Mr. Nick Beaudrot
@nbeaudrot.bsky.social
Math Dad.
Aspiring-to-comeback Triathlete.
Fall Out Boy apologist.
Aspiring-to-comeback Triathlete.
Fall Out Boy apologist.
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Mr. Nick Beaudrot
@nbeaudrot.bsky.social
· Nov 15
"Inflation is very unpopular and the median voter's views on crime and immigration are closer to Trump's than Harris's" is like 90% more accurate than every narrative take out there that focuses on Rogan, trans rights, "the information environment", etc
Protect The Needling At All Costs.
✨The Needling’s Top Ten Stories of 2025✨ Good afternoon, engulfed Cybertruck. Goodbye, 2025. Goodluck, 2026. tinyurl.com/5n8nd2dk
January 1, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Protect The Needling At All Costs.
He's got a new National Geographic Show!
Happy 26th year of the Willennium
January 1, 2026 at 5:42 AM
He's got a new National Geographic Show!
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Hilarious that the New York Mayor has to pay $9 to complete the inaugural process
January 1, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Hilarious that the New York Mayor has to pay $9 to complete the inaugural process
So movies are now an $8.5B industry instead of $10.5-11B.
January 1, 2026 at 5:16 AM
So movies are now an $8.5B industry instead of $10.5-11B.
Dudes Rock.
"This time last year, Zohran Mamdani was a little-known mayoral candidate so desperate to raise his profile that he spent New Year’s Day plunging into the icy waters at Coney Island, hoping to use the social media stunt to promote his rent-freeze pledge" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...
For Zohran Mamdani, a Crowning Moment, With Challenges Looming
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Dudes Rock.
It's less of a Rocking Eve and more of a 360 Brand Activation Opportunity.
January 1, 2026 at 4:39 AM
It's less of a Rocking Eve and more of a 360 Brand Activation Opportunity.
If you got to choose the location of your mayoral swearing in in your current city, where would it be?
Like with Mamdani doing his swearing in at the Secret City Hall station, what’s next? Home plate at Yankee Stadium? Top of the statue of liberty torch? On the staten island ferry? In the middle of ridding the Cyclone?
January 1, 2026 at 4:23 AM
If you got to choose the location of your mayoral swearing in in your current city, where would it be?
You can't convince me "Tucker Wetmore" is a real person
January 1, 2026 at 4:02 AM
You can't convince me "Tucker Wetmore" is a real person
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A genre I need more of is people saying “if you google [term] at [timestamp] PM on December 31” and finishing with what Wikipedia rabbit hole they’d fallen down by midnight
January 1, 2026 at 2:33 AM
A genre I need more of is people saying “if you google [term] at [timestamp] PM on December 31” and finishing with what Wikipedia rabbit hole they’d fallen down by midnight
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This graph gets reposted a lot, but the author normalized the numbers to match total alcohol sales and assumed all drinkers were underreporting their consumption by the same fraction. The general trend is correct, but it isn't this sharp.
December 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This graph gets reposted a lot, but the author normalized the numbers to match total alcohol sales and assumed all drinkers were underreporting their consumption by the same fraction. The general trend is correct, but it isn't this sharp.
"The Space Science Data Coordinated Archive has been offline for several months. With it inaccessible and the library closing, NASA is losing both history and vital information for future space missions, according to Dr. Williams and other scientists."
I’ve been wondering for the last year when we’d get to the library destruction phase and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:55 AM
"The Space Science Data Coordinated Archive has been offline for several months. With it inaccessible and the library closing, NASA is losing both history and vital information for future space missions, according to Dr. Williams and other scientists."
Important (and correct) clarification from the Google AI -- dedicated music channels are shutting down but the flagship "mtv" (which has been a reality TV/pop culture channel with some music tossed in for decades) is still around.
January 1, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Important (and correct) clarification from the Google AI -- dedicated music channels are shutting down but the flagship "mtv" (which has been a reality TV/pop culture channel with some music tossed in for decades) is still around.
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Sound Transit turns one (1) shovel of earth on an ST3 project, before the 10 year anniversary of the vote.
What projects or trends do you hope to see with transit in 2026?
December 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Sound Transit turns one (1) shovel of earth on an ST3 project, before the 10 year anniversary of the vote.
The committee should have put Duke in the playoffs.
December 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The committee should have put Duke in the playoffs.
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Why Jack Smith didn't immunize Roger Stone or Steve Bannon (which I think was a mistake).
December 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Why Jack Smith didn't immunize Roger Stone or Steve Bannon (which I think was a mistake).
sickos.jpg
Thanks to a series YIMBY reforms—and high-quality administration—in San Diego, the city has been in the midst of a building boom, even as construction has plummeted elsewhere. The result? Rents are down six months in a row. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/12/17/s...
San Diego rents have fallen for 6 months. Should you ask your landlord for a deal?
San Diego rents are down 0.3% year-over-year to an average $2,520 per month.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:17 PM
sickos.jpg
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Metrocard was an actual example of nyc implementing a world leading product if memory serves. Very few if any cities had digitized fare media.
December 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Metrocard was an actual example of nyc implementing a world leading product if memory serves. Very few if any cities had digitized fare media.
Completion of the Sound Transit 2 line before school lets out. (Currently scheduled for 5/31 but we'll see)
Value engineering on the ST3 expansion
Value engineering on the ST3 expansion
What projects or trends do you hope to see with transit in 2026?
December 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Completion of the Sound Transit 2 line before school lets out. (Currently scheduled for 5/31 but we'll see)
Value engineering on the ST3 expansion
Value engineering on the ST3 expansion
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If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.
December 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.
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a billy joel writing in 2017 would definitely include "scaramucci." he would love chanting "scaramucci"
December 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
a billy joel writing in 2017 would definitely include "scaramucci." he would love chanting "scaramucci"
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A Clay Davis spinoff would have been epic
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 AM
A Clay Davis spinoff would have been epic
Imagining explaining to my grandchildren that "The Seattle Times"
used to be an Instagram account and before that they published an actual print newspaper.
(No idea what it'll be in 2045 or 2050 or whatever)
used to be an Instagram account and before that they published an actual print newspaper.
(No idea what it'll be in 2045 or 2050 or whatever)
December 31, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Imagining explaining to my grandchildren that "The Seattle Times"
used to be an Instagram account and before that they published an actual print newspaper.
(No idea what it'll be in 2045 or 2050 or whatever)
used to be an Instagram account and before that they published an actual print newspaper.
(No idea what it'll be in 2045 or 2050 or whatever)
Mark your calendars, Discourse Participants (via @iankarmel.bsky.social's Instagram)
I have written a new book. It's called AMERICAN MEN. It's about men, in America. Coming April 21, 2026, from Grand Central and Ringer Books. Preorders open now. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jorda...
American Men
A deeply intimate portrait of the lives of four men that examines—in profound and comprehensive ways—what it means to be a man in America. They wield out...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Mark your calendars, Discourse Participants (via @iankarmel.bsky.social's Instagram)
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"We talked to the last 12 people in America who answer a phone call from an unknown number about politics"
December 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"We talked to the last 12 people in America who answer a phone call from an unknown number about politics"