Stu F.
@sdfstu.bsky.social
The words I thought I brought I left behind.
Historian, REEES; Philly sports fan.
Historian, REEES; Philly sports fan.
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Stu F.
@sdfstu.bsky.social
· Nov 4
GUILDENSTERN: There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. Well, we’ll know better next time.
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Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick Helped the House Pass the SAVE Act. It Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters | This will "create sweeping new ‘show your papers’ residency and voter ID requirements that could block hundreds of thousands of eligible Pennsylvanians from participating in our democracy.”
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick Helped the House Pass the SAVE Act. It Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters - Bucks County Beacon
“The SAVE America Act would create sweeping new ‘show your papers’ residency and voter ID requirements that could block hundreds of thousands of eligible Pennsylvanians from participating in our democ...
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February 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick Helped the House Pass the SAVE Act. It Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters | This will "create sweeping new ‘show your papers’ residency and voter ID requirements that could block hundreds of thousands of eligible Pennsylvanians from participating in our democracy.”
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“Samsung’s QD-OLED panel itself is phenomenal, if nothing special in 2026. The problem is the software. I would pay Samsung $100, right now, for this “smart” TV to be as dumb as the ones I grew up with. ”
Why I wish I hadn’t bought my Samsung OLED TV — The Verge
In June 2024, in a dusty TV shop empty of customers save myself, my wife, and my kids, I stared deep into the LG C3 and Samsung S90C. I went back and forth between the two OLED screens for easily 20 m...
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February 12, 2026 at 9:50 PM
“Samsung’s QD-OLED panel itself is phenomenal, if nothing special in 2026. The problem is the software. I would pay Samsung $100, right now, for this “smart” TV to be as dumb as the ones I grew up with. ”
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there is so much happening in that sentence
ICYMI: Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Fukushima's radioactive hybrid terror pig boom was driven by amorous mothers
Genetic study finds domestic pigs’ year-round breeding sped gene flow into wild boar
Back in 2021, in the thick of pandemic mania, The Register gleefully reported that "radioactive hybrid terror pigs" were thriving in Japan's Fukushima exclusion zone.…
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February 13, 2026 at 1:14 AM
there is so much happening in that sentence
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
They may have extremely low hiring standards but one sine qua non for working in this administration, and for ICE in particular, is the ability & willingness to be performatively cartoonishly evil
This is just unconscionable man
February 13, 2026 at 4:31 AM
They may have extremely low hiring standards but one sine qua non for working in this administration, and for ICE in particular, is the ability & willingness to be performatively cartoonishly evil
Even in this rare acknowledgment they manage to produce a sentence so tortured that I may save it to show my students why they should still (almost) always avoid passive voice.
… sorry [checks notes], why passive voice should always be avoided by some high-profile prospective journalists.
… sorry [checks notes], why passive voice should always be avoided by some high-profile prospective journalists.
Seems like that AOC's speech in Munich tomorrow will in some way address Palestine.
On a secondary note, it's very rare to see a US newspaper say outright that actual genocide scholars agree that Gaza has been subject to genocide.
On a secondary note, it's very rare to see a US newspaper say outright that actual genocide scholars agree that Gaza has been subject to genocide.
February 13, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Even in this rare acknowledgment they manage to produce a sentence so tortured that I may save it to show my students why they should still (almost) always avoid passive voice.
… sorry [checks notes], why passive voice should always be avoided by some high-profile prospective journalists.
… sorry [checks notes], why passive voice should always be avoided by some high-profile prospective journalists.
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Nika Gvaramia, opposition leader and chair of the Coalition for Changes was released today after spending eight months in prison for refusing to appear before a parliamentary commission.
February 12, 2026 at 7:49 AM
Nika Gvaramia, opposition leader and chair of the Coalition for Changes was released today after spending eight months in prison for refusing to appear before a parliamentary commission.
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While some folks downstairs are still complaining about a sporting event and languages they don’t understand. Up here in Canada, the CBC is showing Olympic hockey with play-by-play in Inuktitut. It’s the Canadian experience I didn’t know I needed. ❤️🇨🇦 #olympics #inuktitut
February 11, 2026 at 10:29 PM
While some folks downstairs are still complaining about a sporting event and languages they don’t understand. Up here in Canada, the CBC is showing Olympic hockey with play-by-play in Inuktitut. It’s the Canadian experience I didn’t know I needed. ❤️🇨🇦 #olympics #inuktitut
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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Researchers working with cucumbers have come to understand that the cucumber's selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives.
Researchers working with the A.I. system Claude have come to understand that the model’s selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kEX1vV
February 11, 2026 at 6:08 AM
Researchers working with cucumbers have come to understand that the cucumber's selfhood, like our own, is a matter of both neurons and narratives.
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“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”
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When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Brian Fitzpatrick is AFAIK not facing a serious primary challenge from the right and yet is still (with very few exceptions) voting with Johnson & Trump. Maybe because he has an insane war chest that apparently dwarfs that of any of the Dems running in the primary.
RULE VOTE FAILS, 217-214.
Three Republicans- Thomas Massie, Kevin Kiley, and Don Bacon - buck the party to allow floor consideration of measures to end Trump's tariffs.
The first such measure, likely on Canada tariffs, could come up as soon as tomorrow
Three Republicans- Thomas Massie, Kevin Kiley, and Don Bacon - buck the party to allow floor consideration of measures to end Trump's tariffs.
The first such measure, likely on Canada tariffs, could come up as soon as tomorrow
Republicans have been holding this vote open for 40 minutes or so, but the holdouts- Massie, Kiley, Bacon, reportedly left the Capitol. The absent Republican is Greg Murphy (R-NC), who has missed a lot of time since a mid December surgery.
Not clear why Johnson is still holding this vote open
Not clear why Johnson is still holding this vote open
February 11, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Brian Fitzpatrick is AFAIK not facing a serious primary challenge from the right and yet is still (with very few exceptions) voting with Johnson & Trump. Maybe because he has an insane war chest that apparently dwarfs that of any of the Dems running in the primary.
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No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
February 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
The Armenian Genocide — and lack of justice following it — made a deep impression on Raphael Lemkin, and it was perhaps the most important example for him after only the then-unfolding Holocaust when he coined the term in 1944.
The Armenian Genocide is a fact.
I helped lead a bipartisan coalition calling for U.S. recognition, which President Biden finally did in 2021. By deleting this post, Vance & Trump are showing that they care more about their authoritarian buddies than the truth.
Disgusting and pathetic.
I helped lead a bipartisan coalition calling for U.S. recognition, which President Biden finally did in 2021. By deleting this post, Vance & Trump are showing that they care more about their authoritarian buddies than the truth.
Disgusting and pathetic.
Vance’s X account deletes post recognizing Armenian genocide | CNN Politics
Vice President JD Vance’s X account posted and then deleted a recognition of the Armenian genocide after he paid his respects at a memorial in the country on Tuesday.
www.cnn.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:11 PM
The Armenian Genocide — and lack of justice following it — made a deep impression on Raphael Lemkin, and it was perhaps the most important example for him after only the then-unfolding Holocaust when he coined the term in 1944.
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How did this happen? And how did this happen so secretly and swiftly? In docs viewed by WIRED, DHS asked GSA explicitly to disregard usual government lease procurement procedures, and even hide lease listings due to “national security concerns.”
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
How did this happen? And how did this happen so secretly and swiftly? In docs viewed by WIRED, DHS asked GSA explicitly to disregard usual government lease procurement procedures, and even hide lease listings due to “national security concerns.”
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Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
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The Right's and their MSM fellow travelers' narrative on COVID is as follows:
COVID-19 was a Chinese Bio-weapon that was no more dangerous than the flu and was made up by the Democrats to hurt Trump's re-election chances in 2020.
COVID-19 was a Chinese Bio-weapon that was no more dangerous than the flu and was made up by the Democrats to hurt Trump's re-election chances in 2020.
Redfield is a Trump appointee and known crank. If COVID was circulating in summer of 2019, the entire timeline of the pandemic would be different. Chinese authorities were not "pushing the wet market narrative," they actively covered it up.
What is happening to people's brains over there
What is happening to people's brains over there
February 10, 2026 at 3:27 PM
The Right's and their MSM fellow travelers' narrative on COVID is as follows:
COVID-19 was a Chinese Bio-weapon that was no more dangerous than the flu and was made up by the Democrats to hurt Trump's re-election chances in 2020.
COVID-19 was a Chinese Bio-weapon that was no more dangerous than the flu and was made up by the Democrats to hurt Trump's re-election chances in 2020.
Lol at all of it but esp. the idea that “singing this last one under his real name” is (1) a thing, & (2) a thing that just bowls over Megyn Kelly.
Imagining the equivalent: “Author's note: the reader is to consider this final chapter of Huck's adventures to have been written by Mr. Samuel Clemens"
Imagining the equivalent: “Author's note: the reader is to consider this final chapter of Huck's adventures to have been written by Mr. Samuel Clemens"
February 9, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Lol at all of it but esp. the idea that “singing this last one under his real name” is (1) a thing, & (2) a thing that just bowls over Megyn Kelly.
Imagining the equivalent: “Author's note: the reader is to consider this final chapter of Huck's adventures to have been written by Mr. Samuel Clemens"
Imagining the equivalent: “Author's note: the reader is to consider this final chapter of Huck's adventures to have been written by Mr. Samuel Clemens"
A punter/kicker shared MVP let's go!
February 9, 2026 at 3:22 AM
A punter/kicker shared MVP let's go!
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PSA: SEAHAWKS KICKER JASON MYERS IS NOW ON THE SUPER BOWL MVP BALLOT
VOTE NOW ON YOUR PHONES
www.nfl.com/super-bowl/m...
VOTE NOW ON YOUR PHONES
www.nfl.com/super-bowl/m...
February 9, 2026 at 2:48 AM
PSA: SEAHAWKS KICKER JASON MYERS IS NOW ON THE SUPER BOWL MVP BALLOT
VOTE NOW ON YOUR PHONES
www.nfl.com/super-bowl/m...
VOTE NOW ON YOUR PHONES
www.nfl.com/super-bowl/m...
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Sad Robert Kraft that they showed a bit ago is quite nearly just as satisfying as Sad Jerruh.
February 9, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Sad Robert Kraft that they showed a bit ago is quite nearly just as satisfying as Sad Jerruh.
possibly friends of a nearby university mascot
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 AM
possibly friends of a nearby university mascot