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Andrew Maurins

@andrewmaurins.bsky.social

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Library assistant. Millennial. Neurospicy. Devourer of Books. Married to my best friend. MSTie. Wolf Pack fan. Beer geek. Occasionally anti-social, but always anti-fascist. (He/they) All content is either original or properly attributed.

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 14h

Allagash Brewing
📍Portland, Maine #Bskybeer 🍻🍂🦞

The metal welcome sign at Allagash Brewing.

Our first taster flight of beers at Allagash.

An adorable and delicious flight of mini lobster rolls with Cape Cod potato chips at Allagash.

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 15h

We’ve been to the Tewksbury and Deerfield locations on this trip, and both the settings and beer selections have been 🔥🔥🔥.

Next stop today is Trillium in Canton.

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 15h

Tree House Brewing
📍South Deerfield, Massachusetts #Bskybeer 🍻🍂🎃🍁

The colorful entryway to the Deerfield tasting room.

The spacious interior of the Deerfield tasting room.

The leafy, green tasting room at Deerfield.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 17h

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 17h

We’re currently staying at a hotel where the Halloween decorations that say “Enter if you dare!” also double as actual bits of legal advice.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

Trump and Stephen Miller have relied on an army of MAGA "influencers" widely disseminating a fraudulent picture of Portland in chaos, to bolster the case for deploying military.

NYT has a good new piece on this. But it made several missteps worth highlighting. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 1d

Hill Farmstead Brewing
📍Greensboro Bend, Vermont 🍻🍂🍁🌲 #Bskybeer

The metal sign outside the brewery, indicating it was closed at the time.

A bucolic view of the hills of the Northeast Kingdom in October.

Our first group of pours on our picnic table.

The author living his best life, with a glass of HF’s 15th anniversary blonde ale.

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trickyNOtreat 🎃 @trickykat.bsky.social · 1d

real shitposters only use lower case because we are anti-capitalism

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 1d

Three friends and I are visiting Hill Farmstead Brewing in Vermont, widely considered the best brewery in the world and pretty much a bucket list pilgrimage for beer geeks. 🤓🍻

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

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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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 2d

Dear Maine,

Your state is very pretty in the fall, but what’s the deal with all of the toll roads everywhere?!

Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 2d

Maine Beer Company
📍Freeport, Maine 🍻🐋⛲️ #Bskybeer

The spacious interior of MBC, featuring a whole fin whale skeleton.

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 2d

Barreled Souls Brewing
📍Saco, Maine 🍻🌲🍂 #Bskybeer

A panorama picture of a mural inside Barreled Souls Brewing.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 3d

Treehouse Brewing 🏌️‍♂️⛳️🍻
📍Tewksbury, Massachusetts #Bskybeer

The spacious interior hall of Treehouse Brewing’s Tewksbury location.

Four glasses of beer in front of a window overlooking a golf course.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

doomscroll break

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 5d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 5d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 5d

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sign up for our humor newsletter to get Daily Cartoons delivered to your inbox: nyer.cm/0EivDaD

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 6d

A very useful 🧵

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 6d

I’m tempted to dunk, but ok, let’s engage seriously.

Putting Japanese-Americans in concentration camps was a fascist activity.

(And I think that if you were Japanese-American at the time, you were experiencing the US as a fascist country.)

Does that mean the US was fascist?

Wrong question.

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 7d

So I guess the US was also a fascist country when FDR was putting Japanese Americans in internment camps, right?

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Clever Mia @readvesna.com · 7d

greta ily what an outfit

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 7d

I miss Reno’s old USL Championship team. The league sure has changed a lot since then.

Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 7d

Me, checking the score of the Nevada game from a distance:

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 7d

No warrants, no probable cause, detaining citizens. Zip tying children, using flash bangs, repelling through people’s windows and destroying their homes at night.

This Administration is lawless and abhorrent to our Constitution.

We are the frogs in the boiling pot.

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Andrew Maurins @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 7d

This is a level of pettiness I hope to reach one day.

Micah @rincewind.run · 7d

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke