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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An IBM PC AT, if I remember right. It only had DOS, no mouse, and no built-in 3.5" floppy drive; my dad connected one with a serial cable. I played a shitload of Treasure Mountain! on it.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

His later books got real weird with politics and needed to be edited with an axe, but The Hunt for Red October and The Cardinal of the Kremlin are still absolute bangers.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have a theory all academics either have ADHD or Autism or some combination and that explains most of academia tbh

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Some of us actually are academics and yes, we *do* actually give a shit about ethics in academia in general, no matter how niche you make his field sound. In fact, it seems to me that if you're doing research into the sociology of education, ethical research is extra important!

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Also true for your muscles. Occasionally I bite something wrong, my jaw pops, and my molars don't align for a week.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The Number of the Beast Piece of Mind Powerslave or Ride the Lightning Master of Puppets ...And Justice for All or My Arms, Your Hearse Still Life Blackwater Park

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Don't put that evil on me, talk to the Zoomers about that shit. I was 24 when the ACA passed and everyone knew how big a deal it was for us. I went from no insurance to decent insurance from NYS while adjuncting and finishing my PhD because of the ACA.

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General Willich’s pet raccoon @keeganc15.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There’s no big reward coming in 2029 this is a struggle we will be fighting for the rest of our lives and it’s best we internalize this new reality than pretend otherwise

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Well hopefully Platner doesn’t lose the party the most winnable Maine senate race in decades just because he’s a misogynist dipshit whose hubris is matched only by his lack of discipline

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

if you want to make the 'his primary victory is inevitable and so everyone has to grit their teeth and rank him above Susan Collins' that is fair. deluding yourself into actually defending his character or actions is another thing.

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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I'm sorry, but I've got to talk about this, because this shit is dangerous. It's a truth universally acknowledged that *at the very least until relatively recently,* Graham Platner was a scumbag. The type of reddit chud who'd blame women for being raped and muse about imagined failings of Black ppl

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Whenever I forget to take my Vyvanse: "Looks like I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines."

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I have bad news for the people that think college students are broadly rejecting AI. Based on the slop I got this semester, there are *plenty* who will boo commencement speakers from the tech industry, then go and submit their AI-generated final papers without a hint of shame or irony.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Yep. I've had to force-feed my toddler liquid amoxicillin. It was not a pleasant experience for anyone involved and I felt terrible doing it, but also, he needed the antibiotics!

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

There are so many insane wildly misleading stories coming out about data centers almost every day now that I'm mostly having to give up on commenting on them to focus on actually getting blog posts out, but it feels like a tsunami. This is one of them. Will go into it in a thread below.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This is why I use my institution's LMS (Brightspace D2L) only to the extent that I'm contractually obligated to.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Raiders Dutchmen Great Danes Engineers

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the fool @agnoster.net · 07/02/2026

When the cruelty is Good Actually? Run. Cruelty is a drug. It makes you feel powerful. It makes you feel strong. It makes you feel big. It’s an illusion. It makes you powerless and weak and small, a part of the cruelty machine, disposable, replaceable. Your cruelty is as good as any other’s.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Both my wife and I are pretty introverted, so we were mostly okay with it. Then things opened up again and I found that COVID isolation seems to have permanently diminished my capacity to mask my AuDHD. I'm now more reserved and awkward even around close friends in a way I wasn't before.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Three year olds: just absolutely the most unhinged people you'll ever meet in your life (but cute!)

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 15/04/2026

One of the biggest attacks his supporters make on Mills is that she would supposedly be too "centrist." So naturally he literally brags about how "bipartisan" he plans to be in the Senate.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Well, I've found another use-case for AI: turning my bitterly-sarcastic responses to the insultingly-micromanaging questions on my annual faculty self-eval into professional ones. Now I'm gonna use it it to politely tell the VPAA that this was a massive waste of my time and to go jump in a lake.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

"We let hippie folklore, bunk science, and gutter racism decide what we put on the shelf"

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Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

People will be like "you believe in getting regular voters to vote for you? That pales compared to my strategy of massively mobilizing a popular revolution among people who don't care" and then fail to mobilize them.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Killing a Reaper and curing the genophage in Mass Effect 3.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

It took me far longer than it should have to get diagnosed with ADHD-PI, because no one told me there was a non-hyperactive version where you're either a forgetful dumbass or a laser-focused savant, depending on whether what you're doing is interesting.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

All this, plus I use cursive in my lecture notes and when I grade. It would be nice if students knew how to read my writing!

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BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This is largely the reason why I refuse to call myself a leftist despite being open to many left-wing policies, because 'leftism' right now is less of a political position and more a set of social signals to be performed, largely online. I am much more interested in policy than labels and posturing

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

One thing that no one told me about parenthood is the number of bizarre non sequiturs that your kid will just drop on you out of nowhere, usually at the top of their lungs. Me: *strapping the kid back into the car post-grocery run* 3YO, happily shouting: "I don't have a brain, I have a penis!"

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I'm probably gonna annoy legal professionals, but this thread makes me wonder if they would benefit from using LaTeX. It would automate a lot of the formatting with the right packages, especially TOC/footnotes. There's probably already stuff up on CTAN. On the other hand, everyone knows Word.

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Rep. Paul Tonko @reppaultonko.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Trump’s rambling speech was less a State of the Union and more of a state of delusion. The American people deserve better than that. They deserve real action to address the challenges facing our nation, not more blatant lies.

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Press Releases | U.S. Representative Paul Tonko

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Pears are amazing if you eat them when they're perfectly ripe. The problem is, "perfectly ripe" is a window of, like, 45 minutes before they turn to mush.

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Paul @snoofleglax.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

"We've noticed on days you do a couple lines, your heart rate increases and you socialize more!"

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/02/2026

i guess i would like to hear the theory on which setting fire to a random dumpster advances the cause of stopping ice

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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"Whoops sorry guys, we've upped your training requirements to 30 months. You'll have to pay your recruits full salary during that time too. We're not going to budget any money for that but you can draw from the already allocated money in the BBB."

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 29/01/2026

to be clear this happening is immediate, conclusive proof that the Senate GOP is fracturing hard over this and willing to join the Democrats on *very real, important demands* the Dems are making w/r/t restricting ICE's activity

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 29/01/2026

please look forward to your regularly scheduled cavalcade of bullshit about how this is Proof that the Democrats are Unserious Spineless Quislings instead of the closest thing to an unambiguous and conclusive victory as was in reach, I did not expect them to agree to split the bills

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Marty Suncreme @martinobeat.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20/01/2026

the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

there's a whole lot of people in the replies here willfully refusing to understand that a) not a single Democrat voted for the bill which is funding ICE right now and b) it didn't matter because Republicans control the government and thus enacted their reconciliation bill on a pure party-line vote.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

It genuinely sucks that I feel like I can’t trust left wing critiques of Dems to reflect reality. I’m sure I sound to many here like a huge Dem booster, but I actually have big issues with most Dem politicians, both individually and as a group. But the amount of BS makes those topics not worth it.

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Democrats @democrats.org · 09/01/2026

Newly-released footage reveals Renee Nicole Good’s last words.

A photo of Renee Nicole Good in her car moments before being shot and killed by an ICE agent.

A verbal exchange is included:

Renee Nicole Good: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.”
*gunshots*
ICE: “Fuckin’ bitch.”

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