Christopher Coffman

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“...a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable.”

economics, public policy, art and literature, philosophy; recovering full-time college adjunct

(you may have known me as “tex” in the other place)

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“It’s Britney, bitch” “It’s also covid”

this is the unamused face of a man shortly before he finds out he has covid

I tested positive today. Fatigue, aches, swollen lymph nodes, and a persistent fever…overall, tolerable, but I would not have guessed covid. No respiratory symptoms, nothing like the last time I had it when I was snotty/coughing. Doc said it’s a mild case, so just rest and drink vitamin water.

I know I’m gonna regret posting this and inviting nonsense but I only had COVID once and that was years ago I just tested positive (goddamnit) and feel mostly fine, only have a slight sore throat. I shouldn’t be taking anything right? Are we still saving antivirals for people who need truly it?

periodic reminder that the Muppets Christmas Carol is the best Christmas Carol

"And the cause of liberal democracy in Europe, which did NOT die..."

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Can you kindly add that Vaseline and Saranwrap can be used as a seal? The Sikh regiments of the Indian Army do that with their beards and masks.

PSA: this is not proper mask use…that beard counteracts the effectiveness of the mask. I know, I did it wrong.

this is the unamused face of a man shortly before he finds out he has covid

I’d like to think that Labor winning a landslide in the UK and Macron’s coalition defeating Le Pen and the racists/nationalists, there’s hope for America come November. But I have covid and a fever so maybe I’m just being silly.

this is the unamused face of a man shortly before he finds out he has covid

I’m just going to sit in front of computers fucking with spreadsheets for the rest of my working life, which will probably be up until I die because I’ll never be able to afford retirement. This is fine.

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very hard to figure out what this use of DEI could mean other than the n word

Subtle. Very subtle.

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I watched the Fifth Element last night, and I know this is an annoying thing to say, but it is nice to see an expansive sci fi world which only exists in one movie. No spin offs, no sequels, no prequels, just one story.

just glanced at projected UK election results...lol...lmfao, even

eat the rich

Blackrock CEO : as a billionaire i think the only way to shore up retirement and social security is for people to work into their 70s Press : so there’s no other option Billionaire : none that comes to mind

A solution to the retirement crisis? Americans should work for more years, BlackRock CEO sayswww.cbsnews.com BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said that longer life expectancies are "putting the U.S. retirement system under immense strain."

still got a fever but it’s not funny anymore send antibiotics or something

i got a fever...send cowbell

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“Look, folks. There are no “gooner states” and “edging states”, we are the United States!”

Gov Abbott and the geniuses in the #txlege blocked internet porn in the state of Texas last session and ever since then I’ve wondered what the effect will be of the gooner demographic. Although, many GOP voters now deprived of their gooner fix probably think it’s somehow Biden’s fault. 🙄

An under-noticed aspect of Project 2025: criminalizing porn. www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREC29gH/

TikTok - Make Your Daywww.tiktok.com

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Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

this could be us but you’re not a fawn and I’m not a raccoon

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One time I took a whole packet of these bad boys and started emptying each one onto a Kleenex with the intent of making a gigantic one. My friends, I do not recommend! It popped as I was near the end of the process…emptied one just like the rest and it went off. 😹🤯

Leaving out a plate of poppers and a glass of gunpowder for the ghost of George Washington as is independence eve tradition

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Companies decided to sink billions of dollars of new investment into manufacturing plants in the U.S. after the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction Act boosted incentives for U.S. production, Check out that spike in manufacturing plant construction. It dwarfs all prior increases. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣

Biden should order the release of every last Epstein document, or pardon whoever leaks them

i got a fever...send cowbell

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I am literally a professional politics-knower and I can confirm that our ability to predict what will happen next is literally never as good as pundits like to pretend it is. As I tell my grad students, social science doesn't do point predictions.

no humiliating pain, no valuable information gained delightfully narrated 🧵

When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.

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AP story waits until paragraph 16 to mention police & prosecutors are accused of conspiring to protect the cop who's apparently the real killer, until then making him seem like a lone wolf

Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...

Missouri woman who has served more than 40 years for murder is declared innocent by judgewww.nbcnews.com She must be freed or retried for the 1980 murder within 30 days, a judge ruled, but the Missouri AG has asked an appeals court to review the judge's decision.

just explained “hawk tuah” to my boss 😐

now you don’t stand a chance if you can’t hawk tuah

man remember when yelling "hyaawwwgh" was enough to disqualify you from being president

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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

it was way back in the first Obama term that one of my oldest friends who went off the right wing deep-end told me that if another civil war came along, the left would be responsible for most of the bloodshed just an absolute insane level of bloodlust fantasizing from the people with the most guns

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

🎶 there was an old woman who swallowed a fly… 🎶

Yo dawg, we heard you liked ChatGPT, so we put ChatGPT into your ChatGPT.