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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I don't know that it makes him presidential material but Ossoff's ability to just be honest about how much of a pile of shit these people really are should be a model to the party.

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yes, it's a huge deficit spend Yes, a bunch of established businesses will fail in the churn Not sure either of those matter to the median voter

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Median American savings is ~ $10,000 So even ignoring FDIC, six months of $2,000/month checks makes the majority of Americans whole if their bank fails Since consumer spending is 2/3 of the US economy, the economy might just chug along if consumers have money to spend

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

What's interesting is that COVID may have given us a better model than "Uncle Sam bails out banks" Give people stimulus checks and then let the businesses fail

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The EVs vs ICE question was answered two or three years back. It's EVs Now the fight is about the timeline

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I mean, the whole subsidies for EVs thing was explicitly about using economies of scale to improve EV prices and technology So blues absolutely should be doing a victory lap. The plan worked

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Theoretically, this was the strength of 538; they tried to tie local demographics to polling to figure out "oh, this subset of the population is swinging left/right"

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1) Tariffs and ICE kidnapping effects aren't uniform - eg. NH might have less immigrant farm workers / diesel reliance than Iowa 2) local effects like data center noise, electricity price increase get projected into national politics - eg. NH might have fewer data centers to be pissed about

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

2012 Elon: we're going to Mars in 5 years 2014 Elon: we're going to Mars in 5 years 2016 Elon: we're going to Mars in 5 years ... ... ... 2026 Elon: we're going to Mars in 5 years

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also helps with situations where AI doesn't mean LLM - eg "AI detects cancer" type stories where the tech is actually an image classifier Imagine the headline "Combustion technology kills boy on street corner" Was he shot? Run over by a car? Blown up? We can - and should - be much more specific

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Honestly, I think the answer is "just don't say AI" "An AI hacked [whoever]" Becomes "A Large Language Model optimized for coding stole data from [whoever]" Yes it's longer, but it's also much more specific

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Like, ya' know, whatever" - Lisa Simpson and AOC (apparently)

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NYT filtering out like 30% of Trump's words to make his ramblings sound almost like English while trying to make AOC sound like a Valley Girl is certainly a choice

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Skeets you make when your life has taken an especially weird turn

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Cops just shouldn't have guns No one should be killed by the state

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I also think charity is a negative We should tax billionaires until government services render charity obsolete

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Cops just shouldn't use lethal force Don't give them guns Force them to de-escalate every situation or die trying It's the fiscally responsible thing to do

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There are lots of things to hate about the world today, but "journalists treating bad-faith actors as if they were normal, rational people" is absolutely one of the things I hate most. It directly contributes to so many of the other bad things

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Read this as Sin City NEOM, which I think could also work I'm imagining a cyberpunk movie in black and white

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

LLMs are not curing cancer This is why no one should use the word "AI" We should use more specific words that differentiate between useful, ethical uses of machine learning like classification or regression and unethical, un-useful uses like LLMs and grifting

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My theory is that they started at the bottom and built up - the other way seems much harder

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I will vote for a platform of de-Trumpification. It needs to be a scorched-earth removal of every hateful symbol.

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

John McCain respected and admired President Obama, and explicitly said they shared values like Pres. Obama says in the screencap Pretending there was bad blood between them is lost-all-touch-with-reality level revisionist history The modern GOP is a bunch of weirdos and losers for entertaining it

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that."

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited."

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our goodwill and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises..."

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans[...] is something I deeply admire and commend him for achieving."

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 17/06/2026

This thread is wild. Someone witnessed a prime example of letting a corporation take over your brain.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

In case you missed it, the England fans at the world cup are enthusiastically chanting: "He's fat, with piles He's in the Epstein files Trump the Cuunt Trump the Cuuuuuntt!!!" I want to know how the pearl-clutching republican senators are going to handle it if they win.

"He's fat.. with piles..he's in the Epstein files...
Trump the cuuunt...Trump the cuuuunnt!!"

HEADLINE: England fans face being
kicked out of stadium for
chants during World Cup

Photo of a stadium full of fans waving the Cross of St George flag (not the Union Jack, which is the UK flag)

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

If only there were some sort of beloved story about the perils of using a fundamentally corrupt technology created for evil ends, even if you yourself have pure motives. Ideally one which made it clear at the end that there can be no compromise with inherent evil, it must just be stamped out.

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Love how the detrended graph highlights the 3 big shocks of the last decade First COVID in 2020 Then Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which drives massive inflation as staple products from both countries dry up Then Trump takes office in 2025, and everything gets worse and worse

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

It's "Russia invades Ukraine and prices spike for staples like oil, wheat, and seed oil, driving massive inflation"

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Death stalks through the exhibits, scythe in hand It stops to contemplate a particularly striking landscape I sprint to the next gallery

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Wealth Tax Fixes Everything, No One Paying Even A Little Bit of Attention Remotely Surprised

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yes, and... We should expand the House so Reps have smaller, more competitive districts

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

China and the Nordics have enough EVs to basically shrug this price spike off In 5 years, most countries will be there too The US will lag behind because Rs have fought hard on behalf of their billionaire oil baron bosses

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Coining the term: The Last Oil Shock Between Operation Epstein Fury and Ukraine bombing Russian oil infrastructure, oil prices are spiking 1 in 4 new cars globally were EVs _before_ the spike #EVs #oil

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/05/2026

I completely agree that Democrats should run on ripping out the diseased roots of corruption.

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Cumulative inflation since 2019 is about 33% So a pre COVID $150 flight is $200 just from inflation The invasion of Ukraine absolutely fucked everyone in ways I don't think most people have internalized

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

My thermonuclear hot take: just get rid of tax exempt as a thing Either it's a grift, in which case tax them, or it's a valuable service, in which case tax them and then have the gov do that service instead

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The messaging in this election is so easy even the Democrats could do it

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Also, small districts means more likely to meet your Rep and realize they're an idiot, which again makes them more swingy

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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

No data to back it up, but I feel like a massive expansion of the House solves gerrymandering If districts are so small that a few hundred people can swing an election, dummymanders feel like a BIG risk Make the House 5000 people 2030 campaign

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I’m locking up all the dried fruit the minute I get pregnant

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My toddler put a dried apricot in my water bottle and I didn't notice, took a sip in the middle of the night and it tasted so weird, shined my flashlight in there, the apricot had rehydrated and was like a perfectly round little glowing testicle in the bottom of my water bottle. Horrific
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Jim @jim-gras.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Presumably from xkcd? xkcd.com/538/

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