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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 05/02/2025

Something the "so you think the law means anything now" doomers fail to grasp: the importance of buying time. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, has infinite resources and infinite capacity for managing complexity. Make your opponent work. Make their every decision complex and their every move costly.

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the scotts must be crazy @scottymax.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

If he had survived, William Mckinley probably would've said "snowmobile"

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Gary 7 @garyseven.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I realize the irony of saying this hear, but I can’t help be warm to the idea that humanity in general (and America for sure) would be best served by the elimination of social media and 24 hour news networks. And yes, I can feel the curmudgeonliness flowing through me… Now get off my lawn!!

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Gary 7 @garyseven.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Guess I shouldn’t be surprised to see Mahomes getting the same BS preferential treatment from the refs like Brady used to get.

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Gary 7 @garyseven.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Currently finding it hard to maintain a belief that, “…the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.” L Just me? Maybe I just need more sleep.

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Gary 7 @garyseven.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Really, the continued existence of “Red Squad” at Starfleet Academy is a glaring failure of the institution. Getting into Red Squad seems to be overly subjective, and members have repeatedly displayed a penchant for excessive ego and hubris leading to poor decision making and lost lives.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

It’s 2025 Marty McFly would have traveled in the DeLorean all the way back to 1995 The Wonder Years would be a TV series set in the halcyon days of 2005 Dazed and Confused would be a period piece about 2008, the year we first elected Barack Obama

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

People say that Bluesky is Twitter for the left, but the replies to this make it clear that Bluesky is Twitter for Star Trek nerds.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

$16 billion was spent in the last election. Enough to eradicate world hunger. Twice over. Our elections now feel like auctions. A contest to corral the most billionaires. Citizens United put us on the fast track to an oligarchy. For us to find our way back, it has to be undone.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I don't know what this meeting is about, but someone should tell the angel that their video is still on.

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Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Heading into the holidays like

Meme image of Star Trek's Gowron saying, "Last Christmas I gave you my heart but the very next day you brought dishonor to your house."

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Gary 7 @garyseven.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I realize, as a Star Trek fan, that a lot of the computer interactions in the show would be enabled by what is trying to be done with AI today. It’s just that the majority of the top people involved with AI development are the slimiest, used car salesmen sludge of humanity, and I do not trust them.

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Gary 7 @garyseven.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I mean, I’m not catholic, but that is a Wookie out front of this church, right?

Cut-out standing in the snow that I suppose could be a saint or Jesus type holding a cross, though it’s tilted so it’s more like an X in front of him, but I’m telling ya dude looks like a Wookie.

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Sparky MD/PhD @neurospark.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

American healthcare is insanely expensive because of all the middle men scrapping every penny they can out of the system. Insurance should not be for profit or publicity traded. Pharmacy benefits managers should not exist.

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Captain Crypt Keeper (slay/phlegm) @captaincurt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

All the grass is brown (The grass is brown) And my socks are wet (And my socks are wet) It’s 9 am and dark (9 am and dark) And not even shortest day yet (Not even yet) 🎶🎶 #alaskasky #winterhascameandwent

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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Six decades later, Star Trek may still be the only franchise based on the ideas that diversity is strength, justice is the measure of civilization, bounty is to be shared, peace is worth the price, and all these things can be achieved. We need more shows that look ahead and find goodness.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

"What's the lesson here, guys?" "We don’t know.” "C’mon, think about it." "Don't be assholes?" "Don’t be assholes. Especially to…” "To the guy with the thumbs?" "To the guy with the thumbs."

Two cats look up at the camera. In front of each of them is a a bowl containing a sealed can of food.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

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WalkingTaako but Spooky 🏴‍☠️🏳️🪣💩 @walkingtaako.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Congratulations to the new White House Chief of Staff, the black tar thing that killed Tasha Yar

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Gary 7 @garyseven.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Went to a candidate forum my employer’s PAC had when Sullivan first ran. It was blatantly obvious then that there was no “there” there. Responding to a question he rambled for several minutes until it became obvious even he couldn’t remember what he was talking about. Puppet operated by others.

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

he may have only jumped into your office chair two minutes ago when you got up to use the bathroom, but you cannot move him now because he's sleeping. definitely not just pretending. really actually fully asleep, and sleeping cats cannot be moved

An orange and white cat is pretending to sleep on a black office chair. He thinks if he's asleep he gets to stay there.

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Gary 7 @garyseven.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

By this standard I am apparently 56.

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Gary 7 @garyseven.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Sorry, I guess I’m a bit slow on the uptake. I get it now. The cabinet appointments are TV personalities and the like because they are the dog & pony show. The yes-men who do what they’re told and appear on camera. It will be the Project 2025 types appointed under them that will do the real damage.

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Rads @rads.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

[The Odyssey except everyone is a dog] SIRENS: awOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOooooOOOOoooo ODYSSEUS: *furiously tugging on leash* aawwwOOOOOooooooo

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Just so we’re clear - Any party telling you who you can love, what gender you are, which medicine you can take, which books you can read, which history you can learn, what prayers you should pray and what you can and cannot do with your own body, doesn’t give a fuck about freedom.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 15/11/2024

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!! welcome and thank you for being here 🥳

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Gary 7 @garyseven.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Part of me feels he’s making outrageous cabinet decisions that won’t get approved so that the only-slightly-less-terrible choice he nominates after that seems reasonable. Either way, this is calamity in the making.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I’ve decided to leave Scientific American after an exciting 4.5 years as editor in chief. I’m going to take some time to think about what comes next (and go birdwatching), but for now I’d like to share a very small sample of the work I’ve been so proud to support (thread)

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Word of the day is ‘catchfart’, from the 17th century, used of a servant who followed their master or mistress a little too closely. In today’s terms, a catchfart is someone who fawns upon the boss or who follows the political wind.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

One of the aspects of being in a cult is that the cult leader forces the members to constantly make increasingly degrading choices to affirm their commitment to the cult. We're about to find out which members of the Senate are cult members and which are not.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

A thread about feelings stuff around Our New Political Reality™. First of all, as always: eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back The first three make an ENORMOUS difference in our capacity to grapple w/ All The Things; the last two are kind of The Point.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

as horrible as it is theres something darkly comic about the Department of Efficiency having 2 chairmen

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Gary 7 @garyseven.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Oh thank goodness. Was starting to get NYT Games withdrawal shakes.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Time zones are a fake idea, they are defined in offsets from UTC. Just use UTC. It is 4:16 UTC right now for everyone on earth. Do you really think adding math to this is necessary? Ask any programmer who has had to deal with timezones. You don't need more math

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Gary 7 @garyseven.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

I wholeheartedly support this viewpoint.

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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

I heard there was a secret mash That turned into a graveyard smash But you don't really care for monsters, do you?

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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

The old Victorian mansion calls you in the night, drawing you up the stairs to the boarded up attic. You pry at the entrance; the door creaks open. There’s a music box on the mantle, draped in cobwebs. With shaking hands you lift the lid… 🎶 Never gonna give you up 🎶

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Gary 7 @garyseven.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

So true. I really miss Carl Sagan’s wisdom.