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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wait 'til you learn about numbers! Fun things like formal numbers for legal documents and counting, where you have distinct grouping systems like "twelve pencil-shaped things" or "thirty things-that-have-engines-but-aren't-cars," all of which totally change the words involved!

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's definitely a flawed system. I don't know if it's better or worse that so many of them that resemble each other are both different vowel sounds AND different consonants (the exception being ru and ro, which are load bearing 🙃)

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When you learn how to write them by hand, there's a little tail on either end of the mouth and one appears on the left side, the other on the right. But as presented here? Deeply fucked up.

actually could you just kill me instead thx

He's got a sweet gig at ASU that I don't think he'd feel like giving up.

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That's a .gif that I practically have memorized.

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Force them to read Middlemarch

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This really only works in the Derek Zoolander voice

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Movie night at the brewery? Long live the new flesh.

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I feel like, body horror aside, he's super easy to get into. All his movies that I have seen have a distinct lack of fucking around and usually set things in motion within the first five or so. Even if you're squeamish, A History of Violence was absolutely solid from what I remember.

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

She has pretty eyes. I am already bedazzled

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I read it straight as you loving a travel show with political overtones.

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have watched most of Parts Unknown and bits of No Reservations and prior. I feel as time passed, he became less flippant and more receptive. It became less about him passing cool guy judgment and more about engaging on the terms provided. Not perfect, but hard to quibble with.

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My shift lead when I started working as a cook was mad at me for knowing so little about Led Zepplin (and other such bands) so I kept asking him when they played if this was one of the songs about Lord of the Rings

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My "Grew Up on the Eastside" Brain: "Missouri has a Bothell?"

Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

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Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"[politician] doesn't owe you anything" yes they fuckin do

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Could we not have either of them please

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I always passed off "that would be the lovely Elizabeth" as a throw-away name until I looked up Randy Savage and found out that his ex-wife was known as Miss Elizabeth and managed him for a time. A nice if unexpected touch.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"journalism" I have graded so many student papers where AI will just scan for researcher names and then make up an article that they co-authored and cite it as if real. No.

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It was also the girl's birthday yesterday. We will continue to celebrate the girl all weekend even if she doesn't understand camera phones and tries to bite them.

A brown and orange tabby with gold eyes stares at the camera in mild confusion.

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Interesting framing. I remember an area Japanese restaurant called "Osamu's" getting vandalized because, with a name like that, the guy had to be up to Something.

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Glad that’s over!

Mr. Lattimore's advice to cut and run in Korea."' The historian Mary McAuliffe is right to say, "One of the major ironies of the period was the unexpected role which liberals played, first in constructing a new liberalism which rejected the American left, and then in accepting some of the basic assumptions and tactics of the Red Scare itself."
In the atmosphere of McCarthyism, the British author Godfrey Hodgson wrote, "Liberals were almost always more concerned about distinguishing themselves from the Left than about distinguishing themselves from conservatives." Thus they joined "the citadel of ...a conservative liberalism." If the fear of being investigated had shown the intellectuals "the stick" in the early 1950s, "the hope of being consulted had shown them the carrot" thereafter.
Being an influential client meant accepting the confines of one's pa-tronage."' But in 1950, it was the stick that counted, and a mighty one it was.

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Snowball rolls his own, one-handed

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I love the mythology around running the rock in football. If you can't do it, well then it's clear passing is your only option. But if you can do it, who knows what you're capable of?

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Miami 2017" is certainly a choice since it was written during the racial / economic tensions of the 70s and is about NYC being blown up.

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My thoughts are with you as a core cheese-with-starches stakeholder

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fascinating, I'm going to go watch 1992's Toys starring Robin Williams.

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I feel like not enough folks were talking about the Koch funding they got

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Gooning Arizona, the unwanted prequel to the Coen bros seminal film.

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

At least in this case, it seems to be resolved. I bought the Japanese Fried Rice pretty regularly and it was off shelves for months, only returning recently.