Aditya Sharma
@adityasharma.bsky.social
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May be if the new games these companies were pushing weren’t complete dogshit. BG3 sold incredibly well because it was a good game that didn’t pad its playtime with pointless fetch quests and wasn’t the same gameplay mechanics recycled into different IPs.
September 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
May be if the new games these companies were pushing weren’t complete dogshit. BG3 sold incredibly well because it was a good game that didn’t pad its playtime with pointless fetch quests and wasn’t the same gameplay mechanics recycled into different IPs.
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Honestly, starting a rumor that eventually gets debunked but kind of keeps the market level propped up enough to sustain the trading day sounds better than the alternative, I'm giving to Walter Bloomberg's GoFundMe, who's with me
The nation should not rest until we get to the bottom of this slate.com/news-and-pol...
April 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Honestly, starting a rumor that eventually gets debunked but kind of keeps the market level propped up enough to sustain the trading day sounds better than the alternative, I'm giving to Walter Bloomberg's GoFundMe, who's with me
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It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
April 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.
It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
Microsoft : Edge is your AI powered browser.
Also Microsoft : Fuck your browsing history, here's some ads instead of sites you visit.
Also Microsoft : Fuck your browsing history, here's some ads instead of sites you visit.
February 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Microsoft : Edge is your AI powered browser.
Also Microsoft : Fuck your browsing history, here's some ads instead of sites you visit.
Also Microsoft : Fuck your browsing history, here's some ads instead of sites you visit.
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I want to stress the two things are simultaneously true here.
1) Musk is a weak and pathetic bully
2) his email Squid Games are deeply traumatizing, per Russell Vought’s playbook.
These are the jobs and dreams of hard-working people. Mortgages. Health insurance for their children. And he laughs.
1) Musk is a weak and pathetic bully
2) his email Squid Games are deeply traumatizing, per Russell Vought’s playbook.
These are the jobs and dreams of hard-working people. Mortgages. Health insurance for their children. And he laughs.
February 25, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I want to stress the two things are simultaneously true here.
1) Musk is a weak and pathetic bully
2) his email Squid Games are deeply traumatizing, per Russell Vought’s playbook.
These are the jobs and dreams of hard-working people. Mortgages. Health insurance for their children. And he laughs.
1) Musk is a weak and pathetic bully
2) his email Squid Games are deeply traumatizing, per Russell Vought’s playbook.
These are the jobs and dreams of hard-working people. Mortgages. Health insurance for their children. And he laughs.
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Scoop: As federal health agencies are gutted, Kyle Diamantas, a Florida attorney w/ a slim resume + no prior gov't experience, is the new head of food safety at @US_FDA. Turns out, he's Donald Trump Jr.'s hunting buddy, @vanityfair.com is reporting exclusively: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f... /1
America’s Food Safety Is Now in the Hands of Don Jr.’s Hunting Buddy
As federal health agencies are gutted with abandon, a Florida attorney with a history of hunting with the president’s son has been put in charge of food safety at the FDA, overseeing the nation’s food...
www.vanityfair.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Scoop: As federal health agencies are gutted, Kyle Diamantas, a Florida attorney w/ a slim resume + no prior gov't experience, is the new head of food safety at @US_FDA. Turns out, he's Donald Trump Jr.'s hunting buddy, @vanityfair.com is reporting exclusively: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f... /1
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Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
February 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.
How long before folks realize that DEI also includes vets? It doesn't just mean brown/black/LGBTQ+ or another minority group these folks want to villianize today
DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital
February 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
How long before folks realize that DEI also includes vets? It doesn't just mean brown/black/LGBTQ+ or another minority group these folks want to villianize today
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this is stupid sitcom character level stupid. on the level of joey from friends changing his stage name to joseph stalin.
February 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
this is stupid sitcom character level stupid. on the level of joey from friends changing his stage name to joseph stalin.
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WT-actual-F
a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.
February 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
WT-actual-F
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This is why it is and will be so important not to buy into the "don't politicize a tragedy!" line (which, of course, is itself a form of politicizing tragedy).
When the bad things happen, people will need to be prepared to make it clear exactly how the degradation of government caused them.
When the bad things happen, people will need to be prepared to make it clear exactly how the degradation of government caused them.
Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics.
Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.*
So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?
Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.*
So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?
February 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This is why it is and will be so important not to buy into the "don't politicize a tragedy!" line (which, of course, is itself a form of politicizing tragedy).
When the bad things happen, people will need to be prepared to make it clear exactly how the degradation of government caused them.
When the bad things happen, people will need to be prepared to make it clear exactly how the degradation of government caused them.
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looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
February 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
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Me: Things can’t get any worse.
The Internet:
The Internet:
February 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Me: Things can’t get any worse.
The Internet:
The Internet:
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I remember when Obama mildly criticized Fox News, the entire journalism world -- hey there, @jaketapper.bsky.social -- rose to its defense.
Now Trump is excluding the AP from briefings & all the other media quislings are lining up for their slop without a word of protest.
Now Trump is excluding the AP from briefings & all the other media quislings are lining up for their slop without a word of protest.
For a third straight day, an AP reporter was blocked from attending an Oval Office event, I'm told.
February 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I remember when Obama mildly criticized Fox News, the entire journalism world -- hey there, @jaketapper.bsky.social -- rose to its defense.
Now Trump is excluding the AP from briefings & all the other media quislings are lining up for their slop without a word of protest.
Now Trump is excluding the AP from briefings & all the other media quislings are lining up for their slop without a word of protest.
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And “slop” is the right term.
I know reporters prize the badge of “White House correspondent” but they’re not getting anything vitally important there. Woodward & Bernstein broke Watergate from the WaPo’s City Desk.
They’re just the live audience for Trump’s open mic night ramblings. That’s it.
I know reporters prize the badge of “White House correspondent” but they’re not getting anything vitally important there. Woodward & Bernstein broke Watergate from the WaPo’s City Desk.
They’re just the live audience for Trump’s open mic night ramblings. That’s it.
I remember when Obama mildly criticized Fox News, the entire journalism world -- hey there, @jaketapper.bsky.social -- rose to its defense.
Now Trump is excluding the AP from briefings & all the other media quislings are lining up for their slop without a word of protest.
Now Trump is excluding the AP from briefings & all the other media quislings are lining up for their slop without a word of protest.
For a third straight day, an AP reporter was blocked from attending an Oval Office event, I'm told.
February 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
And “slop” is the right term.
I know reporters prize the badge of “White House correspondent” but they’re not getting anything vitally important there. Woodward & Bernstein broke Watergate from the WaPo’s City Desk.
They’re just the live audience for Trump’s open mic night ramblings. That’s it.
I know reporters prize the badge of “White House correspondent” but they’re not getting anything vitally important there. Woodward & Bernstein broke Watergate from the WaPo’s City Desk.
They’re just the live audience for Trump’s open mic night ramblings. That’s it.
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No they're not. They know exactly what they're voting for: The continued dismantling of our public health system. That's what they want. You know this. Why do we have to do this playacting goldfish brain shit every time.
By voting to confirm RFK Jr., the Senate “is wagering the future of our public health system on a prayer that a conspiracy theorist can build back up the agencies that he and his supporters have spent years breaking down,” Nicholas Florko writes.
RFK Jr. Won. Now What?
America’s health is in the hands of an anti-vaccine conspiracist.
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
No they're not. They know exactly what they're voting for: The continued dismantling of our public health system. That's what they want. You know this. Why do we have to do this playacting goldfish brain shit every time.
The biggest scam right wing ecosystem has pulled on Americans is that regulations and oversight is bad.
Can there be too much of it. Sure but regulations simply existing isn’t an indicator of inefficiency. Quite often having clear paths to follow is efficient for businesses.
Can there be too much of it. Sure but regulations simply existing isn’t an indicator of inefficiency. Quite often having clear paths to follow is efficient for businesses.
Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service launched an official website late Wednesday night, setting up doge.gov as a portal tracking the size of the federal workforce and documenting the number of federal regulations.
Musk’s DOGE launches a website tracking size of federal workforce
DOGE acknowledged that the work was incomplete but said it was part of an “enormous manual effort consolidating 16,000+ offices.”
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The biggest scam right wing ecosystem has pulled on Americans is that regulations and oversight is bad.
Can there be too much of it. Sure but regulations simply existing isn’t an indicator of inefficiency. Quite often having clear paths to follow is efficient for businesses.
Can there be too much of it. Sure but regulations simply existing isn’t an indicator of inefficiency. Quite often having clear paths to follow is efficient for businesses.
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What’s most frightening here is they don’t even feel it necessary anymore to come up with some pretext for bolstering fraudsters, we’re just supposed to take it because they won.
Employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were instructed to cease “all supervision and examination activity” and “all stakeholder engagement,” effectively stopping the agency’s operations www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u... @rmac.bsky.social @stacycowley.bsky.social
Federal Financial Watchdog Ordered to Cease Activity
In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all supervision and examination activity.”
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What’s most frightening here is they don’t even feel it necessary anymore to come up with some pretext for bolstering fraudsters, we’re just supposed to take it because they won.
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Exactly exactly exactly
(1/X) The media spent ten years ignoring Trump's obvious personality disorder. We were told "he's a pragmatist, a businessman".
Now they are doing the same thing with Elon Musk....
Now they are doing the same thing with Elon Musk....
February 9, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Exactly exactly exactly
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a romantic holiday where everyone stops talking and we give each other quiet as a gift
February 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
a romantic holiday where everyone stops talking and we give each other quiet as a gift