Sam Bergman

"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question

Me proceeding from sentence one to sentence two:

SOMEONE TEXT HER

This was the best Stu'sletter yet. Really improved my lunch hour!

Minnesota Counties, Ranked: Number 84, Wright County Subscribe! OVERVIEW: Now just wait a goldang minute, you might be saying. Up to this point, you've been whacking tiny, far-flung outstate counties like a pinata. No one lives out there. Nice statues...

In today's Midwest Excellence, the Jagoff Penalty knocks bucolic and thriving Wright County all the way down to number 84 in our rankings.

I think the Word grammar checker got kicked in the head by a mule at some point recently.

To be clear - this means 7.6 million more of our neighbors, our friends, our coworkers, our parishioners, our community that will not be able to get the medical care they need. This does not mean that magically they’re making more money and don’t qualify anymore

leveraged, partnered, advanced, precise — somehow even more grotesque when the numbed, bullshit jargon of corporate marketing, already nihilistic, is transposed into the domain of state murder

AI could not do my job because I have a real job where you actually have to do things

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Nooooooo

Given Trump II's declared preferences on who it would like to see heading govts in Europe, it's very short-sighted of incumbent European leaders to fall in line or look the other way as the US asserts the right to select the heads of govt in Venezuela, Cuba and Iran.

Okay, but that is Mike Huckabee

This is the funniest shit ever , they come over here, get the red carpet treatment from the Stephen Miller squad, contribute nothing and complain about how awful American social services are, and the trump White House is like ah yes model resident, good stuff keep it up

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

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NWS: So look out for some nasty icy sleet in Cheshire County.

Us: got it, thanks

NWS: Also western Hillsborough County

Us: that makes sense, sure

NWS: And, uh, central Hillsborough

Us: ......OK. But not eas...

NWS: you're not gonna believe this

My dad's dad worked in a factory for 45 years, I think. My mom's dad was in the army in WWII, got into very early computing stuff in the '50s at IBM, and eventually did management/computer work at Tennant.

Glad to hear it.

Jesus. I hope everyone around (and above) you at work is taking the correct approach to this. Stay safe.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.so... • 3h Who got us into "a situation like this?" Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com • 4h Comer on "boots on the ground" in Iran: "Sometimes that's unavoidable in a situation like this"

Sometimes one can only look at a post and marvel.

say what you will about bluesky, it has unquestionably become the platform party elites will accuse of Not Mattering, which was twitter's label for most of the 10's

Once you start to see how many obvious answers unfurl themselves when you begin your analysis from "now how would this new development benefit white people and white supremacy *if that were the goal*?", it sure starts to look like the correct formulation for at least *most* questions.

In re: LRT, there are people who share some of my politics who love to say that you can't reduce every political question in America to race. That's probably correct in a technical sense, but I think it misses a much larger point about how our political systems and power structures are set up here.

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The largest daily newspaper in Israel published an opinion piece by someone arguing for the total redrawing of the Middle Eastern borders— first by dismantling Lebanon and Syria and reconstituting them into half a dozen or more smaller, ethnic statelets.

The NFL is doing more at the NHL trade deadline than the entire NHL

If you’ve arrived at the “doctors do medicine for money and therefore can’t be trusted” stage of your theory, they should take the sharp objects out of your house

this is why I got into Black feminist theory. the research on sexual violence was VERY white when I first started researching like 15-20 years ago. in the West, gender is VERY racialized

This is weirdly consistent for The Atlantic! Jesse Singal's 2018 article about kids being rushed into transition starts with an anecdote about someone *not* being rushed into transition. Literally nothing happened!

There is no other issue in prestige media that has editorial standards this low.

Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s recent efforts to woo centre-ground voters may cause tension in party’s right flank, says Hope Not Hate

The term for that is White supremacy and any coverage of Reform that does not include that term is complicit in whitewashing White supremacy. Sometimes things really are that simple.

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