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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 7h

TAP instructor have me the unalloyed best advice on my tour: photocopy your SRB & medical files. My medical records had already gone to Somalia without me (long story) & didn't return (thank God I found my shot records, I was sweating). The copies made getting VA benefits a breeze.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 18h

It's not "eyes barfing Luke's blue milk"? I gotta go explain some awkward reactions to people.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Some regular capital jumped on the bandwagon at one point or another and fed the flames, but these very special little boys sparked it.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The free web was never as broad, deep or free as I would've liked, and it took Zuckerberg tricking the normies onto his Harvard fuckability index to put us on this slippery slope to hell. Non-achieving eugenics-inspired entitled twats with too much capital from the get-go were the engine./

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

One of the things hopeless optimists (like me) thought the internet would bring was a galaxy of blogs and other personal publishing efforts, plus a vast web interconnecting people. Instead we got five giant websites filled with screenshots and copied text from the other four, owned by TESCREALiens.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is how you write a headline.

Telegraph headline:

Trump backstabs Zelensky for five minutes of midterm relief
Deal with Putin for Russia’s oil might soften the markets but Ukraine will pay the price

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

School boards are way under the radar in a big year like this, but the same battles you've heard about (book bans, Moms for Liberty, trans kids) are happening this year too. I identified 19 school boards where there battles like this — and what's up: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Such a great line and such great delivery.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hell yeah! Also, loved The Water Knife.

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If and when we get the truth and reconciliation process, and an American Nuremberg underway, the number of Trump lackeys who will say “I was only following orders” will rival that of the Nazis after World War II

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So, the reason we mock horrible fascists is not to make fascists change their minds. It is to show they are mockable. It breaks the veneer of respectability and power. It gives others social permission to mock them. Satire is poisonous to power because it makes opposition both fun and collaborative.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is as clearly as I've seen this spelled out. If the PCSA smelled off to you but you didn't know quite why, this interview offers very lucid proof that you were correct. defector.com/an-antitrust...

What you're saying is, the antitrust exemptions in the NBA, MLB, NFL, etc. are allowed as a result of the collective bargaining process, whereas the PCSA seeks a similar exemption by circumventing the collective bargaining process. Is that correct?

Generally, yes. When we talk specifically about labor markets, all of the restraints that we see in labor markets of our professional sports leagues—the salary cap, the draft, the limits on player movement, every single one of them—to the extent that they're exempt from antitrust law, are the products of good-faith collective bargaining between the management group and the players group, and exist in a collective bargaining agreement that was reached through good-faith bargaining.

What is being proposed with the Protect College Sports Act is to establish the exact same types of labor restraints, specifically a salary cap, specifically a number of years of eligibility to compete in college sports, and specifically limits on transfers, but not to do so in collective bargaining where there are representatives in the room, on behalf of employer and employee, but rather through a legislative bill, which seems to be negotiated by a number of different constituent groups, none of which is a representative of the players in any meaningful sense, and absolutely none of which have been chosen and selected by the players as a union representative.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The slammest of dunks is unlawful use of public funds. Hard to think of anybody on this administration who is immune.

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 08/10/2026

the AI industry is full of people who would automate away playing with a kitten

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's worth noting that the decision to kill him by firing squad - chosen for its symbolism, according to Hegseth - gets the symbolism entirely backwards. For example: we hung the Nazis convicted at Nuremburg, instead of giving them the death by firing squad they would have preferred.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

when possible, & then continue reaching them after the election. I think the anti-incumbency is this Oblivious Bloc, & what makes it extremely strong for an off year is the gas & grocery prices, i.e. politics they can't avoid. Add in ICE gouging the GOP's immigration lead, & blue wave appears.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

to the supreme court. (I think there's a parallel problem in how many up & coming Democrats served in the Clinton admin & noped the fuck out of retail politics.) Dems have the unenviable need to find a way around these tainted gatekeepers & reach the low-info swing voter who eschews political news/

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I really want to write something about the media's hatred of Clinton & his administration contributing to the negative information environment, & how the people who made their mark during those years are running whole news outlets now. Kinda like Roberts, Barrett & Kavanaugh going from Bush v Gore /

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The woman who ran my kids' first daycare & her husband were Salvadoreños. Pretty sure my kids were her first non-relatives in the center. He delivered meat for a centroamericano butcher & would hook us up with chorizo salvadoreño. We stay in touch, two decades later. I'm so jealous.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

OMG, yes, it me. That and the looks on people's faces who enter the finding-out zone after underestimating me, that whip snap of momentum reversal. Delicious, better than any food or drug. Don't know if this makes me a bad person, but if so, I can live with it. Comfortably.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Me: Doc, I think I'm chronically online. Doc: What are your symptoms? Me: I know who "Kent State GunPoop Girl" is. Doc: Go to the nearest ER immediately.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026

NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.

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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours

The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Those are some gorgeous beans. Good word choice.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Google sucks so bad these days. I can't find a link to the bat breastfeeding and I've got people I need to horrify.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.

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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'

J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I showed my kids a picture of Slim in his heyday because they could not believe someone did that. I always tell them the late 1900s was a wild time.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is smoked turkey slander. He's clearly boiled bird.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026

A tiny bit of gentle advice for the men: before you try to explain or pontificate anything about the Cornell 7 to a woman, please remember chances are she’s already an expert 🙏🏻

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The dog's name is "Peter"? Herbstreit's a fucking monster.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Persian orange has entered the chat.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

everyone, Ford, Chevy & Dodge (& Jeep & International). I firmly believe the cesspool needs a good stirring every so often.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Apropos of nothing: I really wish I hadn't traded in my B2200 in 2000. I swear that thing is probably still running. Other than tires (alignment would get wonky going over a speed bump), only major part I had to replace was the ignition coil. It was an unholy union of Ford & Mazda, so it upset/

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Children's Hospital of L.A. is doing a card drive, for every card submitted to a kid in Hospital that can't trick or treat or celebrate Halloween, they get a $1 donation. The Cards are FREE to send online & it's a good thing to do to make a kid's Halloween great. secure1.chla.org/site/SPageNa...

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Send a Halloween card to a child in the hospital!

You can help a child in the hospital have a spook-tacular Halloween. Send a special card before the deadline.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anybody viewing it will be put on double secret probation.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You should never make life-altering decisions without at least a fireteam.

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