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William H. Devereaux

@whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network
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Random musings & smartass remarks. Neurolurker. Dilettante. He/him/his. Interested in (but not necessarily posting about) (or even doing) higher ed, IT, infosec, cocktails, music, old movies, bicycling, & other stuff I don't have room for.

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 7h
Things are starting to line up like a perfectly-positioned side-view mirror for the first Philadelphia Parallel Parking Association (PPPA) Championship Saturday, with final details about the event being released this week. www.inquirer.com/life/philade...
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A pub owner, a viral crossing guard, and an ASMR comedian will judge Saturday’s Parallel Parking Championship
Nearly 900 people applied for the competition and 15 were chosen to participate, including a SEPTA bus driver and a former contestant on "Survivor."
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16h
your average Bluesky adventuring party has: - 1 sports person who is also a political sicko - 1 adhd chaos crafter who is also a political sicko - 1 sff writer who is also a political sicko - 1 romance author who is also a lawyer who is also a political sicko - 1 gardener recovering from being a po
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William H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network · 19h
🎶Vincero! Vincero! VIN.......CE.......RO!!!🎶
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Vishanti @missdiedra.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Thus it is said of Yirmeyahu haChesil to this day, "LOL that's the Spanish frogs guy." Therefore when newbies to Jewsky say to you, "What are Spanish frogs?" You shall say, "It is the foolishness of a gentile who knows fuck-all about Hebrew." He shall be a meme & a byword across the internet. סוף
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Ian McShane has morning coffee with Suzanne Pleshette ☕️ If It's Tuesday It Must Be Belgium, 1969 If it's September 29, it must be #NationalCoffeeDay Today we're celebrating Ian McShane's birthday 🎂
McShane pour coffee from a thermos for a hungover Pleshette.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sometimes it feels like the main sin of the humanities in this moment is to think humanity is fascinating and worthy of study.
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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Now that the BBC has picked up this story, it has gone "viral" and gone beyond the bubble of experts on German politics and society. www.bbc.com/news/article... I thought I would add some more context that isn't in the article. #Stoplersteine #Germany #HolocaustMemory
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German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims
Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".
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William H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/09/2026
Name a film with a Woman Director
VHS box cover of the 1931 German film "Mädchen in Uniform" directed by Leontine Sagan. Two young women are pictured in the black & white photo. The first is seated, wearing tights and a medieval-looking shirt and hat with a feather, holding a piece of paper, and looking off into the distance. The second is kneeling, with her hands on the other's legs, wearing a blouse with stripes and a white collar, and looking up to the other's face. 

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Top Edge:
   Home Vision Cinema

Upper right: 
   A Film by LEONTINE SAGAN
   Maedchen in Uniform

Lower left:
   "Stunning and erotic. Important cinema." Steven H. Scheuer, Movies  
   on TV and Videocassette
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Ron H. 🦈🐢🐋🕷️🐙🐘 @ronthinkmedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Malcolm Kenyatta: "I want John to do the job that he has right now, and if he cannot do that job or he doesn't want to do the job, then do the decent thing and quit. And then you can spend all day on Fox News. You can be there from the morning till the evening." sg.news.yahoo.com/dnc-vice-cha...
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DNC Vice Chair Blasts MAGA’s Favorite Dem — Tells Him To Quit So He Can ‘Spend All Day On Fox News’
The DNC official says Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) “can spend all day on Fox News” if he quits now.
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AiredOnTVToday @airedontvtoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
35 years ago on September 28, 1991, TV show 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' aired episode "Darmok"
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To whom it may concern, Having considered the sorts of behaviors (and sorts of beliefs) that constitute “being normal” in our present society, I have concluded that it’s not a bad thing to be deemed abnormal.
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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t know what to say about the Cornell 7 which others more learned and eloquent haven’t already. The only thing I will add is: fraternity culture as it exists on American university campuses is likely irredeemable. The concept of brotherhood as a sacred bond has been exploited by the very worst.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tweet from Alex "Tropical" Forrest 🚉🌴 (@380kmh):

while u begged for treats I studied the blade

(picture of a dog wearing a cloak and in possession of two swords, one in its mouth)
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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's time for the 9th annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest! Win fabulous prizes! ($35), be on a podcast, fill the world with weird holiday fun, and join an actual-by-god tradition! Deadline Nov 29, 2026. 350 words. Details at the link.
weirdchristmas.com
Announcing the NINTH Annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction ConThology!
I like... weird... STUFF! and I cannot lie… Sorry, I’m a little punchdrunk from, ya know, life and such. You ever go through so many changes in a year or so that you forget who you used to be and where your life’s motivations used to come from? Yeah, me, too. Life, man. It’ll be the end of us all.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
PBS NOVA will have an episode on Space Wars Oct 7th including me as an expert. Final boss for a science kid short of hosting the third run of Cosmos. I didn't make the trailer but I'm much more boring than @vsamsondc.bsky.social or @planet4589.bsky.social video.nhpbs.org/video/space-...
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NOVA | Space Wars Preview | Season 53 | Episode 12
Inside the escalating military struggle to control space and the satellites we rely on.
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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Happy First AuDHD day!
Mariner: ADHD craving for the novel 
T'lyn: Autistic satisfaction with routine
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William H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network · 27/09/2026
What if I not only haven't heard the song, but I refuse to engage with the article about what the face that I haven't heard it means.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026
Can I just add that Drew’s excellent point here is why the entire discourse about declining humanities majors is so ridiculous and makes me want to scream every time I encounter it.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anybody who would decide to close this museum does not have Philadelphia’s best interests at heart.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i just read that alcohol, dairy, and cheese are bad for my autoimmune disorder, so starting today, no more reading
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
sammatey.substack.com
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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William H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network · 26/09/2026
A tank of Sea Monkeys™, and I introduce them as the team that helps out with my software development projects.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What if my interviewer offers me Turkish Delight?
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William H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
My job interview coffee experience: senior-ish administrative job at a school within a big university. 2nd round of interviews, I'm supposed to meet the dean of the school. I'm seated in dean's reception area waiting. Dean's assistant offers me coffee, water, etc.; I politely decline. He offers
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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh my god. OH MY GOD. XD
Gul Dukat of Deep Space Nine gloweringGavin Newsome of California glowering.
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William H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network · 23/09/2026
Maybe I'll just put my doctors up on a dart board and pick one to call that way. I'm having trouble figuring out where to start.
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William H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network · 23/09/2026
A colleague is retiring, and I asked a mutual friend to find out a good choice for a bottle of liquor or wine for me to buy. The answer came back with the suggestion: Malbec. I had to look at it for a few seconds in shock, before I realized that no, he didn't mean Malört.
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I found that my response to this merited something longer on what Sun got wrong bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/w...
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What Sun got wrong | The Observation Deck
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is my new favorite thing.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the last jedi defender
@kindnessroast

doctors in medical dramas when a patient has a mystery illness: i must examine every symptom and run every test! i won't rest until i've cracked this case!  

doctors irl when a patient has a mystery illness: hmmm have you considered that you're faking it
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William H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network · 22/09/2026
OK so which one of these two brains is the one responsible for the asshole inner monologue?
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 21/09/2026
Whoever did this is a genius
A photograph of a KC-135 aerial refueling tanker model that is feeding a hummingbird above a patio
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@piaguerra.bsky.social
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Scott 𐚁 Cataloochee Hogtoe 𐚁 Cave @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
they’re telling you to heat the pan before adding oil now, because of wok
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 21/09/2026
goodnight measles goodnight mumps goodnight price at the gas pumps goodnight nazis goodnight rabies goodnight fascist nepo babies
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ROCKY & BULLWINKLE producer + co-creator Jay Ward (1920-1989) was #BOTD. "It was the first time I can recall my parents watching a cartoon show over my shoulder and laughing in places I couldn't comprehend.’’ — Steven Spielberg #TVSky #Animation #Cartoons
Jau Ward left, w/ his most enduring creations: Rocket J. Squirrel, Bullwinkle J. Moose, Natasha Fatale, and Boris Badenov.
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Old Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
without downloading any new pics throw your phone into the river
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William H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network · 21/09/2026
It’s a fun movie to watch. You should have fun watching it and not try to think too long or hard about what’s going on.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A two-panel meme featuring Abbi Jacobson from the show Broad City.

In the top panel, she speaks with an intense, resolute expression while holding up her hand, with closed-caption text reading: "Yeah, I don't wanna rise and grind anymore."

In the bottom panel, she points her finger forward with a serious expression, with closed-caption text reading: "I wanna rise and then, like, lay right back down."

A Comedy Central logo appears in the bottom right corner of both frames.
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is YOUR teen texting like a millennial? LOL - lumbar, oh lord DIAF - dentist! Incisors are fucked! AFAIK - Asprin for aching, irritable knees YMMV - you moved my varifocals ROTFL - Really ow, this fucking lumbar
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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Last one for #BatmanDay, because I've given it quite enough attention as it is
Comic strip in which Alfred and Bruce Wayne essentially play the roles of Jeeves and Wooster.
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is, in fact, how history is sometimes made. For instance: If the king is rumored to be dissolving the National Assembly and planning to send troops into Paris, then some people may think it’s a good idea to storm the Invalides and the Bastille looking for weapons and ammunition.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It continues to amaze me that the industry/culture that so demonizes cultural theory and humanities are its greatest purveyors. Naming machine learning “artificial intelligence” is gramsci level politics. yet when we call that naming what it is, suddenly it doesn’t matter what you call it.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There are only a handful of people alive who should upstage me, can upstage me, and who I want to upstage me. This is one of them. 😉✊🏿❤️
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William H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network · 18/09/2026
Pulsatile tinnitus can bite me.
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