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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 9h

This might be the most relatable thing he has ever done

Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 9h

All of my grandparents had children who were publicly educated, and all of those children's children ended up in some form of post-bacc education. The multiplier between just 2-3 generations is hard to fathom.

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 9h

Ninety years ago one grandfather was walking along the railroad tracks in Detroit picking up coal to burn while another was eating carp whenever their family farm was under the Missouri River. I have a healthy family, four degrees, a house and spend time complaining about parking at my job.

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 28/09/2026

Maybe it's just me but I do find it *a bit* concerning that the companies being run by people who (out loud!) want to create technostates are using AI agents to attack governments.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

KEEP HONKING but consider this... what if I am asleep, and you are part of my dream? If you wake me with your honks, what then would become of you? - Philip K. Dick, "Brain Days at the Honkatorium"

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When you can have a 9 billion dollar loss in one day and not have it impact your daily life at all you have way too much money #abolishbillionaires

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 25/09/2026

To be fair, his hand will crumble to dust at a touch so

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dependency is the goal.

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 24/09/2026

I had to think about whether I am allowed to put a Canadian flag sticker on my water bottle I take to class, but ok

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 24/09/2026

So pretty much like Sam Altman then, huh?

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 23/09/2026

Another term for this is poll tax, but where would they have gotten that idea from?

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 23/09/2026

I mean, kind of makes him a shoe-in nomination for a party that hasn't talked about abortion rights since [checks notes] 10 minutes after Dobbs came down

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 22/09/2026

It really is astonishing that we have this - there are some wonderful, and real, animals that..just exist. Like you can go out and look at them. Same continuum as AI-generated music. There is not enough time in anyone's life to listen to all of the human-created music. Why do we need slop?

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A fancy provost allegedly using AI to write papers and op-eds is a big problem, but a bigger problem is why we all have no problem believing a fancy provost used AI write papers and op-eds. I should find that hard to believe. I don’t.

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 21/09/2026

Also, are they really saying "the internet made people less racist"?

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 21/09/2026

The passive "gets caught" language is so, so tired. Never any agency. I'm old enough to remember when the last guy was covered as if he was personally marking up every item in the grocery store.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"

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Sara Sanchez @bcbsara.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I remember listening to Chris Hayes' podcast at the start of Trump II and his guest talking about how the Brazilian movement that defeated Bolsonaro had a saying "We're not letting go of anyone's hands." Way too many people think it's okay to let go of some peoples' hands.

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 19/09/2026

In case anyone has spaces left on their list of "things to take a sledgehammer to in 2029"

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 19/09/2026

I took my sister to Nickelback in.. 2003? Hated their music before but kept an open mind - maybe I'll appreciate them a bit after seeing them live? Nope. Horrible show. And I spent most of my teenage/early adolescence at mainstream country shows (Nebraska), so have quite a few comparison points.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17/09/2026

When will the people who argued in April 2025 that Democrats should stay silent on immigration own up to being frankly just disastrously wrong about the politics of mass deportations? Their punditry basically bordered on enablement

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 17/09/2026

He's basically making a public appeal (to Canadians) to join the EU, isn't he?

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Estee @esteeland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Someday, Everyone will Have Been Against This"

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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

it rules that the president is a 90s cartoon style eco-villain. just doing a backyard burn of big yellow barrels that say “POLLUTION”. hexxus ass motherfucker

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Guy who can do *computer* will surely be able to make mere potato!" is a load-bearing brick in the "baking the earth for AI is fine, we'll just terraform Mars using computer" delusion

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is genuinely one of the oldest and most fundamental points about legislative authority to constrain would-be absolute kings. The king wants to govern without parliamentary oversight. Parliament says "you need us to authorize taxes and military spending." 3/

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 12/09/2026

We had a Sonic Blaster in ours (and a TransWarp accelerator). That thing was a fun sampler - IIRC the Sonic Blaster really just unlocked stereo from the Ensoniq and added audio input.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026

I also find it hilarious how universities are justifying these expenditures using the language of 'equity.'"If we don't buy these tools for everyone, then only the rich kids will be able to afford them, and that's unfair." But you don't buy books assigned by profs for anyone? Why not subsidize that!

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 11/09/2026

Thing about these people is that's all their worth

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 11/09/2026

A lot of what I saw is still fuzzy (collective memory and all that), but the towers were burning on the TV. I still think about that 30-minute walk.

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 11/09/2026

Somebody said, "a plane just hit the Twin Towers." We didn't have TVs in the building (2001) so I just assumed it was another Cessna, as it had been a few years prior. I walked to my dorm. I walk into my room about 30 minutes later and my roommate has our TV on with the news.

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 11/09/2026

I lecture a large (300) section of our intro to media class. On Wednesday I talked about how different the media environment is compared to when I was a freshman in 2001. I was a music major and had gotten out of class in the Fine Arts building at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Third Way politics get you a third place finish.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Neither Trump nor his wife are in attendance at this year’s ceremony, notwithstanding the AP photo editor’s bullshit.

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Mike Gruszczynski @terrapeneornata.com · 11/09/2026

We could've had this guy. Instead we got a five o'clock shadow who mansplains Catholicism to the Pope.

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