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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 3m

I want this version with Yorgos Lanthimos directing

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 2h

“People Experience”

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 3h

Bizarre feeling when a huge account is dunking on someone you know irl who doesn’t know you’re on here

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 3h

Swing voters in particular famously do not have a coherent set of beliefs along a left-right axis

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 3h

I agree with this in theory, but my experience is that a lot of kinda shitty MD/DO practitioners make it all the way through to practicing FM/IM, while the best PAs I’ve seen are lightyears better at taking chronic quality of life issues seriously. IDK. Not so clear cut.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

God, or whatever you believe in, help the people of Jamaica. Worst landfall on record just occurred, according to @capitalweather.bsky.social. Graphic below is from them. Sustained winds of 185MPH and gusts of 252(!) MPH at land level.

Melissa - most intense Atlantic hurricane landfall on record: Category 5, 185 mph. - most intense Atlantic hurricane landfall on record: Category 5, 185 mph
Jamaica
Low level wind gusts to 252 mph per Hurricane
Hunters, highest ever sampled

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 4h

For similar reasons, Reading PA, although that is way smaller than second-tier

Allentown/Greater Lehigh Valley is closer to actual second-tier I guess

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 4h

Some family structures are basically impossible to talk about without this kind of shorthand! Almost of my actual first cousins are 20+ years older than me; some of them have kids who are only a year or two younger than me. Would be weird to have had to say “once removed” every time!

more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 4h

I think there’s a version of this that is ~true, (I would avoid implying “owed”, but for practical reasons I think nominating Harris was probably the best option by the time Biden quit, and I do question if any D could have won under 2024 conditions) but KJP is *awful* at articulating her argument

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes you really can just see with your eyes that the curve doesn’t even remotely fit! And in this case I’m not sure any curve would

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah… I think if you basically get a world of Morlocks and Eloi (metaphorically speaking) you’ve kinda fucked up pretty bad? Even if they’re all technically people

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 6h

One year ago, I went on CNN and expressed my concern that if Harris lost after not defending trans people that somehow the takeaway would still be that trans people were the reason. I hate being right! www.readtpa.com/p/watch-the-...

TAPPER: What do you hear from trans individuals who maybe aren't as outspoken as you are, but see ads like this during the 2024 election cycle? Because we should know this isn't just a one-off. I think this is one of the main ads the Trump campaign airs.
MOLLOY: Yeah, I mean, they've spent tens of millions of dollars doing this. And it's not just the Trump campaign. It's Republicans across the country have been running ads making these similar points. They see trans people as a small group of just 1% of the population who's easy to demonize. And in talking to trans people, they've been very frustrated to deal with this. It's made a lot of people I know scared. And one thing that people are worried about is if the election does go to Trump, the trans people will be blamed for this outcome.

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 5h

I finally read yesterday’s Chotiner interview with Karine Jean-Pierre, and oof

I don’t even think Chotiner does a particularly good job in this one! The stuff about the convention remains a weird fixation about 2024!

Makes it easier to understand why Biden had more comms problems after Psaki left

more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 5h

Big divorced man energy here

Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 5h

Bill Gates has decided being accepted by pedophiles, abusers, and fascists is more important than the future of humanity. Maybe he’ll ask Prince Andrew to move in with him. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...

Bill Gates Says Climate Change ‘Will Not Lead to Humanity’s Demise’

www.nytimes.com

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah I’m tired today. I at least had October 29 right though…

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 5h

Oh tbc, I don’t have time or inclination anymore, but I was very active 25-30 years ago. Good to know these exist!

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 8h

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 6h

RIP Geocities :(

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 6h

The number of people who do not understand what a joke is (and I guess don’t know what The Onion is?) in the replies/QTs, good lord

Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 8h

Just about spit out my coffee when I saw this in my morning newspaper @theonion.com

Fake ABC ad: At the request of the president, Abbott Elementary is white now

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 18h

I just want to note that it is fucking incredible that he repeatedly has ripped Casey for his supposed conflict of interest in having a partner working for Anthropic while he himself is personally doing PR for AI

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 18h

Right up there with “who was president in 2020?”

more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 19h

Like it’s a horrible bubble and I hate almost every heavily marketed application of it, but it clearly has *some* valid uses

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 19h

If you think EZ’s only opining on AI *economics*, you should familiarize yourself with his oeuvre a little better. That’s his focus, but he frequently implies/suggests that the technology is entirely useless, which is just… not true? And only something you could say from ignorance or dishonesty rly

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 1d

i mean, harris ran the campaign they’re advocating for. it probably etched out an extra point or two but that was never as important as the macropolitical enviroment (backlash from covid inflation) which, via association with joe biden, harris could not escape.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

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more of a generalist - jack o’lantern of all trades @moreanonhandle.bsky.social · 1d

He’s also among the most thin-skinned guys who ever lived, and entirely out of his depth when he tries to interview someone thoughtful

I used to feel more positively about his role in tech criticism, but the longer I’ve watched, the more it’s like… oh 😬

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