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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Looks like you're trying to affect meaningful change using a method that demands certain trade-offs. I'm sorry, but that is prohibited. Have you considered just wishing real hard for a perfect solution instead?

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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Can your household afford an extra $1,967 in extra costs? According to the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, that's exactly how much Donald Trump's tariffs have cost every single North Carolina household since January 2025. Full report: tariffs.org/north-carolina

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That's a nice thought, but unless people get out and vote blue, it can't happen.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

More proof Mamdani is an Abundance candidate

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Irrefutable proof that starship is DOOMED. If they can't keep the tiles for 20+ days at sea, there's no way it can survive reentry.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Expand the labor pool, you cowards. Immigrants deserve rights too.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Just got an advertisement from a big credit card company detailing that credit cards charge interest and you can avoid interest by paying off the card each month. Then advertised a starter card with no annual fees and cash back. Really makes you think, doesn't it...

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

cool shell formation on my beach walk

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Some people are truly unhinged. Spaceflight is for everyone, not just Americans.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Starship is also operating on a much smaller budget. Apollo cost about $250 billion for those flights. Starship has only cost $18 billion. Nevermind that SpaceX intentionally targets ~96% of orbit so they don't go over populated areas.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Welp I've burned through all of my allotment of Copilot tokens at work making silly images. Guess it's time to do actual work.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Any time you see someone talking about growing class consciousness or how people are embracing socialism, remember that basically understands what it is.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Americans really shouldn't be so secretive with finances with their social circles; financial literacy & support is very important. A group of friends shared our finances (income, spending, savings, retirement goals) and I think it was very healthy to know we're basically all in the same situation

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Truth Dog @truth-dog.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Democrat’s Promise: “Here’s what I can do for you.” Republican’s Promise: “Here’s what I can do to them.” See the difference?

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Remembered a funny little startup from days past: Unit of Work. It was a consulting firm that would help people organize and form unions. The funny part is that it was almost universally reviled on the left because capitalism subsumes all criticism or something. 🦀🦀

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy Independence Day. May it happen today.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Land values were made by society, they should belong to society"

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

40 years later, I'm *still* thinking about alligators when I see a > or < sign

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

If you were assembling a list of essential books on cities and how they work, what would be on it?

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

While it does have its problems, I could see what Vaughan (comic) and Clark (show) were going for with Y The Last Man. I greatly enjoyed it and still wish it hadn't been cancelled.

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Lulucaliente @lulucaliente.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Let’s focus on beating up MAGA and not-each other

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

AI images are a great filter for people who actually care about an issue vs slacktivists. Case in point.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Going through a spec sheet for work and it has an environmental impact measurement. Total carbon footprint: 2,252 kg CO2 equivalent. Of which 2237 kg is from usage. >99% of the carbon footprint is from burning carbon to power it. This is why energy policy matters so much.

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Animarchy History @animarchyhistory.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Remember LGBT = Quality In Aerospace +

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

If someone tells you Blue Origin's failure was in any way the same as Flight 12 other than "thing go boom", you can safely ignore that person because they have no idea what they are talking about. BO & New Glenn has a completely different operational philosophy than SpaceX/Starship.

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Mr. Beat @iammrbeat.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Happy election day to everyone living in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. Your vote will count much more today than it will count on most other days, so go freaking vote if you live in one of these states.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Some adults in this thread have forgotten what it was like to be a kid at an airshow. Instilling a sense of wonder & curiosity on the youth is worth it.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Put 👏 pseudoephedrine 👏 back 👏 in 👏 cough 👏 syrup

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Crazy to me that people will call MGP a traitor for not voting as a progressive...when her district looks like *this*. It's not like the WA-1 where Republicans are DOA. The default is a MAGA Republican for WA-3. Political reality matters.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Remember, looking at people's laptops on flights is cheap entertainment!

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Just got notified that the employee stock plan at work starts tomorrow. May the market dip 50% for a few days again in this quarter!

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Reminder: all of this would have been avoided if the people in 2020 showed up to for vote Harris in 2024

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

We should just go back to metal detectors for everyone. Get rid of the security theater.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Honestly, the most surprising one for me is Schneider. I would have put money that he would be in there.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

If you can't guess the incumbent from a multiple-choice question, you should not be allowed to vote for that office.

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Aaron Lubeck @aaronlubeck.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The Machine Builds THIS. Most Southern #zoning codes restrict density to <6 homes per acre net. At that rate of sprawl, #NorthCarolina will gobble up ~19 square miles of suburbia EVERY year.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

So was YouTube sponsoring Nuremberg? Did they pay to run ads mid sentencing? (Don't blindly trust what AI spits out, kids)

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Bad Bunny starting with Spanish lyrics? Yeah, that's gonna piss off the pumpkin.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

If someone fails a very basic civics question, their vote in that race should not count. I don't mean anything tricky, just 4-option multiple choice question with previous presidents names and asking which is the current president. I would bet that a worryingly large portion would get it wrong.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I wonder if a well known Gilded Age economist wrote extensively about the causes & solution to that problem... Oh right, Henry George saw it coming 100+ years ago.

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Michael @tralfagar.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"Why are they bulldozing trees when we've only made it illegal to build up!"

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