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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How is every single major chain store woefully understaffed right now for real? I’ve been waiting 20 minutes in line at a grocery store because they have 3 cashiers and there are (no exaggeration; I counted) at least 25 people in line????

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I need a #Hearthstone Battlegrounds Duos buddy because the randos online are garbage 😭

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think people forgetting that Glee was a satire was the first harbinger of the death of media literacy

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It’s the head tilt for me, Dionysus 🍇🐶

A medium sized brown and white dog sits on artificial turf. He is looking at the camera with his mouth open and head tilted to his right.

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Colleagues, academics, friends! I need your help! I'm giving a lecture this week on data vizualization and I'm looking for particularly heinous viz examples -- can be from academic work, print media, etc., and the more diverse the subject matter the better -- so if you've got something, share it! ❤️

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Last 18 months of a PhD is arguably the worst time to give up caffeine in case you were wondering

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Should I run for Swalwell’s seat

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Never in a million years could you have convinced 12 year old Catholic me that one day the president would be calling the Pope and the Church too radically left wing

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Sorry but the KATSEYE girlies whispering “the only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing” after the line “I kinda know nothing just like Socrates” in their new single is peak camp I don’t care that it’s 2:11 of brain rot beats and lyrics

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I haven’t opened this app in months but just have to say the new Slayyyter album is such a fucking bop and has become my dissertation writing soundtrack

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Sometimes I text myself plots I make just to look at them on my phone. I love making plots.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Should I apply for this and absolutely fuck up the training

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

“Skipping our lessons to teach adults one” hell yeah kids

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

And they’re not just waving American flags. I saw Palestine, Mexico, Tonga, and more, along with the usual political flags! 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🇲🇽 🇹🇴

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

- these kids haven’t given up, and they are still proud to be Americans, despite what the opposition would have one believe. these are people who still believe in an America for all people, and a country whose immigrants and diversity make it stronger. Truly warms my cynical heart.

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

There are hundreds of school kids and teenagers at the busiest intersection in Palo Alto today with signs and music and cheers protesting the current situation in Minnesota and more broadly. While there’s much to comment on, perhaps most striking is the number of American flags

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Just so I’m clear on our current foreign policy… we’re threatening Norway with invasion of Greenland (which he keeps calling Iceland), a Danish constituency, because the opposition of the now-deposed Venezuelan leader won the Nobel Peace Prize over Trump, who calls Azerbaijan “Aberbaiban”?

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

You're telling me a woman was forced to give up her trophy to a biological male

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Jean Giardina @jeangiardina.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Policing language is as much a part of an authoritarian movement as policing bodies. Never let someone take your words away from you.

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The only thing I’m sorry about is my Overleaf storage!!

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

the irreparable harm of those early maths PhDs cannot be overstated because now *I* use LaTeX the same way bc of you!!!

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Where are my anthropology of food friends and their analyses of “ending the war on protein” as a right-wing dog whistle for the “assault” on traditional masculinity….

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Oh my god I’m 27 when did a bar on NYE become “too loud”

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

UGH I’m gonna have to talk about “transgender for everyone” in my dissertation aren’t I?

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

So far my experience actually writing up my dissertation has been a lot of finding creative ways to say “I got distracted by this curious thing in the data and decided to follow that lead”

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I sure picked a good year to finally buy Chiefs gear after years of my family haranguing me about it 🙄

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ACLU @aclu.org · 06/12/2025

160 years ago today, the 13th Amendment was ratified to end slavery, with one major exception: punishment for a crime. The legacy of slavery lives on as people behind bars are still coerced into working for mere pennies or nothing at all. It's long overdue to abolish slavery in all its forms.

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Apparently it is in fact “and you’re a little bit TORN”

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I really was so convinced JADE was singing “I’m a little depressed, and you’re a little bit tall” on This Is What We Dance For and I was like girl I’ve been there

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Rstudio wrapped bsky.app/profile/sal....

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

language change is so powerful- I cannot believe I just heard my 80-something year old grandfather use "hashtag" in a context where I was 1000% expecting him to say "pound sign" or similar (i.e. not a context in which it was being used as an actual tag of any kind)

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Oh I cannot WAIT to read this, sounds fantastic! Well, the work. The content… 😅

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Piotr Marczyński @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Excited to share that, with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social , we’ve published a new article in New Media & Society! We examine how far-right actors on X (formerly Twitter) instrumentalize wellness culture to spread reactionary ideology. Thread below 🧵

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The wellness pipeline: Tracing far-right health narratives on X - Piotr Marczyński, Catherine Tebaldi, 2025

This article examines how far-right groups advance political agendas through digital platforms, specifically by embedding reactionary ideology within health and...

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Hate hate hate that I have to update old lecture slide's from "the Trump Administration" to "the first Trump Administration" and that's how referring expressions are making me sad today

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Genuinely surprised by how much I’m enjoying the new Katy single - Thank God we are leaving the 143 era behind! 🎶

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Google what’s a good job for someone who just really likes getting to talk to strangers

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50. California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections. Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Dude, this is just a shout-out to @jspsych.org and its flexibility - wanted a quick and fun way to practice some vocabulary late last night so took <1hr to build a memory-game plugin that I can scale for practice now! Bonus points if you get the language :)

Screenshot of a traditional memory-matching card-flip game. There are eight cards; 4 are face-up, displaying matches of a wolf with the word "bleydh" under it and a snake with the word "sarf" under the other pair. The prompt reads: "flip and match the cards!"

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

tbh I understand why the lady who haunted it was angry. I’m also angry about that flat & she had every right to harass us

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Remember my carpeted toilet in Edinburgh??? What are these people smoking

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I’ve never seen a company tank their users’ goodwill as quickly as Duolingo has with the new energy system. Did they do ANY user testing on that system before pushing it? Folks on the fora for other language learning apps are literally referring to themselves as “energy refugees”…

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Why will my dog eat literally anything EXCEPT his beef-flavored heartworm medication and must we do this dance every month

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/10/2025

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/10/2025

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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You Have to See This Mamdani Ad

I wasn't planning to post anything today. I dislike working and writing on weekends in general, but this was too important to ignore. You have to see this Zohran Mamdani campaign ad that came out this...

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Bran[don] Papineau @branpap.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

What is Joe Biden’s plan to rectify the fact that not a SINGLE ONE of Demi’s revamped rock hits is on the “Demi Lovato Essentials” album on Apple Music

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