Brooks
@brooksdunn.bsky.social
Not actually an entire band. Architect in Los Angeles
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Come on defense. Go Blue!
November 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Come on defense. Go Blue!
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One story - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Brian Cook, the founder of MGOBLOG (here’s a story from way back in 2008 on what the blog did and does) published an essay yesterday that you should read. I’ve known Brian a little for nearly 20 years because of our shared unhealthy level of interest in Michigan football, so this story resonates for me […]
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August 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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One of the things i am not hearing mentioned during tariff discussions is how weak the dollar has become since King Midas took the throne. The dollar has fallen approx 10% on average to other currencies.
So as an importer, you’re not only paying tariffs, but also buying with a weaker dollar.
So as an importer, you’re not only paying tariffs, but also buying with a weaker dollar.
August 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
One of the things i am not hearing mentioned during tariff discussions is how weak the dollar has become since King Midas took the throne. The dollar has fallen approx 10% on average to other currencies.
So as an importer, you’re not only paying tariffs, but also buying with a weaker dollar.
So as an importer, you’re not only paying tariffs, but also buying with a weaker dollar.
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“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
August 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
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WE HAVE LONG SINCE LEFT THE INFORMATION AGE. WELCOME TO THE AGE OF NOISE
July 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
WE HAVE LONG SINCE LEFT THE INFORMATION AGE. WELCOME TO THE AGE OF NOISE
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AI slop started with SEO. We were fucked as soon as what people might search for became more important than what we were trying to say.
July 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
AI slop started with SEO. We were fucked as soon as what people might search for became more important than what we were trying to say.
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With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.
It's mind-blowing how little attention this extraordinary statement has received. It's briefly mentioned in a couple news articles, but this MSNBC opinion piece is the only extended discussion of it I've seen: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
June 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
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The depressing inevitability of everything that's happening is now part of the fabric of life. Calling for the deaths of your political opponents from a position of power leads to the political assassination of your opponents, as sure as lager turns to piss.
June 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The depressing inevitability of everything that's happening is now part of the fabric of life. Calling for the deaths of your political opponents from a position of power leads to the political assassination of your opponents, as sure as lager turns to piss.
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The American identity is so powerful exactly because it does not demand exclusivity. Our strength is our faith in ourselves, in all people, in liberty, a faith that lights our path so brightly it illuminates the world. We have the largest economy BECAUSE we can be 100% American and 100% Mexican, etc
If you think it's appropriate to go to a bunch of Mexican-American Angelenos and demand they wear "American flag bikinis" you're a scumbag nativist
June 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The American identity is so powerful exactly because it does not demand exclusivity. Our strength is our faith in ourselves, in all people, in liberty, a faith that lights our path so brightly it illuminates the world. We have the largest economy BECAUSE we can be 100% American and 100% Mexican, etc
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🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
June 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.
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it’s a doge eat doge world
June 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
it’s a doge eat doge world
So now we have a score that’s possible in football in Yankees- Dodgers
June 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
So now we have a score that’s possible in football in Yankees- Dodgers
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The news has all been about the Ivy-League schools, but what will the economic effects of this be on land-grant and public schools and the towns that host them. from my time in school I assume it’s going to be a nightmare.
May 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The news has all been about the Ivy-League schools, but what will the economic effects of this be on land-grant and public schools and the towns that host them. from my time in school I assume it’s going to be a nightmare.
Time to donate to the Charitibundi Bowl: 2 because that number has been good to us (Blake Corum, Will Johnson, Charles Woodson etc. ),13-10 for the score in this year’s edition of The Game + fees. @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Time to donate to the Charitibundi Bowl: 2 because that number has been good to us (Blake Corum, Will Johnson, Charles Woodson etc. ),13-10 for the score in this year’s edition of The Game + fees. @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social
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always a good time to give a bookish kid who thinks magic is cool the Earthsea books
April 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
always a good time to give a bookish kid who thinks magic is cool the Earthsea books
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
April 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
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If someone else is happy, it’s okay
If someone else is happy, it’s okay
You don’t need to feelings dump,
You don’t need to bring up Trump
If someone else is happy, it’s okay
If someone else is happy, it’s okay
You don’t need to feelings dump,
You don’t need to bring up Trump
If someone else is happy, it’s okay
April 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If someone else is happy, it’s okay
If someone else is happy, it’s okay
You don’t need to feelings dump,
You don’t need to bring up Trump
If someone else is happy, it’s okay
If someone else is happy, it’s okay
You don’t need to feelings dump,
You don’t need to bring up Trump
If someone else is happy, it’s okay
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Standards harmonization when? Don’t make Americans pay to retest this to whatever slightly different ASTM standard we use.
2mm thin-bed #clay mortar method approved by DIBt for (non-fired 👋 Americans) earth brick masonry. We can build 4 storeys with this in Germany now. DIN 18940
#earthbuilding #lehm #circular #regenerativeconstruction
www.ingenieur.de/technik/fach...
#earthbuilding #lehm #circular #regenerativeconstruction
www.ingenieur.de/technik/fach...
Erstmals tragende Lehmziegel im Dünnbettverfahren zugelassen
Der Lehmbau nimmt eine weitere Hürde im modernen Bauwesen: Erstmals dürfen tragende Lehmziegel im Dünnbettverfahren verbaut werden.
www.ingenieur.de
April 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Standards harmonization when? Don’t make Americans pay to retest this to whatever slightly different ASTM standard we use.
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"Free trade is good, actually" — a position that's not just correct on the merits but increasingly good politics
April 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Free trade is good, actually" — a position that's not just correct on the merits but increasingly good politics
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The US university sector is wealthy, powerful and rooted in every state. If administrations decide to act collectively, there’s a chance. If, instead, they opt to target their students in the hope of escaping punishment, they will destroy the whole enterprise
March 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
