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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 02/10/2026

What I don't understand is being -that rich- and getting busted in a prostitution sting in a trailer park in Ohio. High-class escorts are a thing, right? I can't imagine at that level it's hard to fulfill whatever weird needs Jed York has.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

look, if the pentagon wants IT security then they have to do what the rest of us do: hire trans furries who go to renfest don't ask me why, idk, i just know that data is insecure until sanctified by the holy aura of someone who checks at least one of those boxes. it's part of god's plan.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 01/10/2026

Same for me with my ACT score but good grief if I ever use it in a conversation to prove my credentials as a very smart guy(tm) please take me out back and put me out of my misery.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Pivot to video" is synonymous with a desperate, trend-chasing strategy that sacrifices substantive content and leads to layoffs of talented staff to produce superficial videos to chase social media algorithms. Now it's NPR's turn. www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/npr-...

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NPR, the quintessential audio news brand, adapts to a video-first future

NPR’s new chief content officer Nadine Zylstra on how the public media company acquired Machine Gods — which she thinks can be “the Car Talk of AI.”

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 30/09/2026

I mean I'm currently trying to find a billionaire who wouldn't mind a Detroit sports team or two and is just a normal level of awful.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 30/09/2026

Do you think it would make a difference? Because... I'm not that hopeful.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 29/09/2026

I'm so sorry he's going through that Randi. I have been there and it's awful and it sucks and I hope very much that you get good news. <3

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was deservedly embarrassing for the Senator and his staff.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 28/09/2026

It's not in an isolated context though! We know there's career pressure on people to attend these. That's immediately so far past the line of OK as to render the rest of the discussion moot.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 28/09/2026

Yeah man nuclear war would be worse, but I can still care about the ability to, say, drive and heat my home while also not wanting to die in a nuclear winter.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 28/09/2026

Goodness, imagine posting this on the internet where people can read it.

Screenshot of a skeet with the following text -

"Now, I didn't grow up in their spaces, I grew up as a Social Justice Warrior for proto-Woke and have risked myself on the battlements defending Woke 1 and Woke 2. And if you share my sympathies, know that this piece and the perspective it shares is deeply reactionary and is trying to hide it."

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 28/09/2026

The fact that that part doesn't matter, that MAGA folks will cheer the announcement and 'well, nevertheless' the inevitable news a year or two from now that it didn't happen is so infuriating.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 28/09/2026

This is the oval office announcement? Also is anyone keeping track of the 'big business is going to open here' announcements from Trump that never actually open?

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WOW, RCP polling average has Trump less popular than he was right after Jan 6 (which, to be clear, was *extremely* unpopular)

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 28/09/2026

I can empathize & just offer this in support - I'm sorry, it sucks. You know it'll pass but that doesn't make it suck less. You're not alone.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

Hasn't Florida spent years consolidating state power in the governor's office? It seems like that would be a pretty big deal down there if the upset happens.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

No but see this time AI is going to be that thing.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

Bumble has been useless for finding a date, maybe I've just been looking for the wrong thing.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

Let's be honest - his best wouldn't be much, but he's not doing it.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

Question - Did Trump, strategic mastermind, manage to completely bottom out right before the mid-term, or is the mid-term just happening somewhere on the slope to the bottom? Given tribalism it's hard to think that the floor could be far below where things stand.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

I'd say it's > 50% that at the very least that's why it's on the radar. Someone was hunting for things named after other presidents.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

$100 and I stopped before my truck was full. :( And it's not even a big FU truck, it's a normal size truck with enough seats for my kids & a short bed I use weekly. It even gets pretty decent gas mileage.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

It strikes me that there's a very reasonable chance that Trump's ballroom monstrosity isn't finished before he leaves office. How the next person handles that will be very telling about how they'll clean up all the mess Trump leaves behind.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

Honestly? My college football team won 2 national championships while I was in college 20 years ago, continues to be really good, and hasn't had a playoff drought longer than 3 years since the mid-90s. The worst moments are losing NC's or coaches leaving, but there's not much to complain about.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

That may be, but this is a comparison between his first and second term. What I can't wrap my head around is the second term starting so much higher than the first. We -know- how awful he is.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

There's always the John Green approach of posting to get it out of your system and then deleting 20 minutes later.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

The fact that the 2 against are baked in even in the best case scenario is such a damning indictment of the entire court & structure of checks and balances.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

"British Airways abandoned us in Iceland" is the plot of a direct-to-streaming Home Alone 7. What a nightmare.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 23/09/2026

You know what I still don't understand? How he started his second term with such a high approval rating.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 21/09/2026

Also, just practically speaking and without any expertise - I'd imagine sourcing potash, a high-bulk product, from Belarus rather than Canada would incur significantly higher shipping costs. It seems like even if the price was cheaper, the overall cost could be higher.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 21/09/2026

My goodness, is that the slightest hint of backbone from the White House press pool?

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 21/09/2026

We're not far from diesel prices -doubling- since January, which is honestly pretty insane.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

Dear Silicon Valley cultists: no, I’m not getting paid by a shadowy they/them cabal to be mean to you. I’m being mean to you because your sicko culture has helped destroy mainstream international aid funding (which is killing people), usher in Trump 2.0, and pervert technology and innovation.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 18/09/2026

Consent given under that kind of pressure isn't consent. How are we not framing this as sexual assault? Sure, AI tech overlords are in a crazed sex cult is bad on it's own, but an industry rife with sexual assault and consent under pressure is incredibly awful all on its own.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 18/09/2026

Am I missing something? The tone around these 'AI LSD sex parties' is 'might be problematic toward women and employees'. Y'all I don't see how this is any different or more acceptable than Clinton & Lewinsky or the like. The employer/employee power imbalance means that consent is under pressure.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 17/09/2026

Gotcha, thanks. Keeping up can be a challenge.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026

genuinely one of the hardest things in the world because it is, actually, good if former trump supporters become disillusioned and move away from him and also I want to hook up the world's largest megaphone to yell WE TOLD YOU SO over and over

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 16/09/2026

This looks like some of the Lincoln Project folks repeating that project?

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 16/09/2026

Hunter Biden being both reasonably intelligent and well-spoken and an unreformed degenerate while in the public eye constantly is really obnoxious.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 16/09/2026

The rate hike or did I miss something else?

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 16/09/2026

Guys do not be sucked in by the 'Erick son of Erick said something reasonable' gambit. You don't have to hand it to him, because as soon as you do he'll say something awful and make you regret it.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 16/09/2026

Which have always been a great resource and still exist, but losing the ability to find articles across the internet written by some expert blogging about a thing years ago is rough.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 16/09/2026

The ability to use the internet as a source of knowledge in everyday life is fading quickly, and I think if anything we're underselling how bad that is. For 20 years I've been able to search for something like "best hvac duct size" and get useful answers. Now it's all AI slop articles.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 16/09/2026

I don't know, the people getting fed up but the leadership remaining awful seem like compatible ideas.

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Jacob Russell @jacobrussell.space · 15/09/2026

Yeah man, it's totally fine. Just burn it all down.

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Astronomy Cast @astronomycast.com · 15/09/2026

After 20 years, it's time to make some changes. With your patronage we can ditch the ads & turn up the science. patreon.astronomycast.com

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