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I have to say I appreciate the photo editor choosing the precise image that looks exactly like Rahm just saw the blackmail threats in his email.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 28m

All the available data says it's going to make it exponentially worse.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 1h

It’s also kind of wild that a 20-person patio equals 1 parked car. Cars are absolute hogs for space. And they’re almost always single-occupant.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 1h

And it won't even be customers spending money for the most part! Business owners whine about losing parking because they're the ones parking on the street!

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 30m

Has anybody polled Paxton nationally? I ask because I suspect at this point it would be very funny.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 34m

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 31m

Attending means standing outdoors, if the line's outdoors at least you see the band.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 32m

Where I live they have Fluff Fest, which started as basically band kids selling Fluffernutters to raise money with some local businesses doing some mildly cute stuff and has mutated into this impossible-to-attend event that literally has its own beer brewed for the occasion.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 37m

Also it's not a coincidence every viral video of some poor kid eating shit on an ebike or doing stupid irresponsible shit like swerving is not a white kid.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 40m

TBH having dealt with the anti-e-bike weirdoes it really does boil down to "Your kid can cruise down the road on his face for all I care, but that I can imagine any possible injury to myself no matter how theoretical means he should be shackled to a radiator until he's 45."

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 42m

One point I make to people occasionally is that a nuclear weapon doesn't have to be detonated anywhere near the US to kill loads of Americans.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 45m

Again, once you figure out a lot of people just fucking hate kids, as a group, much snaps into focus.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 3h

“science actually doesn’t have a great definition fo—“ i don’t care, use your fucking brain

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 48m

A fun turnaround is to ask them when was the last time they ran that line of reasoning by a member of said marginalized group.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 3h

my hot take is people should stop doing this dumb discourse that treats a piece of software as a living being you’re not god. it’s just a chatbot. you can turn it off and it’s not the holocaust

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Peter Hurley @phrly.bsky.social · 3h

The thing that always gets me about those is they never seem to want to buy the *actually* practical "move a bunch of stuff" vehicle: the minivan.* *brought to you by someone currently minivan shopping for wheelchair logistics reasons.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 53m

Or assholes! Don't forget assholes. So much political commentary on here genuinely does boil down to "My parents just cannot be the pieces of shit they act like on Facebook."

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 54m

At this point, free Scotland, reunify Ireland, and give everything else back to the Welsh.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 2h

1) this is true of almost every enterprise: doing a thing has both costs and benefits. if we only did costless things we wouldn't do very many things 2) why the fuck would you say it like this tho

the world should accept some bad things happening

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2h

One thing that I think is starting to sink in here and you can see it in the thousand yard stares is that there is not actually one weird leftist trick to solve the fact that voters are idiots.

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Cuneformless Apparition @cuneform.bsky.social · 4h

Abbott’s attack ads have been playing nonstop on streaming for almost two months, and are almost solely aimed homeowners. Hinojosa’s are mostly online and tend to revolve around the broader message of “if Abbott wanted to do something, he’d have done it by now.”

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 59m

I have the sonics but they didn't seem to work in this case.

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Tori Tyrrell @tiboribi.bsky.social · 1h

I don't know if the sonic deterrents actually work, but K bought them after I saw a mouse and then we never saw a mouse again, so I am okay throwing $30 at a "maybe this will work" effort.

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Tori Tyrrell @tiboribi.bsky.social · 1h

I got sonic deterrents because I cannot set traps effectively and our property management are like "here are some glue traps, we'll put you on the exterminator list, they'll be by next Tuesday" and I hate glue traps.

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🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃 @shoshana.bsky.social · 3h

Someone once justified paying $10,000+ more for a giant SUV as "maybe I'll need a new refrigerator and then I won't have to pay for delivery." 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 3h

One thing I greatly enjoy is people insisting a lawyer should move quickly into uncharted legal territory with a hostile judiciary arrayed against him for enormous stakes, because that's totally what your average lawyer does.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 15h

merrick garland totally exonerated

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14h

I suppose that’s one way of putting it, Wikipedia

Beyond these supernatural elements, Bellairs's novels evoked "a child's concern with comfort
and security in his real world," addressing childhood fears of abandonment, loneliness, and bullying, as well as coming of age.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 3h

Oh you mean like the book about the baseball robot where they ripped some poor bastard's eyes out to make it work? THAT John Bellairs?

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 14h

I didn’t scan the whole thread but did you know that they just put John Bellairs books in elementary school libraries?

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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 3h

Good chat. "...Guys, this isn’t your party anymore. What does it even mean to say you’re a non-MAGA Republican? That’s not a thing anymore. You need to embrace, I think, supporting Democrats for the next few cycles at least. And I think we should just be comfortable trying to say that."

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 3h

This is what endlessly annoys me about people claiming we lived in a utopia of barter (aside from the fact that there's no evidence this was ever true,) everybody has bartered for things, if only trading their time for a physical good, and it's one of the most annoying fucking experiences ever.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 3h

There's a big difference between "I cannot physically or logistically do X" which is a reasonable discussion (although I would argue you need to test "logistically") and "I don't understand how other people achieve basic tasks in ways other than my own" which isn't.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 3h

Part of the whole problem here is that a lot of people just simply cannot conceive of something, and their argument is "Well, I can't figure out how to do it, therefore it's impossible to do" and this is so thuddingly stupid as a concept it doesn't deserve serious consideration.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 3h

Just because someone who is literally selling something makes extraordinary unfounded claims about it doesn't make it true You know this about vacuum cleaners; it's embarrassing that you can't hold it in your heads about computers

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 3h

Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 3h

As it is I suspect that when the current spit-and-baling-wire bullshit machine collapses, this will be the actual, real application that comes out of the rubble.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 3h

Even now, find me anybody working in the sciences and they'll tell you this is a problem. Learning a common second language as a scientist is a huge boost to your career just simply because you can publish in that language.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 3h

Translation has been a barrier to scientific advances for literal centuries. Most of the Renaissance scientific community is underpinned by a bunch of guys who learned Arabic to translate lost Greek text into Latin.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 3h

What's ultimately funny about the whole AI shitshow is that the very obvious use case of deploying AI to translate papers and collate research into potentially commercial applications at scale is both practical and a way to make a truly offensive amount of money.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 3h

My client and I to MPR about this phenomenon. Two other attorneys are quoted talking about their client as well. We're not going to let ICE get away with making a mockery of court orders like this. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...

mprnews.org

Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic

Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 3h

It genuinely doesn't matter what the speed limit sign says, you're going the average speed the stop lights and signs and total traffic volume decide. You could change them to Klingon and you wouldn't get anywhere any faster.

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 3h

Part of the reason we have such weird and stupid transit policy globally is people treat tantrums like "BUT I DON'T WANNA GO 20MPH" as a rational policy idea.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3h

It's quite possible to do all these things, and also, not everyone has to or wants to go car-free. Simply replacing some car trips with bike trips is a step in the right direction. This all-or-nothing framing from anti-bike people is such bad faith bullshit.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not sure why things I cannot* do on a bicycle should have any bearing on my ability to have safe infrastructure for cycling *Worth noting that often the things people claim you cannot do on a bike, you actually can!

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3h

Me: We should make biking safer and more accessible. Car brains: Yeah, well you can't haul the entire contents of a Walmart on your bicycle! I know we're not dealing with logic here, but it's incredible that these are the kinds of conversations you have with people.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 5h

This insight, like a fair bit of my understanding of the band, came from me reading @rockingbob.bsky.social's absolutely essential biography of the band.

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