Nerd That Talks Good

As a first-time, independent author, getting the word out about my book is both really important and ... just plain hard. My book, Be a Nerd That Talks Good, is up on all of the major retailers in print, ebook, and now audio (read by yours-truly, not an AI clone!) messagespecs.com/book 💙📚💡📚🎧

Wellp, that just about wraps up my childhood. Sleep well, Prime. (screw this week)

"You seem to be handling everything really well, despite *gestures broadly* the state of things." "Thanks. I discovered the 24-hour Bob Ross channel on Roku."

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.

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I’ll give you one guess as to this driver’s favorite canned beverage.

This 💯

You might forward this story to every Marine you know.

Trans Day of Visibility is tomorrow. #TDOV #ProtectTheDolls

Good. Say it louder.

A king showed up to No Kings!!

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Norris, Brendon, and Muller? I think the Reaper made a snap judgement to take a shot at Chuck without an objective or an exit plan for this trifecta.

🧭 Guidance by Epictetus: “Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.”

Sean Penn's characters really bookend this phenomenon perfectly.

We've been doing Know, Like, Trust in the wrong order. Driving back from a big area networking breakfast, listening to a podcast, the guest kept saying, "know, like, and trust." Over and over. But if I don't like someone, I won't get to know them. So shouldn't it be Like, Know, Trust. ❤️ 🧠 🍔

Even the Muppet ones? 🥹

Replacing ACIP scientists with conspiracy theorists and issuing a dangerous vaccine schedule was never going to hold up. Today a federal judge proved it. Vaccine policy must be guided by science.

Expertise is under attack, and has been for several years. But the acceleration under this admin cannot be understated.

Literally this

“Avoid this stuff tomorrow.” Shakespeare, probably.

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

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So throw me in jail. I broke out once; I’ll do it again. 😏

seems like the clearest purpose of the war is to reopen the thing that closed because of the war?

Do not, my friends, become addicted to your cognitive function. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.

While researching evolutionary psychology for my book, I ran into a brutal truth: Your buyer’s brain is running 100,000-year-old survival software. And most B2B marketing talks to the wrong system. Full post at: https://messagespecs.com/musings/cavebrain-is-killing-marketing-and-its-our-fault/

HUGE.

On the campaign trail, Trump pledged he would not drag America into another war. Then he became the first president stupid & reckless enough to put American lives at risk in support of Israeli PM Netanyahu's 40-year quest for a regime change war in Iran.

May as well be on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard.

MAR10 = date today MARIO = dunna dunna dunna

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

Burger King in Kyoto put a sign up about ya mans

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It’s actually FEWER Misérables

[Exit Murderer.]

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I want to see the results out of Dallas, but Talarico is clearly in the driver’s seat here. Crockett is not meeting her benchmarks pretty much anywhere. The second this race is called, we gotta put the infighting to rest and come together to ensure Ken Paxton does not become a U.S. Senator.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

No votes on ANYTHING untill we vote on the War Powers Resolution.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

As a historian of the American West, I winced to hear Trump blatantly ignored all our scholarship in his SOTU, prattling on about an "unforgiving wilderness" and "empty" landscapes-- without the slightest acknowledgment of the Indigenous and Mexican presence on these same lands.

Pour one out for the poor comms staffers who need to pay enough attention to this shit to respond and fact check