Mike Smith
@msmith1047.bsky.social
5th Grade Teacher. Former Soldier (Boom Boom). Runner. Pennsylvanian in Georgia. Arsenal fan.
“It’s part of my job to make sure that you don’t grow up stupid. It’s bad for the world.”
-Tami Taylor
“It’s part of my job to make sure that you don’t grow up stupid. It’s bad for the world.”
-Tami Taylor
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🦺 I have a theory our first Super Bowl was won when we had the number one seed. Our second Super Bowl was won when we had the two seed Now just maybe having the third seed we can repeat 🦺 #flyeaglesfly #Eagles #eaglessky
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
🦺 I have a theory our first Super Bowl was won when we had the number one seed. Our second Super Bowl was won when we had the two seed Now just maybe having the third seed we can repeat 🦺 #flyeaglesfly #Eagles #eaglessky
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In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
December 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
Funny what the invisible hand of the market can and can’t be trusted to control.
Trump: If we build more housing, the price of homes will go down, and homeowners will lose their wealth.
December 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Funny what the invisible hand of the market can and can’t be trusted to control.
I think this means it’s inevitable that Malala will show up on BlueSky, the Go Birds website.
Go Birds.
Go Birds.
In a brief post shared with her 3.7 million Instagram followers, Malala Yousafzai looked back fondly on her travels to Egypt, Greece, Tanzania, and Ireland. She also wore an Eagles T-shirt in one of her photos. Go Birds.
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/eagles-...
🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/eagles-...
December 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I think this means it’s inevitable that Malala will show up on BlueSky, the Go Birds website.
Go Birds.
Go Birds.
Ok, but I also have zero experience in journalism and this seems like something common sense and basic logic should help a person figure out in under five minutes.
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ok, but I also have zero experience in journalism and this seems like something common sense and basic logic should help a person figure out in under five minutes.
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Found out I lost another former student to suicide.
You don’t have to be alone.
Help is available
Speak with someone today
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Languages: English, Spanish
Hours: 24/7
You don’t have to be alone.
Help is available
Speak with someone today
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Languages: English, Spanish
Hours: 24/7
December 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Found out I lost another former student to suicide.
You don’t have to be alone.
Help is available
Speak with someone today
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Languages: English, Spanish
Hours: 24/7
You don’t have to be alone.
Help is available
Speak with someone today
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Languages: English, Spanish
Hours: 24/7
This is just the meltdown in the Charlie Kirk vacuum. Imagine how insane the right is going to get over the Trump vacuum.
MAGA speakers torched each other as pompous, cancerous cowards at this weekend's 30,000-person Turning Point USA AmericaFest, accelerating the right's media meltdownover Israel, hate speech and more.
MAGA media mess deepens at Turning Point convention
MAGA speakers torched each other as pompous, cancerous cowards at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest, accelerating the right's media meltdown.
www.axios.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is just the meltdown in the Charlie Kirk vacuum. Imagine how insane the right is going to get over the Trump vacuum.
Just realized there’s already a Charlie-Kirk-Lied, if not several.
Nothing to see here, just a right wing hyper-nationalist government going to their party’s youth event sponsored by a group with a martyred leader they’ve pledged to avenge, recruiting people to join their masked police force devoted to removing auslanders from ze homeland.
December 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Just realized there’s already a Charlie-Kirk-Lied, if not several.
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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Shot in the dark, does anyone have a link to any articles that:
1. Breakdown the actual expenditures of a primary care visit? Like X% to the Dr, Y% for insurance, etc?
2. Provide information on upward price pressure on employer-provided health insurance plans with the ACA/Medicaid cuts?
1. Breakdown the actual expenditures of a primary care visit? Like X% to the Dr, Y% for insurance, etc?
2. Provide information on upward price pressure on employer-provided health insurance plans with the ACA/Medicaid cuts?
December 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Shot in the dark, does anyone have a link to any articles that:
1. Breakdown the actual expenditures of a primary care visit? Like X% to the Dr, Y% for insurance, etc?
2. Provide information on upward price pressure on employer-provided health insurance plans with the ACA/Medicaid cuts?
1. Breakdown the actual expenditures of a primary care visit? Like X% to the Dr, Y% for insurance, etc?
2. Provide information on upward price pressure on employer-provided health insurance plans with the ACA/Medicaid cuts?
This sounds like speculation from JP more than an actual claim (his “guarantee” notwithstanding.) That said, where would he go? Ferrari? Red Bull? Williams? #f1
Whispers Beyond Woking — Piastri’s Future Questioned
1 - Juan Pablo Montoya suggests Oscar Piastri’s 2025 season has stirred discussions outside McLaren. He claims Piastri and his manager Mark Webber felt unsettled by the season's events, hinting that discussions with other teams might have started
1 - Juan Pablo Montoya suggests Oscar Piastri’s 2025 season has stirred discussions outside McLaren. He claims Piastri and his manager Mark Webber felt unsettled by the season's events, hinting that discussions with other teams might have started
December 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This sounds like speculation from JP more than an actual claim (his “guarantee” notwithstanding.) That said, where would he go? Ferrari? Red Bull? Williams? #f1
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
The Donald J. Trump The Ohio State University
December 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The Donald J. Trump The Ohio State University
Russia still has people alive who know how to do airborne operations?
NEW: Russia is helping the PLA improve its airborne capabilities, which the PLA could use to establish and defend an airhead in an invasion of Taiwan.
Read the full December 19, 2025, China & Taiwan Update: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...
Read the full December 19, 2025, China & Taiwan Update: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...
December 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Russia still has people alive who know how to do airborne operations?
If this is a BAH supplement, wouldn’t it only go to people who get BAH? Meaning nothing for the barracks crew? Also, how does this work for folks who give all their BAH to on-post housing?
CNN reporting on the mechanics of Trump $1776 check. Maybe this gimmick will proceed. www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/p...
December 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
If this is a BAH supplement, wouldn’t it only go to people who get BAH? Meaning nothing for the barracks crew? Also, how does this work for folks who give all their BAH to on-post housing?
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For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
December 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
For anyone worried AI will replace all of us.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986”
I dare you to find 10 things that are right.
<Whispers> all the GCCs are international. Did they mean intercontinental?
International Command, American Command, and Indo-Pacific Command as the geographic COCOMs is so cursed
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
<Whispers> all the GCCs are international. Did they mean intercontinental?
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Old Man vs the SEA
December 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Old Man vs the SEA
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Oh is that how it works? She insists and you have to print it? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
December 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Oh is that how it works? She insists and you have to print it? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
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I think we obviously need a revolutionary period prequel here.
December 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I think we obviously need a revolutionary period prequel here.
This thread is basically, “Are you guys ok with not getting a top shelf martini every time you get a vaccine without crying?”
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This thread is basically, “Are you guys ok with not getting a top shelf martini every time you get a vaccine without crying?”
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you ever think about how buck wild it must have been to be the first European colonizer to see a hummingbird?
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
December 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
you ever think about how buck wild it must have been to be the first European colonizer to see a hummingbird?
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
IN DEPTH | If you could taxidermy your dead grandmother and keep her body in your living room, would you?
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
IN DEPTH | If you could taxidermy your dead grandmother and keep her body in your living room, would you?