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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

My takeaway from visiting SF is that people who take Waymo instead of BART need to be taxed significantly more.

rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Maybe next time Justice Thomas is in Bali he can notice why the air quality is so bad and why you can't drink the tap water there.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It's been really crazy watching the TOEFL ads change from "study in the US" to "visit Canada and New Zealand!"

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JazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

My love of reading is strongly link to this man…

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Thinking about just how many things (especially in Pittsburgh, but also around the world) are named for Andrew Carnegie. Or how everything near Troy, NY is named for Russell Sage Both were scumbags, but they also have colleges named after them.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

American academia and research is going to get so screwed by this.

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NPR @npr.org · 16/04/2025

A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rule of law.

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Trump exploiting antisemitism fears to undermine rule of law, warns Jewish coalition

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Foreign students are the only people who pay full price for undergrad at my alma mater (unless you are v rich and dumb) and plenty of schools use masters degree programs as ways to make bank off immigrants who want degrees from US institutions. This is how you ruin higher Ed in America

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I didn't look closely enough until now to realize that it's out of 100. Yikes

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A gay man saved me thousands of dollars after the Delta Cloud strike incident because his sexual orientation doesn't matter, just the fact that he was a pretty good Secretary of Transportation.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The best way to make subways safer is to have more people riding them. It is WAY scarier to be the only person on a train platform or in a subway car than to be one of many.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Don't fly Scoot. I know the prices are tempting, but they both have ridiculous policies and actually enforce them. It's not worth it.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

okay this is the final plug I’m doing before I go to sleep and it’s as a favor to Sam, tyvm for your support!! secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...

Sam texting me the link to the quoted post and his text “pls post this before the narcolepsy gods drag your ass off to sleep”

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

My solution to this is always walking to the grocery store. If you have to carry it all home, you never buy more than you can carry.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The best part of the Singapore airport is the bathrooms in JEWEL. They have bidets, they are pretty empty, and the stalls are huge.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I just want to shout out all the admin who are the backbone of their departments. You can tell this was done by a sophomore because it is so sophomoric.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

One of the bigger culture shocks in Indonesia is that kids learn the phrase "Hello Mister" in school as a way to greet white people, but they don't learn that it's specifically for men.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In the past two years the most American thing I have noticed about myself is when visiting countries that are monarchies/still recognize the king of England and thinking "wow, I'm really not into this whole having a king business"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

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Uncle Rico Dynamite @unclericodynamite.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Give you one guess

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Capital One needs to get its shit together because every time I use it abroad it thinks everything I do is fraud so it's basically useless.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The weirdest thing for me living abroad is how jarringly different commercials are between countries.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Neither my mom nor my future mother-in-law changed their last names when they got married (both have been married for 35+ years). Why do so many women still fall for archaic traditions that could make them second class citizens?

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Spending a lot of time around people whose first language doesn't use gendered pronouns is interesting because it reminds me that gendered pronouns are a non-universal construct and also I can't get mad at them because they are speaking my language instead of me learning theirs.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Thinking a lot about the American guy in Thailand who told me that he voted for Trump and didn't think that it was going to affect his day to day life. I hope he understands the magnitude of his wrongness

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Michael 🌲🏴 @champl.in · 02/02/2025

In case it’s not totally clear, deleting websites and databases is the modern equivalent of burning books.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 03/02/2025

turns out when transphobes said we need to “follow the science” what they meant is delete it and hide all traces of it

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David Dalglish @ddalglish.com · 01/02/2025

Lovely lady at our local Asian food mart said the TikTok ban has gained them a ton of new customers. People are making friends on RedNote and coming into the story with ingredients and recipes they want to try that they saw or had recommended.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I've volunteered with the Dems and third party candidates so I know how important the Dem infrastructure is. That being said, burn this party to the ground, they would rather crash and burn supporting I*raell than protect their fellow Americans.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2025

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect

Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

My physical therapist's office had no music on (great) and turned on Christmas music (gross) on when they noticed I had arrived. Why do people assume people want that crap?

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I feel this so much. I didn't realize how much of my brain-space the stress was occupying. It's amazing how much more functional I am now.

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rubixcuber42.bsky.social @rubixcuber42.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I often miss living in the US but then I see videos like this online and remember that the US I miss living in hasn't existed for like 10 years.

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