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Shout out to my road dogg Pot Bear
December 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Shout out to my road dogg Pot Bear
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Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Pretty much ANY statistic you see cited to frighten you about vaccines comes from the VAERS database. (Including the recent evidence-free missive from Vinay Prasad). Here's why VAERS can NEVER be a proper source for population-level vaccine risk estimates.
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Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run to the center on immigration?
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Pundits: Why didn't Kamala Harris run to the center on immigration?
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:
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a send-off: defector.com/dick-cheney-...
Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector
At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a ...
defector.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
a send-off: defector.com/dick-cheney-...
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“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
September 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025
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Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield had pre-authorized inpatient care for Teressa Sutton-Schulman’s husband after his first suicide attempt and approved a request for extended inpatient treatment.
Then came the $30,599.69 charge.
By @deldeib.bsky.social
Then came the $30,599.69 charge.
By @deldeib.bsky.social
“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope
After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...
www.propublica.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield had pre-authorized inpatient care for Teressa Sutton-Schulman’s husband after his first suicide attempt and approved a request for extended inpatient treatment.
Then came the $30,599.69 charge.
By @deldeib.bsky.social
Then came the $30,599.69 charge.
By @deldeib.bsky.social
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Bluesky is sort of like a Greenwich Village coffeehouse in 1962, a fun club full of weirdos that risks pivoting at any point into a furious six hour debate about Soviet economic policy
August 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Bluesky is sort of like a Greenwich Village coffeehouse in 1962, a fun club full of weirdos that risks pivoting at any point into a furious six hour debate about Soviet economic policy
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the old "a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich" joke has come full circle
August 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
the old "a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich" joke has come full circle
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The people hated him because he told the truth
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
August 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The people hated him because he told the truth
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Please read this excellent, point by point refutation of the claim that there was a "Russia hoax"
From @noupside.bsky.social
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...
From @noupside.bsky.social
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...
From Russian Interference to Revisionist Innuendo: What the Gabbard Files Actually Say
Tulsi Gabbard’s latest “revelations” are being spun as proof of a deep state conspiracy. The documents themselves tell a much duller story.
www.lawfaremedia.org
August 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Please read this excellent, point by point refutation of the claim that there was a "Russia hoax"
From @noupside.bsky.social
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...
From @noupside.bsky.social
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/from...
Currently struggling to lookup etymology of the word "terms," it's impossible to google.
July 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Currently struggling to lookup etymology of the word "terms," it's impossible to google.
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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it is So Cool And Good that once you become a certain level of known that you lose all personhood and instead become a constellation of ideas and loose signifiers for people to interpret as they see fit, divining whatever meaning is most useful for them at the time
I've learned having minor visibility online is that there are people who go from liking your work to hating *you* based on their interpretation of one sentence. No seeking clarification, no questioning whether or not they misunderstood, no room to misspeak or make mistakes--you're just the villain.
April 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
it is So Cool And Good that once you become a certain level of known that you lose all personhood and instead become a constellation of ideas and loose signifiers for people to interpret as they see fit, divining whatever meaning is most useful for them at the time
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I followed the San Jose State volleyball controversy as it happened, and this detailed account, with the participation of the trans athlete involved, is utterly heartbreaking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/m...
How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart (Gift Article)
Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the controversy.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I followed the San Jose State volleyball controversy as it happened, and this detailed account, with the participation of the trans athlete involved, is utterly heartbreaking.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/m...
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Give this photo a Pulitzer
April 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Give this photo a Pulitzer
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The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I've written a one page patch for the new D&D Players Manual where I solve the problem of people's campaigns grinding to a halt because they can't schedule a game.
PDF is the link. Print it out. Stick it in your manuals. May work for other games too. #ttrpg #dnd
oldmenrunningtheworld.com?p=304
PDF is the link. Print it out. Stick it in your manuals. May work for other games too. #ttrpg #dnd
oldmenrunningtheworld.com?p=304
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I've written a one page patch for the new D&D Players Manual where I solve the problem of people's campaigns grinding to a halt because they can't schedule a game.
PDF is the link. Print it out. Stick it in your manuals. May work for other games too. #ttrpg #dnd
oldmenrunningtheworld.com?p=304
PDF is the link. Print it out. Stick it in your manuals. May work for other games too. #ttrpg #dnd
oldmenrunningtheworld.com?p=304
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March 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"How should dems vote on the continuing resolution" is like a textbook no-win scenario, but all I see right now is people acting like voting for it was some kind of craven betrayal: and a kind of glee in having a new enemy
March 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"How should dems vote on the continuing resolution" is like a textbook no-win scenario, but all I see right now is people acting like voting for it was some kind of craven betrayal: and a kind of glee in having a new enemy
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Jewish activists hold sit-in in Trump Tower For Mahmoud Khalil
March 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Jewish activists hold sit-in in Trump Tower For Mahmoud Khalil
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Galadriel: Why did you come hence through the mines of Moria, instead of by safer path?
Gimli: Well, we tried the pass of Caradhras
Merry: But the mountain was really angry at us
Pippin: That was after we tried going south
Aragorn: But that way was watched
Pippin: By birds
Merry: WEIRD birds
Gimli: Well, we tried the pass of Caradhras
Merry: But the mountain was really angry at us
Pippin: That was after we tried going south
Aragorn: But that way was watched
Pippin: By birds
Merry: WEIRD birds
March 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Galadriel: Why did you come hence through the mines of Moria, instead of by safer path?
Gimli: Well, we tried the pass of Caradhras
Merry: But the mountain was really angry at us
Pippin: That was after we tried going south
Aragorn: But that way was watched
Pippin: By birds
Merry: WEIRD birds
Gimli: Well, we tried the pass of Caradhras
Merry: But the mountain was really angry at us
Pippin: That was after we tried going south
Aragorn: But that way was watched
Pippin: By birds
Merry: WEIRD birds
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