Andrew Sterian

@steriana.bsky.social

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Engineer, Apple Inc. NorCal4Ever. Meatless in Seattle (and everywhere else). Straight-ticket Democrat until GOP cleans house. Recovering Canadian.

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CNN

Nobody raised the "bullseye" comment as a concern before the shooting. So it is hypocrisy to claim it is somehow inappropriate now.

Vance is Processed Cheeze Product

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The Washington Post

This is not news-worthy

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Seth Cotlar

Wonder if instead Trump could have gone to pay respects to the families of the people that were killed and critically injured at his rally.

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Helen Kennedy

Come to the Dark Side. Embrace it. Welcome it. Normalize staying home and watching Netflix.

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Helen Kennedy

There really are 2 Americas and I want nothing to do with the other one. Unity is not my problem.

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💙🩵Chloe🩵💙

That Panda's name has got to be Karen

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💙🩵Chloe🩵💙

Good job remembering to floss your teef today Chloe!

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Don Moynihan

The Republican story will be: "IRS given $60 billion to fight tax cheats, only gets $1 billion back"

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Philip Bump

Matjotie Taylot Gteene has thoughts

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@GottaLaff

He will not be missed

"Station Wagon Cybertruck" is going to be the answer to some trivia-style board game in the future.

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Molly Knight

This ain't your parents' NYT

What's the best episode of TV you've ever watched?

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Andrew Sterian

Just to be clear, this is Silicon Valley VC bro/Musk acolyte David Sacks coming down on the side of the Le Pen family, whose patriarch called Nazi gas chambers a "minor detail" of history and whose ex-wife alleged he nicknamed Hitler "Uncle Dolfie" while snarling "The Jews are invading France."

It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.

Great article summarizing the history and current state of fusion research. www.construction-physics.com/p/will-we-ev...

Will We Ever Get Fusion Power?www.construction-physics.com “Every one of the stars in the sky uses fusion to generate enormous amounts of energy. Why shouldn’t we?”

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Faine Greenwood

Gilmore Girls I am totally not in the target demographic but I don’t care.

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Joshua J. Friedman

Nauta can’t appoint her to the Supreme Court

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Andrew Sterian

Read this, share this widely

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:

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The Washington Post

This is the kind of hard-hitting news that makes me feel good about my WaPo subscription

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@GottaLaff

A good lesson for Americans: major political change can sometimes take 14 years...or longer. 2016 was only 8 years ago. We are still going to go through some things.

Mashpee, MA Especially if you have kids in the car

What are the funniest location names near you? This question brought to you by Cape Disappointment and Deception Bay in Washington.

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Aaron Rupar

Did he come on the PA and yell "Psych!"

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Andrew Sterian

Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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Andrew Sterian

Things are pretty fucked up and the future is uncertain — probably the worst in my lifetime (perhaps excepting 1969 before I can remember). When it’s like that, I like to think about my grandparents and what they faced and got through with the Great Depression and WWII. /1

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Katie Mack

The only possible silver lining here is the money-motivated business types who before saw Trump as a manageable threat who could increase their profits now may see him as a non-manageable threat, and not worth the risk.

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Andrew Sterian

This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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Andrew Sterian

You do not need to read the entirety of today's 119-page opinion in Trump v. US. All you need to read is this paragraph from Justice Sotomayor in dissent:

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Andrew Sterian

There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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Puck the Puddle Pilot

Can't wait for the next pandemic when expertise decisions will be made by courts, on the courts' timelines.