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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Excuse me if this sits behind a pay wall, but I just had to comment that thin isn't always better. It costs more and actually offers less in terms of battery life and camera functionality. I like the heft of my $120 Consumer Cellular Android phone that, uh, works. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/t...

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Apple Introduces New, Slimmer iPhone

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

How to not sound like a poorly educated red hatter, part 1:

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Just a thought - prople tend to move around over the course of a decade - a lot. People are born, people die, and this is why you do reappointment right after a census. Otherwise, how do you ensure approximately equal population from one district to the next? You can't.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

There are way too many bears here. Why do they assume we all want to see their bloat? Blocking them seems to do no good. Sigh.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

A new development in male exhibitionism on BlueSky. Very fat and topless. Save your lecture about body shaming. I don't want to see it, and the mote of these people i block, the more of it i see. And they don't like criticism. I can't even reply and tell them how disgusting they look. What say you?

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I'm waiting for the recommendation that we pre-clean hotel rooms and rental cars prior to checkout. The AI 'algorithmic audit' could be coming to hotel room checkout www.cnbc.com/2025/08/03/a...

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The AI 'algorithmic audit' could be coming to hotel room checkout

AI is already influencing bills at the car rental counter. Your hotel room charges and dinner check could be next.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

In my experience, if you signed on with a particular card, let's call out Delta here, you probably got ripped off. Here I am at the airport, pass in hand, and the lounge is closed to people with credit card passes. 🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

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Opinion | When Everybody Has Airport Lounge Access, Nobody Does

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

This is not only unnecessary but stupid and disrespectful. I tell you all this - my wife is a naturalized citizen. If she goes, or even experiences 1/100th of tiis kiind of BS, I'm going back to her home country with her. Fuck this shit. www.nzz.ch/english/you-...

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Swiss woman is denied entry at the US border and detained

«You have no right to be here.» A teacher wanted to celebrate her birthday in New York. Instead, she was jailed in New Jersey before being deported. A lawyer warns that something similar could happen ...

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I'm going to go ahead and disagree with you all re. Bill Maher. He's right more often than he is wrong and usually worth listening to, even if you disagree.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Ya think so, Captain Obvious? The problem is, most of us cannot afford to subscribe to dozens of out-of-town newspapers to get to the news on offer from Google, Yahoo, or even BlueSky. It's the same as with streaming services, only worse. www.deseret.com/business/202...

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The “vast majority” of Americans are not willing to pay for the news, according to Pew Research

Among many disruptions facing the news business, the most immediate may be that only 1% of people will pay when encountering a paywall.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

So we're staying home for the Fourth. Aaaaand the internet is out. First, it was supposed to be fixed at 8 pm, then 11, and now 1 tomorrow morning. And I am guessing so many people got pushed to their 5G phones that it's been throttled down to 4G. So much fun.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

So if I wanted to shift some assets from my traditional IRA to my Roth IRA, not only am I limited by the Medicare Part B rate bump (around $206K MAGI), but also the new 65+ tax deduction threshold, which is even lower. I guess I leave it alone and brace myself for the RMD consequences.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

That was quick. Just got an email from Social Security about the BBB and how nearly 90% of recipients will "no longer" pay taxes on their benefits. I am pretty sure the math doesn't jibe. If you're on SS, you probably got this email, too.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Spotted on Bardstown Road southbound, along with a black van. Be on the lookout.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Next thing, they'll lift the tobacco advertising ban.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

If this gets paywalled for you, I apologize in advance. It's been awhile since I have been in a movie theater; how much is a ticket now, thirty bucks? And that isn't counting popcorn and soda. You could get Disney+ for a year for the cost of this family outing. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/b...

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With ‘Elio,’ Pixar Has Its Worst Box Office Opening Ever

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I just had a thought. The reason it was so easy to get rid of the ICE "agents" at Dodger Stadium was that if any of them get arrested, they would have to take off those stupid masks and show themselves. Fucking cowards.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

There should be a crowdsourced pride index. People would go to stores and upload prices of stuff - actual stuff - and a backend server would compile and process the data. Compare this to the CPI.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

That would be awful. Don’t share this.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Connections Puzzle #718 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 That's a reverse rainbow, right?

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/05/2025

TACO! Trump Always Chickens Out

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Elon promises more frequent fireworks shows at the newest town in Texas. SpaceX Starship explodes for third time in a row, Musk promises more frequent launches www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/s...

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SpaceX's Starship explodes for third time in a row, Musk promises more frequent launches

SpaceX's Starship system exploded on Tuesday in a test flight, the third consecutive setback for the rocket company.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Bawk bawk. Stocks Rally on the ‘TACO Trade’ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/b...

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Stocks Rally on the ‘TACO Trade’

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Just a thought, what if the poster was of the correct size, but the font was so small that the whole thing covered the area of a postage stamp? Bill requiring Ten Commandments in public schools heads to Texas governor's desk www.cnbc.com/2025/05/25/t...

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Texas bill requiring Ten Commandments in public schools headed to governor's desk

Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign the legislation. The state's requirement of a Ten Commandments display follows similar laws in Louisiana and Arkansas.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

One month has passed since i mailed in my paper tax return. The funds are still in my checking account.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Maybe y'all shouldn't have laid off all those auditors quite yet. LOL. It's been nearly a month since i mailed my paper tax return. To those at the IRS who need the overtime, you're welcome. federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/20...

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IRS taps some employees to work mandatory overtime to handle backlog

Weekday overtime hours are available, “but not part of the required 16 hours” of weekend overtime that is mandatory for some IRS employees.

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L i l y @everlily24.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The whole point of being rich is that you don't have to kiss anyone's ass. Ever.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Report from our northern border. The line at US Customs at the Thousand Islands border crossing was (drumroll) nonexistent. No trucks, no Canadians going shopping in Watertown, just one car behind us, probably headed back to Fort Drum, that's it. This is the one that connects to I-81. Nothing.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Welp, it's been two weeks since i dropped off my paper tax return at the post office. The funds are still waiting in my checking account. Fuck Trump.

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Dave The Magnificent @davethemagnificent.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

In Montreal watching the "but Gaza" contingent in Missasauga stab Canada in the back and hand next Tuesday's election to the Tories. Same as the ones on this side of the border did to us. Sigh.

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