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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 7h

"were you at a Hawks game" sir that has never happened to anyone

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, I'm already tired of the centrist/media Rahmmentum being foisted on us.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h

the media would have a collective orgasm over a Democrat Not Knowing Sports

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

Fox News just did a long segment on this Jack Smith hearing and, you're never going to be believe this, but they didn't play any of Schmitt embarrassing himself.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 9h

Median voter clamouring for lower immigration then getting exactly that along with all the economic consequences thereof: oh I am very annoyed at someone else right now

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 9h

It's a special kind of annoying to have so much of everyday life dictated by people who are manifest dumbasses. Looking at you, Eric Schmitt. And at my Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), who got to hold the placard like the useless cornpone tool he is.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 9h

If I have to grade midterms, let it be while the Sox absolutely smoke the Yankees. Obligatory litany: Let's go Red Sox. Yankees suck.

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emmylou harris's baseball pager 🗽🫱🏿‍🫲🏻 @baseballmad.bsky.social · 9h

as always: fuck the chop, abolish the chop

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

I’m in this webinar and, academics, take some time and learn who Marc Rowan is and how he steers our pensions into his company’s maw with one hand, while helping Trump come up with punitive policies aimed at hostile control of universities and curricula.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If Trump's opponents had any political skill they'd be hanging this around Trump's neck, Benghazi style, for the next two years. But they don't and they won't. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

nytimes.com

Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees

In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

IDEA: rehabilitation centers for the modern, digitally ravaged attention span They could feature activities like lectures, seminar-style discussions, and reading. They could be called colleges, or maybe universities.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Third party wrecked the racing bike I was borrowing for triathlons. Owner will get insurance compensation, but it will be expensive for me to buy my own. I was moping about not being able to ride for a while. Former GF/now dear friend suggested: "Maybe you could just, like, find a cooler hobby."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today, I see angry young men online LARPing as Catholics, often for the aesthetic. They celebrate strength and hate the weak. The use slurs against the disabled and fantasize about enacting Crusader violence against their enemies. I wish the Pope would speak directly on this.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OK. I've seen the ads now. I think they're utterly tone deaf and unintentionally hilarious. Any nation that votes to confer authority on this guy deserves to get what they're asking for good and hard.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026

If only there were a more concise word for “an overtly political campaign advertisement paid for by the government.” If only there were a roomful of writers and editors one could consult…

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What an odd moment in United States history.
A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.
Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Automation lies. It tells people it makes their lives easier. It does not. It unemploys some and it centers all the profit in the capitalists while working the remaining laborers with ever more intensity.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Though some of the tactics are modern (e.g. AI slop), Trump propaganda is, like Trump himself, based on Reagan-vintage ideas - in this case, that, having been given a small tax cut, the rubes will admire ostentatious displays of wealth. There are a few problems with this iteration, though...

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This whole “He may hate immigrants but at least we agreed the tapas was great!” media sub-genre is the lowest level of normalizing bullshit and needs to go. And, it’s based on the idiotic premise that left-wingers and right-wingers never interact. Really? Let me introduce you to families & work.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 26/09/2026

They will beg you for advice. Your reply will be concise. And they'll listen very nicely Then go out and do precisely What they want. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What happens when the interviewer doesn't want me to bring my own preferred beverage to an interview: youtu.be/GfegrP4MvM4?...

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Pulp Fiction but Brett had a full cup of Sprite

YouTube video by Barrett

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026

Staggering staff losses at the CDC have left the agency "zombified'—and unable to address a series of escalating health crises

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Union: CDC Lost a Third of Its Workforce In One Year

Under Trump 2.0, the country's premier public health agency has been "zombified."

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Greg Beaman isn't afraid of having fun @historicbeaman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The present as "a jobless panopticon" pretty much nails it

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

swipe right for objet a "Our matching model is grounded in Lacanian psycholinguistics. It uses your language preferences to analyze how your desire is organized. digital version of a bookstore meet-cute. that feeling of falling in love over a book, a poem." www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/09...

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Notes from a Party for a Dating App “Grounded in Lacanian Psycholinguistics” by Gemma Sieff

September 25, 2026 – “The dating app has engineered what one might call an Enneagrammatical system of bookish star signs.”

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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If that entire industry disappeared tomorrow it would be of great benefit to society.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I should clarify that absolutely fucking the ranchers six different ways is my favorite thing Trump has done. I'm keeping it in my pocket for Thanksgiving discussions.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 26/09/2026

"The central lesson of this cycle is not that Charlie Brown should stop trusting Lucy. It is that Charlie Brown must do a better job explaining why trusting Lucy remains the responsible choice." buff.ly/X2RjqP5

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“Charlie Brown Must Stay the Course”: A Football Kick Autopsy Report by the Democratic Party

“While Charlie Brown did once again accelerate toward the ball, miss the ball entirely as Lucy pulled it away, flip backward through the air, and land violen...

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When the neoreactionary and EA and longtermists encounter for the FIRST TIME the things freshmen political philosophy 101 students encountered when they were babies it’s fascinating

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"More than half of American college students, in twenty-three states, are currently attending a school that has been forced to ban certain topics from the classroom, eliminate academic departments, or drastically weaken tenure protections for professors." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

newyorker.com

The Fallout of a Charlie Kirk Campus Scandal

Students and faculty across the country were punished for their actions in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. A recent graduate of Texas Tech’s law school is still trying to clear her name.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The whole idea that we can't hold humans legally responsible for the damage their creation does under their explicit instruction is a real problem we're going to have to figure out soon. Agency. Forsooth.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There are certainly other factors at play but I just cannot believe how different my experience of facilitating workshops is today vs. before the pandemic. I'm often in professional work environments where I'm employing teaching techniques I used to reserve only for presenting to literal children.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why is the answer to employers wanting more work ready graduates always that universities should provide more workplace training, rather than employers providing more training in the workplace?

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 25/09/2026

This week has told us a lot about how Trump sees himself, versus how he’s viewed internationally, says our political reporter Shrai Popat. But instead of the strong, undefeatable leader he attempted to present himself as, US allies see a leader displaying various authoritarian tactics.

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 25/09/2026

This is my experience of reading a lot of fiction these days, even literary fiction—it either feels like someone yelling at you while holding up large signs with “the meaning” inscribed on it, or like reading the back copy on a video game box extended for five-hundred interminably inane pages.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/09/2026

New documents reveal that U.S Southern Command is investigating how soon the military action can take place. trib.al/qtfwA1k

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U.S. Military Prepares for Possible Action in Cuba

New documents reveal that U.S Southern Command is investigating how soon the military action can take place.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Given how terribly designed American political institutions are, a competent authoritarian movement could've cancelled the Nov. midterms by now for some fake national security. Instead we have an extremely sleepy Hitler who's more interested in posting, stealing and decorating.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I look at my home state and feel nauseated. All these people we weren't able to help. So many people working their collective ass off to stop this and it's as bad as it's ever been. Losing like this is demoralizing.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Digital necromancy. Necromancy is generally frowned upon and often results in eldritch horror and doom for the practitioner.

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