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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My local paper is doing the Curtains for Zoosha meme.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Love our trendy new yard accessory. Everyone’s doing it - don’t get left behind!

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well said. My Media and Politics class has drifted toward this point recently, having started 23 years ago with a “50 reasons the MSM are terrible” framing.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There were more anti-trans Ken Paxton ads run during TCU's football broadcast yesterday than there are trans athletes in college sports.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Paxton absolutely blitzing the football games with ads. Every one so far has been "6 genders" and "sex changes for kids." He has literally nothing else.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is an incredible chart, to the point where I'm trying to figure out what's wrong. I know the data are legit. And you can't argue that it's tautological. How did we not pick up on this tight correlation before?

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Exactly what happened to us in 2018. Pre-Dobbs, my wife got the care she needed. But even then, TX’s laws were designed to humiliate and torment her. For example, she was forced to have an ultrasound - the very procedure that initially communicated the horrible news.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's not improbable. Kids often want to do what their parents do.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No, LMS, it doesn't matter how many times you ask me. I absofuckinglutely don't want your help in employing my 29 years of grading experience to these assignments.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

His opponent is Jon Rosenthal, an eminently qualified candidate for the TX RRC. jonrosenthaltx.com But even if his opponent were the shower head in our main bathroom that burst and exploded on me last night, I would still donate money to it to help defeat Texas' worst politician.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s not a crime to promise stimulus checks if your party wins the next election. Those claiming illegality here need to explain the difference between that and Trump’s statement.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Reading Fox News transcripts for work, and this seems like a lifetime ago.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Members of Congress are so earnest. If it were me, I’d say “Oh grow up you big fucking baby!”

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 03/09/2026

university administrators in shambles

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’ve noticed a big uptick in misinformation being circulated by high-profile users here, just in the last week or two. I don’t know what’s going on, but it would be nice if we kept our standards high. This place is boring compared to other social media, but at least it has generally been reliable.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Many of her quotes would get you fired at any Texas public university. But the broader point is an excellent one.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just bask in the 2-month period in which I got my job offer, got my PhD, and met my wife.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is why I get so annoyed with university admins who insist we must teach AI or our students will be left behind. Fine, then require one class and leave the rest of us alone. (After about two weeks in the class, they’ll be like, “shit, what do we do now?” but that’s not my problem.)

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I don't want to drag JL here. He's a great scholar -- and actually, growing up Jewish, there's a lot of stuff I just don't get (like U2 lyrics) that a good grounding in Bible-as-lit could have remedied. But man, tell me you've never been to Texas without telling me. . .

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

And so it begins (on our LMS). . . Yes, robot, the spring marks the 30th anniversary of the first paper I graded. So I’m not really sure what I’m doing and could definitely use your help.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Wistfully reminiscing about the teachers who made me who I am. They were all quirky, often coloring outside the curricular lines to convey a passion for life and learning. Just thinking about that for no reason as this ad crossed my feed.

A soul-sucking ad from a company offering AI-generated curricular units to Texas K-12 teachers.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

After fleeing pogroms in Russia and homesteading in Saskatchewan, I’d be a rancher. Yes, I’m descended from Jewish cowboys.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

New one for my AI bingo card: a student paper hallucinated a subtitle for. . . MY BOOK.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

5000 likes. Only about 1 out of every 50 comments noticed that this isn’t true. (Pic was after he left the frame — see video)

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

There are so many bias charges in my feed right now that I thought I accidentally logged onto Media Research Center.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Political scientists do what now?

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Arrghh! So much AI slop! Obnoxious banner on the Dept of Transportation? Sure, par for the MAGA course. But I’m really disappointed in the Museum of the American Indian (one of my favorite DC hangouts).

Pocahontas didn’t save John Smith. She saved America.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It’s cute that the left and the right are both using Norway’s team to make their points. (If you haven’t seen the other side, consider yourself lucky. But you can probably guess)

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Well, damn. Go England, I guess. Bring the lions home. . .or whatever that thing is that they say.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I can’t remember the last time I heard a “USA USA!” chant that wasn’t at a Trump rally. I’m a Fiddler-on-the-Roof Ashkenazi - I have no ethno-national identity, and no true national ancestry. This is my team, and I’m glad to have it back.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

You'll never convince me that the announcers aren't saying "La Niña Mal"

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Posting bird pics from World Cup countries seems to have brought bad luck. So, in that spirit. . . Here's a lifer I got in Bosnia last year -- a White-throated Dipper. We were swimming in Kravice Falls, so I didn't have my good camera handy. Hence the terrible (but ID-able) pic.

A White-throated Dipper, a small water bird, sitting on the deck of a waterfall pool in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Kravice Falls, in the Herzegovina region of the country the U.S. plays tonight.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The tornado siren test began at the exact second that the England-DRC game ended.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Ecuador's national bird, the Andean Condor. 🇪🇨 We saw this one in Antisana National Park in the high Andes (13,300 ft. above sea level). That night, we watched the USA-Paraguay game at a bar in the Quito Airport.

An Andean Condor flying, with the mountains and blue sky in the background.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In almost every game, the Fox announcers seemingly have the bandwidth for only one team. It's always the protagonists vs. some non-playable characters.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Now I'm kind of regretting not going to the Norway-Ivory Coast game. On the other hand, there's a lot I can do with $600.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I've been in his shoes a couple of times. It's gutting to read about -- but I'm so happy for him tonight.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Red Kite, at a wildlife reserve outside of Ulm, Germany (2022).

Red Kite, an attractive raptor flying majestically over my head, with Germany's blue sky as a backdrop.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I know we’re legally required to do the “it’s not X. It’s Y” thing nowadays — but it’s actually all 3 of those things.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I choose my World Cup teams by the most logical and obvious criterion: how many of their bird species I've seen. My top birded countries among the remaining teams: 1) USA (504) 2) Ecuador (392) 3) Netherlands (64) 4) Canada (48) 5) Australia (29) 6) Germany (28) 7) Croatia (26) 8) England (18)

A picture of a Bald Eagle -- a popular Canadian bird -- with goose blood on its beak.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Wooo!! Ecuador! What an improbable turnaround.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I don't mind the American announcers rooting for Team USA -- but their slavish worshipfulness of the English team is grating. Time to turn to Telemundo.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Just when I thought I understood the offsides rule. . .

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