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Drew Baird

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Sociologist at Christopher Newport University. Adopted Virginian, recovering Floridian, runner, concert-goer, unapologetic wife guy. Opinions are my own, but I strive to not make them a headache for my chair.

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Ima hit eleven years next month. It’s very heartening to see people show off their even longer periods of sobriety.

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That said, he didn’t perfect the formula he beat-to-death until The Departed, which is a very good movie.

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By far its worst sin by its wholly derivative of other things, and brings nothing new to the table. Honestly been struggling for days to wrap my head around why it’s critically acclaimed.

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It’s a amalgamation of cliches that ready existed in 1990. Puts zero effort into cinematography. And follows the same narrative arc where protagonist slowly gets too over-their-head over the course of many years that Scorsese does time and time again- most recently with Killers of the Flower Moon.

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Goodfellas, is not a good movie.

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Sometimes I laugh and remember how my friend Brendan described dabbing: “They found a way to turn weed into drugs.”

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I've seen a lot of talk about "pebbling" your loved ones with memes & links relevant to them as acts of love, but what do you call it when you send them things that you know will annoy the ever-living-life out of them instead?

www.inc.com/jessica-stil...

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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I am unironically thankful that the Cybertruck exists what other vehicle can provide us this level of schadenfreude day in and day out art comes in many different forms

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If I were put in Jordan Klepper’s position of attending so many of these events and interacting with so many of these people, my mental health would fall off a cliff.

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I am once again asking you to consider that an entire information ecosystem established as the primary form of communication over a hundred years and allegedly regulated by the federal government was destroyed by scammers virtually overnight and we just don’t, like, ever talk about it

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Drew Magary's avatar Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social
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Figured out how to make $30 million, by selling a mail order compilation entitled Now That’s What I Call Problematic! History’s Greatest Cancelled Hits! Featuring “Sex Type Thing,” “Used To Love Her,” “Money For Nothin’”… all the big ones.

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I love and need to hear the optimism. But it's hard for me to get behind anything theory predicated on a substantial portion of journalists conjuring anything resembling "spine."

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I get why the 33% of Americans who are authoritarian cultists intend to vote for Trump. But is it the case the other 12%-15% just find Biden boring and are restless? It really seems like they just want to "see what happens" if they push the authoritarian button again, because might be entertaining.

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It's a cool concept that I think won't go far because almost everyone has a "But, if it supported....."

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Even if he’s not using empirical evidence, at least the Surgeon General is firmly informed by the latest in moral panic.

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What ya’ll do on nights when you can’t sleep and you have the O’Reilly Auto Parts jingle stuck in your head?

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Honestly. This has been my biggest source of 2024 hopium

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The personalized email plea that only you can save him, gets me more than anything else for some reason.

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I don’t know how I live in Newport News, Virginia and saw my first Cybertruck months before all the NY, LA, Chi, DC people on here.

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Has any other politician’s mood been so obsessively assessed and considered consistently newsworthy?

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“In a sweeping change that could improve millions of Americans’ ability to own a home or buy a car, the Biden administration will propose a rule Tuesday to ban medical debt from credit reports.”

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This will be forever be known as the summer I got into phonk music.

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Drew Baird's avatar Drew Baird @drewbaird.bsky.social
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I agree with the sentiment, but you also mischaracterize the natural of the survey question. It’s 1:5 employees have experienced a recent college grad bringing a parent to an interview. Which, I assume means the parent brought them TOO the interview, but that’s not clear.

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Empirical evidence suggests: Police would be much more effective if they simply policed crimes, rather than marauded about communities as predators with their own predation agendas.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Leah Likes Dogs's avatar Leah Likes Dogs @leahlikesdogs.bsky.social
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Drexel has told us we can't come to campus tomorrow or enter our offices, which have 24 hour front desk staffing and 3 different scan or key checkpoints, because of two dozen teenagers in tents who, last I checked, were drawing watermelons in sidewalk chalk DEEPLY embarrassing

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Our Supreme Court Justices are great legal scholars. The best minds. Any insinuation that they are replacement level Fox News watchers will not be tolerated.

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Kieran Healy's avatar Kieran Healy @kjhealy.bsky.social
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One nice sidelight is the way that in many instances the thin yellow empty corridors (roads) against the high-proportion POC blocks neatly bring out the legacy of everyone's favorite New Yorker, Robert Moses.

kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

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Drew Baird's avatar Drew Baird @drewbaird.bsky.social
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As a sociologist with a hobby interest in demography, I'm bullish on Michigan in the coming decades.

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Got a KVM switch for my home office, so I can seamlessly switch with 1-button between my PC desktop and docked work MacBook (where my uni licenses live) using the same 3440p ultrawide monitor, mechanical keyboard, and mouse. Starting to question if my battle station has become TOO powerful.

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Drew Baird's avatar Drew Baird @drewbaird.bsky.social
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Do we have good survey data establishing this? My intuitive sense has always been they see a common Judeo-Christian Western in-group relative to an Islamosphere out-group.

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Mirya Holman's avatar Mirya Holman @mirya.bsky.social
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I will be SO interested to see how sheriffs react to this / varying levels on compliance

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Chris Bennett's avatar Chris Bennett @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social
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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is looking for a statistician (AKA data analyst) to support the Civil Rights Data Collection and help assess compliance.

Remote position, GS-13 ($103k-$167k, depending on location). Application due 5/20 at www.usajobs.gov/job/790083200

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This is absurd and bad pedagogy. But also when I was on the job market seven years ago, I very much considered the "T" and "C" found in TCU to be dealbreakers vis-à-vis my applications and perceptions of future academic freedom.

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Saw “North by Northwest” last night. Once against affirming my theory that nearly all movies from before 1964 are utter garbage.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin's avatar Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social
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Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

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