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We could learn a lot from Monarch butterflies tbh

This has happened a few times on r/fountainpens, a community that, as you can guess, places a lot of value on slow, human, deliberative processes of art and writing. But I've never seen such a charming response. cc @joshuabhoe.bsky.social for fountain pen content

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 11h

Hey hey -- it's publication day! Couldn't be more excited for this to be out in the world. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What software or computer tasks have you personally replaced with AI? So far I’ve got: • PDF editing • File conversion • Vector image conversion • STL repair • Doodle polls (working on it)

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Grant is a genuinely inspiring reminder that it’s ok if you don’t immediately find The Thing You’re Good At, because one day you might and then suddenly you’re president

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Star Trek has a long, storied past of exploring racial and social justice topics, but the Deep Space 9 episode alluded to here, "Far Beyond the Stars" (S06E13), is one of the best.

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dktr.bsky.social @dktr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Son works in public health(budgets) here in Northetn CA. The programs that are being cut service the most vulnerable - of course. I'm retired from probation. Seems like the Sheriffs got all the $s around here.

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Made even worse by OMB’s attempt to give White House political staff a veto over grant decisions — which is stalled for now, but could go into effect shortly after the election: bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I see and regret the typo. In the optimistic spirit of the underlying post, I choose to believe people will look past it :).

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Next year New York will implement one of the broadest "Clean Slate" laws in that country. At a stroke, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who turned their lives around after a criminal conviction will suddenly be better able to apply for jobs and housing. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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New York’s Clean Slate Act

The bill’s path to enactment offers lessons for other states seeking to pass similar criminal justice reforms.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In all seriousness I wish every professor on here would post their reading lists each semester

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was literally telling this story to my daughter yesterday!!!! Vulcans are canonically Kohanim

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Rule of law, ghoul of law, is this anything

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some of these arbitrary funding cuts get unwound in litigation. But that takes time and money, and even then, for some, the damage is done. We talked about this problem in a recent analysis of the President's attempt to unilaterally remake FEMA. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Administration’s Arbitrary, Unlawful Cuts to FEMA Funding and Staff Threaten American Communities

Grant cancellations, staff reductions, and other policy changes far overstep the president’s authority while limiting FEMA’s ability to respond to disasters.

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Murder rates fell 38% from 2020 to 2025. What changed? Billions in federal dollars went to community violence prevention, mental health services, and related work. Increasing evidence says those investments may have contributed. We unpack what happened and how. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Crime Prevention and Mental Health Spending May Have Contributed to Drop in Violent Crime

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government spent billions of dollars shoring up state and local budgets and funding new public safety initiatives.

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ascendancy -- an ancient 4x game with surprisingly deep customization and subtle storytelling. The company briefly revived the game for iOS, then vanished and stopped supporting it :( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Log...

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The Logic Factory - Wikipedia

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This marks the second in a short series about how legal debates about executive power affect real people’s lives. Find the earlier piece — on mass funding cuts to research science — here. Since publication, science policy has only become more politicized. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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The Cost of the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Research Funding

Arbitrary funding cuts and assaults on agency independence have destabilized American scientific research, potentially setting technology, health care, and the economy back decades.

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stalled infrastructure, politicized aid payments, and communities left covering the costs of more frequent natural disasters. We document the impacts of the Administration's attempts to work around Congress and unilaterally remake FEMA. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Administration’s Arbitrary, Unlawful Cuts to FEMA Funding and Staff Threaten American Communities

Grant cancellations, staff reductions, and other policy changes far overstep the president’s authority while limiting FEMA’s ability to respond to disasters.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 22/09/2026

In the past five years #NIH created an on-campus lab to study neural development, exactly because NIH scientists anticipated that this research line will be important. This is an example of scientific judgement White House political appointees setting priorities are unlikely to have.

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Takes me back to when NK Jemisin's exceptional "Broken Earth" series swept sci-fi awards three years in a row and a small cadre of malcontents insisted it was because of identity politics, when in fact she's just a truly generational talent.

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Glad to see this! I had a black cat throughout law school, and beyond, who was my constant study companion. (Hoping your cat is doing well!)

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

14 years ago Today, the Space Shuttle Endeavour had its last flight. Here's a photo captured over Los Angeles, few minutes its landing at LAX [📷 Stephen Confer] Original post

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every day offers a new beginning, but today more so than others. Wishing all those observing Yom Kippur a meaningful day and an uplifting year ahead.

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Friendly reminder that if you use Claude, your Fable promotional credits expire today!

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So sorry Derek. I've been there and I know it's hard. Please give her lots of hugs for me.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

Trump: "We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding. You're waiting for some additional funding. I'm gonna get that to you. Now if Michael loses, I'm not sending it." Crowd: *groans*

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I vaguely remembered the German captain who sank the Lusitania having a postwar life where he regretted the action, but nope, KIA 1917. Your thesis remains unchallenged.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

On 9/11, the people of Gander stepped up. They showed the very best of Canada.

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

May we all have the courage to do the same when our moment comes!

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tolkien wept.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Politicizing federal grant determinations could have sweeping consequences, for public safety and beyond. We explain what's happening, and what's at stake:

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Carey @distraughtcarey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My job is to provide grants/loans to wastewater infrastructure in a blue state. We are very concerned over the rule that could cancel funding in the middle of construction of one of our treatment plants.

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Who are you picking in a fight, darth? Enterprise-D under Picard, or the Chimaera under Thrawn?? Never a better time to resolve the question on everyone's mind.

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My two year old seems delighted by Gilbert & Sullivan light operas, which are all the rage with kids these days I hear

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Alas, a wise man once said, "you can't go back to Constantinople"

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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/09/2026

This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I have a piece in the Atlantic about SCOTUS’s ballroom order - and how the Court has a very wrongheaded and destructive account of the separation of powers www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“The court is totally wrong on separation of powers”

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

She's the personification of French republicanism and the revolutionary spirit, with martial overtones in some interpretations. But depictions of Liberty on American coinage are historically more peaceful, welcoming, and hopeful. Consider this classic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking...

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Walking Liberty half dollar - Wikipedia

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Ames Grawert @amescg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

While we're talking coins, I don't love the implications of this commemorative dime design. Liberty-as-Marianne on the front, an eagle on the back with the olive branch conspicuously missing from its left talons... www.usmint.gov/semiquincent...

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Emerging Liberty 2026 Semiquincentennial Dime | U.S. Mint

Emerging Liberty 2026 Semiquincentennial Dime marks America’s 250th anniversary, featuring a bold Liberty design on a dime honoring the nation’s future. Order today!

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