Paul
@someofthejuice.bsky.social
Musician (bassist), J-media fan, nerd about nearly everything. Trying hard to move forward in life, even as it keeps trying to drag me down.
He/they/whatever makes the situation funniest.
He/they/whatever makes the situation funniest.
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"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
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and if you need some further reading about even white women in the 1950s not being all that happy press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Young, White, and Miserable
Young, White, and Miserable is a critically acclaimed study that compellingly shows how the feminist movement of the 1960s found momentum in the seemingly peaceable time of the 1950s. Wini Breines exp...
press.uchicago.edu
December 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
and if you need some further reading about even white women in the 1950s not being all that happy press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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i have no idea what happened to my copy of this book, but i need to get a new one so i can more easily wave quotes and stats around whenever a Kate Miller type is going viral for some stupid crap
December 28, 2025 at 2:18 AM
i have no idea what happened to my copy of this book, but i need to get a new one so i can more easily wave quotes and stats around whenever a Kate Miller type is going viral for some stupid crap
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“the basic duty of a public artist”
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
“the basic duty of a public artist”
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"Trump is supporting the Arts" - my man is literally gutting the National Endowment for the Arts, which they cannot conceive of as anything beyond Les Mis or the Beach Boys performing at Mar A Lago
December 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
"Trump is supporting the Arts" - my man is literally gutting the National Endowment for the Arts, which they cannot conceive of as anything beyond Les Mis or the Beach Boys performing at Mar A Lago
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Sinatra has gone woke
![Civil rights activism
From the 1940s Sinatra refused to perform for segregated audiences. In Las Vegas he forced the Sands to serve Nat King Cole in the dining room and, with Sammy Davis Jr., ended Jim Crow policies in Nevada hotels and casinos by
1961. 9! He headlined Carnegie Hall for Martin Luther King Jr. in 1961, led Rat Pack boycotts, donated heavily to SCLC and voter registration, and was praised by Vice President Humphrey after the Watts riots for teaching tolerance."] Orson Welles witnessed Sinatra physically
threaten a restaurant owner who refused service to a Black musician.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:of56nmyuqzvjta7qlf7gwht6/bafkreihcwqha74luvn5td5tugqr4welplshkdqtabytg7ohgc23we7aedm@jpeg)
December 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Sinatra has gone woke
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post.
December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post.
@cheesybeeps.com
Why have you done this to me. I saw this and instead of just laughing at them fighting, I just thought "Chad Marmot..."
Why have you done this to me. I saw this and instead of just laughing at them fighting, I just thought "Chad Marmot..."
December 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
@cheesybeeps.com
Why have you done this to me. I saw this and instead of just laughing at them fighting, I just thought "Chad Marmot..."
Why have you done this to me. I saw this and instead of just laughing at them fighting, I just thought "Chad Marmot..."
That doesn't get you off the hook, April. Your vote on record is what people will remember, not what you say nearly a year later. Maybe you should have thought about the potential legacy of it that everyone with eyes saw from a mile away before you voted for it.
Rep. April McClain Delaney is disavowing her January vote in support of a law that requires federal law enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants accused — but not convicted — of certain crimes.
December 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
That doesn't get you off the hook, April. Your vote on record is what people will remember, not what you say nearly a year later. Maybe you should have thought about the potential legacy of it that everyone with eyes saw from a mile away before you voted for it.
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
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All fantastic, but this passage in particular is just so devastatingly funny and obvious:
"I cannot emphasize this strongly enough: this was the lowest possible effort I could make to check out this story, and it was still too high a bar for Bari Weiss."
"I cannot emphasize this strongly enough: this was the lowest possible effort I could make to check out this story, and it was still too high a bar for Bari Weiss."
I wrote about Bari Weiss doing the hard work of defending the rich and powerful www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Bari Weiss's Counter-Journalistic Crusade Targets "60 Minutes"
The new editor-in-chief at CBS News has shown she's not merely stupendously unqualified--she's ideologically opposed to the practice of good journalism.
www.thenation.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
All fantastic, but this passage in particular is just so devastatingly funny and obvious:
"I cannot emphasize this strongly enough: this was the lowest possible effort I could make to check out this story, and it was still too high a bar for Bari Weiss."
"I cannot emphasize this strongly enough: this was the lowest possible effort I could make to check out this story, and it was still too high a bar for Bari Weiss."
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Refusing to break Watergate because I want to land an interview with Nixon first
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Refusing to break Watergate because I want to land an interview with Nixon first
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Classical music has enough real systemic problems (racism, sexism, etc.) without inventing new ones that feel cathartic to say but have no basis in reality beyond a few shitty teachers.
December 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Classical music has enough real systemic problems (racism, sexism, etc.) without inventing new ones that feel cathartic to say but have no basis in reality beyond a few shitty teachers.
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There is a vid getting reposted endlessly on the other platforms that starts with the premise that classical musicians are "trained for compliance, not creativity," and I am trying to be zen about it and just scroll past every time, but it is driving me a little nuts.
December 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
There is a vid getting reposted endlessly on the other platforms that starts with the premise that classical musicians are "trained for compliance, not creativity," and I am trying to be zen about it and just scroll past every time, but it is driving me a little nuts.
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An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼
December 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼
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So, @raynarvaezjr.sucks and @tinanarvaezjr.com's Christmas party last night had the theme of "Christmas Tree Green," so my friend suggested we take that to the next level. We were in fully ghillie decked out in ornaments, but I got too hot in it and took the jacket off before this photo.
December 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
So, @raynarvaezjr.sucks and @tinanarvaezjr.com's Christmas party last night had the theme of "Christmas Tree Green," so my friend suggested we take that to the next level. We were in fully ghillie decked out in ornaments, but I got too hot in it and took the jacket off before this photo.
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Anyway, I read all of these anti-AI posts in academia as love letters to our disciplines. And that, at least, gives me joy in a weary world. So thank you.
December 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Anyway, I read all of these anti-AI posts in academia as love letters to our disciplines. And that, at least, gives me joy in a weary world. So thank you.
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They got the secret lair line on the Epstein files I hope the foil bundle doesn’t sell out
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
They got the secret lair line on the Epstein files I hope the foil bundle doesn’t sell out
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the files were not only supposed to be complete, they were supposed to be searchable, yo!
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
the files were not only supposed to be complete, they were supposed to be searchable, yo!
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The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
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well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
December 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers
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there sure are a lot of rich assholes that need some ghost muppets to haunt them on Christmas
December 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
there sure are a lot of rich assholes that need some ghost muppets to haunt them on Christmas
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The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.