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Glenn Mackin

@glennmackin.bsky.social
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Political theorist at a music school, writing about politics and aesthetics; runner, cyclist, dog-lover, tea obsessive; will likely post about some or all of these. Or maybe something else!

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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 1h
It is very disorienting to live in a society that is collectively losing its goddamned mind. I suppose lots of people have always known this. But feeling it is, for me, a rather new experience.
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 2h
JFC. One of those posts where I really start to question the life choices, or indeed the broad cultural choices, that have led me to the point where this presents itself as a "leftist" position I'm supposed to engage with
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Ellie @ellienyaa.net · 22h
Perfect encapsulation of nextdoor
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 4h
Fox News "reported that the raid followed a criminal fraud investigation into the Minnesota lawmaker's paperwork, filled out ⁠by her late father when she was a ⁠child." www.usnews.com/news/world/a...
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The best bath
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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yesterday was one of those rare and beautiful autumn days where the sun shone and there was barely a breath of wind. Unfortunately today normal service has resumed with wind and rain aplenty #Shetland
Black Shetland pony in green field with long beach behind
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 08/10/2026
Yeah, so this "leaked" audio is from a radio interview that came out in March of 2026. You know what to do with this account.
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QUICK CLIPS: Tafoya Tells Minnesotans to “Take One Less Trip to Starbucks” and to “Just Try to be Patriots” as Gas Prices Skyrocket - DSCC
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump admin's new rule adding prohibitively expensive new fees for "OPT"—temporary work authorization program for international students and new grads in the United States—is out. Would require colleges to pay $70,000 for year one. $30,000 for years two and three combined for STEM fields.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is incredible. I tell people that France is the place for me because of the cheese and wine and cigarettes and art and bad attitude but it's also because this kind of behavior is French as hell too.
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greyhoundfanatic.bsky.social @greyhoundfanatic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We're dog-sitting best boy Rip for the next five days! Expect to see a video or two of him rooing over the course of his stay!
Rip the greyhound.
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've thought that for a while too. In many cases, I'm not at all clear what people mean by it
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James A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've seen some important critiques of this argument, to which I'm very sympathetic, but I'm going to leave them to the experts who raised them. Instead, I'm interested in how this intersects with a reading I'm teaching today that includes discussion of Rachel Louise Carson, a marine biologist.
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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Take her away, boys." "I thought you said the law was powerless." "Powerless to help you, not punish you."
Season 11 / Episode 21
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026
The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
F*ck you, Donald Trump.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The thing I've been mulling: for every horrifying sexual assault story you hear, there are 100 stories that don't quite reach the level of "report this to the police immediately" but still are traumatic, still have long, long effects. 1/
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The "minor tweak" also ends up targeting things like music degrees at Juilliard. He is just such an uninformed pos
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Hurry!” said Frog. “We will run and catch it.” “No!” shouted Toad. “I cannot do that.” “Why not?” asked Frog. “Because,” wailed Toad, “running after my list in not one of the things that I wrote on my list of things to do!”
Frog chases after Toad's list, blowing away in the wind, while Toad stands still, arms crossed, refusing to chase after it.

From "A List"
In *Frog and Toad Together*
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Christ, that Altman cover: My eyes have rolled so far back in my head that I'm not sure I'll ever be able to see again.
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's a very good way of putting it. The entirety of the "justification" of this level of investment is a set of religious-speculative claims about what it might do sometime in the future.
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Everything is possible, and nothing is true.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Donald Trump will never be on a ballot again. People across the political spectrum are just gonna have to make peace with that.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A lot of people are saying that aspirin doses are a major concern to swing voters this year
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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If Trump had a single person who loved him more than they love the power that they gain from being near him, they would get him the care he needed years ago. But not a single person loves him enough. That’s it; that’s his legacy.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The line for the Phoebe Bridgers concert in Detroit! All one line for some reason
A very long line
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
First no taco trucks on every corner, now this.
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm there for it!
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm from a borderland region in southern Ohio. My mom taught in a school that was very definitely Appalachian (out in the boonies, as we said at the time). But where I lived really wasn't (more straightforwardly suburban). Anyway, I never use the word "holler," except perhaps ironically
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oooh, you absolutely need to do more fashion-posting!
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hah!
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I will say, more seriously, that the prospect of riding my bike to work in pre-dawn darkness is not terribly enticing (I know riding home in post-sunset darkness isn't fun either, but my schedule is such that this basically never happens for me)
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We should just get rid of clock time altogether
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Glenn Mackin @glennmackin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Stride forth, courageous banana!
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank you once again Politico for providing a canonical example of when not to grant anonymity.
"Looks like a pussy move to send a text instead of actually saying it to someone's face. Shows what kind of character he is," a senior White House official told Playbook's Megan Messerly.
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Dumb Runner @dumbrunner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#SaturdayMotivation
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Next Wednesday evening, Oct. 7, I'm talking to @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social at Old First Church in Brooklyn about her new book, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature. The ticket includes a copy of the book. Come out if you're so inclined! www.emilyrcwilson.com/appearances/...
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Old First Reformed Church with Dana Stevens (Brooklyn, NY USA) — Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson presents Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea, in conversation with Dana StevensWednesday October 7th, 2026 @ 7:00PM - 8:30PM Wilson will discuss her new book, Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys...
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Frog and Toad sat on the porch, feeling sad together.
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Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 02/10/2026
Having had my 20-year-old daughter Robyn killed in part because of unprotected bicycle infrastructure the protected bicycle lanes should stay! These save lives...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
This is a good @billmckibben.bsky.social post - and this specific part is extremely important and touches on a tension right deep at the heart of all this It is worth repeating this point persistently, because it has been forgotten in so many spaces billmckibben.substack.com/p/reform-or-...
The first thing to remember is, the real goal for people who care about the climate above all is not to build more renewables, it’s to drive down the amount of carbon flowing into the atmosphere. Building more renewables is a key way of doing that—but only if they displace fossil fuel.

And here is an important divergence: for many people working in the clean energy industry, victory looks like doubling or tripling their output, even if fossil fuel is growing fast at the same time. Even if they got into this fight for the right reasons, their commitment is—because, capitalism—to their bottom line. It’s important not to confuse the two motivations, because physics only cares about the carbon. If transmission corridors are matched by new gas pipelines, we haven’t made much progress.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s interesting to me that no one ever follows up on this. Do you think you have superior genetics? If so why? And i think it’s because everyone knows what it means so it would be uncomfortable to ask
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wheatles @wheatles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh god, they did @brainmage.bsky.social's poem.
A prom about proper bin men

You kids today, with 'net and games,
I fought in World War 2
You're not content with airfix planes,
I fought in World War 2
In my day (nineteen ninety three),
We didn't have what's yours
Things were much simpler, much less woke,
I fought in World War 2
School lunches, Oh! Pink custard too,
Four channels on TV
Not like the iphones you have now,
Was simpler then, you see?
"Image Macros" were all the rage,
There was no twitch TV
I fought in World War 2, respect
The man who's forty three
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At no point while reading this sentence did I correctly predict what was coming next.
Twitter screenshot: New: Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
What about this one? A news anchor found out her license info had been illegally pulled up 3,800 times over 10 years by curious and horny cops. The city settled for $33,000 www.inforum.com/news/tv-news...
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TV news anchor, who claims police snooped on her license data more than 3,800 times, reaches settlement
ST. PAUL-After a Twin Cities TV anchor said St. Paul officers looked up her private driver's license information for non-law enforcement purposes, the city council agreed Wednesday, Jan. 3, to settle ...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wrote about the Trump administration attempting to deport an anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew to Israel, and what it says about the conditions of Jewish identity imposed by the administration's "anti-antisemitism" campaign. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/01/t...
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Trump Admin Trying to Deport Anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew “Home” to Israel
The Trump administration is trying to deport Yehonatan Ovadia, a Satmar Hasidic religious teacher in Rockland County, New York. His alleged offense: taking part in a 2023 protest against an Israeli fl...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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