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@ayjay traveling for work today and got to enjoy this AM’s entry watching the sun rise from US-23.

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Dining center I’m at is serving Gochujang Chicken and when asked “is this spicy” the culinary platform attendant shook their head no. Either they are choosing violence or don’t really have a good sense what gochujang is.

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Received a delightful little traffic update from Ingham County Emergency Dispatch today.

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📷 🍂 Track fall progress with me through the maple in my front yard. 2026.10.12.

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I get that there is a lot of enthusiasm out there for Warhammer 40K (at least in my feeds) when it comes to games and animation, but Piranah Games is doing phenomenal work with Battletech and their Mechwarrior 5 tranches. Never been a better time to jump in on the IP’s lore. Go watch some Sven van der Plank...

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Cxffeeblack on the relationship between sustainability, fair trade, and the long tail of colonialism in the coffee industry:

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Sustainability discourse asks how to keep the crop alive. It rarely asks how to keep the grower whole. When certification schemes negotiate a differential of a few cents, what is being priced is a human life, and the negotiation assumes the arrangement itself is acceptable and only the number is in dispute.

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What is the fair trade for my children to be cotton pickers? There is no number. I am not asking what the wage should be. I am asking why that is the position on offer at...

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@historicalmarker.bsky.social If @ifbookspod.bsky.social DID pick this topic up they should interview @mburtwrites.bsky.social and @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social who wrote a fairly comprehensive book reviewing the whole genre and did a podcast series on it www.buzzsprout.com/2463181/epis…

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To the extent that I’m starting to see a bit a fuss on my feeds about what may or may not be happening with the Plague in Russia its worth reading folks who will remind you to take a deep breath before jumping to conclusions.

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@dancohen Easily one of my favorite pieces of software that I use on an (almost) daily basis. It’s functionality on personal computer quite literally drove me to stop using an iPad as my common tasks computer.

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Propublica is documenting in detail the detention of U.S. citizens by (typically masked) Federal law enforcement officers under the guise of immigration policy administration.

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@help noticed that this particular post which includes an embedded element from Mastodon is not displaying correctly on MB and not showing at all on my actual blog (nic.babarskis.blog). Only major change between this post and the last time I created a similar style post is I upgraded to the recommended hugo version.

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📷🍂 Tracking the fall progress through the maple in my front yard 2026.10.05.

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@zotero can now read articles, ebooks, and webpage snapshots in their PC or iOS apps:

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📷 I think this fortune comes across as more foreboding than intended.

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I like reading @connectedplaces.online because even if many of the projects highlighted in their most recent roundup end of failing they project a hopeful vision for a less toxic social web.

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Reading today about the botched execution of Christa Pike. This is not the first time these types of complications have been document.

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IMHO the “medicalization” of the U.S. justice system’s capital punishment apparatus is a total farce. Execution is inherently violent and malevolent and no amount of...

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@JudsonGreene what are you looking for in a prose editor or typesetting software?

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🍂📷 Autumn vibes are on point for October 1st.

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@mwerickson A true Paul Rudd “hey look at us” Hot Ones situation

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When it comes to a non-peer-reviewed or non-scholarly-theory based definition of a primary tension in U.S. Evangelicalism I don’t think you can do much better than how @skye.jethani frames it:

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{quoting a Christian bookstore owner}: “It’s our job to find out what our customers need, and then seek to meet those needs. Any Christian bookstore that sets out to change the customer’s desires is headed for bankruptcy.” And I think this is what they both get right about the American white evangelical experience, and that is it is largely shaped by the marketplace. In that it’s a populist movement that if you...

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📷🍂Come track the fall progression with me through the maple in my front yard. 2026.09.28

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@martynwendell.bsky.social The perjury punchline is so absurd I think everyone is glossing over the “show me the man…” quote that he never actually folded into bolstering his larger “dirtbag” accusation.

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Evergreen meme. 🌭🌲

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🎶 when was one of ya’ll gonna inform me Tiny Habits exists, and how long have you known? 🎶

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@nic.babarskis.blog Listen here, if you want a succinct summary of how incredibly wrong the sentiment on display in that example is start with this engrossing little animation about Chaos Dragons (no, really): youtu.be/JN1thcowKXw?…

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🎥🍎✈️ Final approach at the cider mill today:

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Adding this article blurb to the mental corkboard I maintain dedicated to antecedents of a tech-inflected neofeudalism.

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From 16,000 to 185 to 0:

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On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.

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“As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens,” Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests. “You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise.”

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Propaganda. Claims about systemic voter fraud is a form of anti-democratic propaganda.

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@waketosleep.bsky.social “Dignity and an empty sack is worth the sack” Rule of Acquisition #109

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@actingthefulemin.bsky.social Mine harumphed that Brave New Worlds (BNW?) was a bit too “preachy“ and in my head I’m like “you watched TOS and TNG when they originally aired”

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@actingthefulemin.bsky.social my parents are also in the Star Trek to Paramount+ westerns pipeline.

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Not sure I could stomach the sustained depravity but considering a Barbenheimer-esque double feature of Alex Gibney’s The Innovator followed by You Can See Everything.

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@matthewlang I use Zotero notes and Zettlr for some of my writing, primarily because I got sick of all the feature creep in Word and want to present some token resistance to going all in on Apple or Google so I too think there will always be some sort of market for plaintext. I just think about how long TeX has been around given less clunky alternatives so never underestimate a user base’s loyalty to a favored tool.

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Michigan State University had a campus wide power outage from Saturday afternoon through the remainder of the weekend. Electricity has been restored but the steam system that handles hot water and HVAC for much of campus remains disabled. It’s a bracing reminder that we take a lot of (literally) submerged infrastructure for granted till it fails.

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From the university webpage with info on the restoration work:

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The T.B. Simon Power Plant converts energy from natural gas into steam and electricity, which is used for building functions such as heating and cooling. Steam for use in HVAC and electric power...

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Worth noting briefly that it’s PFAS awareness week here in Michigan.

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📷 It’s gettin wet out there.

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social I guess Erick’s opinion on Pinochet went through an Obama style evolution: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erick_E…

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Due to a @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social post I have to once again update my incredibly niche meme.

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Guide to wildflowers from the Historical Book Images site:

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@elizabethbitmeehan.com @mcsweeneys.net is already compiling the annotated bibliography: www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest…

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social What is “the institution” though? The publishing fermament, the political organizing and aid organizations? The postsecondary institutions?

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social Not sure this is a fair encapsulation of the argument (as you’ve encountered it) but what I find frustrating is that it comes across as both “the political elite’s don’t define the movement you should look to the pews” AND “pay not attention to the pew’s collective voting behavior.”

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social I agree with you, but I think that someone who adopts your framing for how bodies of knowledge evolve has already self-selected into a number of presuppositions about reality and human agency that make KKdM’s analysis intellectually palatable.

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social I can only speak from my own experience of those sorts of events (and the lifelong impression they can leave) and a very limited sample of people who engaged with the book with a negative outlook. I would bet the P.K. chapter alone gives a permission structure for dismissing the whole thing.

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social Yeah, but if one’s worldview is predicated on a preference for understanding phenomenon through a culturally defined (and not really interrogated) “common-sense” I don’t think it matters how sincerely you try to explain the difference.

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social OR, maybe shortened a bit: KKdM’s argument has to surmount the warm feelings one has from attending Promise Keepers events with their dad.

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social IMHO its a bit of an extension on the point @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social made about compartmentalizing systemic and personal ethics. You may be able to point to a figure like Oliver North as a movement proxy but there’s a worldview that firewalls them from a local pastor/congregation member.

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@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social The criticism I’ve encountered from people I respect: they sincerely believe what she’s focused on in the historical record is elaborate nut-picking cloaked as critical historical analysis. In other words, a type of presentism. This is especially lodged against the Promise Keepers chapter.

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@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social Easily the most metal college rivalry. There was an actual civil war massacre where Missourians inflicted death and destruction on KU’s town: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrenc…

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@canneddragons I think the MB equivalent to this would be someone arguing that an excerpt from the 1662 Book of Common prayer is superior to the current version foe a pre-BBQ blessing OR someone getting dragged for saying they used Claude for a homemade ranch dressing recipe.

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