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Stephen Fine

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Classical Music - Books - Teaching BM-Rice (‘06), MM-SFCM (‘08) I did some mining of academian ore, but Lord Chaos held something else in store; I was vomited from a beast’s belly onto the shore. But this is no firmament. Where am I?

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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Doesn’t seem hard to say, “that’s not a thing the Supreme Court does, Mr. President.” They’re members of the bar… wtf are they having a civil war over? It’s a no-brainer! How many of the partners are total lunatics?
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Bless the Gainesville city planners who laid us on a 4-quadrant numbered grid system and said Streets run N-S and Avenues run E-W.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 09/07/2026
CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Elon Musk: SpaceX Will Launch People to Mars in 2024Elon Musk: Giant Rocket Could Take Us to Marks in Just 7 Years - and London in 29 MinutesCan Elon Musk Really Get Us to Mars Within 10 Years?Elon Musk Is Not a Lunatic
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It’d be funnier if the democratic establishment hadn’t pushed Janet Mills, an excellent, competent woman.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The illustration of the synagogue in Kaifeng took my breath away. What a tragic loss. I wonder what the relationship between the rise of the pogroms in Russia and Eastern Europe and the collapse of Chinese Jewry was, if anything.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“I have spent my whole adult life involved in progressive politics. I have sat in offices where men with flawless progressive resumes talked over me, diminished me, and made it clear that the equality they preached in public did not always extend to the women beside them.”
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I dated Graham Platner. I believe Jenny Racicot and Lyndsey Fifield.
'Believe women' cannot be a phrase we reserve for our enemies.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Directing Graham Platner’s campaign
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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A micrographic rider, with a falcon and hound, travelling across the lower margin...but don't look up! BL Add 21160; 'the Yonah Pentateuch'; 13th century; Germany; f.181v @blmedieval.bsky.social
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Wow. Fabulous mini lecture.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo called Houston home for 35 years. On Tuesday, an ICE agent shot and killed him. His family learned of his death from a video before anyone bothered to knock on their door.
New York City stands with the Salgado family in demanding a full, independent investigation and real accountability. To the Salgado family and any immigrant family in this city living in fear: we grieve with you and we will continue to stand beside you in the pursuit of justice.
Abolish ICE.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Reading the comments, it seems like people have no idea how much things cost.
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Lucille Bluth: What Could a Banana Cost?
Alt: Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development standing in her living room asking Michael, “I mean, it’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost? $10?”
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Everyone agrees: With Pure-O oxygen pills, you no longer need the "gulping method" to get maximum oxygen. Read below!
A screenshot of a Reddit discussion on the "Gulping method vs Pure O?" with several users commenting. The conversation centers around preferences and experiences with "Gulping" versus "Pure Oxygen."
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Just started the new Helen DeWitt and she continues to be delightfully strange. She’s one of those writers like DFW where you just know she’s crazy-smart on top of being a great writer.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Indeed, as far as punishments go, “you are no longer a senator” is pretty minor. It’s a substantial loss of honor, but that’s his own fault.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
lol
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Mom for Ghoulberty👻 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The liberal New York Times vs the conservative New York Post.
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Exclusive | Divorced, destitute and left for dead — the dark side of tradwife life after 35
Tradwives often become subservient subordinates whose sole purpose is to please their partner.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When an explicitly pro Palestine group refers to a previous day’s massacre as an “unprecedented liberation struggle, the Al-Aqsa Flood”… and says, “We stand with the Palestinian people.“ I dunno… I imagine there was a lot of cheering, nastiness, and antisemitism at that particular event.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Carter sold his farm and Hoover (also mentioned) sold his mining interests. I think Cramer knows it too. The smile on his face is the smile of a liar enjoying his lie.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
THEY MADE CARTER SELL HIS FARM
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I thought Ezra Klein’s show this week on Israel/Palestine was fascinating. I felt like it recognized the realities on the ground better than basically any discussion I’ve ever heard. The proposed solution was like nothing I’d ever seen described before, but I found it extremely appealing.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Hmm… the first glaring indicator is missing from their list here. Weird.
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Scam Ghouldin @scamgoldin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Something BlueSky never mentions when they’re blaming the “pod bros” for Platner is that there is a Pod Bro running for office, and it’s Abdul al-Sayed. He literally hosted one of their shows and is a friend of theirs. But he’s progressive so it doesn’t fit the narrative.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Again… it’s not that no one can change, it’s that obviously shitty people shouldn’t be made Senator of the USA.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I don’t feel like its fair to say that Bluesky users are the problem for recognizing Platner was a bad guy before other people but I do feel like it’s fair to call us hogs so kind of a mixed bag
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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
But just so we're clear, it's still the people calling the administration pro-segregation who are the divisive ones tearing America apart, yes?
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In that I look at both of them and say, “This isn’t funny and cool, why do so many people like this? Obviously, a fair number of people enjoying this are just straight up racist.”
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The more times you watch it the better it gets.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Can someone point me to the pro-Platner Favreau content? Is it on Twitter? I listen to Pod Save and at no point have they pushed Platner, but everyone here acts like they created his candidacy.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/07/2026
shout out to the guy who spent an afternoon on here screaming at me for thinking the tattoo was bad
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I mean, seemed like checkers to me. Dude was a merc with a Nazi tattoo. That was enough for anyone sensible.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Just, lol at this bullshit.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
How’s this straw man lookin today?
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Gosh, who could’ve foreseen this?
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Tap into the most powerful revenue stream you have. www.theonion.info
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.
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Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Ezra Klein’s interview with Bryan Stevenson was great and Ezra repeatedly referred to Montgomery as the birthplace of American Democracy, a powerful framing.
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Mayan art: corn god emerging from a flower, symbolizing the cycle of birth, growth and regeneration that sustained the existence of Mayan communities. Corn was much more than food: it represented the origin of life, fertility and the constant renewal of nature. 600-800CE, Hopelchén, Campeche.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Watch our first explosive broadcast here: :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnz6PTSXiI0
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ALEX JONES IS DEAD - Real InfoWars Livestream
YouTube video by InfoWars
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:
Third, faculty salaries are falling even if we statistically control for faculty rank and institution. By our analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data, tenured and tenure-track salaries are down 10 percent in real terms since 2016 and are lower today than they were in 2002; nontenured faculty salaries are down 4 percent since 2016 and are at 2002 levels today.

To put this plainly: Suppose sharply increased teaching loads enabled institutions to cut one out of every seven full-time faculty. (That’s roughly what we saw last year in severe cuts announced at West Virginia, Western Illinois, and St. Cloud State Universities.) The associated savings in salary and benefits even through such drastic action would amount to less than 2.5 percent of total institutional expenditures for the typical university.

The upshot? If you think higher education has a cost problem, squeezing more teaching out of faculty is not the first place you should look.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
John Wick pointing a gun straight at you, a movie poster for the movie John Wick with a word bubble below.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
www.vaticannews.va/en/church/ne...
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Lefebvrians consecrate four new bishops without a papal mandate - Vatican News
At the headquarters of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X in Switzerland, Bishops Alfonso de Galarreta and Bernard Fellay preside over the ...
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
so many good ones to share, and i won't clog the timeline, but a few more. first, a spell to be well-liked, said before leaving the house — 'I'm a treat, whatever I say to you will be amusing." - like an early positive affirmation
I'VE PUT MY SHOES ON MY FEET
This spell is to be said three times over a person's shoes when he puts them on, so that, wherever he goes, people will be glad to see him.
I've put my shoes on my feet.
I've taken my place before you.
My laughter is the flowering of my features,
The winsome charm of my eyes.
I'm a treat,! whatever I say to you will be amusing.*
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
browsing an absolutely wonderful anthology of Akkadian literature, and I find, as ever, the universality of human experience so moving. a 4,000 year old incantation baked into clay, intended to help ease a difficult birth - "bring out the sealed one ... let him come out and see the light!"
THE BABY IS STUCK!
The woman in labor is having a difficult labor, Her labor is difficult, the baby is stuck,
The baby is stuck!
The doorbolt is locked, about to end life, The door is fastened against the suckling kid, ...
The woman giving birth is covered with death's dust, She is covered with the dust of battle, like a chariot, She is covered with the dust of tuffets, like a plow.
She sprawls in her own blood, like a struggling warrior, Her eyesight is waning, she cannot see, Her lips are coated, she cannot open them ...,
Her eyesight is dim, ... she is alarmed, her ears cannot hear!
Her breast is not held in, her headbands are askew, She is not veiled with ..., she has no shame:
Stand by me and keep calling out?), O merciful Marduk,
"Here is the confusion, I'm surrounded, get to me!" Bring out the one sealed up, created by the gods, Created by humankind, let him come out and see the light!
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 01/07/2026
I don't live in Michigan and haven't been following his campaign. I just thought his line about wooing voters, "I don't need you to like me, I need you to like you" was a good one.
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
If he’s just saying, “Fuck the twitter-tankies,” I guess I’m with him. Weird way to say it though.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Family guy screencap
Peter: Who the fuck starts a conversation like that? I just sat down!
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Stephen Fine @stephen-fine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Refreshing Vatican.va obsessively.
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Vatican
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/07/2026
NEW: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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