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Ok, ok, im grouchy because I cut my finger tonight and it took 2.5 hours to stop bleeding and I projected my crankiness on Rebecca. Thanks for the tip about The Substance though. Gotta watch that one.

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Pete Simko @smugzilla.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Because you're getting older. It happens to all of us and I don't even have substantial hearing loss.

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Pete Simko @smugzilla.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Cut myself shaving in an epically stupid way tonight and spent the next two and half HOURS applying ice and pressure to my fucking FINGERTIP and maybe just maybe I won't need to go to urgent care tonight. Fffffuuuuuuuuuuuuu. ..

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Pete Simko @smugzilla.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I'm early gen-x and the youngest child of a WW2 Navy vet. I heard stories about both. I get it though.

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Pete Simko @smugzilla.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

They don't have to cut it. Elon's tech bros just have to wipe the data drives and it's over.

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Pete Simko @smugzilla.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The wife gave me a plushy Tullimonstrum Gregarium for my birthday! Am I holding it upside-down? Who knows!

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Pete Simko @smugzilla.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I've read Founding Myth plus a couple of other similar books by other authors. @andrewlseidel.bsky.social understands our predicament and explains it very well

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Pete Simko @smugzilla.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This dog's head must weigh 60 pounds. My toes are going numb but if I move my foot I'll wake her up

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Pete Simko @smugzilla.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I'd love to read the article but TBH I probably wouldn't be able to follow past the abstract

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Pete Simko @smugzilla.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Are plane crashes the new school shootings?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Why aren’t they taking the fired federal workers who are sharing their heartbreaking stories—the ones that Musk says were being paid to do nothing—and making them famous? The cancer researcher on the verge of a breakthrough? The park ranger in Yosemite who won’t be there to conduct rescues and save lives? The air traffic controller who can speak to the connection between understaffing and recent plane crashes? Is it even safe to fly in Trump’s America?

The Democrats should be amplifying these folks—writing op-eds about them, refusing to go on camera without sharing their spotlight, pressuring their IG influencers to raise them up—but instead, we learn their stories from Reddit. As Moira Donegan wrote in The Guardian, “Why are the Democrats so spineless?”

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Pete Simko @smugzilla.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Missing @daveoutloud.bsky.social lately. Hope you're finding peace.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

If you think Musk wants all this data in order to root out fraud and marginally improve government efficiency, I have several bridges to sell you. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.com

Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data

Yet another top career staffer is leaving the administration amid a disagreement over a request by Elon Musk’s team for sensitive government information.

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Pete Simko @smugzilla.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

US MSM is completely unreliable now. You too, @npr.org. What is everyone following?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Remember when Republicans were in the minority back in 2009 and they famously managed to do nothing at all to confront Obama? Me neither.

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Pete Simko @smugzilla.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Olivia Coleman, paul giamatti, Tilda Swinton, Robert Downey Jr, Octavia Spencer

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Pete Simko @smugzilla.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

If Musk just starts wiping hard drives across multiple agencies what happens then?

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