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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 18h
HOLY SHIT MAKE IT STOP
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E, List sent to James Talarico; resources needed to fend off $150m+; add donation
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James Talarico here with a last-ditch request....
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It's Gina Hinojosa. You haven't chipped in yet, and we're TIED with Greg Abbott. Wi...
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No Kings Day is October 17! Donuts +
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James Talarico here. I'm only sending this message to a smaller group of folks like y...
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I just poured myself another cup of coffee and wanted to take a quiet minute to be...
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Is there anything I can say to convince you to chip in to help me defeat Greg Abbott...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don’t know how people can watch these repeated incidents of flat out lawlessness and also question the level of general support for a military coup. The judiciary has completely forfeited its duties, so what check is left?
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The "state" that made this "error" is run by Greg Abbott and Republicans
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think one of the most underappreciated bits of accidental absurdist humor is the refrain of Corey Hart's "Sunglasses At Night," which goes as follows: "I turn to her and say: <26 seconds of enthusiastic unintelligible gibberish>"
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We should improve society somewhat, you fuckers.
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well, well, well. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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DC Police Union Challenges Flock Camera Use by Internal Affairs
DC Police Union challenges MPD's use of Flock camera data to monitor officers, sparking arbitration and a D.C. Council oversight push.
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Lynn™ @lynn.cat · 19/09/2026
Pedro Pascal's lesser known sibling, Turbo,
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026
Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation
Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No clue what happened here
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Having had the misfortune of watching Paxton for a very long time, I can virtually guarantee this is part of a scheme to launder campaign contributions into his own personal accounts and I’m not even kidding.
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 09/09/2026
I don't think we talk enough about how this straight up violence. Deregulation of a food supply, especially in a country where millions cannot adequately access Healthcare or take sick time off of work is fucking violent
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There’s some confusing terminology going on: some folks are using “reasoning” to mean “taking a set of input facts, applying an arbitrarily complex set of lemmas, and deriving a set of output facts,” while some are using it to mean “that plus has a soul” and one just feels more intellectually honest
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
QED, internet stranger. QE fucking D.
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Part of my normal bike route, nearly a mile of Houston street through downtown Dallas looks like some Cyberpunk 2077 police-state hellscape as they set up for the Trumpaloosa next week.
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And the most astonishing thing is how recent this all is: DURING MY LIFETIME, there was a period where banks refused to issue credit cards to women. Solely one rhe basis of gender, they simply refused to even consider it.
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Magnetically attached cameras are a wonderful idea until they aren’t.
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You know the internal polling analysis inside the Texas GOP is pretty dire when they start backpedaling on policies they were turbocharging just months ago. www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...
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Texas to cut off state funding for Flock cameras, Abbott's office says
Gov. Greg Abbott’s office said state agencies will no longer fund Flock cameras, a shift that could affect Dallas and other Texas cities.
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
You’ll get there! The trends are good. Here in Texas, I wish we’d double nuclear and take all the lignite offline. They’re both slow to spin up & down, but the nuclear plants cause zero deaths a year, which the lignite plants can’t claim. There’s room for at least one new reactor at both plants.
Lignite coal plants in Texas are significant sources of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), with key facilities like Martin Lake and W.A. Parish causing hundreds of premature deaths annually.
Studies indicate that Martin Lake causes approximately 100 to 154 deaths per year, while W.A. Parish is linked to 109 annual deaths.
Environment Ameri... +3
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026
Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The moon, at 96% eclipse
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So let’s be clear: when people say that they don’t mind immigration as long as it’s done “the right way,” this is the process they’re taking about.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026
that cities should be safer for bicycles does not in any way mean that you should not have to wear a helmet, unless bike lanes magically stop people from crashing in non car-related ways
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Is it safe to eat lettuce yet? Is someone going to tell us when it’s safe? Or is this just one of those things I’ll be telling my grandkids about our trip to Shelbyville “and had a big salad, as back then they used to sell a food called ‘lettuce’ in the grocery store…”
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Is it safe to eat lettuce yet? Is someone going to tell us when it’s safe? Or is this just one of those things I’ll be telling my grandkids about our trip to Shelbyville “and had a big salad, as back then they used to sell a food called ‘lettuce’ in the grocery store…”
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well, I was feeling tired and run down and then I ran two miles and feel much better except that I hate that this works.
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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Honey Nut Cheerios (2026)
General Mills (John Cena) and Buzz the Bee (Kevin Hart) hot on the trail of Dr. Greatvalue's counterfeit operation
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
<G4 on a piano>
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I had to deprogram my kids from this by having them do side-by-side taste tests of brand name food products (chips, cheese, etc) with store brand equivalents. When they *could* tell a difference, they preferred the store brand more often than not.
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’m sorry, what?
Four hopper of coffee beans labeled:

- Java Jolt
- jalapeño
- Hazelnut Crème
- Guatema
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
How dare you impugn Secretary Johnny Bananas in this way
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’m sorry, what?
Four hopper of coffee beans labeled:

- Java Jolt
- jalapeño
- Hazelnut Crème
- Guatema
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Elder Scrolls Items @tes-itemsbot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thrall Never-ending Pants
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Crow @abbyjane.cloverdalelane.com · 14/08/2026
I think about this a lot.
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eat shit, René Magritte
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Mauv @ThatsMauvelous • 1d the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Imagine barely getting 2x the votes of a dude with a trash can on his head.
• Farage won 22,239 votes, with Count Binface in second with 9,455 votes
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Oh, man, do I have opinions here. Just re-read what I wrote on the topic a decade ago, and it’s depressing how little has changed: sporadicdispatches.blogspot.com/2015/11/bett...
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Better Living through Tracking Protection
There's been a bit of a hullabaloo in the press recently about blocking of ads in web browsers. Very little of the conversation is new, but ...
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Man, fuck these asshats.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Poll results vs. how poll results are presented in the Wall Street Journal.
Zohran with a 69% approval to 24% approval, highest favorably for a New York Mayor since LaGuardia announced the free candy and handjobs for all program.WSJ: Mamdani’s Honeymoon With New York is Over
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11/08/2026
"Today, everyone sees the name Taylor Farms and suddenly becomes the Hercule Poirot of the commode. You had our guacamole at noon. You experienced what you describe as a bowel emergency of unprecedented violence at 12:07. Case closed, you say."
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When You Really Think About It, Everything Makes You Poop (by Taylor Farms)
“Today, everyone sees the name Taylor Farms and suddenly becomes the Hercule Poirot of the commode. You had our guacamole at noon. You experienced what you d...
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Holy Christ the chutzpah to walk into a bar that you are famous for mocking, settle down among the regulars, slap your dick up on the table, and then get bent out of shape that no one laughed.
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
No one is forcing Texas classrooms to post verses from the Surah Al-An'am on the wall, so let's take a beat and figure out who the real threat to liberty is here.
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
UBE PANCAKE MIX
Picture of a box of ube pancake mix
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
K-POP DEMON FLAVOR
Shin ramyun noodle packaging with k-pop demon hunters packaging
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Now I want a large Danish.
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Jack B @cat-guy-jack.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Woke up to some home grown WWE today
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Skinner meme: "Am I so out of touch?" "No. It's the voters who are wrong."
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ABR @abr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING.
Broccoli priced at $4.69 — yes somehow four entire US dollars and then some — per bunch.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Michigan, it’s Election Day. If you haven’t voted yet, the polls are open now until 8PM. Make your voice heard. Find your polling location at abdulforsenate.com/vote!
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