Wonkish

@wonkish.bsky.social

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Soft leftie, former Labour staffer, tech/climate nerd, and follows US politics a lot for a Brit. He/they + 🏳️‍🌈, @captainwonkish on the bird site.

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update: they did not know what a butler actually was and were using it as a stand in for “ha ha you have to look at my butt”

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Wonkish

the children have declared that they are kings and we are their butlers this morning which is as good a summation of parenthood as I can find

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Carl T. Bergstrom

I'm slightly above average, and a bit above average, woo.

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Atticus Goldfinch

Just checked and Wirecutter's upgrade pick (the Jabra Evolve2 50) is currently $123 on Amazon (less than half price):

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$125.99*

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Will Stancil

The case is "his age is an issue and we don't think he can win", which is backed up by the polling, but I guess it's easier when you straw man..

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

I literally had the old Vox Facebook group help me come up with a punny title for my dissertation, and even I looked at this and went "oh no".

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executive editor, barbell quarterly

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Chairman Goa Tse-tung

We all read this in Teal'c's voice, right?

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Jose Marichal

fwiw unlike every other union in the United States, the Teamsters actually do have a perfectly good reason to hate Democrats: A Dem trifecta in 1980 passed the Motor Carrier Act that deregulated the trucking industry and decimated Teamster membership and wages.

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snowjob.bsky.social

6-7 hours at its highest input (50kW, 125A @ 400V), though I wonder if they'll eventually make a version that can take DC in at a higher rate, as I assume the limiting factor is its built-in AC-DC charger. Just imagining pulling up to a 350kW rapid DC EV charger with one of these haha.

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Micah

I just found out that a spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio Future (Bomb Rush Cyberfunk) was released last year and it's now downloaded and ready to play. Sorry fascism, you just can't compete with skating around, tagging the neighbourhood beautifully, and knocking abusive cops down.

I rather doubt it.

Opinion | There Is No Dignity in This Kind of America (Published 2023)www.nytimes.com The relentless attack on trans people is an attack on us all.

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executive editor, barbell quarterly

Was pleasantly surprised to see that a bunch of electric construction equipment is also a thing now:

Electric construction machines and equipment I Volvo CEwww.volvoce.com Add silence with Volvo CE electric construction machines and equipment. Get to know the L25 Electric wheel loader and the ECR25 Electric excavator.

Plus this absolute unit they sell if there isn't solid grid access where you're working, a 396kWh/240kW battery that can charge other stuff.

Volvo PU500 | Electric Machines | Overviewwww.volvoce.com The mobile Power Unit PU500 brings power to sites with no or weak grid. Read more about it here.

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Paul Frazee

Just realising Bluesky could probably do with its own failwhale, maybe a butterfly being pelted by the rain of a cloudy sky?

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Dave Weigel

That account has already been suspended.

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executive editor, barbell quarterly

Honestly doubt they'd need to be strays.

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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy

Who's gonna tell him that the Secret Service are in fact not in possession of a Magic School Bus to shrink their agents down to be small enough to go into his brain and counter the worms?

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Helen Kennedy

This @contrapoints.bsky.social GIF really needs to stop being so appropriate..

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executive editor, barbell quarterly

I'm afraid that's not going to be enough, though perhaps if it was combined with a remaster of Jet Set Radio Future..

Oh my god, I just found out there's a spiritual successor to it with the same guy who did the soundtrack for the original returning, and the explicitly ACAB dynamic is still there..

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk review - one of gaming's purest joys returns in this almost-sequelwww.eurogamer.net Our review of Bomb Rush Cyberfunk.

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sperfur

Think that's unlikely as it's still up on Twitter and they've continued defending it there in the last couple of hours.

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smashley

it back

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Wonkish

All the calls for “everyone” to “cool down the rhetoric” etc feel like how families so often put the burden of keeping the peace on the family members who are already working hardest at that, since the difficult/abusive folks are unfixable/cannot be reasoned with.

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Coach Jerry (referee 🟥)

I mean..

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executive editor, barbell quarterly

"Your father is dead and my pot roost* is ruined."

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Alex Cranz

But what about the spork?

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Wonkish

Hey y'all, if you are feeling panic right now I hope you can find a way to disengage. Nothing you can post on bluesky in the next hour is going to change November. Watch some TV! It doesn't even have to be Tudor horse man show! 💖