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Senior Engineering Director. Sometimes I talk about making software for government. Random explosions of gopher sports and shit posts. Pasquale rhymes with trolley.
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This Timberwolves team reignited my love for nba basketball. I’ve watched every second of wolves ball since coming on board and now I’m here for life. Wolves (will be) Back.

IF NECESSARY

Just angry at a fuckin basketball team

it brings me much less joy to say this than 6 months ago, because i’ve grown to like him, but tonight we are seeing the return of juli-ass randle :(

Ant mostly scoring without even considering a pass. Randle trying his 3-pt line post ups. Naz trying to force his way in a crowd. Jaden missing forced 2s bleeds into missed open 3s. There's been so many times the Wolves have gotten in their own way on basic offensive possessions. Disappointing.

Embarrassing

“If we all pay the same bribe, it makes us all the same level of criminal and they can’t prosecute us all” is quite a C-Suite mind-meld.

Playoff Julius seems to have returned

We could be up 15

Oh lordy

Every person in this administration is the dude who hides his bite in a zombie movie.

I love that his response to being told he's a chicken is "Oh I'm a chicken am I? Would a chicken repeatedly back down from the things he says he's going to do when the pressure mounts?! Huh?! Does that sound like a chicken to you?!"

I do not think a Democratic senator should be meeting with and shaking the hands of a man wanted by the international court for the starvation of two million people

This corgi hopes that you brought a cake with a file in it. Or even just a cake.

We are monsters

🦋 Trump nominates Emil Bove to be a federal appeals Judge An acting Deputy AG & Trump's former attorney has been nominated to the US Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit Less than 3 months after the Senate Judiciary Committee referred him for "serious professional misconduct" & abuse of his DOJ position 🦋

We had better hold trials

I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

They want to kill the "engine for social mobility" because they believe denying people college education helps keep them in power while the wealthiest among us have decided wealth is a zero sum game. Education brings income gains, which means you’re taking money that belongs to Trump, a real no no.

the national "fell for it again" awards competition has come to southern missouri. big fan of watching people delude themselves that this isn't what they voted for while the guy next to them smiles and speaks the truth: yes you did, you just feel bad about it now.

You did vote to deport moms. it was the big platform of the entire campaign. There were signs. Literal signs. and I know you watched this or were there. And I know this is the hottest of all takes but you shouldn't be allowed to vote if you are this gullible or willfully ignorant.

Nobody: No One: Not a Single Soul: Someone in the Committee: What if we put Big Red's Eyes on Animated Ryan Day?

just perfect that John Roberts' Unitary Executive Theory cashes out with a total vacant ignoramus in the White House. functionally there is no president, outside of tariff-via-Truth Social post bsky.app/profile/atru...

Love how the press keeps praising Trump for press availability where he constantly reveals that he has no earthly idea what is goin on in his admin and the press does nothing with it.

here are the wolves regular season statistics for games reffed by tonight's crew: James Capers Jr. (1-0, +41.0 per 48) Ben Taylor (2-0, +11.5 per 48) Marc Davis (5-0, +11.4 per 48)

It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society! What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?

This refusal to engage with the substance of what people are saying and whether it's actually true in favor of meta-arguments about free speech, bias, "outsider" status, etc has totally corroded mainstream political analysis into uselessness (at best). If anything it's making people less informed

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

The notion that private institutions need to toe the party line is so fundamentally un-American it is almost unbelievable

another reminder

These mfers really just want someone to talk to and since they have no friends, they let trump lie to them to feel special

Me when I am disagreed with: This is what The Entity wants

housing affordability is one of the few issues where i feel like the median lefty is just wrong in their diagnosis of the problem.

Grandpa was a coal miner. Dad worked at a Toyota factory. I have a job neither of them understood/understand. I desperately hope my kids have a job where I have to restrain myself from saying "that kind of sounds like bullshit."

Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.

The difference between "access" and "transparency" is really important. Trump is absolutely giving more reporters more time to ask questions (inc. outlets that just want to praise him). At the same time it's stopped publishing transcripts and WH visitor logs.

I made rice for fried rice tomorrow and these two houligans won't go to bed until I pay the rice cooker tax

god jake tapper is a piece of shit

MI:Reckoning is so much movie