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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Its not unusual for replacement pilots to board at an earlier stopover.
A second set of pilots were on board, due to replace the original pilots.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Look i think the guy sucks, and his boat should have rendered aid too, but the Coast Guard already clarified this:
Article from the Alaskan Beacon reads:

"According to the U.S. Coast Guard and the Marine Exchange of Alaska, which monitors ship traffic in Alaska, there was no distress call — just a general request for assistance.

Coast Guard Public Affairs Specialist Shannon Shepard said by email that the Coast Guard heard the call for help just after 9:30 p.m. Monday night.

“At approximately 9:56 p.m., the Coast Guard determined they were not in distress and issued a marine assistance request broadcast on their behalf,” she said. "
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It was explained further along in the article.
From the Deadline article :
"The most elegant translation of The Odyssey is by Daniel Mendelsohn; it is ‘poetic,’ each word chosen with care, precision; it is beautiful, melodic but if that translation had been used in Nolan’s film the charges would not be that the language is banal or boring but rather that the language is too elevated, ‘poetic.’ I do not think that Nolan’s film will be considered a great classic but really, it seems that whatever Nolan did, it would disappoint hordes of people. most moviemakers/creators just try the best they can–it seems odd that this director has drawn such angry criticism.”

Oates noted that such criticism “is chilling, dampening for any creative artist. to attack a creative artist as if he were a criminal, had done something to harm, hurt, kill–this is alarming. if you hate a movie, fine–no need to recommend it. no one expects every work of art to be a classic, perfect…rage seems just weirdly inappropriate.”
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
No one called me out? The doofus decided to put on a Pronoun Lifeguards jersey, and proceeded to act exactly like the problematic folks being described. Get a hold of yourself.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Gee its a real mystery.
A short graph from the NYTimes article:

"Since that night a decade ago, the logic behind the Supreme Court’s pivotal 2016 order has remained a mystery. Why did a majority of the justices bypass time-tested procedures and opt for a new way of doing business?"
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The "Guess I'll die" meme.

An elder gentleman in a red turtleneck shrugging, with the caption "Guess I'll die" in white lettering.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Try talking to one of your short coworkers or SO like that, and let me know how it goes
Meme showing (badly) how to talk to a short person.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
You dropped some context, here you go:
Why it matters: These companies, including private equity and publicly traded real estate firms, are taking heat from lawmakers and the president over a housing affordability crisis that's gripped the country in recent years.

Where it stands: This week, Warren sent letters to 14 corporate landlords, including Blackstone, Starwood and Invitation Homes, seeking more information on:

The number of properties they or their affiliates own or have sold, rents charged, evictions conducted and more. The letter asks for a detailed accounting of complaints by renters across their properties.
The letter to Starwood, viewed by Axios, also requests information on any communications the company has had with the Trump administration.
Catch up quick: Earlier this month, the Senate passed the ROAD to Housing Act by a 89-10 vote. The product of negotiations between Warren and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the bill would ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
The Dune movie poster with text swapped out:

Someone keeps stealing my toilet paper

And all i have left is this knoife
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Real life voters:
Results from IL-9 2026. Biss winning with 29.4%, Kat (a "carpetbagger", which people hate) with 26.1%.

I dont know what point Will is making, it seems like a hotly contested race considering.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The follow-on paragraph ends with some truly ridiculous drivel.
“As news grew more negative and more critical, people had more reason to find journalism distasteful,” the media scholar Michael Schudson wrote in a provocative essay on the problem of assessing trust in journalism. “What people do not like about the media is its implicit or explicit criticism of their heroes or their home teams.” No one, famously, likes the bearer of bad news.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
They act like an airlock, reducing drafts in and out of the building.
Wikipedia entry on revolving doors:

Revolving doors were designed to relieve the immense pressure caused by air rushing through high-rise buildings (referred to as stack effect pressure) while at the same time allowing large numbers of people to pass in and out. They are also energy efficient; they act as an airlock to prevent drafts, decreasing the loss of heating or cooling for the building as compared to a standard door.[1]
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Over-engineered wall mounted cast iron grinder and a percolator. It'll take up too much space, and probably cause some kind of marital strife. Potentially decent coffee tho
Image of an Over-engineered wall mounted cast iron coffee grinder
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Lol he knew he was about to do something!
Guy looking real pleased with the wham he's about to apply to Jake Paul
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Don't do it.
A literal recreational asbestos shoveling competition.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Text box that says:

"Burying wood debris is estimated to be relatively inexpensive, especially compared with other carbon capture methods. In many cases, it could be done on-site with minimal transportation costs. The researchers estimated that the CO2 emissions of implementation would amount to 2% to 5% of the carbon saved—a relatively small carbon footprint."
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This sentence, right here, is saying that the article is not germane. I am not "invoking" it. You are the only person bringing it up. I am saying, very clearly, that its not relevant to the thread. Why are you having such a hard time with this
Screenshot saying "Keep trying to tie his own words in reddit posts to some article no one is talking about"
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Please go engagement farm elsewhere.
Shows the user @mike10010100.com has yet again been labelled "rude".

Because he was being rude again.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
No? I'm honestly trying to guess what the likely outcome is, and based on the large amount of evidence available about how Dem leaders will respond. Schumer's own words make this seem like a possible outcome.
“We want to see the men and women in the armed services get paid,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a sit-down Wednesday with reporters. “The best way to do it is to have Republicans sit down with us.”
- CNN article
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Pretty sure Im not the one making bad assumptions here. I doubt he'll have the will to try and say paying the troops _this way_ is bad, because he very clearly has a hard time doing exactly that.
“We want to see the men and women in the armed services get paid,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a sit-down Wednesday with reporters. “The best way to do it is to have Republicans sit down with us.”
-CNN article
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
All this brings to mind is that reddit thread on the nice significant other who made "medium rare chicken breast" as a surprise for their birthday: del.h-cdn.co/assets/17/02...
Medium rare chicken. The outside edges are lightly seared. The inside is raw chicken.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
So cool
Its the "Jesus, i see what you've done for other people, and i want that for me" meme.

A middle aged man in a suit and tie says "jesus i see what you ve done for other people and i want that for me"
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Its just that meme: Like great a bunch of folks wanted to mock him, but his network is full of people who think hes worth keeping in the network. Let them fester.
A lone stick figure saying "i dont like that thing" to a huddle of other stick figures. The huddle looks over, give the lone stick figure a big thumbs up and turns back to their conversation.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Like look at this and tell me they aren't just pooping bad ideas back and forth:
A screenshot of an Andreessen groupchat screed.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Grok writing a violent sexual assault scene, in which it also takes part.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The guy has as much as affirmed it.
Screen cap of Rufo responding with a smiling giga chad meme to Will Stancil directly attributing Rufo's work to repealing civil rights.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
"The fact that many reacted to this story for a myriad of problematic issues made it clearly an important story to print!" No, making a spectacle is not the same as effective and well done reporting!
Quoted lone from the Semafor article:

Others on staff that spoke with Semafor on the condition of anonymity said the reaction to the piece showed why it was important to tackle it.

“The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting,” one senior reporter told Semafor."
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Gee, i wonder who keeps piling up all these cases? Who is scheduling this stuff out. Its almost like they know there will be furious public disapproval and engineered a schedule where they can drop all the gross stuff, and then declaim at all the hostile rhetoric they engender at conferences...
Quote from the linked article:

Roberts did say the pile-up of cases can be difficult to manage, and he suggested this year was worse than some others. He didn’t say why, but the court heard the nationwide injunctions dispute on an emergency basis at the request of the Trump administration and held arguments May 15, about two weeks after arguments typically conclude for the term.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Love it when a timeline comes together.
Two different posters taking very different takes on "sensible shoes".
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I love some serendipitous posting falling on my timeline:
Two posts, from different people, detailing wildly different takes on "sensible shoes".
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Vin Diesel as Don Torretto doing the "i live my life a quarter mile at a time" only i substitute i live my life a too sarcastic joke at a time"

It ain't much but it pays the bills
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
The "conservative guy scared of cities" Spirit Halloween costume.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Saying "it is a plausible argument" does not make it a plausible argument. Lol:
WaPo headline from Oct 2024 stating "Gas prices are barreling toward a 3-year low as election nears".
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Zuck: The average American has three friends.
An image from the movie Encino Man showing Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, and Pauly Shore.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Did you? This is yellow journalism . The framing here is ludicrous - they mentions Vance's 'visit' and elide over the fact he ended up just hanging out on a US military base because no Greenlander's wanted to meet him.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
These things:
Image of an Anker brand hub
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It quite literally is what is wrong with you
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Screenshot from a Yahoo report on 2024 exit polls:

"The youngest voters and those entering middle age tacked hard to the right. Gen X — which slightly favored president-elect Donald Trump with a one-point margin in 2020 — shifted 9 points toward Trump this cycle. Gen Z favored Vice President Kamala Harris by 11 points, compared to 24 points for President Joe Biden."
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Sure! I'm not either. This speech could have been an actual filibuster - holding senators in their seats instead of coordinating it with the actual business of the Senate so as to not disrupt their day and evening too badly.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Lol bud he could do the actual thing he's purporting to do now - you know, a filibuster. Instead of whatever this is. Being accommodating with unreasonable people is not going to convince folks you are working hard. Learned helplessness.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Just in case you need more of a kicker in light of his cuts. Really stuck to that statement lol You can feel free to think this story set you up to understand what he was going to do, but you might want to be wary of folks with bridges for sale if you do.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Yes, which is why I know to tell you to read literally the next paragraph. This is the exact type of same washing that is causing enormous issues! Just garbage media hygiene, unbelievable.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
"she's a four-paw shuffle"
A black, very smart and handsome dog of unclear origins wearing a red collar in a messy room.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Don't worry Sec Hegseth says we're clean. What a joke.
Text from the New Yorker Article:

"All along, members of the Signal group were aware of the need for secrecy and operations security. In his text detailing aspects of the forthcoming attack on Houthi targets, Hegseth wrote to the group—which, at the time, included me—“We are currently clean on OPSEC.”"
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I saw it as more of this old behavior.
An old tweet:

"Twitter the only place where we'll articulated sentences still get misinterpreted.

You can say 'I like pancakes' and somebody will say 'So you hate waffles?'

No bitch. Dats a while sentence. Wtf is you talkin about."
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Don't bring piss to a shit fight: You'll note that is in fact not a 57. In fact, 57 does not shot up in the story at all.
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Still holds strong.
Drill tweet  callback:

wint
@dril
issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It's literally Prince Farquad from Shrek:
Trump quoted article snippet saying "Asked whether he thinks a recession is imminent, Trump said, “I hate to predict things like that.” He later added, “Look, we’re going to have disruption, but we’re OK with that.”"
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Chris from that thing @chriroch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Dexters Lab meme. Dexter is on his knees, pining after a taped sign reading "The Handbasket".

Bottom text is "Stunt on them hoes"
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