David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 24/09/2026Incredible stuff happening in the Nate Silver midterm forecast. The Kansas #kssen US Senate election is more competitive than Maine #mesen. And Alaska #aksen is the tightest US Senate race in the country. It really feels like a realignment is happening. 021
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 27/07/2026this is hardly the most problematic thing about Mark Sanford #SCSen, but his own campaign website heavily implies that he would consider himself fortunate to survive a full 6 year Senate term due to his age! “…in 6.5 years. Mark is 66 and hopes he will still be around…” www.marksanford.com/issues 120
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 02/06/2026this propane tank has more thermal energy than that entire facility 040
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 15/03/2026good news, you can use Google+ to log in to the @sfgov.sf.gov Assessor Recorder's portal 010
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 04/03/2026fascinating question near the end of a CA-11 poll (i'm pretty sure it's a Saikat internal) 010
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 04/02/2026@moreperfectunion.bsky.social fyi -- the privacy policy on your website is empty right now perfectunion.us/privacy-poli... 000
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 07/11/2025Yesterday, Berkshire Hathaway made an unusual press release drawing attention to the proliferation of AI-generated Warren Buffett content. They mentioned a specific YouTube account. As of today, the YouTube account mentioned here is still up and still full of fake Warren Buffett videos... 100
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 14/10/2025is there a single medium-to-large sized US passenger airport that is showing this video? i haven't come across any news articles that have identified a single airport that *is* showing the video 110
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 04/09/2025very tempted to select “disk quarterly” FasTrak statement delivery just to see if it still works 040
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 06/05/2025not sure if this is info you publicly share, but there is a gmail address at the bottom of this in the upsell at the bottom of this, presumably from the URL query parameters 100
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 29/04/2025Wordle 1,410 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 (Pic contains spoiler. As does my grid, arguably.) 100
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 03/04/2025is it too early to start planning an elaborate group halloween costume? 040
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 23/01/2025“Deborah, an Inner Sunset resident [...] was one of several people who declined to give their last names for fear of conflict with neighbors." (...) "David Bloom, a software engineer who recently moved to the neighborhood, didn’t understand the fuss." sfstandard.com/2025/01/23/k... 010
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 05/12/2024why does this look like a photograph of a screen? if you're looking for the assassin of a fortune 100 ceo aren't you at least going to figure out how to take a screenshot properly? 010
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 16/09/2024bigger is better right (also I love you Bluesky devs but this should have alt text by default!) 100
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 23/07/2024i think the AP made a data entry error and typed the NY delegation's support into the Texas row of their spreadsheet... very obvious in the WaPo visualization 010
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 10/01/2024i asked gpt4 and it didn't do much better! (note: second image contains a spoiler of the actual solution) 151
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Seal of the City and County of San Francisco
Username field
Password field
"Log in" button
"Forgot your password?" and "Not a member?" links
"Or log in using: [Facebook logo] [Google+ logo]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ulizcaav4662runkna6ebd5/bafkreic6y2425jav4rwk6vcmknzfhdjt4gyt33dzjlulkpcdzyj77df75e)
![an American Airlines airport touchscreen kiosk, asking the customer "Are you a terrorist? [Yes] [No]" in a large blue sans-serif font with little Yes/No buttons under it](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4ulizcaav4662runkna6ebd5/bafkreiclqkm7dwcaqr7qsgajwoipe7ndvnzqx35qv5oxnn5wviqyutpm24)
