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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Will it change your calculus for protest in the event of a Jan power grab? It won't mine, at all.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nah, they're just sadistic assholes.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(Handfuls of Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt, specifically, table would be way less)

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Largely true. Want to blow people away with a simple bowl of pasta? HANDFULS of salt in the water. Like 70-80% ocean water.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Don't CAFE standards play an unintended role on the light truck front? I'm sure consumer choice is primary, but there has to be some market for an 1991 Ford Ranger equivalent (it's me, I'm the market).

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump erasure is absolutely a necessary (not sufficient) requirement for my vote. I want *every vestige* of this motherfucker gone. Every label, every likeness. Gone. I don't give a solitary shit about the time or the cost. Don't agree? We have nothing more to talk about.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They don't really have to be though, right? Either water usage is newly over the moon in areas with data centers, or it's not. The amount being drawn from the system is knowable.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

All the more poignant considering Twain's own late life financial woes. He could see a way to get Grant in the clear but his personal investments broke him.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think that's stretching the point, her first attempt to leave home wasn't the only shot she'd ever have. Straight to murder? And there's Faye. And I guess you can ignore authorial intent, but Steinbeck is painstakingly, 4th-wall-breakingly clear on what he thinks of her.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wonderful story. Twain to Grant, "Just get it on paper, I can sell the absolute living shit out of this."

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pulp Fiction, opening day, downtown Berkeley. The audience Lost. Its. Shit.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm sorry, but "we had debt" and "it was expensive" does not come close to countering the actual numbers that I and others have offered here. Through at least 1975, public undergrad college was cheap as hell. Provide actual numbers to prove otherwise or I think we're done.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The article cites graduate degrees at an unnamed school, a woman who earned a degree in her 50s (good for her, but outside the relevant timeline), and a woman who went to private school Rutgers. I've named 5 public systems with free or nominal costs in the 60s. Where was it more expensive?

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are talking about tuition costs in public universities for boomers. It is simply a fact that the entire UC system--the nation's largest by far--had FREE TUITION through 1970! In which public university system was it way way way more? IN what year? By how much?

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, and there's been inflation, but there's no way that $150-$300/year in the 60s pencils out to anything like the cost of even the most affordable publics today. (And that's all in-state--out-of-state today can brush up against the cost of the privates)

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 1965: California was tuition free. Florida was tuition free. Texas was $150/year. Michigan was $300/year. Virginia was $300/year. That's the first five I checked. I'm sorry, but the idea that there was large public school tuition for boomers is just objectively false.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Because you didn't go to one of the major PUBLICS that offered tuition-free education, which is the specific point of the post

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They're just loud, I know dozens of people who love the show and to the last one they're appalled by that whole thing

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'll be lucky to sleep tonight after that kind of horror story. Those poor people. My God; my God.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not the BELOVED OFFICE DEPOT NOOOOOOOOOOOOO I must seek the fainting couch

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh of fucking COURSE it's centered in Berkeley (he wrote from his home in Berkeley).

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are parts of SF (including Mission BART) that are genuinely shockingly dystopian. It's a small part of the city's footprint (<5%) but it's real and it's a problem and nobody should be in denial about that.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYC is totally fine. SF stations can be genuinely bad and it serves no good purpose to be in denial about that.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ebert's original review is basically a love letter to her, he looooved her performance

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love this! Far more evocative of the welcoming space I always imagined than the elegant but frankly frigid movie version.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hm, fair but then I don't really see what problems it IS fixing? I assumed that it was all kicked off by the discussion around the Hannah-Jones article.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's observably incorrect though, Berkeley has assigned schools randomly for decades/generations and I invite you to read up on how that has closed the racial achievement gap in town (it has not)

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That's fairly close to Berkeley's approach and the achievement gap remains absolutely ghastly several generations in.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That's awesome, and I genuinely think enough are that this would backfire huge. The crowds heading to polling places would *dwarf* the sad scared little boys in the masks.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Some will. Others will crawl over broken glass to vote as a result. I'm guessing it's either a wash or a bonus for B. Minneapolis sure suggests that.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It is really, really hard not to go down that path I went down that path

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Respectfully, I understand the spirit here, but you should rethink the phrasing that "starving the nation to death" is "annoying"

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Generally agree, though I was surprised by how much the whole "you are sorted early and that is fucking that" dynamic exposed my inherent Americanness. (yeah, yeah, Snape, whatever, he had a crush he wasn't doing anything for The Good)

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Honest request for guidance: How do you talk about it then? I don't think nodding along helps either (certainly it doesn't help those who will be exploited in the future if those are accepted norms).

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you know it's not rooted in anything, I respectfully suggest trying to treat it as a gift--it's proof that the next one that *seems* connected to something rational might not be. (I've been there, many times)

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I reject the premise that turning pages to scan a book is the equivalent of inkwell and goose quill.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Scan them a little more slowly instead of ripping off the spines? These are BOOKS FOR SALE, they are not inherently destined for pulping, no used book store owner will procure a book they don't think they can sell to someone.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

As a thirty-year Berkeley resident: Yes, that's correct.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Tried twice and I didn't understand it at all. AT ALL.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

That's fair, though there's daylight between recognizing the gap and calling for cancellation. I'd just like "On a day that brings so many families and friends together to celebrate, let's also acknowledge the pain many feel, and our collective obligation to work for a better future" and so on.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Like it or not, she owns it until she rejects it entirely. Sure it's unfair (it's one old tweet) but by the time the general wraps up it will 100% be the one thing many voters know about her.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It makes precisely zero difference what I think or say about it, and yeah it was a long time ago. The gift to GOP operatives is that she's not distancing herself in interviews she's conducting NOW.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It is insane for a candidate for midwestern statewide office to stake out a position of "that day your aging parents and grown children come home, the day you look forward to all year? I want that shit GONE." (Also it originally had nothing to do with Plymouth, that's a Victorian add-on)

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"We should cancel Thanksgiving" makes her a bad candidate, and in this cycle there's no real upside to that kind of risk. It's like "ban all puppies": ain't gonna happen, but if you hate dogs and you're running for office keep that to yourself pal.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I want to be clear that it doesn't MATTER (you have to be a super douchebag loser to care, let alone strut about it), but U.S. high school boys' track records are faster than overall women's world track records in every distance shorter than the full marathon.

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Andy Beahrs @andybeahrs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Oh I 100% agree with all of that. I just think it's better to SAY that than to misquote Tillis. The fact that I don't believe a word of what Tillis says doesn't mean I want accounts I follow to mislead me, which I think this did in the summary.

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