@michaeldoh.bsky.social
Ooh I’m intrigued
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Ooh I’m intrigued
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Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Some thoughts on the CR/minibus.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins.
Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.
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SHUTDOWN TAKEAWAY: send home as many federal employees as you want, cut off people's food stamps, let health care system career towards a cliff, but don't mess with air travel, especially with holidays looming.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
SHUTDOWN TAKEAWAY: send home as many federal employees as you want, cut off people's food stamps, let health care system career towards a cliff, but don't mess with air travel, especially with holidays looming.
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
It’s barely a song at all
Y’all I just really fucking hate the Seven Nation Army chant LOL whyyyyy is this a universal sports fight song it’s so annoying it sounds weird sung by a crowd.
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It’s barely a song at all
Ughhh. The era of rent-a-rappers and pro cheerleaders becoming huge music stars
People need to stop retconning literally the worst era in American popular music history into something it wasn't, just because there were also some amazing records that like 250 people happened to be hunting down and listening to
November 1, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Ughhh. The era of rent-a-rappers and pro cheerleaders becoming huge music stars
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ANY ARRESTS? Among the millions upon millions of "violent leftist radicals" that took to the streets today I cannot find word of a single arrest. Even when everything is peaceful there is usually an overzealous cop or something. This is unheard of. We need to beat the media over the head with it.
October 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
ANY ARRESTS? Among the millions upon millions of "violent leftist radicals" that took to the streets today I cannot find word of a single arrest. Even when everything is peaceful there is usually an overzealous cop or something. This is unheard of. We need to beat the media over the head with it.
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I want to live in boring times.
Give me mundane.
Give me trivial.
Give me mundane.
Give me trivial.
October 18, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I want to live in boring times.
Give me mundane.
Give me trivial.
Give me mundane.
Give me trivial.
Oh WTF…
wikipedia editors have always been true heroes in my book, but my god this is another level (gift link)
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Oh WTF…
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Of the many problems with this phenomenally stupid argument is that "good information" has been available to anyone who wants to access it for a solid 25 years now, and we are getting collectively dumber at finding, understanding, critiquing, and communicating info and arguments.
AI can't fix that/
AI can't fix that/
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Of the many problems with this phenomenally stupid argument is that "good information" has been available to anyone who wants to access it for a solid 25 years now, and we are getting collectively dumber at finding, understanding, critiquing, and communicating info and arguments.
AI can't fix that/
AI can't fix that/
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"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...
Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector
It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...
defector.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...
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Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.
Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.
This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.
This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
October 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.
Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.
This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.
This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
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the endpoint of chatgpt and other llm chatbot interfaces is a cohort of people who don't really live so much as they are on a sort of guided tour of their own lives, who have more or less totally abdicated agency and responsibility in favor of a step by step template of how to pretend to be a person
October 17, 2025 at 5:32 AM
the endpoint of chatgpt and other llm chatbot interfaces is a cohort of people who don't really live so much as they are on a sort of guided tour of their own lives, who have more or less totally abdicated agency and responsibility in favor of a step by step template of how to pretend to be a person
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A fair number of problems seem downstream from the fact that the best way to be a human is to grow, change, and evolve but the best way to be successful online is to never change and always double, triple, and quadruple down every time you are wrong.
October 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A fair number of problems seem downstream from the fact that the best way to be a human is to grow, change, and evolve but the best way to be successful online is to never change and always double, triple, and quadruple down every time you are wrong.
Meeeeeeeeee
we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out
October 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Meeeeeeeeee
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imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
September 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
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NEW from me:
Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom
EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.
www.the-independent.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
NEW from me:
Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications.
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.
After Volatile Summer, Trump’s Approval Remains Low but Stable, Poll Finds
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:51 AM
perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.
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If I can speak to the anxiety Klein keeps returning to since Kirk’s killing:
Lines are made by drawing them, and then enforcing them. It is work that is repetitive, exhausting, oppositional and unending. It can only be done in solidarity with others. And it never stops.
Lines are made by drawing them, and then enforcing them. It is work that is repetitive, exhausting, oppositional and unending. It can only be done in solidarity with others. And it never stops.
September 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If I can speak to the anxiety Klein keeps returning to since Kirk’s killing:
Lines are made by drawing them, and then enforcing them. It is work that is repetitive, exhausting, oppositional and unending. It can only be done in solidarity with others. And it never stops.
Lines are made by drawing them, and then enforcing them. It is work that is repetitive, exhausting, oppositional and unending. It can only be done in solidarity with others. And it never stops.
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My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe.
Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.
Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.
This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe.
Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.
Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.
Nailed it.
it's a great interview, and what's striking is that at the end of the day both klein and coates believe in winning people over. the difference is that coates thinks you do this by telling them the truth, and klein thinks you do it by empathizing with them and recognizing their concerns as Real
This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...
September 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Nailed it.
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Now this is Content
September 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Now this is Content
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"Her behavior has been absolutely appalling."
@timmiller.bsky.social is directly calling out Megyn Kelly for trying to turn corruption into culture war
@timmiller.bsky.social is directly calling out Megyn Kelly for trying to turn corruption into culture war
September 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"Her behavior has been absolutely appalling."
@timmiller.bsky.social is directly calling out Megyn Kelly for trying to turn corruption into culture war
@timmiller.bsky.social is directly calling out Megyn Kelly for trying to turn corruption into culture war
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The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
September 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
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File under: we can't have nice things www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...
The landlord wants control of the Magic Castle. Will its magicians' club stay or go?
The Magic Castle has housed the Academy of Magical Arts for decades. That could change under a new proposal by mansion owner Randy Pitchford.
www.latimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
File under: we can't have nice things www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...