SGS
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Writer, editor, reader, baseball fan, jigsaw puzzle fan, #postcardstovoters activist, travel partner of #Quirk. BlueSky's least competent lurker.
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· Nov 11
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i would like to remind everyone that NFTs, web3, play-to-earn, and the metaverse were also inevitable futures
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
i would like to remind everyone that NFTs, web3, play-to-earn, and the metaverse were also inevitable futures
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There are so many trends, especially in tech, that I was told I'd effectively be forced to adopt and then never did.
My things worked fine before, if I don't want to use something I can just keep not using it. It's not incumbent on me to change, it's incumbent on tech to prove it's worth using.
My things worked fine before, if I don't want to use something I can just keep not using it. It's not incumbent on me to change, it's incumbent on tech to prove it's worth using.
December 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
There are so many trends, especially in tech, that I was told I'd effectively be forced to adopt and then never did.
My things worked fine before, if I don't want to use something I can just keep not using it. It's not incumbent on me to change, it's incumbent on tech to prove it's worth using.
My things worked fine before, if I don't want to use something I can just keep not using it. It's not incumbent on me to change, it's incumbent on tech to prove it's worth using.
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based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
August 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
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Thank god the lifespan for a silly meme joke on Bluesky is only about 24 hours, because I was about to have to name my fists Mute and Thread.
December 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Thank god the lifespan for a silly meme joke on Bluesky is only about 24 hours, because I was about to have to name my fists Mute and Thread.
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excited to continue to not shop at Target, will be coming up on my year anniversary of not shopping at Target soon actually!
December 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
excited to continue to not shop at Target, will be coming up on my year anniversary of not shopping at Target soon actually!
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I love business stories like this because they illustrate the impact of the new tariffs on a specific industry and explain why manufacturing and production can't be transferred to the US to avoid additional costs.
“Forget about making the pyramid. I don’t even know if they want a pebble.”
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/30/m...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/30/m...
An industry focused on death faces an existential crisis
The small, family run companies that make traditional memorialization products like gravestones are facing the dual challenges of tariffs and cremation.
www.cnbc.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I love business stories like this because they illustrate the impact of the new tariffs on a specific industry and explain why manufacturing and production can't be transferred to the US to avoid additional costs.
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I have a similar issue when I teach about the reactions that depleted the ozone layer. "We learned that chemicals called CFCs were responsible for this growing hole, so we banned them. We used to be able to work together around the globe to solve global environmental crises. Sigh."
Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I have a similar issue when I teach about the reactions that depleted the ozone layer. "We learned that chemicals called CFCs were responsible for this growing hole, so we banned them. We used to be able to work together around the globe to solve global environmental crises. Sigh."
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It's so disappointing to see our government forgetting some important lessons from the 1950s and 1960s. I am increasingly afraid of how RFK Jr and his colleagues are taking us backwards, and the harm that could do, as I discuss in my new blog post. dlhalperblog.blogspot.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It's so disappointing to see our government forgetting some important lessons from the 1950s and 1960s. I am increasingly afraid of how RFK Jr and his colleagues are taking us backwards, and the harm that could do, as I discuss in my new blog post. dlhalperblog.blogspot.com
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My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
December 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.
No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.
That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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schmitt’s derisive mention of “color revolution” is a good clue as to the nature of his information environment
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
schmitt’s derisive mention of “color revolution” is a good clue as to the nature of his information environment
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You can cite the Bible in an academic paper. You can reference it, chapter and verse, in support of your thesis. But there's a big difference between citing the Bible as an academic reference and simply saying "God is the bestest God in the whole wide world, and I should get an A+ for saying so."
November 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
You can cite the Bible in an academic paper. You can reference it, chapter and verse, in support of your thesis. But there's a big difference between citing the Bible as an academic reference and simply saying "God is the bestest God in the whole wide world, and I should get an A+ for saying so."
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I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I wish all figures of authority cared about moms and babies. But some don’t. Some even want you to hurt. And those are the people who cast doubt on the vaccination miracle that has allowed so many of us to live longer and better.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
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Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
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I taught composition and technical writing at OU for three years. This decision is a disgrace. If instructors are expected to treat personal beliefs as formal “evidence,” then why even bother offering courses?
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I taught composition and technical writing at OU for three years. This decision is a disgrace. If instructors are expected to treat personal beliefs as formal “evidence,” then why even bother offering courses?
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Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing
December 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Lecturing on Watergate this morning and trying to decide how to communicate "no, Congress used to care when presidents did crimes!" without derailing the lecture and/or sobbing
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The lesson I have learned over the last 10 years more than any other: Hatred and bigotry and greed are the flames of fascism, but its kindling are people who claim to be well-meaning, yet diagnose our problem as "polarization" without giving thought to the causes over which we are polarized.
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The lesson I have learned over the last 10 years more than any other: Hatred and bigotry and greed are the flames of fascism, but its kindling are people who claim to be well-meaning, yet diagnose our problem as "polarization" without giving thought to the causes over which we are polarized.
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This explains so much of what we are seeing.
After years of struggling to find enough workers for some of the nation’s toughest lockups, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is facing a new challenge: Corrections officers are jumping ship for more lucrative jobs at ICE.
By @keribla.bsky.social
By @keribla.bsky.social
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This explains so much of what we are seeing.
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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A Utah rep made a 6/7 joke on the house floor. I had to text my kids and let them know 6/7 is over. The Olds are using it now.
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A Utah rep made a 6/7 joke on the house floor. I had to text my kids and let them know 6/7 is over. The Olds are using it now.
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*