Jacob Blair
jblairpdx.bsky.social
Jacob Blair
@jblairpdx.bsky.social
Fix your hearts or die
So the two QBs from this 2014 CFP playoff game will be starting this weekend...
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Kurt Vonnegut's passage about Armistice Day in "Breakfast of Champions" always hit hard.

He wrote this to make sure everyone knew what we lost when we changed the name of the holiday to Veterans' Day.

www.loa.org/news-and-vie...
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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As much as I find common cause with my more radical friends I (reluctantly) oppose the hardline proposals to summarily incarcerate every ICE agent. I urge everyone to consider the centrist compromise of abolishing ICE
Veteran ICE officials @nickmiroff.bsky.social spoke with view the use of masks as an unquestionably negative development. But it’s not going away anytime soon, Miroff reports: https://theatln.tc/acMM0axK
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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The original Dem demands were:
1) Permanent ACA subsidies
2) Medicaid funding restored
3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission)

They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today.

The Senate Democrats!
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
One episode in, Death by Lightning whips
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
What a bunch of scumbags
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
nrc.nl NRC @nrc.nl · 5d
Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’
November 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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one heartening thing is i dont think germans followed the SS around calling them lil bitch asses
Video of members of the community yelling towards Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and federal officers while they conduct an immigration enforcement action Friday in Waukegan.
November 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Okay Ghosts of Mars is terrible. What was Carpenter smoking?
November 8, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Okay Christian nationalists and tech monarchists, if Western civilization is declining explain this. Check mate.
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
RFK Jr wants your kids to die, suffer, or somehow be stronger for it while all their family and friends suffer and die
First RFK Jr. wanted to take fluoride out of water and has had some success in Republican jurisdictions that think scientific evidence is for chumps.

But that wasn’t enough harm for him, so now he’s restricting kids’ access to fluoride supplements.
FDA restricts use of kids' fluoride supplements citing emerging health risks
The Food and Drug Administration is restricting the use of fluoride supplements used to strengthen children’s teeth.
apnews.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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/13 Seriously, though: if you are suffering, reach out for help. There is always hope, and things can get better, and you are not going through it alone.
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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People should use their SNAP benefits for whatever they think they need. Both because any effort you make to micromanage purchases is inefficient and cumbersome and because people who need help aren’t obligated to perform for or satisfy others in order to eat.
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Win gonna steal so many basketballs now
ok but Arcade Fire's RUMOURS is gonna rip
October 31, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Can't wait for @wtyppod.bsky.social to get new episode material.
October 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
To capture the spirit of the song, the plot will just be discussing the monster mash, not actually the monster mash
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It's clear the folks who peddle this shit have zero beliefs beyond the politicking, but also being pro-healthcare but anti-M4A means completely buying their opponents' messaging
i'm fine with a deeper focus on economic issues over social issues but man does plank 2 give the game away
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I really think we should do a whole series about facts like this:

Have you noticed that poison ivy seems worse and itchier?

It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change.

grist.org/climate/clim...
October 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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*derogatory drilling noise*
October 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I will accept a temporary glut of batshit Christmas Specials, like when Doctor Who teamed up with Kylie Minogue to stop a spaceship replica of the Titanic from crashing into Earth
You know what is a weird thing I miss about regular TV seasons?

Obligatory seasonal holiday episodes.

Like, no one dropping 8 episodes in July is going to give you an unhinged Halloween ep, a totally inappropriate murder on Christmas ep, and probably some weird Valentine's Day nonsense.
October 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM