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Gavin Werbeloff

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Travel expert, photographer, real estate fund principal, reformed lawyer, and repository of useless information. USC, @emorylaw.bsky.social and Emory Goizueta alum. Also resident numbers guy for the @flightradar24.com AvTalk Podcast gavin.werbeloff.com

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Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · Oct 18

Transplanting a thread I started over on the other site.

1/ Gender Reveals are one of the dumbest things to be spawned by social media. Now they’ve gone from being merely dumb, to being dumb, dangerous, destructive and deadly. This is the definitive list of Gender Reveals gone wrong.

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Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 39m

The new OneDrive icon looks like a blue croissant.

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 1d

I think the last 15 years of Israeli government policy were a very stark departure from the status quo ante. If you are describing the post 2009 Netanyahu era, I think our views probably overlap more than less.

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 1d

In an alternative hypo, where it was Erwin Chemerinsky holding a very similar event, the administration responded identically and Ms. Sassoon wrote the same op-ed , I do wonder how many people would have the same reaction.

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 1d

So absent the US’s protection, you Israel would be BDS’d until the country imploded? Why does the US protect Israel?

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Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 1d

Just to be clear, do you believe that the existence of the State of Israel is a crime against humanity?

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 1d

The country has been in a state of shock for 2 years. Now the mourning and recriminations begin.

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 2d

Do you believe Israel has ever been in a tenable international position absent US backing?

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Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 2d

Both sides accepted things they didn’t like. There is no way Israel would have accepted any deal that didn’t include the hostages. Calling it a “rogue client state” treats them as disposable. Hamas has agency too, which you completely disregard. bsky.app/profile/wsj....

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2d

The campaign that forced Hamas to accept a deal it didn’t want was the result of weeks of effort by the Trump team to bring Middle East powers including Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey together for a coordinated push.

A Coordinated Squeeze Play Forced Hamas to Accept a Deal It Didn’t Want

Under pressure from its overseas hosts and increasingly reviled at home, the militant group had little choice but to relent.

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Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 2d

“I guarantee it”

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 2d

He was also Thomas Jefferson in “John Adams”

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 3d

How did I not know this about you? I was in Tennessee.

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 3d

I have questions…

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 3d

Do you know how many other countries were involved in the blockade? It involved most of the Arab league. The Saudis were bombing the Houthis in Yemen simultaneously.

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 3d

The Qatar Crisis had little to do with the US. It was about Qatar’s persistent hosting & support of various destabilizing regional groups (Houthis, ISIS) and its neighbors had finally had enough. I doubt Jared could goad the Saudis and Emiratis into a 4yr blockage that required Qatar to import 🐄🐄🐄

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Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 3d

This holds up. 🤣 bsky.app/profile/trav...

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · May 20

@petchmo.bsky.social this is the view of the inaugural Global Airways flight from Stockholm. Also there were 57,274 people tracking it on @flightradar24.com
@byerussell.com: this is how I used public transport to get to the Global Airlines inaugural. Also, I rode my bike home afterwards.

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Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 4d

This might be an odd analogy, but hear me out:

Algo trading is most profitable when market volatility is high.

Similarly media is most profitable when societal volatility is high. NYT is shaping its reporting to keep societal volatility high. This is an example of that.

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Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 4d

That tracks with the other people I knew.

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 4d

Marching bands would make a great sociological case study.

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Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 4d

Most of the South African Jewish community is Lithuanian. 7/8 of my great grandparents were born in Lithuania, but left for South Africa in the 1890’s and early 1900’s. I’ve also met people whose relatives only came to Lithuania post WWII. I’m curious if your family has been there the entire time.

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Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 4d

That’s exactly what I was thinking

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 4d

Seriously. Not the longest flight in the world, but that just seems brutal.

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Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 4d

This country is really just one giant reality television show. That also happens to be the world’s largest economy.

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 5d

I’m guessing F/A-XX.

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 6d

I was thinking they’d do EWR-MAN, as it’s the closest int’l airport to Wrexham.

Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social · 6d

At least they have the transfer portal.