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ceej @ceej.online · 50m

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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BOO!-rian EEE!-gan @brianckeegan.com · 3h

LaTeX

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 2d

Protip: If you can't fall asleep, try backtracing the context for some bluesy drama until you are exhausted

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 3d

These Kristi Noem ads feel straight out of a Paul Verhoeven flick

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 3d

There's a timeline where future history students have a unit about The Hangry Revolution

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 5d

I'm too lazy to read but I can ask you - when people did share, what did it look like?

I did a class exercise once where I had students go look up articles' open datasets. Hot mess. csvs with no labels, tables of summary statistics only, pdfs of output, etc. Lots of unusable box-checking

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d

After I read this thread I was more skeptical of cross-lagged effects than you would have expected based on my background and earlier beliefs

Rich Lucas @richlucas.bsky.social · 20d

Interested in models used to estimate lagged effects in panel data? We (@rebiweidmann.bsky.social, Hyewon Yang) have a new paper looking at patterns of stability and their implications for bias and model choice: osf.io/preprints/ps... [1/x]

OSF

osf.io

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 7d

Portland’s gonna resist in the most Portland way possible www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

‘Emergency’ World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland

Organizers of the World Naked Bike Ride said they’re planning to protest the Trump administration’s decision to send 200 National Guard troops to Portland.

www.seattletimes.com

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 8d

Also coincidentally I just posted this yesterday bsky.app/profile/sanj...

Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 9d

MY EYES: “Hoisin sauce”

MY BRAIN: *loads up Professor Frink voice*

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 8d

Whenever I show up with a host gift I hear this in my head

"I come by to give present for warming house"

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 9d

MY EYES: “Hoisin sauce”

MY BRAIN: *loads up Professor Frink voice*

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 10d

“Barack Obama’s best friend Jay-Z runs the Super Bowl selection process through his company Roc Nation which has an exclusive contract with the NFL. This is who chooses the halftime show, the most-watched musical performance in America.”

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

a man in a suit and tie stands at a podium with a sign that says " reclaiming the american "

Alt: Barack Obama gestures as if he's brushing dirt off his shoulder

media.tenor.com

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 12d

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 12d

Universities are moving rapidly to comply with laws that don't exist.

Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 13d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

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Will Hollingsworth @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 16d

I love unnecessarily sexy statues. My favorite being Thirst Trap Lincoln from the LA County Superior Courthouse.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · Sep 8

Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope

Oh, she says well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And I says to her, I says, oh shit, you’re right. So I bought like fifty thousand envelopes. Filled the house with ‘em, toes to tits. It was horrible. We couldn’t take a step without tripping over a box of envelopes. We were going crazy trying to use them up, to make a little space for ourselves. Used them as toilet paper, coffee filters... it was a terrible time. Please don’t ask me about those goddamned awful envelopes ever again.
Kurt Vonnegut

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 16d

YOUNGER ME STANDING IN THE DOORWAY OF A TIME MACHINE LOOKING CONFUSED: Whoa whoa whoa, back up a sec. The Man Show guy?

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 16d

CHOTINER: So you enjoy jumping on trends with self-referential humor?

ME: Oh absolutely. For example I'm making up this imaginary interview that refers to itself. See how it works?

CHOTINER: Right, so that covers the "self-referential" part.

ME: ...

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 16d

Don't worry about it getting published, that's way too much self-awareness to make a good read

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 16d

Oof (complimentary)

Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 16d

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 16d

If you like seafood and getting messy, I went to the soft opening and the food was amazing. Chinese/Cajun is not a combo I would have though of but it definitely works www.happycrab.com

Happy Crab | Boiling Seafood Restaurant

Bringing a taste of the bayou to the Pacific Northwest.

www.happycrab.com

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 16d

political reporters: "who's to say which side is right? I'm just reporting what they say!"
science & health reporters: "me! I can say who's right! can anyone hear me?"

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 16d

Health and science reporters should lead the coverage of all these health-related conspiracy theories & newsroom leaders should keep their both-sides political reporters out of their way.

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 16d

First cocaine and now a demand shock to Tylenol, I guess he’s making drug prices cheaper after all?

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