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Just me: The astronomical salaries at Cornell are not unrelated to the horrible way Cornell handles SA allegations Data from Cornell's tax return, the form 990 GREEN ARROWs: I think these are neurosurgeons Orange ARROWS: President

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all the attn given to MO Sen Schmitt, and the utter lack of attn given to any democratic senator (minor exception, Klobuchar) is why politics here sucks dogshit

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Sort of juvenile & disgusting in how much time bluesky is spending on MO senator Eric Schmidtt cause, I would guess this is a win in the state of MO for him and a personal win for his fund raising cause of course, 95% of the country isn't on bluesky but fox and what they hear on fox is differernt

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A common theme in science fiction is a future where you can change your body at will, a future where everyone is thin and very good looking In the stories I recall, most of this is plastic surgery well, the future is today, but better living thru chemistry

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one could certainly read this at least two ways maybe even 3 or 4

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Mr Marshall doesn't say so, but I am sure he knows that people who watch FOX will see a slightly, very slightly editied version of this

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what is bluesky ? A place where highly educated people can make this argument with a straight face: In 2026, a few weeks from midterms, the ability of 7 TV news networks, protected by 1stA, to resist Trump's evil is exactly the same as the ability of RnD intensive unis in the summer of 2025

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 29/09/2026

on the one hand, this looks scrumptious on the other hand, going vegan is one of the best possible things anyone can do for the enviroment and to reduce GHG I have no clue what the answers to this is

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I hear this a lot in this discourse: just shift to oral exams, quiz students directly on their understanding, and they can’t cheat with AI. In a typical semester, I teach between 80 and 100 undergrads, plus mentoring grad students. How do I do any of that without time, space, or resourcing for it?

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I have a diff take This is how the right wing funds people, so those people can fight on

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Can anyone explain why this utterly trite anodyne comment deserves so many likes ? This post by @teapainusa.bsky.social is almost word for word what thousands have said, every day, since 2016 but I'm an old cranky guy, so maybe it just goes over my head

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Wait you got a guy trying to gang rape 7 sisters, and hte punishment is that the sisters get sent to a nunnery ? #Cornell

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My neighbor: the best money I ever spent was soundproofing the basement; my two boys and their friends could do what they wanted and I didn't have to hear it till they got hungry, which if you know teenage boys . . .

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any old person like myself, who grew up thinking of "coolie" as a job that was a byword for a wrecked body, is not surprised I think there is a 1980s era detailed analysis of the drug trade in Chicago, and the low level grunts make less then min wage

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This whole thread is fascinating because it seems to be about a post that was deleted so one has to infer what that post said from the replies, sort of the way Astronomers infer a new planet from the orbits of known planets but the thread seems to be about the idea that a service, perhaps AI driven

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Web Financial advice is so "funny" this CNBC report www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/m... is based on this report www.ares.com/content/dam/... and that report is so unserious and wierd I wouldn't invest one dime based on it but your mileage may vary but truly the ares pdf is, in its way, a work of art

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Does stress or anger cause auto immune disease ? possibly pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... but far as I can tell, the link is still somewhat difficult to show which is not surprising, this is a very difficult thing to study

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I know I am weird and cranky and old, but this is why liberals lose elections sadly, very sadly, NO ONE CARES all the fuckers who vote care about is the price of gas; they don't give two farts about our freedom

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rawstory is shit, the OANN or Newsmax of the left

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PSA most new yorkers who live in Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn will view this as another all so typical slap in the face by a mayoral system that for decades has prioritized white people in manhattan yes sirree bob

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can anyone explain to me, an old slow out of it guy, why we need or even want 5 font colors ? what is this thing with each phrase in a diff color ? black/yellow yellow/black white/black orange/black green/black

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how wierd and cranky am I ? I think it should be illegal to drive a car onto a beach don't care what your excuse is, you can't drive a car onto a beach

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 29/09/2026

about 10 years ago, we had a mini baby boom a work and I told the parents: the best possible thing you can do for your personal financial security is vote for people who will lower the cost of attending a public university

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Here's the full transcript of the ad in question. Assuming all of it is accurate I find it difficult to believe that he has a leg to stand on:

"One evening I see lights. I open the door, and it's a police officer. They arrested me because I didn't make a $50 payment to Roger Marshall. I was 8 months pregnant and I said please, do not handcuff me in front of my 2-yr old daughter.

"Roger Marshall preyed on the low-income families of Kansas. The healthcare system is broken...but not for Roger Marshall. He's absolutely profiting from it.

TEXT: "Marshall had dozens arrested for minor medical debt" (w/citation)

TEXT: "Roger Marshall is worth nearly $10 million" (w/citation)

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It is fun, and I suppose cathartic, but it isn't clear to me what we all get from the enormous amount of energy spent dunking on Connor or people like him - Taibbi, Greenwald, etc etc

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for reasons I don't understand, I don't really like Stancil, in general but he is spot on here, and he does the hard job of dealing with the moronic replies

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your reminder thta one of the best things you can do to reduce GHG is to go vegan on the other hand ,this looks fuckin good life is, really, not easy

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Typical liberal garbage Overall, about half the country is doing ok we are not in a crash, or, far as anyone can tell, heading to one; this is just the bluesky version of the right wing crap you see on twitter

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hard for me to understand why people think LOTR is well written there is so much awful clunky prose, esp in volumes II and III not as bad as Dune, but pretty bad #LOTR #Dune

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iirc, in 1984, Orwell talks about how one has to convince oneself that what ever the party says today is true

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Lets start a fight Philip Roth Genius vs Sexist Pig The jury will include Picasso, Wilt Chamberlin, and Mingus

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

after The 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Andrew V. Schally and Roger Guillemin, I recall reading an appreciation - maybe in Science - about how difficult it was to get enough material, and that the Schally lab went thru 100s, maybe 1,000s of sheep brains

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Obvs. someone is preparing the neuron-specific isoform of ole yeller enzyme.

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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Folks, “we can avoid mass AI-induced unemployment” does not imply “we can avoid mass AI-induced labor market disruption” and you shouldn’t conflate the two

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Blue sky truly is liberal twitter this offer by Trump might be illegal, but the illegality acutually, if you know anything, isn't clear eg electionlawblog.org/2026/trumps-... but does that stop bluesky twitter from piling on ? noooo

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this post, which is mostly false, has 1,500 likes and almost 500 reposts bluesky, the liberal version of twitter bluesky, so bad and twitteresque that the google AI summary is more accurate nice job folks

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excellent thread by @sailorrooscout.bsky.social I have a medium quibble tho this is not an antibotic in the sense that this is a chemical that can be administered to humans instead it is a chemical that looks interesting, but may not be useful for many reasons, eg toxicity to say the kidneys

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Kids you may not believe this, but in the 1990s & maybe the 2000s, if the president sent an email to everyone in the uni, if one of the recipients then hit 'reply all" the reply was sent to everyone in the uni & then people would reply all "stop replying !!!!!" & of course this made it 10x worse

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

wait till Fietser hears about battery powered cars

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Also reminder the best help for food pantries, or people struggling or any 'need' is cold hard cash. Always. Always always always. Food pantries can make that money stretch MUCH BETTER THAN YOU CAN, and it'll go to their most urgent needs. I mean, the other stuff is great too but cash is king

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quite the figure from @tesler.bsky.social in this @goodauth.bsky.social piece. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...

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The Federal Government Has Borrowed Trillions. Who Owns All that Debt?

This is almost certainly misleading if not wrong why ? turns out lots and lots of ordinary people own federal debt, which means lots and lots of ordinary people get paid the interest geez folks, this isn't hard www.pgpf.org/article/the-...

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Most federal debt is owed to domestic holders, but foreign ownership is much higher now than it was about 50 years ago.

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reuters: www.reuters.com/commentary/r... lets talk about how we format graphs The bar graph below has a simple feature that makes the graph much better, but this feature is rarely used The order in the legend is the same as the order in the bars so simple, so important and no one fucking cares

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