Barry Hoggard
@bhoggard.bsky.social
art collector (Hoggard Wagner collection) and software engineer with very left-of-center politics; partner of @jamesarthurwagner
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American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student https://theonion.com/american-classmates-having-difficulty-understanding-bet-1828551698/
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student https://theonion.com/american-classmates-having-difficulty-understanding-bet-1828551698/
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"It's Cthulhu from that Simpsons episode!"
We're doing alright on the classical education front but we have some gaps
We're doing alright on the classical education front but we have some gaps
December 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"It's Cthulhu from that Simpsons episode!"
We're doing alright on the classical education front but we have some gaps
We're doing alright on the classical education front but we have some gaps
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public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
Most public libraries are culling their physical media because it doesn’t circulate. If you want libraries to hold something, you need to check it out. Public libraries can’t just be warehouses for physical media you might want someday. Use it or lose it.
When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.
December 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
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Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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A fun fact is that Matt Yglesias mentioned Sudan for the first time ever on Twitter....the week after Oct 7th 2023.
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A fun fact is that Matt Yglesias mentioned Sudan for the first time ever on Twitter....the week after Oct 7th 2023.
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Boat Strike Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them
“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”
Read in The Intercept: apple.news/AFztQCyyzTdm...
🔥were you waiting for them to drown, or just adjusting your missile aim 🔥
“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”
Read in The Intercept: apple.news/AFztQCyyzTdm...
🔥were you waiting for them to drown, or just adjusting your missile aim 🔥
Boat Strike Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them — The Intercept
“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”
apple.news
December 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Boat Strike Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them
“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”
Read in The Intercept: apple.news/AFztQCyyzTdm...
🔥were you waiting for them to drown, or just adjusting your missile aim 🔥
“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”
Read in The Intercept: apple.news/AFztQCyyzTdm...
🔥were you waiting for them to drown, or just adjusting your missile aim 🔥
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“For example, studies find that coffee drinkers have a lower risk of death from any cause compared to people who don't drink coffee.”
GAME SET MATCH
GAME SET MATCH
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“For example, studies find that coffee drinkers have a lower risk of death from any cause compared to people who don't drink coffee.”
GAME SET MATCH
GAME SET MATCH
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Pleased that Starfleet Academy looks gay as fuck
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Pleased that Starfleet Academy looks gay as fuck
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This quote from Bianca Bosker's "Get The Picture," a behind the scenes look at the art world, is 🎯 🔥
December 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This quote from Bianca Bosker's "Get The Picture," a behind the scenes look at the art world, is 🎯 🔥
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@nickturse.bsky.social was the first to report on the second boat strike @theintercept.com and he’s doing nonstop crucial work
EXCLUSIVE: Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2025/12/02/h...
Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept.
theintercept.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
@nickturse.bsky.social was the first to report on the second boat strike @theintercept.com and he’s doing nonstop crucial work
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
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the way nothing is happening as the president blows people up in the ocean is steadily untethering me. people on the television every day saying "this is murder" as it continues to happen and the senate slowly lurches toward having a committee meeting. it feels impossible
December 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
the way nothing is happening as the president blows people up in the ocean is steadily untethering me. people on the television every day saying "this is murder" as it continues to happen and the senate slowly lurches toward having a committee meeting. it feels impossible
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Pete Hegseth's nameplate during today's cabinet meeting featured an unfortunate error.
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
December 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Pete Hegseth's nameplate during today's cabinet meeting featured an unfortunate error.
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
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You can't make this stuff up. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Endowment Appoints 3 New Directors, Including JPMorgan Exec Who Managed Epstein’s Bank Accounts | News | The Harvard Crimson
Three Harvard Business School alumni — Paul B. Edgerley, Mary Callahan Erdoes, and Raymond J. McGuire ’79 — were appointed to Harvard Management Company’s board of directors.
www.thecrimson.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
You can't make this stuff up. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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It tried to kill me but I have finished the book. Second pass pages read through, final copy and line edits done.
Please read my book. I worked very hard on it. 😭 (Also read Legendborn, as you can see from the background, I’m a fan)
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
Please read my book. I worked very hard on it. 😭 (Also read Legendborn, as you can see from the background, I’m a fan)
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
November 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It tried to kill me but I have finished the book. Second pass pages read through, final copy and line edits done.
Please read my book. I worked very hard on it. 😭 (Also read Legendborn, as you can see from the background, I’m a fan)
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
Please read my book. I worked very hard on it. 😭 (Also read Legendborn, as you can see from the background, I’m a fan)
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
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🚨 Bookmatch ends in two days! 🚨 If you’ve been waiting to take the quiz, or to send it as a gift, now’s the time.
🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
November 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🚨 Bookmatch ends in two days! 🚨 If you’ve been waiting to take the quiz, or to send it as a gift, now’s the time.
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Call me a bad parent all you want but I need these children out of my house tomorrow. We did Thanksgiving. We went to THREE museums this weekend. We cut down and decorated a Christmas Tree. Aside from the brief 9 hours they sleep, they have been with us all day for 5 days straight. I am TIRED.
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Call me a bad parent all you want but I need these children out of my house tomorrow. We did Thanksgiving. We went to THREE museums this weekend. We cut down and decorated a Christmas Tree. Aside from the brief 9 hours they sleep, they have been with us all day for 5 days straight. I am TIRED.
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Yeah but they still haven't figured out a mechanism and that's gotta be making them pretty nervous at this stage
They’re hoping to be done with those messy old elections by the time Trump goes.
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Yeah but they still haven't figured out a mechanism and that's gotta be making them pretty nervous at this stage
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Perfect natural experiment. If Biden and Congress had treated the Jan 6th insurrection like the treason it was and jailed the people behind it, Trump’s power would have shriveled on the vine.
"Mussolini once said that he didn’t create fascism – he extracted it from the Italians’ unconscious. And I think it’s the same thing with Bolsonarismo. Bolsonaro dies, but these radical ideas and ideology are here to stay." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘Foam that’s washed away’: support dissolves as Bolsonaro starts 27-year jail term
Brazil shows little sign of feared rightwing rebellion, with only a few die-hards protesting outside prison
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Perfect natural experiment. If Biden and Congress had treated the Jan 6th insurrection like the treason it was and jailed the people behind it, Trump’s power would have shriveled on the vine.
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USA 🇺🇸 Californie CA Fotomaton KODAK 1960s.
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
USA 🇺🇸 Californie CA Fotomaton KODAK 1960s.
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Fox News legal contributor Andy McCarthy knocks down Hegseth's defense:
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
‘We Intended the Strike to Be Lethal’ Is Not a Defense | National Review
The laws of war, incorporated in the federal war crimes statute, prohibit the killing of people who have been rendered hors de combat.
www.nationalreview.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Fox News legal contributor Andy McCarthy knocks down Hegseth's defense:
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
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Deleuze & Guattari were also there
November 30-December 2, 1978: NOVA Convention • New York, New York - William S. Burroughs, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, Robert Anton Wilson, John Cage, Timothy Leary, Brion Gysin, Ed Sanders, Susan Sontag, Anne Waldman, Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Deleuze & Guattari were also there
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How obvious? This obvious:
December 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
How obvious? This obvious: