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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 6h

Oh right January 2024, when the news stopped talking about the price of groceries because prices had returned to their normal rate of increase

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 7h

Jesus that was like a brainstorming session for finding the worst possible way to lose

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INDIGNITY @indignity.bsky.social · 7h

Facebook friends, it's time for MR WRONG: "I am not a dispenser of Medical Advice or Diagnosis, but if anybody at your next Medical encounter says words to the effect of “How’s it goin’? Be ready to tell ‘em stuff, don’t be shy or polite, lean in!"
www.indignity.net/mr-wrong-cold-medicine/

MR WRONG: Cold medicine

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 181

www.indignity.net

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 10h

Wow looks like you can have all kinds of different records and be home watching the playoffs

chadmasterclass.bsky.social @chadmasterclass.bsky.social · 10h

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 12h

Look, factually,Johnny Cash did spend a lot of years being uncool, but not less cool than Bruce Springsteen

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah everything happening in the foreground is terrible but also there's the creeping horror of how the gold stuff just keeps gathering and gathering and gathering in the background, like tau tangles

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 13h

Here's one of the tweets: archive.is/CEE2E, via www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

archive.is

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 16h

Young Billy Shakespeare wearing a Marlins cap

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 16h

Oh no I'm the guy who sees the first three seconds of the Hamnet trailer and is like "a HARRIS'S HAWK? Fuck outta here"

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 16h

Oh no I'm the guy who sees the first three seconds of the Hamnet trailer and is like "a HARRIS'S HAWK? Fuck outta here"

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 20h

Fox spent decades lowering its audience's standards and pickling their brains till they were ready, you can't just pivot to this stuff overnight

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 20h

This is like Sinclair trying to force its local stations to air the Charlie Kirk tribute, the Post has an audience and it ain't for this

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 20h

This is like Sinclair trying to force its local stations to air the Charlie Kirk tribute, the Post has an audience and it ain't for this

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 1d

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 180, LAW DEP'T.: Anti-Trans Professors Pretend to Understand Sports www.indignity.net/rewriting-the-rulebook/

Rewriting the rulebook

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 180

www.indignity.net

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Weather turning chilly in NYC in perfect time for people to pretend the reason they aren't wearing their Yankees hats tomorrow is that they wanted something warmer

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Yankees Elimination Day to all who celebrate

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote legal editorials for the Post for a hot minute many years ago, and I was constantly anxious about making sure I got the details right. This editorial is just humiliating for everyone involved

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

France literally can't keep a government in place?

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

OK but the guy who bought Twitter definitely has a busted brain

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Couldn't be simpler to reconcile the two! Just assume the brain staffs up with its mature functions on a last hired, first fired basis.

David Morehous @dmorehous.bsky.social · 1d

I need Everyone’s Brain Is Damaged by Covid Thought to merge with Everyone Behaves Like They’re 12 Thought

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I had exactly that thought, and it was the lead brains bungling covid policy!

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Also they dumped the paper on the stoop in the rain without a bag

JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 1d

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 551: Here are some stories that are not on page A1 today, while the Times was staking out A1 for news of a 10 month old report on campus culture at Harvard.
www.indignity.net/indignity-mo...

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 551: Widely criticized as flimsy.

THE PURSUIT OF PODCASTING ADEQUACY™

www.indignity.net

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 1d

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 551: Here are some stories that are not on page A1 today, while the Times was staking out A1 for news of a 10 month old report on campus culture at Harvard.
www.indignity.net/indignity-mo...

Indignity Morning Podcast No. 551: Widely criticized as flimsy.

THE PURSUIT OF PODCASTING ADEQUACY™

www.indignity.net

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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INDIGNITY @indignity.bsky.social · 2d

Facebook friends, here is Indignity Vol. 5, No. 179, LOST & FOUND DEP'T. Lost class ring outlasts school www.indignity.net/class-ring-outlasts-school/

Class ring outlasts school

Indignity Vol. 5, No. 179

www.indignity.net

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

Oh boy

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

The endless circular inside deals where the AI and chips industries keep paying each other the same money may look bad, but let's listen to the informed perspective Washington D.C. brings to the question www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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In Washington, some have adopted a laissez-faire attitude to all the activity in a sector viewed as vital to competing with geopolitical rival China. “It’s up to them,” White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks told Bloomberg on Monday. “We want American companies to be successful.” The Trump administration, for its part, is also connected to the sprawling web of AI investments through its stake in Intel Corp., not to mention its plans to take a cut of Nvidia and AMD’s chip sales to China.

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