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Alex Pickle

@akpickle

Dad & husband - infrastructure economics guy - Hattiesburger, formerly Jacksonian - Southern Miss - Pelicans/Saints - lifelong progressive raised by conservatives - he/him One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

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It is an existential imperative that we begin a serious global dialogue about how ‘experts’ as the media uses the term, consistently lag behind us laymen when it comes to Knowing Some Bullshit When We See It.

07.03.2026 17:13 👍 850 🔁 215 💬 19 📌 3

I saw one woman say, "I normally vote on my lunch break but they told me I had to vote at the polling place closest to where I live."
And it took me a second to remember other places aren't ALWAYS trying to make it as hard as possible to vote.
Our "normal" is unimaginable injustice, even in Texas.

05.03.2026 01:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reading about the voter suppression in Texas yesterday. If you haven't seen the details, I'll catch you up.
Basically imagine if you went to vote on election day, and the election commission surprised you with Mississippi's voting laws.

05.03.2026 01:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

17.01.2026 23:01 👍 19183 🔁 5282 💬 471 📌 343

I'd bet my next paycheck that he's eaten dogs and cats.

13.01.2026 03:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Other acceptable options are:

J6 5th anniversary articles

Impeachment

Why he's bragging about his scores on dementia screenings that he keeps having to take

08.01.2026 16:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The only headlines about a Trump I want to see from any news outlet are:
- Trump Regime Illegally Attacked a Sovereign Nation
- Trump's DOJ Illegally Delays Release of Epstein Files to Protect Pedophiles
- Trump Illegally Uses ICE as Personal Military Force to Attack and Murder Americans

08.01.2026 16:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

19.06.2025 11:21 👍 36850 🔁 11356 💬 633 📌 962

Nico Harrison is going to trade the first pick for Marcus Smart.

First guard in 30 years to win DPOY. Defense wins championships. It's a no-brainer for him.

13.05.2025 00:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nobody could have seen this coming...

09.04.2025 00:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If you were granted immortality in the year 1 AD, you made twice the hourly wage of the Top 1% 2024 salary in the US, you worked 24/7 with no days off until the present day, and you never spent a nickel of what you earned, you'd have just about as much money as Elon Musk LOST in the last 24 hours.

09.04.2025 00:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
President Donald Trump's Infamous Gaffe Correction Strategy | All In | MSNBC
President Donald Trump's Infamous Gaffe Correction Strategy | All In | MSNBC YouTube video by MSNBC

"I guess you could say..."
"I call it _____"
Or he does the thing where he misreads a word and pretends like he meant to say it. My favorite is when he said that people "sacrifice every day for the furniture, and the future, of their children." Here's some more:
tinyurl.com/mtd9bh7t

07.04.2025 17:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When Trump tries to read, he does so with the cadence of a first grader. When he inevitably fumbles over a word, he panics, latches on to one word or concept, acts like it's some profound insight, and then just vamps.

07.04.2025 17:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The amount of times I've been so disappointed to be proven right lately is staggering.

02.04.2025 01:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There's not a single coach in a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd & 15 situation, that would trade one of their 3 timeouts to gain 5 yards. It sounds absurd framed that way, but a default decision the other way around for some reason. It's a perfect example of the cognitive bias called "loss aversion".

15.12.2024 18:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hell, if Huff wins the first two next year, I say we go ahead and give him most of his potential incentive pay. #SMTTT

12.12.2024 20:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm going to be so excited to go 6-6 next year, and any record better than that will be appropriately appreciated.

12.12.2024 20:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anyone can be excited about a double digit win season (except for Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, and apparently Marshall). Talk to me when you sell no less than 20k tickets in a season without an FBS win.

12.12.2024 20:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Marshall fans can say what they want about USM. But I can tell you for certain that if USM was 5-4 w/a Top 10 win, was hosting a division rival that was also 5-4 w/a Top 10 win, & had a chance for a division title still in play. We'd sell a lot more than 24k tickets. (See 2022 Marshall vs App St)

12.12.2024 20:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Watched the Coach Huff intro press conference from my home office. Accidentally ran through my wall and now it's cold.
#SMTTT

12.12.2024 19:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'd love it if one of my favorite basketball teams could manage a season without being decimated by injuries.

11.12.2024 02:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm not an SMU fan, but the best team that Alabama beat was Georgia, who needed 8 OTs and referee help to be Georgia Tech last week. They lost to Vandy who lost to a team that went 1-7 in the Sun Belt. The difference between the SEC and the rest of the country is propaganda.

08.12.2024 16:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I loved the idea of Marion, but Huff is a hire you make 100 times out of 100 if you're able to. He just won our conference championship with a team primarily built from the portal. Things can turn around quickly.

08.12.2024 15:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Text messages from Southern Miss AD Jeremy McLain to an anonymous booster leaked after the news of Marshall HC Charles Huff leaving for USM the day after winning a conference championship. #SMTTT

08.12.2024 15:06 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Feel this in my marrow. Our two year old could be awake for 2 straight weeks and it wouldn't touch the cumulative sleep deprivation caused by the first kid.

07.12.2024 16:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NYT Connections result page shows Purple-Blue-Yellow-Green and a skill score of 98.

NYT Connections result page shows Purple-Blue-Yellow-Green and a skill score of 98.

It's frustrating how often I play #Connections, get the Purple & Blue in the correct order, and then can't figure out which of the last two categories is supposed to be easier. My most common result since they added Skill Score has been Purple-Blue-Yellow-Green.

06.12.2024 18:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Take the 2 Waffle House guys (1 from Hardy, 1 from Broadway) and bring in 2 drunk grad students smoking outside the Grill & Grocery. Then go to frat row w/a bullhorn and ask, "who's got thoughts on international politics." Pick the dude with the loudest "woo."
Now that's a panel.

06.12.2024 16:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe let's try copying the healthcare systems of the other countries on that graph? Just a thought.

06.12.2024 14:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know a place situated near the center of a triangle created by Montgomery, Jackson, and New Orleans with plenty of Civil Rights history

06.12.2024 03:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Cobie "Game 6 Klay" Montgomery

05.12.2024 21:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0