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Brian Zabcik

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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wonder if there’s going to be a delayed Musk/DOGE effect.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Thanks for inviting me!
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I’m with you on the fury.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
why are men
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Wait, this isn’t about Ben Marshall kissing Harry Styles?
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S Peter Davis @speterdavis.com · 14/03/2026
They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
In what way then?
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Plus Iran will have fewer Shaheeds to sell to Russia.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Nice way to hide the salamis.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Plus, no one wants to be on a bike when a huge storm moves in!
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Plus no one wants to be on a bike when a huge storm moves in!
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Interesting.
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The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com · 05/02/2026
EXCLUSIVE: When Senate Bill 17 went into effect in 2024, Texas universities were forced to enact anti-DEI policies. Since then, 12 queer resource centers or programs have closed — along with layoffs or transfers of at least 100 people. thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/05/c...
thebarbedwire.com
‘Communities Ripped Apart’: On Texas College Campuses, LGBTQ+ Services Have Been Completely Decimated
Across the state, public universities that were once making strides toward inclusivity and support have faced devastating cutbacks.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Good for him. Good for him. Good for. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good for. For. For. For him. Him. Him. Good him. Good him. Good for him.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Fascinating article. I didn’t know most of that.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
😡
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Zach Grear @zachgrear.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
David Armstrong “French Chris, New York City, Early 1980s”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/12/2025
incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/12/2025
actual numbers suggest that this narrative of systematic discrimination against white millennial men is bullshit.
peoplespolicyproject.org
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
In that family, that’s a really low bar. But yeah, she knows how this is going to turn out.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It’s interesting that Ivanka was all over the first administration but nowhere to be seen in the second.
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents. Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Hope this all gets into a story!
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Interesting in light of the high-power transmission lines being built to the PB. I initially assumed they were needed to bring renewable electricity from West Texas. But they’re being built to supply more power to fracking operations, which are much more energy intensive than I realized.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Ah, no.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Very similar to my college car, which was a 78 Cutlass Supreme, also maroon, but with a tan vinyl half-roof, and without the pimpmobile interior.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Hmmm. One way they could improve the experience would be to stop ChatGPT from encouraging college students to commit suicide.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I don’t know if you remember, but I talked about my, um, extreme enthusiasm about the MMR genre when we had lunch at the Carpenter. I wrote several long posts on FB that were my most extended exercise in literary criticism since college.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
As someone who’s re-read Reid’s books mumble-mumble times, I’ll just say that the steam factor decreases a bit because the romantic factor increases sharply. There’ll be a big payoff in the final episode for this season (which only covers the first book in the Shane-Ilya duology).
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This is insane. Any material a prof thinks is necessary but isn’t for formal licensing has to get the signoff of the chair, then dean, then provost? This is an absolutely mockery of academic freedom. I feel like Texas Tech HAS to lose its accreditation for this, no? It’s preposterous.
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
“America is segregated and so is pollution.” Another strong @insideclimatenews.org story from @dylanbaddour.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/3011202...
insideclimatenews.org
Petrochemical Expansion in Texas Will Fall Heavily on Communities of Color, Study Finds  - Inside Climate News
Researchers in Houston analyzed the locations of 114 proposed industrial projects related to oil and gas in Texas, most of them involved in plastics production.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
businessinsider.com
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
But I also think about what will happen as these cars age. Will they still have spotless safety records when they’re 5 or 10 years old? Humans may not be needed to drive new cars, but I’m guessing they’ll still be needed to drive old vehicles. (Like my 30yo truck.)
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I easily see at least 5 Waymos an hour in central Austin (not just downtown) on an average night. It’s interesting to see how used to driverless cars I’ve become, and probably everyone else. That’s probably a secondary (primary?) purpose for rolling them out.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Yes, Kings! www.vulture.com/article/king...
vulture.com
‘I Still Don’t Know What It Was’
An oral history of Kings, the ambitious, expensive, and admittedly weird drama on which NBC bet its prestige-TV future and lost.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I guess charismatic is a synonym for sex pest now.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
jfc. I’m still a Brooklyner at heart.
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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Good old Woz. Good for him.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
The extent of the damage done to public health, biomedical science, and healthcare in the US in less than a year will take a generation or more to repair. This is the scale of the destruction. Let that sink in. A new president, Congress won't be enough to reverse things fully. It's that bad.
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Brian Zabcik @zabcik.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I fail to see what the problem is here.
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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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