First Class Duck
@firstclassduck.bsky.social
an opinionated and jaded traveler
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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My friends and former colleagues at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum get all the credit for this one. I don’t think they’ll mind if I share it.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
My friends and former colleagues at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum get all the credit for this one. I don’t think they’ll mind if I share it.
If you’re so inclined and happen to be on any of these platforms, please follow them on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, and YouTube.
If you’re so inclined and happen to be on any of these platforms, please follow them on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, and YouTube.
We’ve kept a few 20 in CRTs for older gaming needs. One of them actually gets used by my brother when he’s in the mood for some PS2 gaming.
Excited to hook my NES up to this. awesome curb find and still works!
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
We’ve kept a few 20 in CRTs for older gaming needs. One of them actually gets used by my brother when he’s in the mood for some PS2 gaming.
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📷 Resurrecting a shot that was one of my first Post posts. New Orleans scene for #Stunday. #Photography
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
📷 Resurrecting a shot that was one of my first Post posts. New Orleans scene for #Stunday. #Photography
BFF has noted that this has been a relatively controversial topic at work…
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MTA = EBT Card. Here’s the REAL Reason Workers Are Being Suspended.
YouTube video by Progressive Action
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November 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
BFF has noted that this has been a relatively controversial topic at work…
youtube.com/shorts/ZM4AC...
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At a little over 3000 EUR per month, I completely understand why Europeans have so much transit. They pay their transit employees at much lower wages compared to the US.
You'd never get bus operators in places like NYC or SF at those wages.
www.kvb.koeln/unternehmen/...
You'd never get bus operators in places like NYC or SF at those wages.
www.kvb.koeln/unternehmen/...
Bus- und Stadtbahnfahrer*innen gesucht! | Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG
Nimm jetzt das Steuer selbst in die Hand und steig bei uns ein!
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November 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
At a little over 3000 EUR per month, I completely understand why Europeans have so much transit. They pay their transit employees at much lower wages compared to the US.
You'd never get bus operators in places like NYC or SF at those wages.
www.kvb.koeln/unternehmen/...
You'd never get bus operators in places like NYC or SF at those wages.
www.kvb.koeln/unternehmen/...
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Why has everyone decided that they should START their political career in Congress?
When I tell people to “run for something,” I mean school board, city council, board of supervisors, town select board, water board, state house/assembly, maybe even mayor.
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When I tell people to “run for something,” I mean school board, city council, board of supervisors, town select board, water board, state house/assembly, maybe even mayor.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Why has everyone decided that they should START their political career in Congress?
When I tell people to “run for something,” I mean school board, city council, board of supervisors, town select board, water board, state house/assembly, maybe even mayor.
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When I tell people to “run for something,” I mean school board, city council, board of supervisors, town select board, water board, state house/assembly, maybe even mayor.
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Yes, to your whole concept.
To put it another way; you've gotta play a lot of crappy bars before you're ready to do a theater show, much less an arena or stadium.
In either analogy, folks pay you money because they have certain expectations.
If you're not up to their high standards, you're done
To put it another way; you've gotta play a lot of crappy bars before you're ready to do a theater show, much less an arena or stadium.
In either analogy, folks pay you money because they have certain expectations.
If you're not up to their high standards, you're done
November 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Yes, to your whole concept.
To put it another way; you've gotta play a lot of crappy bars before you're ready to do a theater show, much less an arena or stadium.
In either analogy, folks pay you money because they have certain expectations.
If you're not up to their high standards, you're done
To put it another way; you've gotta play a lot of crappy bars before you're ready to do a theater show, much less an arena or stadium.
In either analogy, folks pay you money because they have certain expectations.
If you're not up to their high standards, you're done
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We had 69. The new generation only has 67. Shrinkflation is no joke.
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
We had 69. The new generation only has 67. Shrinkflation is no joke.
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The internet allowed every village idiot to find each other online, instead of being siloed into obscurity
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The internet allowed every village idiot to find each other online, instead of being siloed into obscurity
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I knew it!
I just knew it!
I just knew it!
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I knew it!
I just knew it!
I just knew it!
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I am convinced that no delivery model eliminates the need for an informed client who knows what they want. If Metrolinx wanted to put the decisions on DB than they would have to solidify constraints and requirements and then step back and let Db basically be the informed client for them.
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I am convinced that no delivery model eliminates the need for an informed client who knows what they want. If Metrolinx wanted to put the decisions on DB than they would have to solidify constraints and requirements and then step back and let Db basically be the informed client for them.
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By learning from other countries and adopting international best practices, California High Speed Rail was able to cut its costs by $14 billion and cut 70% of tunnels.
This is a big lesson for transit projects both in NY & around the US: start by learning from other countries.
tinyurl.com/mvsmfxa2
This is a big lesson for transit projects both in NY & around the US: start by learning from other countries.
tinyurl.com/mvsmfxa2
November 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
By learning from other countries and adopting international best practices, California High Speed Rail was able to cut its costs by $14 billion and cut 70% of tunnels.
This is a big lesson for transit projects both in NY & around the US: start by learning from other countries.
tinyurl.com/mvsmfxa2
This is a big lesson for transit projects both in NY & around the US: start by learning from other countries.
tinyurl.com/mvsmfxa2
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They [Democrats] couldn't keep the government shutdown until the midterms. This was always about focusing attention on the costs of healthcare.
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The one thing I'm most sure of: if this government shutdown doesn't end well the people on Bluesky demanding it will blame Democrats for doing it wrong.
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 AM
They [Democrats] couldn't keep the government shutdown until the midterms. This was always about focusing attention on the costs of healthcare.
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Not sure about the chances Dems were ever gonna get Republicans to fold. They're pretty comfortable starving out people on SNAP and making federal workers go broke. They went to court so they could starve people!
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Not sure about the chances Dems were ever gonna get Republicans to fold. They're pretty comfortable starving out people on SNAP and making federal workers go broke. They went to court so they could starve people!
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However much you, a politically engaged person, think the average American knows about what's going on, I can promise you: it's way less than that. No matter how low your estimation. It's lower than that.
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
However much you, a politically engaged person, think the average American knows about what's going on, I can promise you: it's way less than that. No matter how low your estimation. It's lower than that.
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The immediate liberal take on the 2024 election was that swing voters are kind of dumb, and just vote based on vibes.
Reality has not disproved that yet.
www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
Reality has not disproved that yet.
www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
October 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The immediate liberal take on the 2024 election was that swing voters are kind of dumb, and just vote based on vibes.
Reality has not disproved that yet.
www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
Reality has not disproved that yet.
www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
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I've always said the Berenstain Bears were like if Ned Flanders tried to write a Simpsons episode.
October 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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We do this discourse over and over. Lot of Americans love the idea of a Scandinavian safety net but don't love the idea of paying for it. So we tell stories about how we can tax just "the rich" to get there. And that is not how math works.
No, his point is not that we shouldn't tax the rich into oblivion. We obviously should. It is that we can't only tax the rich into oblivion. We will also have to raise taxes more generally to produce a strong safety net. Taxing the rich is necessary but not sufficient.
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We do this discourse over and over. Lot of Americans love the idea of a Scandinavian safety net but don't love the idea of paying for it. So we tell stories about how we can tax just "the rich" to get there. And that is not how math works.
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Absolutely. Trump is a reflection of who we’ve become. Breaking the mirror doesn’t change anything about the person looking into it.
October 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Absolutely. Trump is a reflection of who we’ve become. Breaking the mirror doesn’t change anything about the person looking into it.
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Hey remember when he tried to kill Mike Pence during a coup attempt and we just shrugged it off and re-elected him anyway?
At this point, the voters are the problem. Until we demand better, we are getting what we deserve.
At this point, the voters are the problem. Until we demand better, we are getting what we deserve.
October 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Hey remember when he tried to kill Mike Pence during a coup attempt and we just shrugged it off and re-elected him anyway?
At this point, the voters are the problem. Until we demand better, we are getting what we deserve.
At this point, the voters are the problem. Until we demand better, we are getting what we deserve.
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I guess that's like tautologically true but someone making minimum wage at Wal Mart will not starve to death without SNAP, they will just have to start living out of their car or forego medical care or make some other horrible accomodation to poverty because of the money they now must spend on food
Classic Iron Law of Wages reasoning that you can't pay people less than they need to live, by definition. I mean not if you expect them to continue to show up for long.
October 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I guess that's like tautologically true but someone making minimum wage at Wal Mart will not starve to death without SNAP, they will just have to start living out of their car or forego medical care or make some other horrible accomodation to poverty because of the money they now must spend on food