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Addison Dunlap

@addisonaddendum.bsky.social
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A Synthesizing Interdisciplinarian, blogging about public policy, applied economics, languages, games, and the intersections thereof. Mostly following Starter Packs. Mostly.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Someone asked which muppet is most out of pocket on Sesame Street in the wake of the Knicks win. While there are lots of good answers, we actually have photographic evidence for this one
Instagram screenshot of Cookie Monster trying to eat the NBA championship trophy
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"Hind Rajab was a 5-year-old Palestinian child who was trapped in a car surrounded by Israeli tanks in Gaza. she spent her final hours pleading with paramedics on the phone" 💔 They executed her with 350 bullets and kīlled five members of her family.💔🤬💔
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Trump is considering a high-risk move in his war with Iran that could very well cost him the remaining support he has for the conflict.
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Rattled Trump Plots Major Escalation as His War Backfires
Donald Trump is currently eyeing plans that would likely snuff out what little remaining support he has for the conflict.
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Addison Dunlap @addisonaddendum.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
One neat thing about coming back to chess, after spending ~20 years being more invested in Go, is I think of things in terms of Go concepts like "aji", "shape", "moyo", "atari".
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Orioleslifer @dmlfan928.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
If your business can't survive not telling people to kill themselves, your business doesn't deserve to survive.
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 08/11/2025
OpenAI shouldn’t have a business, that’s correct
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Six is ravenous and profane. @thesix.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Your accounts on social media can be banned if someone misinterprets a photo as a death threat, but the billion dollar plagiarism machine is allowed to tell you to kill yourself in no uncertain terms. Neat.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I don’t really want to hear defeatism from people who don’t live in the U.S. or who have already left. We’ve got fighting to do and a democracy to save.
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Alex @theunorthodox.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
BLUESKY ELDER ELECTED NYC MAYOR
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation. If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Want to be in politics in the future? Take an acting class. Improv skills will help you a lot. You will need to be on camera a lot more than any previous generation of politician and performing on camera is (mostly) a learned skill that you can get better at with deliberate practice.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025
Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Off their phones and into the streets www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n...
A Little-Noted Element
Propelled Mamdani's Rise:
Gen Z Loneliness
Members of Gen Z found something unexpected in the mayoral race: a chance to hang out. Their enthusiasm turned into real votes.
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
One of my machine-gunners spoke Cambodian. One of my rifleman spoke Laotian and another spoke Cajun almost exclusively. No Marine I know gave AF because they all swore an Oath to our Nation that including "Up to and including my life." F*ck JD Vance and his prissy Yale Imperialistic view of America.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We are not Constitutionally BARRED from an expectation of privacy in public. The Constitution, as courts have chosen to interpret it, simply does not ESTABLISH such an expectation. There’s no reason we can’t create it via statute.
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Addison Dunlap @addisonaddendum.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
media.tenor.com
a man says " god 's honest truth " in a striped shirt
Alt: a man says " god 's honest truth " in a striped shirt
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
This is a cold civil war.
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Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 14/10/2025
Ken Burns’s Civil War 2 “My dearest Martha, the days are shortening and the atmosphere is as tense as it is cold. Amazon delivered an inflatable frog costume with extended battery for the long stretches we spend taunting our brothers and mortal enemies athwart the barricades of their ICE facility.”
One of the photos of the inflatable frog suit protester confronting ICE goons in Portland.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Trump ordered today another lethal strike in the Caribbean, killing everyone on board a vessel. The "elimination" of 6 more people is not law enforcement; it's extrajudicial murder. This illegal campaign, which has now claimed 27 lives, is part of war plan against Venezuela.
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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Also the ensuing power struggle will be absolutely insane.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
there is no solid proof he is in the checkout line, only circumstantial evidence. but there is much more circumstantial evidence than i expected
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Digging into who they are is fine, but this piece overstates how unusual it is that they're not personally testifying, etc. Where the relevant standing is simply that they're affected voters, you'll have random plaintiffs with nothing else really particular to them. That part is totally normal.
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Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This is a good catch. The statutory authorization supposedly being used to transfer R&D funds to regular payroll is, in fact, expired, just like the regular appropriations are also expired.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
People dislike Greta Thunberg because of jealousy and misogyny. That’s it. They can’t handle a young woman with that level of courage and conviction.
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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
2:15 pm - Speaker Johnson says Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ can be sworn in 'as soon as she wants.' Two hours later, GOP tells reporters Grijalva won't be sworn in until the government shutdown is over.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 06/10/2025
It’s time to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva.
Graphic featuring Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, with the following text: 

"My constituents want me to get to work, but House Republicans are more concerned about protecting the Epstein files."

Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Senator Ruben Gallego calls Speaker Mike Johnson a "Pedo Protector" to his face for not swearing in Adelita Grijalva.
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barbiejo1.bsky.social @barbiejo1.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
He doesn't care. Everyone knows this is nothing but retribution. A black woman proved him a criminal, and he'll do anything to make her pay.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc
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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Zack Polanski is a breath of fresh air, because he is exposing far right populism and all the lies. And everyone is listening because they've had enough. Labour , Tories and Reform are all the same now and that's why he stands out exposing all their hypocrisy.
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catherinemarion.bsky.social @catherinemarion.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
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British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK
Now that the UK has recognised Palestine as a state, this opens legal routes for British members of the IDF to be charged in the UK
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Israel shells Gaza after ratifying ceasefire agreement - www.middleeasteye.net/news/ceasefir…
middleeasteye.net
Israel shells Gaza after ratifying ceasefire agreement
Attacks continue even after two sides approve deal to 'end the war'
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
’He is not the hero we deserve, but he is the one that we need right now.’
The Portland Frog, a guy in an inflatable frog costume, facing off against ICE troops in riot gear.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/10/2025
BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I see so much content geared around creating multiple streams of income and not “relying” on a job. I work 40 hours a week- I *should* be able to rely on that to cover my expenses.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Pam Bondi: we arrested the girlfriend's nephew's wife's dog trainer's husband's sister's friend's boss's husband's brother of the founder of antifa Every journalist: yup sounds normal, no need for followup questions
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all
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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
You know it has to be really, really, really extremely bad Republican disarray if even Politico admits it
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Addison Dunlap @addisonaddendum.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Great resource.
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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
all of life is screens, and all the screens are now haunted, and somehow we've got to somehow keep a society going on this set of facts.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Humans evolved a cognitive 'social proof' system for establishing what's true (if enough of the people around me believe something, I'll go along) and media fragmentation + social media has completely and totally hijacked it Feels like AI will only make this worse
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