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Russ Harlan @suckeffect.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The moron is mistakenly referring to putting auto start-stop systems in vehicles, which helped make the energy efficient technology ubiquitous. Like banning sleep on your iPhone. Or hoe our LOW IQ president thinks "seeking asylum" means countries are sending the insane across the border.

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Russ Harlan @suckeffect.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm so over Republicans blaming the teetering economic situation and affordability crisis on the Biden Administration when they know perfectly well it was actually Hillary Clinton's emails.

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Russ Harlan @suckeffect.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

How did we get from THAT web to THIS web? bsky.app/profile/figh...

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Russ Harlan @suckeffect.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This is the patriotic spirit that makes me proud to be an American.

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Russ Harlan @suckeffect.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

With Paul Walter Hauser as the guy who gets roasted for being overweight. (Conan may have covered that, I didn't see his remarks.)

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Russ Harlan @suckeffect.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

“The creature… my god… it’s, it’s… AMERICAN FLAG BLUE!!!

Russ Harlan @suckeffect.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Dropbox didn't die—it became a highly profitable niche for power users, while iCloud took the masses. OpenAI and Anthropic may face the exact same fate. They’ll build great tools for the pros, but Apple Intelligence will be the AI that a billion regular people actually use.

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Russ Harlan @suckeffect.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

With Apple rolling out deep Siri AI capabilities this Fall, I wonder if those AI giants are about to get the same reality check. (Spoiler alert: it's that good. True consumer AI.)

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Russ Harlan @suckeffect.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

When Steve Jobs told Dropbox "you're a feature, not a product" in 2009, he wasn't just playing the long game—he was seeing reality with absolute clarity. iCloud rolled out two years later and now has a billion users. Why this matters for OpenAI and Anthropic today... 🧵👇

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Russ Harlan @suckeffect.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

A comic genius in one of his most memorable performances?

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Russ Harlan @suckeffect.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Enlisted in the Marine Corps straight out of high school 4 combat tours in Iraq & Afghanistan, honorably discharged. 100% disabled vet who sought PTSD treatment Used the GI Bill for college. Now an oyster farmer & harbormaster in coastal Maine. Proud progressive, endorsed by Sanders & Warren.

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This.. this is the kind of complimentary frontier wisdom Mister Mann has provided me for over (checks watch) 18 years, 11 days.

I'm not suggesting he is a perfect vessel, of course. Yes, he has acknowledged drunken shitposting on Reddit in 2013. And to untreated, undiagnosed PTSD. He had four combat deployments prior, so he missed his chance to intern with Peter Thiel.

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Multiple women accused Swalwell of sexual assault, including specific claims of rape, drugging, and choking. Criminal investigations were spinning up. The NY AG concluded that Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women, including current and former state employees. So yes, they both had to go.

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Fetterman, tragic disappointment that he may be, has voted with the Democratic caucus 91% of the time. If Platner put the Dems in control and voted that same 91% of the time, so many things we care about could get done. Get real.

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Or Trump saw his chances were so much better in a party that didn't jump to form circular firing squads at every opportunity. How many young candidates will ever meet the goldilocks gauntlet of purity and position tests we Dems put them through and still WIN. Remember winning?

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Not a Maine voter. Apologies to the OP for the incivility. I’m frustrated and fearful for our democracy.

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Perhaps it’s difficult for me to see someone bathing in deluded self-righteousness while Trump and his lackeys loot the treasury, burn civil rights protections to the ground, etc etc etc etc etc etc Maybe it’s that.

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Platner’s wife on May 30: “I know the man I married and the husband he has been to me on the best and the worst days of my life." She noted that they have utilized counseling and that their marriage is "stronger than ever before."

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You know who else does that? Losers. Write-in to LOSE. You almost make me admire MAGA for their discipline and devotion to victory. But at least you can feel pure as the world crumbles around you.

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The photo on the right in your post looks older, from a point where they are far from finished with the installation. More recent photos: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Give me an effing break. 🙄. Are you auditioning for role of "progressive provocateur" on the panel on CNN?

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He sounds like a guy who has made some mistakes in his personal life. So did Bill Clinton. So did LBJ. Those two also did a helluva a lot of good for a helluva lot of people. You're hiring someone to advance the interests you care deeply about.

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Yes, he is imperfect. Yes, he is rough around the edges. We aren't hiring a pope here. We are hiring someone who will hold the line against that orange bastard in the White House. Remember?

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Not his unit. You're disingenuous, and you hurt my feeling with your untruth. Does that mean you can never run for office?

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Look at the bigger picture, if voters keep applying purity tests, no one will be able to run for office. Have you never known anyone who spoke provocatively? Especially when drinking? Being a bit of an asshole doesn't suggest that the guy can't protect American liberties. Let's win the damn seat.

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Granted Clemency by Trump, Scores of Jan. 6 Rioters Have Been Accused of New Crimes

Trump's not pardoned his best. He's pardoning people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

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Russ Harlan @suckeffect.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

An ideal anthem for America's 250th.

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I had no intention of being unkind. I was responding to the ghost of elections past, "the Jill Stein voter"— to the risk of purity tests, not to trans people specifically. That was wrong. Betrayal is a feeling, not a policy position. No one can "logic" a voter out of a feeling of betrayal.

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Circular firing squad organizer says what? I’ve supported LGBTQ+ rights, causes, and people my entire life. With money, with marches, with personal support and love to friends in the community. I also understand that politics is the art of the possible.

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Where does it say someone is not worthy of dignity or respect? Where does it say trans people do not deserve rights and protections? Where does his statement call for death camps, as some people have suggested in this thread?

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Talarico supports LGBTQ+ protections and has stated that "trans people deserve dignity and equality,". Paxton consistently promotes a strict platform against gender-affirming care and trans protections in Texas. (And he’s a MAGA grifter.) One of them will be the next TX Senator.

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The choice is made—one of those two will be the next senator from Texas. Irrefutably. And I know one of them will be a metric shitload better for everything I care about, including trans rights, than the other.

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Respectfully, this is the piece of shit I’m worried about:

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And being a candidate hammering those facts and making them the story will get you elected in Texas… how? 🙄

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I’m genuinely deeply sorry for the hurt that you and others feel. We are living in the stupidest timeline. Ken Paxton: “It is appalling that woke Austin ISD officials won't do what is required by law to protect girls' privacy and safety from males invading their spaces.” Is that preferable?

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I also recognize that Republicans are using hateful, twisted language around this issue like a club to beat Talarico every single opportunity they get. Will you feel more respected, safer, if Ken Paxton wins? Justified?

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Being transgender is understood by me to be a natural variation of human diversity, just like different hair colors or personalities. Yet I recognize I am not where the majority of voters are—at least not yet.

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I do not disagree that to informed people, “normal/abnormal” is an outdated choice of phrase. (to be fair, he was talking about chromosomes, not people.)

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