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“We can’t eat road salt” is a zinger, but you didn’t see the stadium hot pretzels I grew up eating in the 80s, don’t be so sure.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 9h

Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I ate lunch in that park every day for a summer. It's one of the loveliest spots in all of DC to just watch the way the world interacts with our nation

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Actually, a Stone Cold stunner on concrete wouldn’t involve forcibly plowing anyone’s head into anything, but rather driving their jaw into someone’s shoulder with such force that they recoiled and fell onto the concrete back-first, as any student of American culture would know.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026

in a just world someone would stone cold stun these guys into concrete

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Identification of the insurgents. While chastened, I really think a reckoning with the intellectual dishonesty that he based his views on is a necessity first

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I read Max's book on insurgency from that time period and it's a conclusion in search of evidence for several hundred pages that is full of bias to justify the invasion of Iraq and the conduct of counter insurgency therein. Full of definitions that tend to shift in nature depending on religious

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I will never understand how he was still able to get meetings with influential Dems after that. They hadn't even moved those poor kids out of the school when he said that

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I still remember getting my first email address as a freshman in college. It was the coolest thing ever and no one was screaming YOU BETTER ADOPT THIS OR WE’RE ALL DEAD.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yglesias has lost his mind. This is not "progressive economic thinking," this is what you see on Twitter. substack.com/@matthewygle...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I do understand there are more uses than this. It’s just funny that every AI agent video is like, “All you have to do is give a bot all of your personal, banking, and medical information and soon you too will know when your kids have a little league game!” Sure, sounds great.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026

Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Paul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's wild how we've somehow managed to willingly ignore that NO ONE liked DST going away. Like it messed with people in so many ways, SO quickly

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just hanging on the edge of my seat, waiting for all the witnesses of “Ukrainian biolabs,” because of which Russia was right to exterminate Ukraine, to lose their shit to the same extent over the very much real reckless leak of pneumonic plague from a lab in Russia’s Irkutsk.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 03/10/2026

I remind everyone, again, that they tried year-round daylight saving time and stopped it because it got bunch of kids got killed in just a few weeks

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sexual assault is a felony in North Carolina. Did he ever face any investigation within the criminal justice system?

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love that only the ref could possibly have judged this. No camera angle could give an accurate enough look with how close that was

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Crap camera angle from below. Only spot in the field to tell that one was where the ref was standing. That could t have been good/no-good by more than an inch or two

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is how you know someone's brain has been fucking COOKED, @joshtpm.bsky.social

Evan Barker calling Michael Tracey a national treasure in the context of the Cornell gang rape case where he is attempting to dox the victim.

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Somehow, the Houthis now control Jeddah...."

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are years where one might pay extra to see less Northwestern football. Approve.

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treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yeah I use ai, I am ai-ming to drink some beers tonight

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lol did he say this exactly when the market bell sounded??

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So unrealistic. A real Fremulon release strategy. An X strategy would incorporate 69 AND 420

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reupping this given recent news

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“engage with yudkowsky’s arguments” i will not

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Saying "let go" on regards to a loving relationship is just wild to me. Makes it sound much more like a salaried position than, you know, a normal human relationship.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When nearly all private payroll growth in the last five years has been in health-care or education -->

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week.

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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My pervert bet of the week: that a kick would hit the uprights. Shockingly fun to root for in a crowded Atlantic City sportsbook. (I am of the opinion that gambling is OK if it is inconvenient and grimy.)

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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When people talk about rape culture this is exactly what they mean: Michaels and Herbstreit minimizing and dismissing the allegations of dozens of women.

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My man describes Smashmouth as classical music

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It REALLY feels like a bunch of small signs are beginning to crop up that the current funding nature of AI and its infrastructure is coming under serious pressure

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Ian @511ian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride By Matt Dinniman #2026BooksofIan

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