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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

What if I told you the main street in this region is nicknamed "The El".

scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Important missing context: Afghanistan *was* authorized by the 2001 AUMF (but not an "official Declaration of War", for the semanticians). The current situation -- without even any consultation of congress -- is a clear break from that precedent, not status quo ante since WW2.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

This feels more like a your-subfield-problem, for adopting and sticking with a completely uninformative model for author ordering?

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I mean, maybe bc he refers to Mamdani as a "trained performer" who "recites" talking points? Those are very specific word choices, which are generally not seen as positive, and with none of the explanatory/mitigating context that everyone is reading into it.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

so, uh, anybody out there feel like they might have something to atone for this year or no

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Hey, how about that food on airplanes, right? It's immigrants. And lines at the DMV -- so long, amirite? Also immigrants. And what about in the summer, it's hot out, you're walking and your underwear starts to slowly creep up your buttcrack? Also immigrants!

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

"I didn't see it" "oh, our intern has an iPad with it cued up right now, let's take a look together" WHY IS THAT SO DIFFICULT???

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

So they've already implemented martial then? And everybody's on board? Had a busy week, guess I missed a few things.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

If the party had done a Biden for 20 years, we'd be deep into one-party R rule. Hating on political journalism is good *if you find or create an alternative*. If you instead just hope your message somehow gets out, you're patting yourself on the back while shooting everyone else in the head.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Oh I agree with you 💯. I just won't sign on to that being his "best quality". By doing what you've described, he completely botched the entire political side of the presidency, and we are currently paying the price. Nothing good about that.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Alternative take: It might've felt good to him, and to some of us. But practically it doomed his presidency, and the rest of us along with it.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

It turns out my critical thinking skills are so poor, I can be negatively polarized by literally anything.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

"Headlines are not that important, but we try to keep them accurate" also "We A/B test them and pick the ones that generate the most hits"

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

People who tip properly effectively subsidize the cheapskates who leave 10% and a Bible verse.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Cameras + zero-tolerance of license plate obstruction/tampering seems like it would take care of a lot of that

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Yes, let's stick with the current system of cops choosing who to ticket and who to ignore, which us undoubtedly socioeconomically and racially fairer.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I am wondering if you also work on rental car radio and AC controls? If so, keep up the great work! I love spending the first 15 min trying to solve your puzzles while almost crashing into things.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Because running mates are chosen by the presidential candidate, and the only choce for everyone else at that point is to back them or be a spoiler?

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

But the judge said that the statement -- in which the AI-reanimated asks for forgiveness of his murderer -- made him hand down a *longer* sentence. Absolutely none of this makes any sense.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

> RFK Jr. is not wrong. If this is how you think D's should be messaging against a fanatic trying to *ban vaccines*, maybe you should've stayed in medicine.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Is this supposed to be better? "I didn't invite him, I just used a system where anyone can snoop in on highly classified info"

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

When the guy whose entire brand is milquetiast middle of the road says it's time, it's time.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Schumer: Here, let me move that Overton window for you.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

When they are literally memory-holing the guy who hoisted the flag at Iwo Jima simply because of his ethnicity, don't you guys feel at all ashamed to still be playing along with their "anti-DEI" terminology, instead of actually calling this what it is? Because I would.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

You keep them sternly worded tweets coming, little man. They'll work one of these days!

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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

If you read it like "fix a boxing match", instead of like "fix a hole", it makes perfect sense.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Or -- hear me out -- he just says whatever is politically convenient at any given moment, and he always has, because he can count on credulous rubes like you to make it sound semi-coherent.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Feels like a big opening for an opposition party, if one decided to materialize.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It's like his COVID response redux. Just maintaining status quo / doing the obvious basic-level things would've been way more beneficial to his own prospects. But, for whatever reason, he cannot do that.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Yes, that's newsspeak for "the cause of death was obvious"

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

And having to pay for the bus is what, then? Or does class discrimination only go in one direction?

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Bigger issue is that this article seems entirely science-free. Just conjecture from a few random audiologists. Essentially, nothing prescriptive should be taken from this.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Raise public awareness and generate enough bad press that public opinion turns against it, until it forces them to back off. That is just about the only lever we have.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Yes, that is why he's advocating for raising a public outcry, and not saying anything about the courts.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

You do realize the data above is totally independent of actual voting, but basically says the same thing.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Yes. Why would any judicial order be specific to how a state voted? This doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Yes! When a candidate says exactly what he plans to do, and people vote for that, and he does exactly what he said... Who TF else is to be blamed?

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I mean WTF. Democracy is on the line here, can we possibly not act like the Keystone Kops do Government for once?

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Preview of where they will point fingers when prices start to rise. Does not matter if it makes zero sense if there's no opposition to forcefully argue against it.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

OK, but right at the end of a landing strip? I have to imagine is the most high-traffic and critical part of any flight path. I'll have to take your word for it, but to me this seems less like a routine traffic intersection and more like having cross-traffic in the middle of a freeway on/off ramp.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Also know nothing about aviation, but I can't imagine it's a great idea to have *any* aircraft flying perpendicular to a landing path, right in front of a high-traffic runway, at the same altitude of landing flights. Seems like common sense to me, but feel free to explain why I'm wrong.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Your "positive counter story" to Dems not fighting back is *fundraising*? The one thing D's have been all up in our texts and emails and calls with this past year. The one thing they always manage to be able to do. Is this some kind of joke?

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Yeah, that's great! Now get every other MoC to tweet the same. Get them in front of cameras w constituent seniors about to starve. Do what Rs would do if roles reversed. It's the *concerted* part that is always missing.

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scottbrincat.bsky.social @scottbrincat.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

There's no media filter on here. Do you see anything like a concerted effort? Anywhere?

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