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I refuse to address the New York Times list of best TV shows of the 21st century on the grounds that they're going to be haunted by Bourdain, anyway, and I can't write anything worse than that.

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There are no penalties too harsh for these folks. I hope their luggage ends up in Cleveland and they're in Miami. I hope their favorite snack runs out just before the cart reaches them, I hope the person in the seat in front of them reclines, all the way back. Foul spirits.

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@baldwin.senate.gov I can't believe y'all have nothing better to spend floor time on than Ted Cruz's "Protect the NCAA's Monopoly" bill.

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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're Costco members but aren't really Costco People. I kind of hate going there because the other customers are awful and the cashiers get mad if you don't want to BOGO the cream cheese Danishes. I rolled by this evening to get a couple of pizzas, and I pity every worker in the food court, what a.

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Maybe if you refuse to answer direct questions, Congress shouldn't confirm you. Just a thought.

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If I was a grown person who didn't know his own address, I probably wouldn't admit it. What are we even doing here? That's not admirable, or evidence of mental dexterity, or systems thinking, or whatever. In fact, I don't even believe him.

There are so many gaps in my knowledge of music, but why was "Bitches Brew" so controversial in the jazz world? Hadn't Ornette Coleman already burned everything down with "Free Jazz"?

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I am so grateful to this post because I'd not yet heard that. It's fantastic. God bless our aviation-shanty overlords. Also, go see the sea shanty-based retelling of Mary Ann Brown Patten's story, "Steady She Goes", by Erica Berman, it's fantastic.

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@bsky.app, what the heck? Why am I getting "Invalid handle" messages on my profile, and "Failed to verify handle. Please try again." when I try and re-validate my domain? The file's there. The contents are correct. This had been working for, I don't know, a year or more?

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The Covid booster I got yesterday is kicking my butt much more than the flu or pneumonia shots did, but hopefully I'll avoid the post-Expo wave of sickness that happens every year now.

John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Imagine the poor staffer who had to explain furries to the dumbest member of Congress. Or don't, they work for him voluntarily.

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John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm generally calmer as I age, but the absolute trash that is the "styling" system in Microsoft PowerPoint does terrible things to my blood pressure. "Slide Master" my foot. I'm about 30 seconds away from becoming a Beamer person, I swear, then at least formatting would work properly.

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John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Utter trash. California deserves better. As if we're not already years into learning (yet again) why imperial presidents/governors/potentates are Bad, Actually.

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John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm reading @scotthawkinswrites.bsky.social new novel, "Blacktail", and it's so good. Like "The Library at Mt. Char" it's not always an easy read, but I can barely put it down.

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John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Republicans have destroyed this country. Since when do grapes cost as much per pound as ground beef? The grocery store has lost its mind.

John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Suggestive" P-values in GWAS aren't a thing. I, too, know the frustration of seeing a SNP associated with an interesting gene fall short of genomewide significance. But, troublesome as P-values are, if we're using them as a decision rule then they have to mean something.

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John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

That sounds incredibly depressing.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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The most dangerous type of man is one with above-average but not genius intelligence who was told growing up that he was a very special boy. Many such cases.

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 20/09/2026

Tell me a video of Mayor Mamdani walking down a subway car handing out headphones to people blasting clips out of their phone wouldn’t do numbers.

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Billy @billygomila.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The classics are classics for a reason

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Inbound Ike @inboundike.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the week of the MI senate primary, a group of river tubers on the Muskegon went missing for three days after they got in the water not realizing the river only flows in one direction and doesn’t just take you back to your car. They’re more representative of voters than anyone on here.

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John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm sure LSU had nothing else to spend $100 million on.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

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but again, genuinely hilarious (derogatory) for a guy whose father was a klansman to say "the presence of nazis in the republican party is because black people wouldn't shut up." oh, is that why nazis immediately began organizing in the wake of donald trump's 2016 victory too?

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John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My people live only to find new ways to debase themselves.

My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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I will never trust a product that Sam Altman and Elon Musk tout as revolutionary. If that makes me a ridiculous crank by the end, so be it

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John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When you're inn your 50s, and you've worn glasses since childhood, it's quite amazing how cheap they are today compared to the past. When I was in elementary school, my glasses cost hundreds of dollars and took weeks to make. Now I can go to Zenni, pay my $125, and they'll arrive in 2 weeks.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“im not interested in your childrens genitals” is just such an easy thing to say

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John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

OK, Google, but what if we studied an actually interesting genome, like the cow, or maize, or a cephalopod or corvid species?

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It must be so difficult to make it seem so effortless.

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Nobody really thinks that MMA dude is going to fight an orangutan, right? People say a lot of dumb stuff these days because getting attention seems to be more important than doing things.

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OMG, there is! I'm willing to say, without consulting my bandmates, that The Lethal Recessives will write and record a song about your paper for only $5,00 USD.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dear AT&T- The fundamental problem with my free trial of "AT&T Turbo" is that it was indistinguishable from my normal 5G service, so I'll keep my $7/month, thanks, I could give it to @wtyppod.bsky.social or @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social instead. John

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Yes. Islamophobes don't want him to attend 9/11 commemoration because he's Muslim. Full stop. No need to "try to understand."

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John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm at least a decade behind on videogames, so I'm finally playing Subnautica. Tremendous fun to scoot around with the little propellor thing and hunt for silver and lead and plans for things while being bitten by random critters from time to time. 4 out of 5 stars.

John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If not, why do we even have stations in Antarctica?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026

The story linked above involves LLM-assisted work in which the LLM presented an argument developed by someone else as its own. If a human researcher did that, it would be straightforward misconduct and there could be career consequences. We need a process for addressing this now; we don’t have one.

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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day from CWA!

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John B. Cole @lsmsa1990.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My hot take isn't that NIL is ruining college football; it's that NIL + the transfer portal + conference realignment + TV money + rampant unregulated gambling have ruined college football. NIL is probably the least-significant of the lot.

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Am I citing Oftedal's (1997; doi.org/10.1023/A:10...) paper on milk composition in baleen and toothed whales in a conference paper on selection limits in dairy cows? Yes. It's a fascinating article!

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Client Challenge

Caffeinated popcorn for long movies?

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I'll give the dialect quiz this, it knows I'm from Louisiana.