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Bruce McTague

@brucemctague2024.bsky.social
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call me annoyingly curious, but almost everything interests me (not really concerned with asparagus). i have an opinion on everything and dislike purposeful ignorance.

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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"Pessimism is Old World and reactionary." Upwingers: A Futurist Manifesto - FM Esfandiary, 1973 i loved the book Abundance. kind of a rehash of Upwingers & some older books (oddly Small is Beautiful by Schumacher). that said. read it. but read Chokepoints & When More is not Better at same time.
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"everything has to do with everything else"
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
i sort of agree with this. how about try this. if you feel like a book is becoming a slog, skip to the last chapter and read it. if the last chapter opens up some possibility you didn't envision, the book is worth restarting.
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"we're offering them something better" every democrat should write this on a notecard and carry it with them everywhere they go. if what they are saying, or doing, is not offering anything to make someone's life better, scrap it.
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
truth
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
he's correct. this is also a secret businesses know, well, at least the ones who don't believe business is war .........
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The tariffs will continue until morale improves.
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
USA @mcuban.bsky.social @jonfavs.bsky.social
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
hmmmmmmmmmmm ... prices up for those seeking to buy aluminum. so, once again, the buyer pays for tariffs.
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
america today @crooked.com
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
this
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
governed by a ship of fools ...
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
with all due respect to the hype cycle, this is reality ....
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
it sure seems like most of confirmed Trump cabinet members lied a lot in confirmation meetings (and they aren't even one month in). @podsaveamerica.crooked.com
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
am i the only one who remembers that stable genius, master negotiator, cut Afghanistan out of negotiations and dealt directly with the Taliban? @mcuban.bsky.social @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
society 2025
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
memories ....
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
the question everyone should ask every time they read about something DOGE/Trump has "cut" is "does this make my life better?" 'cause i'm fairly sure even if you voted for Trump you didn't want to "make life worse again".
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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memories ...
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
apparently we are nearing chapter 8
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Trump, stable genius, master negotiator.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
No notes
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
what he said ...
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
i have been wanting to introduce @graceblakeley.bsky.social and @aaronjbastani.bsky.social to @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev for quite some time hoping they would do a podcast. so here we go.
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
i just rewatched this Aaron Bastani tedtalk. his book, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto, is fabulous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6aq...
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A Socialist Perspective on the Pursuit of Happiness | Aaron Bastani | TED
YouTube video by TED
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
when @robmay70.bsky.social and i reconnected here after years on twitter, i thought i should reshare a great (smart) tedtalk he did. ignore the shirt and focus on the message. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpdc...
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Your Human Firewall – The Answer to the Cyber Security Problem | Rob May | TEDxWoking
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
i also
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Marshall Kirkpatrick @marshallk.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Hell of a takedown of Zuckerberg on Rogan www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24...
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Mark Zuckerberg lies about content moderation to Joe Rogan’s face
Zuckerberg even offers Republicans another target: Apple.
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
(probably not fine)
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I feel like my Burn Book was not burny enough for these toxic loons. Lucky the paperback comes out in March with some new scorching material. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-ally-p...
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Trump Ally Peter Thiel’s Op-Ed Turns Heads for Being ‘Beyond Nuts’
Thiel’s piece Friday in the Financial Times looked forward to a time of “truth and reconciliation” in the Trump administration.
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
"most of those regulations are good overall, many of them have been weaponized by bad-faith actors to block development on ideological grounds" i have met the enemy and it is I (let's quit always blaming govt)
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
you do not have to follow the advice, but suffice it to say anything @harper.lol and @jlaniersky.bsky.social have to offer about navigating the social media world is worth it. ponder.
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
"I had up to that point been pretty cynical about human nature." the truth is we Hope folk often glance off of hopelessness - others and our own - as we get bludgeoned with zero sum and individualistic attitudes. the trick is to recognize is is not just yuor battle to fight.
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
yes
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Bruce McTague @brucemctague2024.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
yes. i always remember the story Don Henley says about living downstairs from Jackson Browne who would spend hours playing parts of songs over and over trying to get them right. that's writing.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
They want us to memory hole tearing down the American flag to fly Trump’s.
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