It's correct that we let the same ideology ruling Iraq control America too. That ideology is called the "Coalition Provisional Authority"

[Anakin Skywalker voice] now this is baseball

[To the tune 🎵Spaceballs🎵] BASE-BALL

It is with deep regret that I must announce I'm enjoying the most recent Sally Rooney book

my liberal teachers didn't expound on it but there were obvious cues they gave if you knew were to look; my conservative teachers would compare Michelle Obama's lunch programs to Leninism

I've seen guys in camo with assault rifles at almost every metro stop I've been to in the past few weeks. It's true the main thing they do is "stand around twiddling their thumbs" but they are everywhere and it's extremely not normal!

my very spicy take is that this phenomenon is at least as much about who's getting CS majors as the tech labor market

When did Van Hollen learn ball

If i lived in NYC this alone would have me ranking Lander #1

was talking with my dad today and he said "at least authoritarian regimes can get people to goosestep in sync"

My tip for an inexpensive vacation: bicycle from Pittsburgh to Washington DC, fueled entirely by gas station snacks

Andor is in many ways a show about contemporary politics but the thing its critiquing isn't gridlock lmfao

I like Jamelle Bouie so I say this with love

major problem with the "abundance agenda" is that it excludes pro growth progressive (i.e. basically every progressive in congress) but includes center right degrowthers like jared golden and gluesenkamp perez.

my cables will not be "managed" I love all cables equally. each is empowered to roam freely in pursuit of self-directed goals, articulating a personality of its own. that's not a tangle, it's a statement. cable management is a tool of the oppressor.

Why does this look like Dedra Meero and Syril Karn

Having the most "suffering from success" moment of entire professional life

In terms of length I think this describes the majority of bike lanes in the US

When I have kids I will do my best not to live vicariously through them but liking reading will be mandatory in my household

The DOJ was literally created to deal with violent gangs who targeted minorities in conjunction with right wing political parties. What was Garland even doing

Receiving some normal text messages

The distribution of where baseball is popular globally is so insane

Star Wars nerds shouldn't be making Star Wars. Andor was one made by Revolutions Pod nerds. they should give Star Warses to other kinds of nerds.

I will always be a stan for LINCOLN (2012)

Once again @brinevapejuice.bsky.social is ahead of the curve here

Zoomers are stupid, Gen X is ontologically evil. Makes sense

i should be in charge of the marvel movies. i will cast mark rylance, jared harris, mark strong, paul dano, and paul giamatti as the avengers. their headquarters are the municipal planning office of a midsize american city. the supervillain they defeat will be various challenges to zoning reform

That's not correct. I've helped stakeholders realize value by streamlining processes into a single pane of glass

If you read the chart closely you'll see the truth: wages have been stagnant for 50 years every time a republican is president

not to put too much pressure on tony gilroy but if andor season 2 is bad i might suffer a mental collapse

Real monkey paw moment when we wished for the end of gerontocracy

This is where I went to school, where I had plenty of international friends on visas. I feel sick

NIST is the bedrock of vulnerability management in cybersecurity. It's already had problems for months (unrelated to Trump), if it goes downhill further the entire cyber industry is fucked

Conor Lamb...we're so sorry

Donald Trump, incredibly, might be the least racist person in the current administration

a dog who can read you the newspaper and get 85% of the headlines right is the most important invention in dog history and the least important invention in newspaper history

Get a female coded hobby or two (cooking, reading Sally Rooney, doing crafts)

*Screaming, Crying, Sobbing* Critical support to Drew Pavlou

Went to a Purim service tonight. I was struck by this passage, where the richest man in the Empire who's vizier to the mad king goes insane just because some random minority doesn't respect him. Can't imagine any contemporary parallels

Lots of problems in American are fundamentally a product of Americans being rich

The American Coalition Provisional Authority. God damn man

Elon I know an easy way to end all the sadness. There are 13 reasons why you can do it

Mr. Carney sir the people of America yearn to be liberated

the ADL is neutral to positive about antisemitism but considers it obligatory to kill and immiserate as many Arabs as possible

Every time I go back to Dallas I better understand the @regimecpa.bsky.social origin story

In many ways I've been screwed by economic timing (not being able to buy a house pre-2021) but in other ways I've been so luckyyy (graduating into the 2019 labor market)

I don't want to dunk on Cooper too much but it's actually very easy to not work in politics in DC and make friends

I mean this is what I wanted, which is why I voted for Harris

Classic Sabrina moment