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swansontea.bsky.social

Retired clockmaker of the atomic persuasion. Formerly at the US Naval Observatory.

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submitted 11 hours ago • 726 comments

It’s the “Trump said it so it’s true” metric

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Pizza balls is almost as serious a condition as Pierogi‘s disease

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

New “We didn’t start the fire” lyrics dropped

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Send then to Elon. Failure to read them all will be taken as a divestiture of all his wealth to the residents of the US.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

When people mention Mangione these days my mind defaults to Chuck, because I’m old, and things don’t make a lot of sense. You youngsters may have to consult a search engine

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

The cardinal that occasionally visits my bird feeder is also named Pizzaballa. It’s like the “Jones” of cardinal names.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Free website

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

…and I’m assured there is a wonderful cask of Amontillado in the cellar.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Everybody? When did Trump get his? (Or hers?)

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

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submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm sorry your baby is crying right now. Have you tried taking it farther away from me?

submitted 46 days ago • 22 comments

Smuggling eggs from Mexico sounds a little like a Jasper Fforde story, set in the northern hemisphere

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I wonder what happens to GOP donations when cap gains turn to losses and stock options are driven under water.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1455 comments

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

submitted 1 day ago • 1553 comments

20 bucks to the first person to whisper “margin call” in Musk’s ear

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

🎶They took all the cheese, put it in a cheese museum Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They shaved paradise And put up a parking lot🎵

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If the Republicans are trying to save us money, why are they giving a tremendous tax break to the richest people in the country? Please listen to this from Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy ...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Hochul’s brief leadership fever has been eradicated.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

<Carl Spackler voice> Check me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I remove my eyes and lips, that’s not a beauty product.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

More of this. The fuck are you doing promoting a book when the country is falling apart?

submitted 2 days ago • 416 comments

By this assessment, Elon is actually 93 years old

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It’s because everything goes in reverse when you walk backwards, including aging.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The psych backdrop for this week’s “The Irrational” was the Milgram experiment (a high percentage of people will do bad things if ordered to by an authority figure; few will refuse) and boy, isn’t that on the nose for what’s been going on recently

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Between this and the science purges, it’s Lysenkoism, updated for the 21st century Trumping ourselves back to the stone age

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I know it takes up space, but descriptions of Trump/Musk activities should include “criminal” “illegal” or “unconstitutional” GOP messaging of Biden policies always included “failed” and people believed it from sheer repetition.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

“Ran into an issue attempting to deliver your package” I guess the driver needs to see their therapist?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Fun Fact: Noah's Arc was actually a quantum computer. At 300 qubits long, 50 qubits wide, and 30 qubits tall, it had 450,000 qubits in total. That far outpaces the 1,121 qubits in IBM's Condor quantum computer.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It's incredible to me that this is the takeaway. You e.g. say horrible things, but think that you’re denigrated because you “tell a joke”

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

You can’t “save money” by just deciding not to pay your bills. That’s not how it works.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

“put it on his fucking gravestone”

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

“save” should always be in quotes in these treatments. Like how you can “save” money by not buying your insulin (or other necessary meds), or not buying gas for your car.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

“Democrats seem to be waiting for Trump, Musk, and MAGA to naturally become unpopular, instead of working overtime to make them unpopular. We can’t wait. We need a unified, aggressive, and creative opposition in this country.” Read more from @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social. 👇

submitted 4 days ago • 101 comments