Alan Lyons
@alanlyons.bsky.social
Graphic Design / Academic Program Design
Usually wandering around somewhere near the corner of political science and emergency management.
(he/him)
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
September 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.
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average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks
average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
August 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks
average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
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If the recommendation to Democrats was to speak plainly, casually, like a normal person having a real conversation rather than like a politician stumbling through jargon, they’d be gushing about Mamdani and telling Dems to be more like him.
But they’re not, because they really mean something else.
But they’re not, because they really mean something else.
you’ll notice that Third Way isn’t concerned about management speak as much as they want Dems to use *their* management speak.
August 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If the recommendation to Democrats was to speak plainly, casually, like a normal person having a real conversation rather than like a politician stumbling through jargon, they’d be gushing about Mamdani and telling Dems to be more like him.
But they’re not, because they really mean something else.
But they’re not, because they really mean something else.
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I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
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I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing
April 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing
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Rousseau would have been a great blogger I think.
February 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Rousseau would have been a great blogger I think.
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Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”
February 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”
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If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.
February 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.
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The least of people's worries right now, I know! But an interesting note from Wake County Board of Elections member Gerry Cohen on X:
North Carolina's new voter-ID law includes an exception for voters who are victims of a declared natural disaster (as Hurricane Helene is). ncleg.gov/enactedlegis...
North Carolina's new voter-ID law includes an exception for voters who are victims of a declared natural disaster (as Hurricane Helene is). ncleg.gov/enactedlegis...
September 29, 2024 at 8:28 PM
The least of people's worries right now, I know! But an interesting note from Wake County Board of Elections member Gerry Cohen on X:
North Carolina's new voter-ID law includes an exception for voters who are victims of a declared natural disaster (as Hurricane Helene is). ncleg.gov/enactedlegis...
North Carolina's new voter-ID law includes an exception for voters who are victims of a declared natural disaster (as Hurricane Helene is). ncleg.gov/enactedlegis...
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FYI: NBC News has a one-stop page for people in every state to check on their election laws, deadlines for registration, how to vote by mail, everything you need to plan your vote. This is the kind of thing that should be shared widely, so please get to it
Plan Your Vote: How to vote in the 2024 election in every state
Everything you need to know about the Presidential Election voting procedures in your state, including voting deadlines, early voting and voter ID requirements.
www.nbcnews.com
September 12, 2024 at 6:25 PM
FYI: NBC News has a one-stop page for people in every state to check on their election laws, deadlines for registration, how to vote by mail, everything you need to plan your vote. This is the kind of thing that should be shared widely, so please get to it
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Harris’s gouging proposal looks mild compared with the price-control hysteria. But some are writing as if gouging never happens. Has everyone forgotten about the California electricity crisis of 2001, in which power operators deliberately cut production to raise prices?
August 17, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Harris’s gouging proposal looks mild compared with the price-control hysteria. But some are writing as if gouging never happens. Has everyone forgotten about the California electricity crisis of 2001, in which power operators deliberately cut production to raise prices?
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With all respect to Joe Russo, the argument that kids have short attention spans these days falls apart the minute you check out how many hours they’ve put into Minecraft or how long they watch Twitch streams for. The trend on TikTok & YouTube is towards longer videos. Sometimes hours on the latter!
May 1, 2024 at 8:32 AM
With all respect to Joe Russo, the argument that kids have short attention spans these days falls apart the minute you check out how many hours they’ve put into Minecraft or how long they watch Twitch streams for. The trend on TikTok & YouTube is towards longer videos. Sometimes hours on the latter!
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do election kids these days even know about the demon sheep and "I'm not a witch...I'm you"
February 2, 2024 at 9:53 PM
do election kids these days even know about the demon sheep and "I'm not a witch...I'm you"
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For members of the Israeli cabinet to keep advocating ethnic cleansing *while Israel is facing an ICJ court on a charge of genocide* is quite a choice.
January 11, 2024 at 4:51 PM
For members of the Israeli cabinet to keep advocating ethnic cleansing *while Israel is facing an ICJ court on a charge of genocide* is quite a choice.
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WE JUST GOT NATIONAL FREE TEST-TO-TREAT FOR COVID AND FLU IN THE US
www.test2treat.org/s/?language=...
If you’re uninsured/underinsured, on Medicaid or Medicare, or get VA or Indian Health Services care, you can also enroll *without* a positive test and get free Lucira tests sent to you.
www.test2treat.org/s/?language=...
If you’re uninsured/underinsured, on Medicaid or Medicare, or get VA or Indian Health Services care, you can also enroll *without* a positive test and get free Lucira tests sent to you.
December 8, 2023 at 2:26 AM
WE JUST GOT NATIONAL FREE TEST-TO-TREAT FOR COVID AND FLU IN THE US
www.test2treat.org/s/?language=...
If you’re uninsured/underinsured, on Medicaid or Medicare, or get VA or Indian Health Services care, you can also enroll *without* a positive test and get free Lucira tests sent to you.
www.test2treat.org/s/?language=...
If you’re uninsured/underinsured, on Medicaid or Medicare, or get VA or Indian Health Services care, you can also enroll *without* a positive test and get free Lucira tests sent to you.
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You know you did a lot of war crimes when people have to write articles saying you have continents worth of war crimes that are overlooked deep cuts
Henry Kissinger's War Crimes in Africa Should Not Be Forgotten
Henry Kissinger's War Crimes in Africa Should Not Be Forgotten
Abayomi Azikiwe Speaks at Forum on Political Repression, Feb. 20, 2003 Originally uploaded by panafnewswire . Henry Kissinger’s War...
panafricannews.blogspot.com
November 30, 2023 at 4:37 AM
You know you did a lot of war crimes when people have to write articles saying you have continents worth of war crimes that are overlooked deep cuts
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EA futurists & their ilk purport to take expected value & probabilities very seriously but somehow never say “out of all the dudes who have ever thought they were Hari Seldon, brilliant enough to both see and shape the course of history, vanishingly close to 100% have been egomaniacal fools.”
November 22, 2023 at 1:58 PM
EA futurists & their ilk purport to take expected value & probabilities very seriously but somehow never say “out of all the dudes who have ever thought they were Hari Seldon, brilliant enough to both see and shape the course of history, vanishingly close to 100% have been egomaniacal fools.”
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I'm sure nothing bad just landed. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023...
September 4, 2023 at 3:30 PM
I'm sure nothing bad just landed. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023...
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The loss of disaster twitter is a staggeringly dystopian deconstruction of an unambiguous net good.
August 11, 2023 at 7:07 PM
The loss of disaster twitter is a staggeringly dystopian deconstruction of an unambiguous net good.
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Chris Rufo is like "we need to get all this queer stuff out of New College and instead focus on the Classical works of *checks notes* the ancient Greeks"
August 11, 2023 at 10:59 PM
Chris Rufo is like "we need to get all this queer stuff out of New College and instead focus on the Classical works of *checks notes* the ancient Greeks"