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I have a present for you bsky.app/profile/hype...

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Please stop saying place names in England are silly.

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it is one of those rare films that has been memed to death but is actually still worth watching

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this is both plausible and an extremely wild outcome given the uncanny similarity

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scott knew it was a comedy! he was just, allegedly, tricked into filming takes that were far more ridiculous than he was comfortable with

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apparently random people have been noticing the resemblance for years but as far as I can tell no one has ever asked tim robinson about it or whether he’s taken any inspiration from scott’s performance or even just “what hell it’s weird right lol”

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the scene where he kind of blubbers his jowls while talking about fighter planes seems extremely ITYSL

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rewatched dr strangelove and cannot stop thinking about the comment “he’s just doing tim robinson” about george c scott

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I suspect I am the only journalist in the world who went around asking how chevron would affect the apple watch ban and you know what? I regret my part in making that number greater than zero

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stacy-marie ishmael's avatar stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social
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"It is in the years to come that we will wonder, “Why isn’t anyone doing anything?” or “How can a court just unilaterally do that?” about issues that range from trivial to life-threatening. "

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I do want to emphasize this part as well! like yes we all know this but also really let’s not forget!

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It's hard to explain how widespread the repercussions of overturning Chevron deference will be. Even if you narrow the scope down to tech policy, you're left wrangling a super-explainer on a friday afternoon www.theverge.com/24188365/che...

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like we keep talking about the debate as though it were a debate and not a 90 minute fitness test. like fr I was at my desk trying to track issues that might matter to Our Audience and nothing said logically followed, barely anything connected to real things

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no real issues got discussed, basically debate-watchers were looking their horses in the mouth and going "aahhhhhhhh......... fuck"

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the reason why the debate was so wild was that a person can be in such poor health that the other guy who is also not well can look better

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idk why everyone's so down on kamala's odds here. she's not, like, facing any criminal cases, has not lost a case against someone accusing her of rape, condemns violent insurrections, recognizes that charlottesville happened, and is capable of stringing together two sentences that logically follow

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I kind of think that the issue is that a bunch of dems buckled up to vote for An Alive Guy Who Is Not Trump but unfortunately what they saw last night did not persuasively check all the boxes

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just keep the policy desk afloat while adi is out, they said. how much news could there possibly be, they said

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There's something that everyone gets wrong about the Ashley Madison data dump from 2015. And I should know, because I was one of the reporters who broke the story. It's my latest for @newscientist@mstdn.social (sign up for a free account to read).
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

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found this while trying to look up the answer because I am now curious myself! also raises some questions for me about the timeline of progress in astronomy possibly overlapping with the increasing use of the term in this way

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idk, that’s the issue with rise of skywalker tho

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I scrolled down like "how bad could these shoes be" and did a double take

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just realized that a pretzel went back in time and attempted to stop the iraq war

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look I just want to know if we’re gonna get any weird flag stories or billionaire vacations

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gorsuch looks so normal next to his fellow reactionary freaks that I’m like, what shoe is about to drop here? are we about to find out he had a child with elon musk

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Don't sleep on him spending $700 at Sally's beauty. He ain't got no hair!

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I mean like. chatgpt basically talks in linkedin dialect. the most banal restatement of a hipfiring echo blob of words that is approximately two paragraphs too long ……………. how many ceos are basically already LLMs

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my suspicion is that 80% of AI feature bloat can be attributed to one or more extremely cursed “tech ceo” group chats where these morons convince each other that their bad ideas are good, actually

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lol I have to mute my own post so my phone doesn’t keep saying “orientals” at me as a push notification

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I remember reading once about an insurance claim for a slightly complicated birth (not even THAT complicated) getting denied because BEING BORN was a pre-existing condition for the literal infant

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I was in school, so I had "good" health insurance that was geared towards young people and their needs.

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iirc it was like over 100/month without insurance. BIRTH CONTROL! and it was like the worst kind of hormonal bc!

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actually now that I think about it, I was definitely paying 0 under my school plan?? like really wild to go from a fixed cost of nearly 500 a year for a basic necessity to 0.

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anyways just in case you were too young or have no friends with uteruses: I was paying FORTY DOLLARS A MONTH for THE CHEAPEST FORM OF GENERIC HORMONAL BC while covered by GOOD university healthcare. After ACA this dropped to 10 / under 10 depending on coverage.

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no longer on an ACA exchange healthcare plan but those things can actually be pretty great? occasionally better than some of the ones I’ve had under other employers

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I am reminded of the dystopian past when I read through pet insurance policies and go “is that even legal???” pets aren’t human which means they get treated like people did prior to obamacare

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kind of weird to see the “ACA is useless” bs pop up again in 2024. it’s not great but like. y’all remember how much birth control pills cost pre-ACA???????????

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People will point to something and say “see voting doesn’t do anything” and it’s literally just the consequences of Republicans winning elections

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