David Ross
schemingdespot.bsky.social
David Ross
@schemingdespot.bsky.social
Recovering programmer and unrepentant tea drinker
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It is wild, if not surprising I guess, that whether people could fly somewhere at Thanksgiving seemed to have more political effect than whether people could *eat* at Thanksgiving.
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
August 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Just haven’t had the drive to get out and clean up the garden for the fall over the last few weeks, but finally got out today to cut back the sunchokes and bring some of them in. It looks like a bumper crop.
October 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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That’s incomplete, he only got 2 of his 3 feet down inbounds
Roger Goodell says the NFL is looking into how AI can help officiating in the future.
October 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
53 orbits around the sun and I’ve finally gotten around to making bearnaise sauce. I’ve clearly misused some of those orbits.
October 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Cutting taxes makes life affordable and you can tell because we've been cutting taxes for 40 years and life has never been more affordable.
October 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I think the most revealing thing about these folks is that they literally cannot conceive of the idea of doing something for its own sake. I think that’s why they’re so collectively miserable
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
October 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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When bad things happen to others, god is unhappy with them. When bad things happen to me or someone I care about, it’s demons.
October 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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October 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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My Substack Today: Sir Sam Hughes' Famous Shovel!
It was a shield-shovel with a hole in it that didn't work as a shield, nor a shovel.

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A shield that couldn't stop bullets, a shovel that couldn't shovel
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October 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
“Supply Side Jesus” is just so perfect
OG Jesus or Supply Side Jesus?
September 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“We can’t go on with Canada Post losing $10M a day and the Canadian taxpayers footing the bill”

How much did we spend maintaining our road network last year? How much profit did *it* make?
September 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Where is the "Pregnant women who use Turbo Tax" study.
September 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We could also be the Liberal Party of Canada, the UK Labour Party, and most major news outlets.
You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
September 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
September 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Still laughing at the irony of the PEI gov’t putting out a radio ad telling me to “plan ahead” because the road construction project they announced 17 weeks ago that was to start 11 weeks ago and be done 2 weeks ago is today finally getting underway.
September 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest
September 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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So from all of these headlines:

I’m concluding that an autonomous vehicle, a SUV took it upon itself to drive through a window, into a classroom, crash into children and adults and kill one of them.

Will police hold the manufacture responsible?

Why remove the driver from this?

#WordsMatter
September 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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September 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I had to look up who or what this apparent backlash was in response to, and I was absolutely not prepared for what I found.
September 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I think the great hope here is that nothing migrates *from* their balls
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
August 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
May we all be blessed with civic leadership that loves their community as openly and unashamedly as Zohran Mamdani appears to love his
August 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Conservatives basically have a moral disability -- a pathological inability to extend empathy beyond their immediate circle -- and they don't even have the good sense to be embarrassed about it.
August 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM