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Slow Horses season five: there’s comedy but also real spycraft – according to espionage expert Honey traps are laid, cyber attacks are enacted and it seems MI5 have to rely upon Slough House to bail them out once again.

That’s why Slow Horses works. The humor pulls you in, but the tradecraft feels believable. Intelligence work is often messy, bureaucratic, and human, and the show actually leans into that reality. #SlowHorses #SpyCraft #Espionage #MI5 #intelligence
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That’s what I’m talking about. Thank you for your loyalty!

Thank you for that. It means so much.

A good point

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

Thank you.

Singing a song, girl. We can skip and sing.

Isn’t it amazing how that happens??

I emailed Jeff this morning. I ain’t playing.

If I have to, I will call them boys.

I’ve officially taken all I can take.

Someone totally misunderstood how much rage I generally keep under wraps. This person basically tried to stiff me for a few thousand dollars. It’s a housing scam.

Anyway, I just got off the phone with somebody’s mayor and next I’m calling a governor.

Sometimes you choose right one but wrong day.

I don’t think we will ever forget the “paint your stair risers” lady. Ever.

Got the letter here in western NC about the coming ~30% increase in rates, and that ticked me off something serious.

Not for the first time I would like to say that I am a magnet for thee strangest people. My word.

Read the replies from ppl talking about their and their neighbors’ electric bills.

Few things on this: Maine (and some other New England states like Vermont) treat private school differently. In many towns you can go to private school free, paid for by the town, because the towns are too small to have public high schools. But yeah, it appears Platner was at least middle class, maybe upper middle class with a lawyer dad and architect grandad. Yet since high school his work experience is the military, bartending (he was actually my bartender at the Tune Inn), and oystering. To dismiss the latter because he "owns an oyster farming business" misses the fact that he is out on the water every day working it. When he launched his campaign, friends in Maine reached out and said holy shit the guy we buy oysters from is running for Senate. He kept oystering through this summer, they told me. They've been buying from him for years. This is not a hobby, it's his work. At minimum, if you don't want to grant him the "working class" title, he has been working with working class people since graduating high school, which basically nobody in the Senate can say. (He never graduated college.)

For posterity:

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Eden Central precinct on elections map: Sam Page 53%, Phil Berger 46%

Phil Berger didn't win a single precinct in Rockingham County, not even the one that includes his home in Eden.

You want my thinking but in your words and it doesn’t work that way.

“I think you mean…”

Homie let me stop you right there for this block.

Can't make this shit up

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Issa recession.

Capitol Rioter Pardoned By Trump Sentenced For Molesting 2 Children Florida handyman Andrew Paul Johnson, was previously convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Republicans are making a big deal about the murder of a woman on a bus in Charlotte.

Democrats should make a big deal about this.
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If you thought you should stan an AI company as a bastion of societal liberties, you might want to listen to this.

HUGE payrolls miss, wow

Feb Payrolls -92k vs +55k est/+130k prev
2m net revision -69k
Unemplomyent 4.4% vs 4.3% est/4.3% prev
Avg hourly earn YoY +3.8% vs +3.7% est+/3.7% prev
Jan Retail sales MoM -0.2% vs -0.3% est/0.0% prev
Control group est MoM +0.3% vs+0.3% est/-0.1% prev

Sometimes I remember that I was really alive when Michael Jordan was at his peak.

If the price for that is living through Trump then I guess it is what it is. Sigh.

I liked it. Autonomy. No emotional labor. Noise cancelling headphones means people leave you alone. And you can go vroom.

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

From Mary Ann to WTF. I will never get over it.