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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 2h

BUT THEY SEEMED SO COMPATIBLE

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 3h

I am thinking about suing the ancient Gauls for using my NIL w/o permission

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 6h

Republicans are sending him free tickets to Fiji, Kiribati, Falkland Islands, etc.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 8h

The Senate "can't" regulate AI but they apparently can damn well vote 77-22 to cap athlete pay.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here are the 26 Democrats who voted to take away labor rights and shift money to management in college athletics.

Baldwin (D-WI), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Yea
Cortez Masto (D-NV), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Fetterman (D-PA), Yea
Gallego (D-AZ), Yea
Hassan (D-NH), Yea
Heinrich (D-NM), Yea
Hickenlooper (D-CO), Yea
Hirono (D-HI), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Lujan (D-NM), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Ossoff (D-GA), Yea
Padilla (D-CA), Yea
Peters (D-MI), Yea
Rosen (D-NV), Yea
Schatz (D-HI), Yea
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Slotkin (D-MI), Yea
Smith (D-MN), Yea
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Welch (D-VT), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Yea

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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 28/09/2026

“By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak." - Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the good thing about this SI nonsense is it will serve as a great shibboleth in the 2030s to let us round up anyone who used the term in the 2020s.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I spent a month in the UK this summer and from that emerged this Dad Joke. If you see any suspicious white powder, you should report it to British Rail authorities. We will snort it right up. See it, say it, snorted.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here is an example of computer-assisted work I can get behind! I just made a rule in my MS-Outlook that any email with the word "co-pilot" or "Claude" in the subject gets sent to a special folder called "AI Crap" and then I can ignore it until I am in line at the DMV and bored.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm pretty excited about this pre-mass production copy of Skybirds.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Upton Sinclair — 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I can call you Betty, and Betty when you call me, you can call me AI... or SI

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, let's do an experiment. Trump goes away for a month and we see if Diesel hits $18

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Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every innovation and change in business these days is either: We took this product you like and turned it into a subscription We took this subscription you begrudgingly pay and added some ads We took these ads you found annoying and found more ways to find you

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today I learned that birders have a verb "to pish" which means to make sounds designed to attract birds. This is also how I know that the sport of birding was not invented by Yiddish speakers. jel.jewish-languages.org/words/1406

jel.jewish-languages.org

pish | Jewish English Lexicon

Check out pish on the Jewish English Lexicon

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As someone who knows the OTHER meaning of PILES, I find stuff like this infinitely amusing.

What to know about piles (hemorrhoids)

What are piles?

Summary
Piles are swollen veins in the lower anus and rectum. This swelling can cause localized inflammation of other tissues. Piles is another term for hemorrhoids.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Apparently these Democrats today joined the majority of Republicans in voting to strip college athletes of their economic rights. I'm particular upset with Senators like @padilla.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social and @wyden.senate.gov who I would have expected not to vote anti-progressively.

Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Fetterman (D-PA)
Gallego (D-AZ)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lujan (D-NM)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Smith (D-MN)
Warner (D-VA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am not sure which direction Rick Scott thinks is the "right thing" vis-a-vis destroying humanity.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I found out that @padilla.senate.gov has switched to supporting the PCSA. What a horrible position for a Senator from the State that started the Athletes Rights movement when Nancy Skinner pushed for SB206.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fun fact: the Germanic languages' words for Cheese come from a borrowing from classical Latin: Caseum. The French and Italian words for cheese do not. Not all Romance languages abandoned their mother tongue's word. Queso, for example, is cognate with Käse, as is the dialectical italina Cacio.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If I were Canada, I would 100% call this bluff. Join the Euro, whatever.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Because this guy announced his retirement, it made me wonder how long anyone could live off of selling a,e,i,o, and u for $250 a pop.

Detroit Mercy AD Robert Vowels will retire at the end of this academic year. President Donald Taylor: “I want to thank Robert for his leadership, the many ways he has shaped our program and supported our student-athletes over the past 13 years. We look forward to honoring him throughout this academic year and working together on the next chapter of UDM Athletics.” CSA Search & Consulting will assist with the search for Vowels’ successor. (link)

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters cannot be far behind.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I think the only reasonable response to a headline like this is to say "what an asshole!" I mean, it's just pure assholery all the way down with him.

Trump Fights Back After Judge Says Name Must Stay Off Kennedy Center
President Trump threatened to cancel a $257 million renovation of the performing arts venue if the judge’s ban was not overturned.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I would like to apply for the job of the devil that torments Samuel Alito in Hell for all eternity.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

BGA is down. Blood Pressure is up!

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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today's designer diary covers the early stages of An Infamous Traffic: Second Edition, the difficulty of understanding how designs really work, and how, at least for me, coming to really dislike something is often the first step in building something new. boardgamegeek.com/thread/37682...

boardgamegeek.com

Designer Diary 3 - Diagnostic Difficulties | An Infamous Traffic: Second Edition

I consider myself a pretty optimistic and joyful worker. I love getting to the office early and kicking off a new project, and I never mind staying late to talk about some little element of a design. ...

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Refloating this for the weekday crowd. Ted Cruz was given 10 minutes to go on ESPN's College Game Day and lie about a bill he wants to get passed by tricking Democrats into voting with him.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Democrats in Congress. Your voters do not want you "reach across the aisle" to make nice-nice with Ted Cruz on the PCSA. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... cc @chrismurphyct.bsky.social to spread the word.

they’re done with the old approach. They’ve watched Democratic politicians continue to engage with MAGA Republicans like it’s 2012 and Mitt Romney is running the GOP.

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Mary from Michigan said: “Them actually showing a spine would be a delightful change of pace. I have been calling my congresspeople every damn day telling them to not go along with the Cabinet approvals, to not rubber-stamp things just because you’re in the minority. They have not done a single thing.”

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wonder if there is a little part of his brain saying "hey, that's just like Trump! How Ironic"

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here is a bunch of lies Ted Cruz told on College Game Day and my efforts to providing the true answers via a brief fisking. I'll answer each one in text below as well. Short version: When you have to pile this many false statements in one paragraph to sell something, the something ain't good.

"Most college athletic programs are losing tens of millions of dollars, and as a result, they're canceling women's programs and non-revenue sports and Olympic sports. ... What we have right now is chaos, there are no rules, and the situation with the transfer portal, where kids transfer two, three, four, five times—it's terrible for the game, it's terrible for the players, it's terrible for the schools, it's terrible for the families. ... If we don't act, in three to five years we're going to see 40 to 50 schools that have competitive football programs and everyone else goes under. That would be a tragedy."

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

With apologies to Petula Clark: Just listen to the rhythm as the gamers play Ark Nova You'll be playing with 'em soon before Game Night is over How can you lose? The coffee break's coming soon You must get that enclosure built and place that baboon!

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Narrator: This was not happening in California.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Racism Pledge of Allegiance

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the NCAA's argument for the PCSA is basically the same as bankrobbers saying: "we're getting caught robbing banks and having to go to jail too often. if robbing banks were not illegal, we'd have more money and time to do other things, rather than be in jail all the time"

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Chaos is just management's word for "we're keeping less of the revenue" combined with "our jobs are no longer sinecures"

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The old joke about the NCAA being so mad about Kentucky they gave Cleveland State 3 years probation seems to be at work, causing Trump to punish Canada for Iran being a totally predictably difficult country to defeat via air power.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

feels clever responding to a phish request "any ideas where I should go for vacation" with "HELL" until you get autocorrected to "HE'LL"

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I can say definitively, that my decision to stop watching Stanford lose to Miami when it was 14-3 was correct. 45-6 would have gone beyond the pale.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Does this sort of salary structure look like what an industry in chaos would be doing? From www.sportico.com/personalitie...

Sportico headline: Highest-Paid College Football Coaches: Cignetti Reigns at $13.2M

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ok gang that drive was enough for me. I did my one quarter of service to the cause. Time for silos.

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Why play defense when you can also rough the passer?

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oof. My 1Q prediction is looking rough already

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Andy "Andyfa" Schwarz @andyhre.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

how many minutes will I last watching Stanford get pummelled by Miami? I think I will set my goal to watch an entire quarter before I turn away in disgust.

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