William Dobbins

ADHD is quite simply when the human body doesn't produce sufficient amphetamine.

If you boycott elections, candidates logically ignore you and focus on the voters they can still get.

There’s a reason pundits keep nudging Dems to a mushy middle. Those folks are idiots, yes, but they’re idiots who show up to vote.

And that matters more to a candidate than your smart apathy.

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A related fantasy that apparently many people share that exacerbates this issue:

Hmm but I don't remember forgetting.

Bilbo ponders pressing the "add to profile" button for a paper that was written 6 years before his birth and is about diseases he has never heard the names of.

This is the most powerful sentient burger or a man that rules over a kingdom of burgers?

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

Mark Daigneault has the best thinking face in the NBA. You can tell he's really concentrating.

Seriously, I have wasted hours in community meetings about the historic nature of a 1920's laundromat. And yet without so much as a posted notice, an excavator started digging into the side of the White House.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

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Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

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i really hate when we talk about books like they're shopping lists of tropes

we need Universal Basic Dorm Bong Sessions so that people don't feel the need to inflict takes like this on national politics

Fun way to expand the Senate?

Actually just occurred to me that those of us who worked at Al Jazeera America — a hugely expensive boondoggle backed by an authoritarian regime that thought it could have it both ways — are uniquely well positioned to predict the future of CBS News.

That's a new one! It would make for a decent sci-fi backstory. Sci-fi losses plausibility when super advanced space travel is being conducted by only slightly advanced or less than modern computing. The apocalypse destroying the source info and leaving us with these flaky LLMs is a fun conceit.

My e-bike has turned my hilly suburban East Richmond area into a 15-minute neighborhood. Post office, hardware store, 3+ groceries, Kaiser, gym, waterfront all in easy reach for this creaky 74 yo.

We should do cap and trade for takes on here. I would happily sell off my right to participate in Swift discourse for a few more shots on goal about burrito taxis. Really force people to lock in, clear out the amateurs on any given subject.

Unwinder @unwinder.bsky.social Generative Al has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up May 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM

Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors. June 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM

paddle @ipaddlearound david attenborough: [mumbling] skip. i dont like this animal. skip it. 12:32 AM • Jun 25, 2023

Climate advocacy should focus more on the hard problems We need technical solutions on steel, cement, agriculture, and more.

Climate funders should be more focused on the unsolved technical problems

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I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Yellow venomous. Purple quenches thirst.

Nobody ever refers to a detached single family house with a garage and a yard as “luxury,” despite it being an order of magnitude more luxurious than ~98% of apartments.

8 and 9 year olds are terrible at soccer, even relative to other 8 and 9 year olds. It's an abomination.

Anyway good effort kids there are Capri Suns in the cooler there, don't touch the cans, those are for the adults who have to watch you play another half.

Is the agenda he's pushing directly inferable from that quote (make Europe less reliant on the US by increasing defense spending), or is there something deeper than that?

That last line is one of the absolute single scariest things to me and that it was said with such casual happiness is even more disturbing.

Not distressing.

Full tilt disturbing.

Put that last line on humanity’s tombstone.