Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social)
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Studying behavior, all the time. Antifascist. BCBA-D, PhD. Associate professor. he/him
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Cumulative records cannot go down
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Thanks for sharing looks great
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They give it to their kids dummy
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
But that's actually providing a real service to your community...
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I think you should emigrate to the ocean
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Not to mention the murder of Tortuguita
Chantal James (@chantalalive.bsky.social) reposted
The Black Panthers were accurately describing the US as fascist in the 60s. That's how far behind you are if a dictator moving troops in to occupy cities & arresting his opposition & disappearing people is just clicking as fascism for you.
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After over 600 attempts, including an explosive cigar and a love struck assassin, this never happened
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youtu.be/Y2dew29sPGI?... Howell has a plan @howelldawdy.com
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social)
What do they think happens after this? After they've imprisoned enough people, after they've beat enough people, killed enough, what do they think happens? They think they win forever?
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
can't use .1 for a font size but 1 is plenty small and the whole word list fits easily in a single line. I recommend putting it at the bottom, otherwise short messages may include the text in email previews
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oo thats good
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It was a well lit room before he walked in
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Careful, that's a much more dangerous job, but you would actually see someone serving their community
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm actually very concerned how long it's taking
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Dyson sphere?
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
What the fuck is wrong with you
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Now is the time of monsters
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted
I've noticed that many of the non-Palestinians I know are very worried about damaging their relationships with fellow non-Palestinians. They worry that being vocally and actively opposed to genocide will damage relationships. 1. Is that relationship more important than the sanctity of human life?
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Stay sippin
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
I've never seen this before and it just made me laugh out loud thank you
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
We have to respect all our elected officials and listen to what they have to say 🫡
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Get an "AI" program to shit out an image for you and you don't need to worry about who has the rights to a photograph
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Love this @akpress.org !
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Agreed. Free the dogs from the pigs
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
If they want to be featured in more anarchist artwork they should stop working for cops 🙎🏻♂️ (kidding! 🖤)
Bill B. ☭ 🇵🇸 (@grateful42069.bsky.social) reposted
“Is Marx still relevant today? Only if you want to know why…” Michael Parenti from “Blackshirts and Reds”
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Oops! That is a search engine not a source try again
jeff computers (@helldude.bsky.social) reposted
i love that these guys went to quantico thinking they'd spend their careers hunting hannibal lecter or worst case scenario entrapping mentally ill muslim teens but instead they have to redact trumps name out of thousands of boxes of sex files and then walk a beat
Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) reposted
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
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Sorry about your brain
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What the fuck is wrong with you
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd love to ask people who talk about "progeny" and "legacy" what any of their great grandparents names were.
It's Going Down (@igd.bsky.social) reposted
"Did you not realize what this would be, being f*cking Gestapo? Quit your job. It's gonna be like this every f*cking day you're coming...anytime you try to kidnap people, we are gonna be here!” A rapid responder yelled at fleeing ICE agents in #Kansas. www.thedailypoliticususa.com/p/americans-...
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Get real Kamala is not a leftist
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh brother
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
I had 15 voicemails on my office phone from the past month, all the same clanker offering to "correct my business' Google listing".
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Surely it's the answer that keeps you up, not the question 😬
shaka 🦁👑 (@beejonson.me) reposted reply parent
It's funny how western liberalism basically just gave fascists a lifeline, after WWII. West Germany wasn't de-nazified. Europe wasn't de-nazified. Neither was the US. Europe, the United States of America, and the western world, literally just gave nazis a platform. Helped them with a restart.
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Devastating conclusion, thank you Katharine Beals for all your efforts
4WheelMe (@4wheelworkout.bsky.social) reposted
The country that kidnapped and enslaved Black Africans and justified it by saying we weren’t people. The country that had breeding plantations +
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
The average capitalism supporter has no clue what capitalism is 🤷🏻♂️
Fi 🏴 I STAND WITH PALESTINE & UKRAINE 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 (@asenathmagic.bsky.social) reposted
I don’t want to hear anyone tell me that what Israel has done, and continues to do, to Palestinians, is ‘measured’ & ‘proportional’. Netanyahu is a genocidal criminal. “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky #IStandWithPalestine
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
I like a diversity of tactics, the best of us will relish in dragging their asses, but I'm going to block just so I can get through my day with less awful shit.
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Why, was Jack the ripper rich?
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 (@chanda.bsky.social) reposted
I keep thinking about how Obama appointed Tom Homan to this role first
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social)
I'm a prison abolitionist except for people who play mill decks
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Idk what the window is but you can get refunds from ActBlue, I've done it
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social)
I've never embroidered before, I don't even know if I'm using the word correctly, but I might take a needle and thread and try to put my name on my new lab coat. That's the kind of unproductive busywork that I can really get into
Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) reposted
We all need to come to terms with the fact that we're living through a political revolution. The regime change from democracy to authoritarianism is still in motion, and can be reversed, but it's also much further along than we'd like to accept. It's a different system, not just different policies
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Marita Lorenz: 🥵🫦
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
I like your analogy
Andrew Henninger (@databyss.com) reposted reply parent
Imagine sacrificing a generation of childhood education to temporarily bump the stock price of Microsoft...
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
I used to have much better gymnastics practices when I glammed up (wore a leotard)
Black Aziz Anansi (@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app) reposted
I knew we were cooked as a society when everyone just sorta decided they were sick of dealing with Covid and everyone just decided to pretend like it wasn't a thing anymore.
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Great plan keep voting for them ✌🏻
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
How does deporting immigrants and facilitating genocide move us in a better direction?
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes they are in power now. When Ds are in power they put people in camps, you just don't care about it then
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
But y'all continually vote for politicians who put people in camps 🤷🏻♂️
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
"Breaking: Brown teenager fills out form correctly, in a way that is confusing to dumbasses"
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Reading science and human behavior goes a long way toward understanding behavior analysis, and the average understanding of Bx-ism is so backwards. I've heard PhD psychologists repeating the most baffling falsehoods/misunderstandings of it, not to mention the general public
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Idk if you're done with this thread but you're absolutely nailing it about so much about behavior. 🤌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 You should read Skinner.
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social)
Y'all think we vote this away?
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Sounds like an analogy for a gok stream, maybe she was doing an homage
Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb.bsky.social) reposted
The Israeli army refers to this practice as “Operation Salted Fish,” the Israeli version of the game ‘red light, green light.’ archive.ph/9CyTK
Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb.bsky.social) reposted
IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank god
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Y'all we didn't consider the consequences of our actions
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
A savage and perfectly apt description
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Guys remember to drink lots of water especially if you are writing strongly worded letters to nazis and generally being a useless shit
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social)
Atlanta dsa could do this if they weren't all weird little freaks
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Finally some real political options
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Learning how to mute them (typically one of the buttons on the right, you can just press them all) saved my sanity. I used to just walk away while gas pumped
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social)
If you're not a communist what the fuck is your problem
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
We all have limited time on earth, and this loser spent some of it writing an article about trump saying fuck
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Keep asking the Nazis to resign, great plan.
Alex Steed (@alexsteed.bsky.social) reposted
I’m not even going to engage in any debates because they’re all structured by fascists to be in bad faith. No fucking war. Do whatever you can to jam up the machine. This and the genocide and the kidnappings of people on our soil and the invasion of Los Angeles is all apocalyptic, stupid and evil.
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
You pray the murderers can keep murdering???
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
I found all those other names but not Cuomo. It's in a few different sections so it's possible I missed it? 🤷🏻♂️
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
I've got the 95 pg unredacted copy and couldn't find him in it
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Where? I can't find his name in my copy
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social)
I wonder if folks who teach American government type classes still pretend only Congress can declare war, and lie to their students about it
shaun (@shaunvids.bsky.social) reposted
ruler who killed civilians (including his own citizens) with murder drones is here with a timely message about autocracy
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Damn this looks great!
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Under-used dril perfectly deployed 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
I was making fun of you for being a credulous rube and believing in grifter nonsense
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Guys Hitler is having a real bad day in the bunker please no mental health jokes 🙏🏻
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
You should buy all their stickers and tshirts that's how you defeat that dang cheeto in the white house
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Saw a video of some mutant harassing protesters, getting in people's faces and seig heiling, no one so much as shoved him. Then the video cut to him some distance away being handcuffed and people clapping. A punch in the mouth coulda been more effective and less harmful than arrest and imprisonment!
Thom Ratkos (@thomratkos.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank youuuuu. Too few people are reading Gelderloos.
Spice8Rack (@spice8rack.bsky.social) reposted
Peter Gelderloos has a great bit in 'The Failure of Nonviolence' where he points out how strict nonviolent organisers often call the cops on protesters who step out of line with their doctrine: thus favouring state violence over the potential of violence from those under the state's thumb.
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We do know how humans work, it's just that the majority of psychologists are ignorant of the depth of understanding of operant conditioning because they'd rather build up useless cognitive explanatory fictions, reifications like "intelligence"
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