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Ethan Gruber
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Interested in archaeology, linked open data, #OpenAccess, #LODLAM, cycling. Charlottesville, VA
I'm sure this guy worth $100 million can afford health insurance, come on
Although Philip Rivers made a return to pursue individual achievements, he also did something very useful for his big family in the process:

He extended his NFL-sponsored health insurance.
December 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" -Cory Doctorow.
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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BREAKING

Rob Reiner and his wife Michele have been found dead in their Los Angeles home.

TMZ reports their bodies were found with knife wounds.
BREAKING: Rob Reiner and Wife Michele Found Dead
Rob Reiner, the legendary actor, director, and political activist, along with his wife Michele, the photographer and activist, were found dead in their home in Los Angeles.
bit.ly
December 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
How come Miss Piggy and Kermit's children in the Muppet Christmas Carol are either pigs or frogs but not some godawful pigfrog amalgamation?
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Anyone see this truck around Charlottesville? Threw a can at a cyclist. Green Toyota Tundra(?), near White Hall on Garth Rd., probably not VA plates since no front plate.
December 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
So did all the other district Dems drop out when Periello declared?
December 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Charlottesville Racing Club junior mountain bike riders in the NICA national mailer, you love to see it!
December 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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ARIADNE is thrilled to announce a double first! Over 32,000 records from the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) Digital Archive of medieval stained glass have been added to the Catalogue along with the implementation of an embedded IIIF viewer.
www.ariadne-research-infrastructure.eu/2025/12/10/c...
December 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
If I'm ever elected to office, I'm going to swear in on a DVD copy of Ken Burns' Baseball
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.

If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Congratulations to 2025 AUPresses Stand UP Award recipient Brett Bobley, former director @neh-odh.bsky.social. This award recognizes his decades-long leadership that empowered university presses to use digital technologies to experiment, collaborate & reach new audiences. https://bit.ly/3XJ3ydj
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for
December 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Interested in architecture on Roman Republican coins? All you have to do is keyword search. Using python natural language processing to reconcile descriptive concepts to Wikidata. These are results of temples, columns, altars, gates, etc. Expect more NLP results throughout our projects soon.
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Saturday night I was in the car scanning through AM radio looking for any college football game to listen to (found UVA-Duke), but also barely picked up a Windsor, Canada Spitfires junior hockey team game. I've always been amazed how far these signals travel.
December 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
December 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Principal Curator of Collection Development (Archaeology)
National Museum of Wales
Salary: Grade F £44,793.83 - £47,360.00
Closing Date: December 23, 2025
Based in Cardiff

www.bajr.org/job-ad/princ...
Principal Curator of Collection Development (Archaeology) - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
Salary: Grade F £44,793.83 - £47,360.00Closing Date: 23/12/25Location:
www.bajr.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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SOURCES: Louisville head coach Jeff Brohm has signaled to the school he plans to remain with the Cardinals and is not exploring other jobs, @theathletic.com has learned.

Brohm is a Louisville alum and talked to Penn State earlier in the process. UL is working on a new contract.
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Lmao at the Ivy League's first-ever playoff trips. What's up nerds
November 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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I made a bot that will post "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," clip by clip, between now and Christmas Eve. That's 12–13 clips daily, 24/7, just so you know what you'd be getting into. (Clips will auto-delete a few days after being posted.) It starts now.
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
lol
remember, folks,
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM