Jeff Barrus

@jeffbarrus
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Comms at Grantmakers In Health. Formerly Pulitzer Center. Father of nearly adult identical twin women. Middle-aged punk. Gamer. Record collector. Scifi fan. Twitter refugee. Icelandphile.

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it is with a heavy heart that I regret to inform you that the tech bros have invented sails
If there was one piece of advice I could give to new Mastodon users who are finding their feeds quiet or boring, it is to follow as many people and hashtags as you can. This is not Twitter; there is no algorithm, it is not going to fill your feed with stuff it thinks you like. You have to curate it yourself. Once you do, though, it's so much more vibrant and rewarding than Twitter has been for a year. #TwitterMigration #Twitter
@WillRobinson The bitter irony of this, despite the fact that the federal government has no power over local schools, is that Trump's followers all had kids 30 years ago, and their grandchildren are also out of school now.

Over on tumblr a whole lot of people are contemplating the irony that 'regret rates' for HP tattoos are probably easily far far far higher than for gender confirmation surgeries.

https://www.tumblr.com/scorittanius/721607286951460864?source=share

KILLING LANDLORDS WITH KNIVES

Actually, I want to do a study of regret rates for Harry Potter-themed tattoos versus regret rates for gender confirmation surgeries, because my naive suspicion is that the former are considerably hi…

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Taco Bell has menu items that are more supreme than some court justices.

Affirmative action was never about admitting unqualified Black kids. It was always about ensuring qualified Black kids could also get accepted despite a world of systemic racism.

The “unqualified admission” you’re thinking of are legacy students—like how Kavanaugh got into Yale, or how George W. got into yale, or how Kushner got into Harvard.

Every GOP accusation is a confession, and this is no exception.

It’s good to see foreign press point out the general awfulness of Britain’s unregulated media,

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It's easy to make fun of the UK press's determination to spread the 'cat child' hoax, but it's a choice borne out of malice not stupidity.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41173435.html

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Séamas O'Reilly: The 'kids identifying as cats' hoax is one of malice, not stupidity

Irishexaminer.com
So public institutions understand that all their Twitter accounts are now only visible to people with Twitter accounts now, right?