Mike Smith
@msmith1047.bsky.social
5th Grade Teacher. Former Soldier (Boom Boom). Runner. Pennsylvanian in Georgia. Arsenal fan.
“It’s part of my job to make sure that you don’t grow up stupid. It’s bad for the world.”
-Tami Taylor
“It’s part of my job to make sure that you don’t grow up stupid. It’s bad for the world.”
-Tami Taylor
This thread is basically, “Are you guys ok with not getting a top shelf martini every time you get a vaccine without crying?”
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This thread is basically, “Are you guys ok with not getting a top shelf martini every time you get a vaccine without crying?”
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you ever think about how buck wild it must have been to be the first European colonizer to see a hummingbird?
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
December 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
you ever think about how buck wild it must have been to be the first European colonizer to see a hummingbird?
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
IN DEPTH | If you could taxidermy your dead grandmother and keep her body in your living room, would you?
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
IN DEPTH | If you could taxidermy your dead grandmother and keep her body in your living room, would you?
1 or 2 pencils per child?
<begins uncontrollably shaking in elementary school teacher>
<begins uncontrollably shaking in elementary school teacher>
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
1 or 2 pencils per child?
<begins uncontrollably shaking in elementary school teacher>
<begins uncontrollably shaking in elementary school teacher>
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these are so clearly only controlled by humans it’s astounding how much everyone gives elon musk for lying to everyone all the time about everything
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
these are so clearly only controlled by humans it’s astounding how much everyone gives elon musk for lying to everyone all the time about everything
What if we made the airport like airborne school?
December 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
What if we made the airport like airborne school?
So I should dress formally but also be ready to work in thirty minutes on a stationary bike.
Also, no, flying next to a sweaty dude is not going to improve my travel experience.
Also, no, flying next to a sweaty dude is not going to improve my travel experience.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
So I should dress formally but also be ready to work in thirty minutes on a stationary bike.
Also, no, flying next to a sweaty dude is not going to improve my travel experience.
Also, no, flying next to a sweaty dude is not going to improve my travel experience.
This is why Ivy’s my favorite. There’s so much ethical complexity there!
I don’t see Ivy as a villain. Her goals are laudable. It’s just that ordinary, law-abiding methods are a failure against players that are in a caste above all laws, she’s playing by the same non-rules as those she opposes. If she’s a life-protecting villain, than what are her anti-life enemies?
December 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is why Ivy’s my favorite. There’s so much ethical complexity there!
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif.
December 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif.
This is gonna be awkward when Trump’s supporters string JD’s naked body up in front of the Capitol and we see he has a tiny penis.
December 7, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is gonna be awkward when Trump’s supporters string JD’s naked body up in front of the Capitol and we see he has a tiny penis.
The cheerleading show, Stumble, is…kinda good?
December 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The cheerleading show, Stumble, is…kinda good?
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
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December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
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Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
February 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
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DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
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Be the John Brown you want to see in the world.
December 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Be the John Brown you want to see in the world.
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I've said this before but there is a gaping maw of a difference between restriking legal combatants who are wounded but crawling away in an area you can't capture them and restriking legal combatants bobbing in the ocean
also these weren't legal combatants
also these weren't legal combatants
And look, I say this as someone that has no problems with going after troops that are retreating—they're legitimate targets. But as quite a few people have pointed out (and it isn't an area I really know), being shipwrecked has a lengthy legal history of making you a protected class.
December 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I've said this before but there is a gaping maw of a difference between restriking legal combatants who are wounded but crawling away in an area you can't capture them and restriking legal combatants bobbing in the ocean
also these weren't legal combatants
also these weren't legal combatants
So he was operating within Hegseth’s clear intent, meaning Hegseth still bears some level of responsibility?
Reporter: Admiral Bradley was the one who gave that order for a second strike?
Leavitt: And he was well within his authority to do so.
Leavitt: And he was well within his authority to do so.
December 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
So he was operating within Hegseth’s clear intent, meaning Hegseth still bears some level of responsibility?
Weird how they keep leaving out the key adjective “illegal.”
Dems aren’t urging soldiers to skip the division fun run on Friday, Eric.
Dems aren’t urging soldiers to skip the division fun run on Friday, Eric.
Sen. Eric Schmitt: "This is the language of a color revolution where you're calling on military men and women to disobey orders."
December 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Weird how they keep leaving out the key adjective “illegal.”
Dems aren’t urging soldiers to skip the division fun run on Friday, Eric.
Dems aren’t urging soldiers to skip the division fun run on Friday, Eric.
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it looks like the "mississippi" miracle in reading scores was due to be a pretty basic stats error in the design of the experimental study (selecting on the dependent variable)... a lotta people Got Got on this one! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/h...
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
it looks like the "mississippi" miracle in reading scores was due to be a pretty basic stats error in the design of the experimental study (selecting on the dependent variable)... a lotta people Got Got on this one! statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/h...
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The problem with civ-mol relations scholars is they frequently take the view that soldiers arent capable of wise counsel and grown up decisions, and the civil command authority is entitled to do with them what they will
Both these positions are wrong, and betray a patrician sense of the soldier...
Both these positions are wrong, and betray a patrician sense of the soldier...
November 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The problem with civ-mol relations scholars is they frequently take the view that soldiers arent capable of wise counsel and grown up decisions, and the civil command authority is entitled to do with them what they will
Both these positions are wrong, and betray a patrician sense of the soldier...
Both these positions are wrong, and betray a patrician sense of the soldier...
Among (so many) other things, we need a constitutional amendment reforming the pardon power of the president.
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Among (so many) other things, we need a constitutional amendment reforming the pardon power of the president.