Jim Gruman
@opus1993.bsky.social
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
(welp it's been nice knowing you)
(welp it's been nice knowing you)
December 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
(welp it's been nice knowing you)
(welp it's been nice knowing you)
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Kids who got new bikes for Christmas, "super excited" to walk them around the city that's too dangerous to ride in.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Cooking up a National Park Service / National Historic Site road trip. What am I missing?
December 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Cooking up a National Park Service / National Historic Site road trip. What am I missing?
It’s not like the true motivation here was ever a great mystery. A constitutive element of MAGA fascism is cruelty for its own sake; Republicans are coming after trans people because they are a small and largely powerless minority.
@ryanlcooper.com
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
@ryanlcooper.com
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
The Transphobic Mask Is Off - The American Prospect
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene drew up a bill making it a federal felony to provide pediatric transition care of any kind. The ultimate goal is a ban on all trans health care and the end of civil rights ...
prospect.org
December 19, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It’s not like the true motivation here was ever a great mystery. A constitutive element of MAGA fascism is cruelty for its own sake; Republicans are coming after trans people because they are a small and largely powerless minority.
@ryanlcooper.com
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
@ryanlcooper.com
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
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Every word of this about the Republican war on trans people
"This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
"This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
The Transphobic Mask Is Off - The American Prospect
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene drew up a bill making it a federal felony to provide pediatric transition care of any kind. The ultimate goal is a ban on all trans health care and the end of civil rights ...
prospect.org
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Every word of this about the Republican war on trans people
"This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
"This narrative is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."
prospect.org/2025/12/19/t...
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Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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this full statement was remarkable and it's worth taking less than five minutes to listen and absorb what Rep. McBride says here. She notes her biggest regret in life was her inability to experience a childhood free of pain.
Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
Watch Rep. Sarah McBride's Powerful Statement on Republicans' Anti-Trans Obsession
The first openly trans member of Congress made a rare, personal appeal as the GOP wages an all-out assault on trans youth.
www.readtpa.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
this full statement was remarkable and it's worth taking less than five minutes to listen and absorb what Rep. McBride says here. She notes her biggest regret in life was her inability to experience a childhood free of pain.
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(Children are not getting these surgeries)
(Also, not sure where Oz has been looking, but he's way off on the costs, too)
(Also, not sure where Oz has been looking, but he's way off on the costs, too)
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
(Children are not getting these surgeries)
(Also, not sure where Oz has been looking, but he's way off on the costs, too)
(Also, not sure where Oz has been looking, but he's way off on the costs, too)
Don't threaten me with a good time
Scalise: "Does everybody in America want to be on Medicaid? That's what Democrats are doing."
December 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Don't threaten me with a good time
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Have you ordered your Christmas eels yet? Don't delay!
Medieval kings often served eels at their Xmas feasts. In 1213, King John had 10,000 eels at his holiday party. His son, Henry, once ordered up 40,000!
So get on it! You don't want your party to be the First Nö-eel, do you?
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Medieval kings often served eels at their Xmas feasts. In 1213, King John had 10,000 eels at his holiday party. His son, Henry, once ordered up 40,000!
So get on it! You don't want your party to be the First Nö-eel, do you?
🗃️🧪
December 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Have you ordered your Christmas eels yet? Don't delay!
Medieval kings often served eels at their Xmas feasts. In 1213, King John had 10,000 eels at his holiday party. His son, Henry, once ordered up 40,000!
So get on it! You don't want your party to be the First Nö-eel, do you?
🗃️🧪
Medieval kings often served eels at their Xmas feasts. In 1213, King John had 10,000 eels at his holiday party. His son, Henry, once ordered up 40,000!
So get on it! You don't want your party to be the First Nö-eel, do you?
🗃️🧪
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How excited am I allowed to be about Josh Starmer of #StatQuest joining us on the #DSHangout this week?! BECAUSE I AM EXCITED!
Josh makes me feel seen bc we both love explaining stats stuff in friendly ways, helping folks, & not taking ourselves too seriously
#databs #rstats #python #datascience
Josh makes me feel seen bc we both love explaining stats stuff in friendly ways, helping folks, & not taking ourselves too seriously
#databs #rstats #python #datascience
December 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
How excited am I allowed to be about Josh Starmer of #StatQuest joining us on the #DSHangout this week?! BECAUSE I AM EXCITED!
Josh makes me feel seen bc we both love explaining stats stuff in friendly ways, helping folks, & not taking ourselves too seriously
#databs #rstats #python #datascience
Josh makes me feel seen bc we both love explaining stats stuff in friendly ways, helping folks, & not taking ourselves too seriously
#databs #rstats #python #datascience
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This post is a killer. A collection of videos how wrong were the predictions of Makary, Prasad, and Bhattacharya. Trump put the lunatics in charge of the asylum.
Someone should invite me to Stanford, Hopkins, or UCSF so I can play videos of obvious disinformation from Makary, Prasad, and Bhattacharya, reminding their "leaders" how they rolled out the red carpet to the forces taking a wrecking ball to things today.
sciencebasedmedicine.org/nocensorship/
sciencebasedmedicine.org/nocensorship/
An Open Letter to the President of Stanford, Jonathan Levin: Don’t Censor Drs. Scott Atlas, John Ioannidis, Sunetra Gupta, Marty Makary, Monica Gandhi, Jay Bhattacharya, and Vinay Prasad. Amplify Th...
I trust you'll have the intellectual integrity to play videos of these speakers. Anything less, would be misinformation and censorship.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
December 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This post is a killer. A collection of videos how wrong were the predictions of Makary, Prasad, and Bhattacharya. Trump put the lunatics in charge of the asylum.
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There is a ginormous body of research devoted to giving mice huge doses of stuff to prove that it's dangerous.
I am seeing this paper being used to claim that mRNA vaccines consistently cause myocarditis in mice.
Let's look at this:
The average mouse weighs ~20 grams. The dose of vaccine that consistently caused myocarditis was 2 micrograms. (cont.)
Let's look at this:
The average mouse weighs ~20 grams. The dose of vaccine that consistently caused myocarditis was 2 micrograms. (cont.)
Inhibition of CXCL10 and IFN-γ ameliorates myocarditis in preclinical models of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination
Preclinical models of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination revealed a targetable CXCL10–IFN-γ axis that drives cytokine-induced cardiac injury.
www.science.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
There is a ginormous body of research devoted to giving mice huge doses of stuff to prove that it's dangerous.
December 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Will survey the Nextdoor reaction out here in the burbs
2/ self-driving car company waymo reportedly wants to bring its rideshare service to illinois.
i opine on why we don't need anymore clankers on our streets!
i opine on why we don't need anymore clankers on our streets!
Make It Make Sense: Feds tear-gas Elgin residents
Plus: Waymo eyes an expansion to Illinois and staff at the Book Cellar are unionizing.
chicagoreader.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Will survey the Nextdoor reaction out here in the burbs
spot on Jamelle and Adam
🚴♂️trekking across rural counties Iowa or Tennessee, purveyors of woo butter their bread saying that the locals are authentic and good and noble. And that the outsider is incapable. Low IQ.
The answer is not that we join in the woo. It's pathetic and dangerous.
🚴♂️trekking across rural counties Iowa or Tennessee, purveyors of woo butter their bread saying that the locals are authentic and good and noble. And that the outsider is incapable. Low IQ.
The answer is not that we join in the woo. It's pathetic and dangerous.
December 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
spot on Jamelle and Adam
🚴♂️trekking across rural counties Iowa or Tennessee, purveyors of woo butter their bread saying that the locals are authentic and good and noble. And that the outsider is incapable. Low IQ.
The answer is not that we join in the woo. It's pathetic and dangerous.
🚴♂️trekking across rural counties Iowa or Tennessee, purveyors of woo butter their bread saying that the locals are authentic and good and noble. And that the outsider is incapable. Low IQ.
The answer is not that we join in the woo. It's pathetic and dangerous.
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If your origins are Southern Italian, Irish, Polish etc. some version of this claim - the immigrant is a criminal underclass incompatible with the true Americans - has been around forever. They hate that the idea of America is more important than any group.
Stephen Miller: "If Somalia keeps failing, if these societies all over the world continue to fail, you have to ask yourself if you bring those societies into our country & then give them unlimited free welfare, what do we think is going to happen? You're going to replicate the conditions they left"
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If your origins are Southern Italian, Irish, Polish etc. some version of this claim - the immigrant is a criminal underclass incompatible with the true Americans - has been around forever. They hate that the idea of America is more important than any group.
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Yes, and what if your access to affordable healthcare was considered a right guaranteed to everyone by the government and not a bauble of certain types of employment or friggin club store membership? What then?
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Yes, and what if your access to affordable healthcare was considered a right guaranteed to everyone by the government and not a bauble of certain types of employment or friggin club store membership? What then?
Our corner of NE Iowa gained quite a few Okie farming families as more land was cleared and drained.
The dialects and the bigotry were there into the 80s.
The dialects and the bigotry were there into the 80s.
Segregation was not just a Southern phenomenon, it was a national issue. Explore the spatial history of racial segregation and discover how it connects to our communities today: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
December 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Our corner of NE Iowa gained quite a few Okie farming families as more land was cleared and drained.
The dialects and the bigotry were there into the 80s.
The dialects and the bigotry were there into the 80s.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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4/6. Using snow to envision a better community.
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
4/6. Using snow to envision a better community.
