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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 19m

Cuomo making a bold move to try to steal votes from Fiorello LaGuardia.

Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 41m

There are a large number of smart, experienced Democratic candidates who think the way to reach vaguely centrist voters is by talking about shit they care nothing about or actively oppose.

It's insane.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

not cutting the mustard www.bangordailynews.com/2025/10/16/p...

Janet Mills would support keeping filibuster if elected to the Senate

The Democratic governor’s stance is shared by Sen. Susan Collins, the Republican whom Mills entered the race to defeat earlier this week.

www.bangordailynews.com

Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 7h

MTV went on the air in 1981!

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 7h

This is the kind of shit that even the People's Front for Judea laughs at.

Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 9h

Where’s the @swolecialism.bsky.social post about the most unpleasant person ever

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 8h

Seems like she forgot "Marxists," "jokesters," et al.

Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 8h

You could "solve" literally every problem in the world using that sentence as a template.

It's like utopian Mad Libs.

Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 8h

This is an all-time great bullshit sentence:

"Build authentic assessment models that replace easily generated essays and exams with portfolios of applied work, external partner feedback, and decision documentation that tracks how students weighed trade-offs."

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 8h

The lecture and test method died years ago, at least among decent teachers.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 10h

"But I guessed correctly! Who cares about the actual facts?"

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for admitting you humiliated yourself.

Forget your ignorance about grammar: the real problem is you know fuck all about politics.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

I hate the term "grammar Nazi" for a variety of reasons, but we need a term for people who pretend they know grammar and just embarrass themselves.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

it’s called a complex compound sentence, john!

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

JFC. You know less about grammar than you do about politics, which is really saying something.

It's not a compound sentence because there's no subordinate clause. It's possible that gibberish in the middle is supposed to be an appositive, but who knows?

Just walk away.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

I apologize for understanding politics and being able to read.

I also apologize for pointing out that your response to my comment is literally "vacuous bullshit." That second sentence is a random series of words.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

I know everyone's dunking on this, but it's an almost flawless display of political ignorance paired with vacuous bullshit.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 2d

clownery/absurdity in the face of extremism and violence function to take the wind out of the sails of whatever volatile opposition is being stood up against.

that tactic, though, only works if there’s a direct confrontation.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

You seem like the kind of guy who responds to emails from Nigerian princes.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all frogs in Christ Jesus.

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

Agree completely and somehow she raised $2.6 million more than Ciattarelli.

newjerseymonitor.com/2025/10/07/n...

Just astonishingly incompetent.

Democrat Mikie Sherrill holds cash lead in NJ governor's race • New Jersey Monitor

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D) has outraised ex-Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli (R) so far, but both are set to max out their public matching funds.

newjerseymonitor.com

Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure about that. In a list of almost exclusively Democratic senators he included Hawley for trying to ban stock trading among members of Congress, which Collins had opposed.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 1d

I think "reverse tone policing" is a great term, and I think it's analogous to the disparaging ways that certain people talk about "wine moms" and "pilates grandmas" attending protests.

People oppose Trump in different ways. Obama has never been a firebrand and expecting him to become one is silly.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

That would be the opposite of patronage, even if it weren't impossible.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

They can't afford that: they'd be broke in two weeks.

Don't overthink it: it's just Trump bullshitting.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

This is true of incumbents in general: "I hate Congress and will gladly vote again for my six-term House member."

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is deeply unpopular and has never won a majority in any election but many people on Bluesky think we should emulate his tactics.

Anyway, Obama was speaking plainly.

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for sharing your ignorance.

Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know what this is supposed to mean. He shouldn't be trying to convince the public? You think a meaningless comment about the VMAs is a model for politics?

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Bespoke Federal Reserve Exception @moreyamsterdam.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly! There are people on here who know nothing about him AND didn’t listen to the clip saying “yeah, I’m going with my ignorant vibes.”

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