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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃

@drobertsimg.bsky.social

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FKA IronMikeGallego. I wrote a few things you might’ve read but then I had kids. Cancer-hater. Gold Star Family. Recovering A’s fan. Combat sports wunderkind. Anti-Stratfordian. Lawyer IRL. https://deadspin.com/the-trouble-with-floyd-mayweather-1605217498

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · Jul 15

Apologies in advance for what might look like a rambling diatribe going nowhere. But the one thing I know really well - better than almost anyone else - is boxing. And there’s a really valuable lesson from boxing that the Democratic Party needs to learn in a hurry.

Let’s start with the boxing bit.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1h

“Pimpin is not easy, actually…”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile starts... now.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 11h

That’s always been my experience, too. But the nature of addiction is continuing to do something that you know is harmful to you because DOPAMINE!

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 16h

Jimmy Kimmel returns with unfinished business over Trump’s birthday letter to Epstein

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve made one of my closest friends, found out an article I wrote was being discussed on CNN in real time, laughed at a ton of great jokes, and educated the world about the Beastie Boys’ greatness and Floyd Mayweather’s wretchedness.

I also met @ugarles.bsky.social, but hey, nothing is perfect.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 22h

I guess we shall see. I don’t think they’ll have any trouble kicking him to the curb as soon as they decide he’s a net loser.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

The only people I’m going to condemn for acting as if all is normal are the Senate Democrats, and even they are slowly coming around.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

Eh, assumes facts not in evidence. It’s easy to say that lots of people are just going through the motions obliviously, but I don’t think we necessarily know that to be the case. There are a lot of terrified people who probably don’t feel safe speaking up. But we’re also in a small and vocal bubble.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly, going about our business like all is normal and not cowering and wetting ourselves is the best way to resist these assholes (since almost no others are actually available). It’s also the best thing for our mental health which we’ll all need intact for the rebuilding to come.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I don’t want to speak on behalf of everyone from Oakland, but that actually would be pretty effective in our case.

Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

Look, what is the White Star Line without the Olympic class? What’s Oceangate without the Titan? When something is sinking like a stone, you bail the fuck out. Besides, there is so much money behind JD Vance, that they’ll all cash out with massive no-show consulting gigs once Trump is gone.

Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

I’m comfortable that there is enough compromat on Trump within his inner circle that they can easily force him out if they feel it’s necessary. I think they’d much rather nature do it for them, after all that comes with built-in sympathy, but I wouldn’t put anything past them.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

This was always where this is headed. Trump is an albatross around every Republican’s neck heading into the midterms. And he lacks the foresight and discipline to execute any sort of plan to reverse the trend.

They will unburden themselves of Trump by the midterms if his health doesn’t do it first.

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 1d

If you look at select pollsters, who meet criteria for reliability, the approval numbers for Trump are dismal.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

My wife can tolerate it. I cannot. My kids now get to walk a block or two (not the worst thing for them) because they shouldn’t have to see their dorky-middle-aged-lawyer-dad beat some other parent to death with his spare tire over line etiquette.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

The number of parents at my daughters’ school who sociopathically decide the drop off line doesn’t apply to them and use the exit lane to cut the line (blocking other traffic from exiting at the same time) really has pushed me as close as I’ve ever been to murdering an otherwise innocuous stranger.

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 1d

this is not to say they’re not dangerous or awful, to be clear, but also these fat rednecks would get absolutely demolished by an even semi-well-organized airsoft team

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

Real estate prices will plummet after a nuclear holocaust…

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d

New Normal Men! @golikehellmachine.com returns to tell us about Portland, we break down the shutdown, and @ed3d.net talks @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social into buying Hades 2.

Episode 27 - Frog in the Streets and a Freak in the Sheets

Podcast Episode · Normal Men · 10/08/2025 · 1h 2m

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 1d

Brady has a ring without Belichick. Belichick doesn’t have one without Brady.

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 2d

This ignores the fact that Part III is the platonic ideal of the series.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2d

Waymo's success is remarkable proof of the power of AI. It's also remarkable proof of its limitations. Waymo's need for limited domains and powerful perception hardware, and the failure of Tesla's "AI-first" approach without them, holds powerful lessons about the limits of probabilistic inference.

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 2d

It's fascinating to me that there's a whole "AI skeptic" misinformation ecosystem out there that somehow continues to deny that Waymo exists. Like, this is easy to fact check! Waymo runs publicly-available service in 5 cities, you can just go look up how it works and see it's not planned routes!

A bluesky post with the user's handle cropped out: "In 2015, I was told, confidently, that AI would end human drivers in the trucking industry w/in 5 years.

[Begin my highlight]10 years later, and there’s what-some experimental cabs rolling around a few cities in heavily-engineered preset routes?[end my highlight]

Not to mention the fact that the AI industry itself is Enron on heroin."

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Daniel Rob-hurts 🎃 @drobertsimg.bsky.social · 2d

Miller is the oft-forgotten 5th Beatle, best remembered for calling out “Eva Braun” during circle jerks.