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Shoutout to @davidleyphd.bsky.social and our next governor talking about real crises that need real solutions in our state

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Frances Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 12h

one thing i understand more and more as i get older is that i do not have to post every half-baked inane thought that blows through my weary, addled brain. i do it by choice. i can stop anytime i want.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 12h

It’s the arewolf you gotta watch out for

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 12h

Been thinking about this speech a lot lately

"We will have peace," said Théoden at last thickly and with an effort. Several of the Riders cried out gladly. Théoden held up his hand. "Yes, we will have peace," he said now in a clear voice, "we will have peace, when you and all your works have perished--and the works of your dark master to whom you would deliver us. You are a liar, Saruman, and a corrupter a men's hearts. You hold out your hand it to me, and I perceive only a finger of the claw of Mordor. Cruel and cold! Even if your war on me was just--as it was not, for were you ten times as wise you would have no right to rule me and mine for your own profit as you desired--even so, what will you say of your torches in Westfold and the children that lie dead there? And they hewed Háma's body before the gates of the Hornburg, after he was dead. When you hang from a gibbet at your window for the sport of your own crows, I will have peace with you and Orthanic. So much for the house of Eorl. A lesser son of great sires am I, but I do not need to lick your fingers.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 13h

Despite spending 13 years there, I was never Ohio shaped and never felt like the right fit for me, but if there was one enduring thing I did love about the state, it was being represented by Sherrod Brown

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 13h

Maybe it will happen tomorrow

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J. S. Bach @bachtothefuture.bsky.social · 15h

100% can’t love this sentiment enough

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 23h

That is a good thing to wake up to

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 29/09/2026

I will forever maintain that that left must not let the right claim patriotism as their own and dope things like this are a big part of why

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 29/09/2026

Me, perfectly crisping the skin on the chicken thighs for maximum flavor and delectable texture and then watching all three of my kids rip the skin off and throw it away so they can just eat the meat underneath: t

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Michael Scott Crying in The Office

ALT: Michael Scott Crying in The Office

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 28/09/2026

shoutout to an incredible grants coordinator here at @casaa.bsky.social and a great team of co-Is for getting all the re-certified biosketches in by this mornign

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we could solve the western water crisis overnight by simply charging alfalfa farmers market rates for water

Across the basin, alfalfa hay uses more than 5 million acre-feet of Colorado River water — that's 26% of all the water consumed in the basin. One acre-foot roughly equals the annual water use of two or three households.
In the Upper Basin, irrigated agriculture consumes 2.8 million acre-feet, or nearly half the water used by Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, the environment, reservoirs and water exports out of the basin. Cattle-feed crops, like alfalfa, consume 90% of all water used by Upper Basin agriculture.
That means alfalfa uses more water than cities, commercial users and industries across the entire basin:
Collectively, these users consume about 3.5 million acre-feet, or 18%, of the river's water. The Colorado River

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 28/09/2026

Maybe it will happen tomorrow

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Aaron Chaleff @aaronmp3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can get rid of data centers 100% and the water problem is still not close to solved. Until we're willing to address agriculture we're not having a serious conversation

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

if we stopped growing alfalfa in deserts to feed cows in saudi arabia basically all of the west's water problems would be solved without anything else having to change (And denver is on the wrong side of the continental divide for that discussion)

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 27/09/2026

A short time later 11yo: “what do you call a fish with no eyes????? . . . A FSH!!!”

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 27/09/2026

11yo: “dad, what’s the difference between a tuna, a piano, and a bottle of glue” Me: “I’ve heard this one! You can tuna piano but you can’t piano a tuna… but wait, what about the bottle of glue?” 11yo: “yeah, people get stuck on that part”

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 27/09/2026

One of my worst takes is that I actually don’t like fat bear week at all but the birb to borb transformation is my favorite thing to see in the fall

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 27/09/2026

I asked my 13yo about this, as she’s definitely the most current in our household on all things music, and, according to her 1) she tried to listen to it one time but couldn’t make it past the first verse because “it was soooooo bad” 2) her friends all hate it

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 27/09/2026

There is only one country song about Texas And it’s by George Strait

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 27/09/2026

I am a therapist and I do not consent to that

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026

I worked with Jake on this story for months, and it’s truly one of the best deep dives into how online sports gambling works that I’ve ever seen

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026

Maybe the real iced coffee was the friends we made along the way

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026

Maybe it will happen tomorrow

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 25/09/2026

Submitting two R01s as PI for the 10/5 cycle Been on top of it and finalized all documents in ASSIST this week Now I get to email all the co-Is

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 25/09/2026

“If Tolkien didn’t think that the men of Númenor needed a democracy, then neither do we”

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 25/09/2026

Maybe it will happen tomorrow

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 24/09/2026

I would like to contribute to the weird, very bluesky discourse by saying that a lesbian bar in Lakewood Ohio was the coolest bar I’ve ever been to called the church bar, had stained glass and pew seating in parts, and an amazing tap list

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 24/09/2026

What I really appreciate about this is how much it captures the fact that everyone thinks the knights should not exist.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 24/09/2026

It cannot be emphasized enough, and I fault the article for not mentioning it, that this study only goes up until 2019. I'm sorry, but this has nothing to do with COVID, and to insist it does is misinformation

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 24/09/2026

Maybe it will happen tomorrow

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 23/09/2026

I’m something of an evolutionary psychologist myself

Willem Dafoe’s screencap from spider man where he says “I’m something of a scientist myself”

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 22/09/2026

Also shoutout to my senator for repping our state’s values

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 21/09/2026

I was once at a summit/think-tank sort of thing with a bunch of philosophers discussing social trust (only psychologist there) and I listened to them discussing how people make decisions about what they believe and I remember asking “do you think this is actually how people make decisions?”

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 21/09/2026

I generally think that moving from twitter, with like 20k+ followers, to here was a net positive for me for this reason, maybe more than most other reasons

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 21/09/2026

this reminds me of my most controversial Tolkien take as an über-fan (as in, have read all the letters, great tales, Silmarillion at least three times; and the big 4 at least 15 times... not exaggerating) tolkien was mostly wrong about technology It's like, mostly good and makes life better

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