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05.11.2025 05:22 β π 56892 π 6806 π¬ 647 π 228@corpsband.bsky.social
Data Science student; Pittsburgher. Between bouts of existential dread, I spend an inordinate amount of time getting really upset about cars, poor land use, Ukraine, and climate change/sustainability.
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05.11.2025 05:22 β π 56892 π 6806 π¬ 647 π 228TED talks are just stage-performed LinkedIn posts.
28.10.2025 13:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Someone should do a segment where they ask a pundit to defend several DHS posts, but sneak a couple examples of posts from known neo-nazis just to watch them spin those.
24.10.2025 14:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Even if you included the now demolished east wing, the ballroom would be 23k sq ft bigger (if it is the 90k sq ft they said it will be a while back)
23.10.2025 18:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Imagine a CEO laying off a bunch of people and then giving himself a bonus by suing his own company and then immediately settling the lawsuit in his own favor.
Except youβre the people and itβs your money, and youβre technically his boss.
Cyberpunk world where the neon aesthetic is the result of a runaway series of pedestrian safety initiatives.
16.10.2025 12:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Least important observation in the United States right now but whatever happened to naming things like AmRx or USRx.
30.09.2025 19:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. Itβs ridiculous.
30.09.2025 14:57 β π 11965 π 3135 π¬ 243 π 167βWe are under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but worseβthey donβt wear a uniform.β
This is the President of the United States, who ordered the entire leadership of our military to sit and listen to him, speaking a few minutes ago.
Deploying our superb armed forces on American soil, in peacetime, against Americans, is an illegal and unspeakable perversion of our men and women in uniform.
Military rule will bring profound and lasting harm to all of us. Conservative and Liberal Americans reject it. We the people reject it.
Local News Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'
I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...
28.09.2025 23:20 β π 9423 π 2103 π¬ 376 π 396Like why is the speaker being interrupted by your random coughing.
Why is this meeting being disrupted by your dog.
I will become the joker.
Leaving yourself unmuted in a Zoom meeting with 87 people is a form of violence against me personally.
19.09.2025 13:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Luckily this regime is known for precision, restraint, and caution with who they target.
15.09.2025 20:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's kinda remarkable we can live in such hyper partisan polarized times yet a key vector of political violence be nonpartisan (but still generally right wing) nihilist political violence
12.09.2025 16:16 β π 400 π 46 π¬ 16 π 8what was the point of any of this pain
12.09.2025 14:33 β π 141 π 9 π¬ 8 π 0I thought for a while that waiting 3 weeks just to get rejected was the worst.
But it turns out itβs waaaay worse to get rejected 48hr after applying.
JD Vance said he doesnβt care if the US commits war crimes. Did it make the news?
Donald Trump said heβs declaring war on Chicago. Did it make the news?
Executive agencies keep posting Nazi blood-and-soil propaganda. Did it make the news?
Hot take: You can be heterosexual, handsome, wear Ralph Lauren, and not be a Nazi all at the same time.
28.08.2025 15:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0this stuff breaks you down the longer you stare into it, primarily because you can see the nihilism in the act infect discourse and the social fabric around you
i have cried today
Like, how is βbelow a livable wageβ not the bottom grade for a place that near-exclusively hires people with college degrees.
27.08.2025 19:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If βgrade 6β of your pay scale contains a monthly salary that would not allow a person to qualify for any apartment in the city that your company is in, then you need to really consider what is happening to people in grades 1-5.
27.08.2025 19:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0βBy the end of the year I hope to have done exactly enough work to represent the fact that my salary would mean homelessness for me if it wasnβt for my wifeβ
27.08.2025 19:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My role simply has no broader application beyond just βcontinue doing my job as described.β
What goals? βBe even more supportive of students by smiling bigger.β βRespond to emails even faster.β
I think the biggest indicator that I have done all I can do/desire to do at my current job is that I spent days struggling to come up with a single goal for my annual performance review, and now 2 months later I have achieved that goal.
27.08.2025 19:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
27.08.2025 18:42 β π 20660 π 6706 π¬ 228 π 183βOh then I guess Iβm fascistβ is truly what you often get when you confront people with the reality of it.
25.08.2025 17:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Needless. Fund SEPTA
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