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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Looking back, I feel like pretty much every year I was at Cornell some fraternity would haze a freshman to death and would then get caught dumping his body in the woods and nobody would ever get charged. Just a huge sacrificial death engine, basically.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

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🧟Zombuddy🧟‍♂️ @budbuddyguy.sheshed.lol · 21/09/2026

Look, Taylor Lorenz may be stupid

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I know that things are going bad because my mom told me I need to start saving money to retire someday and I answered that I don’t think things (me, the economy) are gonna hold together long enough for that to really matter and she just went “yeah probably not”

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

genuinely don't know the appropriate + polite thing to say when a student tells me that they've got a game or match coming up. "Good luck with the game" sounds mildly insulting somehow.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

well the good thing is it's not like we live in the most car-brained society in the world and all our infrastructure wasn't built around driving and parking and everything is walkable and we have lots of efficient and dependable public transportation. at least there's that

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My office is really coming together

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think that of all the various flavors of evil in this country — from the soulless corporate executives to the neocon warmongers, the trigger-finger proud boys to the doomsday fundamentalists — the SF area “rationalist” types are clearly the most pressing and urgent danger

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

showed Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors" to my class today -- a really brilliant little poem, the only that I can think of that uses the concept of metaphor itself as a metaphor (words that are "pregnant" with meaning)

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

the dark libidinal energies of the right were unleashed when the guy who shot Bin Laden tweeted that he wanted to turn the College Boys for Kamala into his personal harem and ever since they’ve just lost all control

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m mostly just confused because it doesn’t really seem like the audience Hunter Biden has been building up is particularly likely to go in for a memecoin.

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Adam @wyseapple.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ongoing trend that is making most US cities even worse. Every new coffee shop or fast food place is drive thru only. You never have to leave your house or car for anything, and that’s exactly what a lot of people want. I’ll never get it. It seems miserable to live that way.

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

more often than not, being “AI-cautious” in tech seems to just mean “I don’t think we should let the machines kill us all Terminator-style but I do regard most of humanity as expendable surplus in the AI-based social system I hope to bring about immediately”

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was eating chocolate chip cookies around my friend's one-year-old baby and I sort of half-thought to myself "oh I should keep these away from her, chocolate is poisonous to babies" and then I remembered that's actually cats and dogs

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"I need to marry rich, where do you find a rich husband" first of all, if you haven't already joined the Episcopal Church then you're not very serious about this

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the thing about “denazification” is that whenever you read about a guy called like “the Butcher of Brussels” who tortured and killed thousands of teenage resistance members, you learn that he lives in Bavaria after Germany refused all extradition requests and granted him a pension for his "service"

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

At a certain point you have to ask yourself: if, hypothetically, it was his job to sabotage the Democratic Party and ensure future Republican victories, would he be doing anything differently?

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

From Reclaim RI: Ward 1 is the most expensive city council race in the history of the city of Providence! Incumbent councilor John Goncalves has spent $142,000 since January 1st! 😱 Sign up to canvass for his opponent, Miguel Martínez Youngs, at www.reclaimri.org/mmyanddavid

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Miguel Martínez Youngs and David Morales Canvass – Ward 1 - Reclaim RI

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

watched Gran Torino for the first time and it really captures the experience of speaking to an older family member who is occasionally charming and almost likable until they say something incredibly racist or otherwise evil

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Philby Bear (they/them) @philbybear.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Actual quote from Steinem, when pressed about her ties to the CIA: "In my experience the agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable." That sure would be news to Central & South America, the Philippines, the Middle East, the Black Panthers...

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I'll be honest with you all, I thought that Gloria Steinem was already dead

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

it's always a little surprise to log into facebook once a year and see that everyone I knew in high school is still posting incredibly personal business on their facebook status

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love how much Salem MA, Seth Moulton's hometown, hates him

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

a wikipedia page that you can really kill a few hours on is "List of oldest surviving ships"

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

guy trying to describe a girl who is attractive and large before Rubens: she’s, well, I guess there isn't a word for it yet

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am perfectly open to the idea that some of the data center panic is overblown, what I am telling u is I don’t care

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

many Rhet-Comp/Writing programs hope to get ahead of AI by embracing it. Their plan is to re-market as experts in “ethical AI use” and to legitimize the hollowing out of Higher Ed. They will be asked to devise new AI policies, statements, and curricula, and then they too will be shown the door.

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’ve reached the point of multi-factor doomerism where I have to calm myself down by thinking like, okay, there’s no point worrying about the failure of global supply chains because prion accumulation in the environment will get us first anyway

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Running a trial of my new, experimental pedagogical strategy (promising that any paper clearly written by a human will receive at least a B+)

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Actually felt a bit emotional seeing this — the only known group portrait of the Brontës, painted by their brother Branwell (originally depicted in the middle) and thought lost until it was found folded on top of a wardrobe in a relative’s house in Ireland in 1914

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Every budget hotel in the continent of Europe has come up with its own concept for how a shower should work and how it might be incorporated into a room

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

saw Black Adam on a flight and yes it’s a very bad movie but it also belongs to a small roster of bad movies (including, say, the 2016 Tarzan and 2023 Freelance) that come close to being politically interesting by sheer virtue of tackling, albeit clumsily, a weirdly sensitive subject

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

every time I’ve flown in the past few years my boarding group has been something like Group 26

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Realized that I hadn’t left the states of Rhode Island and Massachusetts in almost 8 months and immediately made a series of fiscally irresponsible choices (flying to Frankfurt -> Cologne -> Berlin -> Vienna -> Paris -> London -> NYC)

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Took the ferry to block island ☀️

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I was going to waste a few minutes editing the old “female drone pilots” comic but it seems that everyone in the comments already beat me there

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I think what’s galling about TAH is this pretense that he’s delivering some urgent “insider” warning to sleepy academia and not just being paid by the Atlantic to get educated moderates on board with gutting public universities

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

made the error of bringing John Fowles’s “The Collector” to the beach and immediately felt like such a creep for reading it in public (terrific though deeply uncomfortable novel)

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I think he could have been honest and just admitted that it didn’t fit into his particular brand of gritty “realism” instead of pretending that the most well-known pun in history wouldn’t “translate“

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Some chapters in Calvino’s Invisible Cities are achingly beautiful reflections on space, time, and the act of “description,” and others are like: there is a city — I don’t remember its name. For, the traveler who leaves can recall nothing but the sight of a beautiful virgin bathing by the stream.

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

English cultural stock at post-2012 highs right now. Might even start telling people that I'm a British citizen again, except they might still remember it after Wednesday.

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Saw the tall ships in Boston!

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Imagine if democrats cared as much about satisfying their voters as they do winning over the “republicans who are already dead and can’t vote because they’re dead” voting bloc

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Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

teaching a summer college class for high schoolers and they’ve all seen Frasier and can quote extensively from it. Not sure what to make of that.

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