JaimeL
@jaimel.bsky.social
low rent stoner verlyn klinkenbourg
I learned very late in life that advent calendars have treats of any kind in them. My aunt Peg, who was probably 10 at the time, made my mom and dad a felt calendar with a tree silhouette on top. Every day you'd unpin a small illustration she'd cut out of a magazine from a day & pin it to the tree.
everything is bonkers right now and we need a timeline cleanse. let’s play a game. if I handed you a blank check but you could ONLY spend it on an Advent calendar, what absurdly pricy collection of little treats are you buying yourself?
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I learned very late in life that advent calendars have treats of any kind in them. My aunt Peg, who was probably 10 at the time, made my mom and dad a felt calendar with a tree silhouette on top. Every day you'd unpin a small illustration she'd cut out of a magazine from a day & pin it to the tree.
"...and remember it's not the dog in the fight, it's the fight in the dog. With that let's please welcome Senator Schumer!"
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
"...and remember it's not the dog in the fight, it's the fight in the dog. With that let's please welcome Senator Schumer!"
to those who celebrate etc.
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
to those who celebrate etc.
Man, I didn't vote hard enough again.
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Man, I didn't vote hard enough again.
Leaving aside their amoral abandonment of principles and focusing just on shopping?
Unlock the shampoo. Unlock the deodorant.
I wouldn't be smiling either if my whole job was to unlock the detergent jail every time someone needed tide.
(Also? the amorality is 100% not helping.)
Unlock the shampoo. Unlock the deodorant.
I wouldn't be smiling either if my whole job was to unlock the detergent jail every time someone needed tide.
(Also? the amorality is 100% not helping.)
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Leaving aside their amoral abandonment of principles and focusing just on shopping?
Unlock the shampoo. Unlock the deodorant.
I wouldn't be smiling either if my whole job was to unlock the detergent jail every time someone needed tide.
(Also? the amorality is 100% not helping.)
Unlock the shampoo. Unlock the deodorant.
I wouldn't be smiling either if my whole job was to unlock the detergent jail every time someone needed tide.
(Also? the amorality is 100% not helping.)
One of the big problems with this is that his supermarkets suck shit and people outside of the city don't fuck with shitty supermarkets.
I swear my dirt bag supermarkets in the Hudson valley are literal palaces in comparison to the best in Brooklyn.
I swear my dirt bag supermarkets in the Hudson valley are literal palaces in comparison to the best in Brooklyn.
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
Supermarket Billionaire Reacts To Mamdani’s Win
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
www.forbes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
One of the big problems with this is that his supermarkets suck shit and people outside of the city don't fuck with shitty supermarkets.
I swear my dirt bag supermarkets in the Hudson valley are literal palaces in comparison to the best in Brooklyn.
I swear my dirt bag supermarkets in the Hudson valley are literal palaces in comparison to the best in Brooklyn.
Honestly after the whole Jared Fogel thing and with the 5 dollar footlong now costing $7.50, I bet Subway will take the dub here. Congrats guys better news than usual.
DC Sandwich guy Sean Dunn has been found not guilty in the felony footlong exploding onion and mustard case!
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Honestly after the whole Jared Fogel thing and with the 5 dollar footlong now costing $7.50, I bet Subway will take the dub here. Congrats guys better news than usual.
can see no possible problem here, soldiers are notoriously easygoing about being paid and fed.
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown trib.al/5WGvUOq
Army closes only dining facility on Kansas base due to government shutdown
The only dining facility for junior troops at the Army’s Fort Leavenworth in Kansas has been closed due to funding issues.
trib.al
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
can see no possible problem here, soldiers are notoriously easygoing about being paid and fed.
I do declare, these pale sweaty bestubbled Catholic converts really and truly do take the entire cake.
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I do declare, these pale sweaty bestubbled Catholic converts really and truly do take the entire cake.
Sure, NOW this motherfucker is up on current events.
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Sure, NOW this motherfucker is up on current events.
Honestly only want to read news in this format moving forward.
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Honestly only want to read news in this format moving forward.
My favorite weird space jam thing is I worked with a commercial editor who cut a tie-in tv spot. Production was delayed so the spot wasn't going to be finished by end of year and (details hazy and complicated) they were obligated to air a version of it by 12/31. (Contd)
you know, the original SPACE JAM was not some kind of masterpiece — it wasn’t even particularly good — but it feels like SEVEN SAMURAI compared to the sequel (watching it with my kids right now)
November 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My favorite weird space jam thing is I worked with a commercial editor who cut a tie-in tv spot. Production was delayed so the spot wasn't going to be finished by end of year and (details hazy and complicated) they were obligated to air a version of it by 12/31. (Contd)
I mean another way to think about it is I'm not sure the cows are obligated to share their impressions of the abbatoir in addition to being cut up for profit.
"But it's not gen ai it's..."
Doesn't matter. Don't care. Not worth it in any way.
"But it's not gen ai it's..."
Doesn't matter. Don't care. Not worth it in any way.
Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
November 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I mean another way to think about it is I'm not sure the cows are obligated to share their impressions of the abbatoir in addition to being cut up for profit.
"But it's not gen ai it's..."
Doesn't matter. Don't care. Not worth it in any way.
"But it's not gen ai it's..."
Doesn't matter. Don't care. Not worth it in any way.
I'll ride the mower in circles for hours chopping up leaves before I'll ever pick up a goddamned rake. Only thing I hate worse is digging postholes. And going in my particular crawl space. And when snakes are sleeping between the panels in a garage door and get chopped in pieces. And the chainsaw.
November 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I'll ride the mower in circles for hours chopping up leaves before I'll ever pick up a goddamned rake. Only thing I hate worse is digging postholes. And going in my particular crawl space. And when snakes are sleeping between the panels in a garage door and get chopped in pieces. And the chainsaw.
Nazism is of course the ne plus ultra here but at this late stage of my of my life I believe deeply democrats were better served by Hart than the Clintons. Character & past judgment are deeply important & we treat their lack as acceptable gaps on a resume.
Public office is not your redemption arc.
Public office is not your redemption arc.
“What if his Nazism is behind him?”
I’m sorry but no… everyone else had the good sense to not be a Nazi At ANY point in their lives
If you can’t resist stupidity we cannot support you
I’m sorry but no… everyone else had the good sense to not be a Nazi At ANY point in their lives
If you can’t resist stupidity we cannot support you
November 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Nazism is of course the ne plus ultra here but at this late stage of my of my life I believe deeply democrats were better served by Hart than the Clintons. Character & past judgment are deeply important & we treat their lack as acceptable gaps on a resume.
Public office is not your redemption arc.
Public office is not your redemption arc.
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The Cornerstone of Robert E. Lee’s Army: Confederate Slaves at Gettysburg 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
The Cornerstone of Robert E. Lee’s Army: Confederate Slaves at Gettysburg
My next book project now has a working title.
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The Cornerstone of Robert E. Lee’s Army: Confederate Slaves at Gettysburg 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Just once I'd like this guy, who makes a big deal out of his not-fancy life, reported on as a hoarder so profoundly mentally ill that he hoards the ability to buy things. People should have protected him from himself. Just an unenviable wretch.
Report on all of them like that.
Report on all of them like that.
Berkshire's operating earnings jump 34%, Buffett buys back no stock and raises cash hoard to $381 billion
Berkshire's operating earnings jump 34%, Buffett buys back no stock and raises cash hoard to $381 billion
Berkshire's operating profit generated from the conglomerate's wholly owned businesses including insurance and railroads jumped 34% in the third quarter.
cnb.cx
November 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Just once I'd like this guy, who makes a big deal out of his not-fancy life, reported on as a hoarder so profoundly mentally ill that he hoards the ability to buy things. People should have protected him from himself. Just an unenviable wretch.
Report on all of them like that.
Report on all of them like that.
The thing with the Maine guy? He's not even in office! You don't have to defend a flawed dude who has, so far, said "I'd like to run for Senate on the democratic line next year." No! You can't, Nazi tattoo guy! Go get a different job!
Maine can do better. So can Democrats, despite appearances.
Maine can do better. So can Democrats, despite appearances.
October 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The thing with the Maine guy? He's not even in office! You don't have to defend a flawed dude who has, so far, said "I'd like to run for Senate on the democratic line next year." No! You can't, Nazi tattoo guy! Go get a different job!
Maine can do better. So can Democrats, despite appearances.
Maine can do better. So can Democrats, despite appearances.
Sometimes a pinned post is an instant follow.
October 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Sometimes a pinned post is an instant follow.
Sure! but before we do, just to be clear I am not voting for you or your Nazi friend.
One of my best friends ran with 1%’s for decades and has an SS symbol on the back of his neck. There are few people I trust more. Let’s move on.
October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Sure! but before we do, just to be clear I am not voting for you or your Nazi friend.
The answer even for bright moderately involved people is surprisingly little. Probably a comparable fraction could name three general managers in any sport for a team they don't root for, or like could explain why they have a dissenting opinion on a cy young winner. It's a whole occupation!
I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The answer even for bright moderately involved people is surprisingly little. Probably a comparable fraction could name three general managers in any sport for a team they don't root for, or like could explain why they have a dissenting opinion on a cy young winner. It's a whole occupation!
If I were making a movie about a white guy whose black friends gave him a pass on saying "it" but didn't tell him that every time he did he would visibly become physically more hideous and wounded looking I would 100% cast Michael Rappaport.
October 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
If I were making a movie about a white guy whose black friends gave him a pass on saying "it" but didn't tell him that every time he did he would visibly become physically more hideous and wounded looking I would 100% cast Michael Rappaport.
Someone will eventually figure out how the soylent/ssri/Rx speed/boner pill/k cocktail worked as a mechanism of psychopathy.
At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Someone will eventually figure out how the soylent/ssri/Rx speed/boner pill/k cocktail worked as a mechanism of psychopathy.
Look man I've given up on traveling for pleasure, the dream of a small place by the sea, a dignified retirement, reliable and affordable healthcare, and a free and decent society fuck outta here with this shit.
October 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Look man I've given up on traveling for pleasure, the dream of a small place by the sea, a dignified retirement, reliable and affordable healthcare, and a free and decent society fuck outta here with this shit.
Wait.
This did that to whomst?
He dared? Come on.
He's a pair of backwards oakleys from being the worst dad at little league.
This did that to whomst?
He dared? Come on.
He's a pair of backwards oakleys from being the worst dad at little league.
October 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Wait.
This did that to whomst?
He dared? Come on.
He's a pair of backwards oakleys from being the worst dad at little league.
This did that to whomst?
He dared? Come on.
He's a pair of backwards oakleys from being the worst dad at little league.