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@lauraolin.bsky.social
· Jan 1
> 202: What resonated, 2025
Andrew Wyeth, Otherworld Hi hi, For an indeterminate number of years I’ve wrapped up each year not with a “best of” list but a slightly different way of...
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Each year I take stock of what stuck with me most from the last 12 months. Not a "best of" list, but a "most resonant." Here's 2025's. buttondown.com/lauraolin/ar...
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I think all the time about how every tech company desperately tried to get us on board with crypto/NFTs in 2022, including all those Super Bowl ads. They wasted a bunch of energy, spewed a bunch of emissions, got vulnerable people hooked on pyramid schemes, and then just pretended it didn't happen?
February 8, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I think all the time about how every tech company desperately tried to get us on board with crypto/NFTs in 2022, including all those Super Bowl ads. They wasted a bunch of energy, spewed a bunch of emissions, got vulnerable people hooked on pyramid schemes, and then just pretended it didn't happen?
Every Olympic commentator: This next skiier is a grizzled veteran in her fourth Olympics. It’s inspiring seeing her still competing at this advanced age. She’s 33 years old
February 8, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Every Olympic commentator: This next skiier is a grizzled veteran in her fourth Olympics. It’s inspiring seeing her still competing at this advanced age. She’s 33 years old
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This is what democrats enable and abet by “reining in“ ICE instead of pulling its funding and obstructing at every single turn. November is too late.
The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:55 AM
This is what democrats enable and abet by “reining in“ ICE instead of pulling its funding and obstructing at every single turn. November is too late.
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they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American
The Super Bowl halftime show, with Bad Bunny showcasing Latin music before a global television audience expected to top 100 million, will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star delivers an explicit political message.
The enthusiasm — and scorn — surrounding Bad Bunny’s star turn at the Super Bowl
The halftime show will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star makes an explicit message about Trump’s deportation drive.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:25 AM
they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American
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JD Vance getting booed, as called around the world (auto transcribed & translated, mostly):
February 8, 2026 at 6:33 AM
JD Vance getting booed, as called around the world (auto transcribed & translated, mostly):
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kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
February 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
Someone please make a supercut
LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
February 7, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Someone please make a supercut
Mission accomplished I guess? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Mission accomplished I guess? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
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Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD.
To *Italy*.
To *Italy*.
February 7, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD.
To *Italy*.
To *Italy*.
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Cancun Ted over here argued that “partisanship is inherent and permissible in the districting process” in an amicus brief he filed with the Supreme Court in the Texas redistricting case last September. www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
February 7, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Cancun Ted over here argued that “partisanship is inherent and permissible in the districting process” in an amicus brief he filed with the Supreme Court in the Texas redistricting case last September. www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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trump creating the incentive and permission structure for democrats to do insane 2010-era gerrymandering of their own may turn out to be one of the biggest self-owns of all time. dems are now pretty likely to emerge with an advantage from the 2025-26 redistricting wars
February 7, 2026 at 1:00 PM
trump creating the incentive and permission structure for democrats to do insane 2010-era gerrymandering of their own may turn out to be one of the biggest self-owns of all time. dems are now pretty likely to emerge with an advantage from the 2025-26 redistricting wars
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Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level
February 7, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level
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Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota
February 6, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota
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@theonion.com is so worth the subscription for this
January 31, 2026 at 2:40 PM
@theonion.com is so worth the subscription for this
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you have to be a real piece of shit to be a foreign vice president well-known enough to be loathed on sight
February 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM
you have to be a real piece of shit to be a foreign vice president well-known enough to be loathed on sight
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The mid-century illustrated design by Gerta and Alfred Haller. Scanned from Gebrauchsgraphik, 9, 1954 designreviewed.com/gebrauchsgra... #illustration #graphicdesign #midcentury
February 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM
The mid-century illustrated design by Gerta and Alfred Haller. Scanned from Gebrauchsgraphik, 9, 1954 designreviewed.com/gebrauchsgra... #illustration #graphicdesign #midcentury
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Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms
February 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms
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From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
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Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.
February 6, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.
Olympic gold medalist of pee typography no question
Can we please acknowledge the, er, penmanship here
February 6, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Olympic gold medalist of pee typography no question
We are in the media market for Mejía’s upset win in New Jersey and I think she was the only candidate we *didn’t* see a ton of TV advertisements from (most were the anti-Malinowski AIPAC stuff, Malinowski, and Way)
February 6, 2026 at 6:10 PM
We are in the media market for Mejía’s upset win in New Jersey and I think she was the only candidate we *didn’t* see a ton of TV advertisements from (most were the anti-Malinowski AIPAC stuff, Malinowski, and Way)
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hallo, I am hiring again! - SF Digital Services is looking for a new Engineering Director careers.sf.gov/role/?id=374...
This reports directly to me, & I’m looking for a practical & flexible technical expert with excellent communication & coaching skills, who is excited to do both. More below...
This reports directly to me, & I’m looking for a practical & flexible technical expert with excellent communication & coaching skills, who is excited to do both. More below...
Engineering Director - Digital Services (0932)
The Office of the City Administrator and its 25+ divisions and departments operate core internal and public-facing services in San Francisco. The Office of the City Administrator’s Mission and Visio...
careers.sf.gov
February 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM
hallo, I am hiring again! - SF Digital Services is looking for a new Engineering Director careers.sf.gov/role/?id=374...
This reports directly to me, & I’m looking for a practical & flexible technical expert with excellent communication & coaching skills, who is excited to do both. More below...
This reports directly to me, & I’m looking for a practical & flexible technical expert with excellent communication & coaching skills, who is excited to do both. More below...
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USPS blue mailboxes are stamped with year of manufacture. This is one of the oldest ones I've seen in a while. I am lots of fun at parties.
February 6, 2026 at 3:25 PM
USPS blue mailboxes are stamped with year of manufacture. This is one of the oldest ones I've seen in a while. I am lots of fun at parties.
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I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
February 6, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.