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Nathan Keedy @nkeedy.bsky.social · 2d

Take heed before it's too late, man.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3d

Head shaking (all beats, heavier on beats 2 and 4).

Hand drumming on every surface—steering wheel, tables, grocery cart.

Get excited when, in the noise of the mall, you hear the perfect high-hat rhythm. Only to find that it's coming from a coffee machine.
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This Is What Happens When You Listen to Too Much Jazz

Foot tapping (beats 2 and 4!). Head shaking (all beats, heavier on beats 2 and 4). Hand drumming on every surface—steering wheel, tables, grocery c...

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Nathan Keedy @nkeedy.bsky.social · 23d

Seems fine. What could possibly go wrong? 😬

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23d

“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”

Your Therapists’ Notes Could Become Fodder For AI

Tech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as d...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 28d

There was a book from the AV Club of lists and it had a list that was something like “10 Great Songs Ruined By a Saxophone Solo” and I almost threw that mfer in the trash

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 8

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us.

When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Sep 7

I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Sep 2

"In the weeks since, I’ve found myself unable to commit—grammatically, affectively, institutionally. Where once I might have said, 'I teach,' I now say, 'There are moments in which I find myself adjacent to pedagogy.' Friends have grown concerned. My dog, unfed."

I Got Tenure and Now I Can’t Seem to Form Simple Declarative Sentences

When I received the email, I was holding a piece of toast. Dry, no butter. I remember this vividly because it was the last thing in my life with a ...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Sep 2

"Ba de ya – I need dipping sauce with chicken tenders"

"Ba de ya – why does our band have all these members?"

"Ba de ya – too much Drakkar might overwhelm her"

Rejected Lyrics from Earth, Wind & Fire’s 1978 Hit Song “September”

“Ba de ya – your corpse I will dismember” “Ba de ya – Christian Bale sure has a temper” “Ba de ya – I need dipping sauce with chicken tenders” “Ba ...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Aug 22

"We beheld throngs of swaying bodies, caught up in some sort of blood-trance, all of them shimmying as if to some unheard music, circling a massive, formless statue, all intertwined in a seething mass of sweat-covered skin and beehived hair-dos that seemed to defy gravity."

H.P. Loveshack

When I recall that night so many years ago, among the foul mists and brackish fens of the Great Southern Swamp, a great wave of shame and guilt ris...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Aug 20

"The rust upon the roof of tin shall see your heart and know your sin."

(Happy B-Day, HP!)
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H.P. Loveshack

When I recall that night so many years ago, among the foul mists and brackish fens of the Great Southern Swamp, a great wave of shame and guilt ris...

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Nathan Keedy @nkeedy.bsky.social · Aug 14

"The officer who was struck with the sandwich did not appear injured in the video and was among those who immediately gave chase." LOL

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Meme Space Nine @memespacenine.bsky.social · Jul 29

Once upon a time at STSF I approached Jonathan Frakes at his table.

“I bought a picture with you later, and I brought two trombones. Could I—“

“Bring them.”

This was the result:

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Nathan Keedy @nkeedy.bsky.social · Jul 28

I can feel the world slowly starting to heal

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Jul 27

everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling the Beastie Boys

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Jul 24

"Don’t worry about me: I’ve just been looping Jimmy Carter speeches and majestic whale sounds on my Golden Record while thanking my lucky stars I’m over fifteen billion miles away from you bozos."

This Is the Voyager Space Probe, and I’m Taking a Government-Mandated Mental Health Break from Social Media

“President Donald Trump’s NASA budget plans look to cut its public relations funding by half, but already the agency is shuttering social media acc...

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Nathan Keedy @nkeedy.bsky.social · Jul 10

Nobody turns despair into hopeful defiance better than @swordsjew.bsky.social

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Jul 9

yesterday, i got mild heatstroke and couldn't stop thinking about the great curses of Deuteronomy

so i wrote out a fever dream of curses and defiance, of the storm and the heat, of hatred and indifference

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That Tears Shall Drown the Wind

And pity, like a naked new-born babe,Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsedUpon the sightless couriers of the air,Shall blow the horrid deed in...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Jul 4

It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right.

Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...

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Nathan Keedy @nkeedy.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thank you for always writing with such eloquent courage.

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · Jul 4

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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Nathan Keedy @nkeedy.bsky.social · Jul 2

I'm attending Indivisible Knoxville's event, “Join Us Thursday For Letters To Timmy” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...

Join Us Thursday For Letters To Timmy · Indivisible Knoxville

Yes. The bill passed the Senate. But we are NOT giving up. We’ve been here before AND WON. We are going to EXHAUST our Representatives day in and day out. Phone calls. Emails. AND SHOW UP AT THEIR OFF...

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · Jul 1

The evil bill is on its way to the House. Cancelled our events at home for the week and just got to DC. I’m getting ready to debate. Please help us stop this. Link below 👇🏾

indivisible.org/stopthecuts

STOP THE CUTS

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · Jun 26

I know I have talked about this before but this parallel educational system is exactly how the RSS ate India’s research ecosystem and turned our universities into a clown show that’s teaching kids Vedics invented space travel.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · Jun 26

Inbox: The University of Tennessee System is joining six other red-state public university systems (led by North Carolina) to explore a new accreditation option for public higher education.

I want to make you aware of an evolving effort that the University of Tennessee System has been invited to engage in alongside several other public university systems across the South. The effort involves exploring a new accreditation option designed specifically for public higher education.

The UT System has joined with the Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas A&M and South Carolina university systems to support the formation of the Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE), an accrediting body that will offer an additional pathway for institutions to ensure academic quality, operational effectiveness and student success. This collaboration is still in early stages and is years away from full implementation. However, it reflects a shared interest in introducing more choice, accountability and transparency into the existing accreditation landscape. Ultimately, this would require approval by the federal Department of Education.

The CPHE aspires to maintain or exceed existing standards, reduce inefficiencies and provide greater flexibility while prioritizing student outcomes and institutional quality. Importantly, this would simply represent an additional accreditation option for us, and we would continue to choose the accreditor that best meets our needs. The University of Tennessee remains dedicated to ensuring there is flexibility in our choice of accreditors – now and in the future.

While Florida is formally announcing the effort this morning, I wanted you to hear directly from me that the UT System is participating in ongoing conversations, not as a replacement of existing accreditation but as part of a national dialogue around innovation and accountability in higher education.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Jun 16

Fifteen years ago today, we first published this primal scream from the most disrespected font. (Written by the great @mikelacher) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

I’m Comic Sans, Asshole

Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic exc...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · May 20

Lowkey really enjoy this logo. Just give me a happy bird. This bird isn’t smug, he isn’t condescending, he just loves the game.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · May 12

Rather than hitting the economy with seven nuclear missiles, Trump in his infinite wisdom will now only hit it with three.

NPR @npr.org · May 12

American levies on Chinese goods will drop from at least 145% to 30% for an initial period of 90 days, while Chinese levies are set to fall from at least 125% to 10% on American goods.

The U.S. and China announce a deal to cut tariffs, temporarily easing trade war

American levies on Chinese goods will drop from at least 145% to 30% for an initial period of 90 days, while Chinese levies are set to fall from at least 125% to 10% on American goods.

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Nathan Keedy @nkeedy.bsky.social · May 6

Pure poetry.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · May 5

"Pg. 72: In a world of apocalyptic warfare, drone massacres, and nuclear devastation, there is no market for Lisa Frank–inspired iPhone cases. Your microbusiness fails."

Choose Your Own Adventure (Endings Only)

Pg. 49: Your ox dies from dysentery. Two days later, you die from grief. Pg. 72: In a world of apocalyptic warfare, drone massacres, and nuclear de...

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · May 3

I'm not sure what's the most graceful way to say this, so bear with me.

Some of you have reached out for my thoughts about the planned "Harry Potter" television series set to debut on HBO next year.

(long thread)

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · May 3

"I sense much fear in six. Fear of seven. Why? Because nine, seven ate."

Yoda Botches Five Classic Jokes

1. In love two melons are. Yet run off and marry they do not. Why? Because elope, they cannot. - - -2. On a seafood diet, I am. Food I see; eat it ...

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