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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

See what happens when you get into the weeds about who is deserving vs. arguing that everyone should eat and have a roof over their head.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 9h

I would like to encourage President Trump to work with his allies in Congress to impeach and remove these justices.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 11h

The correct answer to (1), by the way is “Nobody.”

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 16h

Anyway, the death penalty should be abolished.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 16h

As a practicing Catholic, I pretty strongly believe that Catholic members of the Supreme Court should keep their grubby Catholicism off of our legal analysis*, HOWEVER I would very much love each and every one of them to deeply feel that they have gravely sinned.**

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 17h

Look, the judicial arm of the state should, under no circumstances, be able to order that someone should be killed. That is not a power the judicial arm of the state should have. However, given that the state has that power in the United States:

A screencap of a tweet from Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) which reads:

The death penalty is a moral abomination.
State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent [redacted] and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit.

There is a link to a news article:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ahead-rare-execution-lone-woman-tennessee-death-row-says-peace-rcna600279

Quoting that news article as reading:

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18h

"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.

nbcnews.com

Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says

Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 23h

The death penalty is not just. The state should not have the power to execute.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 23h

Bauldrillard explodes into a million billion infinitesimal pieces and merges with the infinite universe.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things that I talk to my students about a lot is what a referral is. Sure what Kevin is talking about is a completely different context, but some of the same principles apply. First, a referral isn't a name and an address. That's not helpful.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Phrase just spoken to Ozzie: “Leave it! If you ate your breakfast then you wouldn’t need to eat rabbit poop.”

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All-Devouring* Scourge of Terra (Mrs.) @martianempress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Respectfully to my fellow scholar: That's a common gloss, but a close analysis (cf.: Eco's monographs) it's not that he WILL not lie, it's that he CAN not lie. It's a geas, not unlike that laid upon ancient Celtic heroes. Sir Mix-A-Lot is a "chosen one" in the mode of Arthur or Fionn mac Cumhaill.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey! I’m out and about getting updated flu and COVID vaccines right now!

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Okay, who wants to help me wire up my tam?

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Virtue ethics in the sheets. Deontology in the streets.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I believe that the decision not to put bunting up on Wrigley Field has cursed the Chicago Cubs.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Institutions are often founded on ideals and mythologies that are eventually challenged or repudiated. But like courts and monarchs, institutions can persist through the functions they perform, the interests they serve, and the difficulty of dislodging them once they are entrenched.”

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Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Remembering Marc Bolan, born on this date in 1947

Colored-pencil card drawing of Marc Bolan

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Ingo Stützle @istuetzle.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

Duschgel auf einem angeschimmelten Badewannenrand. Darauf Adorno mit dem dm-Balea-Schriftzug: Es gibt nichts harmloses mehr.
Ich weiß nicht mehr, von wem ich das Bild habe. Es ist aus vergangenen Twitter-Zeiten abgespeichert.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Far be it from me to criticize The Mummy (1999), which is unassailable, however I must humbly submit one of very small question: Wouldn’t it’ve been better to give the background story in dribs and drabs as Evelyn and Rick are explaining it to various people rather than including it as a prologue?

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You, blissfully ignorant: Why is a Senate hearing sports?

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm an analog super intelligence provider.

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Sam Brunson @smbrnsn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And every shadow docket ruling pushes me to advocate even more extreme court reform.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are we buntingless because the Wild Card round doesn’t merit bunting (which I’d find hard to argue with)? Or are we buntingless because of the lack of home games (which I might argue with)? A mundane Halloran mystery.

A snapshot of a buntingless Wrigley Field.

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Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Life hack: All Sports Teams have similar-sounding names and it’s best to just not talk about them

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Um, undergraduate women are *pissed off* about Cornell. It's evidently all over their reaction video social media. Like I just had an almost hour-long discussion about it in a Freshman seminar. They're paying attention and they're mad.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That was something. I know something when I see it. And that was unquestionably something.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Credit to the Jamie Gertz character in Twister who handles the whole situation with grace and aplomb.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My inability to resist novelty food items is known, and I consider it my solemn duty to pass along to you, dear readers, ones that are Worth It. Have you seen the banana nut bread Snickers? It is Worth It.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you're talking about single episodes of television, I'll put the Bluey episode "Rain" up there against pretty much anything else out there in the 21st C. I'm not going to say it's the best best, but if you watch it and don't think it deserves to be in the conversation then, man, I don't know...

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In any event, if you were shamed by Rolling Stone into wanting to keep tabs on how the other half is living, I recommend following @countryuniverse.net who has been thoroughly on top of Ella Langely news for the last several years.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There are lots of red lines out there, but one runs solidly through Rahm Emanuel. If you have anything whatsoever to do with encouraging a Rahm Emanuel presidential run then you have, for me, completely lost my attention when it comes to politics and public policy.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's a Simpsons steel mill joke in here somewhere, but I can't quite figure out how to stick the landing.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The project I'm closing out is a tech/data project that I think lives in a third lane that is my real dream. Governance (general not just data governance) is the foundation of information operations and we design everything around the business processes of the full system vs optimizing a process.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There has been no accountability around DOGE as a project or as a theory of governance. For the first, we need a credible Congressional commission. For the second, explaining why DOGE failed feels like a useful exercise for informing what we should do next. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I like it how Ozzie assigns himself little tasks. Earnestly performs them. And then looks to me for praise as if I had asked him to do it. Currently, he is bringing all of his downstairs toys upstairs. He lays a toy close to me and is like, “Did I do good?” And then trots off and grabs another.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Through various peculiar twists and turns (looking at you, @danstal.bsky.social), I spent a moment this evening learning about Su Shi, who I (in my Western chauvinist ignorance) had never heard of. If you haven’t heard of him either this is worth ten minutes of your time to think about.

en.wikipedia.org

Su Shi - Wikipedia

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t like bad things. I only like good things. For example: The Core.

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A grumble: I spent all morning yesterday at an admissions event. I've spent all morning into mid-afternoon today doing administrative tasks (almost said necessary, which isn't technically true, but certainly they needed to get off my desk).

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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We do not, in fact, have the best poverty numbers in the history of our country. From either a pro-poverty or anti-poverty perspective.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Intimate Toilette (A Woman Urinating), by François Boucher, 1760s

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/09/2026

A Post analysis found that immigration judges have ordered more than 440,000 asylum seekers removed during President Trump’s first 19 months back in office — more than during the previous eight years combined. wapo.st/4yZlKjy

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I just think that in a moment characterized by popular anger at elite impunity & lack of accountability it is not only morally wrong but strategically ridiculous to elevate a man whose administration covered up a heinous police murder & callously closed 50 schools with false promises about outcomes

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