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I’m a New Deal Democrat doesn't bite but may hold forth about trains, politics, or computers consider yourself warned! Somerville, MA

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pretty sure Rhulk lives inside there

10.03.2026 14:04 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“True strategic bombing has never been tried before”

10.03.2026 13:03 👍 217 🔁 16 💬 11 📌 0

A version of Dune where the Bene Gesserit Voice is when tourists think you don't speak English so they speak louder and more slowly

10.03.2026 12:37 👍 93 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 10

A version of Dune where the Voice that the Bene Gesserit use for coercion is just the exaggerated voice you use to talk to dogs

10.03.2026 12:35 👍 36 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
Bangers & Mash | Radiohead | From The Basement
Bangers & Mash | Radiohead | From The Basement YouTube video by From The Basement

whatever Jonny is doing he always looks like he’s doing it as hard as possible youtu.be/qN9vT3v-JLI?...

10.03.2026 12:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

getting a patent or writing a best-selling novel is not the measure of a meaningful creative contribution

10.03.2026 01:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

08.03.2026 23:49 👍 9507 🔁 1670 💬 208 📌 34
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As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

09.03.2026 21:12 👍 9917 🔁 2401 💬 166 📌 107

ah sure, i mostly meant "guy" gender-neutrally but yes the women on there do seem to be more hinged, at least when they announce themselves

10.03.2026 01:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

im built different tho

10.03.2026 00:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”

A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

09.03.2026 12:44 👍 2294 🔁 671 💬 62 📌 172

Mostly because I’m proud to be an American. my state has got a stripe and a star on there and it fought to make this country independent. and secondarily because I think it would be bad for it to become a purely right-wing symbol.

09.03.2026 21:32 👍 40 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

This is so damned stupid.

09.03.2026 20:50 👍 131 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1
09.03.2026 20:15 👍 147 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2

The market isn't cheerleading anything, that's not how any of this works. Markets don't have a rooting interest, they aggregate information by clearing prices where the marginal buyer and seller overlap.

09.03.2026 21:08 👍 140 🔁 4 💬 11 📌 1

Like sorry random person on Bsky, you're not smarter than a market that traded $109bn in notional value today. Pretending you are is the height of arrogance lol.

09.03.2026 21:05 👍 114 🔁 4 💬 14 📌 4

Since they're so stupid and you're so smart, I expect you're making a mint fading them? Feel free to post receipts.

09.03.2026 21:02 👍 127 🔁 1 💬 11 📌 2

“Claude how long will this operation likely last”

09.03.2026 21:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

09.03.2026 14:51 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2

If you get into a “who can cut taxes more” battle with the GOP, you’re going to lose because they are far more shameless and antagonistic to the idea of living in a functioning society.

Don’t concede to their framing that taxes are nothing but a problem to be solved.

09.03.2026 18:38 👍 2608 🔁 490 💬 31 📌 23
A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

09.03.2026 18:01 👍 11166 🔁 1942 💬 776 📌 468
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I can't compete with this.

09.03.2026 16:20 👍 10214 🔁 1728 💬 230 📌 407
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

Exclusive: Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

09.03.2026 19:04 👍 863 🔁 396 💬 165 📌 805

deeply embarrassing but not surprising

09.03.2026 19:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

singularity delayed ~week every time github has some embarrassing operational issue

09.03.2026 17:31 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

that's at least what gets me so incensed about it. this is not, fundamentally, a hard problem. we draw lines on a map, we tax certain things and subsidize others, it's all choices we've made and could make differently. the easiest solutions are just unpalatable to many people with political sway.

09.03.2026 18:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lawyer Accidentally Admits Town Could Have Solved Entire Housing Crisis With One Sentence, Immediately Gets Cross-Examined By Reality From Marshfield, With Love

“This is politically complicated. But not technically complicated.” is about as good a two-sentence summary of the housing crisis writ large as one could hope for
respectfullyno.substack.com/p/lawyer-acc...

09.03.2026 18:50 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

> Kiley said he would "characterize it as my frustration with partisanship itself."

🤡

09.03.2026 18:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

no doubt, but it could be so much better.

09.03.2026 18:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

as it stands it feels like the Acela exists mostly so that we can say that it's there rather than to show what the best quality of rail transit we could provide in this region looks like.

09.03.2026 18:42 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0