Matt

538 had a calculator to see how likely it was that yours was the "decisive" vote, meaning you were the single vote margin in the single state that decided the electoral college. It varied according to your state, with the odds in the tipping point state being something absurd like 100 quintillion:1.

Right. But double the GOP candidates means you get everyone who'd vote for just one of those candidates but not the other. In a one-on-one race, the Dem probably would have improved his percentage (but lost the race!) as the "missing" candidate's voters stayed home.

Odo being hugged largely against his will by the original Trek toxic mother figure (Lwaxana Troi, daughter of the Fifth House, holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed)

I think Odo agrees with you!

A fun thing to do with lawyers is to explain your situation using terms like home, residence, domicile, homestead, lodging, dwelling, property, and "the place I actually live" interchangeably, as though it had no bearing on whether you went to jail for tax fraud.

But yeah I'm sure Google's fine.

Democrat Scott Colom

We officially have a Democratic candidate for the 2026 Mississippi Senate and his name is SCOTT COLOM!

Now #MSSen is not on the radar…yet.

But if this environment persists, it just might be.

Scott currently has only 154 followers right now.

Let’s fix that.

PLEASE FOLLOW HIM @scolom.bsky.social!

I’m appropriating this from someone else but it is immensely clear the dumbest people imaginable are in charge. Any fool (except some of them , apparently) could have thought: what would your average liberal wine mom do if China started bombing us, killing school children, threatening to take…

say what you will but that's a top-tier frisson

Page proof screenshot from MIT Press "A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency"

Friends, @alixhui.bsky.social and I and 70+ historians have been working on this gigantic project for three years and it finally feels like it's going to be real.

What field are you in?

This is not a gotcha and I won't have a follow-up. But it is EXTREMELY relevant to what/whether you think people are overreacting to, lying about, using all the time, etc.

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

how can you not be romantic about baseball

Mark Knopfler in 1985:

This is Hazel. She did some minor redecorating while you were out. Hopes you like it. 12/10 (TT: kelly_smith02_)

You reveal more about yourself in asking that question than I could ever reveal by answering it.

Starbucks employee: [silently writes “Yew” on cup]

I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

I like the part where your broker, second wife, dentist, and anyone willing to say you're 30 days late on a bill all automatically get the kind of stranglehold on your military career that foreign intelligence agents need to work YEARS for.

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Result! Just received from Grammarly:
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

Draw me like one of your Bree girls.

so help me if someone doesn't get Paul Dano to review it

we dare you to find a museum more ready

“epstein class is iranian propaganda” is definitely something i’d expect the epstein class to say

Happy Vannevar Bush's Birthday to those who celebrate. He'd be 136 if he were alive today, and instead of posting this to Bluesky, I'd be committing it to the acetate film of my Memex.

Yeah, that's the topper for me. Jesus, famously beloved in his own time, standing squarely astride Judean public opinion…

How lovely that WH staffers can bare their souls to reporters about things they're not telling Trump, secure in the knowledge that he'll never find out… because they just won't tell him that either.

Eight billion people and we're all conspiring to keep secrets from one guy. Amazing.

He did the thing!

I literally just cited Lisa Sigel in a paper but silly me, I could have just paid someone (not her) to do a bad impression of the kind of adjectives she favors instead

Boycott Grammarly, please.

Absolutely infuriating.