Jake Nelson
@jakenelson.bsky.social
Ex-politics, retail, games, tokusatsu. Just some guy, I guess?
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Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.
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Jesus has an opportunity to do the funniest thing, while also making a fucking killing on Polymarket.
February 10, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Jesus has an opportunity to do the funniest thing, while also making a fucking killing on Polymarket.
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“Who is buying ‘Melania’ tickets?”
February 10, 2026 at 10:47 PM
“Who is buying ‘Melania’ tickets?”
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Get rekt AIPAC
BIG NEWS FROM NJ-11: former Rep. Tom Malinowski concedes, congratulates Analilia Mejia on a positive and well-run campaign, blames AIPAC for his loss, and promises to vigorously oppose anyone AIPAC backs against Mejia in June
February 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Get rekt AIPAC
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They still can cook on X The Everything App
February 11, 2026 at 12:22 AM
They still can cook on X The Everything App
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The Summer Games includes several events based on or derived from combat, therefore the Winter Games should include an event based on snowball fighting. This could be team, 1v1 or target-based.
February 10, 2026 at 12:12 PM
The Summer Games includes several events based on or derived from combat, therefore the Winter Games should include an event based on snowball fighting. This could be team, 1v1 or target-based.
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just learned "stint thy clap", a 14th century way to tell someone to shut up, and now i cannot wait for the chance to let that fly. right up there with "why don't you let that cut under your nose heal", but pithier
February 10, 2026 at 10:58 PM
just learned "stint thy clap", a 14th century way to tell someone to shut up, and now i cannot wait for the chance to let that fly. right up there with "why don't you let that cut under your nose heal", but pithier
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when they say "higher than normal call volume", I really wish they had a reference window. compared to yesterday? Compared to 1982?
February 11, 2026 at 12:53 AM
when they say "higher than normal call volume", I really wish they had a reference window. compared to yesterday? Compared to 1982?
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I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.
www.nbcnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:32 PM
I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
When Minnesota foods go national, people tend to forget they're Minnesotan. Examples include the pizza roll and the modern version of the egg roll (both invented by the same guy, Jeno Paulucci)
While Buffalo wings are now a ubiquitous app all over the country, not every regional food goes national. What cuisine from YOUR region do you most want to share with the country/world?
February 11, 2026 at 1:36 AM
When Minnesota foods go national, people tend to forget they're Minnesotan. Examples include the pizza roll and the modern version of the egg roll (both invented by the same guy, Jeno Paulucci)
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This is not even the first time a member of ICE has been publicly caught up in a sex trafficking sting in *Bloomington* specifically.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
February 10, 2026 at 9:12 PM
This is not even the first time a member of ICE has been publicly caught up in a sex trafficking sting in *Bloomington* specifically.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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R1: No we're not hiring on the tenure track because our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track
R1: No one could know how this happened
R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track
R1: No one could know how this happened
"Warren stated that job outcomes were a 'key factor' in the decision-making process—within the previous decade, only a 'tiny percentage' of PhD students who graduated from the LCS program went on to receive tenure track at an R1 institution." An absurd metric & sign of the conservatism of higher ed.
February 10, 2026 at 2:32 PM
R1: No we're not hiring on the tenure track because our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track
R1: No one could know how this happened
R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track
R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track
R1: No one could know how this happened
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S/o to this joke I played on our lab tech in 2019
February 10, 2026 at 2:25 PM
S/o to this joke I played on our lab tech in 2019
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This is why primarying people matters. Suddenly everybody involved in this race is in a firm spine contest.
GOLDMAN: Do you know what other regimes in the 20th century required similar proof of citizenship?
LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that
GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one?
LYONS: This is the wrong type of question
LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that
GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one?
LYONS: This is the wrong type of question
February 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
This is why primarying people matters. Suddenly everybody involved in this race is in a firm spine contest.
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
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i'm a fan of the rhetorical one-two of "we're coming after you in this life and in the next"
February 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
i'm a fan of the rhetorical one-two of "we're coming after you in this life and in the next"
I mean they wrote off Epstein and now this season he gets more screentime in flashbacks than he ever did alive
Goddammit I hate that all these assholes have these intertwined plot arcs, writers need to actually write some of these characters off for once.
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I mean they wrote off Epstein and now this season he gets more screentime in flashbacks than he ever did alive
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i love it when a big account platforms some random asshole and starts a whole conversation about them when i, and everyone else, could have just never known who that asshole was.
February 10, 2026 at 8:19 PM
i love it when a big account platforms some random asshole and starts a whole conversation about them when i, and everyone else, could have just never known who that asshole was.
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The plant predates the current use by almost a century - it was built in the early 1900s as the power plant for the Minneapolis streetcar system when it was being switched over from horse-pulled streetcars to electrical power.
After the streetcars were destroyed by the mob (yes really) the U got it.
After the streetcars were destroyed by the mob (yes really) the U got it.
February 10, 2026 at 3:31 PM
The plant predates the current use by almost a century - it was built in the early 1900s as the power plant for the Minneapolis streetcar system when it was being switched over from horse-pulled streetcars to electrical power.
After the streetcars were destroyed by the mob (yes really) the U got it.
After the streetcars were destroyed by the mob (yes really) the U got it.
Age verification? I can still do a decent (ok, terrible but recognizable) impression of my 2400 baud modem singing the song of its people as it connected me to a BBS
Age verification? I used to record music off the radio with cassette tapes.
Age verification? The first PC I built had Windows 3.1 installed on it.
February 10, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Age verification? I can still do a decent (ok, terrible but recognizable) impression of my 2400 baud modem singing the song of its people as it connected me to a BBS
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please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro
February 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro
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delete everything here except the first seven words and you’re getting somewhere
I won’t support additional funding for ICE unless we put guardrails in place to make sure ICE is better trained and actually focused on making our communities safer.
February 10, 2026 at 6:49 AM
delete everything here except the first seven words and you’re getting somewhere