McRombles Plenty
@mcrombles.bsky.social
Seattleite dweeb, 36, all bitch!
Pinned
I'm American and call it Kraft Dinner not to be cutesy, but because you know full well that's dinner.
I straight up stopped watching “Stranger Things” after Season 1. Didn’t even see the mall. Now these kids look old enough to have mortgages? Just miss me with it.
November 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I straight up stopped watching “Stranger Things” after Season 1. Didn’t even see the mall. Now these kids look old enough to have mortgages? Just miss me with it.
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Meanwhile his gov't is rounding up people w/out any due process & imprisoning them under unsanitary conditions without adequate food, water & medical care where pregnant women are having miscarriages. He has no standing, moral or otherwise to talk about violation of human rights in other countries.
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Meanwhile his gov't is rounding up people w/out any due process & imprisoning them under unsanitary conditions without adequate food, water & medical care where pregnant women are having miscarriages. He has no standing, moral or otherwise to talk about violation of human rights in other countries.
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Just a little cursed.
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Just a little cursed.
You know, for all the alt-history asking “what if the Nazis won?” why don’t we have more asking “what if the Nazis were COMPLETELY routed, early and definitively?” Nuke Berlin. Turn Hitler inside-out. Fling U-Boats so far inland the Czechs are picking up floatation devices.
November 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
You know, for all the alt-history asking “what if the Nazis won?” why don’t we have more asking “what if the Nazis were COMPLETELY routed, early and definitively?” Nuke Berlin. Turn Hitler inside-out. Fling U-Boats so far inland the Czechs are picking up floatation devices.
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Literally just lectured about this!
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.
If there’s no shale gas then there’s no shale gas, but I still think environmentalism is basically bad and politicians should focus more on material prosperity.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Literally just lectured about this!
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
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As to point 3-a reminder that their cheerleading for Harvard-pays-half-a-bil has so far failed, and they have simply stopped talking about it, rather than explaining why it is they kept doing dirty work for the Trump admin.
A great story for journalists to find out the who/what/why/when on that
A great story for journalists to find out the who/what/why/when on that
1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.)
3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories
2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.)
3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
As to point 3-a reminder that their cheerleading for Harvard-pays-half-a-bil has so far failed, and they have simply stopped talking about it, rather than explaining why it is they kept doing dirty work for the Trump admin.
A great story for journalists to find out the who/what/why/when on that
A great story for journalists to find out the who/what/why/when on that
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I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear:
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear:
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
I’ve given up on “Fallout.” At some point, society WILL rebuild. Level-setting, destroying the NCR, using the BoS as some excuse to roll over any budding faction, just—
Fuck you. That’s all there is to it. “War never changes” is a crutch, a truism.
Fuck you. That’s all there is to it. “War never changes” is a crutch, a truism.
November 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I’ve given up on “Fallout.” At some point, society WILL rebuild. Level-setting, destroying the NCR, using the BoS as some excuse to roll over any budding faction, just—
Fuck you. That’s all there is to it. “War never changes” is a crutch, a truism.
Fuck you. That’s all there is to it. “War never changes” is a crutch, a truism.
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Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
October 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
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DC journo brain: Dems give a shit about norms, so they should follow them; Republicans don't give a shit about them, so they can do whatever they want. It's explicit!
HUNT: Dems have argued that the norms of our govt should be that you negotiate policy outside of a shutdown
GALLEGO: You're talking about norms in a time of Donald Trump?
H: But Ds have spent so much time arguing that maintaining norms is incredibly important
G: It's all out the window, Kasie. No
GALLEGO: You're talking about norms in a time of Donald Trump?
H: But Ds have spent so much time arguing that maintaining norms is incredibly important
G: It's all out the window, Kasie. No
October 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
DC journo brain: Dems give a shit about norms, so they should follow them; Republicans don't give a shit about them, so they can do whatever they want. It's explicit!
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a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes
a day in an american life
a day in an american life
October 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes
a day in an american life
a day in an american life
Mental illness with and without meds and coping
October 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Mental illness with and without meds and coping
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The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
October 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish.
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy
Really, EVANSTON? The place with an Urban Outfitters in walking distance of the Red Line stop?
For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.
October 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Really, EVANSTON? The place with an Urban Outfitters in walking distance of the Red Line stop?
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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
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very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”
October 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”
Crazy thing about Long COVID/Post-COVID is waking up one day and realizing you can feel where your bones are again. It’s that sounds nuts coming and going for most people, but there it is.
October 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Crazy thing about Long COVID/Post-COVID is waking up one day and realizing you can feel where your bones are again. It’s that sounds nuts coming and going for most people, but there it is.
I had beef jerky and a Baja Blast. My body has responded as it would to any Taco Bell trip - poorly.
October 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I had beef jerky and a Baja Blast. My body has responded as it would to any Taco Bell trip - poorly.
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this is, flatly and subjectively, intolerable to anyone who fancies themselves free people. simply intolerable
"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.
October 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM
this is, flatly and subjectively, intolerable to anyone who fancies themselves free people. simply intolerable
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Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.
I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.
I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.
October 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.
I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.
I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.
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I continue to think this is one of the most important and underappreciated media dynamics.
October 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I continue to think this is one of the most important and underappreciated media dynamics.
Listen, that’s the sound of intactivists grinding their teeth to powder.
October 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Listen, that’s the sound of intactivists grinding their teeth to powder.
Somehow aged like wine.
Disney Adults get a lot of flak, but “I sat my ass down and LISTENED to Moana 2” is more heavy lifting than the average adult now.
October 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Somehow aged like wine.