Bash O Wicks

Mind blowing!🤯

~$2500 in tariffs on ~$3500 aluminum ordered from China by a small biz.

Since tariffs are cumulative, the 73% tax currently charged on this order would balloon to 90-140% once Trump’s further increases kick in.

Who do you think is ultimately paying for this madness?
#TrumpTariffs

Massive #TeslaTakedown protest at the Tesla dealership in Fort Lauderdale Florida on Saturday. 300-400 people.

Media courtesy of my parents, whom I thought bought a place there to regroup and take a break from politics, but been spending Saturday's at the Tesla dealership.

Will post video later.

Thanks bud. I completely checked out on social bc real life provided more disturbing insight than I could humanly handle haha. I hope all is well with you.

Hey Leilani. Good to see you make the move 🤗

We’re overwhelmed with civilian security contracts. Americans that have the means are taking extraordinary measures, and it’s incredibly dystopian and disturbing to witness. No matter how much I wanted to escape the trauma being inflicted onto my city, the trauma won’t escape me. 2/2

🧵 I’m still in Florida since we escaped the inauguration. My parents bought a house here early last year, and it’s our first time here together. I’ve been working remote and spending free time helping with construction. My gov adjacent employer asked us to lay low through the chaos, however… 1/2

I’m going to miss David Lynch 🪦😔
In memoriam I watched Inland Empire last night while working late. It was the only Lynch film I hadn’t seen, but I don’t think you can watch a Lynch film without your full attention.

Reading comments about how to save this post brings back fond memories of early days on Threads where we figured out we can just use the share feature to save posts to our Note app 🫠

They need an algo feed to improve conversation and connections.

😳 Only 0.3% of Bluesky users have crossed 1000 followers & only 0.01% have crossed 10K followers. 50% of all Bluesky users have only 1 follower.

Male users make up 63.7%, while female users only make up 36.2%.

37.7% of BS’s 26M users are from Brazil—25.62% are from the USA

Per Hype Fury.

This is what I liked about Threads algo, that it knew to show me lots of woodworking and DIY clips in my FY feed 🫠

💯 I liked that Threads kept track of my engagements and showed me content from my follows. This was esp useful if you’re not logged in for hours at a time. I’m struggling with this as well.

Coincidentally the number is 47

Hagseth: look at where we’ve gotten w/past secdefs. It’s time for someone with dirt on their boots.

Meanwhile “Mad dog” Mattis: guess I got my nickname catching rabies from a loose dog at a tea party.

Pete Hagseth will get confirmed. What Tim Kaine, Gary Peters, Tammy Duckworth, Mark Kelly so pointedly demonstrated is he is deeply flawed, incredibly unqualified, and entirely unprepared for the job. Secdef is one of those positions that you don’t want a leader failing upwards w/dire consequences.

Good to see my Threads friends here 🫶
I was planning on asking over there who from movie thrivia moved here.
Makes shutting it down less painful.

Thanks got it pinned.

Greed is a heck of a motivator.

I get the feeling these guys believe Trump may occupy the WH much longer than four years.

I do have that pinned and should check it more often.

Oh dammit I forgot there’s lists. I’ll check it out. I miss seeing my friend’s posts. I’m gonna have to put y’all on a list 😄

I’m in group chats with friends for sports. That’s about as much as I can take 😁

a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands in front of a crowd of people . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is clapping his hands in front of a crowd of people .

Egg manufacturers are relieved

Checked Threads and seems we’re taking the leap to Bluesky. Anyone got starter packs broken down into groups like tech, law, natsec, indie/investigative journo, etc? 🙏

We are now changing this approach. We will end the current third party fact checking program in the United States and instead begin moving to a Community Notes program. We’ve seen this approach work on X – where they empower their community to decide when posts are potentially misleading and need more context, and people across a diverse range of perspectives decide what sort of context is helpful for other users to see. We think this could be a better way of achieving our original intention of providing people with information about what they’re seeing – and one that’s less prone to bias.

Genuinely baffled by the unempirical assertion that Community Notes “works.” Does it? How do Meta know? The best available research is pretty mixed on this point.

And as they go all-in on an unproven concept, will Meta commit to publicly releasing data so people can actually study this?

If there are any community note contributors here, then you know the ridiculousness going on behind scenes. It’s a shit show, and by no means near a substitute for real-time moderation.

He could’ve reshaped his legacy by making him fire him. He’s cutting and running and abandoning the people at the agency, like a weak leader would. That’s not a good look for the history books.