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josie @vjsksksksk.bsky.social · 11h

usually I am a decorate for Christmas after Thanksgiving kinda gal but fuck it, might start early this year

josie @vjsksksksk.bsky.social · 12h

forced to take a month off and have I established any new healthy routines for myself? no. of course not.

josie @vjsksksksk.bsky.social · 1d

worried I’m going to enjoy this quaint little job far more than the Job job 🌿

four mini floral arrangements for a business meeting at a local hotel where I spent my honeymoon staycation. each features chrysanthemums, asters, carnations, and some greenery. palette is magenta, white, purple, with pops of orange.

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josie @vjsksksksk.bsky.social · 3d

instacart order: peeled lychee and a 32-pack of toilet paper

josie @vjsksksksk.bsky.social · 3d

this meme format but:

I hate DC halloween because what do you mean I dressed up as the Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference in the 2016 Election in 2019 for an OrangeTheory Fitness class

a person who may or may not be me, wearing a piece of cardboard around their neck that reads “Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference” and an excerpt from the report submitted by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III pursuant to 28 CFR 600.8(c), printed on 8x11 sheet of paper with redactions

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josie @vjsksksksk.bsky.social · 3d

MICA student passing ✅

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josie @vjsksksksk.bsky.social · 6d

*twirls hair*

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josie @vjsksksksk.bsky.social · 6d

“there’s a girl with a peach somewhere”

josie @vjsksksksk.bsky.social · 6d

put on a WWII documentary for the history and the interviews, but I keep getting mad at the loud noises and explosions

not sure what I was expecting, in hindsight

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yoko ainur @yngmelkor.bsky.social · 6d

socially Larry David, fiscally Bernie

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josie @vjsksksksk.bsky.social · 7d

@yngmelkor.bsky.social hey nice posts you got here

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josie @vjsksksksk.bsky.social · 7d

*****consolidate, actually

yoko ainur @yngmelkor.bsky.social · 10d

guys, it's okay, he just wants to know how he, as a "liberal," can reconcile being pro-immigrant with the fact that he's personally islamophobic. Glad we cleared that up!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7d

abortion, famously unrelated to the economy

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7d

what the hell are you talking about man, biden's entire presidency was about the middle class. it was the entire political theory behind deliverism and the economy

Democrats have changed our focus1.4
In comparison with the Democratic Party of 2012, today's Democratic Party is more focused on issues like climate change, democracy, abortion, and identity and cultural concerns and less focused on the economy and the middle class. The table below shows this shift, through an analysis of the prevalence of select words in the 2024 Democratic Party platform, in comparison with the 2012 Democratic Party platform.5

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 7d

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8