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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 3h

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 2d

mariners won

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Kristin Bartus @kristinbartus.bsky.social · 5h

When we arrived at the ICE facility, it was an absolute party outside—a marching band, dance music, folks in costumes. They cheered when we arrived. But then I looked up and saw this. In fucking America. In the state with the nicest people I’ve ever met.

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Kristin Bartus @kristinbartus.bsky.social · 5h

You guys, that bike ride was so incredibly joyful! There was tons of music and cheers and chants of “Keep Portland weird! Keep ICE out!”

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

not sure why people are talking about Northwestern-Penn State storylines besides "the undisputed excellence of the 4-2 Northwestern Wildcats"

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 2d

MARINERS DID IT! Humpy the Salmon is gonna be pitching Toronto but THE MARINERS DID IT!

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ceej @ceej.online · 3d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 3d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 3d

LaTeX

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 5d

Protip: If you can't fall asleep, try backtracing the context for some bluesy drama until you are exhausted

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d

These Kristi Noem ads feel straight out of a Paul Verhoeven flick

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d

There's a timeline where future history students have a unit about The Hangry Revolution

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 8d

I'm too lazy to read but I can ask you - when people did share, what did it look like?

I did a class exercise once where I had students go look up articles' open datasets. Hot mess. csvs with no labels, tables of summary statistics only, pdfs of output, etc. Lots of unusable box-checking

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 9d

After I read this thread I was more skeptical of cross-lagged effects than you would have expected based on my background and earlier beliefs

Rich Lucas @richlucas.bsky.social · 23d

Interested in models used to estimate lagged effects in panel data? We (@rebiweidmann.bsky.social, Hyewon Yang) have a new paper looking at patterns of stability and their implications for bias and model choice: osf.io/preprints/ps... [1/x]

OSF

osf.io

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 10d

Portland’s gonna resist in the most Portland way possible www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

‘Emergency’ World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland

Organizers of the World Naked Bike Ride said they’re planning to protest the Trump administration’s decision to send 200 National Guard troops to Portland.

www.seattletimes.com

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 11d

Also coincidentally I just posted this yesterday bsky.app/profile/sanj...

Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 12d

MY EYES: “Hoisin sauce”

MY BRAIN: *loads up Professor Frink voice*

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 11d

Whenever I show up with a host gift I hear this in my head

"I come by to give present for warming house"

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 12d

MY EYES: “Hoisin sauce”

MY BRAIN: *loads up Professor Frink voice*

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 13d

“Barack Obama’s best friend Jay-Z runs the Super Bowl selection process through his company Roc Nation which has an exclusive contract with the NFL. This is who chooses the halftime show, the most-watched musical performance in America.”

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

a man in a suit and tie stands at a podium with a sign that says " reclaiming the american "

Alt: Barack Obama gestures as if he's brushing dirt off his shoulder

media.tenor.com

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 15d

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 15d

Universities are moving rapidly to comply with laws that don't exist.

Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 16d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 19d

I love unnecessarily sexy statues. My favorite being Thirst Trap Lincoln from the LA County Superior Courthouse.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · Sep 8

Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope

Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And I says to her, I says, oh shit, you’re right. So I bought like fifty thousand envelopes. Filled the house with ‘em, toes to tits. It was horrible. We couldn’t take a step without tripping over a box of envelopes. We were going crazy trying to use them up, to make a little space for ourselves. Used them as toilet paper, coffee filters... it was a terrible time. Please don’t ask me about those goddamned awful envelopes ever again.
Kurt Vonnegut

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 19d

YOUNGER ME STANDING IN THE DOORWAY OF A TIME MACHINE LOOKING CONFUSED: Whoa whoa whoa, back up a sec. The Man Show guy?

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 19d

CHOTINER: So you enjoy jumping on trends with self-referential humor?

ME: Oh absolutely. For example I'm making up this imaginary interview that refers to itself. See how it works?

CHOTINER: Right, so that covers the "self-referential" part.

ME: ...

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