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Ok also AOC and Elon Musk are not in a “tit-for-tat feud.” AOC is a duly elected member of Congress who operates under an oath to our constitution and Elon Musk is an unelected Nazi billionaire whose wealth makes him think he’s above the law and empowered to illegally torch our government.

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So, wait. For basically ever, men were earning way more than their female counterparts, and the messaging was that women were "too emotional" or whatever. And the second women start earning more than men, men completely lose their shit and it's a "crisis" "gripping" them? What a bunch of losers.

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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

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Wiped out or fired up? ❤️‍🔥Thank you so much to @matteowong.bsky.social for writing about us!

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One of the feedback themes I'm most proud of as a manager over the years: "I feel calmer when I'm around you." Tech doesn't value calmness. But I do. Translation: If we're working together, we will find ways to achieve high-quality, accelerated outcomes in a measured way. Unapologetically.

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A new version of Subset is now available on iOS via TestFlight. + Summary stats and streaks + Compound search queries + URL clean-up + Import and export Head to the site to see it in action and/or get access right now. subset.network

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New video! Since the US is deporting farm workers, I'm making helpful videos for Americans on how to get started as a farm worker. Welcome to your new job picking crops! feat. handy phrases in Spanish so you can communicate with your new boss, the crew foreman <3 www.instagram.com/reel/DGQ61Id...

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now obligated to watch all of his TikToks pray 4 me

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Rereading Murderbot series this week, pure coincidence 😳

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Political scientist Adam Przeworski (born in Nazi-occupied Poland) is keeping a diary. “I am trying to find categories in which to place the current situation and historical precedents from which one could draw some enlightenment. I fail in both.” [adamprzeworski.substack.com]

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running up that hill again today

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vickiboykis.com/2025/01/23/y...

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there’s a reason the phrase “may you live in interesting times” is understood to be a curse

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Took me forever to get home from campus because I was gawping at Mars, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, all fiercely bright and almost in a straight line. I highly recommend you go take a look.

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“my new Substack”? the irony of trading in one set of edgelords for another

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Generally just trying to route all of my personal LLM usage to Venice.ai over the next couple of days to get a feel for what privacy feels like :/

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A century ago, the public hydro dam in Austin, TX collapsed. The city turned down the offer of a private company to rebuild, knowing they would have a financial stranglehold on the city, and rebuilt it as public. Full story here: kutkutx.studio/the-disconne...

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A thought that actually helped this when I was doomscrolling inside my mind on my bikeride this morning was: "OK, you've been sent back from the future to fix the timeline starting now. What do you do?"

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never a bad time to return to @kissane.bsky.social's Meta in Myanmar series erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...

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I see Megan Neary is familiar with a specific type of Bluesky Reply Guy www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/did...

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👀👀👀👀

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Icy brook

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Let’s all cite our sources in 2025 www.istockphoto.com/photo/2024-2... … which will get harder now that the bots are everywhere and “Mukhina1” is prob one too www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/Mu...

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Last sunset and woodswalk of 2024 yesterday. We shall see what this year brings.

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Pretty funny, doesn’t know about archive.is tho www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

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A conch for today

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Countersignals… they were going north yesterday

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Moon, Jupiter the bright dot just to its left, then Orion… but full clouds over Gemini, oh well Still happy for the midnight walk on bright snow

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☄️s tonight get out there starwalk.space/en/news/gemi...

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did you see it? 🌔

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Winter sunrises are the best if you’re tucked in somewhere warm

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PSA 🧯 check your home fire extinguishers and get one if you don’t Just found out that a friend lost their house to fire during the snowstorm on Thursday… yes on Thanksgiving 🥺 Happened to have ordered a fire extinguisher from Costco last month and now pretty motivated to see if I can operate

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Just spent the morning interviewing the founding research director of PBS. Amazing how closely connected public broadcasting was to early communication departments.

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Absolutely INCREDIBLE demonstration of what this platform can do: subscribe to this labeler and see which fancy private school different UK public figures on here went to, and how much those schools cost. bsky.app/profile/dadd...

submitted 105 days ago • 73 comments

Muttering “this is not a worthy conflict” to myself and shuffling onward.

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knocked out a quick and dirty christopher alexander starter pack; dunno who's all on here though: go.bsky.app/Toiz4qB

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Due to the server issues some of your recent posts may have gotten fewer likes than they deserved Please accept this coupon to rectify this, which allows you to imagine you got 10 more likes on your post than you did

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It is so incredibly nice to have a social platform that values links again - a breath of fresh air in the poisoned ecosystem of the creator economy

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Here's a starter pack for people who know How Congress Works. Let me know whom I've missed. go.bsky.app/HjjmnwA

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Here comes `slop` as top candidate for word of the year Catch the first ref on Simon Williston’s blog—will brag that I saw it there in real time and have been using it ever since. Solid word nerd youtoober youtube.com/shorts/wfS35...

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sometimes it really is glassy like that

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