robertus

robertus

@robertus.bsky.social

Copy editor ordinaire, he/him, hockey official, hobby medievalist, sometime writer of words in a sequence, New Yorker in Maryland, sublime dot idealist at the gee mail.

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Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Kamala Harris: I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea. I was in the Senate for the last go-round, and the votes aren’t there. I think after the election, we all have to just also agree that our attitude has to be to get stuff done…

The kid has taken to putting on a Tik Tok or Reel and letting it play ad infintum. This week she discovered one for which the soundrack is Another One Bites the Dust. It is a good week.

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Replying to @rincewind.run

I think fundamentally what’s happening is that pollsters are terrified of underestimating Rs again and correctly think that underestimating Ds won’t matter as long as they get the topline result right (“I said D+2 and it was D+11” is a big miss but still counted as ‘they got it right’)

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the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social

Suck ass, The Economist

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I have a theory that all "Great Men" of history can be sorted into either "and the device shows me boobs?" or "the moon in the fucking sky?" Lenin, Trotsky, Adam Smith, and George Washington are all "went to the moon?" Ben Franklin, Hamilton, Socrates, and Bakunin are instances of "shows me boobs?"

Micah@rincewind.run

how all of these conversations would actually go

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Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

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one thing I will say about the preemptive pardon bullshit is it is not the behavior of a group of people who have a definitive plan to retain power forever

Skill issue. I am so white I get moonburn and I show my face around public all the time, nobody spews hate at me.

josh boo-erman 👻@bosh.worstpossible.world

just saw this absolutely cracked ad during the michigan game about how thanks to aoc and ilhan omar, white people can't show their faces in public anymore

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I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

Cale Michael@xjustified.bsky.social

This shit just writes itself at this point. Just the name "Epic AI MegaJam" is a joke that best describes what is going on with these companies.

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"Try the new AI agent from Meta." Ah cool now I can let the only company I trust less with my data than OpenAI read my emails. No way I'd regret that.