Rob

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GenX leftie dad nerd guy

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Political violence always benefits authoritarians because liberals will always condemn it and authoritarians, regardless of whether they are perpetrators or victims, will always use it to claim more power.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

Everything that’s wrong right there.

The fourth estate failed us when they explicitly chose to focus on the odds instead of the stakes

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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct

My group at work got some bad news today so people are a little bummed. But then downstairs, outside the MRI/CT Scan office, there was a woman sitting on the floor crying. Perspective. Some things matter and some things don’t matter.

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hey siri how do i become a fit, hyper-focused, early-rising corporate psychopath

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And oh, yeah- Happy Summer Solstice! Try not to melt 🫠

I ate 64 bees for breakfast. Here’s what it taught me about leadership:

Neuroscientists say stop eating bees in the morning, you'll never guess why

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What if we're stuck down here? defector.com/what-if-were...

What If We're Stuck Down Here? | Defectordefector.com If I’m to be honest, I believe in a future of space colonization because I want to believe in it. It’s romantic. It’s adventurous. It’s cool! It’s also, in a worst-case scenario, the way to preserve t...

If your post only has a handful of comments, and you don’t give mine a Like, and this keeps happening, I’m going to assume you have me muted or just think I’m lame. Ok bye.

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I cannot emphasize enough just how massive and wide spread Russian misinfo ops are today. If I could ballpark quantify it, I'd say something like "It's as big as the Internet was in 2015," but everyone would tune me out for being crazy. I'm not crazy.

one reason twitter is Like That

“I work for the non-defense part!!!” I cry, as I spend your tax dollars on my daily Starbucks and my company’s products blow up more people.

working for a defense contractor for a decade but shaking my head the whole time so people know i disagree with it

One of my favorite NASA web sites, endlessly fascinating watching the DSN antennas uplinking and downlinking science data from the fleet.

GUESS WHO IS SENDING BACK DATA FROM ALL FOUR OF ITS OPERATIONAL SCIENCE INSTRUMENTS?? Voyager 1 we love you

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if you want to destroy my cybertruckkk mist it lightly as i drive awayyyy

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Every right wing pundit during Pride

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Much better than aggro, Orcas are fucking freaks man this is amazing Someone is like YO CHECK OUT THIS FISH HAT and Orca social media goes berserk

🚨 SALMON HATS 🚨

Sounds exactly right.

Many people see the threats of political violence on the right today, including calls for civil war, and ask, but about what? What in the world is worth fighting about? Gas stoves? Larson’s book suggests two possible answers to me: as back then, the preservation of a racial caste hierarchy, and…

M!ddle$chool

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i watched The Man With The Golden Gun because i love christopher lee and i cant overstate how weird it is that scaramanga's villainous plan is... to provide the world with limitless, cheap solar power

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Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series: sherwood.news/tech/how-to-...

How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondassherwood.news I was the first person to ask my Honda dealer how to turn off data sharing. It didn't go well....

I wonder how many people Biden has had to promise pardons to.

I’ll flame your lips.

I'll Duran your Duran

Off to do an afternoon of board games. I would be happier about it if it wasn’t such a gorgeous day and there wasn’t yard work to do. Ah well, the dice wait for no man.

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You fool...you thought my mistakes were a result of incompetence, whereas they are actually caused by careful and deliberate bad decisionmaking

Co-signed.

I realize offering this advice ON April 15 is belated and useless, but for next time, y’all: I’ve been using FreeTaxUSA for my complicated freelancer taxes for years. it has the same accessible, step-by-step walk-through as TurboTax but fed is free and state is less than $20. fuck Intuit for real

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(in as quick as I can) But Doctor I am Charlie Brown

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Just got back from your grandma’s house

I swear today’s the day I’m going to get stuff done around the house! The sun is shining, the tank is clean, and we are… THE TANK IS CLEAN