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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

THIS 👇 HERE.......

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When I was in high school our "advanced programming" course was about graphics, sound, and animation on the Apple IIe. For one of my projects I had it play Love Is Like a Butterfly while an butterfly fluttered and flapped randomly across the screen. RIP Dolly.

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Dinner at Crêperie La Tête Noire in Nantes, France. The savory crepe was delicious, the dry cidre was wonderful, but the caramel desert crepe was divine. Every single bite was like angels dancing on my tongue. Even if I ever get back to Nantes (unlikely), it closed years ago.

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Gets my vote. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Make it viral.

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I made it a meme.

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Some 20+ years ago my I was at Niagara Falls with my wife and in the gift shop I'm almost run down by a blond woman doing a shuffle run calling out to her husband. That voice was so distinct... it was Victoria Jackson.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

if conservative sociopaths can override faculty governance and professional expertise, you aren't running a university you are running a propaganda factory

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

So we all know trump knocked down the East Wing, put up partisan plaques, had his name added to two buildings. What I'd like to know is: what companies are doing this work for him? What construction company said "sure" to knocking it down? What company made those plaques?

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? Well, it'll be fun with lots of errors, but ultimately successful.

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two women in superhero costumes are standing next to each other . one of the women is wearing a cat mask .

Alt: Stargirl and Wildcat from the WB series discovering Wildcat's claws

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nerd-f... I'm in the camp that says the only things in the quote marks are the text being quoted. My punctuation isn't part of the quote!

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nerd-fight

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

OK, found the (academically) scariest pumpkin carving ever!

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

A "random" smattering: aerobics, doobie, ego trip, flower power, group home, heliosphere, ibuprofen, lunar module, midi, omega-3, Peter Principle, RV, spaghetti western, tachyon, word processing, wet bar, yada yada, zonked-out

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

“This has been the playbook all along — to issue things that I suspect the administration knows will be overturned by a court, but it doesn’t matter, because issuing it in the first place has the intended chilling effect,” added Gellman-Beer www.chronicle.com/article/coll...

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Colleges Rushed to Comply With Trump’s Anti-DEI Guidance. A Judge Just Struck It Down. Now What?

The government’s missives sought to “substantially alter the legal obligations of schools and educators” without following the proper procedures, Thursday’s ruling said.

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

So the Chronicle of Higher Ed is musing about why unis are "powerless" in their fight with trump and fall back on "they are decentralized" and "they just aren't used to fights". No. It's because we have an administration that is actively *breaking* *the* *law* to try to make unis accept fascism.

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We shouldn't make sure gun-carrying, citizen-killing cops aren't going to continue harming POC, but let's make sure we put consent decrees on colleges where nobody actually got hurt because the admin doesn't like protests. UGH!

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Just slashing science. They say this will allow more focus on science and less on administrative costs, but that's a lie. Because we'll now have to spend time and effort calculating percentages of larger costs into our proposals as direct costs. www.chronicle.com/article/trum...

chronicle.com

Trump Halts Grants, Caps Indirect Costs at the National Science Foundation

No reason was given for the freeze, which is said to last “until further notice.”

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Watching the '73 Jesus Christ: Superstar and have to admit I never realized Herod (one of the best numbers) is the son of the late, great, Zero Mostel!

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Found 5 of my papers here. I suspect Elsevier will be going after them...?

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

What MAGA mob meant when they said they were voting on "the economy" www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ivy-le...

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ivy League

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New genealogy result, which seems apropos these days: I'm a 7th cousin twice removed from Winston Churchill (i.e. he and my grandmother were 7th cousins. www.azquotes.com/quote/789714

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Winston Churchill Quote

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I mean, it pretty much is just one time zone... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...

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Time in Europe - Wikipedia

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Dave Klassen @drklassen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

In doing my genealogy hobby I have discovered that my 11G-grandfather was William Bradford, first signer of the Mayflower Compact and second governor of Plymouth Colony.

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