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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 7h

Touching, going, singing badly.

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 12h

Apple slices and PB remains a God-tier snack

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 12h

And don't forget the secret reactor www.cnn.com/2012/05/15/u...

Kodak confirms it had weapons-grade uranium in underground lab | CNN

Kodak this week confirmed it used weapons-grade uranium in an underground lab in upstate New York for upwards of 30 years.

www.cnn.com

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 13h

chevy chasin' the dragon

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 13h

Our personal tech columnist @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social tracked the prices of a bunch of items on Amazon ahead of the latest Prime Day sale.

Turns out only a few prices went down, many stayed the same... and several went significantly *up.* www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Column | I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played.

Here’s what you should do to actually get a good deal on Amazon.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 13h

!!

Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 14h

Thinking about opening up a steam room/sauna called Schvitzpatrick's

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 14h

I don't at all understand why people would opt-in to this.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14h

Mark Cuban ( @mcuban.bsky.social ) just made himself cameo-able on Sora so I made him overdose on LSD

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 14h

same

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Will Guisbond @willguisbond.com · 14h

New from me: Duffy's message to controllers is shifting. Its gone from buying pizza for them to "Show up for work. You’ve got a job to do."

Watch this space as the shutdown develops.

Duffy to air traffic controllers: ‘Show up for work’ (via
@theaircurrent.com) theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatc...

Duffy to air traffic controllers: ‘Show up for work’

Frustrated with staffing-induced delays, the secretary mixes his support with a stern warning

theaircurrent.com

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 14h

boy have I got the place for you en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peebles...

Peebles Island State Park - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 15h

yeah, I rarely drive more than 30-40 miles in a day with it, so I just plug it in (level 1) every night and look for opportunities to charge where I can

the airport has free lvl2 charging so I do that pretty often too

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 16h

I bought a '23 with 30k miles on it for under $20k a few months ago and I love the thing. Great around-town/second car.

The Verge @theverge.com · 16h

The 2027 Chevy Bolt will be one of the cheapest EVs you can get

Would you buy the new Bolt?

buff.ly

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 17h

My sense in talking to a bunch of controllers is that dismissal is a real fear largely preventing mass sick-outs.

At the same time, there's already a shortage of these folks, and it takes years to get trained up. They're borderline irreplaceable if they decide to take collective action.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

* U.S. TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY DUFFY SAYS FAA COULD DISMISS TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS WHO REPEATEDLY FAIL TO SHOW UP FOR WORK -- FOX NEWS INTERVIEW

@reuters.com $XAL

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 1d

Chatted with some air traffic controllers about the shutdown, sickouts, delays, etc: www.axios.com/2025/10/08/s...

How air traffic controllers could help end the shutdown

Controller and TSA "sick-outs" played an under-appreciated role in ending the last major shutdown.

www.axios.com

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 1d

mods!!!! mods!!!!!

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 1d

PLAY'S TIME OVER

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d

"jimmy fallon wants to turn wordle into a tv show" i mutter in the dark to nobody from my hospital bed

The Verge @theverge.com · 2d

Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show

Savannah Guthrie will host the show, which NBC is piloting.

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Alex Fitzpatrick @alexjamesfitz.com · 1d

Is AI gonna invent the matter replicator? Because otherwise...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...