Alan Johnson

25m

The way Rx medicine comes with documentation on bible paper that impossible to fold back up or store anywhere

21m

I just got prescribed Rinvoq and cmon now this is ridiculous

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Bruno Dies

@brunodias.dev

Replying to @brunodias.dev

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

I know I live in Jersey because I brought my liquor store bags back from DC. You can't get primo plastic bags like this in the Garden State.

I watched the movie Musk tonight. It was good, but very very long. It would be much better as a miniseries.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler

@cfiesler.bsky.social

I am a type 1 diabetic, and last night Dexcom forced me to agree to a new terms of use in order to continuing using the app and view my blood glucose data. Glad I had the foresight to "view agreements" and then copy the entire document. Because there appears to be NO WAY TO VIEW IT AGAIN. And...

I am awed

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

🔥 “Answer the question, Tommy — I think you’re the one who needs to read the constitution, not me.” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social skillfully handles a bigoted Islamophobic heckler and exposes him as the true religious zealot in the room.

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Will Oremus

@willoremus.com

26 Aug

randomly giving out genuine compliments is such an easy way to make the world a little nicer, i'm always surprised more people haven't figured that out and have a ton of respect for those who have

14 Aug

The beatings will continue until morale improves

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: The family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions on the USS Lincoln TRUMP: No they're not Q: Has the deployment gone on too long? TRUMP: No no no. Not nearly long enough.

19 July

That's gotta be a goal

22 June

Cape Verde is nobody's doormat, holy shit!

USA! USA! USA!

Colombia v. Uzbekistan was fantastic

17 June

As Argentina warms up for their World Cup opener, I can't help but remember one of the most absurd moments of live TV I've ever seen

14 June

Brunson played an unreal Finals

14 June

Lol at Robinson committing the exact same flagrant as Fox

14 June

My five year old is talking about the "Draft Kings Sports App" and it really pisses me off that we allow advertising for gambling on regular TV.

theguardian.comThe hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech | Louis de BernièresJunk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. It has to be one of the worst things about life in Britain, says author Louis de Bernières

13 June

Weird hill to die on

The Guardian@theguardian.com

The hill I will die on: I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech | Louis de Bernières

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Ana Tudor

@anatudor.bsky.social

8 May

Would have never guessed this quick little thing would become my second most hearted @codepen.io demo ever. (there's very little in terms of lines of CSS, but it's all heavily commented, explaining the why behind every choice)

Ana Tudor@anatudor.bsky.social

I've recently made a little animated #3D thing with minimal #CSS and it got featured on @codepen.io: codepen.io/thebabydino/...

Interesting!!

alex benzer@alexbenzer.com

communities are coming to Bluesky this year. today, Bluesky is one big space. communities will be smaller spaces inside that where you can go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff.

The Spurs had 99.6% win probability at 9:27 in the 3rd quarter 😯 Wemby's flagrant was the exact point when the tide turned. The Knicks then scored 12 unanswered points.

Despite a dismal 3rd quarter, the Spurs still led by 20 and had a 99.6% win probability AGAIN with 9:33 left in the the 4th

World historic defeat from the jaws of victory type shit

The tortoise and the hare

This game is unreal

That wasn't a flagrant, but I know they were gonna give NY a freebie

The Spurs have gotten away with a few

I've rarely seen so many things go so well for a basketball team as the Spurs 1st half

5 June

Made the mistake of using booking.com to rent a car. Never, ever again. Next time, I will book directly with a rental company that has self-checkout. I don't do this often enough to have muscle memory.

4 June

This game is incredible

3 June

Thread in response to a @jamellebouie.net post on Justice Alito's opposition to women and minorities at Princeton.

Alan Johnson@acjay.com

My aunt was in the first co-ed class at Princeton. I ended up going there for grad school, and I wouldn't have even applied if not for my aunt asking my mom if I was considering Princeton.

Reagan introduced ideological disdain for the state into the core of Republican politics. MAGA extends that to all impersonal institutions.

This is also why Biden was so despised. He was the opposite of visible, personal leadership.

More than a decade ago @chrislhayes.bsky.social identified institutional failure as a crisis in his book, Twilight of the Elites. MAGA is the consequence.

Reagan introduced ideological disdain for the state into the core of Republican politics. MAGA extends that to all impersonal institutions.

Trump 1 was a disaster, so the pendulum swung back to Biden and the institutionalism he represented. And MAGA-oriented people HATED it.

MAGA has a strong preference for personal leadership and idolizes people who exert personal control. This is why MAGA and the billionaire class are so cozy.

Reagan introduced ideological disdain for the state into the core of Republican politics. MAGA extends that to all impersonal institutions.

MAGA despises the bureaucratic state, but also the media, universities, big business, nonprofits, etc.