Alan Smythe
@alansmythe.bsky.social
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Americans, you could have this.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Americans, you could have this.
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Swift Creatives have debuted their conceptual Wooden Bots, smart notification systems concealed within a trio of sculptural, highly crafted, but still recognisably robotic devices
www.wallpaper.com/tech/swift-c...
www.wallpaper.com/tech/swift-c...
Trust the Danes to make wooden robots
Forget the sensor-stuffed smart home and opt for these bots made from warm Danish oak instead
www.wallpaper.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Swift Creatives have debuted their conceptual Wooden Bots, smart notification systems concealed within a trio of sculptural, highly crafted, but still recognisably robotic devices
www.wallpaper.com/tech/swift-c...
www.wallpaper.com/tech/swift-c...
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Very few care more about television than I do. This guy cares FIVE TIMES as much. Great analysis, great writing, ever word honest and brutal and full of love for the medium. Please, if you can, subscribe… not as a favor to him, but to yourself. alansepinwall.ghost.io/dont-stop-be...
Don't stop believing
Some news, as they say
alansepinwall.ghost.io
September 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Very few care more about television than I do. This guy cares FIVE TIMES as much. Great analysis, great writing, ever word honest and brutal and full of love for the medium. Please, if you can, subscribe… not as a favor to him, but to yourself. alansepinwall.ghost.io/dont-stop-be...
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i have the very controversial hot take that democrats should campaign on democratic ideas that happen to be popular. they should use liberal rhetoric in framing key issues. and they should say mean things about republicans and conservatives, who want bad things for america.
hot take.
hot take.
a man with a mustache is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face .
ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
June 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
i have the very controversial hot take that democrats should campaign on democratic ideas that happen to be popular. they should use liberal rhetoric in framing key issues. and they should say mean things about republicans and conservatives, who want bad things for america.
hot take.
hot take.
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There has never been a time when every bright finance mind I trust has been this worried simultaneously
I've yet to find one credible contrarian take about what's going on right now
And we haven't even seen the disruption this is going to cause for businesses and consumers yet
I've yet to find one credible contrarian take about what's going on right now
And we haven't even seen the disruption this is going to cause for businesses and consumers yet
April 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
There has never been a time when every bright finance mind I trust has been this worried simultaneously
I've yet to find one credible contrarian take about what's going on right now
And we haven't even seen the disruption this is going to cause for businesses and consumers yet
I've yet to find one credible contrarian take about what's going on right now
And we haven't even seen the disruption this is going to cause for businesses and consumers yet
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one of my tiktok followers made this
April 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
one of my tiktok followers made this
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Unfortunately it appears to be true--Goodbye to the great Brad Holland.
Discovered his work in Playboy way back when and it was love at first sight--Always bold, strange, powerful and original--Always an inspiration.
Discovered his work in Playboy way back when and it was love at first sight--Always bold, strange, powerful and original--Always an inspiration.
April 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Unfortunately it appears to be true--Goodbye to the great Brad Holland.
Discovered his work in Playboy way back when and it was love at first sight--Always bold, strange, powerful and original--Always an inspiration.
Discovered his work in Playboy way back when and it was love at first sight--Always bold, strange, powerful and original--Always an inspiration.
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new resident on first day of ER action: [snakes a garden hose into a man's aorta in a pinch]
me: great call Santos, exactly what I would have done
me: great call Santos, exactly what I would have done
March 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
new resident on first day of ER action: [snakes a garden hose into a man's aorta in a pinch]
me: great call Santos, exactly what I would have done
me: great call Santos, exactly what I would have done
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They've breached the "I don't talk politics with family" containment, my brother just sent me this.
March 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
They've breached the "I don't talk politics with family" containment, my brother just sent me this.
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The ball is tipped
March 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The ball is tipped
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This doesn't make any sense, but I say we go with it. Save lives for pennies a day if you want healthy returns on your 401k.
March 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This doesn't make any sense, but I say we go with it. Save lives for pennies a day if you want healthy returns on your 401k.
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It's often said that presidents have limited power over the economy, but really it's more accurate to say that they have limited power to increase economic growth.
They have a lot more power to break things.
They have a lot more power to break things.
March 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It's often said that presidents have limited power over the economy, but really it's more accurate to say that they have limited power to increase economic growth.
They have a lot more power to break things.
They have a lot more power to break things.
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"We had a good thing you stupid son of a bitch, we had Russia preoccupied, we had OPEC cuts, we had everything we needed and it all ran like clockwork. You could have shut your mouth, let us drill, and made as much money as you needed, but you just had to blow it up, you and your pride and your ego"
March 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"We had a good thing you stupid son of a bitch, we had Russia preoccupied, we had OPEC cuts, we had everything we needed and it all ran like clockwork. You could have shut your mouth, let us drill, and made as much money as you needed, but you just had to blow it up, you and your pride and your ego"
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Posted this before but absolutely howling at this video every time I watch it
"How to Escape if Someone Attacks from Behind Your Car While You're Wearing a Seatbelt"
m.youtube.com
July 26, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Posted this before but absolutely howling at this video every time I watch it
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Like the number one reason for declining fertility is declining marriage rates and the number one reason for declining marriage rates is that uneducated men have high rates of being lazy unemployable misogynists. No amount of legacy media articles telling educated women to put out is gonna fix it
March 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Like the number one reason for declining fertility is declining marriage rates and the number one reason for declining marriage rates is that uneducated men have high rates of being lazy unemployable misogynists. No amount of legacy media articles telling educated women to put out is gonna fix it
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If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
March 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.
They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.
I’m happy to invest and/or help
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literally every time I talk to friends
March 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
literally every time I talk to friends
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big day for dictators with territorial ambitions
February 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
big day for dictators with territorial ambitions
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Exactly this.
Hillary was such a loser that she snatched a narrow defeat from an obvious win.
Kamala was good enough to turn an obvious crushing defeat into a relatively narrow loss.
Hillary was such a loser that she snatched a narrow defeat from an obvious win.
Kamala was good enough to turn an obvious crushing defeat into a relatively narrow loss.
-it was insane to nominate Hillary Clinton, a profoundly and unusually personally unpopular figure in American politics
-it was sad to saddle Kamala Harris, a perfectly solid politician, with the baggage of Joe Biden in 2024 because he refused to step down and she was unable to disavow him late
-it was sad to saddle Kamala Harris, a perfectly solid politician, with the baggage of Joe Biden in 2024 because he refused to step down and she was unable to disavow him late
February 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Exactly this.
Hillary was such a loser that she snatched a narrow defeat from an obvious win.
Kamala was good enough to turn an obvious crushing defeat into a relatively narrow loss.
Hillary was such a loser that she snatched a narrow defeat from an obvious win.
Kamala was good enough to turn an obvious crushing defeat into a relatively narrow loss.
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An invitation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-y...
February 28, 2025 at 3:34 AM
An invitation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-y...
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Love this. It should not be limited to this term. But it’s a great step forward.
Now @khanna.house.gov and other house members need to make the media tour , including Fox News, to talk about it
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Now @khanna.house.gov and other house members need to make the media tour , including Fox News, to talk about it
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna has introduced the Drain the Swamp Act.
It will ban White House officials from accepting gifts from lobbyists or becoming lobbyists during the Trump term.
It will ban White House officials from accepting gifts from lobbyists or becoming lobbyists during the Trump term.
February 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Love this. It should not be limited to this term. But it’s a great step forward.
Now @khanna.house.gov and other house members need to make the media tour , including Fox News, to talk about it
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Now @khanna.house.gov and other house members need to make the media tour , including Fox News, to talk about it
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
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DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
February 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
DOGE savings (WSJ): $2.6b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
TSLA subsidies (10 years): $15b
Annual increase in deficit: $900b
Cuts to Medicare: $880b
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February 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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