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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1h

Pete Hegseth has the vibes of a guy who still takes his kids' Barbie dolls, makes them scissor each other and thinks it's funny.

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We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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I have eaten the Liberty Biberty that was in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me it was delicious so sweet and so cold

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He's doing this like Steve Jobs unveiling the iPhone and no one at all in the room claps.

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Grant, I'm just sayin'. bsky.app/profile/benj...

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My passport lives in a drawer or safe for 99% of the year and then in the few minutes a year I need to use it, the relevant information is on the inside. Who does this impress and what problem has it solved?

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I'm struggling to figure out who they're trying to impress here or what problem they solved.

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Look, that was the end of the rivalry. That's just the truth of the matter.

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Please someone take both Photoshop and this cursed yellow mascot away from me.

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I just don't think Trevor Story, Nick Sogard, Heliot Ramos and Austin Wells are fueling the greatest rivalry of all time these days.

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Also there’s no history with these plays. The Red Sox are a bunch of anonymous guys.

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sorry i'm sorry i'm trying to delete it

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I've just learned that Liberty Biberty was made by Jim Henson's Creature Shop so it has the same internal consistency of Kermit the Frog and Grover.

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2026 Poll (Registered Voters, 9/22-9/26) 1. Gavin Newsom 15% 2. Pete Buttigieg 18% 3. AOC %18 4. Liberty Biberty 46% 5. Other 3%

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the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 13h

You gotta pluck it first, preferably while still alive.

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Reposted by Ben K.

if you want to know what 'Zohran filling potholes' looks like at the federal executive level it's this. little but noticeable steps towards accountability. it doesn't make the structural crises go away, but it makes them a hell of a lot less noticeable and buys you good will.

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A Tony Stark variant: stupid Not a Tony Stark variant but just using RDJ Jr for name recognition: possibly stupider

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It's a fine way to spend 2.5 hours entertaining myself, but everything about this movie has my internal alarm bells going off. And I hated Deadpoll/Wolverine.

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So what's going on with the polling for the MN Senate race? Or the race itself?

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I'm going to see this movie because I am a huge sucker, but this is turning into the most Try Hard/Please Just End This marketing campaign possible. In terms of basic IP movies coming out, my order of excitement is Spider-Verse and Dune 3 HUGE GAP This fan service disaster.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h

Dr Doom was Keyser Soze the whole time.

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"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

Surely a large part of this is the shift to remote work? My organization, for example, switched to a fully remote office in 2020 and never went back, so now I spend most days at home.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

The State Department has announced it will begin mailing passports in packages with giant letters that say "PASSPORT INSIDE. PLEASE STEAL."

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4h

it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing

screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 4h

We won 81 games and only sneaked into playoffs because the Mariners and Rangers crapped the bed. Why aren't you happy?

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Michael Tracey and a bunch of immature out of control grown men are proving in real time why rape shield laws are necessary and should be strengthened.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 5h

This is what I was trying to get at yesterday. Idiots brainpoisoned by the Internet should not be sitting US Senators.

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This part. Senators and Congresspeople being completely unqualified and stupid is only funny if there are electoral and legislative consequences for it.

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Sky Kalkman @skykalkman.bsky.social · 5h

FWIW, America dot gov is still answering me with Biden when I ask who won in 2020. You'd have to probe it to see what it turns up with.

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Politics, business, anything where you can every control -- THIS is why AI companies are pushing it so hard. You get to control the truth for people who use your products.

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They reprogrammed the America AI for being honest. We are governed by insecure idiots.

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The Ratings Gods insist on separating each game, but they should really just have games on at the same time at night. They could've done: 5 p.m. Atlanta 8 p.m. NY, Houston 10 p.m. San Diego

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