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Jason "Bad Knees" Delaney
@jasonjdelaney.bsky.social
Increasingly decrepit father, partner, economist, teacher

LFGM, UU, upbeat guy, still recovering from an injury sustained during the cola wars

on your side, rooting for you, no matter what
I got Derek Delgaudio's AMORALMAN for my birthday last weekend and I tore through it, finished it in less than a week (got a new lamp to read by as well, which helped).

I enjoyed it quite a bit, and would recommend it
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be
One thing people kind of tell you, but not really, about middle age:

One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing

And then you'll say. Wait a second.

Fuck 'em
Darn Tough turned me on to Cute Socks and I've never looked back
November 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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what if instead we just
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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[at Tesla]
Tesla Shareholders: in recognition of your incredible gift for lowering the price of tesla stock, we would like to award you this trillion dollar bonus
Elon Musk: yeah yeah that'sa fine
Tesla Shareholders: what's the matter? you seem distracted
Musk: no i'm fine
Musk: [muttering] oates
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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People tell me all the time that any other commissioner would be just as bad as Rob Manfred but I'd sure like to find out
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Ban gambling
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Systemically, I think we should be improving affordability, building housing out massively, removing tariffs, putting pressure on healthcare costs, increasing the minimum wage

Personally, I think it's bad for everyone's mental health to constantly think about what we don't have and can't afford
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
As Tim Kinsella said, Disease teaches immunity
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"my position of 'I should have more candy and the other kids should have less candy and be beaten with sticks' made me unpopular in elementary school, but Scalia helped me find the courage to withstand the scorn of my peers as I bravely told my truth"
JUSTICE BRETT KAVANAUGH:

“[Scalia] taught us … what it meant to have a backbone, what it meant to withstand withering criticism, what it meant to be fearless, what it meant to stand up for his principles even when they weren’t popular. Especially when they weren’t popular.”
November 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
People are saying that AI is dangerous and access should maybe be restricted and I think that logic should extend to all applications of multiple regression
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Some people read this as a condemnation of people, but for me this transparent reality has always been an indication of the moral imperative to improve circumstances to allow for people's better natures to win the day.

A world where we care for one another--even for the baddies--has more good in it
In his excellent sci-fi/action trilogy "The Breach," Patrick Lee's thesis was that under the right circumstances, anybody can become the worst person in the world. (Some may require far more circumstances than others...)

And that's when we get to political science. It is a question of intent.
3/🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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We're going to have a computer do the phrenology
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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esp in the machismo subset of latino american culture, Trump's words may have just come off as 'hablar mierda' but actions do have the tendancy to speak louder than words
November 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I want to get this map tattooed on myself it’s the most beautiful map of Georgia I’ve ever seen in my life
There, my friends, is an urban-suburban-rural, multiracial coalition.
November 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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If it weren't for people living places Democrats would never win anything!
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
If you're looking for a quick Eugene Debs primer

users.wfu.edu/zulick/341/D...
Debs, Statement to the Court
users.wfu.edu
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Damn.
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Let America Be America Again
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Eugene Debs reference!!
November 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
"we won't have a state anymore" how do people say shit like this and then just move on into their lives where it's just trips to target and Starbucks and watching Netflix again
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Hell yeah
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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There are more of us than there are of them.
November 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM