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Mark Armstrong

@markparmstrong.bsky.social

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Former Triangle sports dude. I drive to soccer. Virulent Canadian 🇨🇦 and Utah Ute Don’t ask me to play pickleball. Need painting? wow1day.com

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Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · Apr 25

YOU. ARE. WELCOME.

Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite bits that apparently went over like a lead balloon in Gboro at the time

abc11.com/amp/post/new...

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Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

The ladder yes, but then they also had to do this

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Ian Hunter @bluejayhunter.com · 1d

"I was born ready. I was born ready. And I want it all for this city."

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Angelle of Death @cityofangelle.bsky.social · 1d

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”

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David Mullin @rdmullin.bsky.social · 1d

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Who is advising Walton Goggins to do Walmart ads and can I take a baseball bat to their kneecaps?

Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s see if this bowlegged lunatic can get one out

Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

This Mike Modano looking guy for the Jays is pretty good

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 1d

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Also Naylor, a Mississauga native that I should have some natural affinity for, could not look more like a slovenly 1970s Times Square peep show operator if he tried. Also Logan Gilbert looks like a garbage dude who would date Tanya Harding. Current day Tanya Harding

Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

I find Suarez’s hair and meticulous stubble beard to be *intensely* annoying so it is giving me great joy that he keeps messing up in this game.

Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

I’m trading Ladd McConkey and Bo Nix and Brian Thomas Jr for a 20% off Bed Bath and Beyond coupon. First come first serve

Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Next thing you’ll tell me is the president sent a video of him shitting on his fellow Americans

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d

Colombia: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters”

“Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing.”

“The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.”

US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters
Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing.
The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.
We await explanations from the US government.
x.com/RTVCnoticias/s…..

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Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

MVP candidate Daniel Jones and the runaway freight train Indianapolis Colts is certainly not a storyline I anticipated.

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Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

That Trevor Lawrence sucks is one of the great NFL mysteries. Dude seemed like a guaranteed superstar and he’s a below average Jacoby Brissett level player and I don’t mean to sully Jacoby that way

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Mark Armstrong @markparmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of my fantasy picks are giant disappointments but man is Bo Nix an entire waste of space

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · Nov 5

one of the worst fucking things in the world is the move to call sincerity and care "cringe"

fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.