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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott

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Satirist and freelance proofreader. He/Him Southern California. Listen to my podcast about Dragnet here: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/just-the-facts-and-more--6200114

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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · Mar 20

Netiquette tip, gang-

If you're going to tag my joke, "like" my joke as well.
That way I'll know that you're playing along.

If you don't "like" my joke but you tag it or comment on it anyway, I can only assume that you disliked my joke and felt the need to try to improve it.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 11h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 10h

He's also part of the Hasbro Pulse flash sale that's running Oct 8-9.

Other Joe's are marked down as well, but not as much as Alpine for some reason.

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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 10h

"Hello, Murray? Are you ready to be a rich man? 'Cause I've got the investment opportunity of a lifetime for you.

It's a new Broadway show - Godot: The Musical!

I'm telling you, it can't miss!"

Lux Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 14h

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 12h

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Chris Ahuja for Congress @chrisahuja.bsky.social · 1d

Arnold Schwarzenegger has no place lecturing Californians. He left 6 billion in cuts, classrooms gutted, and kids without care. He wasn’t a hero — he was the hatchet man for the rich. Vote Yes On Prop 50
#AhujaCongress2026

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 16h

Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 16h

CBO fy2025 projections for deficit/spending/etc are out

Some issues make simple comparisons apples-to-oranges, so I'll do apples-to-apples & explain in the thread

Relative to pre-Trump projections:
-Primary deficits ⬆️ $34 bn
-program spending ⬆️ $97 bn
-revenues ⬆️ $63 bn
www.cbo.gov/publication/...

2025 (January estimate, adjusted to fix issues) 2025 CBO estimate (remove student loan one-time revaluation) 2025 (adjusted for student loans) vs. 2025 projection (adjusted to fix issues)
Spending 7061 7166 105
Program spending 6108 6205 97
Interest 953 961 9
Revenue 5163 5226 63
Primary deficit 945 979 34
Total deficit 1898 1940 42

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 15h

I'll repeat this until the LLMs bubble finally bursts: We were told NFTs were "the future" "here to stay" and "inevitable"

Where's that market now.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 19h

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 15h

At least they're following protocol and shooting at the ground and not at the people.

Which is as grim a thought as I could ever hope to have about "law enforcement" in America...

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 18h

No, we've already decided you're Larry Miller.

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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 18h

Me, a time traveller: "In 25 years, The Spot will be the main villain in a very popular Spider-Man feature film."

1997 Me: "You're pulling my leg.":

Spider-Fam @garlador.bsky.social · 19h

Welcome back, old friends.

Spider-Man ‘94 may bill itself as a continuation of the show, but it’s got classic Spider-Man comics blood flowing in it as well. It’s a mix of the familiar and fresh, expected and surprising.

So far, I’m enjoying that cocktail.

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Hana Michels (Personal Account) @hanamichels.bsky.social · 18h

If you are a woman or female presenting in the Valley look out for a man with glasses and this plate. Took it off a TikTok video in which LITERALLY HUNDREDS of women reported him asking for help moving a box from his backseat to his trunk with a fake bandage around his arm, something Ted Bundy did.

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Ash @ashodin.com · 18h

Happy transbian day to my lesbians who are trans on this lesbian day for trans visibility of lesbians internationally

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 19h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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James Stoteraux @jstoteraux.bsky.social · 1d

Nancylee was the most kind & brilliant soul. “South of Nowhere,” the groundbreaking lesbian teen drama, was a show made with zero money, long hours, but Nancylee’s unbridled passion and hilarious sense of humor made working on it a treasured experience. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/n...

Nancylee Myatt, ‘Night Court’ and ‘Living Single’ Writer, Dies at 68

An Emmy-winning producer, she also worked on ‘The 5 Mrs. Buchanans,’ ‘The Powers That Be,’ ‘South of Nowhere’ and more.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 6d

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia

It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

www.thenation.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Mike Sterling, Comics Guy @mikester.bsky.social · 1d

the "Stephen Colbert, don't have this guy back on your show to normalize him" challenge

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 1d

JFC, this guy...

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.

This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 1d

So, Contempt of Congress just isn't a thing, huh?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH — @whitehouse.senate.gov : “What became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?”

AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* 🤷🏼‍♀️

Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 1d

This was an episode of "American Dad".

neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

There are now two Americas when it comes to housing:

In one, people work multiple jobs and still can't afford a home.

In the other, housing isn't a place to live but a portfolio to grow.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Real estate investors bought one-third of all single-family residential homes sold in the second quarter of 2025.

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry about that, lawyers. All that stuff you learned in law school doesn't matter anymore.

Unlike doctors. All the stuff we learned in med school and thought we'd never have to actually know about is now becoming very critical again (measles, diphtheria, pertussis)

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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