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Brendan

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Stuff You Should Know got my top spot. More in my #SpotifyWrapped.

December 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM

Brendan

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November 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM

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Demand for warehouses shrank in the second quarter — the first time in 15 years. It's yet another sign of how tariffs are changing America's business landscape.

Quarterly demand for industrial warehouses sees first drop in 15 years

Demand to lease industrial spaces — meaning warehouses that store everything from car parts to construction materials — shrank by 11.3 million square feet in the second quarter of 2025.

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September 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM

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Michael

@fleerultra.bsky.social

once again encouraging everyone to read this passage from They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-1945 and reflect a little on the rapidly changing character of the united states we are living through.

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · May 1

thinking about this passage, & how scotus scheduled oral argument on birth right citizenship (which feels like an echo of the run up to the immunity ruling) and did so on a technical issue (which feels like the abortion bounty law standing decision that presaged the overturning of roe v wade)

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or
thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked —if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying 'Jewish swine,' collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in— your nation, your people— is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

July 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM

Brendan

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This puzzle was bs. How can you possibly have the terms Mnemonic, Wick, Neo, and Ted and not have a Keanu category?!

May 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM