ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 37m"Computer, when I say BRING IT IN, GUYS!! replace the birthday party I am currently at with every character from every game, comic, cartoon, TV show, movie, and book reality coming in with everything for a HUGE party. Make my family and friends who are also at my current party happy about this too" 010
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Was reading a take from the heady, utopian days of the post-Watergate 70s that non-committee chair members of Congress be cabinet members, like the UK. The idea was giving them a political base of support separate from POTUS would lead to less imperial presidency. Honestly have heard worse ideas 020
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISPoPville @popville.bsky.social · 01/10/2026OK Back to Cool, literally. DDOT’s Cool Corridors Pilot Has Begun in Brightwood! - See more photos: www.popville.com/2026/10/ddot...popville.comDDOT’s Cool Corridors Pilot Has Begun in Brightwood! - PoPville"DDOT will begin to apply solar reflective “cool pavement” coatings at five sites across the city that have been designated as urban heat islands as part of a broader effort called the Cool Corridors ... 141
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 27/09/2026static.klipy.comMission AccomplishedALT: Mission Accomplished 08810
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I know this isn't really important but why does he always write his own name both in caps, ~and~ in quotation marks? 000
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026No we don’t have any presents. Or what was it you said? “Gifts”? No we don’t have those, why would you think that. Why are you being weird 191908384
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISThe Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef… 66129172820
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Makes me miss the days when the internet was a series of tubes 000
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026yeah, this stuff is far from my area of expertise, but i have yet to see anyone convincingly explain how the causal chain is supposed to operate here. it feels like the "AI will kill us all people" spent too much time watching Terminator 2 and the Animatrix. 3702549297
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Like this? electrek.co/2026/05/17/a...electrek.coAmazon is deploying these massive cargo e-bikes for deliveriesAmazon is officially rolling out e-cargo bike deliveries in Washington, DC, as part of a new pilot program launched in... 120
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The eagle is also smoking a cigarette. 474014513
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Oh dang, i thought i was cool for getting 50k bce. I did make it to four months though 080
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 04/09/2026He sounds like a guy who's worried his ballroom's gonna get torn down 010
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"Nightmarish and surreal" is my favorite genre of monument photos 000
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Working on an index that tells you about the state of our nation based on how much my wife and I are quoting "dey took ur jerbs" at each other 000
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Really feel like I'm becoming one of those squeeze-of-lemon-in-my-water type guys 000
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Lol exactly. It's what the most annoying parent in the entire school offers when their kindergartener trashes the classroom 010
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This may sound snarky but I'm legitimately curious: if ppl don't want to do this anymore, why are they? No one's making them. I'm sure they've got better than average prospects for finding a new job. Why don't they quit? 010
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 24/07/2026They really need one of those crisis hotlines but for like. When you've got a Take on a book you're reading but no one to tell it to 000
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Vanquished by the baby you washed is some Athena bullshit 273760621
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I like to think that to know all would be to forgive all. But there's enough villains running around, the novelty has worn off. Or I just found another avi i thought was amusing. 101
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 14/07/2026There are two genders: "i know thee well, a serviceable villain"; and "stand fast, we have as many friends as enemies" 000
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Maybe we should start doing land acknowledgments for Italians 000
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Yeah this is 100% a Sisi ego trip and nothing else 000
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISDr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Rumor is LeBron is leaving the Lakers to play for the Democratic Socialists of America. Great pickup for the DSA, which really has some momentum right now. 1144789449
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Yes, also a parent of a Crunch Labs addict and can confirm. It's just too bad the summer camp is so expensive 030
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I'm guessing the PR there stood for proportional representation 2110
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISKevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026This is going to be unpopular here, but I think the Democratic Party should balance power towards Congress and away from the Executive, even if that means getting fewer policy wins in the short term, if it means making those policy wins more stable over time. (Also SCOTUS reform, obvs) 4665389
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISSaltyGirl @saltssaltgirl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Tomorrow, all dads are 50% off 352609425
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISone dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 19/06/2026America’s evolution into a country that loses wars and wins soccer games is complete. 10678106
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISFairVote @fairvote.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Our initial takeaways from DC’s 1st ranked choice voting election: 👍 Voters – incl. Mayor Muriel Bowser – told media RCV was easy 🗳️ Voting largely went smoothly, w/ some hiccups like a late rush of voters 🔢 At-large & Ward 1 DC Council Dem primaries likely to go to RCV counts 153
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Pretty sure "ice cream cartel" featured in an Encyclopedia Brown story i read as a kid 000
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISMichalis Kaloumenos @mkaloumenos.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Daily Piece of Art 🎨 Amy Sherald 🇺🇸 (b. 1973) 🖼️ First Lady Michelle Obama (2018) - oil on linen #art 7746121
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13/06/2026I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding. 3669871183
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 08/06/2026*sits bolt upright in bed* No no, Phoney Bone isn't the id, he's the ~superego~. ~Smiley~ Bone is the id. *goes back to sleep* 000
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Platner really seems like the Flight 93 Election on the Dem side. The state of exception has arrived. 010
Reposted by ASSIMILATE THISRiker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 05/06/2026reattach saucer section youtube 1242185
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Oh no, they'll have access to stockpiles of our blandest, most empty-headed corporate-speak 030
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 31/05/2026--the Dutch, during one of the Anglo-Dutch wars, probably 160
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I may be too much of an Orwell fan, but i think it's authoritarianism, rather than conservatism or populism per se. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition, as he writes in The Prevention of Literature, and all today's Rs have is one inquisition on top of another and nothing else 150
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I thought he was publicly for Hillary in 16? I seem to remember a (characteristic) column of his about it. "I endorse you with a 33 and a half foot pole" was one line he had about her i think 110
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Mostly putting this here as a note to myself, but i wish when writing about American politics people would use "popularity" less and "legitimacy" more 000
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 20/05/2026That doesn't strike me as a bad habit, though? I'm sure there's more people than just me in the "Actually we like not being told everything" camp 010
ASSIMILATE THIS @andrewbockover.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I'm kinda over villain arcs. Time to make them sorry they ever set foot in the Alpha Quadrant. 000