Greg Andree
@gregandree71.bsky.social
Pretty good writer. Reasonably competent HusbandParentMusician. Passable teacher. Old, stubborn, and grumpy. Forever fighting book bans, ignorance, and cruelty. He/Him.
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I start every class with my 8th graders during Black History Month with a favorite poem. Today's is from Langston Hughes.
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As someone who worked on The Matrix and saw first hand the insane amount of laborious, meticulous effort that went into to creating bullet time for like two shots, it will never stop being funny that it’s just a button now.
At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling
February 15, 2026 at 5:36 PM
As someone who worked on The Matrix and saw first hand the insane amount of laborious, meticulous effort that went into to creating bullet time for like two shots, it will never stop being funny that it’s just a button now.
Fuck ICE and fuck the DHS.
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
A short note to Kristi Noem
To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one
robertreich.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Fuck ICE and fuck the DHS.
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The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?
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ICE is still in my Minneapolis neighborhood today.
February 14, 2026 at 7:44 PM
ICE is still in my Minneapolis neighborhood today.
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I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that it’s almost exactly what’s actually happening now.
February 14, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that it’s almost exactly what’s actually happening now.
"I'll stop the world and melt with you. I've seen some changes, but it's getting better all the time. There's nothing you and I won't do. I'll stop the world and melt with you."
If we could make love songs from fear of nuclear annihilation in the 80s, we can make art and fight fascism presently.
If we could make love songs from fear of nuclear annihilation in the 80s, we can make art and fight fascism presently.
February 14, 2026 at 2:43 PM
"I'll stop the world and melt with you. I've seen some changes, but it's getting better all the time. There's nothing you and I won't do. I'll stop the world and melt with you."
If we could make love songs from fear of nuclear annihilation in the 80s, we can make art and fight fascism presently.
If we could make love songs from fear of nuclear annihilation in the 80s, we can make art and fight fascism presently.
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i often think about this review
February 14, 2026 at 3:13 AM
i often think about this review
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Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
February 14, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
Going to say something wild: Once your chatbot tells you it's become sentient, and lures you to a beach to meet your soulmate that you have loved in 87 previous lives, for you only to be standing alone on a beach . . . Don't let the chatbot lure you out for another date.
www.npr.org/2026/02/14/n...
www.npr.org/2026/02/14/n...
ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her
ChatGPT sent screenwriter Micky Small down a fantastical rabbit hole. Now, she's finding her way out.
www.npr.org
February 14, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Going to say something wild: Once your chatbot tells you it's become sentient, and lures you to a beach to meet your soulmate that you have loved in 87 previous lives, for you only to be standing alone on a beach . . . Don't let the chatbot lure you out for another date.
www.npr.org/2026/02/14/n...
www.npr.org/2026/02/14/n...
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It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
Had a dream that I worked in the corporate offices for the Empire, and I was the only one who knew we were in a Star Wars because I could hear the music cues, and no one else could.
February 14, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Had a dream that I worked in the corporate offices for the Empire, and I was the only one who knew we were in a Star Wars because I could hear the music cues, and no one else could.
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The default assumption should be that they’re lying
February 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
The default assumption should be that they’re lying
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.
interc.pt
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
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hi, welcome to the last 20 years of edtech
A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
February 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
hi, welcome to the last 20 years of edtech
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My reward for getting some intense and difficult work done today is I'm going to donate to a wolf center which names rodents after your ex and feeds them to the wolves. 😎
February 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
My reward for getting some intense and difficult work done today is I'm going to donate to a wolf center which names rodents after your ex and feeds them to the wolves. 😎
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Do you listen to podcasts about romance novels? One of the romance scholars (Dr. Precie A. Schroyer) is inviting you to take part in a research study: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Do you listen to podcasts about romance novels? One of the romance scholars (Dr. Precie A. Schroyer) is inviting you to take part in a research study: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Local students from the two local high schools walked out against ICE yesterday, meeting up in our town square.
This sign is so damn good.
This sign is so damn good.
February 13, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Local students from the two local high schools walked out against ICE yesterday, meeting up in our town square.
This sign is so damn good.
This sign is so damn good.
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We must never normalize these ongoing attacks by DHS agents on the people they supposedly protect.
Trump, Vance, Miller, & Noem have created a culture of impunity that has led to rampant abuse and killings.
Not one more dime for this lawlessness.
Trump, Vance, Miller, & Noem have created a culture of impunity that has led to rampant abuse and killings.
Not one more dime for this lawlessness.
February 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
We must never normalize these ongoing attacks by DHS agents on the people they supposedly protect.
Trump, Vance, Miller, & Noem have created a culture of impunity that has led to rampant abuse and killings.
Not one more dime for this lawlessness.
Trump, Vance, Miller, & Noem have created a culture of impunity that has led to rampant abuse and killings.
Not one more dime for this lawlessness.
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and we're all taking that as a big if
Be careful, folks. ICE is still out there, circling the schools this morning. Even if this withdrawal is happening over the next week, some of the agents want to get their last bit of being shitheads in.
February 13, 2026 at 3:51 PM
and we're all taking that as a big if
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Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
February 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
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this is the core of most superhero comics, and why folks judging this annoy me.
you know batman is gonna survive, the tension is in OMG HOW
you can know exactly how a movie ends and its better for it, actually
you know batman is gonna survive, the tension is in OMG HOW
you can know exactly how a movie ends and its better for it, actually
People have shit-talked romance and the skill it takes to write it since the inception of the genre. Calling the HEA predictable, etc. But you can know an HEA is coming and still bawl your eyes out because it feels like it won’t. A talented author built that tension, mined those emotions.
February 12, 2026 at 3:32 PM
this is the core of most superhero comics, and why folks judging this annoy me.
you know batman is gonna survive, the tension is in OMG HOW
you can know exactly how a movie ends and its better for it, actually
you know batman is gonna survive, the tension is in OMG HOW
you can know exactly how a movie ends and its better for it, actually
I Melt With You by Modern English #nuclearhits
Neutron Dance #nuclearhits
La Bomba #nuclearhits
February 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I Melt With You by Modern English #nuclearhits
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Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
February 11, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick