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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anyway, this seems like a pretty big step down from Brioni, especially for someone who's been making billions off shitcoins and general graft.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Grew up 5 minutes from their original headquarters. Lots of folks that used to run sewing machines for decades were suddenly looking for new jobs back in the 90s. They made some pretty decent stuff prior.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sounds like you've been broccoli robbed (sorry)

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You absolutely do not have to hand it to Barry Goldwater, but...

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I feel like this is an as-yet uncatalogued SCP

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"what if the omnipotent superintelligence is actually like, really neurotic, and decides it wants to punish everyone who dragged into the hell of existence?"

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I just got a tariff from Lindsey Graham," seems like a remark that would have been worth a clarifying question

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can see that angle, but if Vance is already fundraising for Risch, that horse may be out of the barn?

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

May do more if he shows good momentum. Wish I'd made the month-end reporting cutoff.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What the hell. I'm in for a small quantum of treasure.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I just got a tariff from Lindsey Graham," seems like a remark that would have been worth a clarifying question

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Doggo appears to have Some Concerns

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Remind me to stay the hell out of Fish Creek

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Someone needs to put down the hash pipe

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/09/2026

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

IDK whether Garmentory is *intended* as a pun on purgatory, but if the shoe fits...

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I cannot even begin to conceive of how literally anything in that bill should be the subject of legislation

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can't even *not* listen to music, apparently

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'd be more interested in what his hit rate would be for real vs non-existent countries if he went on for more than like, 3

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It all seems very "look at me, I took my university's 200-level modern physics course".

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The biggest ask Obama ever made of Americans was to imagine a health care system that sucked slightly less, and still a substantial portion of the country has never forgiven him for it.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sounds like a rewarmed "That's not the friggin' Christmas Star, Gris... Its the light at the sewerage treatment plant."

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Dedekind Slut @chasmat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

everybody is ignoring the real danger: Donald Trump could develop self-awareness and the ability to recursively self-improve, becoming more powerful at an exponential rate and turning the entire world into tacky gewgaws

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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

mmygod

the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky post

today's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Doesn't matter where you go first, as long as you hit them all

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I also feel like the cameraman might hate him. His barber definitely does.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How does UK not count even under his own criteria? Britain itself covers E and W within the N, Falklands (among many others) are W within S, and British Indian Ocean territories cover E within S...

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(there's no reason anyone should care about any of this -- I'm not important, nothing important happened to me -- but I typed it out, and so it had to go somewhere)

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(Also, obviously, everything in this thread is to the best of my recollection at a quarter-century remove. I'm sure some of it is jumbled. I've fact-checked myself on timelines, etc, as well as I'm able to)

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My mom would decide pretty quickly after this that I needed a cell phone. I came back from Fall break with that, and my dad also took me to the Target near campus to pick up a TV set before he dropped me off. These may have been my birthday presents for that year; I certainly didn't have any money.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

* Scott and his sibling(s) had just given their parents a gift cert to Windows On The World for their anniversary, which was a hundred bucks that he wryly observed he wouldn't be seeing again. (This was not a major concern of his, just a small irony on a fucked-up day)

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The only other relevant things I recall are: * There were (fairly ridiculous, in hindsight?) rumors that maybe the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center was on the possible target list, that it was under military guard, etc. I didn't know of anyone who actually walked the 3 blocks to check.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Eventually, a guy from my hometown, who was a year ahead of me at my high school (Scott), invited me over to hang out with him and his buddies at his frat. We processed events very briefly, got drunk on boxed wine, and watched The Crow. I stumbled back to my dorm and passed out.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

* Killed a bunch more time on my computer (maybe this is when I found time to eat). Might have made some more phone calls as well.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(I probably got some kind of lunch at some point but I don't really recall). * Watched some more CNN with Evan, Frank, and the growing crowd, until they got sick of it (we were well into the "endless replays, no new information" phase of the day) and kicked everyone out.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

* Wandered aimlessly for a little while, which it seemed like a lot of people were doing at that moment. Ended up passing by the campus chapel, where Catholic daily mass happened to be going on (I was raised Catholic). I stopped in and participated in that, and then headed back to the dorms.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

* No university-wide email had gone out yet (and I was a dumb kid who couldn't guess the answer) so I set out across campus to see whether I still had a calculus quiz or not. Quickly ran into a classmate coming the other direction who let me know that, of course, everything was cancelled for the day

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(Everyone was fine, but I would later learn that it took my dad about 6 hours to drive home to northern MD that night) * Because I was on the phone, I didn't see the second tower come down live, but I heard everyone next door react to it. Got off the phone, went back over and caught the replay.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

* Tried to work the phones to make sure everyone was OK at home, especially my dad, who was working at the Watergate at that time. I didn't have a cellphone yet, and the landlines out of campus were all tied up, so this was the first time I used VOIP (Dialpad, which was brand new at the time).

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm thinking it was some kind of accident, she doesn't think so. * headed over to see the guys next door (Frank and Evan, who would become some of my best friends at college) -- they had one of the few TVs on our floor. Watched the first tower come down live, then rushed out to contact my family.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My day 25 years ago, as a 17yo college freshman in Pittsburgh: * Roll out of bed late and hop on my computer, as was my habit, to find some freaked out messages on AIM from my high school friend Maureen, who was in DC attending AU. Something bad is going on, there is smoke coming from the Pentagon.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11/09/2026

I think Hunter S. Thompson's column in the immediate aftermath pretty much nailed it www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy. Osama bin Laden may be a primitive "figurehead" -- or even dead, for all we know -- but whoever put those All-American jet planes loaded with All-American fuel into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon did it with chilling precision and accuracy. The second one was a dead-on bullseye. Straight into the middle of the skyscraper.

This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force.

Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy.
OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing.

The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators.

The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.

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