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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 12h

"start your own small business!"

"don't steal 47 vehicles from a Syracuse airport rental agency and rent them across Central New York!"

which is it????

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 12h

(I’m dying a tiny death inside that this album came out in 2001 what the actual hell.)

Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 12h

Sparkling wine in the glass, Take Offs and Landings by Rilo Kiley on the stereo, we’re having a Friday night over here.

A normal sized hand holds a normal sized champagne coupe (PAUL). The coupe is sort of dark teal? Deep seafoam? I don’t fucking know, I’m not Pantone. The sparkling wine is very good though.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 16h

Stick on googly eyes, duh.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 21h

I saw Ed Sheeran’s Pelvis open for Gently Used Pornographers at the public amphitheater behind the kimchi taco pop-up.

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 21h

[Ed Sheeran’s pelvis gyrating half a centimeter on the one and the three] Like this? Am I doing it?

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 1d

Really well done this

defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector

If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 1d

“Hey! Hey! Show some respect! You kiss your sourdough mother with that mouth??”

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 1d

“That’s a real nice kombucha fermenter you got there, would be a shame if something happened to it.”

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 1d

All of this is the most foreseeable, avoidable, unnecessary disaster in sports in my lifetime. It’s ruining fandom, it’s harming players, it’s robbing bettors of everything they have, and it’s being not only allowed but *pushed* upon audiences by the leagues and their media partners.

Chicago News @chicago.thesocial.news · 1d

Heat guard Terry Rozier and Blazers coach Chauncey Billups arrested in gambling probe

The Heat guard and Trail Blazers head coach were arrested by the FBI Thursday morning, two officials told NBC News.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Jack Kogod @unsilent.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot possibly pay $180 for an app to watch the Wizards, can I? No. No, i musn’t.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

well i think naming a ballroom after your best friend is something to be celebrated tbh

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2d

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

Ohhh, the east wing is where the woman stuff happened, everything makes a lot more sense now

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 2d

“McElwain lists his location as New Alexandria on LinkedIn”

Wake up babe, a new Fake Alexandria just dropped.

ALXnow @alxnow.bsky.social · 2d

Firm using Alexandria address wins $220M federal contract for Trump immigration ads

Firm using Alexandria address wins $220M federal contract for Trump immigration ads | ALXnow

A company with an Alexandria address has secured $142.8 million of a $220 million Department of Homeland Security contract to produce advertisements promoting President Donald Trump's immigration policies...

www.alxnow.com

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Insipid Twaddle @insipidtwaddle.bsky.social · 3d

ESPN lost its soul when it replaced grainy footage of strongman competitions and bowling with an endless series of shouty-person televised talk radio shows. Having Chris Coons For Delaware sponsor a nationally-televised cornhole league would not only win back men, it would right a historical wrong.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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City of Alexandria, VA @alexandriavagov.bsky.social · 4d

It's National Friends of Libraries Week, so say hello to our friends at @alexlibraryva.bsky.social! They're new here, give them a follow!

a woman in a blue dress is standing in a library looking at books .

ALT: a woman in a blue dress is standing in a library looking at books .

media.tenor.com

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 5d

An easy flow chart for you.

Do you have a deal with Donald Trump?
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 5d

First Trump administration story in a while that genuinely shocked me:

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6d

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 6d

I was looking for something to stand on but I didn’t see anything, so this was the best I could do.

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Katherine Knott @knottkatherine.bsky.social · 7d

And now UVa rejects the compact.

white words on a black background

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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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 7d

Sinnataggen (The Angry Boy), by Gustav Vigeland, 1928, 📸 by @alykhankr.bsky.social

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 7d

That clip is hilarious. But also I can’t believe Zohran wiffed on “I’d like to see a Mets championship parade” when it was right there on a tee for him. Smash a meatball like that man!

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Jesse O’Connell @oconnell.bsky.social · 7d

Daulton Varsho walking around the clubhouse missing the tip of his index finger being like “do *not* put your hand near that motherfucker when he’s on the mound”