching Home Alone.
Lost the phone today while riding a bicycle in a freaking Polish autumn rain. To use Jackson Lamb line from Slow Horses: no more ar*e timing the pope for a while.
November 28, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Lost the phone today while riding a bicycle in a freaking Polish autumn rain. To use Jackson Lamb line from Slow Horses: no more ar*e timing the pope for a while.
A few days ago, we were practicing text data analysis and visualization using R with students. We used the transcript of the Harris–Trump debate (which I I haven't watched yet) and created a word tree using googleVis::gvisWordTree.
November 23, 2024 at 8:20 AM
A few days ago, we were practicing text data analysis and visualization using R with students. We used the transcript of the Harris–Trump debate (which I I haven't watched yet) and created a word tree using googleVis::gvisWordTree.
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To celebrate this gem of a book by @statsteph.bsky.social, @ivelasq3.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on complex survey data with #RStats and the #tidyverse, we are giving away one copy to a lucky winner. To enter, re-post this and follow me by Nov 24. Not affiliated with bsky.
November 21, 2024 at 9:09 AM
To celebrate this gem of a book by @statsteph.bsky.social, @ivelasq3.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on complex survey data with #RStats and the #tidyverse, we are giving away one copy to a lucky winner. To enter, re-post this and follow me by Nov 24. Not affiliated with bsky.