AndaliteBandit
@andalitebandit.bsky.social
Trying, and learning. Liberal, likes libraries and cats. Definitely a 100% real, full-time human.
Fellow millenials, we gotta just hang in there and remember that after all of this, our grumpy old curmudgeon phase is going to be so well-deserved it'll feel like the cigarette after sex.
December 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Fellow millenials, we gotta just hang in there and remember that after all of this, our grumpy old curmudgeon phase is going to be so well-deserved it'll feel like the cigarette after sex.
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Air travel in 2025 is just a long series of small insults, that you get to pay for
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Air travel in 2025 is just a long series of small insults, that you get to pay for
A very smart thread. It drives home that we cannot keep choosing what is easy in a given moment, because that creates scenarios that will be 50x harder to fight down the road.
I want to take a moment of reflection. I don’t post a lot of threads anymore (bc really who wants to read them) but this seems like a good time to make a few points about wins & losses & surviving & fighting during the Trump administration’s siege on democracy. Especially as 2025 comes to a close.
U.S. Supreme Court sides against Trump, won't lift block on National Guard deployment in Illinois
DEVELOPING from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...
DEVELOPING from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...
December 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A very smart thread. It drives home that we cannot keep choosing what is easy in a given moment, because that creates scenarios that will be 50x harder to fight down the road.
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Hi there. Radio guy speaking. I live for this kind of shit.
Join us tomorrow night at 9pm EST for many many hours of The Big Waste of Christmas on Christmas Eve on into Christmas morning.
One of my all-time favorite records plays at 10. Radio Shack Presents: Christmas With Santa and His Friends!
Join us tomorrow night at 9pm EST for many many hours of The Big Waste of Christmas on Christmas Eve on into Christmas morning.
One of my all-time favorite records plays at 10. Radio Shack Presents: Christmas With Santa and His Friends!
Listen - WUVT: Radio for Everyone!
www.wuvt.vt.edu
December 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Hi there. Radio guy speaking. I live for this kind of shit.
Join us tomorrow night at 9pm EST for many many hours of The Big Waste of Christmas on Christmas Eve on into Christmas morning.
One of my all-time favorite records plays at 10. Radio Shack Presents: Christmas With Santa and His Friends!
Join us tomorrow night at 9pm EST for many many hours of The Big Waste of Christmas on Christmas Eve on into Christmas morning.
One of my all-time favorite records plays at 10. Radio Shack Presents: Christmas With Santa and His Friends!
the aging millenials will save us!
December 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
the aging millenials will save us!
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I read this story earlier this morning, and it's horrifying. The panopticon is here.
Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, Flock’s Condor cameras track people, not vehicles.
The exposure highlights the fact that Flock is not just surveilling cars—it is surveilling people, and in some cases it is doing so in an insecure way.
LINK: www.404media.co/flock-expose...
The exposure highlights the fact that Flock is not just surveilling cars—it is surveilling people, and in some cases it is doing so in an insecure way.
LINK: www.404media.co/flock-expose...
December 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I read this story earlier this morning, and it's horrifying. The panopticon is here.
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If you got a problem, yo, I'll solvent, check out the gunk, isopropyl dissolves it
December 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If you got a problem, yo, I'll solvent, check out the gunk, isopropyl dissolves it
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im really embarrassed to bring this up again but i need to take her to a follow up beginning of next month and im struggling.
if you can help this queer autistic unemployed gal take care of her beloved fur baby it would mean the world
if you can help this queer autistic unemployed gal take care of her beloved fur baby it would mean the world
December 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
im really embarrassed to bring this up again but i need to take her to a follow up beginning of next month and im struggling.
if you can help this queer autistic unemployed gal take care of her beloved fur baby it would mean the world
if you can help this queer autistic unemployed gal take care of her beloved fur baby it would mean the world
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And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.
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Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
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Emotionally, I feel like 🗑️ today, but I take the tiniest bit of satisfaction in knowing not one dime of my gift spending has gone to Amazon this year. I managed to cover my entire list with small businesses. Suck it, Bezos.
December 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Emotionally, I feel like 🗑️ today, but I take the tiniest bit of satisfaction in knowing not one dime of my gift spending has gone to Amazon this year. I managed to cover my entire list with small businesses. Suck it, Bezos.
Ah yes, nothing like typing up a multi-post thread and, in the middle of it, switching windows on your phone and coming back to find the thread you've been composing for a half-hour completely gone!!
a man in a tan vest is standing in front of a window with a green bottle of tea in the background .
ALT: a man in a tan vest is standing in front of a window with a green bottle of tea in the background .
media.tenor.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Ah yes, nothing like typing up a multi-post thread and, in the middle of it, switching windows on your phone and coming back to find the thread you've been composing for a half-hour completely gone!!
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ICYMI we published a new blog post last week, about women, piracy and privateering.
📢 NEW blogpost klaxon!
Swash your buckles, find the rum and learn more about pirate women. Starting with Mary Read and Ann Bonny who were put on trial on this day in 1720.
Swash your buckles, find the rum and learn more about pirate women. Starting with Mary Read and Ann Bonny who were put on trial on this day in 1720.
Mary Read, Ann Bonny and other historical women pirates - Carve Her Name
Mary Read and Ann Bonny were historical female pirates who were put on trial. But what marked them out from many other women who made their fortunes at sea?
carvehername.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
ICYMI we published a new blog post last week, about women, piracy and privateering.
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Bookish Holiday Fun and Games For... YOU!
Now in its sixth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll play around with the collection! Cards, Board Games, Puzzles, Gambling...
What's up first?
CHESS!
December 1 (1/24)
Here's last year's extra-shiny offering:
bsky.app/profile/drka...
Now in its sixth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll play around with the collection! Cards, Board Games, Puzzles, Gambling...
What's up first?
CHESS!
December 1 (1/24)
Here's last year's extra-shiny offering:
bsky.app/profile/drka...
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Bookish Holiday Fun and Games For... YOU!
Now in its sixth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll play around with the collection! Cards, Board Games, Puzzles, Gambling...
What's up first?
CHESS!
December 1 (1/24)
Here's last year's extra-shiny offering:
bsky.app/profile/drka...
Now in its sixth year, for this #NewberryLibrary Advent Calendar, we'll play around with the collection! Cards, Board Games, Puzzles, Gambling...
What's up first?
CHESS!
December 1 (1/24)
Here's last year's extra-shiny offering:
bsky.app/profile/drka...
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 21, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Today's random #German word of the day is this.
📢 m.dict.cc/deutsch-engl...
#LearnALanguage - I've always had special love for this word that tells us that in return for our time, effort, and expertise we actually deserve to be paid.
📢 m.dict.cc/deutsch-engl...
#LearnALanguage - I've always had special love for this word that tells us that in return for our time, effort, and expertise we actually deserve to be paid.
December 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Today's random #German word of the day is this.
📢 m.dict.cc/deutsch-engl...
#LearnALanguage - I've always had special love for this word that tells us that in return for our time, effort, and expertise we actually deserve to be paid.
📢 m.dict.cc/deutsch-engl...
#LearnALanguage - I've always had special love for this word that tells us that in return for our time, effort, and expertise we actually deserve to be paid.
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So....what if last years Holiday OFMD episode continues this year?
December 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
So....what if last years Holiday OFMD episode continues this year?
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MODERN DAY OFMD REBOOT, BABY!
December 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
MODERN DAY OFMD REBOOT, BABY!
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FAA documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show an explosion of SpaceX’s Starship on Jan. 16 posed a greater danger to planes in the air over the Caribbean than was publicly known
December 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
FAA documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show an explosion of SpaceX’s Starship on Jan. 16 posed a greater danger to planes in the air over the Caribbean than was publicly known
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—I am so, so, so enraged right now, at all the ways my life has been put on hold, not by the pandemic, but by nearly complete abandonment *to* the pandemic on the part of the govt, public health systems, and most regular people.
December 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
—I am so, so, so enraged right now, at all the ways my life has been put on hold, not by the pandemic, but by nearly complete abandonment *to* the pandemic on the part of the govt, public health systems, and most regular people.
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Also I JUST noticed that Bsky removed my "Require alt text before posting" setting selection and I had to go back and check it again.
Just FYI in case anyone is having the same problem.
Just FYI in case anyone is having the same problem.
December 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Also I JUST noticed that Bsky removed my "Require alt text before posting" setting selection and I had to go back and check it again.
Just FYI in case anyone is having the same problem.
Just FYI in case anyone is having the same problem.
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Gorgeous latke board and some kraken-themed white wine to celebrate hanukkah 2025, prepared by the illustrious chef extraordinare, @gentlemanpierat.bsky.social . ❤️❤️❤️
December 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Gorgeous latke board and some kraken-themed white wine to celebrate hanukkah 2025, prepared by the illustrious chef extraordinare, @gentlemanpierat.bsky.social . ❤️❤️❤️
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truly amazing how many different professions there are where everyone’s newest persistent headache is “AI zealots high on their own supply”
Met a 40yo gallery-ist at a party in SF. We spent most of the party talking abt the art world, but mostly what she talked abt was how most of her life now is telling AI “artists” that they are not artists, she won’t sell their “work” in her gallery, & that “prompt writer” isn’t an artistic medium.
December 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
truly amazing how many different professions there are where everyone’s newest persistent headache is “AI zealots high on their own supply”
