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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 06/10/2026

@peggyflanagan.bsky.social making your opening text a desperate pitch with a fake midnight deadline is not a good look.

Message from Pegg Flanagan:

Elliott, it’s Team Peggy, coming to you with the latest: We're TIED with our GOP opponent, Trump's Michele Tafoya.

Real Clear Politics just moved this race to a TOSS-UP. 12% of Minnesota voters are still undecided — enough to swing this race either way.

That’s why MAGA Republicans and Donald Trump are pouring millions into attack ads against Peggy to tip this race in their favor.

We've set an emergency fundraising goal of $50,000 by midnight to fight back. Chip in NOW to help us defend Peggy and win this neck-and-neck race: https://flanagan4mn.com/sWlx88

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 06/10/2026

@hamilton4kansas.bsky.social no disrespect but I have not been following your campaign and this is not a good first impression.

It’s Adam Hamilton; I need you to know the latest:

First: A recent poll showed us with a 2-point lead over Sen. Marshall, 50% to 48%.

Then: Expert election forecasters at RealClear Polling moved this race to a TOSS-UP.

𝗡𝗼𝘄: 𝗔 𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗚𝗢𝗣 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗔𝗖 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝘂𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗿𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗻. 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹.

𝗪𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝘆 𝗴𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱. 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟵 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲, 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝘀𝗼 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲: 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵 $𝟮𝟬 𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁? https://adam4ks.com/t8hKF7

We’re so close — thanks for helping us finish strong.
— Adam

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 06/10/2026

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I’m a big fan but this is so disappointing.

Desperate scam text “from” JB Pritzker “EXTENDING” a 200 percent match until midnight.

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 08/09/2026

Pet peeve: Cd times area is what matters for efficiency, not just Cd. Companies will brag about low Cd on a bloated SUV and it’ll get reported as something impressive. For EVs the thing I actually care about is miles/kWh at different speeds, which is the result of Cd * A and drivetrain efficiency.

Car and Driver screenshot of the announcement for the new Audi A2 reporting a “low” drag coefficient of 0.24. Incidentally, the car is hideous and way uglier than the old A2.

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 04/09/2026

lmao. This whole post is great but the screenshotted bit is my favorite. Thanks @danluu.com danluu.com/zitron/

February 2025: "I will keep writing this stuff until I’m proven wrong."
Wrong (Zitron continues to write despite repeatedly being proven wrong)

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 16/08/2026

I have emailed @wadems.org about this awful tactic before. No reply. I won’t give them a cent until they apologize and do better. (I will keep knocking doors to get out the vote so don’t tell me to get off the couch and quit griping.) cc @shasti.bsky.social

A desperate and scammy email from WA Dems with a fake deadline, asking for more money. Fuck this scummy fundraising. Tell people how they can volunteer and do a better job organizing events. Many of the door knocking events I’ve been to have been poorly organized and were announed only a few days in advance.

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 08/07/2026

@gruber.foo someone at Apple got so used to writing Markdown I guess they forgot to clean this up?

iOS software update screen showing Markdown link formatting

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 04/06/2026

I need to stop playing this game but now I’m trying it on hard mode.

82-0 game screenshot showing 82-0 with LeBron, DeMar DeRozan, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, and Wilt.

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 07/04/2026

@ronanfarrow.bsky.social great article but: what does this even mean? They used a large language model chatbot to plan the Maduro raid? The US military has no obvious need for a chatbot with that sort of mission. We got Bin Laden thanks to helicopters and special forces guys with guns.

In 2024, Anthropic partnered with Palantir, one of Silicon Valley’s most hawkish defense contractors, pushing its A.I. model, Claude, directly into the military ecosystem. Anthropic became the only A.I. contractor used in the Pentagon’s most classified settings. Last year, the Pentagon awarded the company a further two-hundred-million-dollar contract. In January, the U.S. military launched a midnight raid that captured the Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro. According to the Wall Street Journal, Claude was used in the classified operation.

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 11/11/2025

@reckless.bsky.social this feels like you got reverse-Chotiner’d Good interview.

Nilay Patel interviewing Tim Berners-Lee:

Nilay: What do you think of that move?

Tim: [Laughs] I’m not the person who invented the web, sir. Again, I see that tension. Most of my conversations on Decoder about the web and the future of the web land on this tension. There are some people with power and some people without, and the web is supposed to democratize power.

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 15/10/2025

The view from part way up Ben Lomond yesterday

A sea of fog surrounding the peaks of the Scottish Highlands, from a viewpoint on a grassy hill part way up Ben Lomond, with clear blue skies above

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 15/03/2025

The last of my Jubala beans. They were fantastic and I need to go back to Raleigh to get more.

An espresso in a small glass cup with a Cafelat Robot and an electric kettle in the background

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 05/03/2025

My kid keeps getting chomped at daycare and they never say who did it. But the other kids all have different teeth coming in. @radleybalko.bsky.social is this perhaps the least stupid use case for bite mark analysis?

A baby’s arm with a red bite mark from another baby

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 30/12/2024

try to prevent stuff in space from hitting other stuff in space

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Elliott Schwartz @eschwartz.org · 04/11/2024

Such a pleasant way to vote compared to what I had in Pennsylvania twelve years ago

King county elections email saying my ballot has been counted

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