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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perhaps Pope Francis never made a visit to Argentina while in office because he feared a coup in the Vatican

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Imagine if he shat himself during the Xi Jinping visit

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We just don’t know without an investigation. Google’s full of results in 2026, but what if the review was in 2016 or 2018 and that Google evidence wasn’t there, or the inside wall hadn’t been built?

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is it, this is why we get up in the morning

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Who needs new stickers for their work laptop www.etsy.com/shop/Futfrk5...

etsy.com

Futfrk53 - Etsy

Shop items by Futfrk53.

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

When you expand markets for these things you increase incentives and we don’t want to incentivize the creation of drug addicts or sex trafficked people.

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This speculative component exists in any sort of development though. How is this not just a NIMBY argument?

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Very kind of the Iranians to put a giant English language sign for the Marines right on the beach

Public art that says “Bandar Abbas” facing the ocean

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Boy I sure hope someone was fired for that blunder

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hot, oiled, and fresh from the Carolina garden. Just like how Lindsay liked them 😞

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This is exactly what rural SC looks like in the coastal plain

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The first story is the accuser gaining leverage to get him to drop out, the second is following up on the threat when he doesn’t? I wonder if the kik story is the same pattern. NYT gets to print everything in the end so they’re happy with the arrangement.

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Do you think any of these will be on display in the Obama presidential library

A list of the animals named after Obama from Wikipedia

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

And what are you dumping the overflow into? A moving water source means your spill is bad at the time but swept away in the span of days. Not a great idea to dump it in a mostly stagnant lake or creek but situationally you can just tell people to get out of the water for a few days if it happens.

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

You add a big tank. If you integrate it into the process, does that reduce its ability to hold excess? Now it has to be bigger. Any way you cut it you have a big tank of definitionally untreated raw sewage, its own hazards.

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Yes, but tying back to JIT mfg, it’s cost benefit. The plant can’t control how much sewage it gets and that number spikes a lot during a storm if your system is combined (storm and sanitary), even if only a little combined. That blows up the size and cost of your tank.

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

It’s not that absurd, a sewage plant is closer to JIT manufacturing than not

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Re: The Automat documentary that everyone’s recommending as Mel Brooks turns 100: go see it, it’s on Kanopy. I wonder if the story is more the rising wealth of the US, and because Brooks is such an old guy he got to witness it firsthand. And maybe we’ll live to witness the return of Automat 🫪

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I think you’re parsing it wrong, he’s talking about people (exposed […] as degrowth cranks) and not the claims from the field.

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

You add a federally mandated national primary date for this and while you’re at it force the rest of the primaries to be held on the same day too. I had a whole outline talking through these ideas meant for a blog post but I can’t find it

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is one of my favorite thought experiments too. The public hates parties so you market it as and run individuals (“House of Citizens”) and its reps get votes in the chamber proportional to their election vote share.

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Do we maintain the kokutai this time or

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

For the unfamiliar that downtown is what all small towns in the Carolina piedmont look like

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

What are you doing stepdog

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Likely place for him to be

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Exactly. Nobody says “I was reading this feature-length article on data centers in the newspaper and it changed my mind on a few things.” It’s all algos and short form video.

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Do you think they smoke weed

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I’ve been souring on Patrick McKenzie’s writing for a while but him casually throwing around “black letter law” here has me groaning.

One of those duties: a financial institution must, as a matter of black letter law (31 CFR § 1020.320), file a SAR if its investigation discovers a transaction designed to obscure the provenance of money.

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The Wikipedia Picture of the Year war waged between bird fans and bug fans is getting nasty. Bird fans got a photo of a bird diving to eat a butterfly into the finals

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Katherine 🏳️‍⚧️ @quadraticink.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Ok, it turns out the golf club isn't actually the problem. This is absolutely hilarious. There's just this *one* bit of perfectly good sidewalk (between start and end points) that maps just flat out refuses to acknowledge as traversable on foot.

Section of map around Myrtle Beach, SC. The map is showing walking direction between two pins that are placed 700 feet apart next to a highway, but with a sidewalk running along the side and joining the two pins. The directions, instead, opt to go 3 miles in the opposite direction, then go way up North into the nearby mountains, make a great circuit, and come back about 3 miles ahead of the destination, then tracking back, for a combined total detour of 26.7 miles.

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Who else up priming they gnome

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This is, of course, the same Ben Ghazi that Hillary Clinton tried to cover up. This goes deep.

He claims that these exercises are the basis of Freemasonry and alchemy, and that they are practiced by a secret society of Sufis; Muhammad is said to have learned these exercises from a hermit named "Ben Khasi", taught them to the innermost circle of his successors, and incorporated them into the text of the Qur'an in order to preserve them unchanged in perpetuity.

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Bakers, for your technical challenge, you must prepare a dozen identical Epstein muffins

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

He’s the Pope, you don’t have to pimp his H-index

Prompted by the tragic events of the sack of Rome in 410 AD, Saint Augustine wrote De Civitate Dei, The City of God. This is one of the most powerful of his theological, philosophical and literary works. As Pope Benedict XVI observed, it is an “impressive work crucial to the development of Western political thought and the Christian theology of history.”

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

What do you want to see in the patch notes for Great British Bake Off season 17? I think they need to nerf rhubarb, it’s OP

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

But Saruman, I live in the world of Men

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Accidentally messaged the subaltern periphery group chat "may your new year be full of imperial superprofits" and the metropole labor aristocrat group chat "may Babylon finally fall this year," so 2025 is starting off great 😒

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David Gilman @dgilman.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Country musician after taking a check from Big Citrus: she took my truck, my dog and my bag of oranges

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