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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12h

Well that’s one way to boost your ratings, but

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14h

"Don't worry, our social order ensures a docile workforce" as a sales pitch, here and abroad.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 15h

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15h

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

It's Always Two Dumb Bitches Telling Each Other Exactlyyyyy Dot Gif

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

There were NSXes sitting on lots for $30k in the Obama era. You're probably on the right track. I've seen Integra Rs at six figures.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

This is really insightful, did you also talk to any people who are living in fear of ICE or just a bunch of Bro Country fans with the emotional lability of hungry toddlers.

Axios @axios.com · 17h

Zach Bryan is facing backlash from listeners over a new song snippet that criticizes ICE.

Why MAGA is outraged at Zach Bryan over ICE lyric

ICE has faced widespread scrutiny for its violent raids within the United States.

www.axios.com

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

Nostalgia will come for everything eventually but it's not going to be the kind of nostalgia that's big money. It'll be like nostalgia for the Malaise Era, of which the 90s were just an extension.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

Everyone is eager to get in on such an obviously great “investment opportunity”

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

Boomer Car Guy Math

1. Pay $70,000 for a car in 1995
2. Store it for 30 years, never driving it
3. Sell car for $76,000 in 2025
4. Tell everyone else on Facebook you're a real investing wizard

548-Mile 1995 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1

Bid for the chance to own a 548-Mile 1995 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #213,586.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

The worst is when the director realizes he’s filming the script of a children’s show, but it’s supposed to be for adults so the gratuitous violence, gore, and boobs start showing up in every other scene. Ooh, now it’s “edgy”! I feel so grown up watching it!

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

Required reading

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

Every time my wife and I succumb to someone's recommendation that we watch the Hot New Streaming Thing the script and dialogue are on the level of, say, a Hardy Boys or Babysitters Club book. It's not even Young Adult Literature quality; that's the prestige stuff.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17h

we have financialized the entire process of existing and convinced people to call the result Freedom, incredible stuff

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

you guys happen to notice how everything is finance and landlords now and many things are both

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 19h

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21h

I was at the one and only win of the Ohio Glory / Raleigh Durham Skyhawks franchise. True story. 10,000 people tops in a 90,000 seat stadium.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 22h

This scam email belongs in MoMA.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Some dipshit collecting paychecks from a beltway think tank called something like “progressive policy incubator ”: ACTually she’s RIGHT

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah this is like, granular. I'm impressed.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

That's crazy. Anyway, the Palmer Hotel is a collection of spooky stories set in

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. And take a look around at who succeeds in your field and try to argue with a straight face that self-promotion is frowned upon or penalized in any way.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

It’s easy to be critical of self promotion until you’re in the position of realizing that no one else is going to promote it for you

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

I’d say your guess is as good as mine, but if your guess is not “alcohol and prescription drugs” then your guess is not as good as mine.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

You’d also miss all the good celebrity sightings

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2d

In a hypothetical where a subsequent president tries to undo this, I’m not confident that the masked guys with guns going around in moving vans abducting people are going to stop driving around in moving vans abducting people. The law enforcement-to-right wing death squad pipeline isn’t a mystery.

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2d

It is fair to ask if -- assuming a change in political power happens goes through, etc -- if they'd relinquish their arms and assets if ordered to.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

US immigration enforcement is now the 13th most well-funded military in the world, ahead of Canada and, incredibly, just behind Israel.

inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2d

Those three late turnovers might be the three worst turnovers I’ve ever seen an NFL team commit, individually, and they did all three of them in a span of 10 minutes. If there are 100 people at any of the games for the rest of the season, it will be stunning.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 2d

Every fucking game.

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