(Speaking of, I recently tried watching The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes--wow, what happened there? Too easy to simply follow the formula of the first movie with a slightly less triumphant ending?)katniss everdeen coded https://t.co/BSuDIY4NRs
— SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ (@phxsunz25) February 10, 2026
So the crypto company in business with the Trump family might be funneling $1.7 billion to Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...
— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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"A three-year-old energy company with less than five employees is one of the top contenders for a $25 billion contract from Trump’s massive trade deal with Japan." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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The State of the Union is now a $7.3 million market on Kalshi.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) February 24, 2026
Biggest market is the "What word will Trump mention?" market:
Most Likely (in order)?
1. Olympics/World Cup
2. AI
3. Stock Market
4. TrumpRx
5. Fraud
6. Hockey
7. ICE
8. Alien
9. Nuclear
10. Hottest
11. Cartel
Four from Minnesota, I believeKyle Connor, Jake Guentzel, Jackson LaCombe, Brock Nelson and Jake Oettinger did not travel with the team to the White House. Full story: www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...
— The Athletic (@theathletic.com) February 24, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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There is a flurry of reports over the past 72 hrs from the US media (NYT, WSJ, WaPo, Axios, CBS, etc) raising questions on US readiness for major war with Iran.
— Ali Ahmadi (@AliR_Ahmadi) February 24, 2026
Theres too much for it to be coincidence. Either the WH is trying to signal to its allies that they're taking a deal… pic.twitter.com/b52QcJ1MVR
Calling my shot. "Persian-Indo-Pacific" is becoming a new buzzword to help China hawk elites save face.
— Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast (@irhottakes.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 3:47 PM
dems usually fuck up by pushing stuff that's good policy and bad politics, kind of refreshing to see them fuck up in the exact opposite way for once
— Dave Infante (@dinfontay.com) February 24, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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Haven't seen it on Bluesky yet: a nice paper is making the rounds, estimating that the cost of housing permits in LA can explain 1/3 of the gap between construction costs and housing prices. That is: LA's terribly slow housing permitting is extremely costly!
— Zak Yudhishthu (@zyudhishthu.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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pentagon trying to force Anthropic to make killbots and threading to crush them unless they comply is among the most dangerous things this admin is doing. HOWEVER it’s hilarious that Elon is practically begging to make antiwoke Skynet and the WH is like “no haha Claude is better”
— Joey Politano๐ณ️๐ (@josephpolitano.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Iceland is preparing to bring forward its referendum on joining the European Union to August.
— Dave Keating (@DaveKeating) February 23, 2026
"Escalating threats from ๐บ๐ธ, among them a joke by [๐บ๐ธambassador] Billy Long that ๐ฎ๐ธ would become the 52nd state, have increased the urgency."https://t.co/BDFmL1U8LR
In a video targeted at Chinese speakersUPDATE: Vancouver Lenny Zhou has apologized for a video he posted on WeChat where he said without evidence that multiple opposition councillors were drug users and dealers
— Justin McElroy ๐จ๐ฆ (@jmcelroy.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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okay what the fuck was the BBC doing with that broadcast? because at this point it could be mistaken for intentional… variety.com/2026/film/aw...
— Corey Atad (@coreyatad.com) February 24, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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I doubt LLMs will ever use em dashes the way God intended—as a means of extending an already long sentence with too many commas in view of the fact that a colon was used for this purpose in the previous sentence
— Dialectical Zach-Zack Loeffler (@thezachloeffler) February 18, 2026
From herethe angels don’t have radar guns set up to measure velocity pic.twitter.com/e1We55nhmY
— A Gentleman (@glenjaminc) February 24, 2026
I was prepared to be actually enraged if his number ended up being anything but No. 24. https://t.co/HSTrEjq6IB
— Ryan M. Spaeder (@theaceofspaeder) February 18, 2026
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
— kelly (@kickinson.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
— Amy Hoy (@amyhoy.bsky.social) February 15, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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In order to ride the Ram mechanical bull, you must pass a breathalyzer. pic.twitter.com/QKKHNBaof0
— John Newby (@JohnNewby_) February 14, 2026
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— Rivi (@8_rivi) February 13, 2026
@tatianalesme anything for balls #dog #puppy #shihtzu #fyp ♬ original sound - Tatiana
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