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David Colborne
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Opinion columnist for The Nevada Independent. Your home is where your cat lives. @wendycolborne.bsky.social wife guy. Manages IT people on the side (full time). 🧵: davidcolbornenv 🐘: @dcolborne@techhub.social 📖🪱: @dcolborne@bookwyrm.social 🚦: dcolborne.64
The thing about using slop flyers for advertising is that there’s no way to visually differentiate between a lemonade stand, a BBQ joint, a car wash, and a laundromat. They all look exactly the same and from a branding perspective that’s bad, actually
Doctors say that you should eat a balanced diet that includes whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seat seats and doesn’t wipe his ass says you should subsist entirely on sauerkraut and steak. For a busy eaters it can be hard to know who to trust.
Imagine paying BMW money to get treated like you're watching YouTube without logging in first.
This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.
Will nobody think of the ::copies & pastes:: Neocallimastigomycota???
Neocallimastigomycota arguably are almost as economically important as yeast due to their impact on ruminant livestock and yet we never think about them as much
Mr. Potter was right. The Savings & Loan was so irresponsible it was teetering on the edge of insolvency from a single missed deposit even as the postwar boom was taking off. Bailey is a subprime loan shark and Potter would have prevented the global financial crisis.
Name a villain who was actually right.
Once you're kicking out the Germans and Irish, the old stock WASP "heritage American" population is... what, 10%? If that, after it's all been so thoroughly blended into generic American white.
That's right!
OPINION by David Colborne: Papers, please — the SAVE America Act threatens to wreck Nevada’s elections with burdensome ID requirements. It’s bad for voters, bad for election officials and bad for democracy. thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
OPINION: The SAVE America Act will destroy Nevada's elections - The Nevada Independent
OPINION: The SAVE America Act will destroy Nevada’s elections. Read more at The Nevada Independent.
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The SAVE America Act is a legislative catastrophe. It requires Nevada voters to carry ID cards that don't currently exist, prove their citizenship using documents that aren't easy to amend after a marriage, and lets anyone sue election officials personally. My latest for @thenvindy.com:
OPINION: The SAVE America Act will destroy Nevada's elections - The Nevada Independent
OPINION: The SAVE America Act will destroy Nevada’s elections. Read more at The Nevada Independent.
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Note to self: Keep a pre-downloaded playlist of Disney songs and a copy of the Principia Discordia on my phone for... emergencies. And maybe keep a small Bluetooth speaker in my laptop bag as well.
Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
as a society we are well past due in establishing No Content Zones where making shit for tiktok is explicitly forbidden
Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...
OPINION by David Colborne: The SAVE America Act will destroy Nevada’s elections. It requires forms of ID our state doesn’t even use — and allows partisan meddlers to muck up elections with frivolous lawsuits. thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...
OPINION: The SAVE America Act will destroy Nevada's elections - The Nevada Independent
OPINION: The SAVE America Act will destroy Nevada’s elections. Read more at The Nevada Independent.
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Yeah anyone recording you without your knowledge or consent is not your friend and framing them as such is an attempt at manufacturing consent for a suite of behaviors and a technosocial paradigm these people Know is wrong and are trying to justify to themselves. This is predator behavior.
Definitionally, these are not “friends.”
“food for thought” buddy my thoughts don’t need any food at all. been trying to starve them fuckers for years and they still keep doing the thing
In a slightly saner era, Tucker Carlson gave a speech at CPAC arguing conservative media should seek to do solid original reporting like the NYT. A woman stood up to object: “You claim the Times does good journalism, but I see them issue corrections every day!”
The core of the right-wing information universe is that one correction from a mainstream outlet proves it can’t be trusted and that one accurate claim in a flurry of false ones proves that they must be.
Galactic: Democrats would be libertarians in Antarctica
Broke: Democrats would be right wing in Europe Woke: Democrats would be centre-left in Europe Bespoke: Democratic Party (EPP/RE/G-EFA/S&D/GUE-NGL)
If Reno had more data centers, NV Energy would have enough money to keep the lights on.
Thousands lose power across Washoe County, leaving parts of Reno dark
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The CDC doesn't want you to vaccinate your pets anymore lest they catch feral autism or whatever, but do it anyway.
The Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA) is reminding residents to protect themselves and their pets against rabies following the confirmation of the disease in bats in Nevada. The NDA Animal Disease Laboratory confirms rabies in multiple bats from across the state every year.
Contrary to the opinion of the chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party, there are Black people in Nevada, too — and they vote.
Absolutely bonkers quote from the chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party about the order of Democratic presidential primaries. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption
NEW: As cyclosporiasis cases jumped, the company linked to the outbreak - Taylor Farms - effectively delayed a recall that mounted in consumer confusion. Gift link for @business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The SAVE America Act mandates that all voters must bring to the polls specifically a photo ID which has proof of citizenship “on the front of the document.” So REAL IDs don’t count. If the ID does not precisely conform to that standard, you must also bring separate proof of citizenship.
Scalise: "Anybody that gets on an airplane has to show a picture ID to vote. Nowadays, if you want to go to Olive Garden and get unlimited pasta, you gotta show a picture ID. This isn't complicated stuff."
Nixon was mid Agnewgooning when Woodward and Bernstein came and spiked his cortisol levels 😭 Is ignoring the WaPoids while munting and mogging Republicoids more useful than EV votefishing in the Watergate Hotel?
The kids are “Nixonmaxxing”: More than half-a-century after Watergate, conservative youth are discovering the aesthetic, and adopting the attitude, of the late president. 🔗 www.wsj.com/politics/ric...
it's funny how it's considered just a little bit coarse and unrespectable to be focused on current and extant threats instead of trying to get grant money to sit around and think about how computer demons will eat us if we're not nicer to brine shrimp