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I will not call posts here 'skeets.' Never mind that where I come from, that word would typically refer to a blood-sucking, disease-carrying flying insect, there is a simply better portmanteau to be used. Bleet, a homonym for the sounds sheep and goats make, is perfect for posting to social media.

Scott Presler is one of the GOP’s most famous election integrity guys. He spends all day reminding his followers to “report any suspicious activity.” The Bulwark did, and an election lawyer said it isn’t a close call. Remember this next time MAGA starts up the voter fraud nonsense. Link in reply.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

Bluesky has four kinds of users

Remember, tariffs on imported goods always get passed along to the consumer.

"WHO is responsible for this? WHO is your manager? WHO?"

The name of New Mexico is funny because it's one of those things that you'd think is really simple (oh, it's it used to be part of old Mexico, so we'll call it New Mexico!), but it's much more complex New Mexico as the name for the area predates Mexico by several hundred years!

If you've got a TikTok, maybe spread the word there about the MUSK movie. You might also mention it on other platforms and IRL.

The right is spending the day complaining that Abdul El-Sayed was "rude" and "a bully" to Tommy the Republican Operative at his town hall, which is hilarious given how they had nothing to say about a woman getting beaten up at a Trump rally as the president cheered on.

Football team has arrived at Toomer's Corner. Celebration continues!

And the capper on a great day of college football, Notre Dame loses. What a day!

I swear I had forgotten that a football Saturday could feel this good.

Auburn upset No. 1 Georgia 27-24, the second straight week the top team in the AP Top 25 lost to an unranked foe.

The Toomer's Live Cam is glorious right now as the sun sets! #WDE www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WN2...

WAR DAMN EAGLE!!!!

Clear takeaway: If you don't want the US government (under Trump, or anyone else in the future) or Elon Musk personally to surprise you by cutting satellite internet access you thought you had secured, the only way is to not use anything made by SpaceX. Otherwise, the risk will always be there.

The DB effect is real 🔥 Since DeWanna Bonner made her Dream debut on August 30, the Atlanta Dream are 10-0 and headed to the WNBA Finals. Next up: Golden State.

These are very good. Highly recommend.

“The oil and gas industry says it’s a ‘good-faith’ partner eager to help craft regulations, but time and time again, it’s worked behind the scenes to delay and weaken them. As a result, the United States today emits more methane from its oil and gas sector than any other country in the world.”

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I know there are some AU fans that are pretty down on Byrum Brown, but his season QBR ranks just behind Arch Manning, the greatest QB prospect of all time, so chill a little. Source: www.espn.com/college-foot... by @espnbillc.bsky.social

C A T S, Cats, Cats, CATS!

More than 600 cell phone towers are down in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida due to Hurricane Isaias, but no broadcast radio or TV stations were knocked off the air. Read more: thedesk.net/2026/10/cabl...

Horns down.

While testifying to state regulators I did the back-of-envelope math on what it takes for a 100 MW data center to keep its diesel backup generators online in an emergency and ~2 trucks an hour is standard there. Really underappreciated piece of the overall impact picture.

what is the movie that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times? (several others very close; considered making this a top 4 or more)

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

In America, they send the elderly to die of old age in a humid swampland full of gigantic predatory lizards that is regularly inundated with hurricanes

> @dkthomp.bsky.social

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

a sure sign that something is "highly accepted" is if you have to threaten to impose the power of the state against those who don't accept it

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

“This is what crowd out looks like.” - Jason Furman

Corporate profits and tax revenues grew together until the Trump tax cuts. Now corporate profits are at an all-time high while tax receipts are at their lowest since 2021.

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

CBS Sports with visual LIES going to commercial break. You do not get that view of Midtown from Kennesaw.

NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

the tech industry is about to invent books

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

DeWanna Bonner is the 4th player over the age 39 to put up 20+ points in a WNBA postseason game, joining: Taj McWilliams-Franklin Diana Taurasi (5 times) Alysha Clark (this year) u.acrossthetimeline.com/stat-EeHqg

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Slowly filling with rage as I think about how none of the people who blocked another solar farm last week are going to say a damn word about the asthma factory reopening by my kid's school.

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

In five games, Byrum already has more interceptions than he had all last season. Half have been tips or bad luck, but he's also been hesitant and late on a lot of his throws; it seems like more than the change in defensive speed, etc. and like there's a lack of confidence there too.

Meanwhile, the Gators went on the road to Mizzou and have become road-kill. Like, the semi has repeatedly backed up and flattened them over and over.