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Blumstein’s Bastard
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therealbrent.bsky.social
Self-described “moderates” and mainlining right-wing bullshit and lies. Name a more iconic duo.
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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wilsonforseattle.bsky.social
SEATTLE!!!

We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
A photo of Katie Wilson seated in a wooden chair beside a white brick fireplace smiling at the camera with her hands folded an image of the election results from King County
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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atrupar.com
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.

Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
Katie Wilson is ahead by 91 votes
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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edzitron.com
Me, two weeks ago
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr...
As we speak, big tech is hoarding masses of GPUs, and by extension, masses of depreciating assets that will without fail lead to a massive impairment loss, which will come directly out of their earnings, and when they’ve spent tens or hundreds of billions of dollars on GPUs, these impairments will be extremely harsh, and come directly out of earnings. So, on top of spending hundreds of billions of dollars in capital expenditures, big tech is also conjuring a giant anvil above their heads. GPUs start losing value the moment you buy them, and by purchasing hundreds of billions of expensive, ever-rotting assets, big tech guarantees their revenues will take a hit sometime in the future, and likely multiple times as each generation ages. Let me put it in really simple terms, and use a hypothetical example. Ten companies bought $10bn of GPUs each to sell AI services, each requiring billions of dollars of data center infrastructure to go on top of them to make them run. As a result, one of the companies — let’s call them BallWeave — has had to take on an absolute shit ton of debt to buy them. BallWeave eventually runs into solvency issues, and has to start selling off masses of GPUs, massively reducing the market value of these GPUs by 30%. This causes the other 9 companies to have to take an immediate impairment — a $3bn haircut directly off of their balance sheet. There is no spreading it out. This is a problem, in part because $3bn is a lot of money, and in part because that’s more than the revenue being generated from AI. The impairment has an immediate negative effect on their assets, while also directly eating into their income, because this shit is almost certainly being financed. This hypothetical scenario is quite real, and it can hurt you, and will hurt any and all companies buying masses of GPUs. One last thing: Remember how I said that there are many ways to calculate depreciation over the useful lifetime of an object? Well, the depreciation rate is always the difference between the initial value of the item and its salvage value — which means how much a company can expect to make when they dispose of the item, either by reselling it or literally scrapping it for parts. So, for the sake of illustration, if a GPU costs $50,000 and has a useful life of five years, after which it has a nominal salvage value of $10,000, the amount said company could mark down as depreciation over that lifespan is $40,000. This is simply me talking out loud, but I worry that there’s no real way to accurately predict what that salvage value of an enterprise GPU will be. It’s contingent on a bunch of factors — namely, how long these cards last in real-world conditions, where they’re experiencing near-constant utilization, as well the pace and the quality of Nvidia’s future releases. It’s bad, and only compounds the fact that they’ve already created a giant, ugly, unsustainable hole on top of their earnings.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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eviebauer727.bsky.social
Go figure. 🤨

‘Acetaminophen use during pregnancy not clearly linked to autism, ADHD: Review’

“Taking acetaminophen during pregnancy is not clearly linked to autism or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, a new review finds.”
abcnews.go.com/Health/aceta...
Acetaminophen use during pregnancy not clearly linked to autism, ADHD: Review
Taking acetaminophen during pregnancy is not clearly linked to autism or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, a new analysis finds.
abcnews.go.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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atrupar.com
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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junlper.beer
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
What a great long-term recruiting pitch: come do this high-stress job, you may have to work for free at some point — and if you try to feed your family with a side gig, you’ll be punished. 🤡

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
It’s really bad. I get nothing but gutter misogyny.
cwarzel.bsky.social Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 16h
i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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jessehawken.bsky.social
They used to wiretap your phones to collect this kind of information from you but now you pay for a Bluecheck and post it yourself
“I had to give my ex wife my retirement account in the divorce. I worked 30 years for that but I gave it to a person who chose not to work. Character is a big issue in this country. I wish I could retire but I have to work to pay for everything” - Adam Carolla tweets
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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eoinhiggins.bsky.social
This sort of thing feels especially useless right now
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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atrupar.com
Hassett: "I think it's back on the table to think about what to do with those tariff revenues. I'm sure the president will discuss with congressional leaders whether because of all of the extra tax revenue, there is more room to get checks back to people."
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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questauthority.bsky.social
A political party addicted to jamming its tongue into electrical outlets.
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."

The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.

And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
You might think that, given the Dems' concessions in the Senate last night, the Trump administration would give up on its battle to withhold SNAP funding.

Wait, you didn't think that. Neither did any other sane person.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump administration wants Supreme Court to intervene in SNAP fight again
The battle over funding for the nation’s largest anti-hunger program has left millions wondering how they will afford food.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
it’s important to understand that Nate Silver’s entire consciousness is filtered through the lens of being a gross nerd his entire life. the opportunity to feel like he’s one of the cool kids is something he can’t pass up, it’s load-bearing for his dork psyche.
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18h
the hipsters, they’re ordering double frufru mocha soy frappuccino. doesn’t anybody order a black coffee anymore
Jarvis @jarvis_best -14h What's the mood on Bluesky? 236 t797 2.6K Ill 402K On the Edge Nate Silver Nate Silver v @NateSilver538 X.com They're too busy burning American Eagle jeans at socially distanced bonfires to have noticed that the shutdown ended. 6:43 PM • 11/9/25 • 402K Views
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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spacetwinks.bsky.social
there is no force on earth, not even the grandest wealth and state power over others, that is more of an influence on senate dems thinking than vacation plans
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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ericstephen.bsky.social
I sliced jalapeños and touched my eye again. It was a good run
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
DEMOCRATIC SENATOR SHAHEEN: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the government is open to get this done."
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
To those whining about my siding with Trump on the shutdown fight, I don’t answer to you. I answer to the 2028 Republican primary voters in Iowa.

by John Fetterman
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
I understand the frustration amongst professional SCOTUS commentators, most of whom are smarter and better-informed than I, when something happens they confidently predicted in the face of widespread concern (or panic), like the denial of Kim Davis’ petition. But on the other hand…
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November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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tippedbeaker.bsky.social
And the Dems sold you down the river for the airlines.

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November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
It is almost impossible to emphasize how unprofessional this is. Immigration enforcement agents pepper sprayed a car driving in the opposite direction, which was in no way a threat to them, hitting a toddler.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM