PMC Vanguardist
@tylerboschert.bsky.social
Patent attorney in Denver (views solely my own). Liberal. Erstwhile Rockies fan. He/him. Uphold Pee Wee Reese Thought: if you can take my job, you're entitled to it.
if this shit is true, aoc has gone totally soft in the head. Fuck this is stupid
assuming they had the gear, abraham lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai
Austria and Australia are both named for a cardinal direction, but not the same cardinal direction.
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · yesterdayTell me a fun fact.
They won Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammys for "We Are Young."
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · yesterdayTell me a fun fact.
Petter Hellström@nphellstrom.bsky.social · yesterdayThe United Nations has voted to formally phase out the #Mercator #map of the globe in favour of one that more accurately displays the relative size of #Africa. 164 countries voted in favour of the resolution. Only the US voted no There were six abstentions.
There is a reason that the Federalist Society offers the best free lunch events at every law school in this country.
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d agoAn example of how ‘money in politics’ actually works is that the Koch Bros org at APSA has one of the most generous open bars and can’t wait to talk to you about funding opportunities. It’s not sacks of money in bags to politicians.
so far the counterargument to this is "Arthur Laffer was/is wrong about his policy prescriptions and/or a dick, so why should we give him credit for anything," and the answer is "do you want universal health care or not"
PMC Vanguardist@tylerboschert.bsky.social · 2d agoThe left is going to have to start by admitting that the Laffer curve is real.
We should talk about Ibn Khaldun more tbh
me and you: we, the people speaking here, will be the ones paying for a welfare state, and we should absolutely tax us more to do that, we just shouldn’t claim we’re not going to do that people who claim they’re incredibly poor: you are against the poor
The left is going to have to start by admitting that the Laffer curve is real.
Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹@snarkranger.bsky.social · 3d agoThe reason the left needs to embrace this thought is that the only way to pay for Nordic-style social democracy in America is to raise broad-based taxes across the board, and we'll never be able to do that if we operate under an ideological principle that almost everyone in America is poor.
we will have a new Harry Potter series exactly every 25 years until Joanne Rowling is dead (certain, eventually) or the craven media execs doing her bidding actually manage to find actors who are both talented and virulently transphobic enough to satisfy her (literally impossible)
Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 4d agothere was obviously no creative impetus to making a new Harry Potter but the extent to which they are not even trying to make this look different from the movies is kind of astonishing
I would give magnetic resonance imaging its true, correct, and original name: *nuclear* magnetic resonance imaging.
darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 3d agoif u could rename one thing what might it be
He also once wrote "A flute with no holes is not a flute, and a donut with no hole is a Danish." Funny guy.
The Baffler@thebaffler.com · 4d agoThe poet Matsuo Bashō spent much of his life on the road. @robrubsam.bsky.social writes on his travelogue, “The Narrow Road of Oku,” the power of which remains undimmed even more than three hundred years after its original composition.
one of my dumber shitpost opinions (that i actually believe) is that AI will usher in the total vindication of tom smykowski
I am in so much pain
David Ornstein@david-ornstein.bsky.social · 4d ago🚨 Folarin Balogun transfer from Monaco to Everton off. Deal for 25yo #ASMonaco striker renegotiated after issues during medical & deal sheet submitted; but USA international decided not to proceed + left #EFC training ground without signing @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/755...
look, if nobody else who was a Disney Channel adolescent boy in the late '90s/early '00s is brave enough to say it, then I will: there is a substantial cohort of straight millennial men in this country who remember nothing about that movie other than Sarah Jessica Parker's outfit
Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 4d agoI watched Hocus Pocus for the first time as an adult and I am not afraid to say it is a genuinely bad movie, even by the standards of movies for kids
"What big naturals you have!" said Little Red Riding Hood. "Minors DNI," said the Big Bad Wolf.
My mom would always listen to the radio in the morning while getting ready for work. After the first plane hit, she turned it up and listened more closely. It was when the second plane hit that she turned on the TV.
Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4d agoHistory says the 9/11 attacks began at 8:46 a.m.—but that's not how most, from NYC officeworkers to the President, experienced it. Instead, the "attack" begins at 9:03, when we saw the second plane strike. I wrote abt the fascinating 17 minutes in between: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/grap...
You aren't some vanguard revolutionary. You're a sadistic little twerp who's never seen violence up close.
it might save us all a lot of time if the pizza cutter leftists on this website would just give us a list of the types of job one can have that *don't* make you homo sacer
it has taken me a long time to internalize that there are people who don't just . . . remember how many days each month has
Tim Price@timprice.bsky.social · 6d ago"30 days has September..." clears all other rhymes for me in terms of usefulness well into my adult life. It's pretty much my only source of information about the calendar
Online mutual aid dares to ask “what if charity was distributed according to the recipients’ ability to accumulate clout and perform abjection on English language social media?”
have you ever attempted to plan a group dinner in a city none of you live in? this is how I know that 9/11 was not an inside job.
PadRock@padrock.bsky.social · last wk.First imagine any group project you’ve ever done…