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Brandon Taitt

@btaitt.bsky.social

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Movies, sci-fi, politics and soccer, including Star Trek, #mnufc, and more. I used to make “sportball” jokes and I’m very sorry for my transgressions. All my links at https://linktr.ee/btaitt

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Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 7d

Ah yes, we all know that famous quote from Moderate Paul Wellstone: “We all do better when many of us do better, but not everyone, we can’t go that far or we risk alienating people.”

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Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 10d

Literally next quote down for me

A quote post blaming IPAs for breweries declining

Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 12d

A month ago Tani was hanging out at the Minnesota State Fair now he’s starting at the Bernabéu against Mbappe and Vini Jr. Just wild.

The Loony Bin @loonybinpodcast.bsky.social · 12d

Tani starting for Villarreal against Real Madrid at the Bernabéu 🥹

Did some one say defend and counter? #MNUFC

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Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 15d

“We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”

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Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 15d

I remember this guy running for AG in 2018. Seemed like an unserious goober, especially contrasted with Ellison and Swanson.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18d

The "lung float" test is being used to charge women with murder. Many experts say it's unreliable.

“There’s no way you can determine live birth versus stillbirth with this test," said one doctor, who called the test “an outrageous breach of science.”

(Pub. Oct. 2023)

A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder

The “lung float” test claims to help determine if a baby was born alive or dead, but many medical examiners say it’s too unreliable. Yet the test is still being used to bring murder charges — and get ...

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Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 18d

What have they seen at training that they’d start him versus, say, Gene?

Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 18d

That was actually a chart of how much Brazilian Fizz each shot contained

Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 18d

All good here so far

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Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 19d

The first thing that came to mind reading this was from The Simpsons: “I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!”

That episode is 29 years old. 😩

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 19d

My pop culture references are older than people who are whole ass adults

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Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 20d

We still have all of that after the summer? I guess that’s good, presuming they’ll use it to buy down some DP contracts and get some attacking pieces in this winter (a boy can dream)

Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 24d

And this certainly makes it feel worse bsky.app/profile/tvmo...

TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 25d

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.

It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 26d

Sometimes it’s just better to actually call someone on the phone.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 26d

It does, but you also have to update to iOS 26 (the actual translation occurs locally on the phone, plus the Translate app gets a new Live Translate tab for conversations).

Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 26d

The one catch I’d add is if you’ve had fitting issues with the AirPods Pro 1 or 2. The new tip sizss and shape makes the 3s fit *far* better for me, and my wife tried the new XXS tips they included and now she can actually wear them for the first time.

Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 27d

The fact that Yeboah’s injury came off of a foul that should have been a penalty that wasn’t awarded makes it go down even worse.

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Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 27d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27d

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

RFK Jr.-Backed Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine for Young Children

New members of a key committee tweak routine childhood vaccine guidance as some states and insurers go their own way.

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Brandon Taitt @btaitt.bsky.social · 28d

Yes though it can become a DOGSO-level offense as well, leading to a red.