mtblah.bsky.social
Refugee from that other site. Guilt-free Seattle liberal in search of content about outdoor sport, nerdy science, but especially sarcasm.
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Are the violent protests in the room with you, Senator? Because I sure haven’t seen any!
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He “had to”? They rolled this shit out in a hot second. They’re desire to absolutely mail it in as justification for cuts is NOT an excuse.
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This is why Democrats need to leverage this moment, not keep trying to pivot back to policy. I get it, it sucks, but you gotta win in the media you have, not the media you want…
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Senate Democrats should be looking to file amendments to this big ugly bill that should propose massive cuts targeting Elon's companies. There will never be better opportunity to open up this divide among the worst people.
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Feeling neither sadness (yello) nor sadness (blue), but rather strongly feeling sadsad
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What will Nintendo do is Kyle Moose doesn’t have an avatar?!
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Can’t find it, but the summary I saw was “a couple answers were less enthusiastic about AI,” so that’s probs the best you can hope for
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So CHONKY!
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Happens in all cities. Having taken the bus regularly for 5 years in Boston, my theory was that once traffic picks up, the first one to be a little delayed gets more and more delayed at every stop, so the ones right behind it have to make fewer stops and close the gap.
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You broke the agreement?!
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Seattle city council will support any reason somebody can come up with to delay Sound Transit development further
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”Build the Damn Trains,” guy
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Less concerned about Watson’s hands and more about his (in)ability to stay in the field…
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This one was not written by Trump
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Dems strategists:
“in 2024 we didn’t defend trans people and it bit us in the ass, we should try not defending trans people even harder in 2025”
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If only this had been completely predictable and somebody had told us!
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The federal government? Trump is working on the first part.
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The worst part is I’d tell people there was no good Mexican food in Boston and they’d have a place they wanted me to try. But they were all trash. Couldn’t even get a decent margarita. How hard could that be?!
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Also…if we don’t fix this shit fully, we’re just gonna jump from funding to non-funding periods and that’s no way to do science!
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Saw the first sentence of this post and was just about to post: Boston. It was the worst. But you had me covered…
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Also, it’s not clear to me that these are examples of an exaggeration. You can make a pretty compelling good faith argument that Musk is a fraud
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I have been thinking of doing this in my own room. Do you have recommended depths to make the closet comfortably accessible?
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First, always share birb updates here! Second, was there a trick to getting them to splash? Mine has been up for a few weeks with zero (observed) splashes
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The “extreme” of standing up for trans rights is wrong?!
You’ve lost me already. Gonna have to find a 4th way, this way sounds exactly like the second way Dems have been trying…
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I will be in the next room arguing with 20 others it was actually Kobe Bryant
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That’s perfect
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No doubt. Did you have the little chain that goes around your neck, too? I know it’s only relevant for readers, but it is necessary to complete the look.
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It looks like you broke your glasses, and borrowed your 59 year old aunt’s. But in a good way, somehow…
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Those glasses are sublime
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This shit has made following sports so much less enjoyable. You used to just be able to come into the office and talk about the game the night before. Now everybody is that asshole who won’t stop talking about his fantasy team only with more bitching about the refs mixed in. I HATE it.
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I love how the pigeon stands on the kittens
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This is why the logical fallacy is, “appeal to authority,” not, “appeal to expertise.”
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I’m Lulu with a bucket on my head
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Huh, I gotta think about this some. Hadn’t ever really thought about the anti-authority left, but that distinction might actually explain a lot of the discourse on the left…
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Thanks Amy! I really wanted to know your thoughts, but you had comments blocked so I appreciate you weighing in. And, yeah, it’s been tough. “Character building,” I say when trying to channel Calvin’s dad…
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Thank you! I think (hope?) you’re right, because it is definitely taking a toll on him
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Also typos, apparently
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These are just anecdotes, not cautionary tales we should learn from…
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For books like this, I have a preferred source, but it usually ends up with me judging people who read the books, not reading it myself, so be warned…
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I pulled my hamstring trying to leg a double into a triple for no particular reason last year - but that probably won’t happen to any other middle aged guy who has peaked…