Michael J Bruns

@incognitohibou @HumansNoContext Shipley is admittedly a verrrrry close second. And more traditional kolaches for sure

@MichaelJBruns @HumansNoContext I was talking about Shipley.

I’ll take 8 please, thank you.

@mrscoolquad @HumansNoContext Kolache dough? Long time kolache eater here but never made them myself. I think it's a german or czech thing originally

@MichaelJBruns @HumansNoContext What kind of dough is it?

@incognitohibou @HumansNoContext That's just a lack of creativity talking - visit Kolache Factory sometime & tell them I sent you!

@MichaelJBruns @HumansNoContext A kolache has a hotdog in it.

@blackrosecol @StatisticUrban Exactly correct - a libertarian would say the foreign power that kills you is morally in the wrong, but you don't have a right to have a soldier from your nation risk their lives to protect you

@StatisticUrban I guess my right to not have a foreign power come here and kill me is not a right because it requires the labor of soldiers, weapons makers, truck drivers etc.

At a certain point you simply have to say to the libertarians "no, wrong." An orphaned baby does in fact have the human right not to starve to death in the street. Any form of society that can't guarantee that right is bad.

@Sen_JoeManchin Thank you for not eliminating the filibuster for those frivolous goals in 2022

When Democrats wanted to eliminate the filibuster in 2022, I stood my ground because I understood the consequences of turning the Senate into a glorified House with simple majority rule. Senator John Cornyn said of Democrats at the time: “They'll soon find themselves rueing the day their party broke the Senate.” The filibuster exists to make both sides work together and produce good legislation that can withstand the test of time. Eliminating the filibuster would consolidate even more power into the hands of the majority party’s leadership — and take power away from the minority and everyday Americans. When I was a U.S. Senator, there was not another person more committed to keeping the filibuster than Senator John Cornyn. He understood the incredible political pressure I faced from my former party to get rid of the filibuster and give Democrats complete power — and at the time, he understood why neither party should take our country past this point of no return. The filibuster — the soul of the Senate — has preserved the Senate’s role for nearly 250 years as the institution that cools passions, protects minority voices, and demands consensus. America was built on institutions designed to resist political convenience, not surrender to it. It’s deeply disappointing to see that Senator Cornyn is now willing to scrap the very rule he once praised and personally thanked me for defending. These extreme election-year politics that put party power over everything else are why Americans are sick and tired of the duopoly of the two-party system of Democrats and Republicans.

@JohnCornyn @KenPaxtonTX @realDonaldTrump 219 comments calling you out and only 36 likes. Just leave

I don’t hate anyone. I just can’t let a corrupt person like @KenPaxtonTX jeopardize a safe Republican Senate seat, be an anchor on down ballot races, divert resources from other Senate pickup opportunities, and jeopardize @realDonaldTrump agenda in his last two years of his current term.

@JohnCornyn @KenPaxtonTX Nope

Thanks to Texans, I beat @KenPaxtonTX once on March 3; will do it again May 26

@JohnCornyn @KenPaxtonTX Are you caucusing to remove Thune so it can pass?

Unlike @KenPaxtonTX, who has a history of betraying everyone around him, I keep my word to Texans. I was one of the first sponsors of the SAVE America Act, and I agree with President Trump that the Senate must pass it now.

@RobProvince Don't forget the insider trading!

I wish I could understand this guys political career. By every account he was a beast of a war fighter who loved his country. But when he got into office he just didn’t seem to ever care about what the people he represented actually wanted.

@WendyinocalaFL @SenAshleyMoody @senrick @tedcruz @JohnCornyn help them!!!

We are done with Thune. 13 months, he is worthless. It's time for you two to step up. FL leads. Call a vote to remove him. Be like Desantis.. be bold. Do what's right for the U.S. citizens. @SenAshleyMoody and @senrick

@LeaderJohnThune Shut up and bring the SAVE act to the floor

For decades, Iran has fomented terror throughout the Middle East, endangering U.S. service members, U.S. citizens, and government personnel in the region, and many of our allies. My prayers are for the success of this mission, for the freedom of the Iranian people, and above all, for the safety of U.S. personnel in harm’s way.

@LeaderJohnThune Save act dude. Someone should replace you right away who will bring it to the floor!

By removing barriers to affordable housing construction and unleashing investment, the ROAD to Housing Act will open the door to affordable homes for hardworking Americans around the country.

@financial_shaw I've honestly never realized this - makes so much sense it's embarrasing

If one more person tells me their mortgage interest is front-loaded, I'm going to set fire to my qualifications. Interest is charged on the outstanding balance. Every single day. That's it. That's the whole system. The reason you pay more interest early on is because YOU OWE MORE MONEY EARLY ON. 👉

@C_3C_3 He's despicable

Justice John Roberts. Sided with the Democrats on 3 of the most important and damaging decision in the last 100 years. Obamacare. Citizenship on Census. Trump Tariffs. As we watched lower court activist judges run their insurrection. Traitor.

@BellikOzan Love when science metric-y people use AU or "light-year". Use easily convertible units (metric celcius) when helpful, and units that match your context (imperial AU, light-year) when helpful. eg exactly what the imperial measuring system does that metric people think is stupid

A lot of people think sunlight in space is hard to manage thermally and being close to a planet helps because of the shade. This is exactly backwards. It's all about energy balance. What you take in, you've got to throw out, otherwise you heat up. And in space you throw out heat by radiative transfer -- emitting electromagnetic radiation in a frequency band corresponding to how hot you are. For things in the temperature range of us, our planet, our moon, and most of the hardware we build, that happens to be infrared. So to shed heat well, you need a surface that's highly emissive in infrared. The catch is that if whatever band you're emissive in, you also end up absorptive in. It's like opening a window. So the more effective you are at shedding your heat, the more of the Earth's or the Moon's heat you absorb, if you're near them. And if you are near them, they occupy nearly half your field of view -- it's a lot harder to shade yourself from them. The Sun, on the other hand, is both easier to shade / angle away from, and emits in a very different band than you want to. There are coatings out there that are 6x as emissive in IR as they are absorptive of sunlight, like PSBN (acktar.com/thermal-contro…). Put that white silicate paint on a surface in vacuum directly facing the Sun at 1AU (our distance to the Sun), with no other heat source, and it'll stabilize at -23C. If it's a double-sided sheet, it'll go below -60C. At a 45 degree angle that sheet will drop to around -80C. And if you orient it edge to the Sun, the face will drop to around -200C.

@RenContessa @MadelaineLucyH Except in 2022 for vaccines? And except that the US has instituted the draft multiple times and made men join the army? Do you read any history or anything about recent events?

@MichaelJBruns @MadelaineLucyH You're free not to get vaccines or join the military. Hope that helps.

There is no legal context, at all, ever, where a man can be forced to donate or use part of his body to ensure the life or survival of someone else. No law says 'a man has to donate his blood because XYZ will die' or 'a man has to donate his bone marrow/give a skin graft or his sister will die'. That pressure is ONLY applied to women. Because we are bodies to use, and they are people.

@liltay Lol "custom requests" means fedexing underwear right?

Being an OF model is genuinely one of the hardest jobs in the modern economy, and people only deny that because they fundamentally misunderstand what the work actually involves. It is not “posting a few pics and getting rich” It is running a full scale digital business where we are the product, the brand, the marketing team, customer support, PR, legal risk, and emotional labor all at once. We conceptualize content, plan shoots, manage lighting, editing, scheduling, and consistency across multiple platforms just to stay visible in algorithms that actively punish inactivity. We market nonstop while navigating constantly shifting platform rules that can erase income overnight through shadowbans, reports, or policy changes. We manage subscriptions, pricing, custom requests, retention, upsells, daily engagement, and audience psychology in an oversaturated market where attention is fleeting and competition is ruthless. On top of that, we face unprovoked harassment simply for working. Strangers feel entitled to insult us, degrade us, moralize our existence, and treat us as less intelligent or less human because of how we earn money. People project resentment and insecurity onto us, then turn around and claim we “don’t have real jobs” while actively consuming or obsessing over the content they pretend to hate. There is no HR department. No paid time off. No benefits. No guaranteed paycheck. Income fluctuates based on algorithms, audience behavior, platform instability, and public sentiment. We are always “on” because disappearing for even a short period can permanently damage earnings and visibility. And unlike most jobs, our work follows us everywhere. It is permanent, searchable, and endlessly judged by people who will never meet us but feel comfortable forming loud opinions about our character, intelligence, and worth. Calling this “easy” says less about the work and more about how quickly people dismiss labor once it becomes sexualized, stigmatized, or financially successful outside traditional systems. If it were actually easy, everyone would be doing it successfully. Most don’t last. You don’t have to respect the industry. You don’t have to participate in it. But pretending it isn’t demanding, mentally taxing, real work is willful ignorance at best and insecurity at worst.

@Boenau MOTORISTS found the change LESS convenient and slower. However 2/3rds said they liked slower, less convenient streets when waylaid by earnest survey takers asking something like "hey don't you like the bike lanes?" as they they got out of their cars after struggling to park.

15 years ago, Portland restriped a few streets to make space for buffered bike lanes. After a year, researchers asked people what they thought: 89% felt safer 91% found riding easier 94% said the environment was improved Paint isn't the ultimate goal for bike infrastructure, but it helps shift culture.