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danielweir.bsky.social
One time a Nobel laureate agreed with me on a Zoom call. Thoughts and tweets my own.
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The amount I’d pay on Patreon to see Jamelle Bouie do a cooking show. Or, like, cooking and commentary with someone like Adam Ragusea.

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i often think about how eons before cookie monster was conceived, or indeed before there were minds capable of conceiving, cookie monster was already there, waiting

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American citizenship has, like, *one* civil sacrament. (Two if you’re AMAB.) But you can do more! You should do more! We live in a society!

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American cities were not built for cars. They were bulldozed for cars.

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Five things I did last week: 1: never 2: gonna 3: give 4: you 5: up Sincerely, Daniel

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And doubling the garlic the recipe calls for

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Lovevery’s reading skills set includes a “setting the scene storytelling stage” playset/work and it very clearly was developed to address the DM shortage.

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I think humanitarian aid as an extension of soft imperial power is good and "have free elections and we'll cure your tuberculosis" is the best game in town.

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This piece by @dieworkwear.bsky.social is just super thoughtful and full of revelations. Love.

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This times 1,000. Voting is a sacred duty! It is either the only, or if AMAB one of two civic sacraments!

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LEGALIZE IT

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*screams in computer scientist*

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pleas please please stop dodging our filters by calling him Tr*mp, Elno or some other nonsense there’s no algo here to downvote or shadow ban whatever you say just people who are FUCKING TIRED of news about these fuckers please

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a lot of things are like this

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I long to dine in the Wendy’s Solarium again

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if you told an actual academic what the publication standards in the legal academy actually were they would immediately blow their brains out

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the term "Continental United States" implies that Hawaii and Alaska are Analytic states

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When I was a TA, I’d tell my students that an ad hominem is when you say “you’re wrong *because* you’re an idiot.” On the other hand, “you’re wrong and you’re an idiot” are simply two related factual observations.

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Minnesota House Taxes Committee heard arguments for a land value tax last week. A land value tax would improve government efficiency far more than DOGE could ever hope to achieve, and it's a progressive tax on wealth.

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Pitter patter

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hey, are you doomscrolling? fuck yeah, refresh that shit, i bet there are new posts by now

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As they like to say. ‘if you ain’t Dutch, you ain’t much.’

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My wife has given me a Valentine's Day envelope addressed to "pudq'snH," which any true devotee of Star Trek will tell you is a Klingon term of endearment, meaning "The One I Will Kill Last," introduced in the classic Next Generation epis- What? (flips envelope 180 degrees) Ohhhhh riiiight got it

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I love calibri and cambria and aptos but this is hilarious and I stan.

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Needed this today

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New Fox chyron is excellent. Team names: huge. Score: huge. Logos: none. Colors say enough. Needless chrome: none. Timeouts remaining: prominent but not distracting. Down and yards to go indicator: conveys which team has the ball. Typography: classic, legible, bold, timeless. Outstanding design.

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I'm a virtue ethicist because I don't trust any of you bastards with utilitarianism

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Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

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And remember: Shoup played the long game and he didn’t give up. No one cared about parking reform when he first started fighting this fight, but he lived long enough to see his work pay off in a big way.

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