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Seek first to understand. Impatient optimist. Dad. Zetetic. Author. Speaker. Made Fiddler & SlickRun. My code runs in your browser. @ MSFT 18y+ on web and security. My words are my own. he/him https://ericlawrence.com/ https://textslashplain.com/

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · Nov 11

On Politics
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On Politics

I do not come from an especially political family. One parent has not voted in decades, and the other votes regularly, but is not an enthusiast and values harmony over potentially-divisive politica…

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 19h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Tech scam website

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18h

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 17h

Weird random meme-y shit (laudatory) like this is how it might eventually be called The Great Frog Resistance, where everyone wears a frog pin, & remembrance events in 50 years begin with reverent croaks. Just from some dude's choice of a frog for a costume. Humans are weird.

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 20h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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rad uncle Ieftist @raduncle.bsky.social · 19h

look I know it's stupid but there are folks on the right who you can only reach by putting shit in terms of what actually affects them. Some of them did in fact want to see liberals get beaten but also will be like "DON'T TOUCH MY MEDICAID" and need to be told the leopard is gonna eat their face.

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C Ó Gallachóir @cgallaher.bsky.social · 20h

A big thanks to @mit.edu. Their saying NO to the compact will hopefully make it easier for smaller schools to say no as well. This is a collective action problem & MIT is signalling they're choosing cooperation over self interest. Too bad @columbiauniversity.bsky.social didn't do this earlier

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21h

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Opinion | The Trump administration is fascist. But that’s okay.

by Bret Stephens

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

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The Dead Milk-Manga @spider76x.bsky.social · 1d

This is a masterpiece.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 1d

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But when I became grown, I put away childish things. Then when I became a bit more grown, I rebought those same childish things from a vintage reseller and kinda don’t know how to feel about it

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 1d

This year, the villain of the company's Annual Training course is named "Eric" 😅

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 1d

The radio ad break starts with “GUNS GUNS GUNS!!!” The ad break continues with a senior official in the US Government with a message of xenophobia and telling our neighbors “Leave Now”.

This is America in 2025.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

T. Joseph Mattingly estimates that the 2025 measles outbreak in Texas will cost $90M. Measles is expensive. It's also preventable. Vaccination increases productivity & reduces costs.

Vaccination is healthy for people & the economy.

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Penny wise, pound foolish: The cost of reduced support for measles prevention

Measles, a vaccine-preventable disease previously declared eliminated in the United States, is reemerging with over 1400 cases reported in 2025. This …

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

He’s right. Antifa reached the height of its power more than 80 years ago, launching a military assault on continental Europe.

Antifa launching an unprovoked attack on continental Europe.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

if every democrat doesn’t use the “we took freedom of speech away” on every messaging apparatus they have every single day for the next 4 years assume they want to lose

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

it really feels like you should need to be smarter than these guys to do the amount of damage they do

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Juke Slytalker @blackskyeddie.blacksky.app · 2d

It's wild how quickly we bounced from "is it wrong to call conservatives fascist?" to "we're officially labeling liberals as a terrorist organization."

It's extra wild because we don't have any official policy for dealing with fascists, but we have crystal clear, official policy to kill terrorists.