Travis Swicegood
@tswicegood.com
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FoCo-based Texpat.
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Stephen Dubner’s sign off of Freakonomics Podcast is rolling around in my head tonight. Take care of yourselves. And if you can, somebody else too.
over 1 year ago
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Daniel Drezner
14 days ago
My son, just now: “Well, at least the US went the farthest of any team that calls it ‘soccer.’”
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John Moe
14 days ago
It’s fine to root for USA tonight but please be classy and don’t make jokes about Belgians using cruel and untrue stereotypes. Belgians are NOT deathly afraid of giraffes. They DON’T all have Brian Eno tattoos. They don’t ALL breathe fire. And they don’t wear pants made of CLOVER.
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Rae Radford
22 days ago
True!
#BookSky
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Aaron Rupar
22 days ago
KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.
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25 days ago
Well yeah, if Watergate happened again it would have gone off without a hitch because no one would have known about it until a year later when Woodward and Bernstein's book came out.
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dan sinker
25 days ago
Just amazing to see a politician say Hey I'm going to do these things and then just go and do them.
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100% this.
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about 1 month ago
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M.R. Robinson
about 1 month ago
If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.
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This right here. 👇👇👇
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about 1 month ago
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Jon Keegan
about 1 month ago
All of the moments when I’ve seen Trump at his angriest are when he’s being questioned by a woman
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God
about 1 month ago
Never forget the liars who told you and told you that Democratic Socialism would never work. The people that brought you Trump’s pedocracy did everything they could to stop Mamdani.
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Kelsey Hightower
about 2 months ago
Productivity doesn't matter if you're working on the wrong thing.
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dan sinker
about 2 months ago
As ICE ramps up their bullshit for the summer, a reminder that me and a whole bunch of other folks will get whistles out to you, for free, in quantities of 100 to thousands, to distribute in your communities. Just send a request here
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Steven Rich
about 2 months ago
have you tried simply turning it off and then never turning it back on again
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It’s amazing how many books have found me when I needed them. And as many have found me before I knew too.
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about 2 months ago
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👇👇👇
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about 2 months ago
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Erin Kissane
about 2 months ago
Oh no, I missed this, the book was about… The— Sir,
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝
about 2 months ago
Imagine being a Russian troll assigned to Bluesky: “Comrade, today you will destabilize Western democracy by arguing with poets, policy nerds, and a raccoon avatar with tenure.”
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Dan Hon
2 months ago
Ok but what if *this* is the good timeline
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Alt18F
2 months ago
We've been doing a little tidying up at 18f.org—a good opportunity to remind folks that the 18F guides and blog are archived on the site for anyone to use. After all, they belong to you!
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18F: We’re dedicated to the American public. And we’re not done yet.
For over 11 years, non-partisan civil servants at 18F proudly served the American people to make government technology work better.
https://18f.org/
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@dansinker.com
just making sure you saw this… for daydream material.
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2 months ago
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Robert Reich
2 months ago
This gave me chills. Watch.
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Olivia Messer
2 months ago
if you see reasonable critics of any politician getting dogpiled on any social media site, you should look at that apparent zealotry and unanimity with skepticism
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alex benzer
2 months ago
we're hiring a Lead Product Designer at Bluesky. we've built the foundation — now we need someone to lead our design team and bring a fresh vision for how this app should look and feel. crazy fun & rare opportunity for the right leader!
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Bluesky Jobs
Bluesky Jobs
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Jay 🦋
2 months ago
when you need books more than you need a view
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dan sinker
2 months ago
I appreciate that their new map makes a little swastika centered on Nashville
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@jjbbllkk.bsky.social
heya! Just finished up your Push From Scratch video. Just published a chord “instrument” for Push 3 (don’t really know what to call it yet) called Asterism. Free on Gumroad while I test it out and get some feedback. Would love your feedback.
tswicegood.gumroad.com/l/asterism
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Asterism
Asterism is a Max for Live MIDI effect that transforms the Ableton Push 3 pad grid into a dedicated chord generation instrument. The bottom half of the 8×8 grid becomes three interactive zones — scale...
https://tswicegood.gumroad.com/l/asterism
3 months ago
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Anil Dash
3 months ago
Has a *single* media outlet warned its audience not to trust content posted by the President on his social media accounts about the events last night, because he posts AI-generated slop and intentional misinformation? Any of them?
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Ari Berman
3 months ago
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
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How is there not a viable alternative to Substack already?
3 months ago
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Ken Schwencke
3 months ago
This is wild
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Nothing like seeing your name pop up in an obituary in a Google Alert.
3 months ago
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ElieNYC
3 months ago
Thank god. Christ. But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.
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Peter Sagal
3 months ago
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...
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So amazing.
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3 months ago
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Can we just leave it there?
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4 months ago
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David Simon
4 months ago
As an American, there are always disappointments to register and arguments to engage; amid the chaos of our battered, monied attempt at self-governance, dissent is constant. But this feeling of being utterly ashamed of America and embarrassed to the core by its president is new, raw and unnerving.
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jamelle
4 months ago
i’ll say that the morningstar “chicken” nuggets are legit and i prefer them to actual chicken (my kids eat them)
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Norm Charlatan
4 months ago
Thirty-one years ago today, the New Orleans-based alternative rock band Better than Ezra released its hit single “Good,” marking the first-ever Good Friday, which has now grown into a major holiday celebrated throughout the world.
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Carl Quintanilla
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Questioning whether generative AI art really can’t evoke emotion. Had Claude generate a prompt for Gemini asking for an interpretive painting of my internal state it’s pretty impressive.
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jamelle
4 months ago
heh
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Dr. Annie Andrews
4 months ago
Lindsey Graham has a secret.
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Josh
4 months ago
“Claude will never program like a human” exactly, Claude fixes warnings lol
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Philip Bump
4 months ago
One reason we need to foreground art is so that people who would prefer not to engage in any self-reflection might understand that introspection has been central to the human experience for millennia.
bsky.app/profile/dave...
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This is the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard.
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4 months ago
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Gemini's ability to create images is pretty crazy.
#denver
#blucifer
#gemini
4 months ago
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
4 months ago
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
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Jacob Harris
4 months ago
What’s my secret for staying chill? I made a playlist named “Songs for Planetariums” I can listen to any time I need to imagine being at a cool planetarium show instead of witnessing all the horrors
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