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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 2h

Trying to date without the emotional labor of texting.

Without the emotional labor.

Emotional labor of texting.

Emotional labor.

Sometimes I think about what dating would be like if I were a 30 year old straight man in 2025 and I stare wistfully at the horizon.

Mizzy Blundell-Straw MP 🌹 @mizzyblundellstraw.bsky.social · 20h

The emotional labour of thinking

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 12h

"I used Chat GPT"

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 12h

Timeline cleanse: my kindergartener is organizing all of his (hundreds of) stuffed animals by color, and I don't yet have the heart to tell him that Paw Patrol are Feds and not to be trusted. Bonus content of my natural, non-code switched NY accent.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 12h

People like Stephanopoulos haven't done this before because they've been worried the Vances of the world won't come back on their shows, but there's really no value in having them on your show if they're just going to lie unchallenged.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 14h

In other words, people in the Trump administration really need to read Rawls.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 15h

The second half of Billy Summers gets very weird, but the first half is some of the best writing King has ever done. For King fans, I think it's really essential reading.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 23h

Billy Summers is the most approachable entry into King's post-modernist meta-fiction that eventually took over the Dark Tower. The first half of the book is a masterpiece; the second half feels like a fever dream; and it coheres into a heartbreaking meditation on the act of writing itself.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 23h

Under the Dome isn't King's best novel (11/22/63 in my view), but it's close, and it's the best example of the seeming impossibility of King writing 1,000 page doorstoppers that you never want to put down because it goes so hard, and juggles dozens of characters who all seem vibrant and real.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 23h

Cujo manages to pack a ton of interrelated character studies and genuine terror into a short page count while while still lacking an emotional hammer and giving one of the best examples of King's bleakness that's so atypical of popular authors, just does a tremendous amount of work that all fits.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 23h

For short story collections, Night Shift doesn't have any of my absolute favorite King short stories except Strawberry Spring (Survivor Type; The End of the Whole Mess; N; That Bus Is Another World; Herman Woulk Is Still Alive), but it has 0 misses and none of the stories drag, great starting point.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

This skips his other two main modes, Dark Tower novels (way too big an undertaking for a King newbie) and Holly Gibney / Mr. Mercedes novels (not really representative of his ouvre and, uh, more bad than good).

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

What are the best books for a new reader of Stephen King? I'd recommend 4, one from each King mode: A) Short story collection; B) speedy novel; C) long novel; D) experimental novel. Using those categories, I think the best choices are:
A) Night Shift
B) Cujo
C) Under the Dome
D) Billy Summers

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

Should I read King? I have actually never read Stephen King.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

Which two?
Night Shift
Skeleton Crew
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Everything's Eventual
Just After Sunset
Bazaar of Bad Dreams
You Like It Darker

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

Animal Collective Soul Asylum

Tippi Hedren Collider @linanneblack.bsky.social · 1d

Mash up bands:

Barry Whitesnake

batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 1d

Mash up bands:

Captain Beefheart & Tennille

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

My most conservative- coded belief is that if your team has never won a World Series then it should never win a World Series, because the team will lose the only thing making it interesting (a legacy of failure). Red Sox were way more fun before 2004. Who cares about the Rangers or the Astros now?

Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 1d

If the Brewers and Mariners make the World Series, I’m forcing so much Pilots analysis into BP that week

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry; forgot Hawaii, which went D+ 0.120 Million.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

Red would be Democratic and it's not even remotely close. Using the 2024 election numbers:
TX: R+ 1.558 Million
NM: D+ 0.055 Million
AZ: R+ 0.188 Million
CA: D+ 3.195 Million

So overall, in a year Trump won, Red would go Democratic by 1.504 Million.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

I would have to sit down and go the math, but at first glance it looks like orange is hard GOP; yellow is solid GOP; and everything else goes Democratic?

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 1d

New electoral college just dropped - do we win this one?

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

I've been doing a lot of Google searches about stock markets and particular stocks today, because of the coming AI implosion, and as a result I'm getting endless ads for a very particular type of slop: personal stories of people of retirement age with no retirement savings. Which just makes me sad.

I'm 82 and earn $16 an hour working at a boat store. I don't have much saved and can't retire, but everything will work out.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Patricia Wheatley, 82, who earns $16 an hour working at her friend's boat store in Pennsylvania.

www.yahoo.com

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

AI is basically tailor made for Nate Silver. He, specifically, is the target audience for this tech. If he's not finding it useful, I don't see how this industry sustains itself.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

Celebs on the severity of the protest. If you feel like you might get incidentally gassed, like have a cloud of tear gas blow over you, you should be fine with just water. I bring one of these just in case, but I'm normally in the thick of things.

Amazon.com: Full Face Respirator Gas Mask: 6800 Reusable Respirator Mask with Filters 60921 & 2097 - Dust Mask Anti Fog Against Organic Vapor Fumes Gases for Spray Paint Chemicals Epoxy Resin Welding ...

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

You want one of these. $17 for 2 of them and it will save you a lot of headaches.

Amazon.com: Simket Faraday Bags for Phones and Car Key 2 Pack, Signal Blocking Pouch, Cell Phone Signal Jammer, Car Key/WiFi/RFID/GPS Signal Blocker Black (m) : Cell Phones & Accessories

a.co

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man, trinitarian flame wars sound exciting

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 1d

Protesting 101: keep your cell phone in a Faraday case at protests, always.

Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

san.com

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