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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard

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the other thing is that this is a totally incoherent and arbitrary standard for deciding who has rights and who doesn't. you could say the same, for instance, of alito's vision of inviolate "religious liberty" or expansive gun rights.

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wrote about the Manchester City scandal as a textbook case of sportswashing in plain sight. In our whipsaw age of impunity, some potential accountability—if not comeuppance—for Manchester City is conspicuously refreshing. For @gqmagazine.bsky.social www.gq.com/story/manche...

gq.com

Everything You Need to Know About the Explosive Manchester City Scandal

Last week, an independent commission determined that the illustrious soccer club had engaged in extreme financial chicanery totaling a whopping $1.2 billion.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 14h

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 44m

A friendly reminder that Blue MAGA is just as predisposed to buy into shitty theories and embrace shitty technologies as their red-hatted counterparts.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1h

So much of the "quit wasting time and money on humanities programs" comes from dudes with humanities degrees from the Ivies. They get to have a broad, liberal, meaningful education, but it's narrow, lifeless career prep for the rest of y'all.

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G @gpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sums up my feelings.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 1h

I wonder if any of the students who asked to come to office hours today to make up last week's quiz will actually show up in the next hour to take said quiz.

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 16h

major democracies electing far-right populist governments

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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 1h

This is rape culture, settler-colonialist culture, white supremacist culture. “Some harm is needed (to you not me) so we (meaning me and my friends) and progress (get rich)”

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 1h

An entity can be categorically dismissed as ethically bankrupt when it feels the need to engage in subterfuge and theft of intellectual property in an attempt to obfuscate and discredit the information disseminated by the original IP.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 2h

Nice, no tears shed for that guy... but unfortunately GOP hacks always wait until after they've already done all their damage and then retired before they finally kick the bucket.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 21h

Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 2h

This. Moreover, let's stop using terms like the "immigration problem" because there isn't one.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 2h

This is an awesome exercise, and I hate how old it makes me feel.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 9h

treating voting like a privilege that can be lost instead of a right and duty of all citizens casts a bad light on the whole system

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 14h

This is an underappreciated point that extends far beyond Amish country. A lack of health insurance, lack of/inconsistent access to technology, and/or financial precarity are huge barriers to accessing medical services. I didn't go to a doctor for five years when I worked in kitchens as a result.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 15h

Honestly, I'm a sucker for The Piper at the Gates of Dawn...

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 15h

Funny, I thought the invisible genius making Man City tick was financial shenanigans...

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 15h

Every time I log into email on the web at Penn State — say, if I'm checking it in the classroom as I set up before a lecture — it defaults to sending me to Copilot upon login. Consciously attempting to avoid AI is the best we can do. The ubiquity is meant to break down your resolve. Don't crack.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 17h

I haven't really been much of an MLB fan as an adult, but I really want to see the Brewers win it all finally this year. My dad loved the team. He was a kid when they came to Milwaukee. They lost the 1982 Series right before I was born. A maiden title would be a fitting tribute to a lifelong fan.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 19h

Two months since Lady passed. Just got home from a long walk with a friend in one of Lady's favorite old haunts. We wandered randomly along the trails, got lost, thought we'd picked the trail back up, got spit onto the road, and ended up going much longer than expected. Lady would've loved it.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 19h

The latest BCS rankings and College Football Playoff projections are fresh from plugging the numbers in for this week...

BCS Standings after Week 5 of the 2026 FBS college football season

Calculated by Zach Bigalke on 04 October 2026

1. Texas
2. Georgia
3. Notre Dame
4. Alabama
5. Miami (FL)
6. Ohio State
7. Indiana
8. Texas Tech
9. BYU
10. LSU
11. Utah
12. Mississippi
13. Oregon
14. Tennessee
15. Florida
16. Missouri

2026 College Football Playoff projections using the calculated BCS rankings

Projected by Zach Bigalke on 04 October 2026

#12 Boise State @ #5 Miami (FL) to face #4 Alabama

#9 BYU @ #8 Texas Tech to face #1 Texas

#11 Utah @ #6 Ohio State to face #3 Notre Dame

#10 LSU @ #7 Indiana to face #2 Georgia

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Damn, I could've set my alarm an hour later and still been up early for the grand prix...

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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the 1918 flu pandemic 🤝 covid mass disabling event leading to fascists arguing for purges

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I cut my hair after Lady passed. I was happy with it in the moment, and I don't regret doing it, as it was basically in an irreparable state after a fortnight focused on the pup. But now every time I look in the mirror it is a reminder that she is gone. That part I hate.

A 40-something white guy with oval wire-frame glasses, a thick brown mustache and long white beard, and short salt-and-pepper hair, wearing a baby blue button-down shirt in front of a bower of fake flowers, looking sad

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Does Target think this is going to get people to come back to their shitbag stores?

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A big reason why I left the Catholic Church as a teenager is because you can't "no true Scotsman" this away by calling these people fake Christians. This is absolutely 100% what Christianity is and has been for a lot of people for a long time now.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gavin Newsom proves yet again that his center-right ass is not fit for the moment.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 02/10/2026

Another moment when sports is useful, when it gets right at the truth of things. People want so damn badly to move on from reports of harm, from having to even think about the harm that men have done to women. Playing well in a game allows that. It's crude, yes, but it's common. ANYTHING to move on.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A friendly reminder that tomatoes are fruits, and Ronald Reagan was Trump 1.0.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The US population increased by more than 86K during September.

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Lynn: Let's storm the Bastille @auberon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have to say this way too often: deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure is a war crime. This is open discussion of a planned series of war crimes as an acceptable military campaign. Will anyone move to stop it?

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@chronicle.com is nothing more than a rag packed with yellow journalism for trustees and administrators who actively hate higher education.

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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 02/10/2026

So I’ve got this right: While the whole country is talking about the Cornell 7 the folks behind TNF decided to run an interview w/ a QB accused of sexual assault & harassment by two dozen women. An interview that never mentioned the crimes and had (clearly) pre-approved questions & no follow-ups.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In a world where justice was the expectation rather than the exception, Chris Rufo would've either been ostracized to the wastelands or strung up like a piñata many years ago.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Use a GIF, pic, or vid to share how you are feeling today

Screenshot from King of the Hill where World War II veterans meet Vietnam veterans in a public park.

Old man in sweater and fedora on bench says, "I haven't slept in 50 years."

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I joked for years with @mmbigalke.bsky.social that we should name a kid Chlamydia. (This is not the ONLY reason why we never had kids.)

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Doubling down on failed military endeavors is exactly the sort of thing that a shithole country does with regularity.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The old snowboarding injury is flaring up today. My right hip is not happy at all.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone know whether Matthew Van Houten was in a fraternity?

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/10/2026

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anyone who still thinks that @theatlantic.com is anything but a conservative rag in 2026 is deluding themselves. You absolutely do not have to give these shitbirds your money, your eyeballs, or your time.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What in the everloving hell are we doing here?!

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As someone who competed in Lincoln-Douglas debates throughout high school, may I just throw out my personal informed opinion that we absolutely do not in any way, shape, or form need to return to such a format. This thread does a good job of explaining that folly.

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Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nationality is not a fixed marker. We may be born in a particular nation-state, but nationality is not encoded in our physical forms. Conflating national identity with ethnicity and race is a dangerous, deluded farce.

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