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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 13h

This is good. Love this film

I knew Ron Motley in the 90s, some of the real details that got fictionalised here (the real bullet was a death threat soaped on a hotel mirror while anonymously hiding there).

Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 16h

The soul of a country?

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 16h

Dream sequence inside as well

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 16h

It’s because most people can’t allocate well enough to outperform an average, and that includes professional money managers with fees on top

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 20h

Not going to happen

And at this point? Too late

His one point of pride was PEPFAR and he refused to publicly defend it.

Can host private fundraisers with Harlan Crow, who bought the Supreme Court though.

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 1d

Not many 10 year olds steeped in the work of Ernest Borgnine

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 1d

lol.

Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 1d

Huh. Lived for years at the top of that bridge long time ago.

DC produces great bands

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings (No Dukes)

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

And if you know about Ernie Pyle, one of the J Schools up there with Columbia and Northwestern, the entire saga is a big deal and shocking

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

Here in the UK, IYKYK

And a chance to bang on an Olivetti for the first time in some time

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

Been a while since I banged on an Olivetti

#nokings

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

Waited an entire month for the DSCC to get the near 80 year old in for a reply loooool.

Congrats

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe a factor is that Charlie’s playing the bass syncopated with the guitar parts via his 7 string. Not as simple as for Pino.

Pino’s way of locking in with Quest around the dragged beat is such a thing

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

London

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe 2010-2019 cured the nation of center right for a bit

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 2d

An important part of recognising shared beliefs is to realise that US polarisation is asymmetrical

Beliefs are fungible and many of those supporters from this era have been led off the shared portion

Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 3d

So good

The D’Angelo quote about breaking even, damn

Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 3d

Perfect.

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 3d

Everything that followed that failed white knight effort related to his sleeping in a spare room

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 3d

You can’t willpower or gut out a lactate threshold. Anyone who’s ever run a vo2 max treadmill test to failure sees it’s just math and time

The amount you can move that with a training volume of easy slow miles is surprising once you learn to embrace that not macho approach

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 3d

Nope.

(I once worked for Cronkite’s prodco with several CBS vets. Saying that nope with pride)

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Christian Sporleder @casporleder.bsky.social · 3d

Honest to god I just breathed a sigh of relief over 37 open tabs of important reads dying in a browser crash.

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