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Perpetually semi-retired rugby player. Very retired Army NCO. Cyber operations professional. Christian anarchist(?) Guitar player. Views are mine, likes/RPs/quotes != endorsements
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There's an axiom that we become an amalgam of the 5 people we spend the most time with. Their likes become our likes, their wants become our wants, and their blind spots become our blind spots. So who are the 5 people your AI engine is hanging out with the most? #/?
Methinks Megyn pointing out that these girls were the same age as the Miss Teen USA contestants the President admits to walking into the dressing rooms of for competition is not helping her case the way she thinks it is.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Methinks Megyn pointing out that these girls were the same age as the Miss Teen USA contestants the President admits to walking into the dressing rooms of for competition is not helping her case the way she thinks it is.
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working at the nyt
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
working at the nyt
Given the Southern Baptist Convention's own...issues...I'm not sure it's going to go the way you think.
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Given the Southern Baptist Convention's own...issues...I'm not sure it's going to go the way you think.
"The biggest worry about unregulated virtual currency is its persistent use in illegal activity, how do you respond?"
Literally the son of the President: "You can launder the shit out of money from the comfort of your own home with basically zero overhead! It's great!"
Literally the son of the President: "You can launder the shit out of money from the comfort of your own home with basically zero overhead! It's great!"
Eric Trump: "You can send $500 million worth of bitcoin on a Sunday night at 11pm while having a glass of wine with your wife for virtually zero fees."
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"The biggest worry about unregulated virtual currency is its persistent use in illegal activity, how do you respond?"
Literally the son of the President: "You can launder the shit out of money from the comfort of your own home with basically zero overhead! It's great!"
Literally the son of the President: "You can launder the shit out of money from the comfort of your own home with basically zero overhead! It's great!"
A nickname you give yourself should always (rightly) be delivered as derisively as possible.
Hegseth throwing away taxpayer money so he can sound like a tough guy with a new title.
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A nickname you give yourself should always (rightly) be delivered as derisively as possible.
Three years ago today my father died of complications from a brain biopsy. He had the biopsy to check out scar tissue from radiation treatments for glioblastoma. For some reason I want to say cancer didn't kill him, trying to keep cancer from coming back killed him. 1/?
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Three years ago today my father died of complications from a brain biopsy. He had the biopsy to check out scar tissue from radiation treatments for glioblastoma. For some reason I want to say cancer didn't kill him, trying to keep cancer from coming back killed him. 1/?
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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So if I follow Virginia Giuffre, the teen Trump said Epstein "stole" from him and was sex-trafficked by Epstein, spent many hours in the company of Trump at one of Epstein's homes, according to Epstein and Maxwell. Giuffre committed suicide soon after Trump's reelection.
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
So if I follow Virginia Giuffre, the teen Trump said Epstein "stole" from him and was sex-trafficked by Epstein, spent many hours in the company of Trump at one of Epstein's homes, according to Epstein and Maxwell. Giuffre committed suicide soon after Trump's reelection.
It doesn't matter whether you believe in climate change. Climate change believes in you.
Wait, no, scratch that, your insurance company believes in climate change, that's the important part.
Wait, no, scratch that, your insurance company believes in climate change, that's the important part.
Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices. n.pr/47QGKwH
It's harder to get home insurance. That's changing communities across the U.S.
Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That's forcing families across the country to make tough choices.
n.pr
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It doesn't matter whether you believe in climate change. Climate change believes in you.
Wait, no, scratch that, your insurance company believes in climate change, that's the important part.
Wait, no, scratch that, your insurance company believes in climate change, that's the important part.
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Seth Moulton went on MSNBC and straight up said "the president is a pedophile" and refused to walk it back even after the hosts kept trying to equivocate.
House Dems don't give a *fuuuck.*
House Dems don't give a *fuuuck.*
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Seth Moulton went on MSNBC and straight up said "the president is a pedophile" and refused to walk it back even after the hosts kept trying to equivocate.
House Dems don't give a *fuuuck.*
House Dems don't give a *fuuuck.*
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So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
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My last word on the matter
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My last word on the matter
Wait, didn't Casino Royale already do a reset of its own by basically making him "earn" his 00 status? No one cares that he died, do whatever you want. Claim you're telling some part in the middle. Go back in time, go forward, just make a decent film.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Wait, didn't Casino Royale already do a reset of its own by basically making him "earn" his 00 status? No one cares that he died, do whatever you want. Claim you're telling some part in the middle. Go back in time, go forward, just make a decent film.
The fun part is how many of these things have gotten less expensive but not actual cheaper. $100 dress shoes but they're made of poster board with a leather veneer. Software is cheaper but festooned with ads/micro transactions. Even cheaper stuff is still enshittified.
Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The fun part is how many of these things have gotten less expensive but not actual cheaper. $100 dress shoes but they're made of poster board with a leather veneer. Software is cheaper but festooned with ads/micro transactions. Even cheaper stuff is still enshittified.
That Tudor Black Bay '25 Chronograph is very nice, and I hate that I have to discard O'Leary's opinion because he's an ultra rich moron who wears two watches at the same time because usually one of them is a very good, not ostentatious choice.
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
That Tudor Black Bay '25 Chronograph is very nice, and I hate that I have to discard O'Leary's opinion because he's an ultra rich moron who wears two watches at the same time because usually one of them is a very good, not ostentatious choice.
It's going to be hilarious when the CR the Senate is deadlocked on reaches its expiration date and he has to answer why Congress isn't in session to craft a new one and I hope every reporter asks relentlessly if it's because of the Epstein files. They won't, of course, but the thought is funny to me
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It's going to be hilarious when the CR the Senate is deadlocked on reaches its expiration date and he has to answer why Congress isn't in session to craft a new one and I hope every reporter asks relentlessly if it's because of the Epstein files. They won't, of course, but the thought is funny to me
I get the breathless reporting, but this is the sort of contracts NFL GMs would draw up if players associations didn't exist: "Hey, kid, we'll pay you $10K/year in Little Caesars gift cards, but if you win five straight Super Bowls we'll give you $1B. Do you believe in yourself or not?"
Tesla shareholders have approved a pay package that could make CEO Elon Musk, already the world’s richest person, the world’s first trillionaire. https://cnn.it/43KZnkA
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I get the breathless reporting, but this is the sort of contracts NFL GMs would draw up if players associations didn't exist: "Hey, kid, we'll pay you $10K/year in Little Caesars gift cards, but if you win five straight Super Bowls we'll give you $1B. Do you believe in yourself or not?"
"Y'don't say?!" I exclaim and I fire off another e-mail to a distro that contains 8 people who have been furloughed for 5 weeks and receive about 3 e-mails a week just from me, while adding another memo to a furloughed GS 15's pile for him to sign so we can begin experimenting a novel capability.
HASSETT: U.S. SHUTDOWN MAY HAVE LONG-RUN HARM TO EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT-FOX BUSINESS
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"Y'don't say?!" I exclaim and I fire off another e-mail to a distro that contains 8 people who have been furloughed for 5 weeks and receive about 3 e-mails a week just from me, while adding another memo to a furloughed GS 15's pile for him to sign so we can begin experimenting a novel capability.
OK, fine, whatever, but also:
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
OK, fine, whatever, but also:
Evangelical Broke: doing a Seder super where you make every interpretation of every item in it about Jesus rather than the Jewish people writ large.
Evangelical Woke: claiming a sabbath dinner violates your faith.
Evangelical Woke: claiming a sabbath dinner violates your faith.
At a meeting yesterday, staff voiced deep concern about anti-Jewish sentiment at Heritage and on the right.
That was followed by a Heritage staffer complaining about attending a Shabbat dinner.
That was followed by a Heritage staffer complaining about attending a Shabbat dinner.
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Evangelical Broke: doing a Seder super where you make every interpretation of every item in it about Jesus rather than the Jewish people writ large.
Evangelical Woke: claiming a sabbath dinner violates your faith.
Evangelical Woke: claiming a sabbath dinner violates your faith.
Sandwich man leaving court
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Sandwich man leaving court
Of course Sandwich Guy is what breaks bluesky.
November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Of course Sandwich Guy is what breaks bluesky.
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BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Happier'n a pig in poop has been replaced by a pig getting a sponge bath.
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Happier'n a pig in poop has been replaced by a pig getting a sponge bath.
America to America:
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
America to America: