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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 11h

I'm not really sure what that means? How are there chemical reactions involved; baking is just heating things up but with carbohydrates instead of proteins, right?

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 12h

I am admittedly not a baker, but it would never occur to me that replacing sugar with a sugar substitute could possibly result in something like this.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 13h

Very helpful to GOP Congressional candidates just before the midterms that the White House is blaming economic failures on Republicans in Congress.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 13h

Put a half million young people in an open field with no shade in 100⁰ heat, with no sanitation or drinking water (750 ml water bottles cost $4; inflation-adjusted $8), and things are inevitably gonna go bad. Didn't really strike me until later that creating those conditions was a conscious decision

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 15h

At the time I was worried about the lack of food and water and the sunstroke (I lost 15 pounds in 4 days! My friend got dysentery!) and the violence and the absolutely unfathomable amounts of sexual assault, but I was 18 and it took a while for the systemic corporate malfeasance to really hit home.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 15h

I was there! Let me tell you: it was so much worse than any of the depictions have shown.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Did not have "Trump calls for single- payer" on my midterm bingo card.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I love it when economic experiments confirm my priors.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Like, I genuinely do not like About A Girl on Bleach; on MTV Unplugged it's maybe one of my top 10 favorite songs by anybody ever?

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I feel like it's unfair to use MTV Unplugged, because then it would just be that album front to back.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Jesus, I didn't even make that connection

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh man this is a good one (not counting covers per the rules): 1: You Know You're Right 2: Sappy 3: On A Plain 4: All Apologies 5: Been A Son 6: Lithium 7: Sliver 8: Dumb 9: Pennyroyal Tea 10: Drain You

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I legally changed my first, middle, and last names, and I'm pretty sure changing my cell phone number would be ten times harder.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In 2024 Jack won this election by 33 points.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Personally if I hated somebody, I would compare to them to something less adorable.

My two dogs standing in the entry to my house.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

... ok for real, though: why does he hate dogs so much?

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Stephen King Literary Universe is vast and complicated and it just got bigger this week! At least I have weekend plans.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is basically true in the book; Father Callahan basically wishes he could be the priest from The Exorcist doing exorcisms all the time, and getting to fight a vampire is his dream job. Then he loses horribly. Of course, after that he spends a few centuries as an interdimensional vampire hunter

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Center-left party! Why does he not change his name!

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This will sound super crazy, but I see a path to the Yankees winning the 2026 World Series.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP There will be no "Gulf of America" press releases allowed within the meat inside my skull-bone.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also Catholic; my paternal grandparents had 4 grandchildren and my maternal grandparents had 7 grandchildren. Although that might have been a weird demographic oddity where my grandparents delayed having kids because of WWII.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is what comes from imprecise language in exam questions. In 7th grade I lost a Michigan state-wide mathematics competition because the last question had differing interpretations of one word and I got it wrong and the judges were like "we never considered somebody could use the other one."

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I guess. My wife has over 50 cousins but that's from both parents, and I thought that had to have been some kind of a record.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How does somebody have 41 grandchildren?

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ok look. I'm an absolute pacifist. I do not believe violence is ever justified against another human being, even in the last defense of one's life. There was a hornet's nest in the base of my mailbox that I poisoned the shit out of last month because insects aren't people.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In fairness it's a Jeep Grand Cherokee, so he might have had a reasonable belief that the transmission was going to explode and he'd need to defend himself from it.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My sister's job is cop- adjacent (she works in the county morgue and is also the official Suffolk County crime scene photographer), and for years our family tried to get her to take the police exam, but she knew too many cops and refused because the cop culture poisons all of them in some way.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the many problems with cops and ICE agents who were too dumb to be hired as cops is that while some people want the job because it gives good benefits and an early pension, a lot want the job because they fantasize about doing violence to people and being a cop gives them that opportunity.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There's a Twilight Zone episode where a gangster dies and goes to a world where everything is designed to give him exactly what he wants in whatever form he wants. He gambles and always wins; all the beautiful girls love him. The zinger is that he's in hell because that's endless boredom.

en.wikipedia.org

A Nice Place to Visit - Wikipedia

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Apparently the New York Times thinks we're all blind. What's the model number of that TV, NYT, that you claim is "legible"? You circled it and everything, like we couldn't see the clearly nonexistent numbers?

A circle is drawn around part of the photo, saying "the characters all seem legible, down to the correct fonts and logos." The circled text includes nonsense capitalization, clearly uneven fonts, and what appears to be a backwards German 7.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This photo is an AI fake. Can you tell?

AI generated photo of Napoleon riding a Renault R35 tank into Red Square as ranks of French troops cheer

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You can just change your name. It's not that hard. File some papers with the court and boom you're done.

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Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hidden is my syllabus is the call number for a book that relates to the final project theme. Take a pic with it and you get a point on an exam. I do this so I can learn who the nerds are week one. My student made a video of finding the book and got over 100k likes in TikTok. Win win win?

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1: Clemens throwing the bat at Piazza 2: The Howard Ehmke Game 3: Fernando Tatis' two grand slams off Chan Ho Park in the same inning 4: Should Babe Ruth get credit for the combined no-hitter in the Ernie Shore game? 5: Is he jealous of the plaque Pope Paul VI has in Monument Park in Yankee Stadium?

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was at the Raul Ibanez game (he got 2 home runs pinch-hitting for ARod) and that was maybe the most delerious I've ever seen Yankee Stadium get

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As somebody who has been to roughly one billion protests in NYC before: The NYPD is showing vastly more restraint here than they usually do. Long before this point, you'd normally have seen riot cops zip-tying protesters' hands and loading them in the back of vans.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Genuinely can't ever remember a sitting Democrat be this straightforward

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I remember somebody saying Aaron Hernandez wasn't a football player who killed people; he was a serial killer who somehow ended up in the NFL. Hegseth is a serial killer who somehow ended up being the Secretary of Defense.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(Yes, Marble Hill is in Manhattan, it's a fun civil engineering story for another day)

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is evil. This cannot be allowed to be. I was at an event at Fordham Law School this evening, and was walking past the fountains at Lincoln Center. I was thinking I need to bring my kids to Manhattan more because it's such a great place for kids to just walk around and inhabit. I'm sickened.

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