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ttanabe.bsky.social
The Muppets Christmas Carol remains a joy after all these years. I still don’t know how Michael Caine managed to play it so straight throughout.
December 20, 2025 at 5:15 AM
ttanabe.bsky.social
It’s too damn early for Christmas commercials to be everywhere!
October 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)
from @electricfutures After several delays, @DOGE has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in. Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then. It's Monday. @DOGE is the laziest, most overpaid bunch of incompetent, unelected bureaucrats we've ever seen. The first thing I did is add up the "saved" column for all canceled contracts and real estate. The numbers are $16.5B and $O.14B, respectively. Odd... Since almost all of the purported savings come from contracts, we'll focus on that. The single biggest ticket item is a DHS contract listed as saving $8 billion. Wow, that's a huge contract! Actually no, it's $8 million. They must have tried to automate scraping the FPDS form and failed. That means we're down to $8.5B in savings. 3/ The next 3 biggest ticket items are all USAID contracts listed as $655M each, so $2B total. Wow, pretty big. Wait, these are IDVs, not contracts. $655M is the entire set-aside, being triple counted. In the first 5 years, only $73M was awarded, and only 2 years remain. 4/ So we're down to $6.5B in savings, and an alarming trend emerges: @DOGE does not seem to understand how the government contracts they are canceling work. The savings they are claiming are not annual savings, but rather hypothetical savings if we spent every unobligated penny. 5/ And more importantly, they are just getting it *wrong*, with alarming consistency. These numbers are erroneous. This "select group of geniuses" has not double checked even the LARGEST items accounting for the bulk of their claimed savings. This is a sad, pathetic farce Here's the next biggest item: an IT services contract for the Social Security Administration worth $1B. That's a lot of savings! Well, again, this contract spanned 6 years. 80% has already been spent. Ah well, more like $240M in savings spread over the next 3 years. $80M/year. In 2023, this contract funded 1000 FTEs working $100/hr. Did we need 1000 SWEs working on SSA infrastructure? Probably not - these could be valid savings (disclaimer: no idea what they actually did). But worth noting that these cuts will impact many private sector jobs as well. And if anyone is curious, there are currently 17 lines that say "SEE FPDS" rather than the savings amount, I guess because their automated scraping failed. I did it manually and it took roughly ~10 minutes. But that's too much to ask of super geniuses working 120 hours/week!
February 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
ttanabe.bsky.social
Didn’t see this level of beatdown coming. Chiefs O Line is AWOL.
February 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
ttanabe.bsky.social
Well the calls in favor of the Chiefs are starting early this game.
February 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
he also froze the hiring of more air traffic controllers: democrats-transportation.house.gov/news/press-r...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 30
headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
January 30, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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schooley.bsky.social
If a plea for kindness and empathy makes you furious, you might be a sociopath.
January 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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sergeantaqgo.bsky.social
Each email and call log is a different violent rioter who assaulted me in the tunnel. If you are defending these people who brutally assaulted the police, maybe you ARE NOT a supporter of the police and the rule of law to begin with. If you did you would want accountability.
January 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ttanabe.bsky.social
…but Stanford apparently lost the ability to see giant men in green running straight at him. Well at least they made the game interesting.
January 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
ttanabe.bsky.social
Eagles really want to see if LA can pull off a comeback.
January 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
TikTok is coming back online - super weird, as right this second Trump is not President and the app is banned. This is basically illegal? www.theverge.com/2025/1/19/24...
TikTok is coming back online in the US
TikTok announced it’s ‘in the process of restoring service’ in the US.
www.theverge.com
January 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
ttanabe.bsky.social
The Vikings really have zero desire to win this game, I see.
January 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
ttanabe.bsky.social
Doink for the win! This was a GAME!
January 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
ttanabe.bsky.social
Washington-Tampa coming through to finally bring some excitement to Wild Card weekend.
January 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
ttanabe.bsky.social
0 for 4 on playoff games being competitive so far. Thought we’d see at least some fight from an away team.
January 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM