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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 2m

i don't know why people do this; they're both objectively unspeakable assholes, there's no need to pretend that they're frauds too

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 12m

for folks unfamiliar with their size, this is a large bull moose in denali:

hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 26m

“Do you want to die in prison? If not, I’d recommend a press conference.”

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 29m

Belichick the person has always been a raging jackass, his mind is no longer able to back the checks that his mouth is writing, and that’s where the fraud talk is coming from.

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 31m

Yep: I dislike Belichick, I generally think his tenure as a coach has been overrated, but no, the dude was clearly at one point a gifted coach and an above average talent evaluator

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

my wife grew up in nodak; i grew up in warmer environs, and thus had never met a moose; when i saw one in north dakota, i asked if they basically just behaved like big deer, and my wife laughed and laughed

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

moose and bison; every year there's another person who gets an expensive lesson that the adorable wild cow creature over there is very, very fast over short distances and has zero interest in giving you grace

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

top of the list right here

a close up of a bird 's head with a large feather on top

ALT: a close up of a bird 's head with a large feather on top

media.tenor.com

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 1h

this seems fair for nodak; folks there will love to tell you that "imperial cass county" and its environs really do have more in common with minnesota than the rest of the state

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 2h

anyone who has spent time fishing or boating has met mama geese, and I cannot possibly overestimate their willingness and desire to completely fuck you up if you get within 500 feet of their babies

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 2h

believe it or not: geese in general (particularly canada geese) make excellent guard animals; they have good eyesight, are insanely territorial, and are stronger than they look

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 2h

on a related note: get a few aussies in a room and at least one of them will tell you that vegemite is cruelly maligned and misunderstood

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 2h

Despotism is un-American and unaffordable.

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 2h

@dicknixon.bsky.social is the expert on Rubio, not me, but I feel like that’s a fair read on his career thus far

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 3h

zuck hasn't had a good idea in 10 years and hasn't had a decent idea in 5

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 3h

there are lots of guys like this in tech, but elon and zuck are clearly the most notable of them

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 3h

put it this way: if some dude who spends perhaps 2 hours a day lucid and sober fell ass backwards into a pile of money, and you were running a company that could sell things to him, wouldn't you want to be part of almost everything that dude was involved in?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 3h

$NVDA - NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG SAYS WANT TO BE PART OF ALMOST EVERYTHING MUSK IS INVOLVED IN

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 3h

Add it to the tally.

Seems like we’re getting up to 20+ grand jury no true bills just from what I’ve seen. Absolutely remarkable.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 12h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 3h

thune occupies the same space as marco rubio: long time senate member, rumblings of running for the presidency at one point, but they never panned out because he's a few ounces short in the three and a half pound enigma department

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 3h

this is as much a message from politico to the GOP as anything else: politico would be happy to launder any message the GOP offered if it had one to launder; they don't, so this is politico's execs telling the GOP to either shit or get off the pot

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 4h

here's the thing about thune: he's a show horse, not a work horse (or brains horse)

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 4h

to borrow a quote: someday this ICE folks are going to meet God, and when He asks them why they shot a priest, and they tell Him it was because he was making it hard for them to do their jobs, they must be shocked to find that is an insufficient reply

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 22h

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 16h

Scott voted for Trump. Scott caused his compound problem. I could not care less about what happens to Scott.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

Soybean Farmer: So now I've got a tariff war that's killing my market. I don't have any money from grain we're sending to other countries for USAID. I mean, I've got a compound problem. I don't know how you plan for next year because we don't know where we're at.

hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 16h

wondering how many times Ken has referred to Trump as “my liege”, but I’m sure it is more than zero

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