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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Anybody else getting "freedom fries" vibes?

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

How is it possible that Hasan manages to make Crenshaw sympathetic? Sometimes shouting somebody down is, I dunno...not the best approach. I wanted to hear Crenshaw's justification, and THEN refute it.

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I believe the Retro Encabulator represents the zenith of American technical leadership, only surpassed at the margins by Rockwell Automation's later enhancement adding the half-gap binder to the jamwheel bypass. youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w?...

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This really isn't that complicated. Step 1: double prices Step 2: bring prices back to normal Step 3: claim success! Narrator: step 2 proved to be harder than step 1

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It's almost like Trump is going out of his way to remind other democracies of what's at stake, and what's possible when you behave rationally. #LawOfUnintendedConsequences

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I've been an active investor in the market for decades. This pattern seems pretty new: Market tanks on open Regains almost all losses Repeats the next day Over and over again. Seems maybe like somebody forcing a dip then buying on it?

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Terry Gilliam at his absurdist best

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Sounds like it's time for Aiyuk to demand a renegotiation of last year's contract based on his OUTSTANDING contributions. 🙄

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Brazil feels very much on point. Authoritarian regime spurring the need for ever-more elaborate and absurd workarounds in an attempt to maintain dignity. Also: Robert Deniro's appearance as the heroic, anti-fascist HVAC repairman is classic.

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Well, duh. Because we built that big, beautiful wall.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Yep, it’s hard to disagree with this.

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Amen, brother. UI, UX, interoperability...all just window dressing on fundamentals of data quality and integrity.

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This doesn't seem complicated. Democrats should * Boycott the SOTU * Hold the response on the Capitol steps with every D member of the House and Senate * Have several speakers, including the obvious ones - and a governor or two

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

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We're not done yet | 18F

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This is what they're after. This is why you disassemble critical, successful, efficient agencies: there's no good way to compete with them, so you build a wall around their value and charge admission. The public good be damned. (6/6)

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

"was, in effect, trying to force the U.S. taxpayer to pay all over again for what the National Weather Service might be able to tell him or her for free." (5/6)

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

"...on international data-sharing treaties made on behalf of the U.S. taxpayer, and on the very forecasts that the National Weather Service generated... (4/6)

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

As Lewis writes: "A private company whose weather predictions were totally dependent on the billions of dollars spent by the U.S. taxpayer to gather the data necessary for those predictions, and on decades of intellectual weather work sponsored by the U.S. taxpayer, and... (3/6)

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

One man angling to lead Trump's NOAA was Barry Meyers, who had spent a career building AccuWeather, which made most of its money by reselling/repackaging data assembled by NOAA. He resisted every effort to make NOAA's lifesaving forecasts available to the public for free. (2/6)

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

How oligarchy takes hold (a very brief thread). In 2018 Michael Lewis (the same guy who wrote Moneyball and The Big Short) wrote The Fifth Risk. As with his other books, this was a well-researched narrative. One illustration in the book regarded NOAA, and how it was lead under Trump I. (1/6)

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This, 1000 times this. Pass laws that empower state government to manage the distribution of withholdings. Make a commitment to make whole any shortfall stemming from the federal government illegally withholding money earmarked for the state. This is the way.

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Having a VW in 1932? Cool. Having a VW in 1942? Not cool.

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I've told my sons if you want to make your woman happy, just tell her those three little words that mean everything: I. Was. Wrong.

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Part of what's so interesting about Macrone's response is his *dismissal* of Trump's statement. It wasn't angry, it wasn't resentful. It was the batting away of an annoyance on the way to providing meaningful information. Tone matters. This tone? A very casual "whatever".

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Uhm...isnt the GOP in charge of Texas? Like, for a generation? Who, exactly, has been committing all this W/F/A?

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This was exactly the game plan the #Niners had in '24, and it worked beautifully...until our best coverage LB broke himself running on to the field to start the 2nd half.

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

You know, as I read this steady drumbeat of stories about his absentee paternalism, one thought keeps coming to mind. There were 13 women that wanted to have sex with this guy? Ew...

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Million, billion. Freaking speech police at it again!

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I think Pink Floyd's Animals would probably be my pick from the early days, followed by Paul Simon's Graceland a decade later. I'm afraid I don't really listen to whole albums anymore, instead focusing on artist's catalogs. Not a rap fan, which unfortunately is the genre making thematic albums now

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Fair enough. I'd assumed he'd meant zero pertinent or advanced education e.g. post-secondary. My education through my early 20s was almost entirely about how to roll a good joint or make good money. I guess I projected that as "zero education".

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I don't understand why they're resigning. I mean, wouldn't they be better equipped to fight back in court if they're inappropriately fired?

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I'm not sweeping anything under the rug. Broadsides against a new technology without considering the bad AND THE GOOD is just ludditism; I find that irrational. There MAY be more bad than good, but we'll never know if we don't assess it with an open mind. Cars bad! Why? Cars kill people! And...?

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Read what I wrote: "doing the same work faster". Not "doing lesser work". If I can accomplish the same task in less time, that's de facto a productivity boost. And there are areas where that's true right now. In my field, in my work, it's already manifesting. It's real.

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Scott Grabo @scottgrabo.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Anybody who casually and publicly uses that word in that way is not deserving of an audience. There's nothing I can learn from them.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Do us a favor and arrest a Member of Congress for telling people what their constitutional rights are. Go ahead and try it thug. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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