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I just thought everyone should see this
Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...
How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find
Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.
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January 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
"You see, your holiness, there are 8 to 12 players. Two wizards. A maverick. The arbiter. Two warriors. A corporal, and a ledgerman. Now the ledgerman just keeps score, and he wears this hat"
Adam Scott meeting the Pope
November 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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scalzi.com
Tonight in the December Comfort Watches: Apollo 13, perhaps the best film ever for competent people doing competent things competently, both on screen and off of it:

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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Twenty-Nine: Apollo 13
Apollo 13 is a film that sits atop a small but diverse and, for some people, extremely enjoyable sub-genre of film: Competence Porn. This has nothing to do with actual pornography (well, I guess it…
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December 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
cmanteuf.bsky.social
Sure hope Lucky Jack Aubrey made it off HMS Surprise. And the ship's surgeon, Dr. Maturin, what of him?
rnshiplosses.bsky.social RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · Dec 23
HMS Surprise went to assist HMS Torrent, and was manoeuvring to pick up survivors immediately after the latter had sunk when, just after 3:20am, she hit two mines in quick succession. Following the second explosion she broke apart and sank very rapidly, with 54 of her 103 men lost. [3/4]
December 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
cmanteuf.bsky.social
Orcl was less than half its current value on the day Chatgpt released (opened at 80$, today is 198). Presume it drops to lower than it started if AI goes to zero- he's still got billions, probably. Exactly how much he's borrowed against his stock- and what the terms are- is going to be not public.
danahoule.bsky.social Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · Dec 23
How vulnerable is the Ellison’s ownership of CBS Paramount & TikTok to an AI bubble burst? If there’s an AI collapse could it make them need cash & force them to sell? Or do they just have so much money it doesn’t matter?
December 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
cmanteuf.bsky.social
We used to call this "dartboard theology" when JRPGs did this back in the 1990s. Okay, so that villain's henchman is ... Tiamat! And their underlings are ... Hulijing! And their fighting over the super weapon... Loki! And the fetch quests are named after ... the 12 Apostles.
mrnelson007.bsky.social MrNelson007, Defender of Tristram @mrnelson007.bsky.social · Dec 21
Yeah like why is the church in Dragon Quest very clearly Catholic from the outfits clergy wear to the design of the buildings? “I dunno it looks cool”. Not like it has anything to say about the church either way other than “well this exists”
December 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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cooperlund.online
The experience of going on Facebook these days is equivalent of having a stroke
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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sean-forman.com
I've been the treasurer of a mainline protestant church in the past, and I can assure you we've been champing at the bit to make big IT investments. Blockchain, AI, all of it. We've got so much budget for this stuff.
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · Oct 31
Filing: Gloo, a developer of AI tools for Christian churches with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as its head of technology, seeks an $873.4M valuation in its US IPO (Pritam Biswas/Reuters)

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October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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jeffstormer.gobirds.online
Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality.

Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.
A snickers bar split open, with a JPEG of a copper ingot exposed in the middle
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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stefanbc.bsky.social
If you’re placing prop bets on South Park you need to have a conservatorship
September 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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kurohime1988.bsky.social
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September 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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acanuck.bsky.social
Text heavy, but if you're a diehard Star Trek fan it's HILARIOUS! I look around for this thing every few years, and keep thinking I should FRAME it 😂

tldr: Aliens don't understand that the movie "Back to the Future" is a comedy because Doc Brown is how ALL Starfleet Engineers behave
Post by prokopetz Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn't just an artifact of the television serial format. Rather, it's because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they don't really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they're as likely as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn't actually happen to anyone else; it's literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis. Post by writebastard So to everyone else in the galaxy, all humans are basically Doc Brown. Post by prokopetz Aliens who have seen the Back to the Future movies literally don't realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny. They're just like "yes, that is exactly what all human scientists are like in my experience". Post by roachpatrol THE ONLY REASON SCOTTY IS CHIEF ENGINEER INSTEAD OF SOMEONE FROM A SPECIES WITH A HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL APTITUDE IS BECAUSE EVERYONE FROM THOSE SPECIES TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE ENTERPRISE'S ENGINE ROOM AND RAN AWAY SCREAMING Post by roachpatrol vulcan science academy: why do you need another warp core humans: we're going to plug two of them together and see if we go twice as fast vsa: last time we gave you a warp core you threw it into a sun to see if the sun would go twice as fast humans: hahaha yeah humans: it did tho vsa: IT EXPLODED humans: it exploded twice as fast Post by froborr I love this. Especially because of how well it plays with my headcanon that the Federation does so much better against the Borg than anyone else because beating the Borg with military tactics is nigh-impossible, but beating them with wacky superscience shenanigans works as long as they're unique wacky superscience shenanigans. Post by megabeeprime Yeah, I love this. Post by underscorex Reminds me of the thing I wrote a while back about Humans in high fantasy realms - they're basically Team Fuck It Hold My Beer I Got This. Impulsive, passionate to a fault, the social structures they build to try and regulate this hotheadedness ironically creates even greater levels of sheer bull-headedness. Even their "cooler" heads take action in months or weeks. All their great heroes of the past were impossibly rash by galactic standards. Humans Just Go With It, which is their great flaw but also their greatest strength. Post by roachpatrol klingons: okay we don't get it vulcan science academy: get what klingons: you vulcans are a bunch of stuffy prisses but you're also tougher, stronger, and smarter than humans in every single way klingons: why do you let them run your federation vulcan science academy: look vulcan science academy: this is a species where if you give them two warp cores they don't do experiments on one and save the other for if the first one blows up vulcan science academy: this is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they will ask for a third one, immediately plug all three into each other, punch a hole into an alternate universe where humans subscribe to an even more destructive ideological system, fight everyone in it because they're offended by that, steal their warp cores, plug those together, punch their way back here, then try to turn a nearby sun into a torus because that was what their initial scientific experiment was for and they didn't want to waste a trip. vulcan science academy: they did that last week. we have the write-… Post by dragon-in-a-fez you know what the best evidence for this is? Deep Space 9 almost never broke down. minor malfunctions that irritated O'Brien to hell and back, sure, but almost none of the truly weird shit that befell Voyager and all the starships Enterprise. what was the weirdest malfunction DS9 ever had? the senior staff getting trapped as holosuite characters in Our Man Bashir, and that was because a human decided to just dump the transporter buffer into the station's core memory and hope everything would work out somehow, which is a bit like swapping your computer's hard drive out for a memory card from a PlayStation 2 and expecting to be able to play a game of Spyro the Dragon with your keyboard and mouse. Post by dragon-in-a-fez you know what, I'm not done with this post. let's talk about the Pegasus. the USS Fucking Pegasus, testbed for the first Starfleet cloaking device. here we have a handful of humans working in secret to develop a cloaking device in violation of a treaty with the Romulans. they're playing catchup trying to develop a technology other species have had for a century, and what do they do? do they decide to duplicate a Romulan cloaking device precisely, just see if they can match what other species have? nope. they decide, hey, while we're at it, while we're building our very first one of these things, just to find out if this is possible, let's see if we can make this thing phase us out of normal space so we can fly through planets while we're invisible. "but why" said the one Vulcan in the room. "because that would fucking rule" said the humans, high-fiving each other and slamming cans of 24th-century Red Bull. there must be like twenty different counselling groups for non-human engineering students at Starfleet Academy, and every week in every single one of them someone walks in and starts up with a story like "our assignment was to repair a phaser emitter and my one human classmate built a chronometric- flux toaster that toasts bre…
September 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Perhaps this is obvious but perhaps not: both my research work and my public-facing writing would be impossible without the astounding resources of university libraries.

My household also makes ample use of our local public library.

Libraries are amazing.
dlgenealogist.bsky.social David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · Dec 21
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
August 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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opalescentopal.bsky.social
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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ubermenchies.bsky.social
Another in the same vein:
Dale Partridge 0 @dalepartridge • 5h Prediction: If they ever remake The Sandlot, there will be a girl on the team, she will play the hero figure, and she will hit the home run to win the game. | ♱ Vicar of Christ ♱ Fire-Breathin... • 4h Not only that, but all the guys will be total losers and she will have to single handily win the game for them all. | Ben K. @bkabak Unclear if you're accidentally or ironically describing the plot of Bad News Bears, a movie that's nearly 50 years old. 3:24 PM • 6/27/23
July 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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sjjphd.bsky.social
This is funny and the whole mascot reenactment thing isn’t even as good as the guy after holding the sign that says, “this *IS* my wife”
rvbdrm.com Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com · Jul 19
The Phillies did the kiss cam thing to Coldplay
July 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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mosheroperandi.bsky.social
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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ironwhale.bsky.social
Toxic Masculinity is OUT!
Ghost of Christmas Present Masculinity is IN!

- Loud laughs
- Roasted meats and spiced drinks
- Hospitality to strangers
- Living in the moment
- Singing in public
- Body positivity
- Emotional generosity
- Sick robes
The Ghost of Christmas Present, from ‘A Muppet Christmas Carol’
July 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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July 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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trickweekes.bsky.social
I still think the Good Place should have had a breakfast diner called The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelettes.
June 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
my soul left my body watching the fox news feed glitching out as the tanks roll past the president’s observation stand and the announcer’s voice echoes across the mostly empty streets, “special thanks to our sponsor, palantir”
June 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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vanvidum.bsky.social
The less you know about homeopathy, the more powerful your knowledge becomes.
June 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM