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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 11h

He has also likely not paid taxes since 2022, the last time he sold Google stock. He takes a $1 salary, and Google doesn’t pay dividends. He’s spent more to avoid being taxed than he has in taxes, and he’s “left the state” by spending 51% of his days a ten minute walk from the CA border.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ok now I want teams to pair throwback uniforms with throwback mascot designs. How has this not happened

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026

You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Holy shit dude. Just tweeted it out huh

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is an incredible concept and I cannot believe it took so long for someone to identify it

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is huge. In the wake of Israel’s blatant, absurd lies at the UN today, it’s imperative everyone watch this film.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Someone should tell him that his own soldiers acknowledge it’s genocide, and that they take exactly zero steps to protect civilians.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My maybe hot take: School isn’t really for learning facts and algorithms. You’re going to forget most of what you learned. School is for learning *how to learn*. And that is precisely what AI strips away. Ban it.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Has Spielberg ever made a true horror film? John Williams’s score really turns Jaws from horror into adventure, for better and worse. There are some horror sequences in War Of The Worlds (the second best 9/11 movie). Otherwise?

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026

EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile Jensen Huang is out here literally saying these guys are full of shit and just want to duck repercussions from existing laws. Because they’re full of shit, and you shouldn’t take a single word they say at face value. Lies and the lying liars who tell them.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great work everyone

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok hear me out: Robert Eggers directs a prequel about the first Cabin In The Woods sequence

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18/09/2026

Again, there is clear evidence a data center moratorium would peel far more votes away from the GOP than the 10-15 (not thousand, literally 10-15 total) who might switch over this same crowd’s demand to betray queer people. It’s malpractice that the party won’t ditch these professional losers.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026

yeah, 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.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have and will continue to regularly call it psychosis. Thats the best term I can come up with for it. Get a grip, people. Touch grass or whatever.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anti-Trump ad idea: “He/him is for Him/self” Kinda dumb, might delete in the morning

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I sometimes think social media - especially sites like this one - would be better with a daily post limit. Pretty clear we as a species are not good at disengaging from this drug by choice.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Joe Biden won the presidency saying “at least three.” Talarico, much as I hate it, ain’t winning. Coward ass shit doesn’t win.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The plagiarism machine I created will likely kill us all, there’s a 40% chance, no, higher, like 75%,or more! But NO I will not “unplug it,” that’s an insane suggestion. The scientific solution is to *give me more money.*

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Nobody should take any of these people seriously

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This, from an Anthropic employee, either reflects a lack of imagination or is evidence that this is all just lies. If you were really that scared, you'd pull the plug on all the servers and wipe everything from ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC, and RIPE NCC. No more internet; problem solved.

I would burn my equity to the ground in a heartbeat for a 1% higher chance we make it out of this situation alive. I expect a great many of my colleagues across the industry would as well.

I promise you, we are actually just fucking scared, it's not galaxy brained marketing.

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Tim @timpranillo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As a fellow zero unread email I get all the love for that. But it’s the “looking for work” thing I’m in 100% agreement with.

I've read and listened to a lot of people talk about how it's revolutionized their workflow, and they're training agents to make appointments and they're building these elaborate meal plans. And to me, that doesn't sound interesting.
That just sounds exhausting. We have this phrase in football called "looking for work," when a player on the field is looking for work-looking for someone to block, for example. And I just think about that whenever I hear those stories. It just sounds like you're looking for work.
Also, just fucking do it yourself. It's not that hard to make a fucking restaurant reservation

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Can’t even get a “president says, without evidence […]”

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“As shown in the provided video of what was viewed during the replay process, a side-by-side view of the play and the game clock, using a direct shot of the game clock in the stadium, was used to determine the final ruling.” B1G embarrassing itself in both sports AND academics here

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

if only there had been clues

Republicans convention delegates holding “mass deportation now!” signs

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

God it was such a disaster that we let this guy become a Senator.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 01/09/2026

"don't you have something better to be doing wi..." NO I DON'T I HAD TO DO IT

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

SFDCCC is a total embarrassment these days

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2026

For many years I wondered, "how bad will Republicans have to get before the media/political establishment in the US gets over its endless obsession with scolding & tone policing the left?" I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the answer is: never. Literally never.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The news media instead told us that "it's not clear what Elon Musk's politics are" right before he became the #1 Republican donor in history then told us "Elon Musk is leaving politics" right before he was going to become the #1 Republican donor for a second consecutive cycle.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The best part of the Minnesota State Fair - best fair in the country - is the crop art. These folks do magic. So glad to have seen it last year.

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Brutal commentary. Just say “outside Oracle Park!”

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Asher needs 11 more wins @asherball.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The A's just did one of the coolest things I've seen in their broadcast: Just unfiltered audio of the live director calling a Lawrence Butler plate appearance...that went about as well as they could have hoped for.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026

Genuinely abundant, cheap, accessible energy has vastly more liberatory potential than AI, for vastly more people -- especially more poor people. Which, I guess, is your answer.

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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lighthouse prince @historiancole.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

tim curry keeping up the bit twenty years after the fact by writing in his memoir that he and miss piggy had an affair during the filming of muppet treasure island is just so good and funny

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Brian Braunlich @braundiggity.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Come walk around my awesome neighborhood!

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D9 Neighbors for Housing (SF) @d9neighbors.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Join us for another round of our popular Green Density Tour on August 30th! This time we'll explore Bernal Heights ecology and talk about opportunities for further greening to create a safer, more welcoming environment for pedestrians and new neighbors. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/berna...

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