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File Jockey

@filecabinetjockey.bsky.social
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Educating the future? New Jerseyan in exile. I mostly talk about beer, foreign policy, and on very rare occasions, parenting and gender.

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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In 2009, I was working on a draft paper regarding conflict minerals and came across a TU Darmstadt study on the challenges of extracting rare metals from circuitry for recycling. They should have just been in touch with WVU apparently.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I think I've found more proof that unites the "everyone is 12" and "people on the internet think movies are real".
A conversation that talks about Luigi Mangione and Transformers.
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Indivisible Onondaga County @indivisibleononcty.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Amazing protest today #NotInOurHouse
Crowd shot from Clinton Square
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Relics — Critical darling, 83/100, $190M tentpolegame.com/m/0D3eVByH9Kb7
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Relics — Tentpole
“Belief is the only miracle he ever performed.” — Satirical biopic, rated R, dir. Pedro Almodóvar. $190M domestic · 83/100 · Critical darling. A picture made at Tentpole.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This man clearly hates Waffles
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I got into an argument with my mother in law, with my point being "these are bad people whose ideas are bad and they should feel bad for supporting them"
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We finally get a Millennial in a leadership role in the executive branch, and we get the one who is both a nerd, and who didn't do the reading. Nothing like having a replica of Pierre Poujade, filtered through the clearance rack of Temu and Wayfair
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Fr Sam @frsamsheridan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On one hand it's easy to dismiss Dan McClellan's interview with Joe Rogan because Rogan is a foul, misogynist, racist, fascist, whose grift is extracting wealth from the ill-informed by giving them permission to feel superior despite their ignorance. But on the other hand I feel the exact same way.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When my brother was between his third and fourth years of culinary school, he got a summer job as a contract chef. The agency contracted him out to a local frat house. One afternoon, a brother comes into the kitchen, in the middle of a Jersey tirade, and my little brother doesn't even look up
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Joel @exadyto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A bunch of people doing the “I would simply fire bomb a Walmart” but then you can look up their LinkedIn and they’re all like “I have a decade of experience working for Fortune 500 companies”
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I mean, can you blame people
Porferio Diaz
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm sorry, if your Internet expertise and commitment to the common good has you complaining about pay walls every time you encounter one, you need to go back to Encarta and Prodigy. Look, if I can find out of print CRS reports using a 486 and a T1 line, you can figure out which local library
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As a sidebar, I'm really enjoying the folks who have discovered UN reporting, particularly those who look at the work of the Special Rapporteurs. Many of them do great work, some of them are cranks, but they are largely independent consultants for the UN system, and their work isn't necessarily
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's discourse like this mornings that make me wish people understood that war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other IHL violations are more normative than prosecutorial. Just because something isn't a war crime under IHL, doesn't mean it's not murder under the criminal code of a nation.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You know, that's kind of fair
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Did anyone else think the sign said Choad?
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The answer is probably NetBall. See if we can get him into a Silver Ferns jersey
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Man, first Americans are too violent, killing everyone randomly, and now we're not violent enough
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I agree with the August author below. You could also look to see if you can access it through your local library
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Greg Schiano story
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It's not always the victories, most of the time it's about showing up. Sending a little ripple of humanity outwards, not knowing if it will connect, but knowing that you will be all the less yourself if you don't. To serve, for many of us, is best defined by remembering that there are others
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As someone who saw Scarlet Knights' football on the front page for years, this is a return to normalcy
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New York is delightful.
Cardboard boat race on Saranac Lake.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Years ago, a faculty colleague of mine situated the rise of international humanitarian aid as a successor to the rise of the international law system, and started the course talking about the abolitionist movement. It was undersubscribed, but a needed emphasis on the "why" we do aid, (1/2)
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Squawking "imperialist tool!" over and over like a malfunctioning Chatty Cathy doll as I watch old footage of Red Cross workers handing out food in a refugee camp.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is a magnificent response.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This reminds me of the graduate international relations admissions prompt that I thought would be really useful. "Identify your favorite diplomat and explain why any choice but Genscher is wrong.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We really have to stop calling people faculty when they taught courses once or twice
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This was a remarkable thread to help assemble several people who earned blocks
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I've been here fifteen years, and it feels different than it has in the last two aborted redevelopment restarts
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Oh I like this one.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Beets neck and neck with Parsnips.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Is there a Baptist equivalent of a cafeteria Catholic? Dairy bar Baptist?
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 14/08/2026
Joe Rogan’s mind is a beige colored hallway and his guests are invited in with a box of crayons and told to have at it. I don’t know how else to describe that podcast.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Mr. Greenjeans was hit hard by today's news.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Glad to know that it took several thousand dollars to reproduce the Cliff Notes version of Last of the Mohicans that you could buy at Borders in 199 for like $4.99 plus tax.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Under the right conditions, I share the story of my former organizational director who came to us, after having been relieved of her previous role in an international human rights organization, because she opposed her staff's unionization efforts.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Have it your way indeed.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As someone says around here a lot, "the Republican Party is only gonna get worse."
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Look, I don't like being this guy, but words fucking mean things. Twice means 2x. Everything going up by 15% is bad, but specifics are specifics. EIA cutes gas price at an average of $4.079/gallon nationally, which would mean half is $2.039. a price it first breached during March 2005.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I'm fairly convinced that I could go 3-8 as head coach of the Syracuse Orange for far less than whatever they are paying Fran Brown.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The answer to this might be when Bernie started to become popular among people who would have otherwise voted for Ron Paul.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is going to make me sound like a crank and an elitist, but we really have to stop considering "teaches online on a per-course basis, potentially as a one-off overload and/or buyout replacement", as equalling teaching.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is the way. One of the biggest complaints on any beginner woodworking forum is that my dovetails/box joints/planing is "rustic". Inevitably the cause is "you're using pine 2x4's, that's what it does." Also build your casings out of plywood and use hardwood for face frames.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I just watched my kid have a polite and engaging conversation with a little kid while they wait for the incoming plane to arrive. I think this might mean that I'm doing a half-way decent job as a parent.
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A part of the "hidden curriculum" of academia that was entirely unknown to me until fairly late in my career is the thing where people cold-email each other about meeting up at conferences. So here's general advice to junior scholars, and an offer: (1/n)
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
*sighs in program administrator looking longingly at increasing the number of seats in history, global affairs, and regional studies.*
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
As someone who has developed advocacy campaigns on reducing conflict minerals in the technology supply chain, particularly web actions for distribution via email and social media, I have not found a good way to square the circle. Best I can do is Rhombus the Dodecahedron.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
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This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE
Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.
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File Jockey @filecabinetjockey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I know this is a logical fallacy and my historiography professor would dislike my use of it, but how is it statistically possible that everyone complaining about speed cameras looks exactly like someone who has owned at least one "taxes are theft," bumper sticker?
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