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Plaid Mass Panic

@bpasanek.bsky.social
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C18 scholar. Recently former Director of Graduate Studies. Now Dorm Dad and VP of Father Functions. Would like to finish book.

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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Do not disturb or hold up the penguin.”
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is something disturbing about the way Nigella puts cake in her mouth. Like Saturn eating his children. (No complaints, no notes.)
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John McCain singing “Bomb Iran“ to the tune of ”that old Beach Boys song, Barbara Ann.”
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI as tulpamancy
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They had a few good elections with him, but this is the deal that Republicans made with Trump. youtu.be/ZPtjyqgZAUk?...
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Goodfellas Restaurant Scene
YouTube video by WatchKalibRun1
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My partner may be worried that you don't know that I think the thing she wrote is a really good piece of writing.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hotdog man inveighs against doomsday dangers of AI.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The fire next time
Parking lot rainbow.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Enjoyed the segment on today's 'This American Life' about the Claude death-loop chat. But I think the software that read out and personified the Claudes for radio listeners misspoke the final output . Surely, it wasn’t “A, A, A,” &c. but “AAAAAAAAAAAA...” (a la the old twitterbot Infinite Scream).
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Proposing to the Unicode people a new “Overused Scrub Daddy” emoji.
Disgusting sponge-like prosopon.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The Backrooms are the practico-inert.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I want an Éric Rohmer summer.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Canvas is right on "Schedule." Rocket careens into summer, represented by Venus, its exhaust the money we waste on EdTech companies that are sucking up all our content to train the AI tutors they plan to replace us with.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
“Every night / Is Friday night / Without you.”
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Blue State
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The Phantom Judge You Harshly 🎃💀🦇🧛‍♂️ @judgeyouharshly.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
How Bluesky feels on a #NoKings Day ☺️
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The kids are all right
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
what is a nonviolent way to absorb phd overproduction
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Wolfgang von Kempelen's "Mechanical Turk" wearing a placard identifying him as a Waymo. The first of Benjamin's theses on history is scrawled on the back of the placard (not visible).
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
ICE just killing 2A-believing nurses who work at the VA.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Oh, Canada, … there is no neoliberalism for middle powers in the post-45 nuclear order. This Kinsey consultant vamping a la Havel: "We placed the sign in the window." Yeah, but your sign has always said, "Workers of the World, Get Fucked."
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Thank you for attention to this matter, Governor Spanberger!
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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
We have concerns! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...
cavalierdaily.com
A statement from 201 concerned faculty about U.Va. President Beardsley’s appointment
By acting in bad faith, the Board has flouted its fiduciary duties to the University and has violated its own bylaws calling on it to protect the University from outside interference.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Surge protector Screen protector Flock protector Lord Protector Eye protector Habitat protector Leather protector Peace protector … “Pedophile protector”
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Sometimes I am walking my dog and she finds some cat poop and gobbles it up. And I think, with Hegel, that the doggos don't just stand idly by in front of sensuous things as if they possessed intrinsic being, but "despairing of their reality, they fall to without ceremony and eat them up."
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Modest proposal. Abolish ICE, round up all the DHS goons, and then send them to the provinces to be reeducated by farm workers.
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Will @willgarcia820.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
A blistering critique of UVA’s presidential search process that also raises some serious concerns about Beardsley’s resume. That guy has got to go. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...
augustafreepress.com
How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find
Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I left my heart / in Minneapolis
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/01/2026
Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Oof. Hats off to the guy who took the video. That took some onions.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"Before I was shot, I suspected that instead of living I’m just watching TV. Since being shot, I’m certain of it"
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICE goons just shooting and killing American citizens now
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Five years ago.
Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Gangsters
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Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Universities embracing generative AI be like:
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Unpresidented
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Good one
Gen. Jackson sorted by Kara Walker: MOCA Monuments show. At The Brick.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
UVa's Board of Visitors is meeting today. A reminder that its Rector and Vice Rector are irremediably corrupt: www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
cavalierdaily.com
Sources say the provost search this spring was ‘unusual.’ Here’s why.
Sources qualified the search or elements of the search as “highly unusual” in large part because of the actions of Porter Wilkinson, who was at the time a member of the Board of Visitors and is now vi...
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Working on my guest lecture: Kids, it’s like when you go outside and "touch grass" after too much screen-time. Most people think there are screens and there is grass and you can look at TikToks of grass on your phone or leave your dorm room and touch the stuff.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Double, double toil and trouble; planet burn and AI bubble.
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
UVA'S RECTOR SHERIDAN and VICE RECTOR WILKINSON MUST RESIGN. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
We are governed by ghouls and cowards. drive.google.com/file/d/1rgFz...
drive.google.com
11.14.25_JER Resignation Facuty.pdf
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Mamdani Meme Sign: "Schumer for the Dustbin of History"
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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We are governed by ghouls and cowards.
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