William Dobbins
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Nobody told me the rock tumbler has to be running for *checks booklet* TEN WEEKS
December 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Nobody told me the rock tumbler has to be running for *checks booklet* TEN WEEKS
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with how much Fascism 1 loved radio, i feel like the main factor is new forms of media/communication emerging in a population with no immunity to it yet
i get tired of europeans on bsky acting like being hijacked by a right wing conspiracy is core to our american character as if reform and afd aren't leading polls rn
December 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
with how much Fascism 1 loved radio, i feel like the main factor is new forms of media/communication emerging in a population with no immunity to it yet
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Official data is in today, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 21% compared to last year!
December 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Official data is in today, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 21% compared to last year!
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Note: Each chart shows the average monthly volume of arrests, releases and deportations by type. Expedited removal includes reinstated removal orders. Only border arrests that led to a transfer to ICE for detention or deportation are included.
December 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Note: Each chart shows the average monthly volume of arrests, releases and deportations by type. Expedited removal includes reinstated removal orders. Only border arrests that led to a transfer to ICE for detention or deportation are included.
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TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.
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the thing that never gets mentioned in this stupid discourse is that Joe Biden's political capital was entirely dedicated to doing massive bipartisan spending bills on manufacturing and infrastructure construction in an attempt to reach out to working class America and it didn't pay off at all lol
December 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
the thing that never gets mentioned in this stupid discourse is that Joe Biden's political capital was entirely dedicated to doing massive bipartisan spending bills on manufacturing and infrastructure construction in an attempt to reach out to working class America and it didn't pay off at all lol
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Omg this whole thread is amazing but this Cronos image is absolute perfection! 🤣
December 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Omg this whole thread is amazing but this Cronos image is absolute perfection! 🤣
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The science breakthrough of 2025 is Solar Energy, not because it is new but because of how successful its deployment has been. This year renewable energy surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Hopeful sign for what’s to come.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
December 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The science breakthrough of 2025 is Solar Energy, not because it is new but because of how successful its deployment has been. This year renewable energy surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Hopeful sign for what’s to come.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.
December 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The Abundance movement often points to environmental groups as the obstacles to building. But who actually files the lawsuits blocking projects? It’s not environmental groups. It’s been lawyered-up HOAs protecting property values all along. Regulation by litigation is the problem.
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A center-left admin in 2029 will need to figure out what to do with the O&G industry as it reinvests in clean energy, electrification, T&D, EVs, and more. Get it exporting to displace worse sources of fossil fuels in global development and use those revenues to backstop green investment at home.
December 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A center-left admin in 2029 will need to figure out what to do with the O&G industry as it reinvests in clean energy, electrification, T&D, EVs, and more. Get it exporting to displace worse sources of fossil fuels in global development and use those revenues to backstop green investment at home.
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the reason you think American society used to be homogenous is that the version of Wokeness we did for Italians and the Irish won a victory too large for you to see from the inside
I got this comment in response to a post on X and it just made me think that a lot of these reactionaries just have no idea about even the basics of American history, and have been fed a false and rosy nostalgic view of things in the honestly recent past.
/also the comment about China is dumb.
/also the comment about China is dumb.
December 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
the reason you think American society used to be homogenous is that the version of Wokeness we did for Italians and the Irish won a victory too large for you to see from the inside
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By Darwinian standards it appears to have been a success
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
By Darwinian standards it appears to have been a success
Is there a marketing hypothesis around a plush visual super stimulus drawing the consumer's eye away from other pillows in the pillow section that results in pillow companies making all the pillows too big?
December 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Is there a marketing hypothesis around a plush visual super stimulus drawing the consumer's eye away from other pillows in the pillow section that results in pillow companies making all the pillows too big?
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surveys can easily be manipulated to create specific narratives; i prefer regurgitating what i see on social media, which famously cannot be manipulated to create specific narratives
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
surveys can easily be manipulated to create specific narratives; i prefer regurgitating what i see on social media, which famously cannot be manipulated to create specific narratives
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@billmckibben.bsky.social l: ""in 2024 California used 25 percent less natural gas.... Through mid-April of 2025, as more panels and batteries came online, the numbers got even better: California was using 44 percent less natural gas to make electricity than it had just two years earlier."
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
@billmckibben.bsky.social l: ""in 2024 California used 25 percent less natural gas.... Through mid-April of 2025, as more panels and batteries came online, the numbers got even better: California was using 44 percent less natural gas to make electricity than it had just two years earlier."
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Adding alt-text is just good manners. How do we expect people to train their LLMs if we aren't providing high quality image labels?
December 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Adding alt-text is just good manners. How do we expect people to train their LLMs if we aren't providing high quality image labels?
Reddit loves a circlejerk, bluesky tends toward Elonmerance, and I hate to take that away from anyone. But the article acknowledges this is at least 5+ year lagging indicator, and recent Tesla's are now above avg. EVs are so much simpler mechanically they are going to dominate these measures.
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Reddit loves a circlejerk, bluesky tends toward Elonmerance, and I hate to take that away from anyone. But the article acknowledges this is at least 5+ year lagging indicator, and recent Tesla's are now above avg. EVs are so much simpler mechanically they are going to dominate these measures.
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Coupled with weird incentives - their funding doesn’t usually come from the people they service but from donors, govt, foundations. So poorly run orgs can survive so long as they have the ear of / good connections with funders.
December 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Coupled with weird incentives - their funding doesn’t usually come from the people they service but from donors, govt, foundations. So poorly run orgs can survive so long as they have the ear of / good connections with funders.
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Gen Ben Hodges: Our biggest mistakes in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam were #1 the failure of multiple US Administrations to clearly identify the strategic objective and #2 to ensure the American people were involved and in support. So far, I see neither happening here.
U.S. Pours More Firepower Into the Caribbean as Trump Ramps Up Threats
The American leader now has an array of options for Venezuela’s Maduro, including land strikes and electronic warfare.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Gen Ben Hodges: Our biggest mistakes in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam were #1 the failure of multiple US Administrations to clearly identify the strategic objective and #2 to ensure the American people were involved and in support. So far, I see neither happening here.
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Huh. I'll have to think about that
December 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Huh. I'll have to think about that
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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Every American wants 'the golden age of political bipartisanship' and when you ask them when that was, it is basically the middle of the 20th century when were were a one party state effectively and the only leverage Republicans had was whether or not a bill was bipartisan, not whether it passed lol
now the structure of federal campaign regulations are far from the only reason why this has happened but its a significant one
December 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Every American wants 'the golden age of political bipartisanship' and when you ask them when that was, it is basically the middle of the 20th century when were were a one party state effectively and the only leverage Republicans had was whether or not a bill was bipartisan, not whether it passed lol
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Gonna be fun to watch Unitary Executive Theory go out the window the second a Dem takes office.
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Gonna be fun to watch Unitary Executive Theory go out the window the second a Dem takes office.
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I’m of the mind that every parade I’ve ever been to is twice as long as they need to be.
The entertainment value of having people on floats wave and throw shit at you lasts about 20-25 minutes.
The entertainment value of having people on floats wave and throw shit at you lasts about 20-25 minutes.
December 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I’m of the mind that every parade I’ve ever been to is twice as long as they need to be.
The entertainment value of having people on floats wave and throw shit at you lasts about 20-25 minutes.
The entertainment value of having people on floats wave and throw shit at you lasts about 20-25 minutes.