Thomas Lavoy
@thomaslavoy.bsky.social
Product Manager at Microsoft. Nerd. Butler for my cat, dog, and children. Opinions are my own, unless they're bad, then I'll blame them on my mirror universe counterpart.
We are ruled by murderers who want us all to die.
“The approach could also have a chilling effect on the development of novel vaccines” — this is exactly what they are nihilistically trying to accomplish. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths
Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We are ruled by murderers who want us all to die.
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Hegseth - and the people carrying out his orders - need to be tried in The Hague for this
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Hegseth - and the people carrying out his orders - need to be tried in The Hague for this
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Dreading the political fights over Thanksgiving dinner?
This Thanksgiving, we bring you ten things to argue about instead:
This Thanksgiving, we bring you ten things to argue about instead:
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Dreading the political fights over Thanksgiving dinner?
This Thanksgiving, we bring you ten things to argue about instead:
This Thanksgiving, we bring you ten things to argue about instead:
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
This such an insane take I have to assume it's engagement bait? I'm so confused.
Anyway everyone can like both Star Wars and Star Trek, this is a dumb false dichotomy.
Anyway everyone can like both Star Wars and Star Trek, this is a dumb false dichotomy.
You ever think about just how handily Star Trek has won the Star Wars/Star Trek war? Turns out making a lot of good content is really hard!
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
This such an insane take I have to assume it's engagement bait? I'm so confused.
Anyway everyone can like both Star Wars and Star Trek, this is a dumb false dichotomy.
Anyway everyone can like both Star Wars and Star Trek, this is a dumb false dichotomy.
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Do you have any idea what posting this has done to Discord servers run by 38-year-olds everywhere? Which is virtually all of them? You absolute monster?
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Do you have any idea what posting this has done to Discord servers run by 38-year-olds everywhere? Which is virtually all of them? You absolute monster?
Tried to share my excitement with my wife over how cool it is how Egyptian hieroglyphics led to nearly all modern forms of writing except East Asian scripts, and the evolution of letters from Egyptian glyphs to Proto-sinaitic to Phoenician to Greek to Latin.
Inexplicable lack of intense interest.
Inexplicable lack of intense interest.
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tried to share my excitement with my wife over how cool it is how Egyptian hieroglyphics led to nearly all modern forms of writing except East Asian scripts, and the evolution of letters from Egyptian glyphs to Proto-sinaitic to Phoenician to Greek to Latin.
Inexplicable lack of intense interest.
Inexplicable lack of intense interest.
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
Remind me what did we fight a revolutionary war over?
If the president can just raise taxes and spend money without Congressional approval, the constitution is null and void.
BREAKING: Deputy White House Chief of Staff James Blair said the administration is eyeing ways to give millions of Americans $2,000 dividend checks from tariff revenue without congressional approval, per Bloomberg.
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Remind me what did we fight a revolutionary war over?
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THEYRE BRINGING BACK GUILD WARS 1 SHUT THE FUCK UP THIS IS ALL IVE EVER WANTED
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
THEYRE BRINGING BACK GUILD WARS 1 SHUT THE FUCK UP THIS IS ALL IVE EVER WANTED
One of the most vile things any president has ever said on camera.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
One of the most vile things any president has ever said on camera.
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Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? (I would have answered Keep It Together by Guster if it had come out a day earlier.)
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? (I would have answered Keep It Together by Guster if it had come out a day earlier.)
As usual the language Tycho uses is a bit pretentiously incomprehensible but his basic position here seems to be it's OK for a game to use generative AI if he otherwise really likes the game, and that seems like an odious and hypocritical position. www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/20...
Ursula Major - Penny Arcade
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
www.penny-arcade.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
As usual the language Tycho uses is a bit pretentiously incomprehensible but his basic position here seems to be it's OK for a game to use generative AI if he otherwise really likes the game, and that seems like an odious and hypocritical position. www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/20...
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Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.
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What a terrible day to know how to read
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
What a terrible day to know how to read
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This is *depraved* -- glamor shots & an exculpatory feature for a woman who shit on the key central tenets of journalism, repeatedly.
NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!
NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!
November 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is *depraved* -- glamor shots & an exculpatory feature for a woman who shit on the key central tenets of journalism, repeatedly.
NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!
NYT is celebrating elite freedom from accountability. Actively celebrating it. You wouldn't put this in a satire, it's too ham-handed!
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I like how with the whole “sitting on Epstein files” and “actually the rape victim was the instigator and Matt Gaetz was the real victim” stuff most papers would take a little break. But not the New York Times. They want to repeatedly hammer home just how fucking awful they are.
November 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I like how with the whole “sitting on Epstein files” and “actually the rape victim was the instigator and Matt Gaetz was the real victim” stuff most papers would take a little break. But not the New York Times. They want to repeatedly hammer home just how fucking awful they are.
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Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Nuzzi, like TCW, exists as a kind of simulacrum of the midcentury public intellectual. Not even ripping off the writers of that era, but imitating a sort of half-remembered, half-invented idea of what those writers were sort of like and what their general vibe was.
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This implies that the only real “everyday Americans” are those who aren’t affected by identity issues - white men. Also, all politics are identity politics, fight me
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This implies that the only real “everyday Americans” are those who aren’t affected by identity issues - white men. Also, all politics are identity politics, fight me