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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Someone in this convo is definitely looking silly, I’ll give you that.

Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s only entrapment if the cops convince you to commit a crime you wouldn’t otherwise commit. Facilitating every step of a crime that couldn’t possibly happen otherwise because the perps can barely tie their own shoes: not seen as entrapment.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

H20 brought the house down every show by closing with Like a Prayer, so probably better to not guess what hypothetical bands like or don’t like, hypothetically.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No man has done so much with just a mustache and a dump truck ass than this guy.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pretty risky believing an Apple doomer article published by Bloomberg.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"No Fatties" and "No Beardos" also disqualifies all three, with Mr Gaetz-in-Law getting the trifecta.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump tucking with the SALT deduction was all it took to get OC to go blue for the first time since FDR. Now Irvine sees protest signs in Korean with the phrase “Permament Dismemberment” on them from a group of (formerly) single issue voters that only voted GOP in the first place because of taxes.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Prop 65 is all we need as proof that direct democracy is a mistake.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Well, you can also get it in your stomach, and if you are a horse when that happens then it’s called The Strangles.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Maybe in a “it a tree falls in a forest” sense. But if the “recording” requires technology not currently invented (or even thought possible) to access, then getting lost in the details isn’t productive.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I guess, if you think that’s something worth paying extra for.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s like a 4 minute walk from the sand.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I can still hear my coworker complaining about his $2,100 rent in 1999 on a place this size on like 42 and Highland where you could see the ocean from his front window. Although 26 years ago maybe that was the equivalent of $2m.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This assumes Mr Green Bubbles even gets the date in the first place.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

An idea so dangerous that the most annoying people on earth STFU and live in terror that they might accidentallyeven learn of its existence is good actually.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Isn’t Paisley Park super insane about controlling and protecting Prince’s catalog and legacy? Seems they would actually know how the song was meant to be finished. Or is this someone else less concerned with legacy?

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yeah, but elections don't care about how the economy *actually* is. Voters will reject their literal person life experience over what everyone "knows". See: 2024.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wonder if they are counting the 60? But even if they aren’t, a significant portion of LA County and OC commutes through the city. Somehow the flow of traffic is to/from every possible direction at the same time for both the morning and evening.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/08/2026

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“Correct”? You mean the name chosen by whatever country you happen to be in? Which of the names are “correct” for the Kashmir region? Surely ether India or Pakistan chose the “incorrect” name, and you’ll more than willing to call out Google’s appeasement on that choice.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's not a lie, but as someone who has been in the room for more than a few startup elevator pitches, it's just about the most surefire way to glaze over the eyes of the audience listening to the pitch.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The problem with this is that there if effectively an inverse relationship between how serious someone is about horses and how worked up about culling feral herds they will be. Better to keep this firmly normie-centric.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

He’s been on tour with Al for 3 or so years straight, so I would say so.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You can measure the revenue of what Apple product that tech pundits considerd useless in the millions of dollars per hour. Everything from the Apple Watch to the iPod was declared a flop by people who hadn’t used them yet.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If I'm ever lucky enough to own a vacation home in a vacation home type area, I will consider it a complete failure if I even know the names of any neighbors within 10 miles.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What were the numbers 1940?

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

They probably shot him out for the season in two days. What a king.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The final "and X as Y" billing is always the top of the "and" cast hierarchy, all of which are miles and miles above any "introducing X as Y" like the dog. Dean Martin's agent fought hard for that billing.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well, to be fair, unlike "I love L.A.", it's a song about actually loving LA instead of a satirical song along the lines of: "We're a bunch of dipshits that get excited about mediocre streets because our weather is good...."

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Burry is ironically actually the perfect comparison, but for the opposite reasons you think lmao.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Big news for Bob Iger, a guy who no longer works for Disney.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The two most aspirational wife castings in history lmao.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Next you get a FedEx Ground delivery, ask the driver what company he works for. Amazon is far from alone in doing this.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It’s not even an “innovation”. It’s easier to list out what delivery services DON’T use subcontractors, because it’s basically just the USPS, UPS, and some parts of FedEx.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Both my grandparents were also first gen Lithuanian-Americans that grew up in the same part of PA as Bronson, and yeah those times and place definitely built people differently.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It’s because of all the “I'm definitely not an expert in this stuff, but…” people, mostly.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Behold, the “Chico’s Mexican Restaurant - The Best Pizza in Town” sign I saw in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Sign that reads “Chico’s Mexican Restaurant - The Best Pizza in Town”

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

That can’t possibly be only 3k calories.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Because of how this stuff actually works, and not how it works in the minds of the terminally online, there was no recourse. That dude in Pittsburgh or whatever answered to no one. The DNC and Hillary campaign had no more control or influence than some rando off the street. Maybe less.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We'd reach out to these people, and the response we'd get would be something the along the lines of: "We've been doing this a long time, you are new and don't know what you are doing, we do." To people who worked for Hillary Clinton, the least "new" person in politics possible.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Anyone who complains about the "DNC" doing anything should be forced to work a campaign for an election. I did some engineering work for a joint DNC/Hillary thing for the 2016 cycle, and we couldn't even reliably get Penn Dem precinct captains to return our calls, let alone get them to do anything.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The real way to shut these people up is for the power companies to start charging residential producers when net demand goes negative. Then getting paid wholesale for electricity that is (metaphorically) thrown into the trash won't seem so bad after all.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

And if this "egg selling" is happening in California, you can go to this website to see how many eggs the store is already just throwing into the trash (curtailment) because that "reason" for the extra eggs even applies to the grocery store itself: www.caiso.com/todays-outlook

caiso.com

Today's Outlook | California ISO

Monitor real-time grid conditions. View current and historical data for demand, net-demand, supply, renewables, CO2 emissions and wholesale energy prices.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

To extend the metaphor further: The reason you have extra eggs this time applies to everyone else with chickens. So if you are trying to sell your eggs to the store, you won't even get into the parking lot because everyone else in town is also trying to sell their extra eggs at the same time.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's actually "rigged" in the sense the horses have mandatory vet checks and rest periods, where the humans are free to choose to get as close to death as they are able. Although, the horse owners are not going to push their animals anywhere close to what the runners are willing to do to themselves

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Even then, she would probably destroy me in anything less than 50 miles. But since I don't want that 5 figures to be become 6 or more figures, she gets to live a life of leisure and I get to spend all my time being sore lol.

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Nick Messick @messick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm 5 figures and 7 months into trying to solve an injury my OTTB mare suffered while I was watching her lope on flat and (relatively) soft ground. And I spend more hours a week than I'd like to be admit pushing my body to (barely) just this side of not constantly shitting my self on the trail.

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