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Alexander

@alexm920.bsky.social

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Optical scientist, engineer, maker, and enjoyer of various nonsense. Magic the gathering, genre films, video games, sci-fi, fantasy, and nonfiction antiquarian books.

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Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 40m

undeniably an insanely effective leader, no one whipped votes like nancy, but it is long past the time when she should’ve passed the baton. i do worry dems don’t have a good framework for mentoring new leadership, if only because incumbents act like they’ll always be around.

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 15h

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 1d

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

guy said, “Do you like Marx?”

I said, “I haven’t met him.”

Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”

“Wow, what happened?”

“No, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”

“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”

I said, “Sounds amazing.”

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

BS: The FBI.

MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 1d

See you soon Vancouver.
Looking forward to seeing these billboards (at least one) in person. 🔥🔥

side of a building with a billboard that says smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too and picture of child biking beside a truck on painted bike lane

an outdoor billboard There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Picture of child biking in a painted bike lane

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 1d

we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate

INTERESTING TIMES
WITH ROSS DOUTHAT
Mamdani's Victory Is Less Significant Than
You Think

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

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Justin Carter @gigawattconduit.bsky.social · 2d

Woke up today to the news

Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake from the SNL short “dick in a box”

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Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 2d

dem strategists pulling their hair out, it just doesn’t make sense that people are choosing the young charismatic dude who loves the place he’d govern and wants to improve it over the ancient gargoyle who despises the place and wants to make it worse. nosferatu erasure they shout.

Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 2d

i’ve visited quartzite a few times and never knew about the red ghost, damn now i wanna go back

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

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Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 2d

okay that would’ve worked on me too

Hand holding two stickers, “Halloween Voter 2025” and “Board of Elections Voter Early!”

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Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 2d

i didn’t appreciate how much ground this generalized mistrust of all politicians shared with the “enlightened centrist” bunch.

Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 2d

another one for the "threatening us with a good time" file

Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 7d

Outsider looks like its web shop is down for a move, but I had no issues pre-ordering from brick and mortar. Excited for February!

Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 7d

as a person disproportionately interested in keeping magic's original IP alive, and book-enjoyer more generally, this thread has me convinced. where's the best place to pre-order this?

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Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 8d

this whole grokipedia development mostly reminds me i haven’t checked in on conservapedia or encyclopedia dramatica in more than decade, probably for the best

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Jake @jailerkey.bsky.social · 10d

The fake ads are the best part of subscribing to The Onion print version.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 9d

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

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Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 9d

(i’m aware shame doesn’t work on republicans, but the endless gormless acceptance of their feigned ignorance is infuriating)

Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 9d

we really need to normalize asking follow-up questions, e.g. “how do you understand the oversight duty of congress? would someone who bothered to be informed better serve then american people?”

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Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 9d

i can only hope this heralds a bright new era of llm poisoning youtube.com/shorts/WP5_X...

chatgpt has E-stroke

YouTube video by Michael Reeves

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Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 10d

for the uninitiated; frank wilhoit (not the author, a particularly canny blogged by the same name) wrote:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 10d

another spectacular illustration of wilhoit’s law

Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 10d

i’ve seen lots of keming before, this is the rare instance of ker ning

Alexander @alexm920.bsky.social · 10d

this should really be part of a series of “internet heritage minutes” in the same spirit as the Canadian ones