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The Plumber's Grandkid
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I'm here to do two things: read lawsky posts and like Blacksky posts. No need to follow me back.
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I'm sort of a lurker. If I follow you and I don't know you, I'd almost prefer it if you don't follow back. I'm doing fine over here on my own ✌️
Wtf is this framing? "Economic moderates" as the counter to "socialist"? So we're just assuming that capitalism is economics itself? Is socialism only an economic issue? Klein et al blow so much hot air, you can call em HVAC. No serious ideas, just concepts of thoughts. Yarvin w/o the sociopathy.
Democrats are already jockeying for the 2026 midterms, with each state pitting potential candidates against each other on what has hardened into the central axis of the party: the socialist left vs. the economic moderates, the radicals against the squares.
Socialism or Abundance?
Two visions fight for the Democratic Party’s soul as it searches for purpose, direction, and a modicum of popularity.
nymag.com
Literally just woke up, 3 hours later than normal, with a lot of upside down world behind me and a big day of new-chapter stuff in front of me, so this one is spot on!
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Dems: We’ll vote for a budget if you let sick people go to the doctor.

Republicans: Let us take doctors away from sick people or we’re gonna take food away from poor families.

#shutdown2025
I miss Los Angeles so much rn 😭
"Temu Versailles" is kinda funny.
While Donald Trump builds his knock-off Versailles on White House grounds, his government shutdown is depriving millions of Californians of federal food assistance.

Trump and his lapdog Congress just don't care, period.
We really are eventually going to have to put warning labels on social platforms like we do cigarettes and alcohol.
🩺 Sur les réseaux sociaux, la mauvaise régulation de l’hormone du stress, le cortisol, est accusée de tous les maux par des influenceurs qui en profitent pour vendre des tests, programmes et compléments alimentaires.

❌ Pour Libé, l’épidémiologiste Thibault Fiolet débunke cette dérive commerciale :
Fatigue, perte de poids, libido : «Il n’y a pas de raisons à vouloir rééquilibrer ou soutenir son cortisol»
Sur les réseaux sociaux, la mauvaise régulation de l’hormone du stress est accusée de tous les maux. Des influenceurs en profitent pour vendre compléments alimentaires. Pour «Libé», l’épidémiologiste Thibault Fiolet débunke cette dérive.
www.liberation.fr
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The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
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Solzhenitsyn could not have dreamed up an airport more stupid, cruel, painful, and reflective of its moment than the Dallas Fort Worth airport. It's a living monument to incompetence.
The view from below in the Terminal A chapel of DFW, where I'll be sleeping tonight bc Republicans want to protect oligarchs and Democrats are too dumb to fight.
Dallas–Fort Worth is the most miserable airport in America. Truly terrible.
I'm sitting on the tarmac at DFW bc Mike Johnson is a complicit coward. Open the government, Mike!!!
Mike Johnson has dissolved Congress. Why?
Literally the most miserable experience traveling I've ever had, and I've ended up on a guardrail on the interstate once in my life. It's broken me: I'll never fly again.
I've been stuck on the tarmac at Dallas–Fort Worth airport for 2 hours and counting. Missed a flight bc of "weather" (read: govt shutdown). No ground crew at the gate to bring us in. A flight that should have been 4hrs is now nearly 10. At a loss to imagine that this is the US now. But here we are.
Had this super-quick trip to LA already planned and purchased, then the World Series coincided with it, and although Game 1 was in Toronto, I got wished happy birthday by my section at Cosm. LA really is the best city in the world.
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Thanks John Roberts!
Q: On the pardon of Changpeng Zhao, Binance has significant business interests with World Liberty Financial, the president family's crypto company. How do you respond to criticisms that this is a corrupt act?

LEAVITT: I would respond and say the president is exercising his constitutional authority
Incredible.
We’ve updated our story with an additional comment provided by the United States Justice Department.
I'm going to go back to Mass if His Holiness keeps this up...
Pope Leo at General Audience: “Intrusive and widespread, sadness accompanies the days of many people. It is a feeling of precariousness, at times profound desperation, which invades one’s inner space and seems to prevail over any impetus to joy.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
I regret that someone thought that my thanking you for the perfectly brief explanation you provided was a request for further definition! I was disappointed with the word, not with you! Ah, well.
I have seen zero about this except for a vaguepost about "oh wow Merkley" is doing things. So here's what's been going on for hours and hours now. Insane that there hasn't been more in the news about it. I'm watching it live on YouTube even now!
Ask any 3rd-grade teacher: you can't just put Mark Lamont Hill and QueenzFlip in the same group and expect to get two MLHs by the time the homework is due. More likely, you convince (1) Flip that he shouldn't bother trying and (2) MLH that helping ain't worth the struggle that got them both a C-.
Wait wait wait... Signal puts data on AWS servers? Which data? Hm.
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.