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Good Grief
@ignominious.bsky.social
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If you think “hearing from all sides” is a useful way to spend your time, you may have too much time on your hands. Give me sound logic or talk to someone else. My time is too valuable for nonsense.
Apologies in advance. I don’t read or repost Substack.
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ignominious.bsky.social
Dude lies about reading the Wealth of Nations and then has the unmitigated gall to passive agressively warn us we should all stop lying.
***inserts endless eye rolling emojis***
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
I’ve changed my mind. I like adjectives again.😍
It for sure made a sort of splash when it appeared, although the Times author does not note it did so chiefly by gathering around itself pleasing and extensive ridicule, most all of it on the grounds of being a bathetically unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff.
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
Or as Trump likes to put it, “He knew what he signed up for.”
Both women said the president told Myeshia Johnson that her husband, who was killed in an ambush in Niger two weeks ago, “knew what he signed up for”.
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
I’m happy for Charlotte, but sad for Waxhaw. I was hoping people here would reject walls.😢
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
ignominious.bsky.social
I’m just popping in to refute her claim here. As a mother of four ranging from 19 to 9, I’d call 911. It’s exactly what every figure of authority in my life has told me to do if I think I’m in danger. It’s also what I would tell my kids to do.
These people really think police are useless.😳
“I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,” Bond Ferguson, who has five children ranging in age from 4 to 16, told The Associated Press. “I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that’s when he fell.”
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
Ick.😒
Good luck, Maine, if you elect this guy.
“I also believed back then that she was a moderate. As time has gone by, I don’t believe that. I think that’s a charade, and it’s worn thin,” he said. “I see Collins as, frankly, just another self-interested, establishment politician who uses this kind of myth of their moderation to stay in power, but doesn’t really do anything with their power. She’s the chair of the Appropriations Committee. I was told for years that when she got the gavel, there was going to be a boon of riches for the state of Maine. That is not materializing.”
November 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
Yeah, the article gets into that a bit, but I’m not sure how much I’d hold this attitude against people. There were a few economists early on that held out hope Trump would be an anti-monopoly president. Having hopes where Trump is concerned is a little nutty, but some people are optimists.
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
Ummm…on what evidence are you basing your hopes, Mr. Gates?
I mean, hope doesn’t pay for innovation.
Either he’s blowing smoke up everyone’s skirts, or he’s not operating in reality. Given that the latter is ultimately a money-losing strategy, I’m gonna go with the former.😒
Text: The U.S. initially entered the agreement under President Barack Obama, before President Donald Trump pulled out of the pact when he took office for the first time in 2017. After President Joe Biden rejoined, Trump issued an executive order to again withdraw during his second term. Gates said in 2017 that he was “deeply concerned” but “hopeful” that the U.S. would continue supporting innovation after Trump left the agreement.
October 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
I keep circling back to what everyone knew but refused to discuss before the crash in ‘08. I presume Mike Johnson reads (and maybe even hears from) economists. Republicans don’t want to get caught overseeing another economic collapse, but I don’t see how they keep this up for another three years.
Fortune headline “Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says” with a photo of Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
That’s a bit of an oversimplification, isn’t it?
www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
Text: "Look, my opposition isn’t to the principle that you should have Medicare. Health care should be a right in America. My opposition relates to whether or not a) it’s doable, 2) what the cost is and what consequences for the rest of budget are. How are you going to find $35 trillion over the next 10 years without having profound impacts on everything from taxes for middle class and working class people as well as the impact on the rest of the budget?"
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
The conversation happening in Maine makes me feel a bit unmoored.
Dude typed out the R-word *in 2021*, proofed what he typed, thought it was great, and hit Send.
Not saying ban the guy from politics, but reward him with a Senate seat???
Or is this normal now???
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Text: Then the story broke that Platner had posted some questionable things on Reddit starting in 2012, including that he wondered why Black people didn’t tip well, he thought white rural folks are racist, and then comments on violence and sexual assault in the military, amongst others. Suddenly, the golden boy was revealed to be another white guy, and the gnashing of teeth started: “Are we being hustled by a media-savvy white dude who is another Fetterman or is he just a garden-variety white man asshole?” Or was this just a snapshot in time of a guy blowing off steam online? Truthfully, we don’t know. I spoke to someone this week who is friends with him who said they truly don’t believe him to be a racist or sexist prick, but that still doesn’t excuse what he said. I agree.
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
$2 says this woman is staunchly anti-abortion and doesn’t believe pregnancy is dangerous.🙄
If people are this stupid, health insurers may need to cut and run.
It also might be time for states/corporations to start requiring public health records at borders/events to protect interstate commerce.
Text: Manookian said in an interview that she believes one person should never be told to risk their health in “the theoretical” service of another.
October 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
What’s a “mega embassy”, she innocently asks.
***clicks through***
Holy hot buttered biscuits😳😳😳
October 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
The other one.
October 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
I mean…yeah. Red states are going to be looking around going, “Why did all the doctors and teachers leave or quit?”
I’d like to suggest to blue state schools that they drastically lower or eliminate out-of-state tuition requirements as well. You’ll save a bunch of brains…and probably some lives.
Text: Last week, the Texas Tribune shared results of a study showing that many professors want to leave the state because of the tense political climate. The survey interviewed nearly 4,000 faculty across the southern U.S., including more than 1,100 from Texas. About a quarter of the Texas professors said they have applied for higher education jobs in other states in the last two years, and more than 25% said they soon intend to start searching for out-of-state positions. Of those who aren’t thinking of leaving, more than one-fifth said they don’t plan to stay in higher education in the long-term.
September 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
ignominious.bsky.social
Case in point:
Assuming this Canadian bank is either: a) not paying attention to the environment in Texas, b) ignoring the environment in Texas, or c) likes the idea of terrorizing women and immigrants for sport?
Could Canadians get a comment, Scotiabank?
www.dallasnews.com/business/ban...
September 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
How many of those multitude of institutions is preemptively halting treatment? Also, this is confusing. Isn’t the Republican argument around minors that parents are in charge? So, now parents *are* in charge…except when they’re not?
How do they argue both sides in court?
August 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
ignominious.bsky.social
Oof. Nope.
I’m not usually an emotional unfollower, but I guess today’s the day.
I can tolerate quite a bit. Only one party has spent the past 50 years painting representative government as the enemy. Claiming I’m an idiot for supporting the OTHER party gets you an unfollow.
August 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
*giggle snort*
Text: Like many Democrats, Booker declined to say whether he supports Mamdani, who delivered a surprise primary victory in June. “New York City, I love you. You’re my neighbor. You’re 10 miles from where I live. You guys figure out your elections,” Booker said. “I’m going to focus on mine.”
August 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
I’m glad to see it not framed as a “young people these days just don’t want to work” story. That’s a relief.
Text: A similar phenomenon was observed in Japan in the mid-1990s following the burst of the country’s economic bubble earlier in the decade. As companies drastically reduced hiring to cut costs, many young people became part of what is now known as the “lost generation” — a cohort that faced chronic unemployment and job insecurity, which in turn contributed to the rise of radical ideologies. Japan’s lost generation, estimated to number as many as 17 million, is still struggling to fully shake off the impacts of that period.
July 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
As always, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, thanks for the giggle snort.🤣
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June 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
This is absolutely all I need to read about this guy to now disregard his opinion about literally everything.
Now I’m sad, because I did NOT used to be this judgmental about people’s opinions. Everyone has a right to them, but having uninformed opinions should NOT be a career.
Text: Adam Donovan Sessler is an American video game journalist, television personality and consultant. He is best known as the host for the video game review series Xplay and…
June 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
Well, she sounds like a real piece of work. Well done, Florida.😒
June 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
ignominious.bsky.social
You know one of the literal definitions of “artificial” is “fake”, right?
Words still have meaning…for the moment.
June 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
ignominious.bsky.social
Hi, @nbcnews.com:
Just a friendly critique about your headline.
When you say “Powell defends Federal Reserve independence”, you imply *someone* was attacking it.
The newsworthy thing that happened wasn’t that Powell defended the Fed—it’s that someone attacked it.
That’s your headline.
Do better.🙏
May 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM