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Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 13h

Sized for a single person or group? If we’re talking like steakhouse-style sides for sharing then that doesn’t seem too bad.

Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 16h

Luckily I only use it for one very specific thing so I can get by with it being unpleasant and it gives me something else to complain about in life

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Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 16h

Windows 11 finally got me

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Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · Apr 16

Okay, it’s official…the complaints about the Windows user experience are finally completely legitimate.

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Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 17h

lol

Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 18h

Didn't realize it until now but Ted Cruz has the body of Hank Hill

KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 18h

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 5, Episode 19

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Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 20h

One of the few big club in Austin in the 00s had a wall installation that was a bunch of programmable LED squares that I wanted to recreate but it would have cost like $1-2k and required custom code but now I think you can find something similar on Amazon for $100

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Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 20h

I’m 42 now and the number of things like this that I wanted to fuck with in the 2000s but we’re insanely expensive and now are cheap as shit is huge

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Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 20h

Did the ACA change what insurance must cover?

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Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 20h

The reference to AI says a lot here but ignoring that, the answer is obviously “literally everything”

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 21h

what exactly has gotten better for the average person in the past 20 years with all the innovation such as AI, exactly? what's the social use case here

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Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 1d

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KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 13, Episode 18

Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 1d

Literally right after the announcers said that Sark told them he needs wins on first down and to stay on schedule he calls a run on first down for a one yard loss then another run play on 2 and 11 for no yards.

Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · Jan 11

Imagine being down 14 to 7 in the third quarter of the semifinal game and running the ball on 2nd and 15

Once again, there simply is no argument that Sarkisian is actually a good play caller

Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think a single Texas quarterback has improved over time since like 1995. The only good ones started good but none of the talented ones that started bad have improved a single bit over time.

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WIRED @wired.com · 1d

Fred Ramsdell was on vacation in the Wyoming wilderness when he and two colleagues received the honor for their breakthroughs in immunology.

Scientist Who Was Offline 'Living His Best Life' Stunned by Nobel Prize Win

Fred Ramsdell was on vacation in the Wyoming wilderness when he and two colleagues received the honor for their breakthroughs in immunology.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 3d

From the bad old site, in response to pro-immigration commentary from Cato scholars. I wonder whether there's something dangerous in letting presidents just arbitrarily declare one or another group to be a terrorist organization -- nah, I suppose that's alarmist.

Four tweets from X, text:

[user] Sep 20
The CATO Institute should be labeled as a domestic terrorist organization.

[user] Sep 20
Replying to
@AlexNowrasteh
Trump's next EO needs to be declaring the CATO Institute a terrorist organization.

[user]
·
Sep 19
The next group that
@realDonaldTrump
needs to designate as a terrorist organization is the Cato Institute

[user]
·
Sep 19
Replying to
@David_J_Bier
we are going to designate the CATO Institute as a terrorist organization next.

Tweets from X, text: "

[user]
·
11h
Replying to
@David_J_Bier
The Cato Institute should be declared a terrorist organization.

[user]
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11h
President Trump needs to declare Cato institute domestic terror organization
Quote
The Alex Nowrasteh
@AlexNowrasteh
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Oct 8
Americans would be slightly more pro-immigration if they knew how hard it is to come here legally."

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Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 4d

poor choice for your username clearly

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 5d

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 4d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has increasing influence over President Trump, sources say

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "CNN is dying like a dog."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d

The first episode of Collateral Damage, my reported podcast with The Intercept, went up today.

Hope you’ll check it out and, if you enjoy it, give it a favorable rating or review.

Eternal thanks to my producers @lauraflynn.bsky.social and Andrew Stelzer for making it happen.

Ep. 1 Dirty Business: The Atlanta Narcotics Unit’s Deadly Raid on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston.

Podcast Episode · Collateral Damage from The Intercept · 10/08/2025 · 55m

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Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 4d

Follow policing is cop behavior

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Jac @dairyqueenslime.bsky.social · 5d

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 5d

You probably want more than a factory reset to be sure it's forensics-clean in light of wear leveling in flash memory controllers

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 5d

Reminder: Never travel out of the country with your main cell phone (or without backing it up and then doing a factory reset) or laptop.

CBP agents are effectively Redcoats and they WILL delight in reminding you that they owe you no rights.

Eric Brakey
@Eric8rekey
I was detained by Border Patrol and Customs for 90 minutes coming
back from a @RoyalCa ribbean cruise today in Florida.
After they rifled through all my belongings, read my personal joumal, and
confiscated rny phone and computer, I had to explain to them that the
aFreeStateNH is a non-violent, peaceful libertarian movernent that
builds community, culture and political change.
We were invited to New Hampshire in the early 2000s bythe Govemor
of the state. We reject violence as a path to creating change.
In detail, I had to explain the nature of the Defend the Guard rnovernent
and assure them that I was not part of a violent extremist group seeking
to raise a militia for insurrection against the government.
At one point during my detention, I asked for clarification on what rights I
had here as a US. citizen and was told that they did not næd a warrant
for anything in my possession, including all my elæ•tronic devices.
They eventually let me gu
Truth be told, I am shaken up and in shock right now.
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Blake Stovall @mstrofbass.bsky.social · 5d

Eagle logos like that are used for a wide variety of non-Nazi purposes.

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