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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · 10d

Deep down, the superrich know they can’t work from the Hamptons full time, or rebuild their social lives in Dallas, or convince their elite workforce to relocate to Miami

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 10d

Zohran Mamdani will be New York City's next mayor. Will that cause the wealthy to flee the city in droves? Recent history says absolutely not. In fact, the rich typically move less than any other income group. @robinks.com has the story:
prospect.org/2025/10/23/m...

The Myth That Mamdani Will Cause New York City’s Richest to Leave - The American Prospect

Millionaire tax flight would devastate a future Mamdani administration. If the rich leave, how could anything be financed? But research shows that wealthy individuals move at lower rates than others, ...

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · 11d

Politics would benefit from more progressive white dude representation. The standard bearers are Lincoln Restler and Scott Weiner, not false chuds

Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · 15d

Restaurants that all look like the Krusty Krab

Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Sep 30

Science writers need to be more aware of species vs subspecies (northern white rhino) and “back from extinction” vs “reintroduced after being extinct in the wild” (Spix’s macaw)

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Sep 18

Happy Dandadan season 2 finale day to all who celebrate

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Sep 16

My subjective list of best national and regional cuisines, not in order

Mexican
Peruvian
Iberian
Italian
French
Moroccan
West African
Ethiopian
Turkish
Levantine
Persian
South Asian (all sub-regions)
Chinese (ditto)
Japanese
Korean
Thai
Vietnamese
Indo-Malayan

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Sep 16

D has everything from Italian to Indonesian. It’s not fair

Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · Sep 16

For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?

For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Sep 8

Exactly 1 year ago I presented at an all-day meeting with the CEO of one of China’s largest solar/storage manufacturers about opening a plant in TX or GA, and lol

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Moderates moderate for the sake of moderation

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · Sep 7

The problem centrists have is that their ideology is ~75% an affective one. If you created a firebrand, these people would hate that on principle. Anything that inspires a mass movement is "unserious" in their eyes. It's a cult of inaction for inaction's sake

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is why I go with splendor instead of abundance, because you can have an abundance of anything

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · Sep 4

if abundance is your word and you do not immediately tell this guy to go fuck himself, you have no right to complain when you are depicted as a right-wing ideological project

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · Sep 4

Glad to see abundance utterly stripped of any meaning and repurposed by the ghouls on the right. Also the Manhattan Institute is an evil entity and should be blacklisted.

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onion person @junlper.beer · Aug 22

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Aug 21

In the vein of undermining car dealerships with direct sales, we should rewild huge tracts of ranch land and ethanol fields by eminent domain. Return the buffalo commons

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · Aug 21

what is your most "scare the hoes" political opinion

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Aug 19

If cellular agriculture can become scalable, seafood should be the easiest to sell. No one likes eating fishbones, and sushi and shellfish have easy shapes to replicate

Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Aug 19

For sure. Harvesting scallops is like bulldozing an orchard for apples and then not replanting the trees

spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · Aug 19

All things considered, seafood is the most environmentally damaging food type.

a great interactive interpretation of Halpern et al. 2022 by Washington Post:

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

5. Overall environmental impact

Greater impact per calorie -
A total environmental footprint calculated by weighing all four of these types of ecological impacts confirms that plant-based foods cause less harms to the planet, on a per-calorie basis, than fish and meat production.

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Aug 16

The midlist treadmill is set to 15mph

Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Aug 16

Schumer went to bat for the climate provisions of the IRA right after the DSA landslide of 2020. He was resistant before then. Primaries are the best way to make leadership do anything

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Aug 16

My theory is that GRRM is wedded to having a 7 book series, but can’t wrap it up that succinctly. Add onto that being way past retirement age, being rich as hell, and the show ending panned, he’s stuck in a vortex of demotivation

Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Aug 16

It wouldn’t be Sanderson, but this is a fair question

Will James @willjames.bsky.social · Aug 16

I'm glad I went to WorldCon today because someone just got up to the mic and told George R.R. Martin to his face that he's going to die soon and started to ask whether Brandon Sanderson would finish his books and everyone started to boo.

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Aug 14

We need Kaziranga Protocol for every rhino. Anyone looking suspicious in rhino habitat should be shot

Mongabay @mongabay.com · Aug 14

After a poaching crisis, Javan rhino numbers have dropped by a third.

Sumatran rhino estimates remain on the edge of extinction.

Still, recent developments provide a little good news: recent births for Javan rhinos and a potential surviving population in southern Sumatra for Sumatran rhinos.

Javan rhino numbers plunge; Sumatran rhinos remain near extinction: Report

A new report by the IUCN finds that two of the world’s most endangered species are still perilously close to extinction. Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus) numbers have dropped by a third, from 76…

news.mongabay.com

Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Aug 6

www.unpopularfront.news/p/against-po...

Against Polling

It's 90% Bullshit

www.unpopularfront.news

Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Aug 2

Snakes on a Plane opening night. Everyone yelling the line

Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · Jul 31

Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema?

During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.

Mike McGranaghan @aisleseat.bsky.social · Jul 31

Someone in my audience had a very audible negative reaction to the dog scene in TOGETHER. So that was fun!

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Jul 24

Happy Dandadan Thursday to all who celebrate

Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Jul 24

Elites to them are vegetarians and English teachers

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · Jul 23

imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?

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Ted @tedbogin.bsky.social · Jul 7

At RE+ last year, Biden’s climate policy advisor came onstage like “We’re creating thousands of union jobs amirite??” and most of the audience was silent lmao