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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)@nora.zone |
ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.
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Oden
@odense.bsky.social
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There usually more variance within groups than between groups. Odds ratio is more important than almost anything else. There are more false positives/false negatives out there than people realize, including in published research. Discount any research without a power analysis. It is underpowered.
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Kay
@mossmaker.bsky.social
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Archaeoasteonomy is an actual field and tool. We've used Archaeoastronomy to date a star map found in a burial once, and then used it to tie in the symboligy of items around the burial, in context of the map almost 2000 years old.
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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤
@fluxandflow.bsky.social
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Almost any hobby/interest can begin with "I wonder how they...". I've learned so many things by being curious, and not afraid.
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Amphibious Cat
@amphibiouscat.bsky.social
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Damn good thread homie 👍
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PlanetCarnival
@planetcarnival.bsky.social
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BJThomasMA/MS
@thehandyman.bsky.social
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Statistical regressions are basically kayfabe of professional wrestling. They don't offer an unquestionable natural truth. That .05 confidence level means that it's a good guess 95% of the time. In short, it's "real enough" for us to buy into it.
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@themudman.bsky.social
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I don't do this often, but this one is important. A ton of commerce and privacy guardrails turn on and off based on your account or profile's date of birth. Always make sure your kids' DoB is set up correctly when they are using anything connected to the Internet.
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MissyLissa.bsky.social
@missylissa.bsky.social
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Most legislatures have dedicated non-political staff that write bills. They are not typically written by legislators or their aides, although they certainly work with the drafting process. The same people are generally writing the legislation for both parties.
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Kat McGowan
@mcgowankat.bsky.social
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As a reporter, I never write the headlines for the story, and almost never the “display copy” (captions, subheadings, etc). Editors do. I rarely meet the photographers assigned to my stories; they set their shoots up separately on request of editor. It’s still a top-down, hierarchical business.
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✨pencilears✨
@pencilears.bsky.social
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"fat over lean" which is a guideline for oil painting, also applies generally. this is the rule that thicker, transparent, and waxy, layers should be applied after thinner, opaque, and solvent-ey, layers. frex: you lay down marker,colored pencil, and then crayon it makes a good depth of color.
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peptide
@peptide.bsky.social
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It's too bad @bsky.app doesn't link straight to the quote post, instead making you go to the feed of "repost"ers and search.
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Elizabeth Eileen
@lizeileen.bsky.social
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How do we get from here to see the quotes? I have never been able to figure that out and since this is a learning thread 😅😅 feel like I must be missing something super obvious
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MrClark
@mrclark.bsky.social
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Database programmer. Long ago, when we paid a dollar a month to have an unlisted number it went like this: the first time we pay them to switch us-- in their database-- from listed to unlisted. Every month after that we paid them not to switch you back. It was extortion masked as a service.
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Ryan Ritter
@ndtex.gamin4aven.org
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Aidan O'Brien
@aidanobrien.bsky.social
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Big VFX/Action films are basically directed by committee. The VFX supervisor has designed and planned the VFX sequences & will likely direct the VFX shoot. There’s about 3 different units filming at the same time and the stunt/fight scenes are directed by the 2nd unit director.
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Paula Schaap
@redsonja.bsky.social
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I can read a 10K like nobody's business.
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Passing Strange At Present
@chimaera.bsky.social
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Nobody wants your father's collection of National Geographic. Seriously. No library anywhere. Good for paper crafts, though.
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John. Just John.
@justjohn.bsky.social
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Quoted but also replied: The reason I step out of the room when I shoot your xray isn't because one xray is dangerous--it's that standing in the room for 50 of them a day for years and years is. You're only getting exposed once. Chill tf out. You get exposed to more radiation on a 4 hour flight.
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@rbinmv.bsky.social
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In the Reagan years, defense contracts were so fat and easy that in Silicon Valley where I worked it was like finding money in the street. Many got cash rich, but many more bought valuable California homes and real estate on profits and earnings of systems and stuff that were total, useless junk.
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Zipper G.
@420petcatseveryday.bsky.social
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I pet sit and bartend. I know who everyone is sleeping with and I have keys for half the houses in my neighborhood.I also know that many folks need to change the code on their security systems. Having your code set to DOGS isn’t as secure as you think it is. Also, the “hvac guy” is something else.
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Squire Boone
@isomorphism.net
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You really should pay attention to your local school board meetings. Also your city council meetings. You can form a little group and rotate the duty.
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Jim Marshall
@the6thjm.bsky.social
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If I quote skeet, nobody will see it. I have found no button to see people's quote-skeets of this topic. Anyway, this is related to my old job. Did you know that when you take a loan from your 401(k) plan, and you pay it back with interest, you end up getting double-income-taxed on the interest?
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Tom
@alttag.bsky.social
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Null and False are different things, and are not equal to each other.
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Mr. Thursday
@mrthursday.bsky.social
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Going from prototype to production isn't a simple process. You off need to redesign for the limitations of high volume manufacturing processes, and so that workers who build the product can do it quickly, safely, and reliably with minimal tinkering.
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Armando Bayolo
@armandobayolo.bsky.social
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Classical music is a living tradition. There are a ton of people out there still writing the stuff.
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Dan
@innumo.bsky.social
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There is no such thing as "the right answer". Doing something simple and a bit wrong will likely work. Doing something complicated and a bit wrong will likely not work. Neither are "right" so stick with simple.
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Walter Shapiro
@mrwaltershapiro.bsky.social
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When "Waiting for Godot" made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in 1956 starring Bert Lahr and Tom Ewell, it was advertised as "the laugh sensation of two continents. "
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Spare Sidekick (They/Them)
@sparesidekick.bsky.social
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The four second rule is more like a 14 minute rule
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@knishes.bsky.social
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Jacques Plante, the famous goalie in ice hockey, used to knit all his own toques for games.
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Andy
@andyharwood.bsky.social
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Until the 19th Century books were sold as loose sheets of paper which you had to bind yourself
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Greg Stolze
@gregstolze.bsky.social
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The rule of creative endeavors is: Nobody helps you. Nobody cares. There are exceptions to the rule - possibly many exceptions. They are all that matter.
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Lajfun
@lajfun.bsky.social
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Writers are NOT naturally also social media experts, editors, marketers, or salespeople.
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Patchen Barss
@patchenbarss.bsky.social
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Any two numbers whose reciprocals add up to one have a sum equal to their product.
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AK Faulkner 🏳️⚧️🖊️📚
@poopraven.bsky.social
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Author here. Did you know that if we want other people to read our books, first we have to sit down and write them? The whole thing? Staring into space doesn't get the book to write itself? Disgusting, I know! 😂🤣😭
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@jagernaut.bsky.social
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Early video games tended to have extremely memorable melodies because of hardware limitations. The NES could only really produce 4 sounds at once, so the music composition had to be fairly simple. The composers tended to compensate by making simple but catchy melodies.
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Lux🐾🦚🐤😷
@luxcanaryfox.bsky.social
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There are three types of asbestos that were primarily used in the construction industry: chrysotile, crocidolite, and amosite. A town in remote Australia was once forcibly abandoned due to nearby hills of natural crocidolite. Chrysotile is the most commonly found type in old building products.
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Wayworser
@wayworser.bsky.social
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"The Big Bang" doesn't refer to the creation of the Universe. It's a moment very close to the starting point, where the universe experienced a rapid expansion. We have even less idea of what happened at the very start, but our theories ask for this rapid expansion act, followed by other processes.
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🎸Paul🎹
@paul.bsky.social
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Every music artist you know since around Y2K has had pitch correction applied to their voice in the studio. It’s not because they can’t sing, it’s to save time by reducing the amount of takes and time needed stitching takes together. It’s just a faster workflow is all.
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de Pesando
@depesando.bsky.social
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Your brain doesn't 'read' the black letters on the page - it more accurately processes the white spaces between and within them.
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Chris Roberts
@rickzarber.bsky.social
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Replying too, to spread awareness: Home video tape only has a shelf life of 30-40 years before the plastic backing the magnetic strip of the tape begins to break down. An entire generation of people's recorded media will become unrecoverable within the next decade. Digitize it now while you can.
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BWS
@bwseire.bsky.social
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Also, 99 out of 100 times when someone says "we will sue you," they're *not* going to sue, so you shouldn't let the threat forgotten you. Mild annoyance, sure, no one likes to be threatened, but certainly not frightened.
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BWS
@bwseire.bsky.social
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If someone demands a response in 24 hours or otherwise they will do something scary / bad/ harmful to you / your biz, you never, ever, ever, need to respond in 24 hours. You might need to respond, but you can take your time.
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Bee 🐝
@lilyroseheart.bsky.social
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Is there a way to view quote tweets? My bsky doesn't show it
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MattBille
@mattbille.bsky.social
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"No one 'saw Sputnik:' the tiny ball was invisible to the unaided eye. What millions of people saw was the 60-foot core stage of the R-7 booster, which followed the satellite into orbit." - my book The First Space Race
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Jim
@jcarbroooke.bsky.social
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In every large organization, every 5 years, the new manager of world/nation/enterprise/state-wide operations will declare that central management must be dispersed for more effective local decision making and in 5 years the necessity will be to consolidate to establish a central-focused strategy.
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Algondio 🇮🇹=💩
@algondio.bsky.social
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capitalism is slavery. the rich are stealing from us.
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Jono
@jonocarpenter.bsky.social
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Archaeology is about people, then and now. If you're doing it about the things, you missed the point.
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isaac
@sevier.io
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Everyone should know more about their electricity company imo bsky.app/profile/sevi...
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Chabitz
@chabitz.bsky.social
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In general, if you’re the average taxpayer, doing something because “it’s a tax deduction” is a bad decision. Donate to charity because you want to!
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LurkyMcLurk
@lurkymclurk.bsky.social
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Many (most?) jobs (especially in a management role) are therapy. Most jobs are consulting
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Firdarrig
@firdarrig.bsky.social
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When working in a modern library, at least a third of your day is spent helping people use the printers.
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Mike Patterson
@mikepatterson.bsky.social
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All data sets are created with built in bias. What it include, how to include it, what counts and what doesn't. There is literally no data, stats, experiment, or anything that doesn't bear the distinct fingerprint of the choices of its original creators. To say otherwise is to demonstrate ignorance
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pare de sufrir
@heddita.bsky.social
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people think there’s someone out there coming to hack them but there is rarely ever such person. it’s usually automated and you fell into their net bc they found a vulnerability in your device or your password has been leaked. update your devices. don’t use the same passwords for banks and socials.
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Ari is doing aer best
@raantuva.bsky.social
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📌
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Corey Johnson
@coreyjohnson.bsky.social
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In software dev, especially mobile, something will always be broken. With how many layers of dependencies there are, as well as hardware abstractions, there are so many things that you can never fix. It's important to recognize those pitfalls, so you can create UX workarounds for people instead.
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An Unknown Compelling Force
@oscarandjeeves.bsky.social
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Julia S.
@booktweeting.bsky.social
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you can negotiate your hospital bills (in the US)
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Steve Haroz
@steveharoz.com
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To anyone at BlueSky, here is a use case for viewing quote posts!
@pfrazee.com @jaz.bsky.social
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)
@nora.zone
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(quotes are preferred because it's easier to spin off conversations about specific topics on them; it's hard to do that in busy reply threads because bluesky still doesn't let you untag people, so if too many people reply i end up having to mute the post sooner)
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regina "vax and mask, save a life" giraffe
@reginagiraffe.bsky.social
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The Roswell Park Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY is always referenced as "Roswell". I had been working for a decade before I found out that the last name of the guy who founded it wasn't Roswell (with the Park being like Estate or Plaza) but Park. So we call the place by the guy's first name.
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TheBaroness
@thebaroness.bsky.social
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Backstage is not exciting or glamorous; it’s full of tired people whose day is only about half done by the time your favorite band hits the stage.
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jamie quinn 🏳️⚧️
@threnody.bsky.social
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this was such a great prompt. i’ve really enjoyed seeing everyone’s responses to it.
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