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Jeffrey Keese

@jeffreykeese.bsky.social

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Jesus-follower, husband, dad of three, former coach/teacher, Aggie, education researcher. ATLish. Views are mine. #niceonline.

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · Nov 7

Anyone following me should know that I just post about what is interesting to me at that particular moment. I try to be thoughtful, but I can’t guarantee that will be apparent to anyone outside myself.

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 9h

Puts on vintage KB jersey

“Prime Beckerman”

Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 11h

If Mike sees the naked bike riders his son will have to put him in timeout

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 12h

That’s super scary. Glad y’all are okay. How’d the neighbors react?

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 13h

Did you read this article about Tonga getting their undersea cable cut? Incredible how many aspects of normal life were just plunged back into the 1900s.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian

A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life

www.theguardian.com

Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 13h

I need to start calling my human kids furbabies

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 13h

Just hoping I can be the old dude on faculty who the younguns come to talk to about “those dark years”

Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 13h

I would love to live to see postmortem from a position of safety

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 14h

Just about every day I turn on the news, see some wild shit, and think “some kid is going to write a kickass dissertation on this in 15 years.”

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve been trying to whittle down my sugar intake and just today Halloween candy started arriving at the house. 😩

Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 15h

Captain Planet kid with the Mold! ring really got jobbed.

Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 16h

It’s me. I’m large size!

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, I would.

Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 16h

I had no idea the rate was that high.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18h

It's always striking seeing other academics talk about their academic parents and be reminded that close to a quarter of all tenure-line academics have at least one PhD parent.

That's not a critique, but I always wonder how different it would be to have a parent who already understood academia.