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Ian Campbell

@iwcampbell.bsky.social

Keweenaw born and raised; Michigan alum x 2; historian of the Russian Empire at UC Davis. Happiest in the kitchen or on a trail. Personal account; opinions my own.

created December 4, 2024

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Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

That game was there for them if having the one guy in there wasn’t a 100% tell for a quarterback draw

6/9/2025, 2:27:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing.bsky.social) reposted

"Harrison Butker... interestingly enough is wide right!" - Rich Eisen 🏈🎙️ #NFL

6/9/2025, 2:13:49 AM | 997 189 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Teams don’t just have one quarterback anymore, because of woke

6/9/2025, 12:16:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

JMU has got to stop this two-quarterback nonsense

6/9/2025, 12:16:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Pearkes (@peark.es) reposted reply parent

Yeah this is a really good point, trying to imagine what my wife's experience in pregnancy would have been like without any relief from Tylenol and it's rough. It's misogyny all the way down.

5/9/2025, 5:52:34 PM | 629 57 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Hustle Chillson (@hustle-chillson.bsky.social) reposted

Lmao Dak spit first!?!??!

5/9/2025, 3:28:48 AM | 24 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Norm Charlatan (@normcharlatan.bsky.social) reposted

This shit’s not even very good.

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4/9/2025, 2:57:38 AM | 740 44 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Is it the fever or is this game unusually dumb?

5/9/2025, 12:47:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

I’m really glad I tested in the middle of the night when I still just had a sore throat and drainage. Faintest possible positive line on the test. 16 hours later…I’m not critical but the sinuses are worse and the fever is 102. Everything else aside, would have sucked to be on a plane for 12 hours.

4/9/2025, 11:46:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah that reply implies that he has no agency whatsoever and she has the choice between being a saint or a bitch. That’s Gender, Baby

4/9/2025, 11:44:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

There was a reply calling it abuse on her part. Abuse!

4/9/2025, 11:24:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you! So far it’s mild and just annoying because of the circumstances.

4/9/2025, 10:57:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Ugh, COVID for me now too. Archives visit pushed back a week. Thank God I didn’t have to cancel fully.

4/9/2025, 10:51:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

In terms of what they/we’re keeping from you it’s worth mentioning that I have pairs from Target that have held up to [since college] years of wear and wash. Women’s athleisure at that price point…does not do that, I think.

3/9/2025, 11:25:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Gallon a day is the level that can render a person anemic, no?

3/9/2025, 10:24:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Depending on tone a white person saying “buddy” is either genuinely happy to see you or madder than they have been in their entire life.

3/9/2025, 9:52:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

I should clarify that I am aware of the general situation and of my various forms of privilege and am exclusively seeking reassurance. I will block responses that imply otherwise on sight. 😎

3/9/2025, 9:18:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Anyone have a recent “I came back to the US and border control was normal and fine” story? Leaving soon and anxiety about the trip back is through the roof.

3/9/2025, 9:17:16 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Jesus Christ.

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3/9/2025, 7:38:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

It’s unnecessary. There’s no reason for this.

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3/9/2025, 6:08:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

If you cannot leave my long 19th century classroom without saying “Roads! Schools! The army!” on demand, you get the stocks. This is that carceral pedagogy you hear so much about.

3/9/2025, 2:17:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

“Ian,” nobody ever asks me, “why do you have a whole lecture that just rehashes _Peasants Into Frenchmen_?” Well, it’s this

3/9/2025, 2:10:36 AM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

People should read Peasants Into Frenchmen! It is a beautiful book and used copies are cheap!

3/9/2025, 2:09:12 AM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

My favorite thing about this guy is it’s the only kind of home run he hits. He’s what third-grade me would have sketched as “awesome baseball player” but an actual living guy.

3/9/2025, 12:49:57 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

but also: if he wanted to call it Donald's Big Beautiful Language Grant or whatever the hell, I'd probably take the deal if we got them back. Brings me back to the initial point -- it is just degrading to live this way.

2/9/2025, 11:06:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

yeah we're in this spot where both the material and symbolic damage is pretty severe. Like it's fundamentally offensive to name a student grant program after a man who famously bilked people out of millions with a fake university.

2/9/2025, 11:04:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

You know what, fuck it. If we have to call them “Trump Grants” to keep them, whatever. I just so deeply hate that we have to live like this.

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2/9/2025, 10:54:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

It kind of has to be missing from the Discourse because that would have to acknowledge that the reasons that women pretty universally have less babies when they're able -- care work, the actual experience of pregnancy and birth -- are things you can't Numbers Fuckstein your way out of.

2/9/2025, 10:42:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

This is a good point. In general (and I’m not trying to offend; there are posters I like covering this from every angle) it seems to me than men and women are talking about this issue very differently. It would behoove us, as men, to think about that a bit!

2/9/2025, 7:18:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

You simply can’t tax credit your way out of what pregnancy and childbirth actually, physically are. And in a liberal society the greatest good involves the people assuming that risk deciding whether or not, or how often, they want to do so. Everything else is noise.

2/9/2025, 6:29:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

I cannot believe this site is talking about birth rates AGAIN but here’s one relevant bit of anecdata: within my (educated, middle class) social circle there is one woman who died in childbirth and two more who easily could have.

2/9/2025, 6:27:26 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Iron Chef Bot (@ironchefbot.bsky.social) reposted

Frame #7900 from S05 -E19 - Matsuba Crab-629277
2/9/2025, 2:30:11 PM | 134 26 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

We gotta SUBSTANTIALLY raise the bar on what is considered taunting

2/9/2025, 1:38:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

No one has ever looked more like their name is “Steve Belichick”.

2/9/2025, 1:13:35 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Considering a French Revolution-style calendar based on seasonal beverages. Watch this space

2/9/2025, 12:11:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

‘Tis the season, Marge! We only get thirty crisp, malty days, then the government takes it away again

A tall glass of God’s Own Beer, Oktoberfestbier
2/9/2025, 12:10:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

John imagine the uncomfortable comparisons of their leadership styles. Imagine the camera cutting to Jordon Hudson. Let your mind roam.

1/9/2025, 11:13:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Ope, should have read the multiple comments saying similar before chiming in.

1/9/2025, 10:56:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

My beef is more that we’re already doing most to all of this and that the people who are most pissed at universities are also pissed off, specifically, at our efforts to improve!

1/9/2025, 10:54:36 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Imagining a scenario where It Happens tonight and the word comes in during a sideline interview with Bill Belichick

1/9/2025, 10:50:42 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

(Take related to the intra-Left fighting on this; right wing critiques have different roots.)

1/9/2025, 8:13:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

One of the more frustrating aspects of the discussion to me (not a public health expert) is that to a first approximation…it worked? We got a vaccine and an effective treatment and vastly reduced the number of dead and disabled. With no roadmap. That’s a Goddamn triumph.

1/9/2025, 8:12:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

I think my actual take on this is that a lot of people had a very unpleasant 2020 for reasons but included but weren’t limited to COVID and are still working out how they feel about that. The “not limited to” bit is what’s lurking behind a lot of these spats.

1/9/2025, 8:06:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

I do think that with just one more debate on COVID closures we’ll probably figure out what the right answer was and will be able to safely return to relitigating the 2016 Democratic primary

1/9/2025, 8:00:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) reposted

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.

1/9/2025, 4:35:23 PM | 6968 1369 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

God I would *love* to put on a light sweater right about now.

1/9/2025, 6:01:26 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Once I turned 18 and was eligible to work the Friday/Saturday 5pm-2am (ie, stay open for the bars) shift, this job became quite educational.

1/9/2025, 4:50:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

The first one that I count (for some reason paper routes and teaching piano lessons feel different) was as a sandwich artist at my home town’s Subway, $6.25/hr. Eat fresh!

1/9/2025, 4:49:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tim Price (@timprice.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

What if he comes back looking totally normal (for him) except he has an earring now and they just try to play it off like he’s always worn it.

31/8/2025, 10:57:57 PM | 16 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

By my count this is a third Meteor Game in two days (after Texas-OSU, LSU-Clemson).

31/8/2025, 11:53:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Shout out to historical fiction about the dying aristocracy; gotta be one of my favorite niche subgenres

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Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

60% of why I’m into it is this thing but we still count that

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31/8/2025, 10:13:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

I give in. K-Pop Demon Hunters is pretty cute.

31/8/2025, 10:07:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Sterne (@petersterne.com) reposted

Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.

Tweet from Joshua J. Friedman: Plaintiffs: No. Possible some children might be in that situation, but everything we could find on short notice is children not in this situation. Judge: Mr. Ensign you saying that *all* these children have parents who are requesting their return to Guatemala? DOJ: That's what I've been told Tweet from Joshua J. Friedman: Judge: During recess, I read provision you cited and then the complaint. Every one of 10 named plaintiffs says they are *afraid* of being sent back to Guatemala. (Reads aloud from declarations.) Doesn't line up with what govt is saying. This is why we have courts.
31/8/2025, 6:39:13 PM | 4891 1681 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BeijingPalmer (@beijingpalmer.bsky.social) reposted

Lorenz is ironically a very good example of the thesis that upsets her so much: social media is very bad for many people.

30/8/2025, 11:39:04 PM | 799 79 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

A decade of commuting by bike helped me to understand this intuitively/viscerally and is also the reason I no longer commute by bike

31/8/2025, 6:26:51 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Did Boeing write this

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31/8/2025, 6:08:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

I was in Russia when Obama was elected. I have earned this.

31/8/2025, 4:45:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

If he does not kick it in the next couple days then I wish him continued fair health for the next couple weeks, until I’m back in the country.

31/8/2025, 4:44:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

High school acquaintance (graduating class of 75, everyone is an acquaintance) who shared this one is a nurse 🙃🙃🙃

31/8/2025, 3:43:31 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) reposted

Incredible level of starting something you have zero intention of finishing

31/8/2025, 2:15:52 AM | 1024 232 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Buddy, I’ll give you a hint: the word that’s blacked out in that screenshot has four letters and starts with “k”.

31/8/2025, 2:10:41 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

How on earth is that targeting? That’s just a tall guy tackling a shorter guy!

31/8/2025, 1:50:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

So UNM of course not very good, but this looks like a coherent offense. We weren’t doing this to *anyone* last year. You really see how even a slightly plausible threat of going downfield opens everything else up.

31/8/2025, 1:05:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, what’re you going to do about that

31/8/2025, 12:47:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

BIG GUY INTERCEPTION

31/8/2025, 12:31:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh Christ Barham on a free run at the QB is not what you want

31/8/2025, 12:03:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Ryan I hooted, and also hollered

30/8/2025, 11:58:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

You love to see the quarterback throwing a block. Love it!

30/8/2025, 11:56:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Nice start, gentlemen.

30/8/2025, 11:41:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Mentally rotating an Alabama football = Brazil soccer take. Still a good team; sometimes going to be really good. But they spent a long time with an advantage because people were scared of the uniform and that is just no longer happening.

30/8/2025, 10:14:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

20.88 200m in *high school*, too.

30/8/2025, 8:47:33 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Davis Warren was 9/16 for 62 yards against Ohio State. It is time to Start A Dialogue.

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30/8/2025, 6:43:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Says something about the standard that Courtney Dauwalter has set that the response to her finishing tenth at UTMB in horrible conditions is, like, universal shock

30/8/2025, 5:32:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

“It’s almost unfair that he has to go against a former NFL defensive coordinator” It’s Matt Patricia, Gus. It’s fine.

30/8/2025, 5:15:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Two Jeremiah Smith drops on three targets? Oh we’re developing some libelous narratives.

30/8/2025, 4:47:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Four months of this Meghan Trainor ad might break me

30/8/2025, 4:36:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Ohio State…they just don’t play for each other. They don’t pick each other up. That starts from the top.

30/8/2025, 4:30:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Is there any chance that Ohio State can lose this convincingly but in a way that shows the Arch Manning talk has been “a little much”?

30/8/2025, 4:03:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Bummin’. We had Taylor Tomlinson tickets for tonight but the kid has COVID. (And despite two negative tests I now think I know why I’ve been exhausted since Tuesday.) There is also the fun of hoping this all clears before Big Travel next week.

30/8/2025, 12:49:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

She seems to think of her own life as a novel and to be so wrapped up in that that it could never occur to her that she’s the villain in someone else’s story. I don’t know if this is *clinically* narcissism, but if it quacks like a duck…

29/8/2025, 11:09:15 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah and I think if you are in one of the Takes Industries (academia, journalism) you are much more likely to encounter a representative of these marginal groups than someone wielding actual power, which causes one to misunderstand the problem.

29/8/2025, 10:53:24 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew Downhour (@matthewdownhour.bsky.social) reposted

The left-liberal divide on Ukraine in the U.S. at least is extremely exaggerated by these two otherwise marginal factors imo. Almost all actual power wielding anti-Ukrainians in the U.S. are on the right

29/8/2025, 4:56:14 PM | 370 43 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

In my experience deer are libertarians. So there’s clearly some risk even at that level.

29/8/2025, 10:35:08 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

bUt yOu wOuLdNt bE dEpReSsED iF yOu jUsT eXeRcIsEd Come to Folsom Lake, Bobby. Bring gels. We start early.

Rio del Lago 50K last fall
29/8/2025, 9:29:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

It bears repeating that SSRIs are life-saving for millions of people (including me) and taking them away would be life-threatening for those people. RFK is a clown who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

29/8/2025, 9:26:05 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted

I think a lot of the discourse on Bluesky about Bluesky could be summed up by saying “people already feel sufficiently anxious”

29/8/2025, 7:28:18 PM | 251 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kelsey Atherton (@atherton.bsky.social) reposted

This came to me in a vision

29/8/2025, 11:48:41 AM | 2024 540 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pam Herd (@pamherd.bsky.social) reposted

Nearly all PhDs take 5 years--with finishing in 4 a rare outcome. This is deliberately designed to eliminate the international powerhouse that is US postgraduate training.

29/8/2025, 11:35:11 AM | 367 167 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

(I also have some thoughts about one of the specific panelists here. No prizes for guessing which one!)

28/8/2025, 11:54:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

It is very, very CHE to organize something like this and have exactly one of the panelists be currently employed as a professor (and that's as a clinical professor, whose day-to-day work differs from what the modal faculty member is up to).

28/8/2025, 11:53:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

There’s going to have to be a G5 playoff team this year but man I do not think Boise is it

28/8/2025, 11:19:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s like watching a sleeper agent get activated by a code word you’re unaware of. You’re just watching TV and then there’s an ad for, I don’t know, M&Ms, and it’s off to the damn races.

28/8/2025, 7:27:26 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

A lot of people on this site are in that *exact* group and carrying around a lot of hurt from eg MAGA family who will not respect the most basic of boundaries. It affects how we talk about stuff! How could it not?

28/8/2025, 6:37:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Re: last repost. If you are a liberal say 35-45 years old you have eaten just an unimaginable amount of shit in the last decade. A lot of discourse (and a lot of politics) assumes that you will be happy to keep doing this. I’m not sure that’s so!

28/8/2025, 6:19:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurasaurus (@laurasaurus.bsky.social) reposted

I wish the survey had included a question like “do you continue to bring up political subjects after friends/family have asked you not to?” to get a better idea of the actual number for Trump voters.

28/8/2025, 4:47:59 PM | 13 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Or you learn that apparently “look, can you please just not in front of the kids?” is an impossible boundary. And then that, too, is that.

28/8/2025, 6:12:41 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social) reply parent

Hoo boy have I lived this. And then you discover that no topic is actually safe, and that is that.

28/8/2025, 6:10:00 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Campbell (@iwcampbell.bsky.social)

Real Madrid come to Almaty if you want an ass-kicking

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28/8/2025, 5:18:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tina Smith (@smith.senate.gov) reposted

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

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