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Pareto

@pareto80twenty.bsky.social

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Atheist. Vegan. Altruist. Work as a computer programmer. Student of stoicism and risk parity. Cat parent. Maintain a solitary bee house to support native pollinators. Amateur vegetable gardener. Currently reading The Soul of Wealth by Daniel Crosby.

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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 4h

Squirrel!

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 4h

I see what you did there 😉

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 5h

and slowly rotting from the inside out.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 5h

Wink wink, nudge nudge, John Roberts.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 1d

The weekly US influenza surveillance report is now lagging behind by 6 weeks. The last data update was for the week of September 20th. This used to be a vital tool to alert on how widely flu was circulating during peak season. Looks like we will be flying blind this year.
www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

Weekly US Influenza Surveillance Report: Key Updates for Week 38, ending September 20, 2025

Seasonal influenza activity is low.

www.cdc.gov

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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 15h

Reminds me of when Putin built up troops and equipment along Ukraine’s border while insisting he wasn’t going to invade… right before a false flag operation he used as the excuse to invade. Trump never had an original idea in his life. He just copies other supposed strongmen.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 16h

Great article by The Atlantic. Though the overall economy will be worse off, “the benefits [of Trump’s deportation drive] would accrue to one politically important group: working-class, native-born men.”

America’s Impending Population Collapse

This year, for the first time in nearly a century, more foreign-born people will likely leave the United States than will enter.

www.yahoo.com

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 1d

They all paid an A student to read it for them.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 1d

Venezuela won’t take the bait despite Trump’s military continuing to murder its citizens in international waters so now he’s threatening war with Nigeria. He’s so desperate to be at war with SOMEONE, ANYONE as an excuse to claim he must remain president beyond a second term. So pathetic.

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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 1d

While I agree taxpayer dollars should be used for the common good, regular Americans calling for an end to taxes plays right into the plutocracy’s hands. Abolishing income taxes benefits the 1% far, far more than it benefits the 99%.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 1d

I literally LOLed. 🤣

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 1d

We’re sliding quickly toward the Pol Pot stage of Trumpism.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 1d

More generally, it’s fever during pregnancy that increases risk for the fetus. Vaccines save lives.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 1d

To recap, the American taxpayer, currently struggling to buy food, healthcare and even Halloween candy, just paid an unknown but likely exorbitant sum to renovate a perfectly functional bathroom the American taxpayer will never use. #wastefraudabuse

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 2d

One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.

I never made it out of the House.

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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 1d

“A very small portion of people are sensitive to MSG and might want to avoid it.”
@npr.org you might have put this statement WITH the earlier paragraph where you blithely dismiss claims of feeling ill after eating MSG as just anti-Asian racism and xenophobia.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 2d

So the US is net worse off because with advanced chips, China will have what it needs to outcompete the US. Republicans are dangerously incompetent.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 2d

Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO) responds to a question about what Dems will do to fix Republicans’ mess. 🙌 I will add that the power to fix this situation lies with VOTERS in 2026 and beyond. ✊

KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 2d

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome to the party. LA, Chicago and other blue cities are not hellscapes overrun by violent mobs. Those were fishermen Trump’s military murdered. Other countries do not pay tariffs. Trump lost the 2020 election. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not MS-13. All they do is tell baldfaced lies.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll be honest, I’ve stopped reading statements made by known chronic compulsive liars who lie more easily than they breathe. Basically everyone serving in, supporting or donating to the Trump criminal regime. My brain registers only, “Mike Johnson: LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE“.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 3d

I’d like to know how the 200 million face images were collected and how many of them violate the terms and conditions Americans agreed to when they submitted to those scans.

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Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 3d

I fear you’re right. There is no low they won’t sink to. They’re too deep into the cult mentality.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is weakening America and doing tangible harm to Americans while spending billions of taxpayer dollars to prop up foreign dictators and fund his brutal secret police force.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 3d

Faculty and staff at MIT won’t receive merit increases in 2026 due to Trump’s cuts to research funding and his increase in taxation of endowments. More budget tightening measures are to come.

Pareto @pareto80twenty.bsky.social · 4d

How far will congressional Republicans let this madness go? How many people have to die before they wake the fuck up?

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