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Ernie Smith

@ernie.tedium.co

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Editor of Tedium (https://tedium.co), freelance writer, pop-up search engine maven (https://udm14.com). See my writing: https://erniesmith.net/ “Life is too short to not say exactly what you mean all the time.” — Jesse Welles

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

Great news: Chris was able to get tickets for this. Thanks to everyone who helped!

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 16d

Hey, can you all do me a big favor? My childhood friend Chris recently found out he has terminal cancer. He has two daughters.

One of them, Alivia, wants to go see Alex Warren with her dad in Columbus, Ohio.

If you know someone in his orbit, send it to him. If you don’t, please share this post. ❤️

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 6h

It’s the falsetto that makes it

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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anita the last vcr @saleintothe90s.bsky.social · 7h

I wish people would realize we can’t keep every book in the library. I suspect their friends sale room is filled to the brim and the thrift stores around there are packed full of books too. archive.is/2025.10.11-0...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

I don't think there's any better example of leopards eating faces than the Lebanese immigrant who opened a Trump-themed burger restaurant and then got arrested by ICE.

Chron.com @chron.com · 13h

🍔 Houston’s Trump Burger appears to have shut its doors after a brief run on Chimney Rock: bit.ly/46LpQAx

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 9h

They're gonna blame this on Adobe aren't they

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 11h

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 9h

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 9h

National Design Studio looks like it's shipped its first website:

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TrumpRx

The lowest prescription prices in America. Coming January 2026.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 9h

This article ends with Benioff addressing his PR person, who is apparently shocked by what is coming out of the dude's mouth

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

Guy in private plane doesn’t like that he has to hire more security to address his personal concerns about crime so he is happy to have the president push guardsmen into the city at taxpayer expense.
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 11h

Basically this is one of the OGs in a brewery town so its loss is really going to hurt

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 11h

This is gonna leave a mark

The Virginian-Pilot @pilotonline.com · 13h

Breaking: Smartmouth Brewing closing original Norfolk location trib.al/eIR2PoS

Smartmouth Brewing closing original Norfolk location

The company announced the closure of its original brewery Friday afternoon. An exact closing date is not yet set, according to a press release, though it is planned for late December.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 12h

The judge is throwing better bars than Drake

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“Although the accusation that Plaintiff is a pedophile is certainly a serious one, the broader context of a heated rap battle, with incendiary language and offensive accusations hurled by both participants, would not incline the reasonable listener to believe that ‘Not Like Us’ imparts verifiable facts about Plaintiff,” wrote Judge Vargas.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 12h

Just out for a week, nothing permanent.

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 12h

He really is the worst isn’t he www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump announces new 100 percent tariffs on China

President Donald Trump said he is unhappy about China’s “hostile” move to limit access to rare minerals and may cancel an upcoming meeting with Xi Jinping.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 13h

People next to us have a mini Starlink. I am proud of myself that I found a solution that is approximately 1/30th the cost

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

In 2020, Trump put footage of vandalism and violence in Portland and elsewhere on repeat in his social media and campaign ads. This time, despite similar rhetoric about the city, he isn’t. And I bet you can guess why. www.pbump.net/o/the-presid...

The president’s pretend enemy

There is no crisis of unrest in Portland, Oregon. One way I know this to be true is that President Trump — who is insistent that Portland faces just such a crisis — doesn't offer any evidence of it. A...

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The FuMP aka The Funny Music Project @thefump.bsky.social · 2d

A wonderful article about Dr Demento, featuring interviews with many folks who've worked on the show, as well as artists who've been featured on the show...including members of The FuMP!

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Dr. Demento Is Retiring. He Leaves Behind An Army Of Musical Oddballs

A Dr. Demento superfan looks back on the novelty radio icon as he finally hangs up his microphone. Oh, he pulled in a bunch of other superfans.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 16h

Trump's stupid antifa roundtable didn't need to make sense to be effective www.garbageday.email/p/the-war-ag...

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 16h

Absolutely convinced Mediaite hires the trashiest conservative writer they can find just to give people something to hate read. That’s the only reason I can think of that Isaac Schorr has a job with them

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 18h

Great example of FOSS hitting its goals if you ask me

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 18h

Really surprised how much you can do with @penpot.app thanks to the plugins. There’s a pretty decent raster plugin that can do a lot. The only downside is that it’s destructive.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 19h

They don’t fold once in ten months and all of a sudden they’re the bad guys. Have you seen the how tough it is to get McConnell to bend on anything?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 21h

It’s the GOTO going to the wrong spot that really makes this one

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 21h

CRAP I DID IT AGAIN

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 21h

How I use Bluesky:

10 See a post
20 Quickly make a clever quote post
30 Realize I misspelled a word or forgot a space
40 Rush to delete the post
50 Post it again
60 Realize I missed something else
70 GOTO 30

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 21h

Find something you love as much at the NYT loves giving people who funded initiatives space on their op-ed pages to breathlessly support those initiatives

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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