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Man I miss Tom Wilkerson. His Lenny Cole would have absolutely been involved with Albanian drug dealer schemes on Election Day

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We tolerate a lot of his shit as long as he delivers Roman triumph level beat downs to GOP special election ratfuckings and mostly leaves the legislature to do their thing. Thats about as complimentary as we get

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Best Chinese take out where I’m from is in a gas station

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He passes in a pure sprint like he’s riding for green jersey bonis but ur commuting home on the multiuse through the park

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Man who’s only qualification is getting ejected from his preferred political party

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I remember this video going around because it is pretty funny but also decided this pretty much seems like what he would be doing on a normal day. They just put a camera on him m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw4v...

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At the same time it somehow looks better than pretty much all other cyber trucks I’ve seen

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A new program from NSF is targeting graduate fellowship money to people who received Honorable Mention on a GRFP within the past three years, who are currently enrolled in grad school in EPSCoR states.

here is the solicitation: new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

and a map of EPSCoR eligible states:

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I think it’s true that roglic was probably the best GC option on short notice last year and helped usher in a fat new Red Bull sponsorship. And it’s equally true that rogličs best results are behind him, is not the easiest gc rider to take care of, and may actively undermine younger gc riders

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I don’t disagree with any of this. But this all should have been known to anyone in or adjacent to the peloton. As has been pointed out im curious whether the timing of Denk undermining rogs leadership is a response to something rog may have said in private or signaling more freedom for others

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Which I don’t think was unexpected given the stage construction. And sort of makes blasting roglič even stranger

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Yeah vingegaard and Remco’s performances made me pretty stoked for the next two weeks. Denk being shocked pikachu that rog can’t ride gravel or position is mostly the unexpected bit

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I don’t have a good English language article about it yet but apparently there’s a German podcast of Ralph Denk speaking candidly about primoz roglic after yesterday’s gravel stage and the frustrations are mostly themes we’ve seen before www.msn.com/en-us/sports...

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It sucks that the only news has been election coverage in fucken July so I’ll kick off a better topic: the manager of the Tour de France favorite who was last years big acquisition came out and suggested their superstar couldn’t be trusted to ride his bike without two teammate babysitters

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Yes I will happily take your 50 dollars if you believe Pete Buttigieg will be the 2024 D presidential nominee

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Not sure how granular prediction market bets are but usually when twitter moves this far from real life you can make easy money

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Adrian Tchaikovsky's avatar Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social
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May be of interest: the new kickstarter for Uncanny Magazine's upcoming season is live! Various bonus content is available including some signed copies of Alien Clay at one tier (plus plenty more). www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

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I’m actually shocked that there’s no mention of “Agile scrummasters” in this project manager erotica

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As an aside I never really know what hundreds of percents actually mean because 2x is equally portrayed as 100% and 200%. Just use numbers, they’re great

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When it gets hot like this I’m always in a battle with “why I am bothering kitting up for a throwaway workout, I’ll throw some trainers on and go for a run” and “god there’s no breeze cooling me off on my runs I should ride” and the winner usually is my couch

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Oh hard agree, the uae antics stop when pogy is on the ticket. I was thinking more of like a visma vuelta situation where almeida rolls an attack and gets ahead like kuss. I’d be curious to see how hard uae work to keep him there. Although with current time gaps that ship has sailed I think

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Fr this is always the problem with the almyuso coleader strategy. If vlab call their bluff will uae actually work to keep them in 1st for the rest of the tour? Not a chance

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If this bothers him, there is a remedy. all he has to do is let Remco go up the road.

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We’re often too quick to forget the winemom mandate from heaven

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Dan Gates's avatar Dan Gates @dangatesj.bsky.social
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Nah we’re *loudly* denigrating over here. Try to keep up

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Also speaking as a Californian who moved from the Midwest: I love the place but I’m not sure the Democratic Party rank in file in a lot of the country including important swing states would look favorably on the complete Californication of the ticket

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Andy Famiglietti's avatar Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social
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The robot is not a bargaining unit member and must not be given bargaining unit work. Faculty unions should be looking over their contracts right now, figuring out exactly how to grieve or otherwise oppose the introduction of these systems.

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I do think newer fps and younger folks always have the sensitivity too dang high but I think what you described is probably just the watching someone play portal experience

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Looking forward to upcoming insights in gnomics

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New definition of chutzpah just dropped

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There is also a pretty comprehensive history that suggests Biden has benefited pretty greatly from the rights inability to maintain message discipline and instead wander off to do a dog whistle instead

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Yeah I didn’t see the worst of it but it’s continuing to fill up my feed so finally blocked. A rare follow -> block. Sad because I still have her insta pot stock article from 4 years ago in my bookmarks

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“I don’t care what you do in your free time as long as I don’t have to drive to the hospital, the police station or talk on the telephone with the New York Times”

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I think dog discourse has moved beyond police, were instead being protected by vigilante super heroes

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The town that I live in ended a wildfire watch at 8 pm on the 3rd and did a whole ass fireworks show at 9:30. It was quite the decision

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Last time biden won he beat an incumbent that had just sent everyone 1000 dollar checks with his name on them

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Alexandra Petri's avatar Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social
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it goes like this the fourth, the fifth -someone describing the end of this week

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The emails also had justice department buy in and I just don’t see heiress of Disney able to reinforce the message in the same way

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I’m so sorry. What a beautiful creature

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The Achiever formerly known as Karl's avatar The Achiever formerly known as Karl @urban-achiever.bsky.social
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Reposting before I go to bed because the 4th represents the best of what we aspire to.

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Thomas Cheney 's avatar Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social
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Sunak concedes election, says he's called Starmer to congratulate him

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April Wright's avatar April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social
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One of the most distressing things about academia is the pervasive belief that changing the demographic make up of our fields always involves lowering the bar. Speak up about diversity? Get told we can’t lower the bar. Did I ask to lower the bar? No.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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the first, second and third most important news stories this week are about the SCOTUS decision, and every columnist spending their time talking about biden old is telling you what they value. we don’t have to indulge them, though, stop your subs, stop clicking, stop talking about them.

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