Adam Rogers

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Reporter at Business Insider. Ex-Wired. Author of books! Proof: The Science of Booze and Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern.

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Stephen Webb @stephenwebb.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 04:45 UTC

Well, perhaps Rees-Mogg can console himself by returning to his great grandfather's Victorian factory and chaining a street urchin to the machinery

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 04:21 UTC

Daleks lose!

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 03:30 UTC

In this house we know who the real villain of US history is.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 02:57 UTC

Sorry

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 02:53 UTC

Welllll he’s got some other issues at the moment, too

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 02:27 UTC

Yeah but over there they spell it “Elmou.”

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:28 UTC

I think an enterprising journalist should name the donors who are willing to throw the country into fascism because they didn’t get their ego massaged on their birthday.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:45 UTC

Y’all literally just had a guy telling me not to vote so

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BuckyHinault @buckyhinault.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:59 UTC

Why I Don’t Gloat author looking very smug

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:51 UTC

Why I Don’t Oat author had two bowls of gruel this morning

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:50 UTC

Why I Don’t Tote author always carrying stuff in New Yorker bag

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:49 UTC

Why I Don’t Moat author owns excavator, castle, alligators.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:40 UTC

Why I Don’t Boat author actually an avid sailor

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:27 UTC

But, Tim!

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 21:24 UTC

WHY AM NOT VOTE

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:11 UTC

Woozy Winks! Hal Jordan’s buddy with the name I won’t type here! Also how do the pals overlap with Doctor Who companions? Is Robin a pal, technically? (Probably no since he has a costume.) Marvin and Wendy are pals; the Wondertwins are…not?

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:02 UTC

Has anyone done a lengthy article on Comics' Greatest Pals? Like Rick Jones bounces back every now and then, Etta Candy less so. Jimmy is easily Top Pal

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:43 UTC

Lotta “environmentalists” would rather have a pretty view than save the planet. calmatters.org/politics/202...

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:25 UTC

Oh, hey, it’s a hell of a town. But this is wild.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:25 UTC

I remember looking up at Kowloon Walled City in 1990 and asking my friend who lived in Hong Kong if we could go in and check it out. She laughed and squired me away safely.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:19 UTC

I’m sorry—the capital? Of the country? Doesn’t have safe water? In 2024?

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:09 UTC

(I have a petty and only faintly justified hypothesis that the script for Chinatown is actually not great as a mystery, and on set Polanski and Nicholson turned it into a brilliant story about a not-great detective.)

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:08 UTC

It's also wild that Towne, an writer and an Angeleno, had not read Chandler and did not know the story of the aqueduct until researching the script.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:05 UTC

It's kind of wild that the photo essay that sparked Robert Towne's interest in writing "Chinatown" was nostalgic for a Los Angeles that was, at the time, just 30 years in the past. Which is, like "Chinatown," very LA. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:01 UTC

I've seen it; you're fine.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:20 UTC

Yes but this time they have invented cell phones so

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:18 UTC

“Hang on, I’ll send you the story I wrote about that OH GOD BEFORE YOU WERE BORN.”

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:16 UTC

So much of being old turns out to be learning new slang and remembering the last time a seemingly new idea didn’t work.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:14 UTC

If this thing connects to the internet even a little, I’m definitely going to call it Furry Road.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 22:13 UTC

From the grave of Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems, a decomposing claw emerges

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 19:49 UTC

A tragically common cause of death before pasteurization was food poisoning in children who were being weaned and starting to drink cow's milk. Pasteurization is one of the greatest public health successes in the history of the world, and now it's protecting us from H5N1 bird flu 🧪

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:50 UTC

But wouldn’t wide deployment of a vaccine lessen severity and reduce demand? Thats…the point, I thought? Am I just unsmart?

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 03:57 UTC

“Who cares as long as my pals stay rich and a former president can do republic-endangering crime” is just never going to make sense to me.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:27 UTC

Say everyone votes hard enough and Biden wins. What then? What change will be wrought? Or, just spitballing, what might a President of the United States do right now, with five months left of presidenting?

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:03 UTC

Roy Cohn twerking in his grave right now. All his bets finally paid off.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:00 UTC

Months ago! Months ago it was clear SCOTUS would say immune, a little immunity, no immunity! You could be ready for three possible things and then do a thing!

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:56 UTC

So no, then.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:55 UTC

Cruisers will create a diversion? Reroute auxiliary power through the primary sensor array? One onus will stay behind to trigger the detonation?

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:54 UTC

“Make sure your truck is up-armored”?

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:54 UTC

So is there a plan or

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:51 UTC

OK but like

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:41 UTC

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 23:14 UTC

Nobody wants this! Like 1,000 guys in the whole country want this! They just happen to be very corrupt or very rich.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:48 UTC

[squawking goose] WHICH institution??!!

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:46 UTC

I know that even the people who think they want a king are wrong about what it’ll mean for them in operation, but that’s not giving me much comfort right now.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:21 UTC

It cynically occurs to me that the White House could have had a few versions of these remarks prewritten and edited months ago. They could have had several if-then policy responses designed and vetted, even talked through with trusted, non-leaky legislators. So I wonder if that happened.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:52 UTC

Gonna need everything to stop rapidly intensifying please.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:48 UTC

If they lower the fee to 5 or 8 bucks or something, it won’t reduce congestion and that will doom it to failure not just here but everywhere. People will point to New York and say, “It didn’t even work there!”

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 20:19 UTC

Sorry. This *day,* you know?

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