Uncle Runt 🦺
@tradierunt.bsky.social
36, tired. Yer uncle that lives on the bad side of town. Actual idiot. Best described as squandering potential. Im still proud of ya champ. Follow for halfbaked political opinions, thirst traps, and beekeeping nonsense
This is gonna sound unfathomably arrogant but I think I could do every current cabinet secretary’s job better than it is currently being done
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h agoEvery military leader since antiquity: wars are won by logistics hegseth: you win wars when military look like fitness influencers
One important way of doing this is going to be shrinking our global military footprint in a big way. Which brings me to my proposal: end CENTCOM's entire presence within the first 100 days.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 14h agoI know it sucks, but Dems have got to be prepared to inherit a munitions-and-readiness hole that is going to be expensive to fill, but which will need to be filled. Hardly the only such hole, but it will be a big one.
Finally got my Six Sigma Green Belt cert aligned with my works internal process improvement leadership framework and as I type this I want to get original recipe four lokos, some cowboy killers and black out listening to Stereo Love and sleeping in the back of a truck under the stars in Palm Springs
Whenever one of these freaks goes off on a tangent about their trans conspiracy of the day, the proper response -- from an interviewer or anyone else -- is "well, it seems like you're having some sort of mental breakdown here, so we'll wrap it up"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoRoyce White is now ranting about "transgender sex dolls" during a forum that is supposed to be about agricultural issues. This guy is a serious Republican in Minnesota who had the party's nomination for a Senate seat two years ago. Insanity.
Misery loves company and social media will pull you until you are miserable like the other power users.
I think a lot of this idiot discourse is underpinned by not understanding the function a NOTAM is supposed to serve and the responsibility any aviator has to review and be familiar with all NOTAMs pertaining to anywhere along their planned flight route
AIPAC is such a name-brand bogeyman but can we finally agree that they clearly don't know the first thing about what to do with their donors' money
if you aren't able to safely operate an aircraft without GPS you shouldn't have a license
It’s so cool to elect republicans and use ballot initiatives to overturn all their policy
Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · yesterdayMissouri Republicans have relentlessly tried to destroy ballot initiatives after voters used them to protect abortion rights, legalize weed, raise the minimum wage, and reform redistricting. They are currently sabotaging a veto referendum that should have suspended the GOP's new House gerrymander
Never get over the fact this was an actual campaign design. Like I get he couldn't color it red but the spicy ketchup isn't even good.
there's a lot of people across the political spectrum who simply cannot process the fact that ethnicity is a social construct, that many ethnicities did not exist within the lifetime of living people, and that nevertheless ethnicity is an extremely real thing that ppl will kill or die for
Pseudotsuga@pseudotsuga86.bsky.social · yesterdayI think it's both true that Israel is a colonial project that continues to engage in colonialism and that Israeli identity is in fact a real thing. The notion that without Israel all the Israelis would embrace their true wholesome identity as Europeans or Arabs or whatever is complete lunacy
Trying out the Ansley Mall LA Fitness... This gym is kinda ass.
oh hey we're doing degenerate Jewish art but leftishly.
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago
finally bringing bluesky to parity with the a star is born press tour
Bluesky@bsky.app · 2d agoUpdate: group chats can now host up to 100 members.
Yeah, I think one thing that’s muddling this discourse is Shein/Temu. People are comparing the perceived “bottom tier” of consumer goods over time and concluding stuff is getting worse, but what’s really happening is that we’ve added new, ultra-low tiers.
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d agoIt seems like there has been an explosion of bottom-tier, quasi-disposable goods from sites like Shein in recent years. Stuff that's not just cheap but eye-poppingly cheap. But a KitchenAid today is probably better and cheaper than a KitchenAid 30 years ago.
While I don’t agree with it, I can totally understand aesthetic NIMBYism about Victorian San Francisco. I do not understand aesthetic NIMBYism on behalf of Palo Alto, which is a bland postwar sprawl suburb full of strip malls and tract homes that now sell for three and a half million dollars.
This is exactly right. This fact is the core of the 'Iranian overplay / mutual ruin' scenario: Iran can't actually do a lot of damage to the USA, but it can burn the GCC. So the scenario the matters is Trump decides 'not our bacon in the fire' and lets the region burn instead of taking the L.
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 2d agoright, but it would primarily be GCC states facing the blowback
They're going to completely drain the strategic oil reserve to keep gas prices low up until the midterms so when the car juice is $8 a gallon in 2027 they can blame it on a Democrat who took office three weeks ago.
The retconning of Covid also says Covid started under Biden. That’s a universally accepted fact on the right and in a lot of major media coverage.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d agoit’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
The amount of reading you have to do on Reddit to background check any purchase over $50 is wild. Side note: you absolutely cannot trust Amazon reviews because sellers routinely give away free product and cash in exchange for five star reviews.
Jake Casella Brookins@casella.bsky.social · 3d agoNot really disagreeing, but a related factor is the research/decision fatigue if you do decide quality/longevity is worth the cost. I do it for kitchen equipment etc; quickly run out of spoons/finances to do it for clothing.
yes we are gatekeeping how people get dopamine. We have done this since society began. For instance, we arrested John Wayne Gacy for chasing dopamine his preferred way
“Olive Garden. When you’re here, you’ll need ID.”@schoolbus5.bsky.social · 3d agoSo now we are gatekeeping how one obtains dopamine? The big takeaway from posts like yours and the rest comes down to: Questioning his claim because it is not your experience, so therefore something is amiss.
“Radical left” is an empty signifier. “Read theory” is a proclamation that demonstrates not that you read or understand theory, but that you are the type of person who says “read theory” to other people on the internet. It’s all “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” with no underlying stories.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 3d agoI swear to god "professes to be radical left, but spends most of their time complaining about the cost of cheeseburgers and that their household wares are too cheaply made" is an unholy political chimera forged in the consumerist heart of American society to torment me, specifically
Finding myself in this position too often lately (aka not often enough)
the thing about this absolutely blatant market manipulation is that it’s going to work until it stops working, and when it stops, a whole lot of shit is going to go very sideways very fast
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agojust in time for the markets to open! it's a Sunday miracle!
Kind of want one of those fake gay jobs where you get a coffee at a local coffee shop and open your laptop and write, like, a substack, or you make meeting minutes. You’re an executive creative director of marketing and outreach and you’ve never heard of a fax machine.
not just the right-wing media, half of centrist punditry was convinced that this was somehow going to be game-changing, out of a combination of affinity, idiocy, and their deep desire to surrender to perceived power.
Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · 3d agoI think the aftermath of the Kirk shooting really proves just how desensitized ordinary Americans have gotten to low-intensity gun violence, which to be fair is in part his own damn fault. To the right-wing media, though, the fact one of their own could get cut down like this was a genuine trauma.
