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Peter@pboothe.bsky.social |
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Coding fool. Recovering academic. Currently taking a 6 month break in the Netherlands. Former tech lead of M-Lab and former CS professor and former a few other things too.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Should've jailed Trump and his cohorts immediately. Members of Congress. His advisors. It was literally an attempted coup. And we treated it like a rough day at the office. Some of the people already convicted might even go free because of SCOTUS! We fucked it up!
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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I sure did not have "Harlan Crow paid for a yacht and private helicopter trip for Clarence Thomas to visit a palace in Vladimir Putin's hometown" on my bingo card, but in hindsight, why the hell not. www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-tho...
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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“Colored”? They’re going to be causally saying the N word on air by September
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Erin Fogg
@criminalerin.bsky.social
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This is not an informational chart this is an instruction manual
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Paul Rosenberg
@paulrosenberg.bsky.social
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But 100% predictable in light of the Build Back Better fight!
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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Adam Smith thought so.
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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I only care about him beating Donald Trump. It's establishment democrats as far as the eyes can see, so any nominee's policies will be identical. So it's whether he'll win. He beat the same guy head to head last time. Like, I get it. He's old. I just don't care.
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Mark Joseph Stern
@mjsdc.bsky.social
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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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If you are a college or university with a growing endowment, you are either trying to become tuition free, trying to bring in a larger student cohort every year, or you are a hedge fund hiding behind educational tax breaks.
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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Trump is also not the same as 8 years ago. He's way worse.
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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But Biden isn't running against Biden. He's running against Trump, who still has worse word salad. Trump is the only person I've ever seen who wasn't aged by being president. The weight of the world was nothing because he didn't pick it up or give the tiniest damn. He was aged by his loss though.
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Katharine LaRonde
@katlaronde.bsky.social
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If the French defeat the Nazis and America doesn’t, we will have to retire some of our most cherished jokes.
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Phillip Anderson
@phillipanderson.bsky.social
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Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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Why do mathematicians use backwards E and upside down A? Because they can't use upside down E and backwards A!
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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That's the French flag's secret: it's always upside down.
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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Trump gets a pass on this stuff while Biden gets pilloried for much less. I don't understand why we seem to be treating 78 as young and 81 as old.
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Patrick S. Tomlinson
@stealthygeek.bsky.social
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If for any reason Joe Biden can't complete a 2nd term, we know who will take over. Her name is Kamala Harris and America already voted for her once. If Donald Trump can't complete a 2nd term, we have no idea who will take over because he TRIED TO HAVE HIS LAST VP MURDERED.
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shaka 🦁👑
@beejonson.me
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Every four years, American voters have to vote like there's a "Thanos level" threat to US democracy, but when American politicians get into office, they don't approach politics like democracy is on the line. They don't show respect for that democracy that so many voters came out to "save."
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats
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Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
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watching them fail to even understand, let alone meet, the moment for 8 years and counting has been absolutely infuriating. while condescendingly assuring everyone else that they know best
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes
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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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I recently learned that official acts by a president can't be crimes, and that seems like it would have been of great help to him.
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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Too bad for him he didn't do it as an official act.
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bobby (frociaggine)
@bobbylewis.bsky.social
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the “some folks just need killing” thing out of north carolina reminds me of a third thing these annoying people are right about: as long as the republican bloodlust grows and their power is unbroken, every election probably will be the most important one of your life
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illumi
@illumi.me
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the thing about people who explicitly tell you not to vote is that they are absolutely going to vote
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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The degree to which the GOP loves active duty unmarried soldiers but hates veterans and military families is underappreciated.
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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Run you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!
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Erin Bartram
@erinbartram.bsky.social
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maybe we could have a news story about a policy proposal some day. as a treat.
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Jeramy Neugin
@lostcitymagic.bsky.social
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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.
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Pookleblinky
@pookleblinky.bsky.social
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Fascism needs its enemies fighting each other, threatening each other with it, propping it up to bludgeon each other with. The last thing a fascist wants is the white moderate to tell the communist "ok I still hate you but first we're gonna have to beat this nazi to death with a hammer"
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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If If you are a self-employed American, the easiest option I know of is using the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty to move to the Netherlands. www.dutchnews.nl/2018/04/its-...
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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That said, it's still possible for US citizens to move out of the US (I pulled it off in 2020!) but you need to plan like a motherfucker and employ professionals.
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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Borders have gone up everywhere. Hemingway and Baldwin could never move to Paris these days - they'd have to make sure they spent 90 out of every 180 days outside of France!
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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Goddamnit. The efficiency and ever-increasingly-green operation of Google's infrastructure was one of the things that made me most proud to work there. They have (had?) a pledge to work towards zero emissions and every year they got closer. And now this.
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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When the president does it, that means it is not illegal. There's nothing to excuse, just a bunch of people who couldn't win an election chasing a good man or of office for no reason. Ugh. This logic sucks.
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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I think they definitely believe that Watergate was a bad thing and that poor Nixon was illegally hounded from office. Unless you mean just the break-in. They think that's fine.
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Jana H-S (they/she)
@jana-aych-ess.bsky.social
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my We Are Not A Destructive Species We Are A Consumptive Species Who Pretends Not To Remember The Hunger tshirt has raised very few questions because everyone assumes it's a reference to a band or something
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Peter
@pboothe.bsky.social
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Remembering is exhausting, so we increasingly don't.
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David Sacerdote
@davidsacerdote.bsky.social
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This is the climate policy we get with a court system invested in a dictatorship of Republicans: the President has total immunity and absolute power...unless he's a Democrat & does something good for the country.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/c...
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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social
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I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.
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Chloé Stawski
@chlowski.bsky.social
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Italy going for our jugular
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Nick S
@holgate.permanent.red
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I devoted a decent chunk of my life to the 18th century and have long said that Americans basically overstate the powers of George III, he wasn't fucking Louis XIV, and the presidency still retains a lot of George III powers. Except the US president is now Louis XIV.
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Meredith Whittaker
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
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It's true, us bitches do
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Jen in Motion
@jeninmotion.bsky.social
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All us bitches need Signal
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Anil Dash
@anildash.com
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One thing I think people forget is how relentlessly *stupid* every day of the Trump administration was. He doesn’t need to do a big elaborate complicated conspiracy, he can just (e.g.) email a list of every U.S. agent in the field to Putin and say it’s to own the libs, and *that* will have immunity.
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