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p@vel· 24d

Was at both Starbucks and this ICE Friday morning.

p@vel· Jul 13

It’d be one thing is this was like, actually good quality, made in America, etc. Everyone is so sick of this besides Michael Rubin

p@vel· Jul 8

If you can't listen to the entire thing/read the book, at least skip to the part about inventing the students grade system: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/673-...

p@vel· Jun 30

very happy he gets to be in Thomas dissent

p@vel· Jun 26

Also got engaged. Memorable week

p@vel· Jun 18

Thank god, AILA Conference would be manic either way

p@vel· Jun 18

Wonder if other drugs would automatically constitute considering this (Alito/Kagan quote!)

p@vel· Jun 17

Snitch Visa:

p@vel· Jun 4

web designer,

p@vel· May 17

Built a custom cable to connect this to 3.5mm line in Sonos. Over the moon with this

p@vel· May 4

unbeatable deal

p@vel· May 3

p@vel· Apr 29

p@vel· Apr 29

also available in email from WashPo

p@vel· Apr 1

p@vel· Apr 1

lol

p@vel· Mar 26

When fries come out next to me

p@vel· Mar 26

🌍🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

p@vel· Mar 25

p@vel· Mar 2

lmao I am 30 and I have no idea what I am doing. real professionals are asking me real questions

p@vel· Feb 20

The Blameless Voters

Off the bat, sort of pointless to disagree over and over, with zero chance for changed minds on this matter. I guess it’s not a good use of either of our times.

Ultimately me and Tim probably agree that voters do bear responsibility. And to which degree is up for debate. And that voters are not acting in a vacuum. I always have conceded that the media is and has been involved in the last 26 years of electoral politics. But, really basically a candidate who wins did so because enough people chose to not participate or choose Them over the alternative.

To unpack further:
Elections aggregate millions of individual decisions. The outcomes reflect preferences, tradeoffs, apathy, misinformation, turnout, etc.

And the:
Parties decide who gets funding, ballot access, endorsements, etc
Primary voters who are small, highly motivated subset
Interest groups, donors, dark money
Electoral rules, voting access and gerrymandering, the EC, even ballot design
Media ecosystem (Tim’s chief villain every election) is so broken and distorts reality

All ^^ shape outcomes, period. But we’re just not going to change Citizens United in the midterms.

If the issue is X, then X deserves primary blame. (You can’t just blame a single thing, as the sole cause) But blaming polarization, or blaming institutional weakness, or blaming corruption in general just… does nothing. Okay so “gatekeepers incompetence” is the blame, issue X; how does that affect decision making of Greg in Scranton in November? But it was his choice! Right? We don’t disagree on that objective fact! And outcomes flowed from millions of people making actual decisions, not from being a passive victim to The institutional forces.

To me, what is so frustrating is that those voters in November somehow are defended by Tim saying they could not know, or see, or care enough to make a decision because of Media. And those voters are blameless?

p@vel· Feb 18

Thinking about James Madison in 1798

p@vel· Feb 5

"while it isn't good," It isn't, that's literally all. How can you conclude this is doom posting?

p@vel· Feb 5

This isn't panic, like are we seeing the same thing

p@vel· Feb 5

repping Chuck Schumer (wp) in 2026 is a brutal look! but you keep at it. I'm confident I'll see you defending the polls in November, right?

p@vel· Feb 5

You should be allowed to worry about voter disenfranchising by the government

p@vel· Feb 5

Because I am concerned about an upcoming election is very typical of my demographic, cmon. be for real

p@vel· Jan 27

"enter your appearance in the third circuit"

p@vel· Jan 17

Restarting my Sixers Giving Up Career Highs to the Most Random Players series, once again:

p@vel· Dec 29

one of the best license plates I've seen. and it's not a custom one, lma0000