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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 29/09/2026

And then Klobuchar gets to brag about women's sports teams from the midwest 😂

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 29/09/2026

Loving this so much. So many of my favorite things bundled up into one beautiful package, starting with the innocent-seeming mistake of thinking "Hawkeyes" = "Hawks".

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Maybe it was a mistake to give all the power to a bunch of people who don't really like people.

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 26/09/2026

Isaiah has some thoughts. www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 26/09/2026

It should not be hard to read the stories about women who make the difficult but morally right (as taught by the church) decision to abort their pregnancy, see the cruel barriers the state law has created for them, and think "that could be me or someone I love".

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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I sincerely don't understand what San Jose State is doing on this list. They stuck around for Nevada?

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(Other possibilities, need to watch, I know, it's embarrassing: 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, Community, Friday Night Lights, House, Scandal, Battlestar Galactica, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, Planet Earth)

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We follow Captain America's language standards in my household, so I guess my list is: Lost The Good Place Rings of Power* Andor WandaVision* Loki* Gilmore Girls Psych* Great British Baking Show A Series of Unfortunate Events* (*didn't make the list, but gets my vote)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I vote Clare for host every week! You didn’t really go there, but: in your bear D scenario, I think the party is cooked. Mass outrage. All that No Kings energy channeled into nothing. If the party organization can’t deliver in this environment, they’re worthless and we’re gonna need a new party.

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Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FLIGHT ATTENDANT: is there a doctor on board FRANKENSTEIN: *starts to stand* DR FRANKENSTEIN: *pulls him back down* i think they mean me

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 24/09/2026

(To be fair, with a Powerwall time-shifting all of my 2500 kWh annual peak usage, given a 12¢ price delta I'd still only save $300/yr—break-even time of 15000/300 = 50 years. It seems you have to have a bigger delta for any home batteries to make financial sense.)

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 24/09/2026

To save me $200/yr (break-even a plausible 7.5 years), I'd need to drain all 1.6 kWh daily, and the rate savings would need to be 35¢. Otherwise, best to think of it as an upgrade option if you're shopping for a UPS?

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 24/09/2026

I'm struggling to make the math work. PG&E customer, 12¢ rate delta between peak and off-peak. Peak is 5 hrs/day. Heaviest-usage 120V appliance is probably the refrigerator, rated 2.0 kWh/day. 2.0 * (5/24) * .12 = $.05/day or $18.25/yr savings Break even in 82 yrs!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars.

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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x

The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 21/09/2026

I like the sentiment but I think the cookies should be saved for tomorrow when we get to the 21st *night* of September.

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 20/09/2026

A complete (?) list of FBS college football teams that have “State” in their name, are in the Pacific/Mountain time zone, and are *not* members of the new Pac-12: - Arizona State - New Mexico State - Sacramento State - San Jose State

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 14/09/2026

All this because the people voted in 2018, *eight years ago*, for a modest electoral reform. It’s so exhausting.

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 09/09/2026

My unpopular opinion is that the 12-team playoff was better under the old rules: four New Years bowl spots for the four best conference champions, everybody else has to earn their way with a play-in. The conference championships are part of the playoff.

Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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"The COVID-19 pandemic, which killed more than 47,000 New Yorkers, has inspired no such response ... Unlike the bereaved of 9/11, pandemic survivors who lost loved ones have no public place where they can share their griefs, receive recognition, and carry on with their lives. They deserve better."

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Use 9/11 memorials as models to honor COVID dead

The rubble of the World Trade Center was still smoldering 25 years ago when New Yorkers went to work creating memorials to the dead. In parks and on streetcorners, impromptu shrines gave faces and nam...

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 05/09/2026

This is my love language.

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 03/09/2026

So weird to have a case where having a “novel legal theory” is not good enough to carry on with rulebreaking indefinitely. www.nytimes.com/athletic/751...

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 01/09/2026

I was so confused when I couldn't find it on YouTube, I'm glad I found it elsewhere and it wasn't just me hallucinating. (Honestly, though, if my subconscious wanted to invent an Angela video for me to watch in a dream, "Wrath of Khan is bad actually" is pretty spot on.)

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 01/09/2026

There are no good Star Trek movies, so I guess it's fine if the reboot is the highest-rated. @acollierastro.bsky.social is with me on this.

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Angela Collier — Wrath of Khan is a bad movie

IN MY OPINION

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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Payton Tolle is an absolute gem 😭

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 31/08/2026

Came across this photo from a visit to Versailles. That’s Louis XIV in the middle. 300 years later, and our power-hungry narcissists are doing the same thing.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 30/08/2026

just checking in on today's news

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Think of it this way: Google lets you browse the government’s database. If you’re unhappy with what Google displays, what you’re really unhappy about is that someone has vandalized the government’s database!

My unpopular opinion is that it’s good, actually, that when the duly elected president of the United States is a toddler doing stupid stuff with the immense power that has been given him, popular media like Google puts the unvarnished stupidity on display instead of working around it.

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On Oct 31 there will be 3 football games in Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill. Book your travel now!

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And tons of stuff he’s “done” that won’t last five minutes when he’s gone.

Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 26/08/2026

This situation is the premise of every story ever told about wishing for things.

Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 26/08/2026

Important context is that it's a ranked choice ballot, so the only wasted votes occur when somebody ranks one Sullivan and not the other.

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morbius @jazzpomegranate.com · 25/08/2026

oh so she was like actually christian

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 25/08/2026

"Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." —Fred Rogers's mom

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 21/08/2026

Never let a writer help you move

A cardboard moving box with EPHEMERA written on it in Sharpie

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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 20/08/2026

Are there really people who read this criticism of "our reckless spending problem" and *don't* think "us, the Republicans, specifically, our reckless spending problem"? Reads to me like he's running ads for Democrats.