@dougthorburn.bsky.social
Then: Baseball R&D, sportswriter, pitching coach Now: Owner of Engenius Learning Centers of Morgan Hill + Los Gatos, pitching coach
19.10.2025 06:26 — 👍 3009 🔁 1537 💬 114 📌 58
Paper-bag bounties don’t require a functioning government
20.10.2025 05:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wut
19.10.2025 15:41 — 👍 6239 🔁 2353 💬 619 📌 185It is, when the president is a 13-year-old boy with a hyper-inflated ego
19.10.2025 20:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings
18.10.2025 20:42 — 👍 34181 🔁 8338 💬 645 📌 358In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
17.10.2025 12:16 — 👍 4664 🔁 1022 💬 44 📌 151“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”
~Patrick Henry
It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.
Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.
Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!
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16.10.2025 14:24 — 👍 12165 🔁 5112 💬 418 📌 215Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
17.10.2025 02:02 — 👍 37617 🔁 10434 💬 1436 📌 747A.I. must be getting pretty good, bc that Robot Harrington almost looks like a real person…
…almost.
#anthropomorphic
To be clear:
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.
It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.
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Immigration Hotline.
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13.10.2025 10:17 — 👍 1457 🔁 612 💬 52 📌 34If Polanco tags up on warning track FB by Suarez, I think he makes it easily.
If that happens, there likely woulda been a play at the plate to tie the game.
Woulda… coulda… shoulda
#DETvSEA
Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane
10.10.2025 20:01 — 👍 21769 🔁 8324 💬 1310 📌 567You see, Portland is a war zone, and ICE needs help (bc of the war zone in Chicago), and Tchump’s $Billion Qatari jet has gotta land SOMEwhere.
So, y’know… 2 birds
Hey Media:
Random callers are way better at speaking to politicians than the people you employ
(I’ve seen a bunch of these lately)
When do we get to start calling them the “Trumpstein” files?
10.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"The brain does much more than recollect. It compares, synthesizes, analyzes, and generates abstractions. We must figure out much more than our genes can know. That is why the brain library is some ten thousand times larger than the gene library."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Saying “anti-LLM = anti-tech” is like saying I’m “anti-NFL” because I’m “anti-Cowboys.”
Nope.
I love football.
I just hate the Cowboys.
Can’t both things be true?
In fact, if I didn’t love football so much, then I wouldn’t be so anti-Cowboys in the 1st place
🤔
Translation: “The GOP hates America. We’re really angry about it. We’re pro-genocide, pro-fascism, and pro-ultrarichpeople. Why would people protest that?!?”
10.10.2025 14:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Here’s the GOP admitting that THEY are a “terrorist” wing of our government.
Every accusation is a confession.
Every. single. one.
Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
10.10.2025 14:22 — 👍 2406 🔁 931 💬 1501 📌 1896there are niches - I think the academia niche is kinda fun here - but the niches aren’t very robust yet.
Mostly, I just try (too hard) to be funny, in-between videos of our own gov attacking us on the daily.
It’s a weird world, to be sure
AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.
This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.
Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.
Be warned.
A true leader doesn’t have to say, “I’m a leader.”
They show it through actions - her actions in this clip just exposes what a weak leader she would be
