Jake Berg
@jacobsberg.bsky.social
Libraries. Beer. DC. You always go to the show.
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Beer and Music, Music and Beer, 2025
How this works: I pretty much only use the blog for this yearly post. I've got a bunch of music I liked this year with pithy comments that m...
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Good morning, everyone. Here's what I enjoyed listening to and drinking in 2025.
“The only inappropriate material here involves Alf’s genitalia!”
People logging back into Bluesky for the first time in a year
January 2, 2026 at 9:05 PM
“The only inappropriate material here involves Alf’s genitalia!”
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who called it the site formerly known as twitter now awash in csam and not x-stein’s island
What Grok/X has done is unprecedented. There are no other instances of a major company affirmatively facilitating the production of child pornography. Treating this as the inevitable result of generative AI and social media is a harrowing mistake.
January 2, 2026 at 6:55 PM
who called it the site formerly known as twitter now awash in csam and not x-stein’s island
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At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!
How 2026 was depicted in the sci-fi classic 'Metropolis' (1927)
January 2, 2026 at 11:57 AM
At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!
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Psst, save the date for a live DC Beer Show podcast at Bluejacket, 01/28/26:
DC Beer Show LIVE at Bluejacket!
Eventbrite - DC Beer presents DC Beer Show LIVE at Bluejacket! - Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at Bluejacket, Washington, DC. Find event and ticket information.
www.eventbrite.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Psst, save the date for a live DC Beer Show podcast at Bluejacket, 01/28/26:
My favorite albums of 2025 include releases from Verity Den and Prostitute
@w1nspear.bsky.social
@muterecords.bsky.social
@w1nspear.bsky.social
@muterecords.bsky.social
Beer and Music, Music and Beer, 2025
How this works: I pretty much only use the blog for this yearly post. I've got a bunch of music I liked this year with pithy comments that m...
beerbrarian.blogspot.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:26 PM
My favorite albums of 2025 include releases from Verity Den and Prostitute
@w1nspear.bsky.social
@muterecords.bsky.social
@w1nspear.bsky.social
@muterecords.bsky.social
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NEWS: The Trump administration has canceled the 50-year lease given to the National Links Trust to manage the D.C. golf courses at East Potomac Park, Rock Creek, and Langston. The group won the leases five years ago, and had started work renovating the Rock Creek course.
December 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
NEWS: The Trump administration has canceled the 50-year lease given to the National Links Trust to manage the D.C. golf courses at East Potomac Park, Rock Creek, and Langston. The group won the leases five years ago, and had started work renovating the Rock Creek course.
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But we still have the National Guard all over DC, because we’re a colony.
BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now
President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
bit.ly
December 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
But we still have the National Guard all over DC, because we’re a colony.
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Still occupied by the National Guard from multiple states: DC
Trump announces he’s pulling the National Guard from Portland, LA, and Chicago but threatens that “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again - Only a question of time!”
December 31, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Still occupied by the National Guard from multiple states: DC
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Leave, delete the app, salt the earth behind you, do not look back.
January 2, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Leave, delete the app, salt the earth behind you, do not look back.
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so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
If we must have 2026, at least let’s have it together!
Good start to the new year to hang out for a bit at @elizqueenmama.bsky.social’s place with @bogrosemary.bsky.social and @kellygo.bsky.social, @mediaslave.bsky.social, @srfrjulie.bsky.social, @jacobsberg.bsky.social, and others not from the Internet!
January 2, 2026 at 12:56 AM
If we must have 2026, at least let’s have it together!
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this is such an important thing to recognize and call out
the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led
the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
this is such an important thing to recognize and call out
the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led
the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led
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This is a little orgasmic, I won’t lie.
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:29 PM
This is a little orgasmic, I won’t lie.
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This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order
Mamdani: "The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few"
January 1, 2026 at 8:04 PM
This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order
First boule of 2026
January 1, 2026 at 5:41 PM
First boule of 2026
At least there's this:
January 1, 2026 at 3:26 PM
At least there's this:
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This story reminds us that:
a) Not everything has been digitized
b) Not everything digitized is accessible to the public
Also: What's happening at NASA is part of a broader trend of library closures in government & industry. (Even university libraries are moving away from physical books & journals)
a) Not everything has been digitized
b) Not everything digitized is accessible to the public
Also: What's happening at NASA is part of a broader trend of library closures in government & industry. (Even university libraries are moving away from physical books & journals)
They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?!
Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.
December 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This story reminds us that:
a) Not everything has been digitized
b) Not everything digitized is accessible to the public
Also: What's happening at NASA is part of a broader trend of library closures in government & industry. (Even university libraries are moving away from physical books & journals)
a) Not everything has been digitized
b) Not everything digitized is accessible to the public
Also: What's happening at NASA is part of a broader trend of library closures in government & industry. (Even university libraries are moving away from physical books & journals)
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"It's not a political appointment, and it's never happened in American history previously....I was never given an explanation for why I was removed."
Colleen Shogan discusses her role, and her removal, with @johnavlon.bsky.social
Colleen Shogan discusses her role, and her removal, with @johnavlon.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"It's not a political appointment, and it's never happened in American history previously....I was never given an explanation for why I was removed."
Colleen Shogan discusses her role, and her removal, with @johnavlon.bsky.social
Colleen Shogan discusses her role, and her removal, with @johnavlon.bsky.social
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So, librarians, do you have a contingency plan for when these goons enter your facility? You might not be able to block access to a public building, but how are you alerting your patrons? Do you have a plan to get them out safely? Because you should.
Your tax dollars hard at work in Minnesota at the library! Notsee LARPers everywhere these days getting those government paychecks
December 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So, librarians, do you have a contingency plan for when these goons enter your facility? You might not be able to block access to a public building, but how are you alerting your patrons? Do you have a plan to get them out safely? Because you should.
Just brutal. 📜📚
Apropos of nothing I interviewed for the deputy director here in 2019, lost to an internal candidate.
Apropos of nothing I interviewed for the deputy director here in 2019, lost to an internal candidate.
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Just brutal. 📜📚
Apropos of nothing I interviewed for the deputy director here in 2019, lost to an internal candidate.
Apropos of nothing I interviewed for the deputy director here in 2019, lost to an internal candidate.
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my 2025 year in review
January 1, 2026 at 1:08 AM
my 2025 year in review
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Goodnight, sweet prince.
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
January 1, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Goodnight, sweet prince.
Happy Pride, everyone! 🌈🦄🏳️🌈
January 1, 2026 at 1:22 AM
Happy Pride, everyone! 🌈🦄🏳️🌈
