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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Do not disturb or hold up the penguin.”

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

This is perturbing. Also some unhelpful part of me is like, “‘68 is not Madonna.”

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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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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 · 11/09/2026

This knocked loose by your example:

Foursquare check in (nabbed from Google image search).

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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Is it ... "social media"? (And thank you for sharing!)

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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.

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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

All this machinery making modern music can still be open sourcéd

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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 · 24/04/2026

“Every night / Is Friday night / Without you.”

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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Our 1.2 branches of government.

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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 · 25/01/2026

ICE just killing 2A-believing nurses who work at the VA.

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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Enshittification comes for the C18?

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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I try to start with the ESTC and then use the links/ids. May help as a sanity check?

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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I’ve been teaching Quixote and so responded to the image of Mambrino’s helmet at 3:21.

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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

(Would love to see the “middle powers” do something, anything, to pull an emergency brake about now. Maybe this is the bracing, spine stiffening inanity they need to hear?)

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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Maybe don't trash our strongest call for solidarity, however hollow it may have sounded in ‘80s Czechoslovakia, when international solidarity is most needed?

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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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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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Plaid Mass Panic @bpasanek.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This business dean has no business being president.

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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...

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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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