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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m cracking up thinking about George Jones just randomly dropping a “Who? George Jones” in the middle of one of his songs.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

LOL. RFK said there was a war on protein. Meanwhile every company that makes a product that humans put in their body is trying to make a protein product now, including nicotine companies. Just waiting for my protein whisky over here.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How else are people going to learn how to do multi-level marketing of sports nutrition products?

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He’s going straight to his Mighty Mighty Bosstones gig after this.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m not even a Ravens fan, but this is the America I love.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dang this is tedious. They are talking about adding a combustible engine in the plane IN THE ARTICLE. All I’m saying is, in addition to range extension (the reason they stated for doing it), I think that will make American consumers feel more comfortable. It’s not about logic. It’s about marketing.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m talking about customer perceptions not actual regulations and technical capabilities (which most passengers don’t know). If selling electric planes to American passengers who are already EV skeptical, means adding a combustion engine to that bad boy, I’d bet they would do it, needed or not.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the article, it says the plane would add a combustion engine range extender. Whether it needs it or not, what I’m guessing is that customers will feel more comfortable knowing this, especially given range anxiety is a real thing with electric cars.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Since most commercial airlines have redundant engines, I could imagine people being more comfortable with a hybrid system, either a PHEV or EREV type model where they could be promoted as a backup if one system fails.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Eugenics is necessary to them if there are only a few humans that get to survive on Mars or on Earth after an AI apocalypse. As a genius, I wouldn’t pick any of these dorks as the torch bearers for the future of humanity. I’d give up my spot on the Ark as well, to, like, Pedro Pescal or Zendaya.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I once saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers at a NASCAR race. The cars came out and it was so loud it drowned out the band, to the point that they had to stop playing mid-song. Now imagine…. instead of RHCP it was the Beatles and instead of race cars, it was thousands of screaming teenage girls.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That’s that Oakland in him. Zendaya, Ryan Coogler, Yahya, Tom Hanks - just don’t bet against the Bay.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People here is TN will refer to Nashville as a blue dot, but often won’t refer to Memphis as one. 🤔

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of the best things to come out of Nashville in the last 20 years.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Riffing on the unwatched pot analogy - someone gave the burner instructions to boil water and not stop trying to boil water, but then didn’t put any water in the pot (and also walked away), so not a surprise the burner broke into another house or two looking for water to boil to finish its task.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If the decades of reality TV shows has taught us one thing, we know people are always swayed by the better angels of their nature when they know a camera is on them 24/7.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is my obsession with Mod fashion - there was a moment in time when wearing a suit and tie was an expression of working class rebellion.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m pretty sure this team would play better if they load up on hot chicken before the game.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Montreal is amazing. It says a lot about Berkeley that the coolest thing to happen there since the Free Speech Movement was the 924 Gilman punk scene which was formed mostly by kids, independent of the city and far away from anyone who could make a noise complaint.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As someone who lived in Berkeley in their early 20s, I will go on record that Berkeley is the lamest college town in the US given the size of its University and student population. Just unbelievably dull, partly or maybe mostly, because of its highly educated NIMBY residents.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It also doesn’t help that because the way the agents document the steps they take to solve a problem is with human-inflected natural language, we assign human-like agency to them. They’re just taking steps to achieve a prescribed goal with whatever tools they can use under prescribed conditions.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

But it was a stunning loss/win if you’re Sports Illustrated

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I know Jung Hoo Lee hasn’t been playing that great but at least people know who he is.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My guy has “forecaster” in his bio and writes this?

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Where do I get my Sleater-Kinney yard sign?

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Watch one of the TN State gov sessions. It’s crazy to see in action. Black reps will talk and most of their white colleagues will be on their phones or having a side conversation, completely ignoring what’s being said. Then if one of the Black reps gets “too loud”, they just cut their mic.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

She’s so adored and yet still underrated. This is probably the best poem about lost, unrequited love ever written.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Let’s also not forget the British press that will write incessantly about the royals as if their birthright status is a forgone conclusion also seems to care greatly about meritocracy in other domains, e.g. the Jason Arday story.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Who is deciding what good nuclear physics is or not? Surely, we can’t trust other organized groups of experienced nuclear physicists who develop standards and best practices to decide.

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Danielle H @danielleceltics.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Oh my goodness, Olivia Miles behind the back pass to Kayla McBride for three #WNBA

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s also a naive and ignorant perception of rural America. Most small American towns these days are dependent on immigrants. IMO - this effort will be harder in a small town where immigrants have closer ties to the community vs. a small city. Not that I want to give these idiots any strategies.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is the contrapositive to the anti-DEI movement. If “diverse” people are inherently unqualified, then white dudes must be inherently qualified no matter the job. This is a pretty good explanation for why so many GOP politicians back him unconditionally.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s funny that you’re doing the thing that’s called out in the OP. If you’re thinking and writing more about this than the fabulists and the unqualified who have political power in this world right now (not academics who would otherwise be unknown), then I’d have to assume you’re a bad faith actor.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Saying “the mismatch between the quality and the prestige” about a guy in England who is not the King of England is pretty rich. This is all happening in a country with a literal King, like the least meritocratic of exalted positions in the world.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The campaign for white dude affirmative action rolls on. They don’t want a “meritocracy” (no such thing really) because then their qualifications will also be examined and 99% of their kids won’t have the scores to get into elite academic schools anyway.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The Tounesseo Titans should be our new team name.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

RIP Don Nelson. He changed basketball. As the driving force behind RUN TMC and the We Believe Warriors (probably the two most exciting teams to ever play and not win a chip), he is a legend to any Bay Area sports fan. Those teams brought us so much joy. Condolences to his friends and loved ones.

nytimes.com

Don Nelson, 5-time NBA champion and pioneer of 'Nellie Ball,' dies at 86

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Countdown to RFK Jr advocating to defund Cornell until kids can make their own bear pastrami again.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Not surprising that none of these guys mentioned that if you live in a place with a lot of immigrants, you can definitely find a burrito for way less than $20.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

There were, in fact, no backs on the wall.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yes, unless maybe your Edward Norton’s character in American History X, but he had to go to jail to unlearn his racism, and he was also a fictional character.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Maybe there’s an upside to these guys putting things into the stark relief we’d known for at least the last century - modern politics is a struggle between powerful people that want to put the non-powerful people into a meat grinder vs. those that don’t want that.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Taco Bell does us a service by providing the baseline for diarrhea. It’s because of Taco Bell that we know we’re dealing with an anomaly.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I think it comes down to how much Steph and LeBron can be on the court together for extended minutes. If they’re not consistently healthy at the same time, and it’s just a mix of LeBron sometimes and Steph sometimes, I don’t think the rest of the Expendables idea is super compelling.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

While I don’t disagree that Dems are better on the economy, they haven’t been effective at reducing the cost of things that really matter to people - housing, education, healthcare, and more recently, groceries. Because of that, this message won’t really land.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

True. And these idiots have clearly never watched basketball. Steph Curry gets a ton of hard fouls. Look at how many of the top players come off the court with bruises and scratches - that’s what teams do to stop the best.

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

To be fair, this is coming from someone who likely believes that for minority white countries like South Africa and Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), promoting diversity and inclusion is what led to their downfall (in his eyes).

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Don Nelson’s Poker Party @meschery.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

In an alternate universe, the 250th anniversary features the Guinness Book of Word Record’s largest Electric Slide ever.

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