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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 20h

He is saying the same things now that AOC has been saying for years. It's good to have all those voices

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 22h

Once you know it, you see it everywhere "why would I deceive you"

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Huh, just like the Saudi intelligence operatives who infiltrated Twitter to spy on Saudi dissidents. One who graduated from the University of Colorado. Saudi infiltration of Twitter - Wikipedia share.google/lTFihwBM5opX...

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Saudi infiltration of Twitter - Wikipedia

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Somehow, I don't think Ukraine is causing this problem. “He wants to make problems for the world,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Zelensky. “He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers with diesel fuel because Russia supplies a large portion of the diesel fuel throughout the world.”

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Rebuking Ukraine Over Oil Strikes, Trump Says It Should ‘Get a New President’ (Gift Article)

Hours after President Trump said the United States would buy Russian diesel, the Kremlin said there would be no immediate resumption of discussions to end the war.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey, and the lamb, the catfish and the tilapia and, increasingly, even the salmon, a carnivore by nature that the fish farmers are reengineering to tolerate corn. The eggs are made of corn. ..."

goodreads.com

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

What should we have for dinner? For omnivore like ourse…

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And it's not going to leave via the Baltic or black sea.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Russia has no diesel to spare, this is all an op. The only things that will happen are that Zelensky will say America is weak (which has already happened), then when Trump wakes up he'll have a hissy fit. And in the meantime, he probably invested in diesel options.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The grift is strong with this one. "Guilfoyle had been chatting with Eric Deters, a former congressional candidate in Kentucky who was seeking her help in getting the attention of ... Trump ... on some personal tax and legal issues—and had promised ... as much as $1 million if she was successful."

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Exactly this. I want "M4A" but it can't really be "Medicare" because for many people, it will cost more than Obamacare with current plans. In addition to blocking guilds like the AMA, all the unemployed paperwork people will fear for their jobs The country wants it but we need a clean transition

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm not interested in magical thinking of how it changes. A medical system without doctors would be tough. Regulating them to practice only in a public system would be a big political change. Solutions exist ( eg import Cuban doctors ) but all of that makes it hard to sell to voters.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's a big systemic change. Doctors in the US earn 2-5x what doctors in Europe earn and have longer training with more debt. They will fight change tooth and nail and any reform to be more like Europe will be presented as worsening the US medical system.

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Doctor Salaries Around the World 2026: 14 Countries

Which countries pay physicians most — and least? 2026 salaries in USD for 14 countries: US vs. Switzerland, UK, Australia & more, adjusted for cost of living.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I also pay a lot for Medicare, but it's because I'm lucky to not be poor - in fact, I pay more for just my Medicare than I did for myself & children when working. The average monthly social security check is $2088 - that $202 hits them hard. M4A folks say they want no premiums. Hard to see how

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What will really happen is the rich will buy currently extensive public lands, becoming feudal barons. You think the Airbnb'ization is bad? Just wait.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Lots of refineries there will need shutting down

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And their goal is to use your confusion and their corruption to rob you blind

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I had a similar experience - I have always biked, Backcountry ski, hiked, weight train, etc. at some point (also about mis 50's), single parenthood and work added weight that was hard to remove. Glp-1s have reduced my blood pressure & helped a lot. Shaming people is counterproductive

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

....on the same day Russia warns it may use nuclear weapons..

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Great, the US is following the Russian strategy of holy war. I'm sure it will work out for us. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Post screenshot showing religious relics being used in Russian war. Link in post

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh god, the stupid is so much it hurts.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Colorado GOP nominee for governor, Victor Marx, laughs as he recounts a violent fight with his wife: "I remember grabbing her, slamming her into our front door. She bent over and started crying."

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Al Merose @al.merose.com · 01/10/2026

If the workers of Ant, OAI, and GDM were all part of a union (e.g. a frontier AI guild), they could cooperate in ways that are illegal collusion for corporations. IMO, that would be a stronger alternative but achieve similar goals (slowdown for safety) of a cartel.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every anti-drug, anti-terror etc program comes back at a loss of privacy.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"the federal government is using the “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” (HIDTA) program to obtain data from local cops’ Flock, Axon, and other ALPR cameras and aggregate it on federal government servers, where it is then accessible to other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies"

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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is widespread in the software industry. In the Trump #1 administration they cut this R&D tax to pay for tax cuts, but the change only took effect in 2021. That's one of the reasons why hiring in the 2022 year cratered. I believe the r&d tax cut was added back to the 2025 tax bill.

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Every Sprint Could Be a Tax Credit: R&D Tax Credits for Software Companies

If your software company is writing code to solve problems nobody has solved before, you may qualify for the R&D Tax Credit!

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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 30/09/2026

🧪 A.D.H.D. may be fundamentally mischaracterized as a deficit of attention. Brain imaging reveals stimulants alter reward and salience circuits rather than attention networks. A focus might be making routine tasks register as worth doing instead of filtering distractions. 🧠

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What If A.D.H.D. Isn’t About Attention at All? (Gift Article)

Evidence suggests that it really affects what psychiatrists like me call sustained engagement — an important difference in understanding how to think about the condition.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just one weird trick to undermine both Medicaid and ACA! "Basically, the rules would classify insurers as medical providers, meaning they would also be subject to H.R. 1’s regulations on provider taxes and fees."

coloradosun.com

Newly proposed federal rules would have “disastrous” impact on Medicaid, insurance funding, state says

Proposed federal rules could cut hundreds of millions of dollars annually for Medicaid and also impact health insurance programs, state says.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This response to "explain [something] to me like I'm five" is a great illustration of why people who say they're going to "do their own research" do not understand how more complex modern science is than their highschool bio class.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No, the argument is that the label "Evangelical Christian" was specifically developed to identify white supremacists as a political subgroup without causing ladies to clutch their pearls As to why substack, ask @michaelharriot.bsky.social I've read one of his books & he's no fan of Nazis

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Did you read the full article? The point that is being made is that, as stated in the first comment: "Evangelical Christian" = White Supremacist In other words that the phrase Evangelical Christian is an invented phrase to identify a subset of Christians based on their politics.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Did you read the article? It's far from nonsense. It makes the point in the first comment to the article "Evangelical Christian" = White Supremacist

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He also taught a class with few enough students that he could interview them for 45 minutes each. The last graduate class I developed routinely had 150 to 200 students in it. I had two teaching assistants and we did oral interviews with each of the students about the 6 to 7 projects they did.

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Love to see it "A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts."

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Gruntled old man @boulderguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't see the point in quoting a post screenshot from X.com when the same thing is on bluesky.

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