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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 9h

Welp, the greatest hits of 2020 and 2024 haven't worked so why not 2012? That went well for them, right?

James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do not forget that Linda McMahon covered up the systematic abuse of young boys by two of her employees and personally hired them back after they were fired, after which they continued their systematic abuse.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Up up down down left right left right B A BA start

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Man, all of this talk makes academic job interviews seem positively normal and sane.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ooh, I know this one -- Because at some point a decision was made to shift the cost (in both resources and time) of training onto the employees themselves and the state. Many groups participated in this, including universities and the state itself.

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

upset by tariffs hurting his bottom line? an american gestapo gunning people down in the street? the broad cession of legislative power? no! timothy mellon is mad that republicans have not passed legislation to make it more difficult for people of color, young people, poor people, and women to vote

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Timothy Mellon, a G.O.P. Billionaire, Pulls Back His Money From Senate Republicans

Timothy Mellon, one of the party’s biggest donors in 2024, has so far withheld his midterm donations for Republican senators because he is unhappy about the failure to pass a key Trump priority.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How does a fucking doctor not understand how health insurance works? Fire this dumbass into the sun 2028.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's enough material out there for investigations to keep above the fold headlines going until 2028 at *minimum*.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

River Raid on the Atari 5200. My whole family was addicted to it.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Infinitely glad I noped out of the NFL right before you needed 5 streaming services to see the full picture. I don't know if this is all included in enshittification but if not it should be.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just a brilliant piece of writing. Heartbreaking indeed.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just read the phrase "antique French lamp from the 1970s" on Reddit and my hair somehow turned grayer.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So even beyond the fact that vaccines don't cause autism, this is explicitly antivax policy. Make the schedule so complex/annoying that people don't bother or can't get enough time off to complete the schedule. If banning vaccines is too politically toxic, raise the burden & force non-compliance.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i aspire to a world where i don't have to know aella exists

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't have a comprehensive theory of this but 2020-2021, despite the pandemic, made people realize that a different world was possible. That gov't could help instead of harm or maintain the status quo, and then we ripped that all away to return to the normal "nothing that matters ever gets done."

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One thing that angers me about AI is that now I have to read the comments. Therein lies madness.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Translation: "I didn't know there was a B in dumb, someone corrected me, and now I square this with my belief in my high IQ by pretending no one else knew it either."

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This man should be legally required to wear a hot dog suit any time he speaks in public.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dave Bautista was good in Blade Runner 2049 but the only correct answer to this is They Live. It's really too bad that Roddy's acting career didn't take off. He was good. And he'd probably still be with us.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 15/09/2026

Lol get rekt *SUPREME COURT REJECTS TRUMP'S MAIL BALLOT CURBS FOR MIDTERMS

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Block Block blockity block, get used to doing it. Bluesky is not Twitter, drown your enemies in silence. JUST DO IT.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Streptococcus species are probably the ultimate generalists. E. coli or Staphylococcus aureus might beat it but it's a close race. It can colonize anything living and non-living. If supervillains were bacteria they would be Streptococcus.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The real tragedy of RFK Jr and others maligning this tech is that it is becoming cheaper in the style of Moore's Law. s Sequencing a human genome is $100. RNA synthesis lags a bit but catching. A personalized cure for under $2500 is on the horizon. But ignorance and stupidity threatens it all.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the downsides of subtlety and context being lost from mass media in favor of propaganda is that stuff like this won't work out, on the same way that subtler stuff from the opposite aisle gets ignored largely now

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Take a moment to appreciate when the former Platonic ideal of corruption says "okay, this is pretty fucked."

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We live in the age of scams. No one is interested in stopping them, only profiting from them. I am tired of having my mail and phone and internet inundated with them. Even though it probably won't I hope this fails and the word memecoin erases itself from our consciousness.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Honestly it is so fucking exhausting that creating a better world requires constant effort. The sheer number of people who want to tear everything down to satisfy their lizard brain instincts makes me want to take a very long nap. But we keep going. Because we have to.

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The Rooster @rooster.info · 07/09/2026

BREAKING: Multiple sources tell The Rooster that Dr. Amy Acton’s attacker is Patrick Havas, the brother of Andrew Havas, the pedophile lobbyist who resigned in disgrace from the Husted campaign in July.

patrick havas handcuffed on a bench next to weapons

Andrew Havas resigns from Husted campaign

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Fats and all other nutrients are processed differently by your body. Fats go through your lymphatic system first, everything else goes through the liver first.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The average human belly button hosts about 70 different species of microorganisms.

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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Stealing from poor children is next level evil. When people tell me I will need to learn to forgive Republicans I think of things like this.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Most criticisms or academia are overblown but the sheer volume of galaxy-brain you need to get to this take is unreal. Nothing about this dude's work is worth stanning or caping for. "Freedom" to pursue discredited lines of research is not freedom.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Browns really out there validating my decision to give up on them a decade ago.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

it's hilarious how every article about how universities are terrible places you should avoid is by someone with 2 degrees who made like 17 phone calls to make sure their kids are also in uni

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Imagine giving people a reason to hate you while playing a sport where defense is mostly about effort.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Let's be honest about this vaccine EO. The MMR has been given to over a billion children and its safety profile is excellent. This is about reducing compliance, so that fewer people get it. This is just another step in the conservative project of the last 30 years, the sabotage of modern society.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of the weirdest things to me about our modern age is how toxic the Pokemon fandom has become, and how desperate people are to wring cash out of it.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Burn this soulless company to the ground 2028

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My local drive-in theater has the Spider-Man movie paired with either The Breadwinner or Super Troopers 3, I'm definitely going but which pairing will be funnier?

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Bernie Moreno is an incompetent father and grandfather and anyone who voted for him should be ashamed of it. He didn't protect his daughter or granddaughter from a known piece of trash.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Then fucking fight for her the way she deserves. How are you so f-ing weak in the face of a lesser man? These people are so exhausting.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I don't want to heap abuse on anyone, but the problem here is in the scale, because most people on here don't have any idea what it is like to replace a failing refrigerator when you are poor. Twenty-five years ago my father wanted to replace his broken fridge with something new... (Cont'd)

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

No, your son died *with* the Iran War, not *of* the Iran War

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Longer time mutuals will have heard this already, but my most controversial opinion is (apparently) that most french fries are poorly made trash and that we should start demanding more and better sides.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is no defense of this weird article but Google has been so badly infected with ad slop for so long that most of my students don't know it was ever an effective tool for finding things on the internet.

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James S. Pumpkins @jspumpkins.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Lol th author was a senior fellow at the EPPC until at least mid 2020, an organization so dedicated to getting Brertt Kavanaugh confirmed that they resorted to Zillow to try to discredit Dr Ford.

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