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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 7h

make this a movie plz

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 9h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 21h

Twin Peaks the Return, episode 16: oh hey Edward Louis Severson III

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Nick Piccone @piccone.bsky.social · 1d

Dude struggled all year. Hasn’t been great in the playoffs. But still young. His career here shouldn’t be over because of that. If they trust his stuff and his moxie - which, btw, facing reporters after that means a lot - I don’t think they should give up on him. And neither should we

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1d

Many people are saying this. bsky.app/profile/swin...

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

“I don’t care if it’s actually my birthday today or not; I’m just having such a Great time my in FAVORITE city in the world!!”

our toddler son

in Columbus Ohio

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 1d

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Jen A. Miller @byjenamiller.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't get into ocean-front race courses being flooded worse and more often in this piece, but since a Jersey Shore race has been cancelled but that applies to this too slate.com/life/2025/09...

It’s the One Factor Runners Can’t Control. It’s Wreaking Havoc on Marathons.

It’s only going to get worse.

slate.com

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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 1d

kid looks like a potato

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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 1d

god bless all the adults in Daniel Tiger's neighborhood handling Prince Wednesday's rock costume with aplomb

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe my favorite flow state fight in the game. Lots of dancing to do.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

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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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 2d

3yo: “why do the ghosts come out and scare you when it’s night time?”

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 2d

It’s true: the cities are lawless and scary, if you live here sell your property as fast as possible, particularly if you have a 2 family row house from the 1920s with those nice bay windows.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

The media coverage does not reflect this AT ALL.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2d

A majority of adults oppose Trump’s use of the National Guard in America cities www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-majority...

A majority of Americans oppose Trump sending the National Guard to Democratic-run cities

The president is defying the will of the people, federal judges, and the Constitution

www.gelliottmorris.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 2d

oh phillies.

Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 2d

time to go back

a red curtain is behind a white and brown chevron floor

ALT: a red curtain is behind a white and brown chevron floor

media.tenor.com

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Matt Winkelman @mattwinkelman.bsky.social · 2d

The Dodgers pitching was real fucking good and the Bader injury changed the series. Just absolute pain against a great team they could have beat.

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 2d

I had made my peace with the Phillies losing this series. The Dodgers are a brutal draw and they played it close the whole way. No shame in losing.
I was, however, hoping for that loss to come in a style that wouldn't make Phillies fans act like crazy people all winter.

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Craig Getting @mcgetting.bsky.social · 2d

what an awful end

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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