River_Tam
@rivertam.bsky.social
Managing Director of Single Family Housing Inventory at BlackRock #DarkBlueSky
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Platonic ideal of a BlueSky thread
December 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Platonic ideal of a BlueSky thread
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done. If you allow for a brief break to eat a couple of blackberries, the 46 crosswords took almost exactly four hours.
I fell behind on crosswords and have 46 NYTs to catch up on before the end of the year. If I try to do them all right now will I:
A) give up less than halfway through
B) give up more than halfway through
C) finish before 7 pm
D) finish before 9 pm
E) finish before midnight
A) give up less than halfway through
B) give up more than halfway through
C) finish before 7 pm
D) finish before 9 pm
E) finish before midnight
December 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
done. If you allow for a brief break to eat a couple of blackberries, the 46 crosswords took almost exactly four hours.
These people are such stupid freaks
When Nick Shirley arrived to "test" if he could enroll his son "Joey" in Minneapolis day cares, his viral video omitted that he showed up with an entourage of masked men acting like security, multiple vehicles including vans, cameras, and men who wouldn't identify themselves. One day care owner /
December 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
These people are such stupid freaks
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this website is so bizarre sometimes. if you’re gonna quote me with both replies and quotes off and then block me when i @ you, why even bother?
December 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
this website is so bizarre sometimes. if you’re gonna quote me with both replies and quotes off and then block me when i @ you, why even bother?
Older 2 kids are playing battleship and 6yo is losing her mind bc 4yo is cheating his ass off and therefore winning every game
December 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Older 2 kids are playing battleship and 6yo is losing her mind bc 4yo is cheating his ass off and therefore winning every game
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scaramucci, gucci mane / jk rowling went insane
December 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
scaramucci, gucci mane / jk rowling went insane
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I have heard recently that Mike Pence has a new think tank. I am very glad that I will have an alternative in case I do decide no longer to follow heritage foundation suggestions for America.
starting to wonder whether the heritage foundation people have America’s best interests in mind
I’m considering no longer relying on them for policy suggestions
Just seems like so many new surprising revelations about this institution
I just don’t know
I’m considering no longer relying on them for policy suggestions
Just seems like so many new surprising revelations about this institution
I just don’t know
December 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I have heard recently that Mike Pence has a new think tank. I am very glad that I will have an alternative in case I do decide no longer to follow heritage foundation suggestions for America.
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I have a single digit number of drinks and <3 beers a year ama
Ok if we are making fun of 5-7 beers guy we gotta make fun of this nerd too
5-7 beers a DAY?
i have like a beer every 2 months (and my parents rib me for it)? how on earth do people not get sick of the taste
i have like a beer every 2 months (and my parents rib me for it)? how on earth do people not get sick of the taste
December 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I have a single digit number of drinks and <3 beers a year ama
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so with the clout that the EIC of CBS News has with the White House, and more than 10 days since they pulled the story, surely Stephen Miller has sat for an interview by now, right
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
so with the clout that the EIC of CBS News has with the White House, and more than 10 days since they pulled the story, surely Stephen Miller has sat for an interview by now, right
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remembering when Elon Musk learned that the social security database has weird age information sometimes because COBOL doesn't have a date type and decided that there was billions of dollars of fraud being perpetrated
i really do think one genuine problem of our time is that the neo-populists essentially think any element of social complexity is a conspiracy against them by the Other
Lolol Dort discovered 7(a) loans.
Just wait till he learns about 8(a).
He’ll whinge against that right up until the point someone talks him through how to get his SDVOSB certification.
Just wait till he learns about 8(a).
He’ll whinge against that right up until the point someone talks him through how to get his SDVOSB certification.
December 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
remembering when Elon Musk learned that the social security database has weird age information sometimes because COBOL doesn't have a date type and decided that there was billions of dollars of fraud being perpetrated
Thanks a lot Mamdani
After 30 years, today is the last day to buy a MetroCard. @matteowong.bsky.social mourns an underrated technological marvel.
A Symbol of New York Is Gone
The MetroCard never got its due.
bit.ly
December 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Thanks a lot Mamdani
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I was awarded the Canadian Medal of Bravery at the age of 15 for safe navigation of a hostage situation, securing myself and three others and removing us from the situation. My family's house did not survive the event but we all made it out without physical injury.
December 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I was awarded the Canadian Medal of Bravery at the age of 15 for safe navigation of a hostage situation, securing myself and three others and removing us from the situation. My family's house did not survive the event but we all made it out without physical injury.
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Pulling out of Afghanistan is when his approval tanked, even
I don't think Biden ending the drone war or pulling out of Afghanistan or negotiating an end to the war in Yemen netted Democrats as single solitary vote in 2022 or 2024.
December 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Pulling out of Afghanistan is when his approval tanked, even
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Those spam sites that make up celebrity networks are very convincing to stupid people. I’ve seen members of Congress cite the fake Elizabeth Warren net worth, when she fills out the same disclosure forms they do. They just require reading a PDF instead of asking Grok
all it really takes to understand the extent of how little rightwingers know about reality is to just talk to a rightwinger immeshed in the far right media ecosystem. they start saying things like “AOC is worth 30 million dollars” and you realize this is the average american now
December 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Those spam sites that make up celebrity networks are very convincing to stupid people. I’ve seen members of Congress cite the fake Elizabeth Warren net worth, when she fills out the same disclosure forms they do. They just require reading a PDF instead of asking Grok
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One time when OU was playing Baylor I asked @redditcfb.com if anyone had a couch I could crash on, and I wound up at the riverside mansion of the guy who ran Ben Carson’s super PAC
December 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
One time when OU was playing Baylor I asked @redditcfb.com if anyone had a couch I could crash on, and I wound up at the riverside mansion of the guy who ran Ben Carson’s super PAC
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I shall be the only one to cite the source image - I spent years convinced that River Song from Doctor Who was named after River Tam because my dad told me.
I… I don’t think the two are connected.
I… I don’t think the two are connected.
December 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I shall be the only one to cite the source image - I spent years convinced that River Song from Doctor Who was named after River Tam because my dad told me.
I… I don’t think the two are connected.
I… I don’t think the two are connected.
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As I child I would sometimes drink white vinegar straight from the bottle. I also loooooved Miracle Whip, so much so that I'd eat it by the spoonful or as the sole component of a sandwich
December 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
As I child I would sometimes drink white vinegar straight from the bottle. I also loooooved Miracle Whip, so much so that I'd eat it by the spoonful or as the sole component of a sandwich
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My parents moved us two states away while I was away at overnight summer camp without telling me (between 3rd and 4th grade)
December 31, 2025 at 3:37 AM
My parents moved us two states away while I was away at overnight summer camp without telling me (between 3rd and 4th grade)
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I’m banned from working at Target, have I said that already on this app before? If so um…. I’ve dirt biked across the Badlands twice ✌🏼
December 31, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I’m banned from working at Target, have I said that already on this app before? If so um…. I’ve dirt biked across the Badlands twice ✌🏼
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My college friends successfully pranked me into thinking my senior thesis was due three weeks sooner than it actually was so that I would work on it - I believed the false due date for an entire weekend
December 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
My college friends successfully pranked me into thinking my senior thesis was due three weeks sooner than it actually was so that I would work on it - I believed the false due date for an entire weekend
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It was at the end of the 2nd semester of AP Chem, so I had goggles on … my forehead. My idiot lab partner blew powdered salicylic acid that on the lip of the test tube & it went straight in my eye. The station was in the bio class next door, so I humiliated myself in 2 classrooms for the price of 1
December 31, 2025 at 1:15 AM
It was at the end of the 2nd semester of AP Chem, so I had goggles on … my forehead. My idiot lab partner blew powdered salicylic acid that on the lip of the test tube & it went straight in my eye. The station was in the bio class next door, so I humiliated myself in 2 classrooms for the price of 1
I think people are overestimating Mr Beast and underestimating Jake and Logan Paul.
also the obvious democratic equivalent to Trump would be Oprah, and a distressing future one is Mr. Beast (assuming his empire doesn't come crashing down)
December 31, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I think people are overestimating Mr Beast and underestimating Jake and Logan Paul.
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I was once almost arrested by Soviet police for being an East German spy.
(Bonus: I was a cheerleader in high school!)
(Bonus: I was a cheerleader in high school!)
December 31, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I was once almost arrested by Soviet police for being an East German spy.
(Bonus: I was a cheerleader in high school!)
(Bonus: I was a cheerleader in high school!)
Taylor Lorenz is so funny because she's clearly just a total weirdo. She doesn't "want" anything except to be mad at people online.
Taylor Lorenz got mad at me because I said I couldn’t do more DoorDash discourse and she stalked my profile and was upset that I was struggling in my life(????)
What’s the funniest reason someone got mad at you on Bluesky this year?
December 31, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Taylor Lorenz is so funny because she's clearly just a total weirdo. She doesn't "want" anything except to be mad at people online.