ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 9hMaybe I'm wearing them wrong, but this backpack discourse seems aimed at people with much smaller traps than I have 000
Reposted by ATXRamblerMax Moran @maxmoranhi.bsky.social · 21hAlso: if the 6 R justices are actually this dangerous and radical, and they were all lawfully nominated and confirmed, what does that say about the glorious, high-minded legal profession and the brilliant Constitution that Con Law profs valorize? (I say this with love) 2351
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 16hIt's kind of like the British monarchy. Sure they're generally beside the point but there are still standards to be upheld 010
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 16hA large number of students seem to think this is the goal of higher education now 2700
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 22hAs you say later - in a sense the Scouring of the Shire is "the point" 000
Reposted by ATXRamblerKatherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social · 15/10/2026every time you close a tab in your browser you commit genocide against the city of Mainframe 1565
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The key to Bluesky is that posters are are almost exactly contained in Church's social classes G4-G2 (G1 are missing because they don't particularly like being talked back to)doriantaylor.com 010
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Tbh this is my big worry about it: unless you federalize the election handling itself, you incentivize states to get even more aggressive with vote suppression because they want to run up the score 110
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Was blissfully unaware of Kelly Clarkson discourse until yesterday night so all I will say is: this is why New York should be aggressively ignored 040
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 14/10/2026YOU dislike these people because they don't fit your vision of white utopia. I don't like them because they're hypocritical drawbridge raisers. We are not the same 001
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 14/10/2026To be honest, the facts aren't particularly kind to Badenoch: she was one of the last people to become British before they did away with their version of birthright citizenship, she mostly grew up in Nigeria, and now she has Ideas on immigration 101
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Why do people on Bluesky not understand the idea of statistical uncertainty in polls 000
Reposted by ATXRamblerRegime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Yeah sure, you couldn’t handle the corrupting ring of power, but you didn’t have growth mindset training like me and the other managers. Hand it over. 4866
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 14/10/2026TIL that someone is flying E170s around without a first class and I am offended on behalf of us all 000
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The Abbott/Paxton understanding is that they're never going to pay a price for making the State of Texas do illegal things, so why shouldn't they 000
Reposted by ATXRamblerW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It is honestly a little surprising to me how every single Republican attack on Talarico is literally just “is this guy a damn HOMOSEXUAL or what?” 2395
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Now I'm wondering if I should splash the cash for an upgrade on my next Embraer flight (ABQ) 010
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Ooo look who had no neighbor on his fancy Brazilian ride 110
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I hear there are British thoughts on Race and Gender and I am just not interested 010
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Abbott is more evil, Trump is more avaricious, but neither quite reaches the level of "operates on his id" that Paxton does 010
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Paxton is probably the most depraved politician I can think of and that includes Trump 111
Reposted by ATXRamblerChris Tomlinson @cltomlinson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The Wall Street Journal reports on a New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Ken Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife. One of the fugitives had donated $190,000 to Paxton. How much more can there be? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comExclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate RaceTrump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms 14515
Reposted by ATXRamblerProPublica @propublica.org · 12/10/2026As the Trump administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. We’re showing you every incident we’ve confirmed — along with the receipts: propub.li/3TBuddL 11855498
Reposted by ATXRamblerLincoln Rose @lincolnrose.com · 11/10/2026Ismail Elfath announces his retirement from refereeing. His final match was in Austin last night. The Austin resident also presided over the first #AustinFC Q2 match back in 2021. Earlier this summer he worked his second World Cup as a center official. 0214
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026People do like exchanging the symbols of a functioning civil society for a functioning civil society 1120
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I do think this obsession with civility is a remnant of the Old Times, when the really important political concern was staying in the club 010
Reposted by ATXRamblerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error. 461924547
Reposted by ATXRamblerAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I've been toying around a lot with the idea of libidinal rationality, which is when people act not according to strict rationality of maximising profit or returns or sustainability, but toward what provides them with libidinal satisfaction, which trumps everything else 948786
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I also don't know what they think the endpoint is. Like, why do we need you as a middleman, we can just ask Computer ourselves 020
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Thing is, if the only skill kids get is "asking the computer," is any education actually occurring 120
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Also, the main thing calculators took away was the knowledge of using slide rules and looking logarithms up in tables 120
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It's true, parliamentary democracies never hang on to an obviously unfit leader far beyond their expiration date 000
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I get and support the supporters group walkout, but I'm not sure the Murga having a big party at Hopsquad is really appropriate right at this moment? 000
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Why do the players assume the other team is going to cooperate with whatever they're trying to do? 001
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026That's fine, but there is definitely a mental issue in the rest of his play 010
Reposted by ATXRamblerScott Specht @scottaspecht.bsky.social · 11/10/2026In actual on field things Hany Mukhtar made a clear dive from being hit by an 18 year old because of course he would 121
Reposted by ATXRamblerLiz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 11/10/2026THE SUPPORTER SECTION IS WALKING OUT. THE POLICE MADE THEM TAKE DOWN THE SIGN. All the normal signs are gone. No "y'all means all." No "trans lives matter." Nothing. It is now quiet. No music, no drums, no chants #AustinFC 191039324
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I'm hardly the first to ask but what is wrong with Brandon Vazquez 000
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026My unfortunate position is to agree on like 95% of policy while wanting to throw up at the rhetoric 030
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The YIMBY motte and bailey is to pretend that this is what they actually care about 100
ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Road speed discourse is intolerable partly because it involves people pretending that the question "how much risk we are willing to accept as a society" has a simple obvious answer 011
