Nick McClintock
@nicksmcc.bsky.social
Celts fan in Philly, new here, mostly lurking.
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Nick McClintock
@nicksmcc.bsky.social
· Nov 16
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by posting, starving hysterical narrative.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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I feel like the two dimensional political compass for local elected democrats are:
1. Mod or Prog
2. Interested in solving any local problems whatsoever vs deferring to local gatekeeper assholes.
1. Mod or Prog
2. Interested in solving any local problems whatsoever vs deferring to local gatekeeper assholes.
It’s incredibly funny people flipped out about a guy running the most standard ass municipal government policy playbook imaginable.
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I feel like the two dimensional political compass for local elected democrats are:
1. Mod or Prog
2. Interested in solving any local problems whatsoever vs deferring to local gatekeeper assholes.
1. Mod or Prog
2. Interested in solving any local problems whatsoever vs deferring to local gatekeeper assholes.
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This whole thread is so grim.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This whole thread is so grim.
Some say the day of darth’s hibernation for the winter months is a sad day.
I prefer to look at the day with hope, because of the joy he will bring us all when he appears with the first green shoots of the spring.
I prefer to look at the day with hope, because of the joy he will bring us all when he appears with the first green shoots of the spring.
ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Some say the day of darth’s hibernation for the winter months is a sad day.
I prefer to look at the day with hope, because of the joy he will bring us all when he appears with the first green shoots of the spring.
I prefer to look at the day with hope, because of the joy he will bring us all when he appears with the first green shoots of the spring.
lol Manuel Neuer doing Manuel Neuer things.
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
lol Manuel Neuer doing Manuel Neuer things.
Feels like FT is now just openly trolling OpenAI
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Feels like FT is now just openly trolling OpenAI
Zohran Mamdani come on the Arsecast
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Zohran Mamdani come on the Arsecast
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I drew North London
November 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I drew North London
Did not have a Merino lock-picker on my Bingo card.
November 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Did not have a Merino lock-picker on my Bingo card.
Always been a magpie fan. Great birds.
November 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Always been a magpie fan. Great birds.
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The Scooby Doo Theory of Housing states that we can arrest housing price inflation if we only some clever kids are able to unmask the evil villain responsible for making rent go up.
I think this is mostly San Francisco finally shrugging off the pandemic, but it is *really* funny that rent prices in San Francisco shot up *immediately* after the city banned RealPage and other algorithmic price setting software.
My pre trends are incredible!
My pre trends are incredible!
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Scooby Doo Theory of Housing states that we can arrest housing price inflation if we only some clever kids are able to unmask the evil villain responsible for making rent go up.
Truly magical thinking
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Truly magical thinking
Nothing against these rest of places but Royal Sushi and Izakaya being on this list feels like Michelin dishing out punishment for not being able to get a reservation.
Philly got a bunch of Bib Gourmand winners:
Pizzeria Beddia
Royal Sushi & Izakaya
Sally
Sumiao Hunan Kitchen
Dizengoff
El Chingon
Angelo's
Fiorella
4th Street Deli
Dallessandro's
Del Rossi's
Pizzeria Beddia
Royal Sushi & Izakaya
Sally
Sumiao Hunan Kitchen
Dizengoff
El Chingon
Angelo's
Fiorella
4th Street Deli
Dallessandro's
Del Rossi's
November 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Nothing against these rest of places but Royal Sushi and Izakaya being on this list feels like Michelin dishing out punishment for not being able to get a reservation.
Is this good
Well.
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn - on.ft.com/4p8LViA via @FT
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn - on.ft.com/4p8LViA via @FT
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn
And suddenly, there may be a reverse Midas at the centre of AI’s circular economy
on.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Is this good
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Any city leader serious about making their city welcoming and affordable for immigrants, young adults, young families, and others should have a plan for doubling their population in the next 20 years.
Otherwise any talk about affordability, sanctuary cities, etc is meaningless.
Otherwise any talk about affordability, sanctuary cities, etc is meaningless.
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Any city leader serious about making their city welcoming and affordable for immigrants, young adults, young families, and others should have a plan for doubling their population in the next 20 years.
Otherwise any talk about affordability, sanctuary cities, etc is meaningless.
Otherwise any talk about affordability, sanctuary cities, etc is meaningless.
Starting to feel like recreating the Nuremberg trials won’t even be enough punishment for these scumbags.
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Starting to feel like recreating the Nuremberg trials won’t even be enough punishment for these scumbags.
Entertainment! is the best dishwashing album fight me.
November 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Entertainment! is the best dishwashing album fight me.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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i spoke to LOADS of people about this very recently, and the only people using it regularly were the dipshits in charge
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
i spoke to LOADS of people about this very recently, and the only people using it regularly were the dipshits in charge
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I keep beating this drum: the kind of people one thinks of as Silicon Valley "techbro" are so often finance people with an engineering cosplay habit, not actual technologists
Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect
Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect
the worst part is that for the people at the top "good at math"/sciencey is essentially a vibe one socially codes their way into by being minimally competent at informally discussing things actual math/science people do, unless (e.g.) Elon Musk has proven a theorem I didn't hear about.
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I keep beating this drum: the kind of people one thinks of as Silicon Valley "techbro" are so often finance people with an engineering cosplay habit, not actual technologists
Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect
Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect
Watching Task and Robbie thinking that his tweener daughter is going to want to practice dancing with him to More Than This is such pure uncut dad fantasy that it deserves to be a class A narcotic.
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Watching Task and Robbie thinking that his tweener daughter is going to want to practice dancing with him to More Than This is such pure uncut dad fantasy that it deserves to be a class A narcotic.
Is this good
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Is this good
Find someone who loves you as much as Joyce Carol Oates hates Elon.
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Find someone who loves you as much as Joyce Carol Oates hates Elon.
I’d even say that the same strain of thinking that has limited the reach of social welfare policies in the States - that these programs will get exploited by undeserving brown and black people - is a widely held belief in the parts of Western Europe where those policies are strongest.
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I’d even say that the same strain of thinking that has limited the reach of social welfare policies in the States - that these programs will get exploited by undeserving brown and black people - is a widely held belief in the parts of Western Europe where those policies are strongest.