James Cobo
@jamescobo.bsky.social
The winner of the ham battle. Capybaras, etc.
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You'd think this stuff was self explanatory, but the thread below describes 90% of the social problems I've encountered in third spaces since 2020
I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.
January 6, 2026 at 9:26 PM
You'd think this stuff was self explanatory, but the thread below describes 90% of the social problems I've encountered in third spaces since 2020
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they're gonna need to dunk me in this scitechdaily.com/anti-aging-i...
Anti-Aging Injection Regrows Knee Cartilage and Prevents Arthritis
A treatment that blocks an age-related protein restored cartilage in aging and injured joints by reprogramming existing cells rather than using stem cells. Researchers at Stanford Medicine report that...
scitechdaily.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM
they're gonna need to dunk me in this scitechdaily.com/anti-aging-i...
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why do none of these people understand how dogs work????
The former Deputy Director of the FBI is feuding with the former nominee for Attorney General of the United States..
..on the Jan 6 anniversary of an attempted insurrection so blatantly organized and yet so stupid that reporters couldn't grasp it. Do we get it now? Malevolent & stupid can coexist.
..on the Jan 6 anniversary of an attempted insurrection so blatantly organized and yet so stupid that reporters couldn't grasp it. Do we get it now? Malevolent & stupid can coexist.
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
why do none of these people understand how dogs work????
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NEW: We obtained 100 gigabytes of data from unlisted websites associated with Canary Mission, revealing their internal workings, employees, and an internal website called BlackNest where the group celebrated its “impacts”— arrests and deportations.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...
BlackNest: Inside Canary Mission’s Secret Web of Unlisted Sites
One Canary Mission-affiliated website, BlackNest, reveals the group's internal operations, plans to expand, and how they celebrate deportations and firings
www.dropsitenews.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:14 PM
NEW: We obtained 100 gigabytes of data from unlisted websites associated with Canary Mission, revealing their internal workings, employees, and an internal website called BlackNest where the group celebrated its “impacts”— arrests and deportations.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/canary-mis...
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The gasp-laugh I made at this is something I couldn’t reproduce if I tried
January 6, 2026 at 4:16 AM
The gasp-laugh I made at this is something I couldn’t reproduce if I tried
Yes to this
Walz is out of Fs: "Not a single Republican supported this, so every Minnesotan from here on, whoever uses this program, there is no bit of thanks that would go to the R legislators who did all they could to stop this ... our schools have money to pay their teachers? I'll take credit for that too."
January 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Yes to this
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guys on here: X is an important town square to debate ideas!
the people who literally run and use x:
the people who literally run and use x:
January 6, 2026 at 4:59 PM
guys on here: X is an important town square to debate ideas!
the people who literally run and use x:
the people who literally run and use x:
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lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"
January 6, 2026 at 6:45 AM
lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"
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Elon Musk is producing CSAM the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
January 6, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Elon Musk is producing CSAM the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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I kind of think that the real problem we have right now is that the billionaire class is not just moustache twirling evil, but also completely fucking insane.
January 6, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I kind of think that the real problem we have right now is that the billionaire class is not just moustache twirling evil, but also completely fucking insane.
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i understand how galling it is for americans to be offended at foreigners threatened with US military force, but one problem is that if you live in a US city you are being openly threatened with US military occupation on a day to day basis and every organ of the US government delcares you an enemy
January 6, 2026 at 1:36 AM
i understand how galling it is for americans to be offended at foreigners threatened with US military force, but one problem is that if you live in a US city you are being openly threatened with US military occupation on a day to day basis and every organ of the US government delcares you an enemy
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Joint European statement on Greenland. They moved quickly after Miller’s comments about annexation last night.
January 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Joint European statement on Greenland. They moved quickly after Miller’s comments about annexation last night.
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One thing that gives me some hope is that while Miller et al may dream of American Empire they are also apparently aware that the US has zero appetite for casualties, boots on the ground, or even economic hardship.
There are limits to building Rome with SoF, cruise missiles, and tariffs.
There are limits to building Rome with SoF, cruise missiles, and tariffs.
Here. I wrote about American threats against Greenland and the fate of NATO.
othermeans.io/p/the-next-g...
othermeans.io/p/the-next-g...
The Next Great Crisis
Greenland and the Fate of NATO
othermeans.io
January 6, 2026 at 7:27 AM
One thing that gives me some hope is that while Miller et al may dream of American Empire they are also apparently aware that the US has zero appetite for casualties, boots on the ground, or even economic hardship.
There are limits to building Rome with SoF, cruise missiles, and tariffs.
There are limits to building Rome with SoF, cruise missiles, and tariffs.
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Part of police reform in the country needs to be when you arrest people on clearly spurious reasons, the police get immediately charged with 'kidnapping + abuse of authority', which bare minimum results in them never being a police officer again + restitution and jail time.
another example of our incredibly weird status quo - this happened, the cops couldn't actually charge her, and she's been confirmed as released
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 6, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Part of police reform in the country needs to be when you arrest people on clearly spurious reasons, the police get immediately charged with 'kidnapping + abuse of authority', which bare minimum results in them never being a police officer again + restitution and jail time.
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“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.”
Monstrously cruel.
Monstrously cruel.
Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:20 PM
“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.”
Monstrously cruel.
Monstrously cruel.
Imagine taking steps to improve your mental health so that you can pay more attention to Ohio
January 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Imagine taking steps to improve your mental health so that you can pay more attention to Ohio
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All of the arguments about how futile or counterproductive or whatever impeachment would be fall flat when you're reminded Trump genuinely does not want to be impeached again, and that's the main reason he cares at all about the outcome of the midterms.
Trump: "You gotta win the midterms. Because if we don't win the midterms, they'll find a reason to impeach me. I'll get impeached."
January 6, 2026 at 4:35 PM
All of the arguments about how futile or counterproductive or whatever impeachment would be fall flat when you're reminded Trump genuinely does not want to be impeached again, and that's the main reason he cares at all about the outcome of the midterms.
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starting a greek restaurant called the widening gyro
January 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
starting a greek restaurant called the widening gyro
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one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is
January 3, 2026 at 4:24 PM
one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is
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the entire contradiction at the heart of the last 15 years of dem dysfunction has been simultaneously insisting the only mechanism for punishing republican malfeasance is the vote while also adopting a posture of bipartisan comity with those very politicians voters are supposed to be disciplining.
he should be saying their failures to act are grave violations of their oaths of office, a disgrace to the senate, blah blah blah. he should be making the case to the public to be mad, not dumping it on our laps and saying “you do something about it”
January 6, 2026 at 6:06 AM
the entire contradiction at the heart of the last 15 years of dem dysfunction has been simultaneously insisting the only mechanism for punishing republican malfeasance is the vote while also adopting a posture of bipartisan comity with those very politicians voters are supposed to be disciplining.
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the problem with schumer’s statement is not that he says the GOP needs to act, that’s factually true, it’s that he says if they don’t they’ll hear about it *from voters* outsourcing responsibility for accountability to the general public
January 6, 2026 at 5:57 AM
the problem with schumer’s statement is not that he says the GOP needs to act, that’s factually true, it’s that he says if they don’t they’ll hear about it *from voters* outsourcing responsibility for accountability to the general public
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I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.
January 6, 2026 at 7:17 AM
I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.
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it’s going to be weird going back to work and people talking like everything is normal. like in a final fantasy game when someone’s summoned a meteor from hell to destroy the planet and the villagers still only talk about the big chocobo pageant coming up
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM
it’s going to be weird going back to work and people talking like everything is normal. like in a final fantasy game when someone’s summoned a meteor from hell to destroy the planet and the villagers still only talk about the big chocobo pageant coming up
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'COLTS: their season followed the exact trajectory of the plot of "Flowers for Algernon"' is gonna stay with me
COLTS: their season followed the exact trajectory of the plot of "Flowers for Algernon"
RAVENS: guys, I mean...
DOLPHINS: stink
BENGALS: the opposite of fun
CHIEFS: that's a wrap, folks
BROWNS: yeah fire the coach that'll fix it
RAIDERS: yeah fire the coach, that'll fix it
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RAVENS: guys, I mean...
DOLPHINS: stink
BENGALS: the opposite of fun
CHIEFS: that's a wrap, folks
BROWNS: yeah fire the coach that'll fix it
RAIDERS: yeah fire the coach, that'll fix it
2/
January 6, 2026 at 3:33 AM
'COLTS: their season followed the exact trajectory of the plot of "Flowers for Algernon"' is gonna stay with me