Grog
@grogofgrog.bsky.social
Woodwork nerd, reformed watch fiend, here for the fun stuff
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the best 2020s espionage black comedy is about the construction crew on the White House ballroom gradually realising that they're *all* spies from different countries, except for one undocumented immigrant who has to teach them how to do things
January 13, 2026 at 7:50 PM
the best 2020s espionage black comedy is about the construction crew on the White House ballroom gradually realising that they're *all* spies from different countries, except for one undocumented immigrant who has to teach them how to do things
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yeah Mitch clearly gambled that courts would take out trump (ergo his post impeachment speech) while preventing a GOP Schism and, well, he was wrong
If McConnell had wanted to convict, Senate would have convicted. McConnell decided to pass the buck. His reasons were pure power politics: he knew a vote to convict would blow up the party. I suspect he also thought court prosecution would end T but also mobilize T supporters against Ds: a "win-win"
It was not the next President's or Attorney General's job to do the damn job of the Republicans in Congress (& the Executive Branch on 1/6/21). The anger at Biden/Garland is fine, but it's wildly misdirected without greater anger at the Republicans who are responsible for all of this.
January 14, 2026 at 2:49 AM
yeah Mitch clearly gambled that courts would take out trump (ergo his post impeachment speech) while preventing a GOP Schism and, well, he was wrong
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Elon Musk Plays Disinfo Telephone: How Oregon’s Mundane Voter Roll Cleanup Is Turned Into False Claim Of ‘Fake Voters’
I made the mistake of opening up X yesterday to look something up, and the very first post that appeared in my feed was a perfect, almost pedagogical example of how the game of…
I made the mistake of opening up X yesterday to look something up, and the very first post that appeared in my feed was a perfect, almost pedagogical example of how the game of…
Elon Musk Plays Disinfo Telephone: How Oregon’s Mundane Voter Roll Cleanup Is Turned Into False Claim Of ‘Fake Voters’
I made the mistake of opening up X yesterday to look something up, and the very first post that appeared in my feed was a perfect, almost pedagogical example of how the game of “disinformation telephone” gets played. Let's walk through it, because understanding how this works is important. The game works like this: Someone takes a factual but largely unremarkable story, gives it a slight spin, and passes it along.
www.techdirt.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk Plays Disinfo Telephone: How Oregon’s Mundane Voter Roll Cleanup Is Turned Into False Claim Of ‘Fake Voters’
I made the mistake of opening up X yesterday to look something up, and the very first post that appeared in my feed was a perfect, almost pedagogical example of how the game of…
I made the mistake of opening up X yesterday to look something up, and the very first post that appeared in my feed was a perfect, almost pedagogical example of how the game of…
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Cattax
January 12, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Cattax
Slightly diminish a band:
Poisson
Poisson
January 12, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Slightly diminish a band:
Poisson
Poisson
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Holy crap. I've never seen anything like this.
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Holy crap. I've never seen anything like this.
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“The guy who was your childhood slumlord is going to be president, he’s going to tear down part of the white house, engage in a military occupation of Minnesota in January, and he’s going to try to start a war with Europe by invading Greenland.”
January 11, 2026 at 4:09 AM
“The guy who was your childhood slumlord is going to be president, he’s going to tear down part of the white house, engage in a military occupation of Minnesota in January, and he’s going to try to start a war with Europe by invading Greenland.”
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honestly reading this thread and thinking about why romance readers run straight at this shit head first no matter how much everyone else says it's hopeless.
our brains are literally wired for it.
our brains are literally wired for it.
Watching doc about resilience that reaffirms many changes I made last few years to my mental outlook (I read a LOT of brain books). Brains are hallucination engines. If the story is the world is shit, everything is fucked, brain reframes every interaction this way. It impacts behavior; shuts us down
January 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
honestly reading this thread and thinking about why romance readers run straight at this shit head first no matter how much everyone else says it's hopeless.
our brains are literally wired for it.
our brains are literally wired for it.
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Repeating a "we're fucked" narrative is the fastest way to learned helplessness. I know this intimately, having sat in the cage myself for two years. But while we don't have control over our stressors, we have control over our *reactions* to the stressors. Our thoughts, emotions, THAT,we can control
January 11, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Repeating a "we're fucked" narrative is the fastest way to learned helplessness. I know this intimately, having sat in the cage myself for two years. But while we don't have control over our stressors, we have control over our *reactions* to the stressors. Our thoughts, emotions, THAT,we can control
I remember as a kid these movies would come out evey two years or so about a dapper and somewhat effete English spy bounding around the world foiling the evil plans of a henry ford type billionaire industrialist.
Maybe giving one guy enough money to buy entire countries’ political futures wasn’t a good idea after all.
a woman in a red sweater is saying maybe while sitting at a table .
ALT: a woman in a red sweater is saying maybe while sitting at a table .
media.tenor.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I remember as a kid these movies would come out evey two years or so about a dapper and somewhat effete English spy bounding around the world foiling the evil plans of a henry ford type billionaire industrialist.
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New: We published another translated KGB training manual, this one about Moscow's use of 'compatriots' abroad. A highly relevant topic. Expertly introduced by my friend Dr. Kevin Riehle. You can subscribe to Foreign Office here: macspaunday.substack.com/p/moscows-co...
Inside Moscow's Compatriots Policy
How the KGB instrumentalized the Soviet diaspora for intelligence work
macspaunday.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:19 PM
New: We published another translated KGB training manual, this one about Moscow's use of 'compatriots' abroad. A highly relevant topic. Expertly introduced by my friend Dr. Kevin Riehle. You can subscribe to Foreign Office here: macspaunday.substack.com/p/moscows-co...
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I am like a child that will watch the same disney movie 37 times in a row, but it’s the F1 movie
January 10, 2026 at 5:06 AM
I am like a child that will watch the same disney movie 37 times in a row, but it’s the F1 movie
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If there's *one* damn thing humans are good at, it's collectively digging ourselves out of the dumb fucking messes we've collectively dug ourselves into.
If we do. Whether we are capable of it as a species is still an open question, and while I believe we can, that’s not rigorous in a way that I can say it with anything but gut check level certainty.
January 10, 2026 at 5:09 AM
If there's *one* damn thing humans are good at, it's collectively digging ourselves out of the dumb fucking messes we've collectively dug ourselves into.
McDlts
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 10, 2026 at 5:47 AM
McDlts
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here’s my story on the senators’ letter to apple & google execs — www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/g... and…
Grok and X should be suspended from Apple, Google app stores, Democratic senators say
Senators from Oregon, Massachusetts and New Mexico urged Apple and Google to suspend X and Grok until Elon Musk curbs AI-generated sexualized images of kids.
www.cnbc.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:31 AM
here’s my story on the senators’ letter to apple & google execs — www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/g... and…
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Some of you really need to turn off the computer and take a deep breath
Tom do we need to wait for smoke stacks at crematoriums to call this what it is?
January 10, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Some of you really need to turn off the computer and take a deep breath
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“As a proud conservative Christian and the mother of three Bibles, a freedom-loving police car who’s married to a gun, it’s obvious Renee Good should not have…”
January 10, 2026 at 12:03 AM
“As a proud conservative Christian and the mother of three Bibles, a freedom-loving police car who’s married to a gun, it’s obvious Renee Good should not have…”
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I don’t pour milk on my Man Cereal, I pour Freedom2O The Unapologetic Water, and then I spend the next 75 minutes using my Liberal Tears Bidet, this entire set up costs me 43,000 a month
January 9, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I don’t pour milk on my Man Cereal, I pour Freedom2O The Unapologetic Water, and then I spend the next 75 minutes using my Liberal Tears Bidet, this entire set up costs me 43,000 a month
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tactical cocoa puffs
January 9, 2026 at 10:58 PM
tactical cocoa puffs
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Here's a next-level chess question the oil companies must be asking themselves:
What's the ROI on pulling crappy Venezuelan oil out of the ground after the Iran regime is replaced by a West-friendly government that's granted sanctions relief?
What's the ROI on pulling crappy Venezuelan oil out of the ground after the Iran regime is replaced by a West-friendly government that's granted sanctions relief?
January 9, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Here's a next-level chess question the oil companies must be asking themselves:
What's the ROI on pulling crappy Venezuelan oil out of the ground after the Iran regime is replaced by a West-friendly government that's granted sanctions relief?
What's the ROI on pulling crappy Venezuelan oil out of the ground after the Iran regime is replaced by a West-friendly government that's granted sanctions relief?