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Patrick S. Tomlinson
Patrick S. Tomlinson
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Patrick S. Tomlinson
@stealthygeek
Novelist. Stealthygeek on Blue Sky. pstomlinson on Threads and IG. Get to the escape pods. This place has a warp core breach in progress.
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Wow. It's almost like knowing shit makes you less fucking stupid.
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60 Minutes
@60Minutes
Less than 3% of the Harvard faculty identifies as conservative, while more than 75% identify as liberal. cbsn.ws/3ASH4ij
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It is physically impossible for cartilage tissue to heal this quickly in a 78 yr old man.
He was not shot with a .223 round. Not grazed. At this point, I don't believe there was any bleeding wound at all.
Refused treatment at hospital. No doctor's report. Press is silent.
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Papi Bébé Le Strange
@Papi_B_Dubs
Trump’s Ear doesn’t have a blemish on it. Why isn’t the MSM talking non stop about his staged assassination attempt???
Because one is a racist and the other is trying to save the fucking world, you mouth-breathing troglodyte. x.com/brandondarby/s
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A distraught friend yesterday boiled it down perfectly:
"If we won, we'd be celebrating how many of them would get healthcare, education, or student loans canceled. But they won, and they're celebrating how many of us they get to kill."
Tells the whole story, doesn't it?
Let me see if I have this straight.
Elon Musk fires a dude who's owed $100 million if he gets fired. In the process of firing him, Elon revealed and insulted the man's private medical condition, exposing Twitter to a simply massive lawsuit.
And people still think he's a genius.
Nikki Haley once said "America has never passed a law based on race."
I think that's wrong, but I'm only 3/5ths sure.
The NFL blacklisted Colin Kaepernick for "disrespecting the troops" because a man who calls our fallen soldiers losers told them to.
Americans by and large don't understand how transformative high speed rail would be. There's a direct train from Barcelona, Spain to Paris, France. It takes 6 hours, tops out at almost 200 mph, and costs $40.
Not $400. $40.
That's like NYC to Columbus for the price of a meal.
Before Elon, Twitter was unmatched for major breaking news by any outlet on Earth. Updates from locals were up to the second. Journalists and policy experts were verified and their insights were boosted by the algorithm to maximize their audience. Network news chased Twitter. 1/
People actually killing pets:
-Kristi Noem
-Robert Kennedy Jr.
-Sarah Huckabee Sanders' brother
-Catturd
People not killing pets:
-Haitian immigrants
Hillary had a bad cold and the media was fitting her for a coffin.
Trump is rushed to Walter Reed on a Saturday, transparently lies about why, then cancels all his events by 9am on Sunday and no one's talking about his health.
This is what institutional misogyny looks like.
Clinton email investigation:
-2 yrs
-0 indictments
-0 convictions
Benghazi investigation:
-4 yrs
-0 indictments
-0 convictions
White Water investigation
-6 yrs
-0 indictments
-0 convictions
Trump/Russia investigation:
-1 yr (so far)
-19 indictments
-4 convictions
Just sayin'.
Show moreKatrina was called a 100 yr Storm.
Sandy was called a 100 yr Storm.
Now Harvey is a 500 yr Storm.
They were all in the last twelve years.
Suspending Trump's Twitter account and cancelling Fox News would fix 90% of what's wrong with our country overnight.
GOP: We want a government built on Biblical values.
Dems: Woot! We're feeding the poor!
GOP: Wait.
Dems: Healing the sick up in this motherfucker!
GOP: No, not like that.
Dems: [Grabs the mic] ALL LOANS FORGIVEN AFTER SEVEN YEARS.
GOP: oh no...
Whenever abortion comes up, I have a question I've been asking for ten years now of the "Life begins at Conception" crowd. In ten years, no one has EVER answered it honestly. 1/
This you?
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Abby Libby
@abbythelibb_
How do we turn down the temperature when influential people like Destiny are explicitly arguing that the assassination attempt was morally justifiable and anyone supporting Trump deserves to be dead and without sympathy?
Destiny is neither a random troll, nor some fringe
You watched a generation grow up on a diet of Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and Marvel movies, you stripped away their hope, their jobs, their futures, and then backed the most cartoonish super-villain in history for President, and you're shocked the children are fighting back?
So, "El Mayo," and "El Chapo's" son were arrested today by the Biden Administration's DEA and FBI.
Apparently, they both got on a private jet as part of a sting operation, believing they were going to look at investment properties in Northern Mexico, but instead landed in TX. 1/
I don't want a President to donate to victims of disaster. I want a President to fund the government sufficiently so they don't have to.
Whenever I see someone wearing a mask in public now, I have three thoughts:
1. They're sick and protecting me.
2. They're sick and protecting themselves.
3. They're perfectly healthy but protecting someone they love who is sick.
And in none of those scenarios is it my business.
Weinstein outed as sexual harasser: DNC send his money to women's groups.
Trump outed as sexual predator: RNC nominates him for president.
"He's not like that in real life."
Stop.
Is the internet real?
Yes.
Are the people on it living?
Yes.
Then he's like that in real life.
Our food supply is among the safest in the world BECAUSE of the FDA.
Airplane travel is the safest form of travel BECAUSE of the FAA.
Our water is drinkable BECAUSE of the EPA.
Trump's illegitimate SCOTUS just ended all that the same week they made bribes legal.
Republicans hate Tim Walz because he shows how easy it is for a straight white man to just be a nice dude.
Thread time. Here's the thing about . It's not a car company. Tesla is a company that has to make cars in order to sell its real product: Emissions Credits.
Let me explain. Back in 2012, the EPA put out new, strident emissions standards for new vehicles fleetwide. 1/
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Regulatory Credits on account for a small percentage of Tesla Revenue.
2020: 6.2%
2021: 3.2%
2022: 2.7%
As of FY Q3 2022 Credits were only $287m against profits of $3.3b
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TSLA Q3 2022 IR Deck: shorturl.at/mow47
-Anthony Weiner: Rejected by dems. Removed from office. Jailed
-Harvey Weinstein: Condemned by dems. Fired from own company. Possible charges
-Louis CK: Roundly attacked. Movie cancelled
-Roy Moore: Still up for election
-Trump: Still in the White House
That's the difference.
Breaking News on...
CNN: Cohen raided by FBI
NBC: Cohen raided by FBI
CBS: Cohen raided by FBI
ABC: Cohen raided by FBI
FOX: ...
See, America? It's not actually that hard.
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The Associated Press
@AP
BREAKING: Peru’s ex-president Toledo gets more than 20 years in prison in case linked to corruption scandal apnews.com/article/peru-t
If you work at a government agency, CDC, FDA, CIA, FBI, NASA, NTSB, NOAA, anywhere, you need to start saving every gig of data you can find. Studies, organizational charts, employee manuals, policies and procedures.
Anything that can be used to recreate your agency from scratch.
Since Trump took credit for no airline deaths last year, he must also take blame for the spike in coal mining deaths (where he actually rolled back safety and environmental regs).
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The Hill
@thehill
Coal mining deaths nearly double from 2016 to 2017 hill.cm/OoYTQZ8
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Now, at a geopolitical inflection not seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall, all that is gone. Updates are delayed, scattered, and unreliable. "Verified" accounts are just every slack-jawed yahoo with $8 to burn and no professional or reputational incentives for accuracy. 2/
Elon has been obsessed with calling everything "X," Space X, Model X, X AE A-12, now just X, ever since the rest of the PayPal owners told him it was a stupid name. He's going to erase a globally recognized, culturally impactful brand because he was told "No" 25yrs ago.
Moron.
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Pop Base
@PopBase
Elon Musk teases Twitter logo change to an ‘X’ with new visual.
Learned more about the story of this photo and now I'm mad.
This was taken today at Arlington National Cemetery. The grave belongs to Sgt Nicole Leeann Gee, USMC. She was among the 13 US service members killed in a suicide bombing during the Afghan withdrawal 3 yrs ago. 1/
They aren't talking about Trump's age because it was never about Biden's age.
They aren't talking about Trump's cognitive decline because it was never about Biden's cognitive decline.
Biden did the job with quiet competence, free of scandal or leaks.
That's why they hate him.
There's a strange belief among older generations that being an adult means you're supposed to slam the door shut on fun and enjoyment at age 18 and turn straight to alcohol-fueled cynicism. You know, like they did.
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New York Post
@nypost
Sorry, childless millennials going to Disney World is weird trib.al/NM7GDJY
Supreme Court votes to murder women. That's it. That's the headline.
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The Associated Press
@AP
BREAKING: The Supreme Court lets stand a decision barring emergency abortions that violate Texas ban apnews.com/article/suprem