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"Just call me Vote by Mail, because my delivery is raising a lot of questions in the White House." Only made it to ~1:30 of Aaron's supercut before deciding Vogon poetry would be preferable and nopeing out, but/and this is like the Cliff Notes version. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

theatlantic.com

Hi, I’m Your New Press Secretary, and It’s My First Time Reading Words Out Loud

A very uncomfortable 14 minutes

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Drove through his former district on the way home from a thing and passed a giant billboard thanking Seth Moulton for his representation in Congress. Hadn't realized how lovely it was to have gone a month without once hearing from him! May that be the last time anyone hears his name. (Sorry.)

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

*I scrolled to the bottom of the Troy Jackson site and waaaay at the bottom is the address to send a check old-school.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

SO MANY Talerico texts and I've never been to Texas. I want the guy to win but not donating to him just bc they're torturing me. (Republican false flag?)

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If one wanted to donate their directly deposited $90 Medicare bribe to a battleground Democratic Senate candidate via physical check physically mailed to an office, what are the chances that would still result in even more ActBlue-related spam texts? Thoughts?

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*OK, guess I could've specified "huge testicular swelling" that hurts me to look at even though I don't have any physical ones.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah, absolutely. There should be a lot more speaking Actual English instead of Medical English both in when talking to the general public and to the individual patient.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've seen a few cases of mumps orchitis. The swelling can be IMPRESSIVE and looks really uncomfortable (to put it very very mildly). Even if they ignored the risk of permanent damage, pretty sure that if these opting-out parents could see it, they'd go vaccinate their kids immediately afterwards.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Stay safe out there. I hope your kid is doing OK.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Too lazy to look up how tall she is. But I'm 5'1" with an XS 29er with good geometry and have a lot more trouble cornering anything remotely tight than I do on the 27.5 I will never get rid of. (But only ride in a few places now bc fork is 100mm.)

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And screw the short people. You shouldn't be on mountain bikes anymore.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The best part of those, besides not signaling, is when they suddenly veer into the oncoming traffic lane because they have to go around a small pothole.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's it's because it'd be like signaling your battle plans to the enemy.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So bummed that he seemingly blew up but it was glorious while it lasted.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's was a DirtWire video from the True Grit Epic in Utah, prob 2019. Tom interviewed a young Gwen Gibson and was stunned she'd cleaned the Zen trail in the race, riding it blind.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

First lap video has managed to miss the tech stuff by going to the overhead drone. Hopefully it changes for the next lap. But thanks for showing this!

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That'd be awesome! Spent a few days in St George a bunch of years ago but had wished for time to see more.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

AAAAHHHHH, you're there!!!! (Please tell us the XCO course is more... mountainbikey than the XCC.)

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

See also: Sammy Maxwell going with number plate 666.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Huge shout out to the lady shown in the Soldier Hollow XCC pre-race video wearing the shirt saying "I'm really here for the women's race."

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There's gotta be someone on BlueSky...

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Something about sensing how dry the clothing fibers needed to be? I hit the 'back' button before I could finish reading it.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OMFG, with everything else going on in the world, you start looking at replacing a damaged washing machine and now have to really look hard for the ones that DON'T have AI?!?!

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One good way to stay (sorta) pleasantly brain-numbed to the horror of the latest news is to not cancel PT on pre-colonoscopy Clears Day.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I *think* it was fixed when I went back the second time to pick up my prescription. (At least, there was only one older person standing around looking irritated and that could've been for... the place's entire dysfunction.)

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Not sure if it was just the pharmacy I was stuck waiting at for something unrelated, but today there is some glitch in the matrix between CMS and them, resulting in Medicare approvals for Covid and/or flu vaccines not going through. Can't be a good sign.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This was the only post in this thread that popped up in my feed initially and my head nearly exploded.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

OK, NOW I'm celebrating. Here's hoping we never have to hear from that guy again.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm waiting a bit before celebrating, only 0.5% in and you know polling...

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Not the same problem, but when I got a new work colleague whose name rhymes with my dog's, I had to also create a contact for the dog so that Siri would stop claiming stuff like a normal human doctor was licking barf off a bush in the park when dictating descriptions of the event in texts.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

So psyched to see Sammy coming back after a lot of shit and riding so well!

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Podium is still 5 in purists' hearts.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tried to watch the last one just to be "informed" and by 12 minutes and I somehow hated him more.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I was actually really bummed to have missed someone door knocking for him a couple weeks ago, cause I honestly would've loved to heard why they like him.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Because we need some collective hilarity, who thinks Moulton somehow photoshopped himself into a photo from the Pride parade for this mailer? In a photo you can't hear everyone booing him.

Seth Moulton hilariously standing amidst a group of people, some wearing/holding versions of rainbows, above the text "Massachusetts, this is our moment!"

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Right? How serious is the "no trespassing"?

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Haven't watched any yet so can't rightly say. Because MTBs were on!

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Guess if TNT/WB/Peacock/whatever is only going to show maaaybe half the podium presentation and blather on during it, makes sense they also never show those of us in the US any follow-up on that vote they keep advertising during the race.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Frickin' Ric going "oh, this person did well in these completely different conditions and it will 1000% to today"...

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In the interminable preamble to the W race Bruni said they made the course faster this year. The videos of yesterday's runs were pretty nuts in the mud tho.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Les Gets is bonkers at baseline and when a Frenchie wins...

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The exact moment I couldn't take it anymore was maybe 12 min in when Moulton pivoted from blaming Markey for not getting the Green New Deal passed to gloating about how he created 988 (which had its LGBTQ+ funding yanked) while I think they were still supposed to be covering energy costs.

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sloansh @sloansh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Made it less than 15 min in before I started wanting to somehow reach through the WBUR stream and throttle Moulton. Smarmy asshole.

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