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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 7h

Among Douglas Adams’s many great lines was “its superficial design flaws masked it’s fundamental design flaws”

James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was on a plane last month the day after some primaries, and the guy behind me was a political consultant, talking with the candidate about how negative she wanted to go and when. He said, "decide how negative you're willing to go, and then we'll just go straight there." Don't know party, but. . .

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can't wait until someone gets fired for citing an AI document that was published two years ago. References: Department of [Redacted] [Redacted] Intelligence Strategy FY2024

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The question is whether Paxton is uncoachable or if the people around him hate him so much they just say, "here's yer talking points boss--you got this."

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been to 27 countries, including Canada, and this is 100% not true.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do we really need social workers? Or teachers' aides? Are these actually worthwhile human endeavors? (since this is bsky, please be assured that's sarcasm) Y'know, if we didn't want people in low-paid but socially valuable professions to have student loans, perhaps there are alternatives?

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Incompetence or provocation? I suspect the latter--daring someone to do something about it, and if nobody does, precedent!

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Blazing Saddles Animal House (the 70s were not the pinnacle of responsible parenting)

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The lid hole on my coffee cup must be exactly opposite the cup seam. If I’m picking up coffee for someone else I put their angle at 90• so I know which is which

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Squirrels. And the neighbors’ dog who is definitely up to no good. Also why the human never feeds me on time and SQUIRREL!

An Airedale terrier getting very up close and personal

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's especially funny if you remember the candidate who got caught up in the Thanksgiving story lost her primary.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You sendin' emails about criminal fuckin' conspiracy?

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not loving that 59% of Democrats feel positive about an actual coup. I really hope the survey methodology was bad.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is one reason I doubt the claims of Musk's genius. Simply running and rerunning a playbook that you didn't even invent does not indicate great intelligence.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s not often an economics conference keynote makes me laugh out loud.

So that's the strategic choice, but at some level, eventually, we do need to try to understand what's driving this. And that's where, if I can make a plea, I do think we need to bring the international relations people into these discussions. Yeah, they don't do quantitative models. They have an annoying addiction to 2 x 2 matrices, but they are smart. They've thought about it a lot and have actually picked up some aspects of international interdependence that I think economists have neglected.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In 1994 Republican House member from Texas challenged the SECDEF over creating an Army-run vaccine research and production facility. The representative was upset that DoD was moving too slowly and still considering a private sector option. Oh, how times have changed.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I can't think of a single political scientist who makes me think and reconsider my assumptions more often that @juliaazari.bsky.social. My dissertation-in-progress relies on the spatial model, but what if the whole concept is misguided? goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/what-if-we...

goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com

What if we’re wrong about party asymmetry?

Join me on this journey of speculation

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My dad never went to kindergarten because he had polio and was bed ridden most of the year. At least 2 other children on his block died from the disease itself or complications. My mom, just a couple years younger, has no memory of anyone getting polio, because there was a vaccine.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Something that's left me mad re: birthright citizenship revisionists/racists is that in this country we are not supposed to presume things based on skin color or parental identity, and folks who are enjoying life in this country- minding their own business- should be left the hell alone accordingly.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And yet this guy will lecture me on my lack of Christian faith. His generation of evangelicals can't understand why so many young people fall away or are not interested in the church. This is it, buddy. And yes, they're finding new appeal for young men--that's. . .not actually a good sign.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Everyone freaking out about Talarico needs to dig into theories of issue ownership. Talarico does NOT want to fight this election on trans rights. That does not necessarily mean he will not support trans rights.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is one of several reasons I don't like creating "self-funding" government entities or the illusion of self-funded govt entities (e.g. Social Security "accounts"). They blur the point below, which is that it's all one big pot of appropriatable money.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Current and former mayors of NYC are present Zohran Mamdani is also present Who. . .is the current mayor of NYC?

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/09/2026

Yeah, the thing that we should probably focus on more than most things is how Fetterman is just a guy who loves attention and will do all kinds of things to get it. The sweatshirt and shorts thing is male attention-seeking behavior.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's ok for a total stranger to be wrong on the internet. It's ok for a total stranger to be wrong on the internet. It's ok for a total stranger to be wrong on the internet.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/09/2026

my bet is that he'll flip if it's a 50-50 or 51-49 dem senate, so dems need to somehow get to 52 to be safe

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/09/2026

as someone who has read far too much military history i think this is as wrong as can be. america did not send warriors to win world war two. we sent shopkeepers, and farmers, and accountants, and millions of ordinary people who did not dream of glory and death. and we won.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Really thrilled to learn they're going to start construction on my alternate commute route at the same time they're starting construction on the Arc de Trump, which will screw up my primary commute route. Excellent planning.

Tuesday @ 2:45 pm
Skanska has been awarded a $114 million contract to rehabilitate the 1-395 northbound bridge over the Potomac River, with construction expected to begin in early 2027. The two-year project will upgrade the 1950 bridge, convert its bascule span to a fixed span and extend its service life by an estimated 75 years.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

At great grandmother's funeral her "niece" was listed as her daughter. She had a child around 16 who was adopted by her sister then got pregnant again ~ a year later, at which point the bishop called in my great-grandfather and told him God was calling him on a mission to rescue a fallen girl.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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fabius @fabius.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is not a subtweet of anyone in particular but the blog/substackification of the intellectual sphere still annoys me insofar as almost nothing you read now has been, like, proofread

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The entire executive branch: “there is no war with Iran and military operations ended in May.” POTUS: “WAR! WAR, WAR, WAR! WAR!”

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I installed computers in professors’ offices. TBC, these were the first computers ever installed in their offices and most of those over 50 were NOT happy about it. My own advisor harangued me the entire time about how he would NEVER turn it on.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“Physical fitness as a moral value and measure of social worth” pays my therapist’s car payment.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Everything just got better. Showing my worker solidarity this Labor Day weekend with my Basque shepherd comrades 😁

A Picon Punch in a coupe glass with a dessicated lemon wheel.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just bought a seersucker jacket on Labor Day weekend. That is advanced procrastination kids; do not try this at home.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Have any Democrats tried responding to Hasan Piker questions with “who?” If the Speaker of the House can claim he’s never heard a single word uttered by the President. . .

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is the origin story of two senior national security figures, and I have my suspicions about at least one other.

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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Most Southern West Point graduates fought for the United States. All of Bobby Lee's cohort Colonel contemporaries from the South also stayed in the U.S. Army, fighting against their own states. Lee's own family was shocked when he resigned. So he was a unique kind of traitor and grifter.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Like so many conspiracy theories, it fails the "explain why they would want to do this" test. It makes no sense, but people just desperately want to believe a) McConnell is dead and b) there's some nefarious plot. He's 84 and frail. That's the story.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

he's not dead, there was no special election to avoid, and the people who should be mad at him not being able to do his job are republicans who are down a vote. this whole discourse is ridiculous www.everythingishorrible.net/p/mcconnell-...

everythingishorrible.net

McConnell Conspiracy Theories Are Doomer Nonsense

And doomer nonsense helps the fascists.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I learned the rudiments of this from Raul Pacheco Vega's blog (www.raulpacheco.org/blog/), which is still available despite his untimely passing. I hope someone has archived it because it was extremely useful for these hidden curriculum questions, and it could disappear at any time.

raulpacheco.org

Blog – Raul Pacheco-Vega, PhD - Understanding and solving intractable resource governance problems.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Many men (including this one I suspect) practice truth in advertising by dressing like complete schlubs on dates. They are doing this out of deep integrity and not because they’re lazy and entitled AF.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Loving this site. Got a woman born 1522 in West Africa who lived to 70—surprising until you read she had no children. Really ups the odds. anyhumanever.com/life/9857015...

anyhumanever.com

Fatoumata, one of over 100 billion lives

Fatoumata was born in 1522 CE in the countryside of the West African Sahel.

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Puck the Puddle Pilot @puckthepilot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The real civ mil divide is apparently being aware of the Canadian Military's game.

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