I Need a Cocktail
@iantuck.bsky.social
Former spirits importer. Software Engineer: sold my first program in 1980 at thirteen years old. Customs Broker, technologist, entrepreneur, progressive, I enjoy quality cocktail bars as "3rd places". Long list of hobbies, mediocre at them all.
I recently found an old CD I burned of the first season of "An American in Canada', and now I'm desperate to find season 2 because I can't remember what happened.
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I recently found an old CD I burned of the first season of "An American in Canada', and now I'm desperate to find season 2 because I can't remember what happened.
This is incredible.
the thread just keeps getting better from here
this is easily the funniest way Elon has ever broken Grok, you can get it to choose him over anyone for anything in a hypothetical scenario
*anything*
this is easily the funniest way Elon has ever broken Grok, you can get it to choose him over anyone for anything in a hypothetical scenario
*anything*
oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is incredible.
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
The only bad union is a police union.
This piece makes it sound totally normal that the police gets to decide whether or not to "work with" Mamdani as mayor, and it continues, as nearly all the paper's coverage, to wield normative terms like "moderate" and left" in a prejudicial way. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
The N.Y.P.D. Prepares for Mayor Mamdani and a New Era in Public Safety
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The only bad union is a police union.
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This is great. In (gift link): www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This is great. In (gift link): www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Well-played, sir.
I’ve heard that 4 in 10 cops are planning to leave the force.
Google “40% of cops” for more info.
Google “40% of cops” for more info.
"Hundreds of New York City police officers are ready to leave the force in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s (D.) election victory, with some openly weeping after the cop-hating socialist seized the city’s mayoralty earlier this month"
(Note: This story has 3 sources, who wouldn't go on record)
(Note: This story has 3 sources, who wouldn't go on record)
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Well-played, sir.
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Man, this is cool.
I just want to recognize for a moment how amazing it is that this image can appear before us unbidden in the comfort of our own homes
The First Photograph of a Human Being: A Photo Taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838
You’ve likely heard the reason people never smile in very old photographs. Early photography could be an excruciatingly slow process.
www.openculture.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Man, this is cool.
I think this captures quite well how many Dems are feeling today. The party is going to have to be dragged into this century, and this moment. And it can't just happen during elections.
The fact that many Democratic Senators are profoundly trapped in an unreal matrix of DC-media assumptions is a disaster on an epic scale. But it’s also an opportunity.
You have to wait years to primary most Senators, but you can fight to change those assumptions now.
Let me explain…
You have to wait years to primary most Senators, but you can fight to change those assumptions now.
Let me explain…
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I think this captures quite well how many Dems are feeling today. The party is going to have to be dragged into this century, and this moment. And it can't just happen during elections.
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Wow… nailed it!
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Wow… nailed it!
Please sign this. Let's not let Doug Ford ruin everything forever. #ToPoli
November 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Please sign this. Let's not let Doug Ford ruin everything forever. #ToPoli
Once again. I implore you that if you're still on Twitter, know that even if *you* think it's still a "normal" platform, corporations think it's full of nothing but rubes and reactionary crypto-bros and degenerate gamblers (is there a difference?)
Get off of Twitter. Your brain is being cooked.
Get off of Twitter. Your brain is being cooked.
November 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Once again. I implore you that if you're still on Twitter, know that even if *you* think it's still a "normal" platform, corporations think it's full of nothing but rubes and reactionary crypto-bros and degenerate gamblers (is there a difference?)
Get off of Twitter. Your brain is being cooked.
Get off of Twitter. Your brain is being cooked.
My goodness, this was an excellent insight into where the Grey Lady is now. Very depressing.
"“Critics say” is the tell, and does it ever go on telling."
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My goodness, this was an excellent insight into where the Grey Lady is now. Very depressing.
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There’s certainly an argument to be made that this is the most unjust thing to happen in our lifetimes.
Wow, a trillion dollar payout for Elon Musk? That’s literally $1.66 million for each of the 600,000 people his cuts to USAID have reportedly killed.
November 7, 2025 at 2:45 AM
There’s certainly an argument to be made that this is the most unjust thing to happen in our lifetimes.
Nuremberg trials for these monsters, all of them.
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Nuremberg trials for these monsters, all of them.
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Hey yo here’s some blue meat from me on yesterday’s election results.
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
I have terrible, terrible news for red America
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary unpacks the 2025 elections.
www.sfgate.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Hey yo here’s some blue meat from me on yesterday’s election results.
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
Refreshing Zillow constantly with a search for "Billionaire Penthouses in NYC", hoping to be the first to make an offer on the hundreds of new listings incoming.
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Refreshing Zillow constantly with a search for "Billionaire Penthouses in NYC", hoping to be the first to make an offer on the hundreds of new listings incoming.
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Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.
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If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore
If there was ever a night I was going to poke my head back in on that Shithole that Musk Bought™️, it would be tonight, but I'm still not going to do it. Hoping that there's lots of rending of garments and gnashing of teeth.
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 AM
If there was ever a night I was going to poke my head back in on that Shithole that Musk Bought™️, it would be tonight, but I'm still not going to do it. Hoping that there's lots of rending of garments and gnashing of teeth.
Jesus Christ, it's all distraction from a government that enriches itself and its friends at the expense of education, public transit, and healthcare. #onpoli #topoli
Venue of $10M Skills Development Fund recipient, partners now licensed as an ‘adult entertainment club’
Venue of $10M Skills Development Fund recipient, partners now licensed as an ‘adult entertainment club’
For decades, Zlatko Starkovski has leased the historic Exhibition Place building, which hosted PC fundraisers and the party’s campaign manager’s wedding in recent years
dlvr.it
November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM