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RANDOM POSTER WHOSE OPINION I HAVE NO REASON TO TRUST: A result like this in NV-03 would be seismic. That’s deep Blortles country. It was Vinkum +8 in ‘24 ME DURING ELECTION SEASON: totally. i just need to look at 9000 more of these

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Drastic @drastic.bsky.social · 3h

17 or so, summer job at a fiberglass molding plant. In summer job terms, it paid extremely well. A few days of fiberglass dust and I learned a very important life lesson that it is very worth it to take pay cut (to some other light-warehouse, non-fiberglass-dust gig) for quality of life.

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Maryland Blue Girl 💙 I have words and know how to use them @quothpam.bsky.social · 3h

I was fired without actually having the job. It was a job watering and maintaining plants in office buildings. I was told I needed to do a trial day to see how I performed. Was told the next day I wasn't selected. I wasn't paid for the 8 hours I worked. How do you fail watering frikkin plants?

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Please hire an editor. @hire-an-editor.bsky.social · 3h

High school: hired at KFC – the manager told me I could have all the food I wanted at close. Worked 2 shifts, there was never any food left over. Slipped & fell on my tailbone as the kitchen floor was coated in grease. Couldn't get out of bed the third day, called in but no answer, got fired.

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Mary Lawrence @wellonwheels.bsky.social · 2h

First year of college I worked at my campus call center contacting donors. We'd get bonuses for donations of $250+. After hours of hangups, one elderly woman pledged $500. My bonus was $50, more than my hourly pay for the whole night. I took the $ and never went back.

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Eedeedee @edyieeiyde.bsky.social · 2h

Hired to set up a living history museum in NC. The owner's brother-in-law starting hitting on a 16 y.o. docent. She said, "He's asking me to go to dark places with him like the utility closet." 😱 I called the girl's mom, banned the dude from the premises. I got fired the next day.😂

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Berkley Lynch @berkleylynch.bsky.social · 1h

Portland, Oregon for the summer break in college in 1979. Needed cash to pay rent in the summer apt. Signed up with temp work. Sent to small machine shop. Eight hours of jamming rods into a machine that melted the ends, and dropping them into a box. Swollen hands. Made rent. One day what was it :)

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

you don't always have to tweet

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 3h

One thing you’re seeing in the homestretch in both the Senate and the House is that a bunch of these “safe seat” Rs adapted to compete in an entirely intra-Republican ecosystem and are 100% unprepared to navigate an actual general election

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

TELEGRAPH: Trump & Musk conspired to throttle Starlink and make Ukraine more vulnerable to Russian attacks — then Musk tried to blame only Trump. Putin wins again, as usual. Russia was never a hoax. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 3h

I told ya, they both did it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

elon will look untouchable right up until he doesn't anymore and western governments should accelerate that day as quickly as possible

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3h

If you want to reduce rape on your campus, expel the rapists. If you want to reduce sexual harassment in your company, fire the harassers. If you want to reduce rape in your community, prosecute the perpetrators. This isn’t actually complicated; it’s just politically convenient to pretend it is.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3h

That’s why well-intentioned calls for, say, more consent education often strike me as misguided. Rape is not an accident or a misunderstanding; the rapist knows full well that he rapes. The issue is that rape provides benefits for the rapist and for his community that they don’t want to give up.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/10/2026

If these frat boys were holding up "Stop The Genocide" signs on campus instead of raping women, universities would have expelled them and banned the frats already

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3h

We actually do know how to reduce rape. We do it the same way we disincentivize other behaviors: we punish it severely and consistently. The issue is not that we don’t know the solution, but that we lack the will to carry it out.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3h

Gone but never forgotten. Karen Zantaria, Lawyer(ish): Monday Oct 12th 2026 - Friday Oct 16th 2026

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In Loving Memory

ALT: In Loving Memory

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

really funny how the "YOU'RE FIRED!" guy has such a hard time firing people. they way he pushed out Katie today was as passive aggressive as it gets

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3h

Scott Presler, the GOP's top GOTV operative, employed an organizer convicted of strangulation and zip-tied his father and demanded his father transfer $4,000 to him. www.thebulwark.com/p/gops-top-g...

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 3h

"When I was a kid, nobody died of measles." Yes, because WE GAVE EVERYONE A VACCINE TO PREVENT DEATHS FROM MEASLES.

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3h

the canadian healthcare system is light years better than the american system. many americans do not believe this because they have been taken in by right wing propaganda. but it's truly no contest. anyone suggesting otherwise is just wrong

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 9h

Got an email from my college inviting me to a workshop on commedia dell'arte, and very tempted to reply all with the classic Onion image

"Who is our favorite Commedia dell'Arte character?"
2,500 Americans polled:

Don't know: 100%

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 4h

so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4h

See? There are still jobs available that pay $195,200.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 7h

So, no, Euronews, Tesla will absolutely not be profiting off this vehicle. To the extent it ever makes it to market at all (doubt level could not possibly be higher), it'll be solely because Elon Musk is a trillionaire and he thinks it'll be funny to waste tens of billions of dollars on this garbage

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 7h

This creates WILD improvements in handling, since race cars are always trying to get the maximum downforce possible in order to increase the surface area of the contact patch and lower the center of gravity (I had a really fun thread on that a while back where a tire expert had some truly...

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 7h

The first is the "suction" system that holds the car upside down. This is done through a system of strong fans that take in air from under the car and exhaust it elsewhere. This was first introduced in the 1970 Chaparral 2J racing car, which was banned after one season and has been banned ever since

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 7h

Three big problems: the electric motors required to drive that magnetic field are heavy; they're expensive; and they use a bunch of energy. Shortly after Bose perfected the prototype tech, sharpening fuel economy standards made manufacturers look to eke out every extra MPG they could from their...

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 7h

Since the car is not physically attached to the ground in any way - remember, it's floating on an electromagnetic field, and there's no physical connection holding the weight of the car's body up - it's the smoothest conceivable ride. It also completely eliminates transient weight shifting, which...

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 7h

The benefits to this are obvious to anybody familiar with automobile suspensions, but instead of explaining I'll just show you. Bose put this suspension in a Lexus LS400 and this video exploded on the internet 20 years ago. JUST LOOK AT IT! IT'S MAGIC!

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Bose active suspension

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 7h

Starting around 1980, Bose (the speaker company) started thinking about making an automobile suspension using the same type of electromagnetic systems that drive audio speakers. You would have a permanent magnet attached to the wheels, floating inside an electromagnetic field attached to the unibody

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 7h

As both a certified CAR GUY and an economist-ish, I cannot imagine a headline more designed to drive me, personally, insane. This "flying car" technology is neither new nor novel. It is not practical and would not sell. Let me tell a story of actually useful car tech that never made it to market.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4h

Katie Zacharia to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

We finally have the previously undisclosed donor list for Trump’s ballroom, and guess whose name is missing? Trump’s $333 mill in donations & pledges, including: 📌 Nvidia: $25 mill 📌 Apple: $25 mill 📌 The Adelson’s: $25 mill 📌 Charles Ergen (Dish Network): $25 mill 📌 Palantir, Meta, Comcast

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 7h

AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6h

Yuuuuuuuuuuuup. I've mentioned before that when I was, like, 10, my IQ was very important to me. The older I've become the more I've recognized IQ is, if not just plain nonsense, then a wildly limited way to understand how one's brain gets along in the world and with other humans.

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AJ Hamilton 🇨🇦 @aj-hamilton.bsky.social · 5h

Fuck you america🖕 Stop interfering in my country with your nazi bullshit. Canada does Canada and you fuckers get no say!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: Was it you or was it Elon Musk who decided to temporarily pause Starlink access for the Ukrainian military? TRUMP: I don't know if it was anybody, because it wasn't me, and I don't think it was Elon

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 5h

"refilling the nitrogen tanks isn't something you'll be doing at home, and at the moment it takes six to seven hours to fill all 600 liters" well yeah, until Tesla builds out its worldwide network of Nitrochargers and California subsidizes a prototype nitrogen swap system

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 6h

the version of the Roadster that can kickflip is a single-seater, because a second can of 10,000 PSI compressed nitrogen will be right next to you, where the passenger sits in the other versions you'll really have a front-row seat when that bad boy goes full OceanGate on your ass

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 6h

it's clear from the engineer patter that Musk's design brief for the Roadster was "break the laws of physics," which makes sense considering they're really the only laws Musk hasn't broken yet

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 6h

in order for the Roadster's "suck system" to work, increasing downforce as demonstrated by driving upside-down, the car has to drop little side skirts to seal the underbody... these are casually described as "replaceable, sacrificial items made from rubber with nylon bristles" lol; lmao

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 6h

"but this actually looks... it doesn't ruin the lines," the motoring journalist says haltingly, as the camera pans across the moving rear spoiler in ways that make it impossible to hide the fact that it does very much ruin the lines

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 6h

if I were being given exclusive access to Tesla's "flying car" I would simply not preface the video by describing myself as a "motoring journalist"

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