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It's getting to the point where I'm no fun any more. I am sorry. Dad / professional geek / theater kid / New York sports fan. “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” ― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

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I don't know... the fact that people in their mid-60s might actually count as "younger" in Congress seems like a pretty big problem to me.

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There is a very real possibility that I like Michael Penn's music more than anyone outside his immediate family and I am OK with this.

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Now playing:

This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 40m

There's a fly in my home office that sounds large enough to have been manufactured by Sikorsky.

This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 14h

My dog just made a poop that stood perfectly on its end.

A little tower of feces.

Thought about taking a picture but reconsidered. Aren’t you proud of me?

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 1d

The basic lack of human empathy.

Chief Skeet 👑🖤✊🏾🌱 @longlivethechief.bsky.social · 1d

What’s the one thing you cannot wrap your head around?

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This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 1d

The theme song from Slow Horses is the best Rolling Stones song since…

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Thoughts and prayers.

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Dirty secret of these tools:

If they charge by the query, and they encourage users to code by trial and error... there's a fairly obvious disincentive to getting things right the first (or even twentieth) time.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 1d

why does every young republican from the politico scoop look like the augustus gloop of racism

Peter Giunta participates in a CNN-POLITICO Grill discussion at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 16, 2024. | Rod Lamkey Jr. for POLITICO

Bobby Walker speaks at the NYSYR 2023 Winter Conference and 6th Annual Rising Stars Reception. | NYSYR

William Hendrix during a portrait shoot in Topeka, Kansas, July 16, 2021. | Evert Nelson/The Capital-Journal

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This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 1d

Oh, place names are impossible.

Houston Street in Manhattan vs. Houston Texas…

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This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 1d

ChatGPT is sort of notorious for hallucinating and now we're going to enable it to do porn and I don't even want to think about all the ways this can go bad.

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Shit.
Damn.
Motherfucker.
RIP

This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 2d

That was my daughter’s bookworm giveaway word.

I was super proud.

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Anyone else a bit skeeved out by “add protein foam to any drink”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

I need a montage of famous cops in movies and TV shows flashing their badges and announcing their names, followed by a stream of masked ICE guys refusing to give theirs.

a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

ALT: a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

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This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 2d

Rhymes with pole?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 3d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 3d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 2d

Oh I have no idea where I picked it up.

Almost certainly not a poem - mostly only read poetry when assigned it for a class.

This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 2d

Fa-KADE

Rhymes with “made”

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How to spot a bookworm:

They use a word in conversation perfectly but pronounce it ridiculously.

Because they’d never heard it - they read it and learned it from context.

(Mine was facade.)

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This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 2d

I still know numbers of kids I went to grade school with.

But if you asked me my own kids’ numbers it would be a struggle.

This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 3d

That being the case, I've received multiple robo calls in the last few days from really dubious police "charities" that aren't actualy charities but are PACs.

This IS my costume @bronxriverdigital.com · 3d

I like to think the calls and texts I get from people/groups that think I'm my father (who was 40 years older than me and a conservative Republican) are some sort of indication of upcoming trends...

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