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@rockshrimp.bsky.social

Cynical idealist, unreliable narrator. Half kvetching about people, half sports, half music, half pop culture, half politics, etc. not representative of any employer. #NYisBlue. Posting is a form of stimming. I swear a lot.

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screenshot from an test for camouflaging autistic traits with a total score of 131
Compensation: 40
Masking: 52
Assimilation: 39

screenshot from an test for camouflaging autistic traits with a total score of 131 Compensation: 40 Masking: 52 Assimilation: 39

it says the avg score for an autistic female is 124.35 so I think that means I get an A. embrace-autism.com/cat-q/#test

04.03.2026 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

when I say I need you to summarize what you did in a few bullets on a slide, I don't mean send me the 100+ page change logs.

04.03.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

one of these days when someone asks me for to explain something for them I'm just going to send them a link to the dictionary and see how helpful they think it is.

04.03.2026 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

and if all goes well, they'll send to you to kill your friend and family in Minnesota and Maine and...

04.03.2026 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh good, we've gone from speedrunning the 20th century to running it in reverse.

04.03.2026 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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To Cut Housing Costs, Some States Are Easing Fire Safety Rules

You have got to be kidding me www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b...

04.03.2026 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

is his accent a put on?

04.03.2026 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like when gambling was illegal the people running it had stronger ethics

04.03.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Prediction markets are worthless as news and should be illegal www.burnsnotice.com/the-iran-war...

04.03.2026 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

as depicted in the documentary Newsies.

04.03.2026 15:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why the Debut Issue of America's First Newspaper Was Also the Publication's Last On this day in 1690, "Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick" attracted colonial officials' ire by repeating a scandalous rumor and condemning a British alliance with the Mohawk

someone just said in my mentions that the news is supposed to be boring. publick occurrences was the first newspaper ever published in america. it included a story accusing the king of france of having sex with his son's wife.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...

04.03.2026 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

is it that they drink Topo Chico?

04.03.2026 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

what happens if it's a 4 way race in Nov?

04.03.2026 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

lmao

www.generationtechblog.com/p/non-hetero...

04.03.2026 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

A more apt description of the Mar-a-Lago administration has never been written.

04.03.2026 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 361    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

β€œEllis, a registered nurse who is Haitian-American, said she is outraged and called for an investigation into Damas' death, which she said came weeks after the man first complained of tooth pain to Florence staff.

'Nobody should die from a toothache,’ Ellis said. 'Something has to be done.’”

04.03.2026 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 140    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

one of the best Behind the Bastards Episodes btw

04.03.2026 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s definitely a history to be written of right wing, carnival barker inventor weirdos. bsky.app/profile/seth...

04.03.2026 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

every once in a while I'm like... oh hello meds, why are you so much more effective today?

04.03.2026 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
04.03.2026 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Greg Dolezal taking some broad swings in his ad for Lt. Gov. of Georgia. Holy shit…

www.facebook.com/share/v/18TM...

(Only including the link for people who even after watching it can’t believe this is real.)

04.03.2026 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 249    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 118

I would like to go back to before the guy with a gambling problem was right that ONE TIME.

04.03.2026 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was a nerd with a copy of Total Baseball in the 90s and I've seen enough: sabermatics was a mistake if only for how bad ubiquitous stats deployment has become.

"Political WAR" is nonsense. You have no way of calculating R and W is singular in a one-off election. What the heck are you measuring?

04.03.2026 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very oftenβ€”and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

04.03.2026 04:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7614    πŸ” 2288    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 95

A lot of companies are currently run by people who don't care where the company is in 10 years, let alone 100 years. Their goal is to make money quick, cash out, and move on. Worse, we have people trying to run countries like that too.

04.03.2026 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Even Henry Ford understood this, and he was an asshole.

04.03.2026 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Your periodic reminder that β€œIsrael’s government” and β€œthe Jews” aren’t synonymous.

04.03.2026 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 889    πŸ” 155    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 5

Superb.

04.03.2026 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking at the TX turnout numbers - seems like investing over the long term to build a deep, diverse bench of authentic values-driven leaders who can effectively communicate pays off big time. Really proud of every @runforsomething.net candidate and alum on the ballot yesterday.

04.03.2026 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 188    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

seems bad

04.03.2026 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0