Tom K
@tomkovarik.bsky.social
Data junkie, economist, geek, dad. I'm just trying to help, guys...
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
It has been 0️⃣ days since I have self-censored on social media out of fear for my livelihood.
October 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It has been 0️⃣ days since I have self-censored on social media out of fear for my livelihood.
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"Privatization" of vital public services means privatizing profits and socializing losses, so public burden grows because private entities extract value. That's why costs of privatized services inevitably go up as quality of service goes down.
September 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"Privatization" of vital public services means privatizing profits and socializing losses, so public burden grows because private entities extract value. That's why costs of privatized services inevitably go up as quality of service goes down.
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The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
March 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
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Re: my five accomplishments this week
Dear manager,
This week I:
1) I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
2) and which you were probably saving for breakfast
3)Forgive me they were delicious
4) so sweet
5) and so cold
Please let me let me know if you need any more information
Best,
Justin
Dear manager,
This week I:
1) I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
2) and which you were probably saving for breakfast
3)Forgive me they were delicious
4) so sweet
5) and so cold
Please let me let me know if you need any more information
Best,
Justin
February 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Re: my five accomplishments this week
Dear manager,
This week I:
1) I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
2) and which you were probably saving for breakfast
3)Forgive me they were delicious
4) so sweet
5) and so cold
Please let me let me know if you need any more information
Best,
Justin
Dear manager,
This week I:
1) I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
2) and which you were probably saving for breakfast
3)Forgive me they were delicious
4) so sweet
5) and so cold
Please let me let me know if you need any more information
Best,
Justin
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"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...
$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over
The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.
apnews.com
March 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
It's been about the courts for fifty years. Votes matter, and count for generations, not just four years.
January 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
It's been about the courts for fifty years. Votes matter, and count for generations, not just four years.
YUP. and it's no longer 2023, 2024, 2025 - it's the year we did the roof, the year we did the furnace, the year we did the bathroom...
Becoming a homeowner means everything is priced in number of new roofs.
January 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
YUP. and it's no longer 2023, 2024, 2025 - it's the year we did the roof, the year we did the furnace, the year we did the bathroom...
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The road to fascism is paved with centrists screaming “he can’t do that because of the law”
January 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The road to fascism is paved with centrists screaming “he can’t do that because of the law”
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that if two people are at Home Depot one of them is pissed about it.
November 18, 2024 at 4:47 AM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if two people are at Home Depot one of them is pissed about it.
That feeling of holding your breath and hoping the power doesn't flicker...
November 15, 2024 at 1:03 AM
That feeling of holding your breath and hoping the power doesn't flicker...
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November 14, 2024 at 4:24 AM