Werner Herzog's Bear
@jasontebbe.bsky.social
Teacher, historian, and blogger. Born and raised in Nebraska, working in NYC, living in Jersey.
Substack: I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused https://jasontebbe.substack.com/
Substack: I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused https://jasontebbe.substack.com/
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the single most annoying thing about cigarettes, which are terrible and will kill you, is how fucking cool people can make them look
I mean come on
I mean come on
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
the single most annoying thing about cigarettes, which are terrible and will kill you, is how fucking cool people can make them look
I mean come on
I mean come on
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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
Today I’m thinking about my uncle who told me at his sister’s wake that he wasn’t capable of crying at funerals because he saw too many people die as a medical orderly in Vietnam.
November 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Today I’m thinking about my uncle who told me at his sister’s wake that he wasn’t capable of crying at funerals because he saw too many people die as a medical orderly in Vietnam.
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When I'm President, all my economic data is coming from Waffle House
When I’m President, all my economic data is coming from Mattress Firm.
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
When I'm President, all my economic data is coming from Waffle House
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Pete Hegseth coming out to address the troops on Veterans Day
Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Pete Hegseth coming out to address the troops on Veterans Day
I think we remember the Edmund Fitzgerald because it reminds us of how puny humans are in this cruel universe so completely indifferent to our existence.
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I think we remember the Edmund Fitzgerald because it reminds us of how puny humans are in this cruel universe so completely indifferent to our existence.
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White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!”
That’s quite a legacy.
That’s quite a legacy.
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!”
That’s quite a legacy.
That’s quite a legacy.
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Lol menopausal women just finally have the ability to dump their lame ass husbands because the kids are grown.
The great @kieraevebutler.bsky.social and I took a look at the many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement today... including the claims that menopause causes divorce + death, & that the FDA is leading the charge against the "male-dominated medical profession" 🫠
For @motherjones.com:
For @motherjones.com:
The many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement
No, it doesn't kill women or cause divorce.
www.motherjones.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Lol menopausal women just finally have the ability to dump their lame ass husbands because the kids are grown.
Rewatching California Split, which gets more and more relevant with each passing year in this gambling-ascendant culture. Young men who like betting should watch it to scare them straight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Rewatching California Split, which gets more and more relevant with each passing year in this gambling-ascendant culture. Young men who like betting should watch it to scare them straight.
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I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
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Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
Just in time for the holidays lol. (I assume this is like his supposed plans to "fix health care," just some bullshit to throw out to the hogs so they think he cares about the issue.)
TRUMP: US TO LAUNCH NEW AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM WITHIN 2–3 WEEKS
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Just in time for the holidays lol. (I assume this is like his supposed plans to "fix health care," just some bullshit to throw out to the hogs so they think he cares about the issue.)
Oates’ tweet reminded me of my grandfather. He worked hard all his life for little money and only had an 8th grade education. Yet he read constantly, was always full of kindness and good cheer, and people drove hundreds of miles to his funeral. A far richer man than Elon will ever be.
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Oates’ tweet reminded me of my grandfather. He worked hard all his life for little money and only had an 8th grade education. Yet he read constantly, was always full of kindness and good cheer, and people drove hundreds of miles to his funeral. A far richer man than Elon will ever be.
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Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
Something that I know holds me back in life is my disinterest in “networking.” I’m at a conference now and it’s lunch. Instead of schmoozing I’m watching the waves crash on the beach. Why deny myself this? I know forming fake relationships is how to get ahead but I don’t wanna.
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Something that I know holds me back in life is my disinterest in “networking.” I’m at a conference now and it’s lunch. Instead of schmoozing I’m watching the waves crash on the beach. Why deny myself this? I know forming fake relationships is how to get ahead but I don’t wanna.
Going to bring back the 1850s and start calling Democrats who capitulate doughfaces.
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Going to bring back the 1850s and start calling Democrats who capitulate doughfaces.
Republican electeds are afraid of their base voters, elected Democrats aren’t, which is why the Republicans win every game of chicken. It’s up to us to change this dynamic. Primary primary primary!
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Republican electeds are afraid of their base voters, elected Democrats aren’t, which is why the Republicans win every game of chicken. It’s up to us to change this dynamic. Primary primary primary!
My current take on the possible deal.
Well now we will see a lot of suffering and maybe the low info normie swing voters will be shocked so hard that they finally pull their heads out of their dumb asses but I’m not holding my breath.
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
My current take on the possible deal.
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Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.
I called my Dem Senators and told them to hold the line.
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I called my Dem Senators and told them to hold the line.
True but many are embracing it to the max. The thing is, the ones rejecting it are usually the most interested in learning and those embracing it are the least and for some reason educational institutions have decided to ignore their most engaged students and pander to the least motivated to learn.
A bit of good news: I think you'd all be pleasantly surprised by how resistant the undergrads are becoming to AI. Institutions have lost their minds on this front, but more and more the students themselves are saying "no" to this horribly corrosive technology.
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
True but many are embracing it to the max. The thing is, the ones rejecting it are usually the most interested in learning and those embracing it are the least and for some reason educational institutions have decided to ignore their most engaged students and pander to the least motivated to learn.
If the govt is reopened with ACA subsidies gone it would be terrible but it would also force people to see the real material harms of electing Republicans.
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If the govt is reopened with ACA subsidies gone it would be terrible but it would also force people to see the real material harms of electing Republicans.
Just went to the Dali Museum in St Pete’s, which was a reminder of the power of great art to move my soul. The idea that AI slop can replace it in a spiritual level is absurd.
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Just went to the Dali Museum in St Pete’s, which was a reminder of the power of great art to move my soul. The idea that AI slop can replace it in a spiritual level is absurd.
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Candidates who ran on anti-trans messaging in 2025 lost badly.
On political messaging and strategy, the logical conclusion is that the driving factors of Trump’s 2024 win were Trump-specific, not an anti-trans ad.
Polls show “live and let live” is much more popular. It’s an elite fixation.
On political messaging and strategy, the logical conclusion is that the driving factors of Trump’s 2024 win were Trump-specific, not an anti-trans ad.
Polls show “live and let live” is much more popular. It’s an elite fixation.
the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election.
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Candidates who ran on anti-trans messaging in 2025 lost badly.
On political messaging and strategy, the logical conclusion is that the driving factors of Trump’s 2024 win were Trump-specific, not an anti-trans ad.
Polls show “live and let live” is much more popular. It’s an elite fixation.
On political messaging and strategy, the logical conclusion is that the driving factors of Trump’s 2024 win were Trump-specific, not an anti-trans ad.
Polls show “live and let live” is much more popular. It’s an elite fixation.