Manik
@manik.bsky.social
🤙🏽 soccer, photography, design, engineering
✨ building teams and products for Google
📌 prev: ux & engineering for Barack Obama, Nest Labs and Continu
✨ building teams and products for Google
📌 prev: ux & engineering for Barack Obama, Nest Labs and Continu
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Prescient
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Prescient
and somehow we are here again
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
and somehow we are here again
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Holy crap. This is terrible.
The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.
The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.
reut.rs
October 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Holy crap. This is terrible.
The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.
The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.
a man was lynched yesterday
September 17, 2025 at 3:18 AM
a man was lynched yesterday
Turns out, you can disable the terrible “smart shuffle” feature and the “Create” navbar button in Spotify
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September 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Turns out, you can disable the terrible “smart shuffle” feature and the “Create” navbar button in Spotify
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the free speech absolutists are at it again
“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said.
@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
September 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
the free speech absolutists are at it again
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok
September 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok
if accurately describing a person’s actions is “speaking ill of the dead,” then the problem is not the description
September 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM
if accurately describing a person’s actions is “speaking ill of the dead,” then the problem is not the description
betray
the avalon is always inside me
the avalon is always inside me
August 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
betray
the avalon is always inside me
the avalon is always inside me
putting this menu where the library used to be is diabolical
August 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
putting this menu where the library used to be is diabolical
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After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause
After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.
This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...
wck.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
hear me out — iPhone with matte display
June 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
hear me out — iPhone with matte display
I’m glad he’s back. I hope he can produce the same magic he was capable of before his injuries.
“Paul Pogba to join Monaco on two-year deal” - ESPN
“Paul Pogba to join Monaco on two-year deal” - ESPN
Source: Pogba to join Monaco on two-year deal
Former Manchester United and Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba will sign for Ligue 1 side AS Monaco, a source has told ESPN.
www.espn.com
June 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I’m glad he’s back. I hope he can produce the same magic he was capable of before his injuries.
“Paul Pogba to join Monaco on two-year deal” - ESPN
“Paul Pogba to join Monaco on two-year deal” - ESPN
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crashing the economy and starting a war in the Middle East
Donald Trump has finally become a conventional Republican after all
Donald Trump has finally become a conventional Republican after all
June 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
crashing the economy and starting a war in the Middle East
Donald Trump has finally become a conventional Republican after all
Donald Trump has finally become a conventional Republican after all
continues to be an insane moment in time, that we are doomed to continue because people are very stupid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/donald-the-dove-hillary-the-hawk.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/donald-the-dove-hillary-the-hawk.html
June 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
continues to be an insane moment in time, that we are doomed to continue because people are very stupid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/donald-the-dove-hillary-the-hawk.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/donald-the-dove-hillary-the-hawk.html
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
June 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
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hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again
June 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again