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grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · Jan 21

If you just arrived here and are following me, hi! I have a couple lists in my profile you might be interested in. You might even be on one, if you are just getting back into an old account. If you want to be taken off, just let me know.
Otherwise, there’s a cheese tray and crudite in the back….

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 9h

The Portland Chicken rules

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

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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grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · 9h

I have to wonder what Hemingway and Orwell (Blair, whatever) would make of this if someone told them.

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 20h

Just published at PNAS (@pnas.org): “Electing amateur politicians reduces cross-party collaboration”

We show that districts electing first-time members of the U.S. House experience substantial declines in bipartisan representation in the subsequent Congress.

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 12h

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · 15h

Bad Bad Hats is good, actually.

Psychic Readings is a great idea for an album (it’s all bands like The Ophelias and The Front Bottoms covering their songs).

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Elizadeath ⚰️ @rrriotsugar.bsky.social · 1d

This is the goat, folks.

RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1d

horror movie posters but with muppets: thread

Oscar the Grouch in the movie poster for Alien.

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grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · 1d

Gwinn is a great autocorrect and I’m keeping it.

grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · 1d

That Ed Gwinn show is better than I expected.
Interesting that it seems to draw from PEARL with the crumbling reality. And there’s some unstuckness in time with Hitchcock and all.

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grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · 1d

"The Weave."

grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · 1d

"One foot in the grave - and one foot on the pedal" is a pretty good line.

grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · 1d

It is strange to me how much Stephin Merritt has faded from public consciousness. I guess these are his pre-rediscovery years.

grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · 1d

On the other hand, you know she’s the type to come down with pneumonic plague, say “it’s nothin’, jest feeling a little wheezy” and go back to splitting logs for the church bonfire cookout.

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Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social · 1d

And we're live! Announcing the launch of @aacu.org's new Advancing Public Trust in Higher Education (APT) initiative, which I co-lead with Kathryn Enke. You'll be hearing a lot more about APT in the coming months. www.aacu.org/newsroom/aac...

AAC&U Launches Initiative to Restore Public Trust in Higher… | AAC&U

AAC&U Launches Initiative to Restore Public Trust in Higher Education

www.aacu.org

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grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · 2d

"Anyone who entertained this conflagration of horseshit is guilty of felony stupidity. And it is beyond any reasonable doubt that this process was clearly rigged.

The only question is: rigged by whom?"
#NewCollegeOfFlorida

When you hear "Woke" listen for "Ka-Ching."

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New College’s Presidential Compensation: A Surly Retrospective

Or, A Totally Normal Higher-Ed Conflagration of Horseshit

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Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 2d

"This virus isn’t just a pathogen. It’s an architect of cognitive collapse."

🚨 Thread by @jamesthrot.bsky.social on Twitter
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Thread by @JamesThrot on Thread Reader App

@JamesThrot: You fixate on coughs/fever/hospitalisation Meanwhile, billions w/no obvious symptoms are sustaining brain damage Empathy. Logic. Foresight Invisible, ignored, unstoppable You’re all actin...

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grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/sTlTxFio6DY?...

Cruise Ship playing Seven Nation Army

YouTube video by Jonasz Gradkowski

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻 @renandpen.bsky.social · 2d

just wow. lol also I loved this, which is true of everyone in the regime:

"Like so many bullies, Trump has skin of gossamer”

Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 2d

Today I learned that Vanity Fair editor, Graydon Carter, deliberately described Trump's small hands to drive him crazy in 1988, and over the decades since, Trump has sent him photos circling his hands, on multiple occasions

This is just so pathetically hilarious.

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Yes, from ABC News, The History Behind the Donald Trump 'Small Hands' Insult:

"Nearly 30 years ago, Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair magazine, described Trump in Spy magazine as a “short-fingered vulgarian.”

In an editor’s letter in "Vanity Fair" last November, Carter said that he wrote the Sky magazine comment in 1988 "just to drive him a little bit crazy."

And according to Carter, it still does.

"Like so many bullies, Trump has skin of gossamer," Carter wrote in November.

"To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him—generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers," Carter wrote. "I almost feel sorry for the poor fellow because, to me, the fingers still look abnormally stubby."

"The most recent offering arrived earlier this year, before his decision to go after the Republican presidential nomination," Carter continued. "Like the other packages, this one included a circled hand and the words, also written in gold Sharpie: 'See, not so short!' I sent the picture back by return mail with a note attached, saying, 'Actually, quite short.'"

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grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · 2d

Am now picturing a LOTR bonus ep that goes from Leonard Nimoy through Enya to KLF, with a bonus tag about the movie soundtrack.

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grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · 4d

Young Marble Giants with Lee Ranaldo (on the choruses).

SCARY rineth jcss oomf TSHD ERA @witheredleaves.bsky.social · 4d

I NEED to hear billy joel's it's still rock and roll to me in shoegaze or grungegaze genre

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

One of my fav historical accounts ever is two cousins who were brought to the court of King Bimbisara for punishment(so we're talking like 300 BC) because they would stand at the town square loudly arguing with each other about affairs of the kingdom and disturbing the peace

RadiantHostility (he/him) @radianthostility.bsky.social · 4d

Humans havent meaningfully changed in 500,000 years. back in the day every middle aged dude was sitting on a hilltop with a drum of some kind broadcasting his inane thoughts to anyone within range and it was just as annoying as podcasts. actually stone age podcasting would be a funny framing to

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

"It is the worst of times. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book."
-Cicero

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 5d

🦅 Bearded vultures as time capsules

Researchers found centuries-old artifacts and bones in ancient bearded vulture nests in Spain, revealing how these birds preserve ecological and cultural history.

🔗 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#SciComm #Ecology 🧪

The Bearded Vulture as an accumulator of historical remains: Insights for future ecological and biocultural studies

Click on the article title to read more.

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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"Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number—
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you—
Ye are many—they are few."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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grantimatter @grantimatter.bsky.social · 5d

The fact that Donovan and Pink Floyd slip in there seamlessly is a source of delight.

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 5d

I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now

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