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Tom Bridge Out Ahead ⛔️🌉💥🪦

@tombridge.com

Bluesky for Chaos. Current CTO, Former Non-Profit Founder. Music is rad, do lots of it. Go see the show.

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I drive and park in the District pretty much every week. Not every day, but most of them. Today I took a calculated risk: park all afternoon in a 2-hr space near the Wharf and risk a $30 ticket, or pay $62 and park in the garage. The economics of parking in DC are completely broken.

I am largely a parking scofflaw because of the complete mismatch between timing and enforcement that exists out there on the streets of the city. I think I have only two parking tickets all year and I guarantee you I have not parked legally the rest of the days.

Today's jury duty experience is complete. It wasn't a criminal case! It was a mental health case! I was juror 49 of 54 in the pool. They decided not to even do voir dire for the last six of us. A long day with not a lot happening, but the service is important and mattered.

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*BOLSONARO: FEDERAL POLICE REQUESTED I GIVE THEM MY PASSPORT

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Early voting is now open in DC! 🗳️ Visit an Early Vote Center from 8:30am – 7:00 pm on Monday, October 26 through Sunday, November 1. If you witness any attempt to interfere with our local elections, report it to @Vote4DC at 202-727-2194 or ogc@dcboe.org and OAG at 202-727-3400 or OAGVoting@dc.gov.

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Oh dear, someone’s upset that their preferred pronouns aren’t being used.

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my Portuguese isn't great but I think I can work this out

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The world right now feels like when I went down to LA to deal with my childhood bedroom after the earthquake. Everything formerly meaningful is in a pile on the floor and it's, OK, what's neither shameful nor broken beyond repair, and worth taking into the future, except it's every institution.

This shit is an insidious lie.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "In Washington, all the restaurants were closing. People were being held up. They'd walk into a restaurant. Like Jesse James. 'Stand up! Give us all your money.' They're eating dinner at a fancy restaurant. All the restaurants were closing."

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Obama on Trump: “There’s gold everywhere. What’s up with the gold? Everything — more gold. He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.”

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while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

My Friend, Tony Williams I first met Tony at X World in 2019 in Sydney. We'd corresponded on the Mac Admins Slack, and via email prior. But we didn't get a chance to meet until the auditorium in Sydney. Tony was a kind man, and an incredible conversationalist, and I remember a lot of great chats…

tombridge.comMy Friend, Tony WilliamsI first met Tony at X World in 2019 in Sydney. We'd corresponded on the Mac Admins Slack, and via email prior. But we didn't get a chance to meet until the auditorium in Sydney. Tony was a kind man, and an incredible conversationalist, and I remember a lot of great chats we had at X World in 2019 and again in 2023.

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If you’re a Washington Capitals fan who wants a Washington state outline on your fan merch, Fanatics / New Era have just the thing for you

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Pretty big words from a walking dry heave whose most consequential act in office was repelling the Pope to death

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "This Democrat Party needs an ass kicking"

This is why I have a Brendan Carr is a Dummy t-shirt from @theverge.com.

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

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<GOP CANDIDATES> - “Furries are FORCING your CHILDREN into GENDER REASSIGNMENT SURGERIES at their SCHOOLS!! LITTER BOXES!!!” <me> “…fuck i hope the furries in global IT patch these horrendous exploits before they destroy the internet”

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I love hanging out with my parents because they are great parents: have these parents considered trying “not being terrible parents”

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

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regular reminder that the DC government under the current mayor is a sloppy shitshow of services and everything could be done better by throwing darts at a board. I really hope the incoming administration cleans house everywhere.

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It's a new week, Bluesky. Trust no poll. Trust no pundit. Vote early if you can. Vote in person if you can.

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if it were me I would simply not park illegally or speed

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social

Ward 8 Council member Trayon White has introduced an emergency bill that would stop the doubling of fines on D.C. parking and traffic camera tickets that aren't paid within 30 days. His office says it's a "regressive tax" on people "already struggling to make ends meet." BUT...

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They started the Iran war together. They crack down on press freedom together. They lie about everything together. Authoritarians of a feather flock together.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Breaking News: President Trump endorsed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, boosting the embattled leader days before the election.

Taking away Haines Point is just... I just hate it all.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

As inflation hits a 4-month high and the Iran war keeps driving up gas prices, Trump unveils his big plan with the midterms two weeks away: a "World Class Championship Golf Course" in D.C. Work starts Nov. 15, closing a public course for about 15 months, he says.