Ron Buckmire 🏳️‍🌈♾️🇬🇩

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I endorse this position. Please block me as well if you disagree. In a 2-party democracy, voting is a civic duty. In some cases, that may involve voting for “the lesser of two evils.” #Adulting #VoteBlue

On Intersex Awareness Day, Zach Eisenstein explains why political attempts to define sex as strictly male or female ignore scientific reality.

“I am a math professor, and my field is in crisis,” Steven Strogatz writes of the introduction of AI into mathematics. He argues that his field is as much an expression of the human spirit as music and literature:

@stevenstrogatz.com has written an amazing piece, not just about the impact of AI on mathematics, but also about the bifurcated nature of the subject between theoretical (“pure”) and applied mathematics (and the mathematicians themselves). Read it and weep! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

#SaturdayNightMovie with the spousal unit was “El Rubio” (The Blonde One). Another gay movie written and directed by Marco Berger, from 2019. About two guys who are both ostensibly straight (the titular Gabriel has a preteen daughter) and roommates. Much sexual tension and horny silences ensue. A-.

Thank you for this, and for using the delightful verb “yeet[ed]” #TheMoreYouKnow

I donated, you can too!! #VotingIsNecessaryButNotSufficient #VoteMaximizer #GrabThemByTheLegislature

Happy Pythagorean Triple day! 10-24-26 satisfies the formula 10-squared plus 24-squared (100+576) equals 26-squared (676). This means that 10 and 24 can be the shorter sides of a right-angles triangle and 26 will be the longest side (hypotenuse). #MathIsEverywhere

As many colleges roll back or eliminate such programs, Sacramento State has expanded its offerings for students of color. n.pr/4iDvZnd

A major cybersecurity flaw imperiled 70 percent of the internet, @cwarzel.bsky.social reports. He spoke with the volunteer who helped fix it:

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

America is not a Christian nation. It was never founded as one. That doesn't stop 45% of Americans from saying we *should be* a Christian nation. This election is our chance to show up loudly on the side of secular democracy. Vote Nov. 3, or vote early today in most states. ffrf.us/vote

New SEC filings show that Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to pay California’s billionaire tax without losing control of Meta. So billionaires can afford to pay the tax? And they won't lose control of their companies or flee the state? Don’t fall for billionaires’ propaganda. Vote YES on Prop 40.

#AlreadyVoted #YesonProp40 #NoonProp41 #NoonProp42

A text I got yesterday, day after mailing my ballot: “RON B, A Message from California Secretary of State on behalf of Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters. The US Postal Service has collected your ballot for the November 3, 2026, General Election and will deliver it to your county soon.” #vote

I was at the gym tonight and almost fell off my treadmill when an ad came on talking about how “Liberals are obsessed with skin color” and “Liberals are the real racists”—anyone else seen this ad? It wasn’t associated with a candidate, just random sh*t appearing on a local Fox station in New York.

If you’re in STEM and you’re eligible to vote in the midterms…YOU BETTER BE VOTING. I want “I VOTED” sticker selfies in the comments. This is an unconstitutional robbery of our scientific ecosystem cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

We tracked the right-wing funding networks behind the civility-industrial complex. At @theguardian.com, @alicesperi.bsky.social uses our research to explore the explosive growth of "civility" and "dialogue" programs on campuses across the U.S.: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

WTH #NC it’s almost 2027 and shit like this still goes on! Must be Trump lovers. FFS 6 officers arrested due to seeing who could arrest the most black people! WTH 🤬 Stop the madness #Blues

“I love this song”!

JESUS: "Have empathy." EVANGELICALS: "Fuck you. I will be the one to decide how to follow you. And it's gonna be about hating folks and getting stuff!!!"

Filled out my California ballot today! Amazingly, the deluge of mailers for and against various Propositions followed us all the way to Poughkeepsie. Voter ID? In this economy? Hell no!! Billionaire tax? Yes, please! #NoOnProp39 #YesOnProp50 #VoteNaked #BlueWave2026

🤓 #vote #midterms

Or to just go along with lying just because it is “their team” (and often, their president) who is the source and amplifier of the lie. #ThisIsNotNormal

A Texas Republican wants a billboard featuring Trump's endorsement to come down. A lawyer for Eric Flores, who's running in a competitive House district, sent a cease and desist over a billboard it argues could "cause voter confusion."

"When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour" federal minimum is $7.25

Ouch! Imagine being leaked as a name who did NOT get the job when the person who got it lasted only 5 days!? #ZacariahScaramucci

What the heck is going on with #Prop39 (to require ID to vote ) in California? Is there any RECENT polling? #2026elections

36% of MAGA republicans favor live broadcasts of executions just completely fucked up people

#StructuralRacism example 432. If white people got “ashy” there would be cocoa butter / body lotion in every hotel room, instead there are hair dryers (and bibles). Jus’ sayin’

DOJ’s Threat Letter to California Voting Officials with a 48-Hour Deadline is Amateurish Political Theater Aimed at Sowing Chaos, Not to Mention a Demand That Likely Violates Federal Law and Election Security Practices electionlawblog.org/2026/dojs-th...

“Every word out of her mouth is a lie, including ‘I’,‘am’, ‘a’, and ‘lawyer”’! #OnlyTheBestPeople

Did James Talarico tell his grandmother that he thought he might be gay? Oh, no! That was JD Vance! Has James Talarico been in a 15 year mentor-protégé relationship with gay billionaire Peter Thiel? Oh, no! That was JD Vance! Did James Talarico pose in drag? Oh, no! That was JD Vance!

For almost 2 years now, DHS has repeatedly told me they're not detaining U.S. citizens It's simply not true So @propublica.org published the receipts: a searchable database of the 500+ citizens detained by immigration agents during this Trump administration projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

What’s truly terrifying is watching grown adults mistake a boat-shaped rock formation for proof that a 4,000-year-old fairy tale is real.

#Saturdaynightmovie was “The Astronaut Lovers” aka “Los Amantes Astronautas” (dir. Marco Berger, 2024). A gay guy visits his straight friends for a summer stay at the beach and connects with an ostensibly straight guy who everyone thinks is gay. Hijinks ensue. A- gay rom com.

Bounces Box #001 9/9 · 9/9 guesses 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 box.benrothenberg.com

Preach! “Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. […] For [Republicans], resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal.“ #CriticalRaceTheory

November 3 is our chance to elect California's first Latino governor in over 150 years. A governor who fights for working families. Vote Xavier Becerra for Governor.

A new Pew Research Center poll has Trump’s approval rating plunging to just 30% — his lowest showing in a high-quality poll this term. His previous low was 31% in a recent AP-NORC poll. A whopping 68% of Americans now disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job.

Trump Approval Sinks to 30% https://politicalwire.com/2026/10/08/trump-approval-sinks-to-30/?ap=b

AI has been growing ever more capable in mathematics, but now OpenAI has released hundreds of papers at the same time – to the astonishment of mathematicians

#FunFact: Yes, it's now possible to drive a standard, mainstream EV from New York to Los Angeles in a reasonable amount of time without getting stranded with a dead battery and WITHOUT having to use a Tesla station!