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Archibald “Moonlight” Graham
@archwrightgraham.bsky.social
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Painter, baseball fan, SABR member, data analyst and visualizer, adjunct professor. Husband and dad. Not really a 150 year old doctor with one major league PA played by Burt Lancaster. My opinions only.
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Archibald “Moonlight” Graham @archwrightgraham.bsky.social · 8d
If it’s November, it means the Gobblehead is out! @natsbobbles.bsky.social
A bobblehead of a turkey with Bryce Harper’s head
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Shameful. @olbermann.bsky.social , care to weigh in?
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d
Here is the email the "Cornell Community" received about today's capitulation:
Cornell University Dear Cornell Community, Since April of this year, Cornell has been subject to more than $250 million in federal funding interruptions, which have disrupted the research of faculty and students across all campuses. Today I write to share that Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to immediately restore and continue the university's research funding. The full text of the agreement is available here, and I encourage everyone in our community to read it in its entirety. The decades-long research partnership between Cornell and the federal government is critical to advancing the university's core mission and to our continuing contributions to the nation's health, welfare, and economic and military strength. This agreement revives that partnership, while affirming the university's commitment to the principles of academic freedom, independence, and institutional autonomy that, from our founding, have been integral to our excellence. The agreement explicitly recognizes Cornell's right to independently establish our policies and procedures, choose whom to hire and admit, and determine what we teach, without intrusive government monitoring or approvals. In short, it recognizes our rights, as a private university, to define the conditions on our campuses that advance learning and produce new knowledge. It reaffirms, as well, our continuing commitment to follow the law, protect everyone in our community from discrimination, and make admissions and hiring decisions based on merit — principles to which we have already independently and publicly committed — while upholding our founding principle of" any person... any study." I will personally certify our institutional compliance with the agreement on a regular basis, and Cornell will provide anonymized admissions data and continue to conduct campus climate surveys and carry out foreign gift and contract reporting in accordance with existing law. Cornell has not been found in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in any of the investigations ... and the government has agreed to close all of these investigations and reviews. The government has further agreed to restore terminated federal grants, release all withheld funds for active grants, and consider Cornell fully eligible for new grants and funding awards, without disadvantage or preference. As the land-grant university for New York state and a global pioneer in agricultural research and innovation, Cornell is proud to lead efforts in supporting American farmers. Pursuant to the terms of this agreement, the university will invest $30 million over three years in research to strengthen U.S. agriculture and help build even more successful and productive farms. Cornell will also pay an additional $30 million over three years directly to the United States government as a condition for ending pending claims that have been brought against the university. The resolution is explicit that Cornell's agreement to these terms is not an admission of wrongdoing. The months of stop-work orders, grant terminations, and funding freezes have stalled cutting-edge research, upended lives and careers, and threatened the future of academic programs at Cornell. I am grateful for the dedication and resilience of the faculty, staff, and students who have found ways to continue moving critical work forward throughout these unprecedented events. To learn more about this resolution, I invite our university community to join Cornell leaders and me today at 4 p.m. EST in a virtual town hall. Questions may be submitted in advance until 3:45 p.m., at administration@cornell.edu. With this resolution, Cornell looks forward to resuming the long and fruitful partnership with the federal government that has yielded, for so many years, so much progress and well-being for our nation and our world. Sincerely, Michael I. Kotlikoff President
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Do yourself a favor and watch this from #nyc mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani! youtu.be/iQVsVNPkPmE?...
Mr. Cardamom - Nani (starring Madhur Jaffrey)
YouTube video by Mr. Cardamom
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November 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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He’s compensating for something else that’s far from YUGE. And he’s parked at the grocery store so he’s probably big mad that Obamna and Biden made his bacon and eggs more expensive
Big ole red jeep with stickers that say “I have a HUGE carbon footprint” and “fight fight fight”
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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This went from costing about $12 to costing $17 to costing $21 since January so please tell me again why you voted for him because he would mAkE eVerYtHInG cHeApeR? #somuchwinning
A 40 ounce package of Cafe Bustelo coffee
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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It’s a different feeling tonight, a feeling that maybe the people of this country actually do want to live in a modern democracy and understand the assignment for making that happen. Thanks @abigailspanberger.com @mikiesherrill.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social .
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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LUCI IS SPEAKING
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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owillis.bsky.social
AOC on CNN asked if Schumer is afraid of her: “I think REPUBLICANS are afraid of me, and they project that fear on to him”

Get that woman a shield.
a woman in a black jacket is standing in front of a sign that says ocasio cortez .
ALT: a woman in a black jacket is standing in front of a sign that says ocasio cortez .
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November 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
archwrightgraham.bsky.social
Dershowitz shoot himself yet??
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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djrothkopf.bsky.social
Woke means kind and tolerant and inclusive and generous of spirit and enlightened and morally sound. And it’s not back. It never left for most of us. The only ones doubting it and wanting us to renounce it were the haters and their appeasers.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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It’s fitting that so many of us voted against fascism on the day dick cheney died
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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gigawattconduit.bsky.social
Woke up today to the news
Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake from the SNL short “dick in a box”
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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chaoskat.bsky.social
This is how I found out Dick Cheney died
gigawattconduit.bsky.social Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 6d
Woke up today to the news
Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake from the SNL short “dick in a box”
November 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
archwrightgraham.bsky.social
If it’s November, it means the Gobblehead is out! @natsbobbles.bsky.social
A bobblehead of a turkey with Bryce Harper’s head
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
archwrightgraham.bsky.social
I’m deeply concerned that my personal information on a @upenn.edu alumni database has been compromised.

What is being done to protect our information?
Hack email purporting to come from a University of Pennsylvania staff account.
October 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
archwrightgraham.bsky.social
I love it when one of my favorite flicks intersects with my favorite spectator sport
October 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
archwrightgraham.bsky.social
The thing happened while #voting in my life today.

While I was in the booth, one of the marshals announced that there was a first-time voter casting her ballot, and everyone clapped for her.

This is what democracy looks like. #vote
October 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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toriherridge.bsky.social
What is the earliest use of the phrase “Women in Science”?

This is from 1931

#HistSci #HPS
October 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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When your’e feeling down, just watch this video of three year old Vladdy Jr warming up at 1B with his daddy’s team youtube.com/watch?v=Agr0...
Future Blue Jay Superstar 3 Year-Old Vladimir Guerrero, Jr.
YouTube video by Mark Martin
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October 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Luci (aka Lulu, Boopsie, Bubeleh, Leeloo) is such a diva and loves this ball weather
Smol dog sunbathing
October 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I know some people I worked with on projects in Mongolia at the University of Maryland who would reeealy appreciate this
October 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Well, on the whole I would add @phungo2008.bsky.social @rgodfrey.bsky.social @andrewervin.bsky.social but that’s just me
gojeffgo.com Jeff Lyons @gojeffgo.com · 19d
I better be in this.
bradfordpearson.bsky.social Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 19d
This project takes a ton of effort (20 different staffers and contributors worked on this!) and is in general kind of a pain in the ass, but I'll be damned if it didn't come together beautifully once again.

And what other list in town would include both Josh Shapiro and Skrilla?
October 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Thanks to @amlivsotomayor.bsky.social and @stoya.bsky.social for joining me at an arts event in town tonight!
Middle aged man with a red shirt and grey blazer Middle aged man with a red shirt and grey blazer
October 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM
archwrightgraham.bsky.social
An FYI for my followers: I’m not going to be discussing politics any more because it’s driving too much negativity in my personality. If I’m not engaging with political posts, that’s why. I’m also still a federal contractor, so that’s also why.
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Congrats to Vladdy and the @bluejays.com on their AL pennant! Here’s a #cardpainting of his card from the 2020 set. DM me if you’re interested! #cardsky #cardart #ocanada #elbowsup
Hand painted card of Vladimir Guerro Jr. from the 2020 Topps set.
October 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Thanks @phungo2008.bsky.social - this is neat!!!
phungo2008.bsky.social Starting9 GM - Team Phungo @phungo2008.bsky.social · 20d
cool idea reminds me of artwork @archwrightgraham.bsky.social does with data visualization
minouette.bsky.social Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 20d
For Day 21 of #spacetober_challenge prompt star: trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭#histsci 🧵
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM