aust.in.inimitable
@abw56.bsky.social
Former wrangler of students. Current wrangler of data. Snake River. Smoky Mountains. Forever a proud wife guy.
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aust.in.inimitable
@abw56.bsky.social
· Jan 20
all i'm saying is that today could have been a beautiful day
Nobody who sits in front of a microphone all day is going to give you clear analysis of, or insight into, how the world works. Just because they've mastered the distribution of content does not mean that any of it is any good.
January 7, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Nobody who sits in front of a microphone all day is going to give you clear analysis of, or insight into, how the world works. Just because they've mastered the distribution of content does not mean that any of it is any good.
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People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
January 7, 2026 at 3:36 AM
People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
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journalism is cooked at CBS. i’d be packed up tonight. even if you could do your job, you’d still be propping up whatever this is.
just walk out.
you can leave.
if it sucks, hit da bricks.
real winners quit.
just walk out.
you can leave.
if it sucks, hit da bricks.
real winners quit.
Here's the clip of Tony Dokoupil ending tonight's broadcast by absolutely gushing over "ultimate Florida Man" Marco Rubio.
January 7, 2026 at 3:16 AM
journalism is cooked at CBS. i’d be packed up tonight. even if you could do your job, you’d still be propping up whatever this is.
just walk out.
you can leave.
if it sucks, hit da bricks.
real winners quit.
just walk out.
you can leave.
if it sucks, hit da bricks.
real winners quit.
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funniest part is you can add a line for when trump was inaugurated
January 6, 2026 at 10:43 PM
funniest part is you can add a line for when trump was inaugurated
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NEW from me:
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
America is Losing Blue Collar Jobs
For the First Time Since Early COVID & the Great Recession, the US is Losing Jobs in Manufacturing, Construction, & Other Blue Collar Industries
www.apricitas.io
January 6, 2026 at 10:36 PM
NEW from me:
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
We're watching a new Lost Cause start to entrench itself in the American psyche. If we don't arrest it, in a decade monuments will be built honoring the insurrectionists, who will be renamed "those who suffered to preserve our democracy"
January 7, 2026 at 12:11 AM
We're watching a new Lost Cause start to entrench itself in the American psyche. If we don't arrest it, in a decade monuments will be built honoring the insurrectionists, who will be renamed "those who suffered to preserve our democracy"
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i was the only home whose cable didn’t go out when the sopranos finale aired and it showed tony looking up and seeing two guys walk into the restaurant holding hands. then it cut back to tony shrugging, which you have to understand in 2007 was a very powerful statement
January 6, 2026 at 11:10 PM
i was the only home whose cable didn’t go out when the sopranos finale aired and it showed tony looking up and seeing two guys walk into the restaurant holding hands. then it cut back to tony shrugging, which you have to understand in 2007 was a very powerful statement
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The constitutional remedy for a president who launches a war of acquisition against an ally is impeachment, removal, disqualification, and ultimately a criminal trial. And the same is true for every member of his cabinet involved in such an illegal undertaking.
January 6, 2026 at 9:34 PM
The constitutional remedy for a president who launches a war of acquisition against an ally is impeachment, removal, disqualification, and ultimately a criminal trial. And the same is true for every member of his cabinet involved in such an illegal undertaking.
This whole "let's blow up NATO" business is putting the whole cui bono theory to an immense stress test. Because there are literally hundreds of billions of dollars in military contracts on the line here - alone. A lot of people stand to be immiserated by this stupidity.
January 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM
This whole "let's blow up NATO" business is putting the whole cui bono theory to an immense stress test. Because there are literally hundreds of billions of dollars in military contracts on the line here - alone. A lot of people stand to be immiserated by this stupidity.
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he should be impeached for this alone
January 6, 2026 at 9:16 PM
he should be impeached for this alone
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If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.
Walz is out of Fs: "Not a single Republican supported this, so every Minnesotan from here on, whoever uses this program, there is no bit of thanks that would go to the R legislators who did all they could to stop this ... our schools have money to pay their teachers? I'll take credit for that too."
January 6, 2026 at 6:16 PM
If Dems talked like this regularly, we wouldn't have to focus on "how to win close elections in difficult environments." We would have a lot fewer close elections, and a lot fewer difficult environments.
Last year, after about ~20 years of not really gaming at all, I bought myself a Nintendo Switch 2. I debated about posting updates on the games I've gotten into (old and new), and ultimately decided not to...but I think e.w. is right. We need more topics here than just the horrors.
me on bluesky in 2023: stay calm, act chill, and maybe people won't think I'm some kind of terribly uncool "car guy" (or, god forbid, "tech guy")
me on bluesky in 2026: you know what, let's talk about cars and AVs, this place needs to talk about something other than the horrors
me on bluesky in 2026: you know what, let's talk about cars and AVs, this place needs to talk about something other than the horrors
January 6, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Last year, after about ~20 years of not really gaming at all, I bought myself a Nintendo Switch 2. I debated about posting updates on the games I've gotten into (old and new), and ultimately decided not to...but I think e.w. is right. We need more topics here than just the horrors.
Anybody who saw the initial Hilton thing yesterday and thought that the chain was doing an anti-ICE thing needs to remember that with these stories there's always a second act.
January 6, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Anybody who saw the initial Hilton thing yesterday and thought that the chain was doing an anti-ICE thing needs to remember that with these stories there's always a second act.
Slim ended up better off than Rubio will.
January 6, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Slim ended up better off than Rubio will.
Should be remembered alongside 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
January 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Should be remembered alongside 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
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This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave.
January 6, 2026 at 7:48 AM
This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave.
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they're doing it for gender, imo
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 1:57 AM
they're doing it for gender, imo
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Read theory www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...
January 6, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Read theory www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-o...
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
www.huffpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
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Ngl it’s really disheartening to see liberal currents struggle to raise 500K and these jokers just keep raising cash no questions asked
January 5, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Ngl it’s really disheartening to see liberal currents struggle to raise 500K and these jokers just keep raising cash no questions asked
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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"When people are—essentially randomly—either approved or denied for SNAP, workers who get access to SNAP work *more* over the next three years." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...
When Volatile Work Schedules Meet SNAP Work Requirements
New policies put low income workers in jeopardy of losing vital supports
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:43 PM
"When people are—essentially randomly—either approved or denied for SNAP, workers who get access to SNAP work *more* over the next three years." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...
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Thinking about how the Taliban hates running Afghanistan because they have to actually show up to work every day instead of shooting guns with their friends.
Dan Bongino has departed FBI, per statement
January 5, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Thinking about how the Taliban hates running Afghanistan because they have to actually show up to work every day instead of shooting guns with their friends.
I don't know who the last honorable Republican was, but it's clear it's nobody currently in good standing in the party.
January 5, 2026 at 1:54 PM
I don't know who the last honorable Republican was, but it's clear it's nobody currently in good standing in the party.
This is why I'm confident nobody who's in Trump's inner circle when he shuffles off his mortal coil will be able to take on the mantle of MAGA.
To a person, they've all had to supplicate themselves in order to be welcomed in, which is immediately disqualifying in a patriarchal, hierarchal movement.
To a person, they've all had to supplicate themselves in order to be welcomed in, which is immediately disqualifying in a patriarchal, hierarchal movement.
Still can’t get over how much Rubio’s body language and demeanor have changed from a decade ago. If this were a movie about a politician who sold his soul for power, the actor playing Rubio would be panned for his ham-fistedness.
WELKER: Mr. Secretary, are you running Venezuela right now?
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela
January 5, 2026 at 1:49 PM
This is why I'm confident nobody who's in Trump's inner circle when he shuffles off his mortal coil will be able to take on the mantle of MAGA.
To a person, they've all had to supplicate themselves in order to be welcomed in, which is immediately disqualifying in a patriarchal, hierarchal movement.
To a person, they've all had to supplicate themselves in order to be welcomed in, which is immediately disqualifying in a patriarchal, hierarchal movement.