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David Brooks

@grandpadavid.bsky.social

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Microsoft alum, UK/US citizen, municipal volunteer. Lt-Col (retd), Antifa Freedonia regiment. Proud husband of @jeanniebrooks.bsky.social and dad of @johnbrooks.bsky.social. "Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping?"

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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · May 4

Prayer card reading: May they be Happy/May they be healthy/May they be safe/May they live in peace.

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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1h

I took front seat in a second-hand Czech Delfin over the English Channel once. Exhilarating but I was veeeeery careful. It lands at 160 kt IIRC, and on the way back up the M20 I looked at the speedo and I was doing 105. In a Ford Focus.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1h

Evidence this didn't happen is there is no vomit leaking out around his mask.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 2h

Or modify the interior so that WH staff finally have enough office space, fitting for their positions.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 6h

3, with 1 in second place.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 7h

I'm in Leicestershire rn (the city itself is majority minority). Haven't seen a single hijab and have consumed plenty of alcohol.

OTOH a church near us in Massachusetts has been converted to a mosque, the horror.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 12h

How did the fist draft of your skeet go

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d

It's the <can't remember its name> syndrome. The more you know, the more you know you don't know. Then you talk to someone who doesn't know at all, worry you might be asked a question you're a little insecure on, and end up telling them more than they wanted.

Does that help?

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d

Since it's his, will he take it with him when he leaves office? Alternatively, who gets it in his will?

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d

Daddy shot her through the head? Not very nice of him.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d

Melania T must enjoy being compared to the widow of an assassinated President who then married an ultra-wealthy Greek tycoon (the widow, not the President).

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d

The equivalent would be Melania <first initial of her next husband after Donald dies, I'm not saying how>.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d

Trumpland, Trumpland, über alles!

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I just calculated it: 69.7K.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d

What's 68.1 * 1024?

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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d

It took longer than planned to re-create the files after removing his name.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d

We've kept *all* the screenshots.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d

Even given Halligan's claim, accurately reporting what another outlet inaccurately reported is accurate reporting, no?

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d

I've lived half my life in the US in Boston and half in Seattle. The 1986 World Series Sox salute the Mariners.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 2d

Ketchup, diet Coke, and adult diapers.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 2d

Latest numbers on farmer suicides, anyone?

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 2d

This RedSox and Mariners fan (I've lived in both places) is having awful flashbacks to the 1986 World Series. To think we brought brooms to Game 3.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 2d

Live rounds over I-5 is "routine training at Camp Pendleton". Is anyone able to fact-check that?

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 2d

The big difference is they had no Soros-equivalent sending checks.

David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 2d

Gerrymanders can't directly influence a Senator vote, because it is statewide like the Governor. I've heard other explanations, but not sure which would apply.