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@iandavey.net

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Software engineer. Center-left and indignant. Sycophant to a greyhound. Charlottesville. He/him.

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🆔 @iandavey.net · Jan 26

You can’t spell “indignant variety” without “Ian Davey”

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 1d

A meme asks what Republican women have that Democratic women do not. The answer is a husband with a Grindr account.

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🆔 @iandavey.net · 1d

It’s a room, that’s a ball! He totally told us what he’s doing…

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

🆔 @iandavey.net · 1d

Hitler did do one fantastic thing no one else could achieve: he killed Hitler.

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Balu Puppy @balupuppy.bsky.social · 2d

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Local Kid Prepares To Dress Up As Bike Lane For
Halloween To Really Frighten
Elderly Neighbours

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🆔 @iandavey.net · 2d

And if picking up singles at a members-only club is your thing, there's Costco.

🆔 @iandavey.net · 2d

I think from now on we should dismiss any criticism of a Democrat with “yeah yeah if Trump did it they’d…”

Jay Jones’ texts? “yeah yeah if Trump did it they’d laugh and cheer”

Graham Platner’s tattoo? “yeah yeah if a Trump person did it they’d say they don’t care”

Easy! And not a stretch!

🆔 @iandavey.net · 3d

(I’m just using words, probably unintelligible to someone with your experience 😝)

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🆔 @iandavey.net · 3d

Maybe in hair metal grunge circles?

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🆔 @iandavey.net · 3d

Okay this Liquid Glass stuff is getting shinier and shinier and I don’t *think* I updated iOS…

🆔 @iandavey.net · 4d

NOTE: before anyone else melts a few glaciers to ask an AI, we're talking about Maine senate candidate and out-of-nowhere progressive darling Graham Platner.

🆔 @iandavey.net · 4d

Why is everyone joking and commentating about second families on here? So far the AIs have no idea, and maybe people could quit being so characteristically subtweety so I don't have to burn down yet another forest to figure out what the hell y'all are referencing.

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 4d

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 5d

Most baffling type of dude in history is the dude with a secret second family. Seems terminally exhausting.

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🆔 @iandavey.net · 5d

Both DC and Norfolk. If the Soviets attack, yeah, Virginia’s fucked.

🆔 @iandavey.net · 5d

Review my pull request you cowards

🆔 @iandavey.net · 6d

If you get subpoenaed, show up in an inflatable Sasquatch.

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🆔 @iandavey.net · 6d

I have every confidence the Cav Daily and whatever’s at Tech would do the same for each other.

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 7d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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🆔 @iandavey.net · 6d

Yeah there’s the answer, just grow it from Stonefield all the way to Downtown. 💪

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🆔 @iandavey.net · 7d

Well, that went well enough. Congratulations to the happy couple!

🆔 @iandavey.net · 9d

The protest makes me uneasy. I’m going north for a wedding again.

The last time I went north for a wedding for that branch of the family was August 12, 2017.

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the bees' ghostees 👻 @shindleria235.bsky.social · 7d

we need to get past the cultural hangover that earnestly caring about things is lame

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 7d

I started keeping tabs after the election on headlines declaring the death of the resistance. There were a lot of them. And they were premature. Resistance 2.0 is more grizzled, and more local. But it is still cringe, in the sense that it believes in things—like community, and America

Resistance Is Cringe

But it’s also effective.

www.theatlantic.com

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Steven L. Johnson @stevenljohnson.org · 8d

UVA says no to the compact

To the University of Virginia community:

On Monday of last week, Rector Rachel Sheridan and I shared a message with the community regarding the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. We were asked to provide comments on the proposal no later than October 20.

Today, I sent the letter below to the Secretary of Education and to White House officials. The letter confirms our core values and commitments while expressing our view that federal research funding should be based on merit.

I want to thank personally the Faculty Senate, Staff Senate, Student Council, and many other members of our community who expressed their opinions on the proposed Compact, through the online form we provided and other means. Your thoughtful feedback shows a profound care for the University and a strong commitment to its future.

We will continue to work to strengthen free expression and free inquiry, protect academic freedom, ensure affordability , promote intellectual pluralism, and maintain institutional neutrality in an increasingly polarized world. I am grateful for your continued dedication to the University and I look forward to working with you on these vital projects.

Paul Mahoney
Interim President
University of Virginia

October 17, 2025

The United States Department of Education
Washington, DC 20202

Dear Secretary McMahon, Ms. Mailman, and Mr. Haley,

Thank you for your letter inviting comment on the proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. We wholeheartedly agree that “American higher education is the envy of the world.” We also agree with many of the principles outlined in the Compact, including a fair and unbiased admissions process, an affordable and academically rigorous education, a thriving marketplace of ideas, institutional neutrality, and equal treatment of students, faculty, and staff in all aspects of university operations. Indeed, the University of Virginia leads in several of these areas and is committed to continuous improvement in all of them.

We seek no special treatment in exchange for our pursuit of those foundational goals. The integrity of science and other academic work requires merit-based assessment of research and scholarship. A contractual arrangement predicating assessment on anything other than merit will undermine the integrity of vital, sometimes lifesaving, research and further erode confidence in American higher education.

Higher education faces significant challenges and has not always lived up to its highest ideals. We believe that the best path toward real and durable progress lies in an open and collaborative conversation. We look forward to working together to develop alternative, lasting approaches to improving higher education.

Sincerely yours,

Paul Mahoney
Interim President
University of Virginia

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 8d

The left says "no kings" while the right says that Donald Trump is king. The truth might be somewhere in the middle.

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🆔 @iandavey.net · 9d

So you’re an authority on questions? That’s a philosopher, right? 🙃

🆔 @iandavey.net · 9d

They'll need to make a Windows 12 just to get the AI stuff out once this whole thing comes down.

🆔 @iandavey.net · 9d

The protest makes me uneasy. I’m going north for a wedding again.

The last time I went north for a wedding for that branch of the family was August 12, 2017.