Mark Jaggers
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Mark Jaggers
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Or maybe just post hog fallacy
egregious example of post hog justification
October 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The frogs are out in Amsterdam #NoKings #NoTryants
October 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
There’s several issues detailed here that make me think Starlink ain’t gonna scale well. Thoughts @profgalloway.com ?
Starlink's connection speeds drop below the federal definition of "broadband" at a density of ~7 customers per square mile, according to recent research. The more the customers in an area, the slower everybody's connections get. Data shows that 83% of US Starlink customers get sub-broadband speeds.
thexlab.org
July 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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"Despite what our opponents say, as a Muslim and a Jew you know we won't put pork in our budget!"
June 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Don’t the question beg an answer

Don’t the song beg a dancer

I know it’s a song, but I’m wondering what the good Dr @bcdreyer.social would say about the usage of beg not as a question.

www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Marc-...
Musixmatch - The world's largest lyrics catalog
www.musixmatch.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I would not have thought Rubio was a @npr.org @marketplace.org listener - 🤷‍♂️ - right @kairyssdal.bsky.social ?
Rubio: “I don’t think it’s fair to say economies are crashing. Markets are crashing.”

Oh ok what a relief
April 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I remember @booker.senate.gov when he came out to shovel the snow in Newark. Good to see him leading from the front again. youtu.be/vDA2QJax5GQ?...
Mayor Cory Booker digs Newark out of the snow
YouTube video by NJ.com
youtu.be
April 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Ezra Klein and Jon Stewart over-simplify and caricature the restrictions on this $42.5 billion broadband grant program to falsely paint the whole thing as an irredeemable waste.

But they fail to mention a lot of important stuff because they didn't actually understand what they were talking about...
‘Oh My F**king God!’ Jon Stewart Left ‘Speechless’ As Ezra Klein Breaks Down Biden Era Red Tape
Jon Stewart was thrown into a state of shock as he listened to Ezra Klein break down the red tape involved in Biden's Build Back Better Act.
www.mediaite.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Oh… tariffs are smurf
Peter Navarro goes full Orwell on Fox News Sunday: "The message is that tariffs are tax cuts."
March 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
It’s almost as if calling people names doesn’t actually refute their arguments or positions
They don’t! Trump and his people call people communists and I would argue. It has no real meaning outside of that ideological bubble.
But because there are no longer any real communists to deal with it kind of doesn’t matter
If I agree with Tom’s point, I wonder if he would also agree that GOP “overusing” Marxist/Communist/Radical may have led us to a similar problem in that these words have no meaning a la politics and ze English language
March 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
In retrospect - President Jar-Jar doesn’t sound like a horrible idea
If it's not fully setting in how ominous this is, try reading it this way:
March 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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There were a lot of hilarious signs at today's Philly protest (because Philly has A+ protest sign game), but this was my favorite from an "I want that as a tattoo" perspective.
February 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
There’s seemingly a lot of people that want to throw some shade at @karaswisher.bsky.social for some comments that got published today.

I’d just like to say - good job talking about what you know.

Anyone interpreting that in other ways is probably being just argumentative for no reason.
"You can't disassociate. There's no disassociation allowed... It's the long fucking run with these people. You gotta stick in there."

@karaswisher.bsky.social has some important advice amid all the Trump and Elon chaos.
February 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This data is for the most part already public:

openpaymentsdata.cms.gov
February 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I'm going to try to summarize this piece in case you don't want to slog through 3,000 words: DeepSeek isn't about AI. It's about China. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-ai-war...
January 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Security tip for iPhone users: holding the side button and one of the volume buttons for two seconds will lock your phone and disables Face ID until you enter your password. Useful for situations where someone may try to unlock your phone without your consent.
January 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Just playing that card…
(English subtitles available)

youtu.be/zvgZtdmyKlI?...
Nazikeule im Dritten Reich | Browser Ballett
YouTube video by Browser Ballett
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I support this plan
the plan? build a social media following by tweeting about pants and then, when the moment is right, put out anti-walkability tweets until people sell their homes in walkable neighborhoods, allowing me, a non-rich person, to buy a home in a walkable neighborhood for $300k
Describing a 10 min walk this way is the most American thing I've ever read
January 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Brando has what plants crave - It has electrolytes
This is how misinformation works—inflammatory headline, mundane details in the text.

The story is that there's no story here, a pre-trial magistrate with no connection to UHC at all.

But you can see in the replies how few people clicked through—just see who uses male pronouns (judge is a woman):
Luigi Mangione Judge Married to Former Healthcare Executive
December 24, 2024 at 1:44 PM
In all fairness - when you take this many trips, it’s hard to remember them all individually
Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose two additional trips from a billionaire patron, Senate Democrats revealed on Saturday after conducting a 20-month investigation into ethics practices at the Supreme Court.
Justice Clarence Thomas Did Not Disclose Additional Trips From Billionaire Patron, Democrats Say
The revelation was included in a report by Democratic staff members on the Senate Judiciary Committee who had conducted a 20-month investigation into ethics practices at the Supreme Court.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 7:37 PM