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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3h

After cornrows controversy, Baltimore Rock Opera Society’s new leader is out

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Jaime “Ni!” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 3h

I lived bitch

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 3h

Pete, put the cube in my chest, now! www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/37...

getyarn.io

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 4h

SUPREMELY fun, LA Times?

La times news alert about 50 supremely fun thing you probably haven’t done in Orange County

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 5h

Dear Pete Hegseth, Hog out or log out Signed, A Poster

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 5h

Hat trick of LoRs today. If the season seems to come earlier every year that's just intellectual climate change (I saw Hat Trick of LoRs open for Guided by Voices in Canton, OH. They were good, but I could have done without the matching hockey sweater bit)

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 8h

What's that I hear? Why, it's the screaming eagle of chemical safety! For your lunchtime viewing www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmiQ...

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Alarming Mistakes, Deadly Decisions: Fatal Fire at BP-Husky

YouTube video by USCSB

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 8h

You may wondering what I as a socialist want out of democrats in congress. This

Two crows on a light post just absolutely tearing the shit out of a rat out of frame and screaming about it

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 30/09/2026

TODAY: @lesbrains.bsky.social on Veronica Gonzalez Peña’s new book SECRET DAUGHTER. "Exile doesn’t erase [secrets]; it merely displaces them. Silencing a secret is much harder and obliterating the evidence of it is harder still. In fact, it might be impossible." flaminghydra.com/r/706a8598?m...

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Template for grief

Myriam Gurba descends into the darkness of a new book by Veronica Gonzalez Peña

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And Cindy Holland has stepped down, leaving Casey Bloys to run streaming (at least)

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How many layers of irony is the cafe on when they play old Weather Channel local-on-the-8s lite jazz?

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a shocking twist, the document accidentally renamed everything "artificial" as "super": An artificial lake? Nope, superlake. Superlimb (ends with a b, a lot of people don't know that) Super Sweetener and, of course, Super Insemination

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MAGA fans turning on Caitlin Clark when Jack Smith doesn't go to jail for perjury

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am currently signing a document today renaming artificial intelligence "Trump's Mushroom-Headed Penis." Officially renaming it.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is that the face Schmitt makes when the guy he called a perjurious dirtbag runs over him in a car? Inquiring minds want to know!

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Since it is late and I have been thinking about Paramount–Warner Bros., and I have a lingering take, I'll dump it here. After the trauma of the integration, the thousands of layoffs, the likely federally subsidized bump in Hollywood production, what will happen with this company?

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two things: one institutional, one petty Institutionally, I don't think we can understand Henrich without seeing its relationship to the fraught bioanthro/cultural anthro split, particularly at Harvard.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Medical office hold. Underbite lite jazzbo really going for that sitar twang. Pseudapologetic robovoice jumping in far too often. "Did you know that you can book appointments online?" [You cannot. The robot is lying.] Just visit h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-……………

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Local campaign funding is always grim. In LA it's Airbnb, cops, the SEIU, and a landlord with a grudge for Karen Bass; The Carpenters Union and the cycling hedgefunder for Nithya Raman. laist.com/news/politic...

laist.com

Donors pour millions more into LA mayor’s race, narrowing gap between Bass and Raman

A bike-lane-loving hedge fund founder and construction workers union put $7M behind Raman. Airbnb has spent heavily for Bass, and the LAPD union is spending big against Raman.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have now seen this ad another 100 times. His hands have become characters in my China Miéville homage

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tomorrow's discourse warning: We're not listening to some rightwing Stanford BA saying the PhD job crisis is a market correction that will lead to fewer "overeducated," "overcredentialed," "aggrieved" young people We will continue making the world a better place by making the world a better place

Hurricane warning flag stacked red flags with black rectangles in the center

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 25/09/2026

TODAY: Nathan Munn in conversation with pro-democracy activist Charlie Angus. “But we’re in the fascist sandwich. We have the Russians to the north, and now our unguarded border [with the U.S.] is obviously a threat.” flaminghydra.com/r/56844df6?m...

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Elbows way up

Canadian pro-democracy activist Charlie Angus raises the alarm, with Nathan Munn

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A resounding home loss and not even as bad a beating as they deserved

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

there was an actual real encounter between Borges and Herbert Simon which I hope to be able to write up as it deserves some time

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Annnnnd that's enough cranial trauma for the day

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Margaret Connor @margaretconnor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Settling into the post-vaccine ambient fever and declaring that Midge Ure–era Ultravox was better, actually

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Whenever I see this billboard i say "Sweet James Bergener" in the same voice that Matt Dillon says "Sweet Ginger Brown" in The Flamingo Kid which is also the same way I say "Sweet Baby Rays" whenever I see Mark Zuckerberg

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Sebastian Stockman @substockman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Feels like I’ve had wider options in previous falls

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Morning Briefing
53m ago
Embracing fall's possibilities. Sylvester Stallone's memoir. Communal living.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At the end of the innovation fellation session, they will clear space for the "Future U" by ritually sacrificing an archivist, a historian, and a close reader as warning to anyone who takes their time

The Future U. Podcast Campus Tour
is coming to the University of Southern California for a live taping of

Visiting USC: Aligning Teaching, Learning, and the Higher Ed Business Model

On the latest stop of Future U.'s campus tour, Michael Horn and Jeff Selingo visit the University of Southern California to talk with President Beong-Soo Kim and other campus leaders. They explore the university's push to build teaching and learning around cross-disciplinary, experiential, solution-based education and dig into the harder question underneath it: what a university has to change about its structure, its incentives, and its business model to make that the norm rather than the exception. A panel discussion on USC’s space initiatives will follow with Interim Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Gaurav Sukhatme, Research Professor of Astronautics David Barnhart, and Lab Lead of USC Rocket Propulsion Lab and Viterbi Student Ian McDaniel.

Featuring Future U. Hosts:

Jeff Selingo
Author and Higher Education Strategist

Michael Horn
Author and Co-Founder of the
Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's Florence Pugh. That's no surprise, but what is a surprise is that the middle hour of the movie is just a montage of interviews with her trying and failing to answer questions about the behind-the-scenes chaos on Don't Worry Darling

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Café. Deloitte girlie wearing actual Deloitte t-shirt. Portents accumulating. Weekend vibe perilous

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kirsten Sinema paid $2 million for this chop shop to residential conversion

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I apologize for inadvertently moving the line on Oregon USC this morning. I know how tired I am and I didn’t even have to go across the country and back. #SleepyTrojans

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Weekend movie plans: Ti West’s Vaxxxine

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Instead of listening to TS sing about Cleveland, may I suggest The Breeders covering GBV, with a cameo from Bob Pollard www.youtube.com/watch?v=glAe...

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The Breeders - Shocker In Gloomtown

YouTube video by The Breeders

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It may indeed be over for you hoes

Cover of a RAND report on Expo 70 by legendary tv theorist Rudy Brett WN 7094- P 4499
OCTOBER 1970
TRIP REPORT: EXPO '70
Rudy Bretz
Rand
SANTA MONICA, CA. 90406

Page of trip report including multi image cinema stills. -25-
Two more shots of the same action are added
in upper right and lower left. Cut. The original upper left to lower right trio again, another car taking the ramp, seen from the side.
This time the same shot is used in all
three areas but at different points in the
shot, just a few frames apart. The action
seen in upper left immediately occurs in
lower right, then in the center. As the car in the center rolls and crashes,
the corner pictures vanish and side images simultaneously appear, one of which 1s the mirror-image of the other.
addition
cut
vanishing and addition

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do you know how easy it is to get people to laugh from a lectern? Generations of professors think they’re funny when they’re just “up front.” Anyway, Bari began her career trying to destroy colleagues. I wish her nothing but the worst

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A new Johnny Depp trailer ("Day Drinker") brings the usual wandering accent, but most important, when he delivers the big line—"I'm done…when I say I'm done"—it has network-television-censorship-level ADR over the last part.

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A minute for this fit from Albert O. Hirschman please

Albert O Hirschman sitting at a desk in a white or light blue OCBD, a knit or garza grosso grenadine tie, and a gorgeous flannel (?) chore coat (?)

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Eventually all the money in LA will be spent on the LAX People Mover. And once that happens we can shut the city down

Troubled LAX People
Mover delayed again - and it might not be the last time
By Colleen Shalby | Staff Writer
SEP 24, 2026 | 03:00
FOR SUBSCRIBERS
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• Contractors say the 2.25-mile train for LAX passengers could now be running by Jan. 6 - but also say further delays are possible.
• The People Mover was originally supposed to open in 2023. More recently, contractors were aiming to launch service next month.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Screened The Faculty tonight in the Sinners class. In addition to having EVERYONE in it and being super fun 1 Love to see real crane shots 2 Baggy light wash jeans everywhere. These mfers never even heard of selvedge 3 So much high school cruelty 4 Soundtrack still goes 5 I mean ev-er-y-one

^ Cast
• Jordana Brewster as Delilah Profitt
• Clea DuVall as Stokely Mitchell
• Laura Harris as Marybeth Hutchinson
• Josh Hartnett as Zeke Tyler
• Shawn Hatosy as Stan Rosado
• Salma Hayek as Nurse Harper
• Famke Janssen as Miss Burke
• Piper Laurie as Mrs. Olson
• Chris McDonald as Casey's dad
• Bebe Neuwirth as Principal Drake
• Robert Patrick as Coach Willis
• Usher Raymond as Gabe
• Jon Stewart as Mr. Furlong
• Daniel von Bargen as Mr. Tate
• Elijah Wood as Casey Connor
• Summer Phoenix as "F*%# You" girl
• Jon Abrahams as "F*%# You" boy

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Week 2 of narratives of choice (systematicity, secrecy, ignorance): Ozu's Late Spring; Godard's Contempt; Carole Pateman on participation; Rawls Theory of Justice; bits of Bordwell on the Ozu ie

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump rebooting Collective (2019), one of the greatest investigative documentaries I have ever seen.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Amazon Prime: I have made Neagley Me: You fucked up a perfectly good Reacher is what you did. Look at her. She's got trauma.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am currently shot up with radio tracer before my PET scan. Ask me any SpiderMan questions you have

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Marvel Marvel Tokon

Alt: Marvel Marvel Tokon

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I prefer a version in Colt45

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