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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 20m

You can walk through four distinct voting zones in 10 minutes.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 23m

My neighborhood is so weird.

A very split mayoral electoral map of downtown NYC.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 45m

That's how I ended up seeing it, like "Oops I'm watching the Springsteen biopic about an album I don't care about"

a man in a suit and bow tie asks how did i get here

ALT: a man in a suit and bow tie asks how did i get here

media.tenor.com

Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 50m

Good, hope the state party leadership is watching and learning

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 6h

I do love the idea that the Senate Dem leader likely voted for the same guy that Trump, Musk, and Stephen Miller endorsed.

Makes it very clear what the real sides are in this fight, and who's on which.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 6h

This is worse than the worst thing ever attributed to any “Bernie Bro”. The Democratic leader literally refusing to say WHETHER HE VOTED FOR THE DEMOCRAT.

whoops, excuse me. oh man, my bad. @whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social · 9h

this shit right here is wrecker shit, as much as wrecker shit as any online leftist has done, if not more so. no wonder so many people are repulsed by anyone (rightly) saying 'vote blue no matter who', the most powerful elected Dem in the nation won't do it! it undermines the whole coalition! jfc

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 7h

the word we used to use for this attitude was "conservative"

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 7h

looks like he owns homes everywhere but NYC robbreport.com/shelter/cele...

Inside Dave Portnoy’s $97 Million Property Portfolio

The Barstool founder and media mogul's real estate holdings spans Nantucket, Saratoga Springs, the Hamptons, and two South Florida properties.

robbreport.com

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a black suit says do it in white letters

ALT: a man in a black suit says do it in white letters

media.tenor.com

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 4d

On the other hand, freemium ad-supported bagels could be a billion-dollar idea

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 4d

I wonder if bakeries that advertise their wares online get people commenting "Paywall!" after they go into the bakery and see that the tasty croissant someone posted a photo of actually costs money.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 4d

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 5d

I'm firmly in this camp too. Modern life is absurdly technical and complex, most people could really use an assistant to help navigate, but can't afford a human one.

"Help me make sense of this" is the killer use case.

post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 5d

we touched on this a little bit with @donmoyn.bsky.social last week but I think the bull case for LLMs-as-admin-burden-Sherpas is fascinating and maybe compelling

Patent Buddy @patentbuddy.bsky.social · 5d

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 5d

I got one after years of pining, and regretted waiting so long. Nothing else like it.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 6d

Imagine signing up to be an orc based on bad meme.

And not even an Uruk-hai, just the dumbest, ugliest, pulled-from-the-mud NPC that everyone hates and laughs at.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

DHS just posted a Lord of the Rings meme as an appeal to join ICE

DHS on Twitter: “The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.”

Image over a hobbit that reads: There won't be a shire, pippin. Join.ice.gov

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 6d

Freezing cold take but Waiting for a Star to Fall, She Drives Me Crazy, and Miss You Much are perfectly produced songs.

Those snare tones alone validate this entire year of music.

(And yeah REM and The Cure and Tom Petty and The Pixies and all the "cool" artists that aren't on this list)

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 6d

People need to stop retconning literally the worst era in American popular music history into something it wasn't, just because there were also some amazing records that like 250 people happened to be hunting down and listening to

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 6d

I was thinking about this over the weekend... clicking around on FindAGrave and realizing I know a handful of details about my grandparents, a story or two about my great grandparents, and everything before that is hazy lore and family mythology.

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Daniel Biss @danielbiss.bsky.social · 7d

ICE is abducting our residents. So Evanston will now send supervisors to every reported scene, demand IDs and document every abuse. For our community, basic justice, morality and safety is the floor — anything less is not optional.

City to respond to, document ICE sightings - Evanston Now

Police commander says city can't "force federal law enforcement agents to give us credentials," but will make "every attempt."

evanstonnow.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7d

The "don't talk about social issues" strategy only works if you *admit that was your strategy after the fact*. We're in this doom loop where Democrats try something, gaslight themselves into believing they didn't try it, then decide to try it again.

Abby of the Autumn @popeguilty.bsky.social · 7d

"if we just don't talk about it, they can't hit us for talking about it" has been thoroughly discredited but we're going to keep trying it because the point was always that party elites/centrist Dems don't want to talk about those things, not whether it was good strategy/messaging to do so!

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 7d

Bluesky is good at baseball

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Christina Filios @cfilios.bsky.social · 8d

Changing my name to Isaac Chotiner so at least the interview transcript will be confusing.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 8d

I see more "dems talk about identity and climate too much!" than I do actual dems actually talking about identity and climate issues.

The GOP invented a party to run against, the media bought into it, and now the centrist consultants have too.

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 8d

IANAPS (I Am Not A Political Strategist), but the appeal of AOC and Mamdani and Bernie isn't their message discipline. It's that they seem to actually believe what they're saying, and are willing to fight for it.

Jeffries or Schumer could have perfect message discipline and I'd still want them out.

"We have much to learn from the relentless focus of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani on lowering the cost of living and expanding opportunity for the middle class."

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Kyle Monson @kmonson.bsky.social · 8d

Not surprising given the names in the acknowledgements, but the consulting class continues to treat "having sincere beliefs and running on them" as some weird trick that will never work.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 8d

Li'l scoop at Semafor: A new report endorsed by Biden's former campaign manager, former DCCC chair Cheri Bustos, and other centrist Dems blames the party's broken brand on post-2012 left-wing language and ideas - not just "the groups" but adopted by whole party www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns

The center-left group Welcome relied on polling of hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its findings, shared first with Semafor.

www.semafor.com

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 9d

i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11d

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.

The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.

It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.

Until then, they're all to blame.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11d

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