David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 08/10/2026What streaming platform is going to be willing to host this? 000
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 08/10/2026i'm kind of annoyed that the operator forgot to correctly set the headsign to "nowhere in particular" 160
Reposted by David BloomMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the newsphoenixnewtimes.comCongressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signsEmbarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. 1959851899
Reposted by David BloomCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026All the J6ers are out. And their leader is in the White House because some suburbanites in Pennsylvania and Michigan were angry about inflation and Biden didn't have the stones to throw a crook in jail. And now he has a pedo-filled Gestapo that's allowed to murder people in the street. Yay 234055
Reposted by David Bloomlizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 30/09/2026lmao this story is so fucking funny 6442104
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 · 24/09/2026it's located in Virginia but it's a weird enough situation that they actually had a pass a federal law to clarify this www.flyreagan.com/airport-over...flyreagan.comAirport OverviewAbout Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport 040
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 23/09/2026actually we should normalize banning people for platforming JD Vance 041
Reposted by David BloomNate Silver Tweets @natesilver538bot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Trump approval now at -22.4, his low point for the term and now lower than at any point in his first term, even after Jan. 6. By comparison, he was at a "mere" -11.6 at this point in 2018. Original post 011
Reposted by David BloomDavid Nir @davidnir.com · 16/09/2026Everything's falling into place 1293472651
Reposted by David BloomAnthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Fog is roaring back toward San Francisco! After a 90-degree day yesterday, the sea breeze is picking up this afternoon and the marine layer is filling with low clouds. Dense fog will push across much of the city this evening into Friday morning. Track it: www.sfchronicle.com/projects/bay... 6659
Reposted by David BloomRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Sorry it just occurred to me that there may be people who haven’t seen clip from the Quibi show where Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman dying because of her golden prosthetic arm and I needed to fix that 21248211368
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 10/09/2026at least in the USA, I think the biggest consumer of this recycled material is Trex Composite Decking 030
Reposted by David Bloomashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026remove him from the senate democratic caucus. if he does this tonight, the removal must happen tomorrow. you don’t get to call yourself a Democrat and do shit like this. 1839081
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 09/09/2026wow, good eye www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comTrump Convention Trip Briefly Delayed Due to Air Force One SlidePresident Donald Trump’s departure for his midterm convention in Dallas was delayed by an unexpected culprit: the emergency slide on the Qatari-gifted jet used as Air Force One. 0116
Reposted by David BloomGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026It looks like one of the emergency slides may have improperly deployed? Which if so i would like to know A LOT more about how that happened. Did a crew member mess up the arming/disarming procedures, or did the mechanism malfunction on mfing Air Force One??? Plane shouldn't fly until replaced. 21984197
Reposted by David Bloom"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 09/09/2026That's absolutely wild - you're watching a $400+ million dollar fireworks show. Can't keep doing that forever. And just think of what Ukraine could do with $400m in interceptors. 249995
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 09/09/2026Since everyone is posting their favorite Zelda content youtu.be/ejxyt5zYdpsyoutu.beEPONA USAYouTube video by Twin Perfect 001
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 27/08/2026great! (and yes, it was airside) www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/i...nbcbayarea.comICE agent’s gun found in SFO bathroomA flight attendant found the gun in a restroom stall and reported it to security, an airport spokesperson confirmed. 010
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 25/08/2026can they use triple leverage on human intelligence to get it even higher 000
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 19/08/2026battery voltages tend to sag when they are colder, and houses are usually coolest at the middle of the night, so that's when your low battery beep threshold is most likely to first start tripping... 050
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 18/08/2026this is the Gavin Newsom lookalike contest at the California State Fair 060
Reposted by David BloomBurrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 18/08/2026“The SPR was originally designed for 5 full drawdowns. Instead, it has executed dozens of large & small releases over the past 40 years” “Because the system was not designed for this many cycles, the repeated injection of water and extraction of oil have caused severe cavern deformation” 175
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 17/08/2026it already does www.law.cornell.edu/wex/wrongful...law.cornell.eduwrongful death 020
Reposted by David BloomElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026One of the Dem weaknesses is that we refuse to attack the MAGA base. Meanwhile they attack Dems as inherently evil people who might be demonic and whatever their corrupt politician is doing “Dems are worse” 681759317
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 06/08/2026> I’ve seen Mitch McConnell more than Paxton Holy shit lmfao 11011
Reposted by David BloomDan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This in no way excuses her, and in fact makes it both funnier and grosser: is it possible she thinks a hijab is a keffiyeh 1031340
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 05/08/2026the funniest possible thing would be if trump forces cable companies to bring back CableCard and forces broadcasters to stop encrypting ATSC3 010
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 05/08/2026primary polling is typically worse than GE polling, if that helps 050
Reposted by David Bloomryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/08/2026this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...inverse.comThe adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photosNearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told. 453083784
Reposted by David BloomSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 01/08/2026A friend of mine argues that Trump generally manic-posts when he’s stuck in the situation room bored and waiting for something to happen, i.e. he thinks it’s correlated with Trump ordering military stakes and looking at his phone while waiting for them to be carried out  32847107
Reposted by David BloomGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 30/07/2026Not really going to get in on the politics here but the conversation between @volts.wtf and CF's Jan Sramek was fascinating. Sramek is planning something very different than what you'd think based on "tech utopia" and "backed by Marc Andreessen", both of which are very bad things.volts.wtfIs the brand new city in California for real?Jan Sramek joins me to discuss the controversy, funding, and master plan behind the massive California Forever project. 611416
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 30/07/2026steve poizner did this in 2018 when he ran for re-election as CA insurance commissioner 100
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 28/07/2026www.atlasobscura.com/places/welco...atlasobscura.com‘Welcome to Cleveland’ Sign in MilwaukeeThis rooftop sign has been confusing Milwaukee-bound airline passengers for decades. 000
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 27/07/2026fortunately for him, I'm sure “hiking” is good for cardiovascular health 000
David Bloom @davidbloom.net · 27/07/2026this is the sort of age-related concern that: 1. the campaign should never have brought up to begin with 2. certainly should have been scrubbed when he repurposed his abandoned US House campaign website for a US Senate campaign, running for a seat vacated by an incumbent who literally died in office 100
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
Reposted by David BloomJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 23/07/2026this is such a strange rallying cry to insist on something that would be counterproductive, ineffective, and worse than the status quo. no idea why this is suddenly a talking point. 31087
Reposted by David BloomJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 21/07/2026GOP talking points becoming indistinguishable from scammers who deliberately say stupid stuff so that only the easiest marks are still paying attention. 410333
