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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14h

I love it when academics publish papers that are like, "I checked and I'm still right"
www.jstor.org/stable/24393...

In this paper I review research since 2000 and conclude
that it has vindicated this view

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15h

There are not 1.5 million people in Seattle living in RVs

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 18h

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

I think Dems can and should do better than people who are abusive to their staff members

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 19h

It was only a matter of time before these stories started to come out
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

The former member of Congress, who is now running for California governor, also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17h

same energy

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David @finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social · 17h

Man if this isn't the perfect quote re Weiss: “She plays to an audience of 200 people,” one Hollywood executive with ties to Weiss told Variety. “It just happens to be that audience is made up of people like Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman. The superrich f------ love her"

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17h

Seattle's mayor sucks so much lol

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 17h

Missed this while typing: Harrell told the crowd, which was not giggling, "You can giggle if you want, but 18% of Americans are homeless." This is not true.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18h

If I was told I couldn’t do a job Meghan McCain did I think I’d become a monk

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

please send me your candidates for the weirdest things Eric Adams has done in 2025

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17h

I'm glad you like it!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17h

because I am a millennial

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

bit.ly

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the lines I kind of like actually!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's one of my favorite albums! Just has some hella goofy lyrics

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

I need to post about pop music way more on here

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

he looks like he's talking into a trash can

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Matthew Lewis is ready for progressive federalism @mateosfo.bsky.social · 1d

$11 billion to raise and widen a highway, through a wetland, during a climate crisis.

Imagine spending $11 billion on workforce housing in Marin/Sonoma/Napa/San Francisco so the people driving across 37 every day to get to work ... could just live where they work.

California is a climate pariah.

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 1d

The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.

For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 1d

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

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Ethan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 2d

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

"I only want to be your one-life stand" is so much worse than anything Taylor has ever written

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

Paris had just 28 murders, that's fewer than Seattle

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

Yes when will someone comment on the artistic output of men

Exhausted by this narrative. I'll change my mind when male musicians are dragged for their lyrics, looks, and lifestyle with the same venom and intensity.
October 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

I didn’t mention her looks or lifestyle? And men who make art also receive commentary on their art!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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viv @hiviv.bsky.social · 2d

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMkwnauo/

Tbh the only thing that makes them bearable #taylorswift #lifeofashowgirl #MFDOOM #impression #fyp

TikTok video by voiceturtle

www.tiktok.com

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