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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 3h
“President Trump, of course, invented the question mark.”
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 3h
I guffawed
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Mikhail Klimentov @leadergrev.bsky.social · 17h
Has anyone heard anything about this guy www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...
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Bobby Kotick vs. The Games Media
YouTube video by People Make Games
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 19h
TL;DR:
First, navigate to your "Account" page.
Next, under the "Account settings" dropdown menu, select "Shopping
preferences." Finally, scroll to the bottom of that page and click "Manage your information" under the heading 'About You." The page is also accessible when switching between profiles.
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 19h
Hell yeah
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 19h
Everything in this interview makes me incandescently angry. It‘s clear many (most?) college administrators are more interested in reducing friction than seeking justice.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22h
Always read @espiers.bsky.social but especially this: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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My Rape, the Cornell Case—and Why We Need Better Approaches to Teaching How Consent Works
I tried to process the experience of being raped by disassociating. We have to show our kids a better way.
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 20h
They were the biggest numbers, from the standpoint of numerals, that anyone had ever seen. Big decimals everywhere.
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 20h
I had a dream last night that I woke up to a news alert that the president suddenly died from HPV.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 21h
Notably, this is the same team that was hired to destroy Amber Heard in her lawsuit against Johnny Depp. If you fell for it, well, you were a mark. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
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How to Destroy a Reputation in Hollywood, as Told in 5 Women’s Lawsuits (Gift Article)
Five women have said they were the targets of malicious public relations campaigns that were spearheaded by three influential players.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 06/10/2026
IMPORTANT: This is based on a 2022 Kia Niro EV, which has a max DC charging speed of 75 kW (most newer EVs can charge 2-3x faster than mine) and a *practical* range of perhaps 200 miles between charges (officially 240 miles); most newer EVs have longer ranges...call it ~250 miles between charges.
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just me out here agreeing with Bill Fucking Kristol
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Prime Day is a great time to cancel your Amazon Prime subscription.
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Lanterns finale was a disaster. Instead of a standalone series, we get a narrative vehicle to expand the DC universe, making this series just another piece of homework before watching the movies. Also, the big reveal made no sense and the character development was wasted on a ridiculous ending.
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wake up, babe, new tongue just dropped
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 06/10/2026
The big tech companies want you to believe that their default software offerings are the only option, but spoiler alert, there’s a wide array of fantastic software out there. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...
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How to Opt Out of Software Made by Big Tech
Big tech companies make the devices we use and the operating systems that come on them. They also make the bulk of the default software that comes packed into those operating systems. But spend even
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fear the Strongly Worded Letter of Schumer
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A-fucking-men
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No amnesty
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026
I was honored to visit Our Lady Salam, the first Arabic-speaking Lutheran parish on Staten Island. Its congregants hail from as close as Hylan Blvd to as far as Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, & Egypt — yet have planted roots in our city. Many carry the weight of war and genocide daily.
Mayor Mamdani greets members of Our Lady Salam parish on Staten Island.Mayor Mamdani meets members of Our Lady Salam parish on Staten Island.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/10/2026
hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Have you ever / seen a hobbit / wearing hiking boots?
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@ayannapressley.bsky.social knows what's up.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I hate gay Halloween, what do you mean you’re a corporate teletubbie recording and storing all the personal details of my life on behalf of an AI-smitten friend www.wired.com/story/muse-c...
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jamie Lee Curtis & John Carpenter. Halloween (1978) 🎬🎃🖤 Behind the scenes 📸
Jamie Lee Curtis and John Carpenter BTS on the movie Halloween (1978)
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My reply when people tell me Florida isn't really the South:
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe because of my Florida roots, I have an inextinguishable love of all things manatee.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The clearest and most succinct expression I've read of how, beyond the clear fascist rhetoric, the Prairieland prosecutions have terrifyingly expanded federal legal power, beyond the point many feds even wanted to go.
For other activists on the left — and on the right — the Prairieland case has set a dangerous precedent. Cadeddu, the federal defense attorney, told me that the most worrying of all the “terrorist acts” was vandalism. There is no dollar amount set on what sort of damage might qualify as an act of terror. Even throwing a snowball at an ICE vehicle during a protest and scratching the paint or damaging a taillight might qualify. “In theory, if you happen to be on a Signal chat with some people planning a protest, and one of the people at that protest — you don’t even have to know them — throws that snowball, you could be implicated in material support for terrorism, simply for helping to organize,” she says. “That’s the meaning of the case.”
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I feel attacked
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
not the only reason but a brand of inevitability, FOMO, anxiety, and, ‘if you don’t see it it means you’re not smart enough’ has become the chief way silicon valley (led by venture capita) markets its products.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No amnesty for the ghouls in charge of this torture
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026
The Cornell report on the Future of the American University is a disaster, mainstreaming and endorsing profoundly reactionary right-wing diagnoses of higher education that have no business in a serious report on what higher ed is or should become.
Compare, for example, the Progressive Policy Institute’s report on The Distortion of American Studies
with a similar study of American political science from the Goldwater Institute: Richard D. Kahlenberg
and Lief Lin, “The Distortion of American Studies: How the Field’s Leading Journal Has Embraced a
Worldview as Slanted as Donald Trump’s,” Progressive Policy Institute, January 22, 2026,
https://www.progressivepolicy.org/the-distortion-of-american-studies; Timothy K. Minella, “Peer Review
Gone Wild: Flagship Political Science Journal Shows How Academic Gatekeepers Promote Ideology Over
Scholarship,” Goldwater Institute, December 2, 2025, https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/policy-
report/peer-review-gone-wild/.12 Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey, “Five Reasons Viewpoint Diversity Makes Academic Sense,”
American Enterprise Institute, January 26, 2026, https://cfau.aei.org/five-reasons-viewpoint-diversity-
makes-academic-sense.
13 Richard D. Kahlenberg and Lief Lin, “The Distortion of American Studies: How the Field’s Leading
Journal Has Embraced a Worldview as Slanted as Donald Trump’s,” Progressive Policy Institute, January
22, 2026, https://www.progressivepolicy.org/the-distortion-of-american-studies
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Okay this thread helped me understand the Title IX SA numbers. Highly recommend.
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
JFC Is there a story behind the number of cases that were not investigated? Am I missing some context for the data here? I honestly don’t know.
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This 👇👇👇👇👇
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a typical day in the group chat.
I thought the tourist stadium was fucking awesome
I just wish I had a Jumbotron
Dumbotron's mom was named Mrs
Jumbotron
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Most people don’t realize the metric system was invented by Big Digit to sell more decimals. Open your eyes, sheeple.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There's a reason why Somerville hasn't had a traffic death in 4 years. The city isn't perfect, but they've made a concerted effort to design many streets around people and not cars. You can still drive, but you're going to have to do so slowly and while paying attention.
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Somerville is intentionally making roads harder to drive on. It’s getting results. - The Boston Globe
To make roads safer, the city says, sometimes you have to put some obstacles in drivers' way.
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I just paid $6.50 for a basic latte. Everything is going well.
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Important 🧵
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cornell’s new era of transparency should begin with this guy admitting he hit Gaza protestors with his car on purpose and then lied about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/n...
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Cornell President Calls Rape Inquiry ‘Defining Moment’ for Campus
Michael I. Kotlikoff said in a video the university would be more transparent, hold Greek groups accountable and improve sexual assault prevention.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What everyone has to prepare for is the constitutional crisis to accelerate if the Democrats take the House and the Senate. Vought has been allowed by the Republicans to act with impunity, so have he will continue to ignore Congress. This is why you have to impeach him immediately.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🕊️ Tomorrow, Oct. 4 is World Quaker Day! See how you can celebrate with Friends all around the world and learn more! ⬇️
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World Quaker Day 2026 theme and materials: Let Peace Be Among Us – FWCC
The theme for World Quaker Day on 4 October 2026 is Let Peace Be Among Us, with the supporting Bible passage Hebrews 12:14, “Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy.”
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Bartleby Would Prefer Not To @andrewjballou.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We all remember when he tried to impeach President Hillary Clinton.
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