remember when they were big mad about obamacare death panels

Good morning Bluesky.

Say hello to our resident Orca, in front of the Seattle waterfront during a gorgeous PNW sunset. He was traveling with his family and T034s, T037/T037Bs. Those little ones in the pods are always the most playful ones. We love our whales. This photo should be a poster!

🤩American Kestrel deep dive. Toronto, Canada, April 17th 2026. Sony A1 I| 300GM 1/4000s, F/5.6 ISO 1600

There was a time when the president inspired pride instead of exhaustion. I miss that more than I can say.

Clippy: It looks like you're trying to go to the moon Would you like to use Outlook for that?

1/ Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new—an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.

fig and bailey saying hi at atmosphere conf!

The at://advent workshop is starting!

If you couldn't make it to the conference (or couldn't fit in the room), you can try it remotely:

advent.codes

This is a **play test** session: If you try out the challenges, we want your feedback!

In the West, snow drought is pushing cross-country ski areas closer to a breaking point Cross-country ski areas are doing their best to adapt, but they lack the same tools available in the far bigger downhill skiing industry.

It's been an especially bad year for cross country skiing. We've been fortunate to get out several times and backcountry skiing has been a bit better. 1980 had a similarly bad year so hopefully next year will improve.🤞

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it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"

Trump Briefed on Iran Sleeper Cells in U.S. By Natalie Andrews President Trump speaks to journalists upon returning to Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday. JIM WATSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES President Trump said he had been briefed on the presence of Iranian "sleeper cells" in the U.S. and was monitoring threats against the country. "We know where most of them are, we have our eye on most of them, I think," he said as he returned from his trip to Ohio and

Trump on Iranian sleeper cells: "We know where most of them are, we have our eye on most of them, I think…”

Q: You said the war is 'very complete.' But your defense secretary says 'this is just the beginning.' So which is it?


TRUMP: You could say both

announcing our €3,8M seed round and more on what's next

today, we're announcing our €3,8M ($4.5M) seed financing round, led by byFounders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Antler, Thomas Dohmke (former CEO of GitHub), Avery Pennarun (CEO of Tailscale) among other incredible angels.

read more on what's next: blog.tangled.org/seed

Why Apple’s move to video could endanger podcasting's greatest power - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Apple is adding video support to its podcasting apps — that’s great. But the way it’s doing so might jeopardize the openness that’s kept podcasting from getting enshittified like every other form of media. It’s not too late for them to fix this. anildash.com/2026/02/28/a...

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟

When you have an audience or a business you have to ensure that you always provide a lot more value to people than you extract from them. If you don't then, long term, it all breaks down.

Young people I talk to today...they feel like the whole entire world has broken this contract with them.

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: When you talk about the economy, we cut inflation in half

KERNEN: But when Trump came into office, it was about where it is right now

MULLIN: But we stabilized it

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You've heard that something is going on with colon cancer. I'm working on a thing...let me know what you think!! Is it helpful? What would you do different?

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A graph of US imports form Taiwan and China showing imports from Taiwan reaching $300B annualized as imports form China sink to $250B annualized

Crazy milestone in the US trade data released today—America now imports more directly from Taiwan than from China for the first time since 1992

The trade war has cut US direct trade with China, and the AI boom has caused a surge in spending on Taiwanese-made semiconductors

Alt National Park Service (@altnps.bsky.social) A federal research lab formerly known as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory laid off 134 employees this week.

A federal research lab formerly known as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory laid off 134 employees this week.

Skeleton has got to be the most "absolutely NOT" sport.

The TACO cycle:

Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank.

So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

The TACO trade

I stopped paying for Grammarly once I found out there's a free open-source alternative I thought Grammarly was essential. It wasn’t.

Great piece. I'm thrilled that this was the first result that popped up when I searched for "open source grammar checker".

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a graph of the year-on-year change in US tech employment

The US tech sector continues losing jobs—overall, employment decreased by 5k last month and is down 19k over the last year

That's not as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, but extremely bad compared to the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms

a graph of US blue collar job growth

The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the early pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 145k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out

These are US National Park and other travel related stickers.

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Number of new vaccines licensed per decade that were the first vaccine against their respective disease. The number goes up over time.

National reported cases of vaccine preventable diseases in the United States. The number goes down significantly over time with the introduction of vaccines for each respective disease.

Still wonderful progress being made in vaccine developments. Excellent data visualizations and a quick flyover of vaccine history in this article.

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