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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 2h

I am an avid ~decade long follower of what is called the Pessimist's Archive. They collect historical predictions as to downfall of humanity because of technology.

But that technology has actually peeled people off. There were victims of TV. Of dial up. It was worth it.

I hope it's also this time.

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Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 5h

He's still got it, folks.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7h

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
Bernie Sanders
200000
Number of Donations
150000
100000
50000
Elizabeth Warren
60000
40000
20000
01
25
50
Donor Age
75

Hakeem Jeffries
40000
30000
20000
10000
Nancy Pelosi
100000
Number of
Donations
75000
50000
25000
Suzan DelBene
2000
1500
1000
500
25
50
75
Donor Age

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Richard Karn Evil 9 @newyorktankees.bsky.social · 12h

So often you can tell where Fox is blowing on a story just based on chyrons. "Critics say" or "Explaining (the bailout)" would be an expected tone on this. "Iowa farmers BASH TRUMP'S bailout" is a big statement because in Fox lore, farmers are good people and this blames Trump directly

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Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 12h

This was a classic case of the Steve Jobs reality distortion field going up against basic materials engineering realities in an unforgiving environment.

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Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 12h

The documentary is fascinating and horrifying. They *knew* the hull was made of crap material and was disintegrating with every dive.

They put mics in the hull to listen for any really loud cracking noise warning catastrophic failure was close, heard one, and then sent the sub down again anyway.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15h

Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the NTSB concludes in a report.

Faulty engineering led to implosion of Titan submersible headed to Titanic wreckage, NTSB finds

The NTSB's report said OceanGate, the owner of the Titan, failed to adequately test the submersible and was unaware of its true durability.

nbcnews.to

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 1d

Growing up in the 90s in Montana it always throws me for a loop when Republicans use the term ‘Federal law enforcement’ in a positive way instead of a sneering one

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 12h

every major factor which has led to the ruin of our democracy began with a corpse holding onto a political office they regard as their appropriate legacy or personal property. RBG. Biden. Kennedy.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 9d

‼️According to calculations made by OSINT researchers, the amount of Russian tanks in decent condition remaining in storage is ZERO.

◾️1656 are in "poor" condition (about 60% of them probably cannot be restored).
◾️1231 Russian tanks are in "worse" condition, according to the researchers.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 1d

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 1d

I read an article awhile back about an adult wolf in Alaska that lost its pack and immediately started trying to befriend humans. I immediately massively downwardly revised my estimate of how difficult it was for iron age mankind to domesticate wolves.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

If I speak I am in big trouble

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Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 1d

One of my all-time favorite video game tropes is the villain whose monologue goes from arrogant to denial to anger to bargaining to terror.

On of my all-time video game pet peeves is a villain who talks shit after you've beat him. No, game, that's bad writing.

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Penny Shortage @cheatlines.co · 1d

How many lives has this catchy ditty saved? I bet it's more than 3

"You've still got time, simply change your mind! it would sure be nice to fly this plane again"

youtu.be/Ccq30minme8?...

You can always go around

YouTube video by Scott Ross

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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 1d

Demagogic president seizes money to pay standing army, arrogating to himself legislative power, while his cronies keep Congress out of session is honestly more or less exactly how the Founders thought this would end

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Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 1d

Bouie was so right "The Pope is from Chicago" is an entire joke, like, that's just funny on its own

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think being a military contractor is inherently disqualifying. The GWOT featured chronically understaffed military contingents, and contractors picked up a lot of the slack doing stuff the regular military normally would have.

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Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 1d

"Cancel culture" refers to the modern phenomenon of snitches having fingertip access to both a network of another snitches and the contact information of the employers of people they'd normally have a shitty little two-minute argument with at a house party.

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Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 1d

The reason it's no longer a cultural focus is because the kind of people who would engage in that kind of behavior and the kind of people they'd attempt to inflict that behavior on have largely self-segregated at this point.

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Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen too many examples of people in online slapfights gleefully trying to tag in people's employers in a deliberate effort to fuck up their lives to have any patience for this "cancel culture never existed" gaslighting.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

I think the idea of "cancel culture" persists mainly because it conveniently is some outside force acting on someone rather than them torching their reputation all on their own

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Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely, and while it sounds like OP's ex-husband did a bad job of recognizing that it was okay to depend a little bit on her, they *both* did a bad job of creating a financial ecosystem that reflected the correct aspiration of not distinguishing between her money and his own.

Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. I think it goes back to the rise of hyphenated names. I'm not saying it's right and proper to always take the man's name, but it's a perfect example of how we used to have a doctrine for handling the merger of two individuals into one unit, and what's replaced it is "just don't merge".

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Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 1d

Right, exactly! That used to be a very common conversation when the standard model was "woman signs up to play rhythm guitar". If she was explicitly looking for a lead guitarist and he explicitly advertised himself as one, the fact that his fretwork never really improved is a legitimate tension.

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Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 1d

The standard modern Western marriage model is now "a partnership of two individuals who basically remain individuals while sometimes having a kid together", and it's got some serious problems that we haven't really worked out yet.

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Grizwald @grizwald.bsky.social · 1d

Right, the problem is that when we (quite rightly) abandoned the social norm of "the woman, however successful, becomes Mrs. John Smith and is totally subsumed into his identity", we did not have a new, equally-developed social norm waiting to replace it.

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