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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2025

I can’t say this enough — you don’t have to mutilate your language, and you do a disservice to important topics when you do so. This is going to be even more important as American authoritarianism accelerates.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

It’s wild to see Bluesky talking about local political candidates as if they’re not just your boring neighbors.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Instead of exporting right wing populism, the US should consider exporting norms around air conditioning. 91f in London is … hot.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Reminder when the court inevitably finds for Mahmoud in Mahmoud v. Taylor today: this was a really bad case, the people from the county made really dumb decisions and fighting it to the Supreme Court was just hubris. Total self own.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I for one am shocked congress wasn’t asked to formally declare war. The only other time this has happened was Libya2, Iraq2, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Somalia, Iraq1, Libya1, Grenada, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea…

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I just hope today’s youths know that the real way to stop a for-funsies war in the Middle East is protest videos set to Op Ivy’s Unity. @reckless.bsky.social knows.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Is there a way to invest in yellow ribbon stock?

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

A pan-Asian punk band covering Neil Young in the parking lot of an abandoned Sears across from the state capitol is exactly the America I want.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Congress could regulate this but they won’t. It’s like watching a car accident happening in slow motionn

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Is there any consensus on the maximum number of alarms a fire can have?

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Is there any chance that in the process of blowing up our economy, we end up with the opportunity to buy the good prosciutto?

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I miss the days when people posting “Tim Walz is a fascist” on this site would have been funny shitposting instead of echo chamber virtue signally defeatist bullshit.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Hanging out on the lawn of the state capitol while a Thai drag queen teaches us how to dance. Best state.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I guarantee that nothing in Clownfuck McGee’s life gives him as much pleasure as getting the proper plastic clips for the spoiler on my 20 year old Volvo just gave me.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Can anyone explain the weird noise floor on APT (Rose)? It’s not there all the time, wondering if it’s there to fool compressors or auto EQs or something? Pretty sure it’s not tape hiss 😂

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

@reckless.bsky.social one thing I really love about European ceos on decoder is that they’re much more willing to entertain the idea that they’re wrong, that the business might not pan out, etc.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Itchy boots, a Dutch woman who makes YouTube videos traveling solo around the world, is cancelling her US visit because it’s too risky. For context, this is a woman currently riding around Yemen. youtube.com/post/UgkxL4_...

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SAD NEWS - A little while back, I announced that I would be coming to the USA for the launch of my book “Free Ride” on the 3rd of June 📖 A lot of planning al...

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

What if the light rail just added a smoking car, so at least all the people smoking could go to one car?

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I'm guessing this is implicit and deliberate comment by whoever does the web layout?

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Always good to spend a weekend in Vegas cutting loose* with the boys. *implementing poorly documented SDKs

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I’m super excited for TikTokers to discover smuggling. “Hey guys here’s how you can pay for your trip to Europe by bringing back these six items”

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Jon Fasman @jonfasman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04... An era of unmatched peace and prosperity comes to an end. It wasn't perfect, but the world will be poorer and more unstable in the decades to come.

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Trump Announces Retaliatory Tariffs: Live Updates

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Took many bags of books to the used bookstore. Only bought one book while there. Please clap.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Getting rid of most of my physical books. Cleaning out all the books from a poli sci major at the end of Clinton and in the early days of the global war on terror is quite a throwback.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Sucks that we’re moving to a centrally planned economy but I can’t buy a Lada Niva.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It’s just a fact that waffles taste better if you successfully remove all four wedges from the waffle maker as a single circle.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Had a phone call with some normie (as in, not you people) friends tonight who are looking to buy an EV. They opened with “of course we can’t get a tesla so…”

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Me: look at these idiots letting sports distract them from the collapse of society. The opiate of the masses! Also me: ooo new Drive to Survive!

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Give them a shout on Facebook. At least they might make a cringey pr statement which they can feel bad about someday. www.facebook.com/share/v/153S...

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

There’s an event celebrating the public safety services in Hanoi this weekend. Love the Google translate of the sign…

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It’s been interesting to see how ultra cheap portable induction cooktops have changed street food in Hanoi

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Temu engine hoist! How could I lose?

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

@reckless.bsky.social disappointed you didn’t call out Panos for cooking a ramen egg for 8 minutes. Cmon, 6.5 max! (fun episode!)

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Apple Music somehow found 100 songs for the “ska-punk essentials” list. Having lived through ska punk, that feels like “essentials” inflation.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I’m all for newspapers getting rid of opinion sections if it means the Very Online crowd will stop willfully misunderstanding how newspaper opinion sections work in order to take false umbrage. Pretending to be dumb is annoying no matter who’s doing it.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Fascinating to see YouTube adds for sites selling pirated games

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Excited that a random tourist got my tshirt.

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Erica @ericamauter.com · 28/02/2025

I'll be out in Maplewood again this Saturday. Join me, or go to the #TeslaTakedown in Golden Valley. Gonna be sunny, cold but not frigid, and only slightly breezy.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

@jnbpage.bsky.social @aliceysu.bsky.social was listening to the latest episode while wandering Luang Namtha in Laos and came upon a big Vivo store. Fate!

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Dang didn’t know the pound was doing this bad.

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

72 eggs for $3 in Laos. Arbitrage opportunity!

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Made it to Laos, something the CIA never did, right? Wink wink…

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

What’s the email address I should use to update OPM on my week?

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Colin McFadden @cmcfadden.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Suggested on the local car enthusiast facebook group that it’s ok for the state to enforce the speed limit, got called an enemy of freedom and told to leave the country. Makes sense.

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