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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 7h

Like I said, I am happy he is learning. If he had a 4 or 5 year record in the Maine state legislature or something voting for progressive causes I wouldn't be concerned at all. But he doesn't, and this stuff is a liability! Anyway, ultimately Maine voters will decide.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 7h

I am happy he is learning but the Reddit rape comment I was referring to was when he said that people should "take some responsibility for themselves and not get so fucked up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to." That comment was posted towards the end of his military service.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 9h

It's wild — no one knew who this guy was 2 months ago! Why are they going to the mattresses for him? I found him appealing too but the election is about a year away. There is still time to back a third candidate that doesn't have a Nazi tattoo (& Reddit rape apologia) and isn't 77 years old.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 10h

I have great news for Jon Lovett, Janet Mills got her BA from UMass Boston.

(I would rather someone younger but as you said, time to move on from Platner)

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 22h

(Found this incriminating item while searching my Reddit history for a potential Senate run)

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 22h

I forgot I made this. Early COVID was a special time. #phish

3.0 Phish Song Quarantine Houses

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Time Turns Elastic
Petrichor
The Line
Waiting All Night
Backwards Down the Number Line
Alaska
Miss You
Leaves
Shade
Soul Planet
Set Your Soul
Free
Rise/Come
Together
Let Me Lie
Devotion to a
Dream
Stealing Time from the Faulty
Plan
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Breath and
Burning
Tide Turns
A Life Beyond the
Dream
Show of Life
Snow
Yarmouth Road
More
Drift While You're
Sleeping
Friends
555
Waking Up Dead
Evening Song
Amidst the Peals of Laughter
Play By Play
Architect
@mielcarz

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 1d

I have just the guy.

a man in a white shirt and tie is standing in front of a white board that says sales revenues

ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is standing in front of a white board that says sales revenues

media.tenor.com

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 1d

Not at all.

But it's a tattoo that would raise questions for me, my guess would be that it was biker gang related.

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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · 1d

If you get a flu shot, you can get a donut after.

It's not free I just had two good ideas.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 1d

A friend of mine got a cameo from James Austin Johnson (pre-SNL) to roast our group chat in his Trump voice, it was maybe the hardest I've ever laughed.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 1d

As a dad with two kids who got mailers from this place it always seemed a bit off: super long and flashy but emphasizing "life skills" instead of academics. I kind of assumed it was a Liberty University knockoff for dumber born-again Christians but apparently it is mainline protestant (Methodist).

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

I'm quoted in this Wall Street Journal piece on High Point University, which has gone all-in on amenities (a $40,000-per year housing and dining plan!) to attract modest-achieving, high-income students.

How a Small North Carolina College Became a Magnet for Wealthy Students

As Trump slashes funding, schools are trying to attract the limited pool of higher-end families. High Point University is a blueprint.

www.wsj.com

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 1d

According to Wikipedia this place got put on accreditation warning in 2023 due to "significant non-compliance with its standards of student support, student outcome, and disclosure of accreditation status."

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know Dan Klenban's politics, in his announcement he sounded pretty much like a mainstream Democrat but his brewery made a pledge to donate 1% of sales to environmental causes when they were founded, and seems to have made good on it over the years: mainebeercompany.com/do-whats-right

Do what's right

From day one, our core belief has been to do what’s right, no matter what. Our Purpose To do good through great beer. Our Values Take care of the…

mainebeercompany.com

Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 1d

I know he endorsed Janet Mills already but it might be nice if the 48-year-old Maine Beer Co. co-founder was still in the Maine senate primary.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the people I would expect to have that take he was dead last!

Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear, I did not in any way let that impede with my enjoyment of what has to be the best movie I've seen this decade. Just an unrelenting ride that felt nowhere near its 3-hour length. A masterpiece.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 1d

Keeping this vague to avoid outright spoilers: I regret to inform you all that the DNA test in One Battle After Another is kinda bullshit, and what is described in that scene as evidence for something is not evidence of anything.

Or was that maybe the point?

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 2d

I am no fan of violence and people have a right to counter-protest.

But if you start yelling slurs you reap what you sow. I'd rather that people refrain from yelling slurs out of a sense of propriety but if it takes a threat of violence so be it.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

This, FWIW, is my current teaching policy on AI, always subject to revision. It is, I recognize, easier applied to creative writing, which draws students who *want* to take the course rather than have to.

This is a course for those interested in writing not as means to an end but as an end in itself. Recently a friend and I read a cover story in New York magazine titled, “Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College,” by James D. Walsh. My friend has also taught writing. He likes to tell his students, “If you want to be a writer, put on a cool hat and go sit in a bar with cheap beer. If you want to write, write.”
I didn’t think AI would be a temptation for creative writing students. “Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College” persuaded me that for many it’s not a temptation but a condition. You sleep in a bed, you wear clothes, you don’t scream at teachers. Just the way it is. Maybe AI is becoming that, too, part of “just the way it is.” Maybe it is that already.
My mind raced through ideas about how to “beat” AI. The article dismantled them. Then I thought, “That’s not my job.” I’m a writer and a teacher, not a cop. If you want to work with me on writing, we can do that. If you want to cheat, you can do that, too, and I probably can’t stop you.
I’m interested in working with students for whom writing feels… good. Who seek that feeling. A feeling of being, of alertness. Of purpose; of intention.
This is a course for those who are interested in using writing to experience some variation of this feeling. Sometimes this feeling comes in a moment of clarity, sometimes in the making of a lyrical juxtaposition. There are so many more emotional, intellectual, and spiritual possibilities that arise from the act of shaping language. I live off the aftermath of that act—the recognitions, financial and otherwise, I earn from the results—but there is no paycheck, or even a finished book held in hand for the first time, that has ever brought me as much complicated pleasure as the arrangement of words. Maybe you’re like this, too. Or maybe you want to be. If so, I designed this course with someone like you in mind.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 2d

ISABELLA STEWAHT GAHDNAH MUSEUM HEIST OF 1990 WAS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. LOUVRUH AIN'T SHIT COMPARED TO THAT.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 4d

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 4d

A few more pics from the West Lebanon, NH/White River Junction #NoKings protest. A great turnout!

Great puppets at the West Lebanon, NH/White River Junction, VT No Kings rally

Protestors spanning the bridge between New Hampshire and VT at the West Lebanon, NH/White River Junction, VT No Kings rally

The Connecticut River on a beautiful fall day at the West Lebanon, NH/White River Junction, VT No Kings rally

More protestors at the West Lebanon, NH/White River Junction, VT No Kings rally

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 4d

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 4d

It’s a joyful day here on the New Hampshire/Vermont border. Get out there everyone! #NoKings

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Dan Mielcarz @mielcarz.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, I mean this is how Charlie Kirk got popular, being a good performer and going up against people who had sincere (and correct!) beliefs but couldn't match his performance. And then of course, selectively elevating the worst performers for his videos.

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