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Walter Hickey

@walthickey.bsky.social

Executive Editor @sherwood.news, book whatyou.watch, writer numlock.com. Previously FiveThirtyEight and Business Insider. Pulitzer Prize winner.

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Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

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genie's out of that bottle. we may come to miss the times when this was an assumed pretense of global conflict.

28.02.2026 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

was a real delight gaming out this incredibly consequential Oscars weekend out with the brilliant @kn8.bsky.social, who I think is among the best in the game at awards season coverage

www.vulture.com/article/this...

28.02.2026 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Navy’s Newest Aircraft Carrier Heads to Mideast as It Fixes Nagging Problems

πŸ‘€ "To keep the Ford’s catapults in operation, the Navy has cannibalized parts from the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy, a Ford-class carrier that is still under construction," @johnismay.bsky.social reports www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

27.02.2026 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Unlikely Wins and Comped Spins: Inside Stake’s Empire Crypto casino Stake pays Drake and other stars to bet, spreading clips of big wins to impressionable gamblers. The numbers show unusual luck is at work.

this is fascinating www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

27.02.2026 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

lol man, talk about an organization with no principles, a weathervane has more of a sense of direction than BSA the last 20 years

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Hyperion, The Terror, Summer of Night all absolutely legendary. Simmons himself got driven crazy by 9/11 but I think his best work would still hold up.

27.02.2026 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

well Plane Guys are inherently ridiculous

26.02.2026 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Painting Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Painting

For anyone who read this comic we DID get to the bottom of it. The answer was it was a racist pornographic drawing frequently xeroxed and otherwise duplicated in the 70s and 80s. Eyyyyyy www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-pa...

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Former Senator Bob Kerrey Resigns From Nebraska Start-Up Amid Epstein Emails

Everyone's like "former U.S. senator" and "energy company official" Bob Kerrey, but real nerds are like "9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

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How many people can you cram into one gym? For Planet Fitness, the jury’s still out The limit does not exist. But if it did, it might be about 7,263....

The limit does not exist. But if it did, it might be about 7,263.
https://sherwood.news/business/how-many-people-can-you-cram-into-one-gym-for-planet-fitness-the-jurys-still/

25.02.2026 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

LFG πŸš€

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www.thechatner.com/p/signs-your...

24.02.2026 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

we're in the papes!

24.02.2026 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

got into it a little while ago after youtube shorts realized I will watch literally any video of Richard Harris telling a funny story about being a massive drunk with Peter O'Toole

24.02.2026 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ABC’s β€˜The Rookie’ to Crossover With Dropout’s β€˜Game Changer’ in March Episode It's the crossover no one knew they needed: ABC's "The Rookie" will air an episode "prominently" featuring the cast of Dropout's "Game Changer."

omg variety.com/2026/tv/news...

24.02.2026 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah, probably time for these to head back to theaters

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani is again flooding the airwaves and social media with snappy videos of himself in a custom Carhartt jacket, warning New Yorkers to stay safe. He is again holding news conferences at the city’s emergency operations headquarters, surrounded by top aides in outerwear bearing agency emblems. And he is again at the helm of a government operation that, by virtue of its complexity and general unwieldiness, can lend itself to people falling through the cracks.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is again flooding the airwaves and social media with snappy videos of himself in a custom Carhartt jacket, warning New Yorkers to stay safe. He is again holding news conferences at the city’s emergency operations headquarters, surrounded by top aides in outerwear bearing agency emblems. And he is again at the helm of a government operation that, by virtue of its complexity and general unwieldiness, can lend itself to people falling through the cracks.

The tone of contempt here, in a news update, is disgraceful. "How dare Mamdani and his team...uh...wear those clothes and use social media to try to prevent bad things from happening when...um...bad things could still happen in a situation like this!" GTFO.

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do cher and andy garcia’s prequel. the revolution described in Fernando. it’ll be Andor for Evelyn Normielib. a billion domestic.

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Like there’s a certain β€œI always knew Workday was shit” confirmation bias one can share freely that one simply could not express when these names were doubling in 2023.

23.02.2026 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

How much of a supporting factor in the software selloff is the idea that white-collar workers are all vaguely familiar with these companies, and know that they have high multiples, high recurring revenues, high margins, and offerings we really didn’t like?

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Trump’s Challenge to Free Market Capitalism

Stakes in private companies. Handshake deals with CEOs. President Trump's economic policies are a long way from the principles that once defined the Republican Party.
I grappled with how we should understand his policies -- and what will come after him.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/b... #EconSky

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Nancy 2/22/26… πŸͺ±WOIMSπŸͺ±

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Hey artists! QRP with your sketch vs final!

23.02.2026 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 130    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 11

You can do what you want.

But the logic for staying on Twitter is insane, some form of Gell-Mann Amnesia: Everyone else's posts are obviously besotted in apartheid-forward engagement bots, but MY posts are clearly unaffected, because they're beautiful and perfect. Again, do you, but I'm all set.

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yeah but... gold

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