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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 3m

Havin’ flashbacks

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · Feb 26

I like how this whole thing was supposed to be a media stunt to show everyone how united they are behind the Great Man and the visual they produced looks like a Brezhnev-era politburo meeting where the agronomist with access to the real numbers just told them about the wheat forecast.

Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · Feb 26

The chyron says one thing; the body language says something else

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 3h

I always assigned that in my senior seminars and I’d like to think at least one (1) student both read it and has since had an epiphany moment where it became clear why I asked them to read it

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 3h

Player Piano (1952)

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 1d

The artificial intelligence and robotics being developed by multi-billionaires will allow corporate America to wipe out tens of millions of decent-paying jobs, cut labor costs and boost profits.

What happens to working class people who can’t find jobs because they don’t exist?

AI Could Wipe Out the Working Class | Sen. Bernie Sanders

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

youtu.be

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 3h

i spent the last few months reporting on a wild question: what makes a british aristocrat decide to become a big MAGA booster??? read my lengthy answer here: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/l...

Lady Victoria Hervey, British ’90s It Girl Turned Mar-a-Lago Habitué, Wants to Make England Great Again

A pandemic-era political awakening turned this aristocrat into a MAGA-hat-collecting Trump booster—and now she’s telling Vanity Fair why she backs Nigel Farage.

www.vanityfair.com

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 4h

It’s not even antisocial behaviour per se; it’s a collapse in the basic ability and willingness to recognise that other people exist

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 4h

Airports make this same point for me, with a similar pre/post-pandemic dropoff in basic human decency and awareness of the existence of others.

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

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East Nashville Urban Design @urbaneastnash.bsky.social · 14h

Started reading this non-Urbanism book, Gilded Rage.

There's always a Housing connection.

www.jacobsilverman.com/p/preorder-g...

Rich guy opposing multifamily housing in California

Gilded Rage, Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

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Aaron E Sanchez @1stworldchicano.bsky.social · 4h

I'm gonna tell my kids that this was my 2013 Subaru Outback.

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 4h

This could fix me

1972 Lamborghini Espada Series II

Bid for the chance to own a 1972 Lamborghini Espada Series II at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #214,085.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 4h

This could fix me

1972 Lamborghini Espada Series II

Bid for the chance to own a 1972 Lamborghini Espada Series II at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #214,085.

bringatrailer.com

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14h

Ever momentarily lose focus and catch yourself wondering if anything good is ever going to happen again

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

He made the playoffs with Matt Cassel and Mac Jones

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

Great, X’s and O’s coach, one of the best who ever did it, who knows absolutely nothing about modern college football recruiting and is also 74 and got lured out of retirement by a dollar amount he couldn’t refuse.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

Who could have foreseen this not working out except for literally everybody

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 20h

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19h

May have spotted the perfect shirt in the wild

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 20h

Did anyone ever bother explaining that day when half his face was 2 inches lower than the other half, or

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21h

I think this is a perfect example of your argument that they're weak and flailing. If they thought their plan was working they wouldn't be reaching at ridiculously desperate shit like this, which sounds like it came from the comment section of a 2002-era Tax Protester blog.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21h

Remember when the head of the cop union in Chicago promised "800-1000" cops would quit if Brandon Johnson won and it was actually six, all of whom were "quitting" by taking a lucrative early retirement.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22h

The essence of Bari Weiss: not reporting, but crude partisan propaganda presented in the form of reporting—and usually pronounced from the mouths of anonymous sources which likely don't exist. Expect this sort of prolefeed at CBS News soon.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21h

Met my wife (indirectly, not on an app), made friends, got an agent who got a book published for me, and escaped a career I hated and was doing badly at.

But other than that, nothing.

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