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Andrew MacBride

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14h

This was not a sample of academics.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 15h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 12h

Yes, I am frequently in the hundreds.

Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 20h

Even worse, that things seemed to be on a much better trajectory not too many years ago. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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lerrrGHOUL 👻 @lerrrgan.bsky.social · 2d

time for my afternoon pick-me-up

A fish bowl full of iced coffee and a person drinking it with a straw.

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Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 2d

They’re all so cognitively and egotistically impaired that they will never ever admit that they made a mistake.

Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 2d

Hmmmm…. That would be amazing. 🧬 👨‍🔬

Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 4d

Apple picking: two beautiful dusky-red apples

Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 6d

Sadly, we’re already seeing this play out in the US, to our eternal shame.

Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 12d

Govt claims requiring all adults in Britain to have “digital ID” will “help control borders” and “illegal immigtation”.

That could only be true if police are given powers to require ID, without suspicion of a crime.

A 🧵explaining why:

Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 8d

If you did it while on a trip, that's Numberwang!

Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 8d

I would be up for any of those — I’m all ears!

Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 8d

1. Molecular biology
2. Star Trek
3. Travel

AndrewBoo @theknowerofstuff.bsky.social · 12d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep.

1. Math education in America
2. X-Men
3. EDM

🍁 DireDireDocks 🍂 @dirediredocks.bsky.social · 12d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep.

1. Post Temple / Jewish Diaspora History
2. The relationship between Nintendo and the Seattle Mariners
3. Consumer rights when owning media (physical and digital)

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Markus Elsner @markuselsner.bsky.social · 8d

I don't know why I keep thinking about this Tacitus quote today:
"They create a desolation and call it peace."

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Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 8d

I still reference this cartoon, decades later.

Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 9d

A fun geeky poem.
“Roses are red, roses are blue, depending on their velocity relative to you.”

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Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 10d

I love this so much!

Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 11d

I think you’re cherry-picking 😏

Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 11d

I’d love to see her on Starfleet Academy

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 11d

40 years ago today: "My Storm"

On Friday, September 27, 1985, Hurricane Gloria made its closest approach to southeast Pennsylvania. I was in 4th grade in Reading PA, and the schools had closed in advance of the coming storm. Though we had many snow days, that was my first and only "hurricane day".

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Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 12d

"It's the most *cough, hack* "*unintelligible* time of the year!"

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12d

The gutting thing is when I speak to anybody under 25 or so, and they… don’t know this is unusual. The only America they’ve ever known is this openly corrupt, broken one.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12d

I obviously had… low expectations for this year once the election was called but i honestly think the first moment I Knew how screwed we were — as a nation, our politics, or democratic health, our media — was the trump doj Eric Adams scandal just came & went, like it was another thing in the news

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Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 12d

Do we have one?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Kimmel: Brendan Carr is the most embarrassing Carr the Republican have embraced since the cybertruck

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Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 15d

Bravo 👏🏻

Andrew MacBride @amacbride.com · 15d

Rapture check?