JaimeL
@jaimel.bsky.social
low rent stoner verlyn klinkenbourg
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I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
January 3, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
We have a whole-ass business casual clothing chain that got its start selling juntawear which is literally named after our practice of doing this shit on the regular so yes extremely ashamed and full of sorrow but no, not surprised.
January 3, 2026 at 5:25 PM
We have a whole-ass business casual clothing chain that got its start selling juntawear which is literally named after our practice of doing this shit on the regular so yes extremely ashamed and full of sorrow but no, not surprised.
This shit is so evergreen next year I'm putting lights and tinsel on the motherfucker..
January 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
This shit is so evergreen next year I'm putting lights and tinsel on the motherfucker..
Love to wake up in my evil country.
January 3, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Love to wake up in my evil country.
I mean wasn't quite a kid but I was kinda primed for it, yeah.
January 2, 2026 at 11:49 PM
I mean wasn't quite a kid but I was kinda primed for it, yeah.
One of the weird little things my day job makes me think is "this really is a golden age for particle generation" and yes I finally am finally watching "Foundation."
January 2, 2026 at 9:35 PM
One of the weird little things my day job makes me think is "this really is a golden age for particle generation" and yes I finally am finally watching "Foundation."
I often think of Russell's reply to Moseley when confronted with this sort of tomfoolery.
"I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."
Civility itself.
"I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."
Civility itself.
January 2, 2026 at 4:26 PM
I often think of Russell's reply to Moseley when confronted with this sort of tomfoolery.
"I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."
Civility itself.
"I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."
Civility itself.
I believe this is a knock-on effect of Sec 230. I know it's a crucial underpinning of the status quo, but as practiced, for platforms it's also a get out of jail free card. Even when it's their own tools these crimes become the sole acts of users; it's the guns industry structure of accountability.
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 4:16 PM
I believe this is a knock-on effect of Sec 230. I know it's a crucial underpinning of the status quo, but as practiced, for platforms it's also a get out of jail free card. Even when it's their own tools these crimes become the sole acts of users; it's the guns industry structure of accountability.
I spent 4 hours learning a new board game the other night in a mixed age group and it would have been closer to 3 but a couple in their late 20s spent 45m excoriating a 21 year old college student over using ai. Idk if anyone had ever talked to him about it before. They love but were v tough on him.
Slowly realizing even my political friends who say they hate AI are using it to speed up tasks like email writing, formatting grant applications etc
December 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I spent 4 hours learning a new board game the other night in a mixed age group and it would have been closer to 3 but a couple in their late 20s spent 45m excoriating a 21 year old college student over using ai. Idk if anyone had ever talked to him about it before. They love but were v tough on him.
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WAT?
Seriously?!?!?
Plant genetics and botany is soooo cool.
Seriously?!?!?
Plant genetics and botany is soooo cool.
The modern-day potato came to be from the natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and a potato-like species from South America about 9 million years ago. www.cell.com/news-do/pr-p...
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@cp-cell.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
WAT?
Seriously?!?!?
Plant genetics and botany is soooo cool.
Seriously?!?!?
Plant genetics and botany is soooo cool.
Wonderful Christmastime might not be for you, but it is for me and here's some of why.
Every year, Christmas music is played, starting in commercial settings well before thanksgiving and so ever year, there is....
"Wonderful Christmastime" discourse.
I'm a fan of the song, because I was very young when it came out and also because I think it's kinda fun.
Lots of people are not.
"Wonderful Christmastime" discourse.
I'm a fan of the song, because I was very young when it came out and also because I think it's kinda fun.
Lots of people are not.
December 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Wonderful Christmastime might not be for you, but it is for me and here's some of why.
My dad and his pals used to do this but with wagons, as little kids and in Brooklyn. They'd drag them to Shore Road to burn.
Way more wholesome than my mom's dad and his friends using dead and bloated cart horses as trampolines which according to my mom's retelling was great til it wasn't.
Way more wholesome than my mom's dad and his friends using dead and bloated cart horses as trampolines which according to my mom's retelling was great til it wasn't.
My former boss once told me that back in the 40 in New York City, he and his friends would spot all the dead Xmas trees at the curb and would drop matches on them one after another.
"You never saw something burn so big and fast."
So yeah, water your festive buddy consistently.
"You never saw something burn so big and fast."
So yeah, water your festive buddy consistently.
Water that (real) tree!
December 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My dad and his pals used to do this but with wagons, as little kids and in Brooklyn. They'd drag them to Shore Road to burn.
Way more wholesome than my mom's dad and his friends using dead and bloated cart horses as trampolines which according to my mom's retelling was great til it wasn't.
Way more wholesome than my mom's dad and his friends using dead and bloated cart horses as trampolines which according to my mom's retelling was great til it wasn't.
This story was "lost" to me; I remembered nearly everything about it but couldn't for the life of me remember where or when I'd read it or who the author was.
I think bc it's late-period and was published in a sci-fi magazine; it was probably in a silver age collection. It's great.
I think bc it's late-period and was published in a sci-fi magazine; it was probably in a silver age collection. It's great.
www.pottstownschools.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This story was "lost" to me; I remembered nearly everything about it but couldn't for the life of me remember where or when I'd read it or who the author was.
I think bc it's late-period and was published in a sci-fi magazine; it was probably in a silver age collection. It's great.
I think bc it's late-period and was published in a sci-fi magazine; it was probably in a silver age collection. It's great.
The end of this whole damned thing might be The Midas Plague. Put them in the basement and ignore them.
googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions
December 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The end of this whole damned thing might be The Midas Plague. Put them in the basement and ignore them.
i am never mad at gelatin molds; they are absolutely the cubic zirconia of food. or one of them.
aspics and molds were, until industrialized gelatin production, a high-skill, difficult preparation which was exemplary at preserving cooked foods.
middle class cooks imitate the forms of the aspics...
aspics and molds were, until industrialized gelatin production, a high-skill, difficult preparation which was exemplary at preserving cooked foods.
middle class cooks imitate the forms of the aspics...
December 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
i am never mad at gelatin molds; they are absolutely the cubic zirconia of food. or one of them.
aspics and molds were, until industrialized gelatin production, a high-skill, difficult preparation which was exemplary at preserving cooked foods.
middle class cooks imitate the forms of the aspics...
aspics and molds were, until industrialized gelatin production, a high-skill, difficult preparation which was exemplary at preserving cooked foods.
middle class cooks imitate the forms of the aspics...
I feel extremely strongly that any time in an airport that is not spent getting onto or off of an airplane is time I would rather spend somewhere else other than an airport.
If however you must do this I suggest rock climbing walls with outlets at the top. People love to charge stuff at the airport.
If however you must do this I suggest rock climbing walls with outlets at the top. People love to charge stuff at the airport.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I feel extremely strongly that any time in an airport that is not spent getting onto or off of an airplane is time I would rather spend somewhere else other than an airport.
If however you must do this I suggest rock climbing walls with outlets at the top. People love to charge stuff at the airport.
If however you must do this I suggest rock climbing walls with outlets at the top. People love to charge stuff at the airport.
the blind leading the naked. in a fucking circle. forever.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
the blind leading the naked. in a fucking circle. forever.
Man it was a school night and I was little. Thurman Munson? That I remember, I was in finast on 95th and 3rd and the manager announced it on the pa. I didn't know it but it was the last year I played baseball in the summers. Next year was the first beach year for us. No more city summers.
Monday Night Football tonight they played the tape of Cosell announcing John Lennon's murder during the game, December 9 1980. Anyone else remember that? Were you watching that game when Cosell announced it? Remember it very clearly.
December 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Man it was a school night and I was little. Thurman Munson? That I remember, I was in finast on 95th and 3rd and the manager announced it on the pa. I didn't know it but it was the last year I played baseball in the summers. Next year was the first beach year for us. No more city summers.
I'm not a huge conspiracy inventor but I can't help wishing the Tarantino-Dano-Lillard thing is a huge work; they've already shot small but crucial roles in whatever he's doing next and it'll be hilarious when it drops. I know it's like sb-zero possiblity but it would be hilarious.
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I'm not a huge conspiracy inventor but I can't help wishing the Tarantino-Dano-Lillard thing is a huge work; they've already shot small but crucial roles in whatever he's doing next and it'll be hilarious when it drops. I know it's like sb-zero possiblity but it would be hilarious.
Picture of me and the staff who operate my Bluesky account.
December 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Picture of me and the staff who operate my Bluesky account.
no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city running as well
(The opening of "Home" by Warsan Shire)
home is the mouth of a shark
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city running as well
(The opening of "Home" by Warsan Shire)
December 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city running as well
(The opening of "Home" by Warsan Shire)
home is the mouth of a shark
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city running as well
(The opening of "Home" by Warsan Shire)
I'm named for my dad, who's named for his uncle Jim. His uncle Jim was amazing at playing the accordion and doing chin-ups. He got good them at after losing most use of his legs to polio. If uncle Jim were alive he'd never stop slapping these people. And it would hurt, what with his strong arms.
Today #RFKjr is walking back life saving vaccines. We used to understand what that meant. My article, below. 🧪🗃️
When Paul woke, he couldn’t move. A tent surrounded him, too foggy to see through. The humidity was supposed to help, but in the damp darkness he felt only fear. In a scene that predates the Matrix by 50 years, he was one kid in a sea of many, each in a metal pod and plugged in to machinery. #Polio
December 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I'm named for my dad, who's named for his uncle Jim. His uncle Jim was amazing at playing the accordion and doing chin-ups. He got good them at after losing most use of his legs to polio. If uncle Jim were alive he'd never stop slapping these people. And it would hurt, what with his strong arms.
This is definitely the campiest administration ever. Like soulless evil camp with nothing but curdled want at its core.
December 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is definitely the campiest administration ever. Like soulless evil camp with nothing but curdled want at its core.