Mike Goodman

You’re worth it buddy.

The more I play with Claude and figure out what I’m good and bad with and what it’s good and bad with the more convinced I get that people who know how to code are going to be editors and all of us idiots using it are going to be writers.

Little Marco? The national archivist?

Hello it’s me your friendly neighborhood subject matter expert on being an American dependent of a diplomat and being ordered to evacuate ahead of a war.

It’s a narrow niche but less narrow than I’d like quite frankly.

Ordered departure is a step up from authorized departure.

Still something you’re aiming for *before* there are active shootouts at the embassy walls ideally.

Sure like search and rescue after a natural disaster is different than Ukraine before Russia invaded, for example.

The reality is that the U.S. does end up helping people get out anyway (though they will absolutely bill you for it later)

The reason you are clear you’re not going to evacuate people is that when you say “we are the government and we are telling you you should leave” you want people to listen and not to think “oh whatever they’ll just bring me home later.”

Good set of results in Everton’s chase for the Champions League.

I said he’d be fine!!!

I am enjoying this season of soccer.

Why.

The consulate. The building is the consulate. The highest ranking person in it is a consul general. Two very different things!

Technically that’s Abu Dhabi, it’s a whole other Enirate, but I ain’t letting that get in the way of a good post.

Wait until they hear my thoughts on Manchester City’s transfer transfer policy.

Like these are all pretty normal mouth noises to be making at a time like this.

It’s just the only people left you should be making them at are the people who ignored your constant warnings for the last month.

Not, you know, everybody because you said jack shit before 72 hours ago.

Really Secretary of State Marco Rubio should be livid at the failure of the interagency process leaving his people exposed like this. The head of that interagency process is of course, the National Security Advisory, Marco Rubio.

This is really the crux of it. It’s unconscionable that if we were considering this we didn’t evacuate places earlier and warn Americans there accordingly. Just add it to the long list of unconscionable things. bsky.app/profile/msig...

don’t make me tap the “for thousands of years, antisemitism has functioned primarily by scapegoating: the king tells you he is only oppressing you because the Jews have forced his hand, so you kill the Jews rather than the king” sign

I actually once wrote out several paragraphs of social media strategy about my decision to talk about that in that way and why I picked a mattress lol.

Hello it’s me your friendly neighborhood subject matter expert on being an American dependent of a diplomat and being ordered to evacuate ahead of a war.

It’s a narrow niche but less narrow than I’d like quite frankly.

Sorry, embassy in Israel. Lebanon was about a week before the war.

THAT SAID.

The government is obligated to share with the public any evacuations orders given to diplomatic staff.

They put the American embassy on authorized departure on a Friday. The war started on Saturday.

Ok, one lol this is bullshit.

Two, as a rule, the United States warns/instructs civilians to leave a place but always states quite clearly they won’t evacuate them (there are good reasons for this).

Three, Trump obviously doesn’t know any of two.

Excuse me, how very dare you: Vance has been quite clear he said this was only good IF we do something.

They pretty straightforwardly decided to go in on this together, and now that it's turning into a shitshow want people to blame the Jews.

I mean she wasn’t accidentally quoting a nazi. She was specifically quoting a Nazi because she wanted to amplify the specific point the Nazi was making.

The problem with touting that a Nazi agrees with you on something is the reason to do it (charitably) is to persuade more Nazis to agree with you on that specific issue.

Not, like, hyperbolically here in the case of Fuentes. But literally.

I’d prefer to try persuading non-Nazis really.

prepping to record my soccer analytics podcast