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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 13h

CHOTINER: So let me get this straight. Anti-racists are the real racists, is that correct?
THIEL: right.
CHOTINER: and the anti-fascists?
THIEL: right, they’re the real fascists
CHOTINER: So now you’re saying Greta is the Antichrist.
THIEL: …
CHOTINER: I think you can see where I’m going with this.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15h

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 2d

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 2d

My not-evidence-backed theory: we spent the better part of a year where the most conscientious people stayed home while others went out. Conscientious people are like nuclear control rods preventing bad social reactions in group settings. By the time they reentered, it was too late: new normal.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 2d

My not-evidence-backed theory: we spent the better part of a year where the most conscientious people stayed home while others went out. Conscientious people are like nuclear control rods preventing bad social reactions in group settings. By the time they reentered, it was too late: new normal.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 2d

that's amazing!!

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 2d

I think used EVs are generally underpriced too--they're still priced based off of the old, ICE math in terms of dollars-per-miles-on-the-odometer. EVs seem to age better.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 2d

On audiophile forums you can read 1000 words to the effect of "this integrated amplifier is musical but not overly so, with a narrow soundstage and if anything an excess of clarity," and then at the very end they'll reveal they were listening to "'Human Clay' by 'Creed.'"

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 3d

This is such a long and painful scene!!!

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 3d

Just read two business books in a row (for work) that open—open!—with an anecdote about the author either giving a speech or publishing an op-ed. The effect is… less impressive than they think.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 8d

If a football stadium’s worth of people in three midwestern states voted the other way we’d all be having a very different Thursday right now.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 8d

Sometimes I’ll find myself in a rare good mood. Then of course I’ll inevitably Remember What Is Happening

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 9d

They do this all the time. If I were the journo I would simply ask “did you see the speech and/or tweet” first, before demanding a reaction. That is what I used to call “setting a trap” back in my Connect4 days

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 9d

“I didn’t see it” = they’re the biggest liars in the world w this Col Klink nonsense

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9d

Dean: The president is unhinged

Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him

Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals.

Johnson: I didn’t see it.

Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 10d

Remember when Obama "disrespected the military" by performing a salute with a coffee cup in his hand? It was like a month-long news cycle.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Trump to a room of generals: "I've never walked into a room so silent before. Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud."

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 10d

you get one word to describe the US Supreme Court and you go with something that sounds like it's from Tron: Ares

NYT headline reading: 'Hypercharged' Is the Only Word for This Supreme Court

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 14d

more than 24 hrs late to this game, smh

Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 14d

CHOTINER: ...and how fast does your Maserati go?
JOE WALSH: One eighty-five.
CHOTINER: What's the status of your driver's license again?
WALSH: I lost my license.
CHOTINER: And now?
WALSH: ...
CHOTINER: I want to hear you say it.
WALSH: ...and now I don't drive.

Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 14d

CHOTINER: ...and how fast does your Maserati go?
JOE WALSH: One eighty-five.
CHOTINER: What's the status of your driver's license again?
WALSH: I lost my license.
CHOTINER: And now?
WALSH: ...
CHOTINER: I want to hear you say it.
WALSH: ...and now I don't drive.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 14d

What I love about going to bed early to get a good night’s sleep is how you thrash around in bed for an hour that could more profitably have been spent watching television.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 16d

This is incredibly interesting and would seem to have ramifications for other participants in the wave of corporate acquiescence.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 16d

This kicks ass. Bravo @aft.org @rweingarten.bsky.social 👏👏👏
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you Dana!!

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 17d

(Don’t know how or if this applies to archbishops; out of my depth.)

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 17d

Ah but here’s the wrinkle: a pope can let a cardinal continue on past age 75 on a case-by-case basis. Leo appears not to have done so here. www.ncronline.org/vatican/fran...

Francis allows Vatican bishops to serve past age 75 in new 'motu proprio'

Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to allow non-cardinal bishops serving in the Vatican's bureaucracy to continue to hold their offices past the age of 75, when they had previously lost thei...

www.ncronline.org

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 17d

Appears to be triggered by an age limit? www.thecatholicthing.org/2025/02/10/c...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York resigns at 75 - The Catholic Thing

The New York archdiocese is one of twenty-two Latin sees in the United States with bishops older than 75, which is the mandatory retirement age. Eleven more dioceses will see

www.thecatholicthing.org

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 17d

A football stadium's worth of people across three midwestern states voted the wrong way and now this is happening. Insanity inducing.

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 17d

As a Pynchon-head who's yet to read Vineland, I was gonna try to squeeze it in before seeing One Battle After Another. But it's a long book, which means I'd prob miss the movie in theaters. And after this @thehighsign.bsky.social review, I feel like that would be a mistake. slate.com/culture/2025...

The Movie of the Year Is Here

Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie is a masterpiece years in the making that’s somehow arrived right on time.

slate.com

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 17d

Whoa I feel weird is this the raptu

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Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 18d

What that was good

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