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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 21h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 23h

one of the most not the onion but the onion headlines I've ever seen

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 23h

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fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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bethbutler504.bsky.social @bethbutler504.bsky.social · 1d

More signs that most of the U.S. is in terrible financial shape: Elevated new-car prices have been weighing on the industry for years, with average monthly payments rising to more than $750. Nearly 20% of loans and leases now exceed $1,000 in monthly payments. www.wsj.com/business/aut... via @WSJ

Americans Are Falling Behind on Their Car Payments

Delinquency rates on subprime auto loans are at records.

www.wsj.com

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 23h

Taps the “this administration is full of eugenicists so yes, they do want people to die” sign so hard it snaps and shards go scattering everywhere.

And yes, we saw it coming.

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 22h

Not paying your soldiers almost always works out well, historically speaking. Not like any major rebellions, civil wars, or insurrections started with unpaid soldiers.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 23h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

the republican majority leader with a clear vision for the democratic party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.bsky.social · 3d

what happens if u cut 4 wires out of an ethernet cable & then plug it into yr PC

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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 3d

folks, the training bit doesn’t work for cops and it doesn’t work for ICE.

Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 3d

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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Neil Hillhouse (The Haunting Of) @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 3d

Designating “antifa” as a domestic terrorist organization is a similar ploy to attacks on “CRT” or “DEI”. Make up an extreme sounding boogeyman and pretend to go after it while actually just going after anyone who opposes the Trump regime.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 3d

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "WELL WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS BULLSHIT"

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 3d

New cartoonish tech CEO just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/s...

"We have a cat and a dog and a child and an adult in the same room," he said. "Why not an A.I.?
In preparation for the campaign's Aug. 25
launch in New York, Mr. Schiffmann headed to Burning Man, without an internet connection. The overlap was intentional. "I wanted to do the coolest thing I could possibly do and the biggest thing I could possibly do at the same time," he said. "In the spirit of life-maxing."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 4d

A teacher must have an email etiquette autoreplier bot set up.
I know I should NOT reply with:

"Dearest Kevin,

I am dreadfully sorry for the improper email I have burdened you with.

Kindly halt all lessons in email etiquette.

I am a grown ass woman with a PhD.

Auspiciously,

Sarah J. McAnulty"

a block of text from an email that reads "Hello,

I noticed your email is missing a polite greeting. Starting your email
with a greeting helps set a respectful tone.

Here are some examples of greetings you can use:
- Dear Mr./Ms. [Last Name],
- Hello [Teacher’s Name],
- Hi [Teacher’s Name],

Also, please remember to include a clear subject line in your emails.

Thank you!

Best regards,
[Your Name]"

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 3d

I think there are still shared norms we can appeal to when we talk to the marginal MAGA voter. But there really are no shared norms left with the core of the movement.

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 3d

We had to add the Desktop folder to our default OneDrive sync because soooo many people kept their “critical” files there.

My work laptop has basically nothing on the desktop, just some default shortcuts we put on everything. Anything I use on a daily basis is pinned to the taskbar.

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 3d

With so many icons, the file and folder names were truncated. She was finding stuff solely through muscle memory of where it was on her screen.

Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 3d

Had to mess around with Sort By options to try to get the stuff she was looking for back on the screen. I tried to suggest she go through File Explorer to view everything, but that was UNACCEPTABLE.

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 3d

Years back, had an end user go ballistic at me for not putting her desktop icons back in the exact same order she had them on her old PC, accusing me of “losing” her files. Hundreds of files stored directly on her desktop, and several dozen folders. So many that they didn’t all fit on the screen…

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 4d

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4d

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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 4d

"Democrats would be wise to make this snarling, racist, and unhinged character the face of the MAGA party. (Which shouldn’t be too challenging, given the advantage of being true.)" @jenrubin.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Stephen Miller is the Poster Boy for the Rabid MAGA Movement

The more voters see of him, the more repulsed they’ll be

open.substack.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 4d

A lotta folks have been warning for YEARS that govt subsidies encouraging US farmers to invest near-exclusively in two crops (soybeans and corn) could have catastrophic consequences.

Most were thinking climate-change implications (making these crops ungrowable) but here’s a self-inflicted one!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

“.. If a deal with China isn’t reached soon, Hill said, the soybean market ‘might be a bloodbath.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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Chris Sanders @highlycaffeinated.bsky.social · 4d

Deregulation Watch 👀

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 4d

ACTING FDIC CHAIR HILL SAYS 'REPUTATION RISK' IS 'RIPE FOR ABUSE' AND PROPOSES ELIMINATING ITS USE IN SUPERVISION, WHILE A SECOND PROPOSAL LIMITS ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS TO ISSUES THAT COULD CAUSE REAL FINANCIAL HARM