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David Michael Pierce

@dweeze.bsky.social

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And I don't know a soul who's not been battered I don't have a friend who feels at ease I don't know a dream that's not been shattered Or driven to its knees

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David Michael Pierce @dweeze.bsky.social · Dec 14

If you’re following over 2k people and you’re not someone I already know or someone I’m already following I’m going to assume you’re not adding me to your following list because of my insightful comments and, since this apparently needs saying, I am going to immediately block you.

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 6h

wait you’re telling me that this simple task I’ve been putting off for two weeks, that has tormented me like a two hour task, only took 30 seconds to complete? If only there were a valuable lesson I could learn from this.

Ah well. Nevertheless.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Cuomo during the campaign: I'm the only man tough enough to stand up to the evil Donald Trump!

Cuomo on election eve: I hope New Yorkers all listen to my good friend Donald Trump and heed his advice to vote for me!

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 2h

"The president is right: a vote for Sliwa is a vote for Mamdani," Cuomo says on 77WABC radio in response to Trump's words of support just posted on Truth Social.

"Now it's gonna be up to the Republicans, and I hope they listen to the president," he adds.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1h

Getting hit in the chest from point blank range with a footlong sub and an enormous Peckinpah-style squib of sweet onion teriyaki sauce explodes from my chest.

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4h

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 6h

Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

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David Michael Pierce @dweeze.bsky.social · 3h

I will never forget that IMC started out anti-Gamergate until he figured out he could make more money on the pro-Gamergate side of things and did an almost instant switch in stance

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3h

"I wish my field were a bigger part of the national conversation!"

Bart Simpson holding the cursed monkey paw.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 4h

I genuinely do not care if in your heart of hearts you think I'm a real girl. I just care about my ability to go about my day without incident and that you do not try to prevent me from doing so.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4h

At least a couple of current Supreme Court justices would be happy to revisit the ruling, and Trump would want any new justices he appoints to be cut out of that same cloth, so let's not assume it won't one day come up on the docket, a la Roe v Wade

John @lawyerbennett.bsky.social · 4h

Thank God for NY Times vs. Sullivan.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Curtis Sliwa also appears on the ballot twice in the top row -- as the Republican Party nominee and again as the nominee for the "Protect Animals" party -- but off course this genius who promotes AI investments didn't notice that.

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 4h

these people are just pathologically stupid

@SethGRosenberg
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My experience voting in NYC:

1. No ID required
2. Zohran on the ballot twice in the top row
3. Eric Adams, who dropped out to avoid splitting the vote, still on the ballot
4. Cuomo in the bottom right corner, 2nd row

@fresco_inferno
in ny state multiple parties can endorse same candidate, which is why a candidate can appear twice. only one registered party that appears

@SethGRosenberg
A logical system would be you vote for a person + party, so all votes for Zohran #2 would go towards the 2nd party

I asked, and of course, if you vote for Zohran #1 or Zohran #2, they're added together for the Democrats

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5h

NEWS: CBS News head of talent Laurie Orlando is out. Here's the note she just shared with staff:

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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 5h

This is refreshing in its unvarnished clarity. No more "Zionists," no more "Frankists," no more euphemisms. Just Jews.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 6h

Like, literally all Jen Psaki did was talk about how amazing they were doing at getting the economy back up and going, and every single reporter in that room would spend the next full day doing nothing but tweeting palace intrigue bullshit. You cannot message your way out of that media environment.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 6h

You can still find videos of the Biden Administration's daily press briefings, and I shit you not, the #1 topic for probably half of them was 'Us and other Dems are awesome at running the economy, Republicans want to make us tailspin into a recession,' and the media would never print a word of it.

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 11h

It’s funny to see how many people here are insisting that Dems never even try to make this case when I think of it as “Bill Clinton’s favourite stat” which he brings up variations of literally every time he has a chance lol

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5h

no, I think it’s incredibly good actually that Bluesky gives people opt-in tools that allow them to use social media *without* constantly getting into stupid fights with strangers.

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 7h

Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.

Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.

Margaret Mitchell, who was famously fired from Google after co-authoring the seminal "Stochastic Parrots" paper, has been posting on X lately because she is caught up in mass blocklists of AI industry people on Bluesky, making the platform borderline unusable for her.

Here she's on X quote-tweeting fellow AI ethics researcher Giada Pistilli, who is in the same boat.

Pistilli said: I really wanted 🦋 to work, but it looks like I’m on the worst block lists out there. Oh, well.

Mitchell said: I think what many 🦋 Bsky users may be overlooking is that they’re blocking people in positions of influence *who want to listen to them*. As someone influentialish in AI ethics, it’s important for me to know what creators, critics, Luddites, etc., are thinking and seeing.

Mitchell added in a second post: I’m an advocate in tech directly aligned with a lot of their values in the very spaces where decisions that affect them are being made. I need the stats, articles, hot takes…all the deets they can give me so I can be prepared when talking to regulators,academics, techies, etc

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6h

this is achieving levels of 2003-era racist grandpa cringe that cannot be measured with any known scientific instruments

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Anyone who identifies as a radical leftist. Transnational gangs, illegal immigrants
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Honestly, we couldn't meet enough members of Antifa or illegal immigrants. They're so awesome.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6h

us citizen shot by ICE officer after victim said 'not cool, bro'/'hey those are kids' is almost like a daily story at this point.

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David Michael Pierce @dweeze.bsky.social · 6h

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alternate ending @jamiroqueer.bsky.social · Aug 28

when you try to tell me anything

A young man in a suit asks, serious-faced: “What does that have to do with Godzilla?”

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 6h

Tarriffs are penne wise, pound foolish

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8h

The U.S. is threatening to hit Italian pasta with a punitive antidumping tariff — and one company said it would have to double its pasta prices to keep up.

Tariffs on pasta from Italy could soon soar to more than 100%

A routine Commerce Department probe into alleged “dumping” resulted in crushing 100% tariffs on Italian pasta that leave exporters shouting “Basta!”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 6h

Look, it's impossible to get just how stupid this is into a single headline, but I tried, okay?

Techdirt @techdirt.com · 6h

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris

60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris

60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are all sorts of crazy moments to call out, but let’s start with the recursively meta nonsense. 60 Minutes edited out a segment where Donald Trump tells them to edit out a segment in which he brags about getting CBS to pay him because of them editing out part of an answer by Kamala Harris, and he notes that CBS clearly did the wrong thing in editing Harris in the same fucking sentence he tells them to edit out what he’s saying.

www.techdirt.com

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 6h

FIRST RULE OF SANDWICH HANDLING: TREAT EVERY SANDWICH AS IF IT WERE LOADED

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

NEW: Jury selection begins in the trial of sandwich guy today. The prosecutors are accusing him of "throwing a meat sandwich" at "point-blank range."

POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Jury selection begins in the trial of D.C.'s 'sandwich guy'

Sean Dunn went viral this summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.

www.nbcnews.com

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David Michael Pierce @dweeze.bsky.social · 6h

I'll do my best

David Michael Pierce @dweeze.bsky.social · 6h

Apparently I've just been traded to the Eagles

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h

"I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped."

So close to getting it.

Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 11h

This Washington Post article about MAGA people trying and failing to date in Washington is...really something

www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

When Morgan Housley, 29, moved to Washington for her job in April, she had some non-negotiables for the conservative man she was looking to date: He had to “love the Lord,” genuinely enjoy going to church, and be able to “provide and protect, emotionally, physically, spiritually, all of those things.” A fit, athletic man she could go on runs with.
So far, Mr. Right has not materialized.
Instead, many of the single MAGA men she’s seen are …
“Not fit, workaholics and not taking finding a wife seriously,” Housley says.
If she had it her way, she would be married and expecting her first kid. She says a lot of her colleagues at the American Principles Project, a conservative advocacy group whose website says “in order to save America — we have to save the family,” are settling down and having children. But it’s rough out there. When we reached Housley by phone, and she told a co-worker that she was discussing dating in D.C., a voice at the other end of the line could be heard saying, “Oh nooooo!” So, that’s where we are.
“I felt like, being in conservative politics, there would be more, like, masculine men in the conservative movement,” Housley says, “and I find that a lot of them aren’t as masculine as I would have hoped.”

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 7h

It's crucially important to remember that you're an adult with free will, and you can make fresh popcorn with red chile powder, nutritional yeast, lemon juice and salt and eat it with chopsticks at your desk to avoid making a mess. No one can ever take that away from you

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 7h

This has got to be a new world record for being committed to the bit

Nationally Published Troll @mongoebooks.bsky.social · 7h

Andrew Cuomo being driven around at low speeds in a white Bronco seems fitting for this great respecter of women. Where did he even find a white Bronco in NYC?

Jeff Coltin
@JCColtin
After a brief speech and some handshakes and selfies, Cuomo ignored my questions and got in the white Ford Bronco to be driven to the next stop in Washington Heights.

With a photo of a White 90s Ford Bronco parked in a bus lane.

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