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@drbrianish.bsky.social

Ph.D., WWI/modernist Brit lit and modern fantasy lit. I also really like board games and baseball, so expect to see a lot about them. He/him.

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This is just one example of violence that's endemic & *documented* in the criminal legal system & it gives me pause when I hear that we need to hold ICE & CBP to the same standards as other law enforcement.

I get why it's said. And we should interrogate it. Not interrogating it is what got us here.

24.02.2026 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 287    πŸ” 119    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Incredible how the research inevitably says they should keep being cowards.

24.02.2026 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More ways to spot nutrition grifters

24.02.2026 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

"Women don't like the vehicle."

24.02.2026 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I sleep in a big bed with my wife.

24.02.2026 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 237    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Elon Has Done Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

β€œthe largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

24.02.2026 11:29 β€” πŸ‘ 550    πŸ” 267    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 14

Fellas is this good

23.02.2026 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NORMAL GUY: hey man how’s it going
GAVIN NEWSOM: I’ll tell you how it’s not going: transgenderly.
NORMAL GUY: ok

23.02.2026 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 634    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

So is he not based on you?

23.02.2026 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What this technology is going to do is not end higher education, but it is going to undo so much of the baseline work on accessibility by pushing overworked professors to take things back to offline modalities, in person timed exams, keeping tech out of the classroom, etc.

23.02.2026 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 651    πŸ” 166    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 14

as far as i can tell β€œbio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction

22.02.2026 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7997    πŸ” 1320    πŸ’¬ 212    πŸ“Œ 67

Is it usually sand?

23.02.2026 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't love to hear that from the guy with the Nazi tattoo I gotta be honest

22.02.2026 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 822    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 0
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two men are standing next to a bunk bed in a room with posters on the wall Alt: Will Ferrell and John C Reilly in Stepbrothers: "So much room for activities!"

My cats when they see the new TV stand.

22.02.2026 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Borg Queen was a mistake.

22.02.2026 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Setting a new record for being personally bodied by Popes.

21.02.2026 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's probably not quite literally true that the median either-Bush-appointed federal judge is sounding the alarm against Trump more loudly than the median congressional Democrat, but there are sure as hell days when it feels that way.

21.02.2026 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

If only there was some kind of elected official who could ask these questions on behalf of their constituents.

Oh well, guess we just have to post about it.

21.02.2026 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a woman 's face with a triangle and a mathematical equation on it . Alt: That one lady does calculations
20.02.2026 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey this is great but real quick it's bad no matter where they do it.

20.02.2026 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*Spokane* fucking hates this

20.02.2026 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1064    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 6

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

18.02.2026 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7831    πŸ” 2531    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 84

They've 100% been burning through that tariff money, that's how they've been paying the blood machine through the various budget derailments. That, and the theft. There's the theft, too. Lots of theft. That money is fucking gone. Donezo. It's not getting paid back.
LOL
LMAO

20.02.2026 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know what's going on right now but I love it.

20.02.2026 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I agree with all the slave ship & forced labor camp comparisons, but also, on a practical level, this is not how you build a detention center where you expect either violent inmates or long-term prisoners. The very floorplans betray the obvious lie; they are meant to warehouse harmless folks.

20.02.2026 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 541    πŸ” 225    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 3

Take Shelter and Brazil this semester, let's go.

20.02.2026 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You can have that one for free.

20.02.2026 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Even Trump's hand-picked Justices won't support the ludicrous idea that having brown people in the country constitutes an emergency. So why do we have goon squads roaming the country declaring martial law?"

20.02.2026 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Seems like the sort of thing a good opposition party might seize on just now.

20.02.2026 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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