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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 5h

Call Pete Hegseth! People are failing the fitness tests!

Fitness Test On your EOD Date

Please be advised they are doing the fitness in the offices ON YOUR EOD.

They will NOT let you complete onboarding if you fail the fitness test.

I say this because I am in the office and they said it started yesterday. 70-80% fail rate at FLETC

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 3h

Huh TIL

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 3h

I am blocking you for being one of Those People.

River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah the Lyme is Douthat, not Dreher.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 3h

Jack Cust HOF case

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 4h

Noooo they be three true outcoming my national past time

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 4h

Ok but Bluey does ascend to heaven in Flatpack

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 4h

He has confidence, he just does!

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 4h

So true bestie

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 4h

it's because he didn't take an ethics class, which is where you learn right from wrong

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 5h

Many such cases

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 5h

A philosophy degree teaches you how to think

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 5h

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 8h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like soccer has an extra twist (this idea blew my mind when I read Inverting The Pyramid)

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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 1d

"And why was the test obtained?", the unofficial slogan of internal medicine. See also: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Machine learning for patient risk stratification: standing on, or looking over, the shoulders of clinicians? - npj Digital Medicine

npj Digital Medicine - Machine learning for patient risk stratification: standing on, or looking over, the shoulders of clinicians?

www.nature.com

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 5h

Baseball content on FB is the funniest comments section on the internet bc you get boomers and rednecks going on like "Paul Skenes can't win the Cy Young, he went 10-10" and "how can you give MVP to a DH" arguing with guys who distinguish between fWAR and bWAR.

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Bark @smorc.bsky.social · 6h

incredible marker of being a piece of shit to try to join CBP in 2021, fail the background check somehow, then apply for ICE now

being in a position to brutalize immigrants is this mans calling apparently

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 6h

r/ICE_ERO exists

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 6h

My house is Velveeta anyways, bc that's my childhood Mac & Cheese. My husband was a Kraft guy but I bullied him.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 6h

You know, the company that was founded using the proceeds from a sale of Smartfood to Frito Lay, was owned by a PE firm from 2002 until its IPO in 2012 and has been a subsidiary of General Mills since 2014. That Annie's.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 6h

Just saw a reddit thread that blamed a change in the Annie's Mac & Cheese recipe leading to a 4yo no longer liking it on "Late Stage Capitalism".

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 15h

So we all agree the physician is trying to message something here, right?

River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 1d

"Comprehensive laboratory studies performed in conjunction with the visit were exceptional"

guys...

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 1d

"President Donald J. Trump remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong
cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and physical performance." - Physician to the President

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 16h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9h

Welp now they’re reversing some of the layoffs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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