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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Recently, however, Rufo has backed away from his previously forthright defense of meritocracy" -- how else could one interpret this bit other than not seeing it and calling it plainly?

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m not big on nerdy t-shirts but I have a soft spot for this one that my sister-in-law and brother-in-law gave me

Me wearing a black shirt that says “BLACK HOLES ARE OUT OF SIGHT”

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

yeah, Torchy's is the bog-standard white person taco place in some major TX metros (it's actually pretty good) and PEC is their #2. I'd actually go with migas all day every day over PEC but PEC is not a mystery to anyone.

torchy's breakfast taco options. Migas, BEC, PEC, a bunch of others.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My mentions are 100% Ice Cube gifs and lyrics

Jess from New Girl saying "that's on me, I set the bar too low"

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OK, it was a different time: bsky.app/profile/mbkp...

A speech bubble from a photo of Olivia Nuzzi to a post saying "I will be live posting my journey through rural America with my 30 year age gap boyfriend"

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@diedrichbader.bsky.social was on this early and often, worth a look if you have the means and desire

diederich bader saying SC is in play and people should donate to annie andrews

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Odie has been putting in long hours down at the sleep factory

Odie, a big tan dog, lies on a dog bed. He’s wearing a toy construction hat that reads “work zone”. He’s a good sport.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The woman who wrote this op-ed is either seriously unwell or a terrible person www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

A new report from the American Enterprise Institute's Survey Center on American Life showed a startling 66% of young Democratic women blame men for the challenges facing women in American society. A majority of young women identify as Democrats.
Regardless of the outcome in the Cornell civil lawsuit and the reopened criminal investigation, young women must take responsibility for their actions. Everyone at that Cornell party - including the alleged victim - made mistakes, from drinking too much to taking drugs to partaking in unwise sex. Why should the men involved be held to a higher standard?

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every time I see something Yud wrote that’s longer than 1 word:

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There's a pretty direct line between "When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything" and this kind of MNF banter. The rot is everywhere in our society but it's a lot worse in some places than others. (screenshot from sports.yahoo.com/articles/al-...)

Then, Michaels cited the familiar football phrase that "winning is the best deodorant," before Herbstreit predicted that Browns fans would eventually embrace Watson after previously booing him in the preseason.

"You want the fans to get behind you, and that goes for pretty much any market," Herbstreit said. "This is an extreme case because of what you laid out with Deshaun Watson, but if you convert on third downs, you hit passes, you lead this team to victories, those boos turn into cheers."

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is Curtains for Zoosha playing? Couldn’t find them, but maybe I need my reading glassss

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS.
+ MUSIC FESTIVAL CESYEARS +
OCTOBER 02-04 + OCTOBER 09-11 + 2026
FRIDAY CHARLI XOX • SKRILLEX [WI] • KINGS OF LEON (W2) « TURNSTILE
LABRINTH + THE CHAINSMOKERS + LEON THOMAS + BRANDON FLOWERS [WI] AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS • SIENNA SPIRO [W2] + LIVE [W2] + STEVE AOKI + JESSE WELLES + BUNT.
BELLA KAY [W2) • PARIS PALOMA • LP • RUSOWSKY • NATASHA BEDINGFIELD (W2) + MARLON FUNAKI (WI] CMAT WI] + REBECCA BLACK WI] + BO STALOCH + MOLLY SANTANA WI + RADIO FREE ALICE (W2]
WORLD FAMOUS PETS [W2] + FAOUZIA + HUNX AND HIS PUNX [WI] + NEW CONSTELLATIONS [WI] ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL IWI] + S.G. GOODMAN (W2) + CASSANDRA COLEMAN [V2) + DALLAS WAX IW2] BRIGITTE CALLS ME BABY [W2) * NIGHT TRAVELER [Wi) * GROCERY BAG [WI] * JOE JORDAN (W2)
HAPPY LANDING [W2) • GIRLFRIEND [W2] • ELLE COVES (WI • ELIJAH DELGADO [WI] + IZZY ESCOBAR IWI] ALMOST HEAVEN I2) + SOLOMON HICKS [WI] + LEON KNIGHT [W2) + THE 4411 [WI] + WILD CHILD [WI] Q BROTHERS IW2] + PIERCE FREELON (W2) * SONIA DE LOS SANTOS [WI] + SCHOOL OF ROCK
SATURDAY RÜFÜS DU SOL • LORDE • LOLA YOUNG • YOUNG MIKO
BLEACHERS * LYKKE LI * LEVITY * SUKI WATERHOUSE * SNOW STRIPPERS IT'S MURPH + PALACE [WI • *ØUŞUK€ ·UK1MAT$U + SKYE NEWMAN • RODRIGO Y GABRIELA
ŁASZEWO [W2) + BALU BRIGADA • ROCHELLE JORDAN (WI] + ARCY DRIVE + FINN WOLFHARD • RYAN BEATTY
DON WEST + TEMPER CITY + GABRIEL JACOBY [W2) + ANNIE DIRUSSO + NIGHT TAPES + DJ CASSANDRA
CURE FOR PARANOIA [WI] + CHLOE QISHA [W2) + FAI LACI [W]] + EMMA OGIER (WI) + COMMON PEOPLE (W2) COLEMAN JENNINGS [WI] - DAMARIS BOJOR [W2) - FIGHTMASTER [WI] • LLUVII [W2] - MONTCLAIR [W2] LEFT LUCID [WI] + MACY TODD [W2] - MEGA RAN • Q BROTHERS (WI] + PIERCE FREELON [W2] + FLOR BROMLEY (W2]
SONIA DE LOS SANTOS (WI] + THE BARTON HILLS CHOIR
SUNDAY TWENTY ONE PILOTS • THE XX • GEESE • SOFI TUKKER

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My man looks like an understudy to the evil DJ from Zoolander

A dreadlocked white guy in a green shirt

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This growth is wild & completely unsustainable. [For those who aren't adjacent to this, arXiv is a public repository where many / most authors post their scientific papers, sometimes simultaneous with submission to a journal and sometimes after acceptance.]

Open access repositories across the board are seeing a sharp increase in the number of submissions

per author, per month. In September of 2016, arxiv received 9,869 submissions. In September of 2024, arXiv received 20,569 submissions. This September, arXiv received 40,363 submissions, which

in turn generated almost 9,000 support tickets for arXiv staff and moderators. In only the past two years, submissions have doubled.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Schrödinger’s opening paragraph: laudatory or derogatory?

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts
- - In late August, Avi Loeb, the world's most renowned scientist
hunting for extraterrestrials on
earth, traveled to the inner sanctum of American intelligence operations in McLean, Virginia, looking for once-secret information.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Odie is a tired doggo after a walk in the evening heat

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Optimizing one’s time on Capitol Hill for internet content rather than for lawmaking has been a net negative for the country

“Freedom of speech” / guy in a town hall meme

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

did you see this addendum in the comments?

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From the comments

Joe Cruz Opinion guest essayist

One thread I didn't have room to pursue in the essay is that writing is itself a technology for cognitive offloading. It lets us put memory and attention and concentration into the world rather than carrying everything in our heads. That is enormously useful, but it might also mean that we exercise some capacities less. The humanities and social sciences are so lopsided in privileging writing - and I suspect ease of assessment is a major driver - that we have obscured the costs to these other capacities for thought and have become lazy about imagining alternative ways of cultivating them. Al dramatically highlights the same question. What kinds of thinking should we be willing to offload, and what kinds do we want students to keep practicing for themselves?

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Russ Vought's attack on the scientific apparatus is snowballing. Much stronger restrictions on the grant application process for the one (1) NSF call for basic astronomy research are going to be in place this year. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

The MPS Astronomical Sciences Core Research program (Astro-Core) supports foundational research in the astronomical sciences. The program provides individual investigator and collaborative research grants for observational, theoretical, computational, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), laboratory, and archival data studies in astronomy and astrophysics. The program also considers proposals for projects and tools that enable or enhance astronomical research. Proposals may span multiple disciplines and/or areas of study and may utilize multiple techniques. This program was formerly known as Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants (AAG).

Important Considerations: The Astro-Core program is anticipated to be especially competitive in Fiscal Year 2027. For this reason, please note the following:

Multiple submissions by the same lead principal investigator (PI), whether as part of a collaborative project or not, are strongly discouraged.

PIs who already have an active MPS Astronomical Sciences award that is not set to expire in the upcoming fiscal year should contact their cognizant Program Officer before considering submitting a proposal for another concurrent award.

As stated in the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (Chapter IV.E), previously declined proposals may be resubmitted only after substantial revisions to take into account major comments or concerns from the prior review. Resubmissions that have not been sufficiently revised may be returned without review.

NSF recognizes that some research projects within this program may require more than three years to realize transformative research outcomes. Such proposals should include strong justification for the longer duration and the associated resources needed to undertake the project.

<alt-text truncated but continues to note that collaborative proposals must be well justified>

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anzalone, where have I heard that name before? Ah yes!

Gregory Pratt
@royalpratt.bsky.social
"Talking to Rahm, it's like middle-age married sex," said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who has known him for decades. "It's focused. You know what you're going for. And it's short."

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just got handed one of these. Might try it at some point this week, if you never hear from me again, avenge me through lawsuits

CLEAR
PROTEIN
SODA
FROSTED LEMONADE
Flavored with Other Natural Flavors
20g
RASS-FE:
HOTEIR
NOTHING ARTIFICIAL
Not a low calorie food
HIGH PROTEIN DRINK - 16 FL OZ (1 PD.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sure, go ahead, post about a relatively important distinction that matters, I say to myself. People can handle it without being too weird, I reassure myself.