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@08mms.bsky.social

M&A Lawyer, Semi-Stereotypical Dad, Michigan Wolverine, National History Day - Michigan Regional Runner Up (2000)

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Legitimately, is our admin all Epstien’s machine and Trump pulled a mob capo coup and ousted him to take it over?

13.02.2026 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you can based on your state (IL is included) opt out now: www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-...

13.02.2026 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Exactly, we have great prisons for our wayward citizens, the best in the world some say.

12.02.2026 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sigh, has someone made a poster of Will Stancil on one of the Soviet propaganda posters?

12.02.2026 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Same, the best part of oysters is the brineyness, and replacing that with earth undertones didn’t really do it for me. I wouldnt avoid them, but not something if go out of the way to order.

12.02.2026 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lansing Catholic apologizes for photo of students in KKK garb performing Nazi salute The 1978 yearbook photo from a Halloween assembly was taken down around 10:30 a.m. Thursday. A member of the school's social media team is on administrative leave.

Also notable for having a huge fight with the administration who tried to punish athlete for kneeling down during the BLM protests, and for stuff like this…. www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...

12.02.2026 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cooper Rush, backup QB extraordinaire and that is about it. I went to college with one of the Vander Jagt clan and he was a charismatic blonde square jawed Dutchman rugby player who was also dumb as a brick and unable of realizing when people were mocking him.

12.02.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is there anything in the files yet that shows what type of β€œtax advice” he was giving? Some very credible people who hire only the most expensive advisors went to him ostensibly for that, and he does not remotely have the credentials of a bona fide advisor.

12.02.2026 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s wild every time I go back to the Silmarion that Tolkien wrote fan fiction about his own books, more authors need to do that.

12.02.2026 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed, I have folks Ifollow on Patreon or old school newsletters, but Substack gives me enough pause I usually decide it’s just not worth it. Not dissimilar to how, even if you could keep a decent walled garden on X, enough garbage people would still leak in to not make you want to open the app.

12.02.2026 04:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But only if they are 4s, 2s, 0s, 6s or 9s

12.02.2026 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wasn’t there a β€œMarshall of the Supreme Court” character back from that group too at one point?

11.02.2026 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

TBF, it’s slightly less crazy than following whoever that goofy English professor from the northeast who’d make grandiose claims about how Trump was going to jail any day now for the first term

11.02.2026 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

These shadow hearings are such a good idea, news will come to these the same way they will regular hearings and it makes the case viscerally they will do more of this if you elect them.

11.02.2026 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s kind of nice to have high profile reminders of why our system has some of the structural protections it does, although I wish there was less applied civics with national import

11.02.2026 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I am going to go run through a brick wall now (head first which is my right as a Scotsman)

11.02.2026 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
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Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

10.02.2026 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4576    πŸ” 1322    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 305

I was optimistic it would at least be useful for charts, but tried some pretty basic gant charts with it and spent more time fine tuning the prompt to get something that still wasn’t quite right than just sketching it up direct.

11.02.2026 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The tech itself has a lot of potential, but needs far more accuracy to work for substantive stuff or tailoring to work for nonsubstantive stuff. I assume the usual suspects of industry tech players will roll out the later in the next couple years, and the former will be much longer.

11.02.2026 04:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our senior leadership criticized the 40% of people who don’t regularly use ChatGPT and the 20% who have never logged in, I’ve been a tech early adopter my whole life but have yet to find a use case for what I do that makes sense.

11.02.2026 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Get in losers we’re doing central planning without the planning

11.02.2026 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2002    πŸ” 371    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 13

Central faffing about

11.02.2026 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jeffries is not generally the communicator the party needs, but has shown up to be a pretty good parliamentarian and legislative tactician

11.02.2026 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d make an Ohio State joke, but I know plenty of good people who are OSU alumni are going to be angrier than I ever could be at this and I wish them luck in pushing for throwing all the bums in the admin out.

10.02.2026 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, going to some thought in how to create a betting market MSR so I can make a fortune

10.02.2026 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Will polymarket let me securitize the risky tranches of my bets on bets on bets itself, or do we need another market to handle that?

10.02.2026 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Cheated on her 3 months into a 6 month relationship even though she was the love of his life. πŸ™„

10.02.2026 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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10.02.2026 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Understand we are slaying larger dragons the next 2-4 years, but if we make it to the other side, we need to really inflict political pain on the folks who confirmed so many manifestly unfit presidential officials to make senators think more critically going forward.

10.02.2026 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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