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Ken Mayer

@uwkenmayer.bsky.social
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Emeritus professor of political science UW Madison. Presidency, election administration, sifting and winnowing, the Wisconsin Idea, Golden Retrievers, and pineapple on pizza. www.wisc.edu

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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Fully expect to have a 70 degree day in Madison in January.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
What, am I wrong?
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
SNL has done this forever. Funny much of the time, but gobsmackingly dreadful and just painful to watch way too often.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Especially since so many pitchers have a jinky leg kick with multiple starts and stops
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UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication @uwsjmc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You did it again, flock-stars! 🦩✨ Thanks to your generous donations, the SJMC has broken its record for Fill the Hill gifts! Now it's time for SJMC Director Mike Wagner to take on the Spice the Hill Challenge.🔥 Can he handle the heat? Watch to find out.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nicely done all around! If UComms does not work this into an appearance on Hot Ones they have failed. And since this is the internet, I will be that guy and point out that water does nothing to capsaicin. Milk, yogurt, or tequila are indicated.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Tom Cruise Salutes in Top Gun Maverick
ALT: Tom Cruise Salutes in Top Gun Maverick
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I take it you are not a fan of interpretive jiggery-pokery.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is just incredibly lazy journalism. You should be ashamed.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
True @nytpitchbot.bsky.social territory. NPR talked to 4 self-selected people to draw this conclusion. I guess 4 fly fisherman is "some" fly fishermen. so there's that. This is just incredibly lazy journalism.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I hear the word "cassette" and the first thing I think of is "pencil." It's a technology as important as the lever and knowing how to start a fire.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well, he’s gotta be making at least $90,000 a year.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looks like a young Burl Ives.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No, no. That’s totally it.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Especially because the research he cited doesn’t really support his argument.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think it's because Iowa is so far away from Missouri you can't see them at the same time on a globe.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well who *wouldn't* want a 43-inch pepper mill that was expertly crafted in France from a single piece of sustainably sourced beech wood and finished in glossy black lacquer with elegant metal accents?
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love this.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It really does - in addition to being kind, it's unexpected (1st year students are far more likely to fear their professors).
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They will remember this forever. Like telling their great grandchildren about their awesome sociology prof forever.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
that prose is the reading equivalent of chewing on leather
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I saw that once in the Neighman Marcus catalog!
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now you can add "add that thing I need to do to the list" to the list and then add the thing to the list and then check both of them off.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s even worse than Money Magazine announcing a new “best place to live in the u.s” every year to sell magazines. Just cartoonishly silly.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Hey muse, here is my bank account info. Please bet $15,000 on Draft Kings for me."
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Everyone knows this is because the great book editors are all in Greece or Martha's Vineyard when the votes come in.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Or as they would call it at Lambeau, Third Fifth Park.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the professional drinkers in Green Bay are reading that as Third Fifth Park.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I had no idea what I was doing, but was a California beach bum so I was enough of a curiosity to get by. I remember so clearly thinking “there’s no way this is going to work.” Everyone seemed so much smarter than I was. It was terrifying.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How come they never do ads with people who won $1 million betting? Rhetorical question.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Monty Python: I Got Better
ALT: Monty Python: I Got Better
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Talking Chinese." Piers Morgan is such a goddamned idiot.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Well, to be fair, the beginning does encourage children to express their love for their father.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The so-called Center for Intellectual Freedom is a fraud perpretated on the people of Iowa and the students and faculty at the University of Iowa. It's just cartoonishly dishonest.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the only acceptable use of AI.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
if that guy comes to my house, I'm going to answer the door eating a rib and holding a martini.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This would be better than Jesse Helms reading the text of a phone sex line into the congressional record in 1985.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Has he complained to the Provost yet?
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
JFC, Bret Stephens is an idiot.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
About halfway through this remarkable piece of student journalism, you learn that the data on alleged liberal bias is *completely made up*
graphic purporting to show liberal bias in talks and courses at Iowa.  A disclaimer notes that "the proportions shown are purely illustrative and may not correspond to the actual proportions of course or talk offerings."
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just wait until you start wearing them out and have to get new ones.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So that's what the kids are calling it these days.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Accuracy in Media."
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Sure-sure-sure
ALT: Sure-sure-sure
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it‘a a good way of catching plagiarism: print the paper with every 3rd word deleted, and ask the “author” to fill in the blanks. Trivial if it’s your work, impossible if it isn’t.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I hear Maria Bartiromo is looking for a gig.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bugs Bunny could do that, too. Cartoons are like that.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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That'S Enough Cal Bradford
ALT: That'S Enough Cal Bradford
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Had to deal with some of these parents over 40 years. It was tiresome, but also darkly comic. And they just *loved* the "federal law prohibits me from saying anything to you about your child's performance in class" part.
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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s the hope that kills you.
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