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There's a flaw in the longest running Microsoft product. The latest edition of Microsoft Flight Simulator's latest version's automated Air Traffic Control system REALLY wants you to fly high. It tried to get my propeller plane to cruise at 146,000 feet, only 6.5 times the maximum service altitude.

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Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition. If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

"But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself." -Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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"It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him." – Ismail, in "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville

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OK, now I love Sean Baker. Get your ass to the movie theaters!

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Pop Culture Happy Hour doing a review of Best Picture nominations; after they played the clip from Emilia Perez, one of the hosts went "Oof" and the others just sighed They're just talking about controversies that came out after the nominations were announced. But, it's also just bad.

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Whenever you welcome guests, treat them with kindness, grace and respect. Simple as that.

submitted 14 days ago • 2969 comments

Trump isn't Hitler. Hitler had motivating principles. Trump is Wilhelm II. Obsessed with personal image and power, certain of his own brilliance, without a fixed idea of what he wants other than a vague "greatness" As did Wilhelm's mother, I worry we will all suffer the consequences.

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I've never met an American soldier who, having worked with Canadian Armed Forces or has read a history book, has anything but respect for the CAF. Those dudes are tough operators.

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Idiots love underestimating their enemies. Lao Tzu said this was the greatest danger of all.

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Me: Don't assume Pete Hegseth is stupid, and yes, he can actually read Liberal Bluesky: I can't believe how much you're defending Pete Hegseth

submitted 26 days ago • 197 comments

These "activists" are cowards. MLK et. Al knew the dogs could be set on them, the firehouse and tear gas might be used on them, wearing their Sunday best. They NEEDED that, to an extent, to show that they were reasonable and the otherside was unreasonable. This sort of cowardice is abdication.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Oscars finals voting has begun, and I'm worried there hasn't been enough hatred of Emilia Perez

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I'm really glad that bitch with the private email server didn't get the job. Imagine what things would be like.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

submitted 33 days ago • 1055 comments

The miniseries ends with a quote from Legasov's real-life suicide note: "What is the cost of lies?"

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Watching HBO's Chernobyl, thinking about our time. In the finale, our flawed hero, Valery Legasov, says, "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner, or later, that debt is paid." We must not lie for our own purposes against evil, because lies, themselves, are poison.

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Here's a quote from an article I'm reading that ought to be etched on the wall in the office of every policy-maker, advocate, think tank in the world: "Celebrating a nice-looking chart is much easier than understanding exactly what is making the line change direction."

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Perhaps the most frustrating person I routinely encounter, is the one, who reads "what is your strategy" to mean "your goal is stupid and pursuing it is a waste of time." No, I just want to know how you plan to get to your goal. "I don't have one" is fair. Goal setting is upstream of strategy.

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Public libraries are, always have been, and always will be, fucking awesome.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Me with all of my moots here on bluesky, y'all are amazing omg

submitted 51 days ago • 53 comments

Maybe the executive branch shouldn't have this authority, either by law or tradition.

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It's fun to hate the media but I've yet to see a Trump decision that wasn't previewed/explained in advance by reporters. The reason Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 (which was a ruse) was that NYT/Politico kept running good factual stories about its implications.

submitted 51 days ago • 41 comments

This reads like a gotcha but it is also the point of trying to insulate the judiciary from partisan politics by making their terms lifetime appointments. It doesn't always work....

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Presidential transitions, like the end of every SCOTUS term, is always filled with a shitload of people treating routine or otherwise normal and legal things like bombshells because they never paid attention in civics class

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

I've seen a decent number of Cybertrucks of late. I don't think I've ever seen a woman in one.

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I keep an informal little equation in my head at all times: irony-poisoned → low trust → fascism I don’t care if it’s cringe. You have to believe in things, earnestly, to acknowledge that progress is happening and better things yet remain. Your “lol, lmao” at every little thing is death.

submitted 73 days ago • 51 comments

Maybe Musk was just waving goodbye to the millions of people leaving X / Twitter.

submitted 53 days ago • 15 comments

As the U.S. shifts into a volatile political landscape targeting critical thinking, I want to share an important reminder to the #booksky community: The only way to preserve literature is by collecting physical copies. I know, Kindle users, it sucks—but your digital copy can be deleted any time.

submitted 53 days ago • 348 comments

The idea that a president can issue an executive order that overrides Congress, while it may be appealing to everyone who wants TikTok back and agrees that the TikTok ban is a first amendment violation, is actually illegal dictator shit

submitted 55 days ago • 121 comments

Biden's 28th Amendment declaration might be the stupidest thing of his presidency. All the Dem electeds celebrating it is also dumb. It's nothing and not how the process works.

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Please stop using “revisionist history” as a stand-in for falsehoods. Any worthwhile work of history uses untapped sources, novel methodologies and/or new connections across fields to improve, alter and, yes, revise our understanding of history. Truly revisionist history is a good thing.

submitted 58 days ago • 50 comments

This is the incoherence at the heart of all housing policymaking. Lifelong practitioners: planners, advocates, and reformers alike refuse to square this circle. Homeownership can either be a market-beating investment to build generational wealth or it can be affordable.

submitted 59 days ago • 7 comments

Sen. Wicker's question to nominee Hegseth: "Can you suck my dick for a few minutes?"

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know how to convince ce lefties that supply and demand curves are real things and not a right-wing conspiracy.

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JOURNALIST: I've noticed you exude a kind of joy when you're talking about ultimate cosmic destruction via vacuum decay... why is that? ME: I just think it's neat :)

submitted 60 days ago • 60 comments

Post your favorite Star Trek character; wrong answers only.

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@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Ive been looking for a good tome on the French Revolution! Which are you reading?

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

i think rage at congestion pricing is a good example of how no one believes that the world can be positive sum anymore. like, people pay a small fee to get access to a faster commute — saving them valuable time — and the money improves public transit, saving other people valuable time. it's win-win!

submitted 67 days ago • 444 comments