Triplebassist
@triplebassist.bsky.social
Masshole in Training
As always, "just win lol" is undefeated
And also don't lose to Louisville and SMU then
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
As always, "just win lol" is undefeated
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Flint's water crisis followed a budget crisis which put Flint under the rule of a state level emergency manager. They needed cheaper water and chose to get it from a more local water source. That water authority subsequently failed to properly treat the water, leaving the water corrosive.
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Flint's water crisis followed a budget crisis which put Flint under the rule of a state level emergency manager. They needed cheaper water and chose to get it from a more local water source. That water authority subsequently failed to properly treat the water, leaving the water corrosive.
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It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
At least ACC basketball is back. Doesn't bring in the money like football but the ACC being a football conference is as offensive as that period in the mid 2000s where Louisville, Rutgers, and Cincinnati briefly turned the Big East into one.
Never chance, ACC
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
At least ACC basketball is back. Doesn't bring in the money like football but the ACC being a football conference is as offensive as that period in the mid 2000s where Louisville, Rutgers, and Cincinnati briefly turned the Big East into one.
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DC journalism is an enterprise focused first and foremost on the inner workings of DC journalism. This has been a worsening problem for years, but the fact of Donald Trump (among other things) accelerated it considerably.
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
DC journalism is an enterprise focused first and foremost on the inner workings of DC journalism. This has been a worsening problem for years, but the fact of Donald Trump (among other things) accelerated it considerably.
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i actually believe this very strongly, not in a shitpost way. i manage my band IG account, and it looks very different from my account here on bluesky for many reasons, one of which is that it destroys your credibility to speak singularly on an org account and also because it's not fair to the org
Which is once again why you can never allow people to use the Work account as a personal account. It destroyed journalism, it's currently flensing the credibility of the US government, and it will destroy your think tank/politics group just as, if not more quickly.
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
i actually believe this very strongly, not in a shitpost way. i manage my band IG account, and it looks very different from my account here on bluesky for many reasons, one of which is that it destroys your credibility to speak singularly on an org account and also because it's not fair to the org
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It's hard to describe how disorienting it is to see this many students absent. My only mental reference point is the weeks leading up to school getting canceled due to COVID-19, when students were starting to stay home due to illness or out of precaution. CBP/ICE is a plague.
November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It's hard to describe how disorienting it is to see this many students absent. My only mental reference point is the weeks leading up to school getting canceled due to COVID-19, when students were starting to stay home due to illness or out of precaution. CBP/ICE is a plague.
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Dual class shares should be illegal
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Dual class shares should be illegal
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She committed one of the most textbook violations of journalistic ethics with zero ambiguity and so ‘endured’ a one year hiatus between incredibly prestigious jobs. I feel like at the *very least* the media could refrain from then giving her deeply sympathetic profiles chronicling her ‘suffering’
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
She committed one of the most textbook violations of journalistic ethics with zero ambiguity and so ‘endured’ a one year hiatus between incredibly prestigious jobs. I feel like at the *very least* the media could refrain from then giving her deeply sympathetic profiles chronicling her ‘suffering’
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I don’t know at this point if there is enough evident to say “the New York Times, institutionally, was a co-conspirator with Epstein” but it’s basically beyond doubt at this point that at least one employee of the paper were co-conspirators and used their position at the paper to help affect that
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I don’t know at this point if there is enough evident to say “the New York Times, institutionally, was a co-conspirator with Epstein” but it’s basically beyond doubt at this point that at least one employee of the paper were co-conspirators and used their position at the paper to help affect that
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Against my own instincts I am turning into a pretty unashamed credentialist. We've become so enamored of the Hollywood narrative where the scrappy outsider proves all the established experts wrong that we lose sight of how rare it is in reality, and how HUGELY damaging it is to treat as probable.
I'm kinda not a fan of credentialism
"Non-scientists" can have insight
And actual scientists can be grifters
So the substance is what matters
But how can you judge substance unless you're an expert lol
But also people just cherry pick their fave experts all the time too
No good solution really
"Non-scientists" can have insight
And actual scientists can be grifters
So the substance is what matters
But how can you judge substance unless you're an expert lol
But also people just cherry pick their fave experts all the time too
No good solution really
If you are also a scientist, sure. If you aren't, like these guys, you should probably shut the fuck up and let the people whose opinions matter talk.
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Against my own instincts I am turning into a pretty unashamed credentialist. We've become so enamored of the Hollywood narrative where the scrappy outsider proves all the established experts wrong that we lose sight of how rare it is in reality, and how HUGELY damaging it is to treat as probable.
God DAMMIT you have no idea how little I want to have to hand it to my representative. But you've gotta hand it to him here.
Seth Moulton went on MSNBC and straight up said "the president is a pedophile" and refused to walk it back even after the hosts kept trying to equivocate.
House Dems don't give a *fuuuck.*
House Dems don't give a *fuuuck.*
November 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
God DAMMIT you have no idea how little I want to have to hand it to my representative. But you've gotta hand it to him here.
Idk I'm glad my old coworkers, the most dedicated and public minded people I know, will be able to buy food. And I'm extra glad that the worries they had about that don't appear to have been for nothing.
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Idk I'm glad my old coworkers, the most dedicated and public minded people I know, will be able to buy food. And I'm extra glad that the worries they had about that don't appear to have been for nothing.
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This interview correctly focuses on too many cars being the cause of congestion, and there is plenty of discussion about expanding and improving public transit. Yet nowhere in these 7 minutes are bikes ever discussed as a transit option.
Is Boston traffic getting worse?
YouTube video by CBS Boston
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This interview correctly focuses on too many cars being the cause of congestion, and there is plenty of discussion about expanding and improving public transit. Yet nowhere in these 7 minutes are bikes ever discussed as a transit option.
Not only is the gap wider than people think, but when averages are up over 50% for one candidate, that candidate is probably gonna win.
This is the NJ average btw. you wouldn't think it is this from the discourse on here.
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Not only is the gap wider than people think, but when averages are up over 50% for one candidate, that candidate is probably gonna win.
@sickoscommittee.org what the hell happened. I get off the plane and Idaho is walking away with it, I get to the hotel and they're losing
November 1, 2025 at 5:47 AM
@sickoscommittee.org what the hell happened. I get off the plane and Idaho is walking away with it, I get to the hotel and they're losing
Said this before but my old BU would probably have been in open revolt if NTEU leadership did this.
yeah I don’t think this is how AFGE should be operating www.politico.com/news/magazin...
October 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Said this before but my old BU would probably have been in open revolt if NTEU leadership did this.
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This is another excellent piece from @ebwhamilton.bsky.social. I don't think I would've predicted how much we are overbuilding large bedroom housing to smaller housing even as household size shift and everyone complains "we don't need more luxury studios." It does in fact look like we need more.
October 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is another excellent piece from @ebwhamilton.bsky.social. I don't think I would've predicted how much we are overbuilding large bedroom housing to smaller housing even as household size shift and everyone complains "we don't need more luxury studios." It does in fact look like we need more.
I do want to watch football, but I don't know if I can stomach the football that's on offer.
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I do want to watch football, but I don't know if I can stomach the football that's on offer.
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The many monarchs of Europe, the slaver's Confederacy, the Kaiser, the Nazis, the Italian fascists, Imperial Japan and many more all assumed that because liberals value peace and human life, that they were weak and feckless and easily beaten.
Go look for them now.
Go look for them now.
I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.
October 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The many monarchs of Europe, the slaver's Confederacy, the Kaiser, the Nazis, the Italian fascists, Imperial Japan and many more all assumed that because liberals value peace and human life, that they were weak and feckless and easily beaten.
Go look for them now.
Go look for them now.
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Everyone who makes money on housing understands that strict zoning and politicized permitting is good for landlords and bad for tenants.
New housing stops landlords from raising rents—take it from the CEO of AvalonBay, one of NYC's largest landlords:
"We're well-positioned… we face significantly less new supply. Land entitled for multifamily is hard to come by, the amount of time it takes to get those entitlements… sets us up well.”
"We're well-positioned… we face significantly less new supply. Land entitled for multifamily is hard to come by, the amount of time it takes to get those entitlements… sets us up well.”
October 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Everyone who makes money on housing understands that strict zoning and politicized permitting is good for landlords and bad for tenants.
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Federal employee ethics training is like “you are technically allowed to get a birthday card for your co-worker but why risk it?”
Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives.
All on the taxpayer’s dime.
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All on the taxpayer’s dime.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Federal employee ethics training is like “you are technically allowed to get a birthday card for your co-worker but why risk it?”
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baseball posting is unambiguously good for Bluesky. not my thing but we desperately need some lighter topics round these parts
October 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
baseball posting is unambiguously good for Bluesky. not my thing but we desperately need some lighter topics round these parts