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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 27m

why not merge the English Department and the Classics Department into a new Department of Percy Jackson while you're at it

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 8h

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 2h

Obama getting it a second time

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2h

The question is who winning the peace prize would piss Trump off the most?

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 2h

Certain places here, that sort of behavior is tantamount to a declaration of war. youtu.be/OIhoX8fu_ZE?...

Don't Touch My Hat

YouTube video by Lyle Lovett - Topic

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 3h

I think Portland has figured out how to make these guys look like complete idiots and I want all the cities to do this. Not telling you what to do… but. Everybody act like it’s the best wedding reception ever and/or a Thanksgiving Day parade.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 8h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 3h

Is Dylan (any more), for that matter?

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 6h

Dire as the stakes are, leaning into absurdist and lighthearted forms of protest seems like a great way to puncture the fantasy Trump & co are spinning to attempt to rationalize a violent crackdown.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

fake film poster with a sunset and the portland frog protestor with words The Portland War, A Film by Ken Burns

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 6h

They then have to track down the boss's nephew who "knows computers" and is the only one who knows how to upload the updated subscriber spreadsheet.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 8h

Did this fall out of a time capsule from the Mercury Records years?

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 9h

wtaf are you talking about

Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 9h

well the mid-level producers working on projects might argue they're not trying to make art, they're making content, so mid is fine.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 9h

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 9h

Oh, this whole exchange is perfect - Shapiro determined to get to the leading end of his question, while Simon gradually telegraphs his complete and utter disdain for the idea being put forward, culminating in the coup de grâce.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 9h

Maybe the mens are actually better off than they think? is the question posed by @alexshephard.bsky.social in light of today's Nobel Prize in Literature announcement.

newrepublic.com/article/2015...

But are men actually losing? Look past the smears of Dubai chocolate, and you’ll notice that men have spent the past 11 months notching some serious wins. They delivered the presidency to Donald Trump. They made Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another the number one movie in the world. They have produced literally millions of hours of podcasts—more hours of podcasts than the total number of wooden nails and screws produced by their ancestors. And now, at long last, they have their own Nobel laureate: Hungarian novelist, screenwriter, and all-around dark wizard of ennui, László Krasznahorkai, who won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. That’s right—for the first time in history, a man has won the Nobel Prize. That sound you hear? It’s a graduate student sobbing with joy. Big, manly sobs.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 9h

alex's writing on the nobel prize is the Why Your Team Sucks of literature

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 9h

Turns out men aren't lonely! They're just stuck in the basement decoding “reality described to the point of madness.” newrepublic.com/article/2015... by @alexshephard.bsky.social

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

newrepublic.com

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 10h

Red River Rivalry this weekend just got a lot more real

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 10h

Here for the hobo topology more than for the baseball tie-in

Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 10h

Hobos still in the playoffs:

Schwarber: If you've got a bottle, he's got a guitar & a head full of Wobblies songs.

Addison Barger: Offers to help a widow lady with chores, ends up helping with so much more.

Tim Hill: Annoyed at how often he has to stop smoking to cough blood into a handkerchief

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 10h

This is a pretty solid pick.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

neko case is probably my vote here

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 4d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 10h

It seems like that's another area where they've cross-pollinated with the American Evangelical focus on treating social issues as matters of individual conscience and action, while corporate action, whether by the church or the state is considered coercive.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 17h

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Look at me enjoying something

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by UPROXX Indie Mixtape

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Reverse Ted Lasso incoming

Matt Lichtenstadter @mattsmusings1.bsky.social · 1d

I know he just got a new job but...

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Craig Duffy @pinkcowduffy.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky moderators making @thefridacinema.org’s Frankenhooker screening extra scandalous by flagging it as “adult content” 👍🏼

The Frida Cinema @thefridacinema.org · 1d

Want a date? Looking for some action? Got any money?

For October’s entry in @plante.bsky.social’s Hallucinations series, we’re screening Frank Henenlotter’s uproarious gross-out horror FRANKENHOOKER!

Oct 29th 🧟‍♀️

🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/frank...

Frankenhooker rides the subway

#frankenhooker #frankhenenlotter #90shorror #frankenhooker1990

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Never played this game, but this was the hardest?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Here’s the hardest Connections category from Wednesday, Oct. 1. What connects these four things?

Find the answer here: nyti.ms/42v1I2x

Headline: Can you figure out this Connections quandary? The four words are: Booby, Door, First and Jury.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Pathetic. bsky.app/profile/step...

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Exglsfor‽

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Knepherbird @knepherbird.com · 1d

Even worse, he's probably the type of person who does not listen to music at all.

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