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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 29/09/2026

Credit to @lutzfernandez.bsky.social for giving me the simplest most direct rebuttal about all this techno-triumphalist nonsense. Nobody wants this.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 29/09/2026

Ellison, Musk, and Bezos now own Warner Bros, Paramount, MGM, Twitter/X, 15% of TikTok, and the Washington Post. It's not consolidation, it's capture. buttondown.com/natebowling/...

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Nobody Wants This

When it comes to non-consensual AI deployments and invasions of personal privacy, nobody wants this

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 29/09/2026

The first, third, and seventh richest man in the world own three of the five remaining legacy Hollywood studios. They also own Twitter, 15% of TikTok, and the Washington Post. They're using them to warp the information environment to their ends. Words by me. buttondown.com/natebowling/...

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Nobody Wants This

When it comes to non-consensual AI deployments and invasions of personal privacy, nobody wants this

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 29/09/2026

I thought It was a train to a bus, but the train water was regularly scheduled, unlike the Sounder train

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

CAT scan in Mexico costs $80. In Seattle it was more than $2700, more if I had to go to the ER.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 29/09/2026

It's genuinely giving early 2000s Chicago Fire This is like moving the Fire to Bridgeview... but possibly worse because Bridgeview had better transit connections to Chicago and the Fire never tried to bill themselves as a continental power

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 28/09/2026

Someone in music production at your school can quickly make an edited copy of the podcast for classroom use that eliminates profanity or discussion of topics that are considered "sensitive" in our region. Ask me how I know.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

Have you tried baking your pizza at home in cast iron? It gives it that 80s Pizza Hut pan pizza vibe, like in a good way.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

Tonight grading is winning out over my usual Sunday writing but expect more on this later in the week.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

The reason tech oligarchs scoop up media properties is to control societal narratives about their products and themselves. They want to blunt criticism and shape public perception because deep down they know that no one wants any of this.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

To be clear, I think Jesus is better in my proposed role for Jordan AND my proposed role for Albert

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

Stealing this! I'm passing back the first major assessment of the year this week.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

Me too. But would Schmetz?

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

Drawbacks: If we sign the winger we need, he's now a wingback When Jesus returns there's no natural place for him He's suitable for either the Morris role or Rusnak role; but both are occupied Schmetz would prefer Alex at RWB presumably, fine

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

For the rest of the season, I'd honestly like to see Seattle bring the 3 CB formation back Create some danger on the flanks Put Nouhou in his natural position Next year Hawkins has a chance to compete for a starting role Something like this

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

No, he's currently with América Mineiro in Brazil. He was just my replacement level, fill-in-the blank, mental model.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

To me, it doesn't matter how friendly his deal is if he's hurt all the time. Think about all the players forced to play CB this season. The Lopez + A. Roldan pairing was our best option for several matches. I think this roster needs churn and a 35 year-old CB seems like a good place to start.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

I still think you need to ship him after this season tho. Bring in a veteran CB (remember Nathan) to compete with Stu for that spot next season.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

Oh, Yeimar appearance in the 84th. Alright. I like this development.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

Watching on a delay because of timezones: Morris still playing in the 79th and still no Yeimar appearances are giving me heartburn. This HAS TO BE Yeimar's final season. I don't care how "team friendly" a potential new deal might be. It means nothing if you're never available.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

Given this, I am assuming you DESPISED Tenet

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 27/09/2026

Man, I miss looking over my shoulder for you and @keithdhodo.bsky.social

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 26/09/2026

This is in addition to the suppression of the Luca Guadagnino's film "Artificial." It was produced by Amazon MGM, starring Andrew Garfield, and then buried by the studio. The tech oligarchs call themselves champions of speech but are anything but.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 26/09/2026

I promise you he has large, undisclosed investments in some AI company or another

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 25/09/2026

Hackers hit crypto exchange Bitget on Thursday for $388,000,000. Bitget says: "Withdrawals are paused pending a security review, but deposits and trading are still open." We can't protect your money but we'll also take more of it is an amazing pitch to customers. gizmodo.com/north-korea-...

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North Korea 'Very Likely' Behind $388 Million Hack of Crypto Exchange Bitget

The exchange says private keys were not stolen, a bitcoin-backed protection fund covers the loss, and withdrawals stay frozen while it investigates.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 25/09/2026

Excuse me, but True Detective Season One at 35 is absolute madness

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 25/09/2026

I've always thought Albert is an ideal "third best attacker" allowing him to facilitate for a more goal dangerous striker and/or winger. On the other hand, he's a sub-optimal primary option, especially when surrounded by the 2025 Tacoma Defiance.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 25/09/2026

Endgame is playing in IMAX this weekend in Abu Dhabi. The time between me finding this out and booking tickets was shorter than the elevator ride to my apartment.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 25/09/2026

Musa, when do you just do the political podcast??? You can spell it "Oidats" or Stadio backwards.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 24/09/2026

My mom used to make a roast, basically every Sunday. A giant post-church spread every week. Whole church was there it felt like, sitting around the table. I think about how much that would cost nowadays and it makes my back hurt

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 24/09/2026

Finally, it's been ages since you could skeet that

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 24/09/2026

Morning headlines from overseas: 8 sailors tried to kill themselves during the USS Lincoln's record breaking deployment to the Gulf China intercepted F-35 parts being shipped from Australia via UPS and is keeping them An FBI database was hacked with info on 5000 agents and their families

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Pre Malone @oldmanunited.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watched Supergirl again. And yeah, you really gotta hate women a lot to not like that movie.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 23/09/2026

The person or people who created VLC Player have done more to improve my quality of life than almost anyone else I can think of

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Really something that the U.S. not only permitted LeRoy Walker to go free after ordering the attack on Fort Sumter that started the Civil War, but allowed him to rewrite the Alabama State Constitution in 1875 to limit the influence of Black & working-class white voters. That something is racism.

Black and white photo of Leroy Pope Walker in a suit and vest with a gold watch chain, slicked back hair, and a chin beard. Looks like something out of a literal horror movie.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 23/09/2026

Since the turn of the century the US has punched itself in the nuts, repeatedly. We opened the century with relatively affordable housing, a federal budget surplus, a functional political system, and a university system that was the envy of the world. We've undone all of it in a quarter century.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 23/09/2026

Constantinople and Vienna were the global centers of science, commerce, and culture at the start of last century. But the Ottomans and Habsburgs squandered their comparative advantages and then got pulled into a disastrous, unwinnable war.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 22/09/2026

Window's Bay is fine. Good even. But it ain't no REACHER. *Mutes notifications*

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 21/09/2026

Never sell your old XBox/Play Station

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Billy Duss @bduss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Buying a handful of Disney Blu-rays off eBay is cheaper than a month of Disney+

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 21/09/2026

Besides, whenever I go visit my friends who have kids, they're always watching the same movie. Just buy your kid a damn physical copy of Moana and save yourself a monthly subscription.

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 21/09/2026

When a company makes and existing product worse and you just take it, you're signaling your approval of them screwing you

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StrayCatalyst @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

History refers to guillotines during similar instances

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Nate Bowling @natebowling.com · 20/09/2026

"He charged you illegal tariffs and then have them over to corporations—a total six times the NASA budget." Run that ad 24/7. Then pledge to tax tariff refunds paid to corporations 100% to fund housing.

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