Andrew
@swandre3000.bsky.social
podcaster (Friends at the Table & Media Club Plus), aspiring amateur woodworker, sports, etc. etc. etc.
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i just did it all scared
What gave you courage in 2025?
December 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
i just did it all scared
Thinking about Fletcher vs Mox and Okada v Takeshita tomorrow and just feeling very normal about it
December 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Thinking about Fletcher vs Mox and Okada v Takeshita tomorrow and just feeling very normal about it
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Any "free speech" organization that partners with the Manhattan Institute to file an amicus brief is not actually a "free speech" organization.
NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students.
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...
How a Free Speech Group Helped Right-Wing Dark Money Undermine Protections for Trans and Nonbinary Students
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression weighed in on a case brought by Parents Defending Education in Ohio.
www.importantcontext.news
December 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Any "free speech" organization that partners with the Manhattan Institute to file an amicus brief is not actually a "free speech" organization.
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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man if only we could get back to the Good FBI as it existed before Trump.
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
man if only we could get back to the Good FBI as it existed before Trump.
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
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I despise dem leadership but this is the exact sort of shit they'll actually undo. Now the massive expansion of the surveillance state? Redefining terrorism to hit protestors? Enormous expansion of ICE? Those are up in the air.
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
The president's name was added to the sign outside the performing arts center.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I despise dem leadership but this is the exact sort of shit they'll actually undo. Now the massive expansion of the surveillance state? Redefining terrorism to hit protestors? Enormous expansion of ICE? Those are up in the air.
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if you want me to be a fucking get out the vote account for people who don't give enough of a shit about my vote to try to keep me alive to cast it you should probably make me an offer in cash and not guilt
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
if you want me to be a fucking get out the vote account for people who don't give enough of a shit about my vote to try to keep me alive to cast it you should probably make me an offer in cash and not guilt
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the idea that i owe the democrats doing their messaging for them when they apparently owe me absolutely nothing is monstrous
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
the idea that i owe the democrats doing their messaging for them when they apparently owe me absolutely nothing is monstrous
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Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.
December 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.
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again thinking of when The Free Press ran an article alleging that George Floyd was not killed by the cops, and @radleybalko.bsky.social proved beyond any question that the article was bullshit, and instead of retracting it Weiss asked him to come on her podcast
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
again thinking of when The Free Press ran an article alleging that George Floyd was not killed by the cops, and @radleybalko.bsky.social proved beyond any question that the article was bullshit, and instead of retracting it Weiss asked him to come on her podcast
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berating myself for not being productive enough while my rights are being nuked bc the computer made everyone insane >>>>
December 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
berating myself for not being productive enough while my rights are being nuked bc the computer made everyone insane >>>>
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Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.
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"Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared."
December 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared."
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This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane?
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
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New from 404 Media: ICE just paid hundreds of thousands to company making bounty hunter AI agents. The company says its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.” Comes as ICE spends millions on skip tracers www.404media.co/ice-contract...
ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents
AI Solutions 87 says on its website its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.”
www.404media.co
December 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
New from 404 Media: ICE just paid hundreds of thousands to company making bounty hunter AI agents. The company says its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.” Comes as ICE spends millions on skip tracers www.404media.co/ice-contract...
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Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)
December 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)
where my 1990s mac gamers at
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
where my 1990s mac gamers at
smoking a joint with Wario on this porch in the winter would fix me
When I was a kid I used to bring Wario over to this spot and pretend he lived here
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
smoking a joint with Wario on this porch in the winter would fix me
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As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line.
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
JUST IN: This morning, hundreds of baristas have joined our national ULP strike.
☕ The solidarity is strong: For every one barista on strike, dozens more allies have shown up in force to back our cause.
Our strike continues to grow in strength and power! #NoContractNoCoffee
☕ The solidarity is strong: For every one barista on strike, dozens more allies have shown up in force to back our cause.
Our strike continues to grow in strength and power! #NoContractNoCoffee
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line.
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
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I honestly don’t know if this is 1:1 applicable, but I think it’s relevant that the Luddites didn’t “smash the machines” because they were being replaced, or they feared the machines.
They did it because the machines let the companies make WAY more money, yet the Luddites’ wages weren’t increasing.
They did it because the machines let the companies make WAY more money, yet the Luddites’ wages weren’t increasing.
December 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I honestly don’t know if this is 1:1 applicable, but I think it’s relevant that the Luddites didn’t “smash the machines” because they were being replaced, or they feared the machines.
They did it because the machines let the companies make WAY more money, yet the Luddites’ wages weren’t increasing.
They did it because the machines let the companies make WAY more money, yet the Luddites’ wages weren’t increasing.
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it is funny when someone admonishingly says "You gotta pick your battles" in response to people picking their battles
December 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
it is funny when someone admonishingly says "You gotta pick your battles" in response to people picking their battles
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Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.
New research finds trans teens have high satisfaction with gender care
The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret.
www.npr.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.