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Tom Lumberjack
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Porque no los dos?
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You’re the human, you’re in charge
Nailed the Karen paws too
Been a while since I had to quote Linux kernel source (or the equivalent) at someone to get my point across
TFW a coworker is as confidently wrong as an AI LLM…
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“Seizing the means of production,” you say? 🤡

(via @samsteindc.bsky.social)
My proposal for DST reform:

-Spring ahead 10 minutes every day Monday-Saturday
-Fall back one hour every Sunday
As a Markey constituent, he was tired & not bringing anything to the position before that primary against Kennedy & isn’t good at constituent services. Post primary he’s more energized at doing same old same old I.e. not bringing anything to the position. Is spite a factor? Sure, but not everything
I had no idea that “eat a bag of dicks” had its origin so long ago. Because that’s definitely a bag of dicks in hand there
Generational talent in some areas *and* a bad manager
Favorite editing weapon of choice?
I found this reference helpful in getting over the Fairness Docrrine

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First, there was no “litigation risk” for “partisan programming”.

If someone thought a station was violating the Fairness Doctrine they reported it to the FCC who gave the stations a chance to correct it.

Start at pg 98 of this PDF: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
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While I do find myself agreeing w/Paul and Hawley from time to time, it’s rare I agree w/both on the same issue

Paul: “These new taxes in the form of tariffs … fail on the Constitution, and must be reversed”

Hawley suggested changing IEEPA was the right response

🎁

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...
Republicans in Congress Show Signs of Angst Over Trump’s Trade War
www.nytimes.com
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Are we really doing "poor trapped Usha Vance" content like people tried with Melania Trump? These wives are all on board the project. Let's not pretend.
Speaking of deadweight loss, here’s a poster I walked by at the No Kings protest in Boston 2 weeks ago.

But yes, so much of what comes out of this admin feels like spite before country, grift before country, party before country, pretty much just plain America last.
As a society, we’ve lost our memory of how bad disease and infection really used to be before vaccines and antibiotics.

I found the WSJ charts in this thread eye opening

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Thank you to Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman at the @wsj.com. Measles. 1/
As a society, we’ve lost our memory of how bad disease and infection really used to be before vaccines and antibiotics.

I found the WSJ charts in this thread eye opening

bsky.app/profile/greg...
Thank you to Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman at the @wsj.com. Measles. 1/
Yeah…as much as I like Star Trek we are not living in that (TNG?) episode
Cats are totally trainable if they want to be trained. Good luck convincing them they want to be trained if they don’t already want to
Post-Storrowed truck seen on my way to work this morning. Bad way to start the day for someone.