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Doug Bierend @dougbierend.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

sadly doesn’t hold up so well imho with all the dated references, but it’ll always have a special place in my heart

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the most obviously evil and socially maladapted man to step before a camera in generations

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just tell us your idea and we’ll vote for it!

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besides the point but ‘the elephant in the lane’ is just an offensive construction

amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 18/02/2025

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for some reason it's the mass firing of national park rangers that has fucked me up the most. what did a fuckin park ranger ever do to you

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he sounds like foghorn leghorn with a hangover

normal rockwell is a dangerous man who shouldn’t be trusted. i say this at great personal risk

the “much more” part will be accounted for in history books

and for shirts that button all the way up

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effin cold but also effin pretty

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maybe folks hate the billions and billions (and billions) spent on building the most annoying industry in history, instead of funding a richer, broader and more equitable education system. billionaires seemingly can’t recognize value in anything unless it’s expensive and innovative and has a fat ROI

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sorry you’re experiencing this, i feel your pain. can’t offer leads nor suggest anything you haven’t already tried or considered, but having recently experienced a grueling period of unemployment, i’ll just say it helps to remember that in time you’ll be on the other side of it

i think a lot of today’s social ills can be traced to a certain set of privileged people becoming enamored with the idea of abstracting the world into design or engineering terms, and believing that doing so offers a unique insight into Actual Reality

i’m speaking into the void here but does anyone happen to have a suggestion for accessing data on old drives from a 2008 and 2014 macbook? data recovery services are crazy expensive and i think the drives are functional, just need a way to interface with them so i can browse some folders

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i was assured those in the blue uniforms would *not* help those in the red uniforms operate the global blood machine in a criminal matter

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if i sell my house, at least now i can boost its value by virtue of not being under the airport’s flight paths

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the converse ‘grasp the bull by the thorns’ is not as good

lots of valid criticisms of the graphics, but the voices are the most unnerving part to me…are they ai generated? is this what zuckerberg thinks ‘humans relating’ sounds like?

the voices are the most unnerving part to me…are they ai generated? is this what zuckerberg thinks ‘humans relating’ sounds like?

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it’s the original sin of the book i’m working on, about the common sense of the futuristic. core to my narrative is how the IR inspired a futurity defined by increasing abstraction from Earth, and that to survive, we must abandon its empty aesthetic lures. (basically try to make a case for degrowth)

hope you enjoyed the show steve, now consider retiring

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the 2020s, aka the decade that proved all the alarmists right

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mark my words we’re going to learn elon musk has hundreds of kids

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wonder how the “don’t like it? then leave” folks feel a about this

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guitar pickups are such cool objects imo

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eradicated sure is a specific word to use!

if you encounter someone who actually thinks AI should be used to administrate government, education, air traffic control etc, ask them what they think of the fact that the best models can only multiply 3 x 3 correctly about 97% of the time

i think there’s an unfortunate impulse among journos in the middle/left space to grow increasingly contrarian as a means of differentiation and widening audience. that’s understandable, but combined with the lack of a concrete politics (i.e. beyond “populism”) it leads to perplexing takes like this

surely collapsing tesla’s valuation is a worthy cause and one around which many can rally

i remember when musk was considered a branding genius it’ll be a rough ride for everyone, but i think we’re about to witness one of the great hubristic downfalls in human history

i keep blocking their number and they keep finding new ones! also if you’re going to harass me at least get my name right!

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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This comment on r/fednews really stood out to me. Trump and Musk want people to think they're firing do-nothing "bureaucrats," but they're really getting rid of people dedicated to serving this country and keeping it operational. I hope these stories get told.

I lost my job. USDA Forest Service.

My probation was up next week.

I did everything right. I took a GS-7 role with a master’s degree just to get my foot in the door. I spent years doing seasonal fieldwork for low pay, working in remote places, gaining experience, and building skills, just for a chance at a permanent position. I was about to be a GS-9. I wrote NEPA reports. I conducted field surveys. I worked fire support. I dedicated myself to this work because I believed in it.

Public lands don’t manage themselves. The wildlife, watersheds, and forests we protect don’t just stay protected without people on the ground making it happen. My coworkers and I took on that responsibility, often in places most people never think about but that matter more than they know.

And now? Just like that, I’m out.

Edit: I’ve consistently supported progressive policies and have voted Democrat in every national and local election since I was 18. I do appreciate folks asking, I have some coworker having a serious 'leopards ate my face' moment right now.

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the innovation here is to make playing in the grass less fun

really hate to give his bargain bin bill hicks schtick any more oxygen, but it’s an effective way of bringing people to recognize what’s being done and to see the ‘philosophy’ at work behind it

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jesus brian, grow a spine or vacate your seat to someone with an ounce of vim. this milquetoast drivel is not fit for the times

there is a very different but equivalently dramatic and strident version of the restructuring of the federal apparatus that i would wholeheartedly support. of course the targets and intention differ greatly, but hey, when the whole thing inevitably comes down, so will the aspects that are evil.

Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 15/02/2025

between the looming pandemics and the collapse of the federal government, i’m thinking the airline industry as such may not exist for too much longer

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The opening paragraph of Philip K. Dick's final novel, THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER, belongs in the opening-paragraph hall of fame

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BAREFOOT CONDUCTS Hs seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hun- dred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.

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“you can rig the game but you can’t fake influence”