@lemonsnark.bsky.social
Here for snark, also likes lemonsharks. Reads a lot. Hates fascists and nazis.
I'm firing my bathroom scale until it starts giving me better numbers.
02.08.2025 14:13 — 👍 159 🔁 16 💬 8 📌 2
Timeline cleanse.
28.07.2025 08:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Americanists in my PhD program used to joke that their entire subfield of political science could be summarized as "we haven't really learned anything distinctly American about politics since Tocqueville."
In this case, see Democracy in America, Chapter XVI, Part I.
bsky.app/profile/exil...
Hi! Former VC lawyer and certified political economist here.
This is 100% true - university research subsidized by the federal gov't is directly or indirectly the foundation of most tech startups.
Destroy the federal funding or the universities and it all falls apart.
bsky.app/profile/adam...
Pea guacamole is not a thing.
07.07.2025 11:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We can send them all to work on the fields then
05.07.2025 03:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Using crypto to commit securities fraud. A tale as old as time.
03.07.2025 05:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They had to get native born republicans build it so…
02.07.2025 15:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yup, Putin has that playbook.
02.07.2025 12:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🚫 What’s being cut:
– NIH: –$19.5B
– CDC: –$4B
– Cancer research: –$3.1B
– SNAP: –$30B
– Education: –$12B
💰 What’s being funded:
– ICE detention: +$45B
– Tax cuts for the wealthy: +$4.5T over 10 years
This is the trade.
Is it too early to call the Mamdani administration a disappointment?
25.06.2025 01:55 — 👍 1383 🔁 106 💬 30 📌 6I’d prefer a Dr. Onion myself, but lacking that, I will follow Tim
23.06.2025 19:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
22.06.2025 00:47 — 👍 62855 🔁 14096 💬 813 📌 572No they didn’t.
15.06.2025 01:08 — 👍 4768 🔁 378 💬 148 📌 15
Red and blue artistic rendering of skater flipping off ice
They posted this soon after 👍
08.06.2025 00:46 — 👍 48 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0Is it time to secede yet?
07.06.2025 23:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Did we really need 7000 words describing the dude bro
03.06.2025 00:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Too many words wasted on this
03.06.2025 00:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I never realized the meaning of cursive
01.06.2025 21:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0technically it's a polyghoul
29.05.2025 02:37 — 👍 4674 🔁 647 💬 132 📌 81This checks out. Soviet technology was generally glitchy, but sometimes they would produce an indestructible miracle. We had this television that was produced I think in the early 60s and it was still working in early 2000s and I think it’s antennas were catching satellite transmissions.
20.05.2025 02:39 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Timeline cleanse
20.05.2025 01:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0He is an asshole
14.05.2025 17:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Qatar giving Trump a $400 million plane "raises ethical concerns" says major media, in the same way as Jimmy Carter's death last year raises concerns about whether he will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2028
12.05.2025 12:23 — 👍 674 🔁 107 💬 13 📌 10I don’t see this at all…
11.05.2025 13:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sounds kinky
08.05.2025 02:07 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Das Bot - sounds fascinating. A German thriller about botfarms?
03.05.2025 19:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think they have a lot to learn yet from Civil War reenactors
03.05.2025 00:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0well, I hear more feedback from truck drivers who are losing their jobs because of the collapse of the China trade
29.04.2025 14:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What could go wrong
28.04.2025 19:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
