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maullarmaullar☄️ @maullarmaullar.bsky.social · 9h

Wow! Finally a steely dan game

youtu.be/4RVhuDjOEk0?... The fact that this is in my lullaby rotation is probably going to come up in my kids’ therapy bills

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Wilco - Misunderstood - 11/27/1996 - Chicago, IL

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 13h

An AI can never get called a mama’s boy during the break-up of their previous band and then work that into the sixth verse of the opening track of their sophomore album with their new band So an AI can’t make music I want to listen to basically

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Be kind to your federal employee friends who have to start using the corniest language possible

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Surely everyone who complained about Latinx will write strongly worded letters

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i imagine a lot of high school career counseling is basically this scene from muppet christmas carol: youtu.be/7aEmDgfvLbg?...

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Just ignore this.

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

See also: actuary. My brother became one because a substitute teacher mentioned it to him offhand in high school!

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What I picture when people say escrow

The cool S design people used to draw in school with crow wings

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't have any particular insight into this stuff but I feel like about once a month, one of the big newspapers publishes a story about how ADULTS are CUTTING OFF CONTACT with their PARENTS and it's SO SAD FOR THE PARENTS and DAMN THESE THERAPISTS

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Harry has many other fine qualities and achievements but as the main character of reality, I wanted to highlight the fan-favorite story arc he was in

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value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"meets expectations" is the baseline if you're rational

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You don’t gut the country's capacity to measure what's happening in its schools because you care about improving them. Guardian article below.

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

j wants to do that in our backyard

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you have shamed your people

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we chose the wrong subfields

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

remember being on the market in 2017 and seeing an opening in wine economics at sonoma state

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/09/2026

Mass lesbian bar masking story is getting Oberlin cafeteria levels of coverage, meaning it will define reactionary and reactionary-fearing centrist politics for the next 15 years

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

prepping some slides about common pool resources and it's always a good day to (1) remind economists that we should be ashamed that ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel, and we didn't even have the sense to have her in an economics department (2) inform students that Hardin was a racist

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social listening to the bonus; do you like older (like, early 20th century) mysteries at all? My wife read a bunch of the Dorothy Sayers novels over the past couple months and they seemed to hit a sweet spot of interesting and clever but not disturbing

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

YUP Politicians and their fundraising apparatuses are partially at fault for this!

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I often tell strangers that, and I never thought about how fundamentally goofy it is to do

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If that result doesn’t exist it seems very intuitive to me!

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You mean “want” in the sense that it’s welfare enhancing for them?

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Last week, the world lost an extraordinary scholar and person. Alexander Reyes, a PhD student at UCI and my advisee, died after a severe illness. Please considering contributing to this fundraiser for his family, who have incurred tremendous expenses this summer, in his memory if you can.

gofundme.com

Donate to Supporting A Final Farewell to Alexander, organized by Elizabeth Sandoval

Our family is reaching out to ask for support for our beloved cousin, Alex… Elizabeth Sandoval needs your support for Supporting A Final Farewell to Alexander

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

elite spam

An account called FORD TRUCKS asking “hey man have you ever wished to have a truck”

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

He had the temerity to criticize the trump administration’s trade policy apparently

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If it’s not for Birdie, why is it just the perfect size for her

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Statler and Waldorf in drag at Life-In-Death. Fozzy is the mariner. Gonzo is another sailor and he’s despondent when the albatross, played by a chicken, is shot. The electric mayhem are the wedding band The mariner is the only human and presumably is willem defoe

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Inspired by my eldest’s preferred bedtime story: muppet rime of the ancient mariner. Kermit is the wedding guest (or maybe he’s the groom and we fudge that for the story so miss piggy can get pissed at the mariner).

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”

nytimes.com

RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’

The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this was a joke but now I'm sort of wanting to (get students to help me) build one

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

a MONIAC for every home, honestly

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my wife thinks my music taste is a natural result of being the youngest sibling in the family, but I think I was just born in the wrong generation, man born to love late 80s/early 90s college radio forced to have politics not informed by exposure to leaded gasoline

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Ethan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

then when I was driving into work, i waited in the parking lot because the Current was playing Can't Hardly Wait and I wanted to hear the rest of it (actually a cover, but close enough).

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