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Dan McKinley

@mcfunley.com

Leading expert https://mcfunley.com https://dotclub.club https://primary.every.democrat

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Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 4d ago

I am begging you not to believe gazillionaire baseball owners when they tell you Skubal going to the Dodgers means we need a salary cap. Competitive balance is not the reason they want a salary cap. They just want to spend less, and with more predictability, on total payroll. That is all.

Jeff Lazarus@jlazarus.bsky.social · 3w ago

This paragraph gave me an epiphany about Matty Y. It's not that he doesn't understand how politics words. It's that fundamentally, he doesn't understand *what politics is.*

What I would ask of everyone at the table is simply that they respect the diversity of America and the wisdom of trying to compete effectively across this vast and varied land rather than trying to cancel each other. And I would urge people whose passion in life is shifting public opinion rather than responding to it to find a different line of work than electoral politics.
Spencer McDaniel@spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 4w ago

More people need to read this. There is no such thing as a "historically accurate Odyssey," because the 'Odyssey' is not set in a real historical time. It is set in the mythic Age of Heroes, not the real-life Bronze Age. #Odyssey #Homer #classics kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/07/odys...

History and the <i>Odyssey</i>

The Odyssey is not set in the Bronze Age. It is totally flooded with classical-era motifs, with a smattering of archaic touches.

kiwihellenist.blogspot.com

Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Boltzmann Brains" is a fanciful name for a dead-serious idea. I'm beginning to wonder whether the name hasn't caused the physics community to not spend nearly enough time thinking carefully about the problems that they pose. We have Boltzmann Brain Blindness. Long 🧵 coming. ⚛️ #cosmology (1/n)

Dan McKinley@mcfunley.com · 4w ago

I used to say that many successful people have access to a stratospheric level of self confidence that’s inaccessible to me. I still think that is right but lately I've noticed there’s another aspect to it. They are chumps, or at least profess to be in public.

John Wiseman@lemonodor.bsky.social · last mo.

Based on the NTSB preliminary report on N249CP, the evidence is fairly strong: this medevac plane probably wouldn't have crashed, and its 4 crew would still be alive, if the military hadn't been jamming GPS that night.

Image taken from the NTSB preliminary report into the N249CP crash: A Google Earth satellite map displaying the flight path of aircraft N249CP over a desert and mountainous region, annotated with timeline events. A legend in the bottom left indicates that green dots represent "Prelim ADS-B" data and red circles represent "Spidertrack" data. The flight path proceeds chronologically as follows: T/O 2352: The flight takes off from ROW Airport, heading west (marked in green). 0000:26: The plane is "1K' High (13k')" and "Reports GPS Lost." At this point, the tracking data switches from green to red. 0001:17: An annotation reads, "ARTCC Controller Requests Stop Jamming." The plane is on a "275 Hdg to SRR." The plane makes a right turn northward, annotated "Cleared to REYOK 350 Hdg." 0005: As it travels north, an annotation reads, "ARTCC Supervisor Requests Stop Jamming." 0008:06: Near the top of its northward path, the plane is "Visual with SRR" and makes its "Final Radio Transmissions." The track briefly switches back to green dots. 0010: The plane makes a sharp left turn toward the west. Annotations read "ARTCC Informs Military Airplane is Visual" and "Airplane Starts Descent From 12k'." The tracking data switches back to red circles. 0015: The path continues westward into mountainous terrain and terminates at a red crash symbol labeled "N249CP," with the annotation "End of Flight Data."
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2mo ago

folks when we find a guy who's saying a bunch of dumbass shit can we get back to blocking them instead of screenshotting them and talking about their dumbass shit? these losers are not worth our time & when we let them waste it we insult the revolution

Dan McKinley@mcfunley.com · 2mo ago

Toby Huss-ception: - watching Widow’s Bay, wondering where we know him from - it was seeing him in Atwater two years ago, wondering the same - the answer was a Seinfeld episode - where everyone is wondering the same - he was the Wiz (and nobody beats him)