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Maybe a hot take, but I think that making it super frustrating should entail making it viscerally embarrassing. I've seen people struggling to turn their urban assault vehicles around on my dead end street, and I can imagine how much more undesirable that would be if I stepped out to laugh at them.

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Angela Pashia, ACC @angelapashia.com · 8h

Did he just gun the engine, or did your son get "coal rolled"? It wasn't until years after I first witnessed the phenomenon that I learned truck drivers actually modify their vehicles to release that black smoke, paying extra money for the privilege of assaulting people without leaving their seat.

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Tbh, this is why I moved to a place where I don’t need to own a car. My wrath was for other drivers, not pedestrians or cyclists, but I don’t like who I become when driving. It’s easier to just not drive than to change that. Like a mean drunk just abstaining from alcohol.

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Every time someone blames corporations for consumer behavior, I remember that I witnessed the Rise of Keurig, during which millions of Americans made the conscious decision to replace their perfectly functional coffee makers with a new machine that guarantees voluntary plastic waste with every cup.

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Civic religion is really weird, because everyone can see that its rules and preoccupations are just as arbitrary as in ordinary religion, but the absence of a specific cosmology means that everyone gets to just pretend that no they aren't.

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Addendum: one of the many revelations in “Supremacy” by @daphnarenan.bsky.social and @nikobowie.bsky.social is that the original originalist was Sam Ervin, Watergate hero and staunch segregationist, who argued the Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional because things didn’t use to be that way.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8h

"Daddy only threatens to burn the house down because he loves us SO MUCH."

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Jeremy Herbert @DDayFilms • 15h
[George Lucas, driving away from Taco Bell]
Beenba Rito

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💫✨🌟Mare🌟✨💫 @utexas-96.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As someone who has never and will never watch The Rise of Skywalker, every piece of information that I hear about it sounds like someone's filling in Star Wars Mad Libs.

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Will forever be remembered

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Eliminate both states and then make Dakotas Fanning and Johnson fight to the death.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

you have to do good policy because it's the right thing to do, and then you have to find a way to sell it* to the public because democracy and accountability are important, but you can't go chasing the public. *or, frankly, to do it without them noticing.

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I say this a lot, but I'll never get over the fact that a huge portion of the American electorate believed that deporting all the criminals while leaving everyone else alone was not only totally feasible but trivially easy and that before Donald Trump, every president had simply chosen to not do it.

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone's talking about Rubber Soul, but we need people to rubber gou-to-the-pouls.

Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is very believable to me, because there's a guy who works in my neighborhood whom I've seen wearing a MAGA hat and proclaiming that Trump deserves to be on Mt. Rushmore, and several weeks ago, he said to me, "I don't know anyone who voted for him."

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The man who boasts that his editor son (who works for him) watched LAWRENCE OF ARABIA on a phone, and who designs his company product to be background noise, doesn’t understand what people like about movies.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Story time. My wife's post here reminds me of one of my favorite stories from my time on the Hill, of which there are many. I was in Comms for a Dem member, and the Caucus would put on a weekly talking points seminar for comms staffers. More often than not, these were run by Third Way.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 30/09/2026

wondering which news organization will be the first to use "super intelligence" sted "artificial intelligence" unironically.

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Kade Peregrine @kadeperegrine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The ruling classes can't seem to go more than a couple of decades without forgetting that the people need bread AND circuses

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I saw a post arguing that LLMs are a highly effective disability aid for neurodivergent people, and it really underscores a gap in worldviews. What I've found to be lacking is *social* support, and as far as I'm concerned, the continual offloading of cognitive functioning to AI is making that WORSE.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 26/09/2026

i think that anyone who [spins wheel] DRINKS ICED COFEEE at a [spins wheel] JOB INTERVIEW is [spins wheel] A GROOMER. shit, wait, let's do that again, im sorry, i'm trying to re-do it

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Indeed, we should be MORE, not less vigilant in enforcing the law upon those charged with its enforcement, and with its creation.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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it is genuinely obscene that prior to this point it was considered good for american democracy that nixon and reagan were never prosecuted

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Whether or not it results in "cancelation", it sure feels invasive when you get into an argument on social media with someone you've never interacted with before, and they reply "this you?" with a screenshot to a post you made eight years ago which has two likes.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes! Image a future where parents put their kids in driverless cars to take them to school while they themselves get in different cars to go to work. Instead of one or two cars chaining trips, now you might have four separate cars making four separate trips. Would be a disaster at scale.

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Would be a disaster at scale" is just how Western society says "hold my beer."

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm told it has been four years since the "sunrise I will never see" monologue from the first season of Andor. Give some love to a Skaarsgard today. It is statistically likely there is one near you.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Okay, so I have a plan to get everyone on our side. First, we be absolutely as viscerally unpleasant as possible. Next, we downplay any time we get what we want, say it's the bare minimum and so forth. Finally, if anyone gives up and says we win or apologizes, we belittle them.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today’s John Coltrane’s centennial. Listening to his music taught me as much about thinking as Gramsci, Husserl, Hall, or Anderson. One of the very few historical figures who I’d call a hero.

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India (Live From Village Vanguard/November 1,1961)

YouTube video by John Coltrane - Topic

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It really is amazing and disheartening that the answer for so many people is, "Well, I'm not one of *those people* and *those people* don't need as much as I do."

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Donald Trump, why don't you go take a boat tour under a bridge in Chicago?

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Edward Carney @ecarney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I took a spontaneous walk through a cemetery today and happened upon a spot I'd like to show to any antivax people I happen to encounter: the grave markers of four children from one family who died before thd age of six.

Caroline, daughter of H. & L. 1868-1874
Josephine, daughter of H. & L. 1873-1874
Eleanor, daughter of H. & I. 1878-1879
Ethel, daughter of H. & I. 1889-1873

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

joke of a fucking country

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However it happens, I hope it hurts the whole time it's happening.

It's the name-dropping for me. The reduction of informed commentary or actual politics to an exercise in, "Look how many famous people and institutions are in my orbit!"

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In a larger sense, a LOT of people are just really committed to engaging with the world around them as if it is much simpler and more predictable than it is in reality. It seems that most whacky beliefs and practices are rooted in an inability to cope with the unavoidable chaos of existence.

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It’s important to understand that fascist movements that turn to violence and oppression and genocide often begin with buffoonish performance that eventually transforms to action and widespread violence after the performances radicalizes and creates a false self with false motivation.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026

New Study Shows That Bones Are Incredibly Cool

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Republicans, voting for leaders who'll spend decades dismantling the institutions that allowed them to live their entire lives without serious material concerns: "haha, yes, this rules" Republicans, experiencing material precarity for the first time as institutions collapse: "Man, wtf? This sucks!"