Jamie DeSalu
@jamiedesalu.bsky.social
International development stuff, travel stuff, 90s music stuff, RADwood-era car stuff. Seldom post but diligently read everything you post, swearsies
iOS' Liquid Glass continues to give me strong OS X "Aqua" vibes. Like we've speedrun '80s and '90s nostalgia only to settle down and build a house in the aughts
October 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
iOS' Liquid Glass continues to give me strong OS X "Aqua" vibes. Like we've speedrun '80s and '90s nostalgia only to settle down and build a house in the aughts
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Honestly the wildest thing about r/NewTubers, the subreddit for aspiring YouTubers, is how many posts are like "okay, I've built my channel, registered for AdSense, downloaded CapCut, built a library of memes, and now I just need to decide what to make videos about."
February 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Honestly the wildest thing about r/NewTubers, the subreddit for aspiring YouTubers, is how many posts are like "okay, I've built my channel, registered for AdSense, downloaded CapCut, built a library of memes, and now I just need to decide what to make videos about."
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One of the things about the destruction of the middle class is that it’s created an expectation for a lot of people where you either have to be a multimillionaire or consider yourself a failure and that means that 99.9999% of people who fall into that are going to lose their minds
July 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
One of the things about the destruction of the middle class is that it’s created an expectation for a lot of people where you either have to be a multimillionaire or consider yourself a failure and that means that 99.9999% of people who fall into that are going to lose their minds
Tried to write 'jovian moons' and my phone autocorrected it to 'hobbies Gantt'
Just saying if Siri were a person I'd dump them for their shockingly poor vocabulary
Just saying if Siri were a person I'd dump them for their shockingly poor vocabulary
June 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Tried to write 'jovian moons' and my phone autocorrected it to 'hobbies Gantt'
Just saying if Siri were a person I'd dump them for their shockingly poor vocabulary
Just saying if Siri were a person I'd dump them for their shockingly poor vocabulary
I've never seen a single frame of Murder, She Wrote but I will religiously watch every minute of @pushinguproses.bsky.social series *about* Murder, She Wrote until the stars fall from the sky
GOOD MORNING. WAKE UP. New Murder, She Wrote video just dropped! So this episode wasn’t the strongest, but Ethan Embry is in it. And IRV TRIPPLEDINGER. How can one resist? youtu.be/yvEZ-O8OP7U?... Please consider commenting and reposting so more people can experience this unhinged show.
That Time Murder, She Wrote Kinda Sucked
YouTube video by PushingUpRoses
youtu.be
January 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I've never seen a single frame of Murder, She Wrote but I will religiously watch every minute of @pushinguproses.bsky.social series *about* Murder, She Wrote until the stars fall from the sky
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I voted for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz today. If this gets 1k RTs, I'll poast on BlueSky.
October 28, 2024 at 11:30 PM
I voted for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz today. If this gets 1k RTs, I'll poast on BlueSky.
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The formative political event for my generation was not actually (only) 9/11. It was Florida 2000. We learned that we, as a country, were perfectly fine with not counting everyone's votes, that the institutions (esp. SCOTUS) were not going to save us, & that one party didn't believe in democracy.
Normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform.
My entire adult life has been one long episode of the Republican Party trying to keep people's votes from being counted. It's obscene. We shouldn't tolerate it anymore.
My entire adult life has been one long episode of the Republican Party trying to keep people's votes from being counted. It's obscene. We shouldn't tolerate it anymore.
The Georgia GOP sued Fulton County (Atlanta+) last night for keeping some election offices open this weekend to accept hand-returned absentee ballots. They claimed this was illegal, though it clearly isn't, and the case has already been tossed. Video of today's hearing below! (h/t Stephen Fowler)
November 3, 2024 at 5:48 PM
The formative political event for my generation was not actually (only) 9/11. It was Florida 2000. We learned that we, as a country, were perfectly fine with not counting everyone's votes, that the institutions (esp. SCOTUS) were not going to save us, & that one party didn't believe in democracy.
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No one is a liberal or a conservative in this election
Either you are an American voting for the continuity of the American project under its constitution,
Or you want to burn it to the ground.
I believe in America, what we stand for in the world, and the darkness without us
Either you are an American voting for the continuity of the American project under its constitution,
Or you want to burn it to the ground.
I believe in America, what we stand for in the world, and the darkness without us
November 2, 2024 at 12:09 AM
No one is a liberal or a conservative in this election
Either you are an American voting for the continuity of the American project under its constitution,
Or you want to burn it to the ground.
I believe in America, what we stand for in the world, and the darkness without us
Either you are an American voting for the continuity of the American project under its constitution,
Or you want to burn it to the ground.
I believe in America, what we stand for in the world, and the darkness without us
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This is basically how we got Milton Friedman, how we got Ronald Reagan, and how we got the up-by-your-own-bootstraps, winner-take-all, profits-over-people economy that's leaving so many Americans (and especially women and moms) still struggling today.
Let me explain... 🧵 1/
Let me explain... 🧵 1/
September 26, 2024 at 9:53 PM
This is basically how we got Milton Friedman, how we got Ronald Reagan, and how we got the up-by-your-own-bootstraps, winner-take-all, profits-over-people economy that's leaving so many Americans (and especially women and moms) still struggling today.
Let me explain... 🧵 1/
Let me explain... 🧵 1/
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it’s truly astounding to be periodically reminded that huge numbers of people have voted for that fucking creature and will do so again
One of those weeks where I'm just in disbelief that this election will be a nail-biter. Trump is so manifestly unfit for any office that I cannot imagine voting for him if you're paying attention at all. There's no case for him that doesn't come from a place of hate & resentment
September 5, 2024 at 9:05 PM
it’s truly astounding to be periodically reminded that huge numbers of people have voted for that fucking creature and will do so again
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If you’re a white teenage boy who travels across state lines to gun down two BLM protesters in Kenosha, that’s justifiable homicide and you get to walk free
If you’re a black teenage girl who finally kills the man who’s been sex trafficking you in Kenosha, you’ll get sent to jail for 11 years.
If you’re a black teenage girl who finally kills the man who’s been sex trafficking you in Kenosha, you’ll get sent to jail for 11 years.
Breaking news: A judge sentenced Chrystul Kizer charged with killing the man who sex trafficked her as a teenager to 11 years in prison plus five years of extended supervision.
Chrystul Kizer sentenced to 11 years for killing her sex trafficker
The decision ends a six-year legal saga that sought to test the limits of the court’s leniency toward survivors of sexual abuse who commit resulting crimes.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 19, 2024 at 6:26 PM
If you’re a white teenage boy who travels across state lines to gun down two BLM protesters in Kenosha, that’s justifiable homicide and you get to walk free
If you’re a black teenage girl who finally kills the man who’s been sex trafficking you in Kenosha, you’ll get sent to jail for 11 years.
If you’re a black teenage girl who finally kills the man who’s been sex trafficking you in Kenosha, you’ll get sent to jail for 11 years.
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A DISCWORLD PRIMER*
*or, why should I read this thing that everyone keeps going on about?
Come on in, sit down, pull up a chair. If you have followup questions, feel free to ask me or @ankhmorporkcity.watch, we're always happy to help.
(1/a lot, idk, we'll figure this out as we go)
*or, why should I read this thing that everyone keeps going on about?
Come on in, sit down, pull up a chair. If you have followup questions, feel free to ask me or @ankhmorporkcity.watch, we're always happy to help.
(1/a lot, idk, we'll figure this out as we go)
July 17, 2023 at 11:11 PM
A DISCWORLD PRIMER*
*or, why should I read this thing that everyone keeps going on about?
Come on in, sit down, pull up a chair. If you have followup questions, feel free to ask me or @ankhmorporkcity.watch, we're always happy to help.
(1/a lot, idk, we'll figure this out as we go)
*or, why should I read this thing that everyone keeps going on about?
Come on in, sit down, pull up a chair. If you have followup questions, feel free to ask me or @ankhmorporkcity.watch, we're always happy to help.
(1/a lot, idk, we'll figure this out as we go)
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I labored all week in the Shitposting Mines to bring you this article, hope you enjoy it 🫡
Hey, So That Couch-Fucking Thing Is Officially Counterdisinformation Now
It's couches all the way down, so keep up the great work, America!
www.wonkette.com
August 10, 2024 at 5:12 PM
I labored all week in the Shitposting Mines to bring you this article, hope you enjoy it 🫡
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I want to tag in on this long but fruitful thread to talk a little bit about the social construction of reality and the role that in-group consensus plays in determining what people understand to be true. 1/x
Here's an analogy that perhaps captures the predicament the NYTimes finds itself in (and is navigating poorly). Let's say there's been a 40+ year effort on the part of flat earthers to take over the field of geography. They have their own publications, a growing stable of "public intellectuals"....
It's not surprising, but still incredibly disappointing, that an institution like the New York Times would so consistently choose to present the world not as it is, but as Donald Trump wants it to be.
August 3, 2024 at 6:23 PM
I want to tag in on this long but fruitful thread to talk a little bit about the social construction of reality and the role that in-group consensus plays in determining what people understand to be true. 1/x
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I've been saying for weeks that news media leapt on the debate performance and ensuing leaks from unhappy Democrats because the race was been static for a long time.
July 28, 2024 at 1:10 PM
I've been saying for weeks that news media leapt on the debate performance and ensuing leaks from unhappy Democrats because the race was been static for a long time.
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[U.S. Postal Service]
Me: *hands over change of address form*
Clerk: Ma'am, this just says "bathtub”
Me: I live there now
Clerk: We can't send mail to a bathtub
Me: Yay
Me: *hands over change of address form*
Clerk: Ma'am, this just says "bathtub”
Me: I live there now
Clerk: We can't send mail to a bathtub
Me: Yay
August 3, 2023 at 12:55 AM
[U.S. Postal Service]
Me: *hands over change of address form*
Clerk: Ma'am, this just says "bathtub”
Me: I live there now
Clerk: We can't send mail to a bathtub
Me: Yay
Me: *hands over change of address form*
Clerk: Ma'am, this just says "bathtub”
Me: I live there now
Clerk: We can't send mail to a bathtub
Me: Yay
We can talk about Dem’s failure on political comms since, oh, forever, but the fact they haven’t specifically tried to make every voter in America intimately familiar with the details of narcissistic personality disorder (as part of a broader behavior change communication campaign) is mind-boggling
to recap:
he doesn’t have cash
he can’t get cash
he owes over half a billion dollars
he’s running for president
he doesn’t have cash
he can’t get cash
he owes over half a billion dollars
he’s running for president
March 18, 2024 at 7:39 PM
We can talk about Dem’s failure on political comms since, oh, forever, but the fact they haven’t specifically tried to make every voter in America intimately familiar with the details of narcissistic personality disorder (as part of a broader behavior change communication campaign) is mind-boggling
I'm the same and in a roundabout way this fundamentally gets to the core of why—years later—I somehow still lament the loss of Rugby Ralph Lauren and early Jack Wills
i will confess that i like the Ivy style and it is basically how i dress
February 10, 2024 at 12:51 AM
I'm the same and in a roundabout way this fundamentally gets to the core of why—years later—I somehow still lament the loss of Rugby Ralph Lauren and early Jack Wills
Can't believe we had a whole campaign to resurrect McDonald's szechuan sauce when Concession Obsession was right there
Ben and Jerry's Concession Obsession (2001-2001): Vanilla Bean Ice Cream with nonpareils, fudge-covered crisped rice candy, peanuts dipped in fudge & a caramel candy swirl
February 8, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Can't believe we had a whole campaign to resurrect McDonald's szechuan sauce when Concession Obsession was right there
Ruefully remembering the day I realized Ben & Jerry's isn't a single serving
January 25, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Ruefully remembering the day I realized Ben & Jerry's isn't a single serving