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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 18h

GOP Maintains Solid Hold On Youth That Already Look Like Old Men

The Republican Party may have an insurmountable lead among young voters who dress and act like they’re already 50 years old.

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 6d

Why should you change? He’s the one who sucks!

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 10d

The lesson for the left here is that electing a president who will abolish ice and stop sales of arms to Israel will still need pressure to do the right thing elsewhere. Just because they’re good on those issues doesn’t mean they'll be good immigration more broadly (or trans rights, or the courts)

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 10d

An ambitious dem who takes a strong stance against ICE and the genocide in Gaza will only grow more popular among the base in the coming years. Easy, obvious win for local electeds who want a national profile.

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 10d

It reminds me of the Iraq war where support of the war among establishment dems left a gap for Obama to come in and take over the party. Easy to forget that now that Obama is mainstream but in 04 he was a state rep who could give a good speec.

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 10d

They took big swings. Not all of them worked and that one episode was super racist. But it’s hard not to respect the ambition.

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 10d

Waiting on the Disney+ 8 episode series to show the backstory of the wing gremlin and what motivated him that fateful day.

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 11d

Wild to me how this NFT garbage actually looks better than a lot of AI slop. Somehow the aesthetics of tech dweebs got even worse.

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 15d

They should hire you

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 18d

It’s like the “greatest hits” of the worst people on earth. Grifters, sex pests, bigots, JAQ offs, misogynists, and race/iq weirdos. All united by the fact that people who have to deal with them at their job think they kinda suck.

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 24d

In theory, flipping a voter is worth 2x because it’s taking a voter away from your opponent. In reality, an enthusiastic voter will encourage their friends/family to turnout as well.

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 25d

The fact that “cats are just cats no matter what” is how I know my cat would randomly murder me some day if he could.

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · 26d

Bruce should really find out who is in charge of these things.

captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · Sep 14

This must be what it’s like to watch for people who aren’t into sports.

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · Sep 5

Do you know where I could order a print?

captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · Aug 22

What is happening to the “paint map guy”?! 😭

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · Aug 20

I’ve heard less argument about the word “deescalate”, but I feel the need to say: deescalate does not mean capitulate or surrender and some people are treating it like it does.

If someone is not an “enemy”, we don’t just automatically excuse their worst behavior or support their political goals.

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · Jul 29

The people yearn for Tableau

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · Jul 12

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Nation's Slicked-Back-Hair Men Rally Against Negative Hollywood Portrayal

LOS ANGELES—Thousands of members of the slicked-back-hair community gathered in Hollywood Monday to protest the film industry’s longtime trend of depicting men with slicked-back hair as untrustworthy,...

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · Jun 18

The fact that a primary poll is basically a name recognition poll gives me hope, but then again a lot of local elections are basically name recognition polls 😔

captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · Jun 17

It hurts when people say the DNC cheated when it picked Hillary or Biden. Both of them got a huge percentage of the black vote which is how they won their primaries.

Suggesting that the primaries were invalid has the same racist overtones that “millions of illegals voted” does on the right.

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · Jun 10

Me, stepping out of my time machine in ancient Sumer: “I was told there would be street parking available”

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · May 22

My favorite HN comment so far: “how can you talk shit about this business idiot, don’t you know he made a lot of money!”

A screenshot of hacker news that contains the following:

Zitron is such a moaner. Just page after page on how everything is crap.

“The Business Idiot is the manager that doesn't seem to do anything but keeps being promoted, and the chief executive officer of a public company that says boring, specious nonsense about AI”

The CEO being Aaron Levie who dropped out of college to start Box, now worth a few billion. I wonder how much the brilliant Zitron has achieved with the moanathons.

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · May 1

NFTs were really useful for knowing who to avoid having a conversation with. AI is more useful for knowing which companies you don’t want to work for or do business with.

It’s enterprise grade cringe

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captainawesome.bsky.social @captainawesome.bsky.social · Apr 25

This is our version of the bodybuilding “workout 3-4 times a week” thread.

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