@jerrywaller.bsky.social
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the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.
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It is flatly insane that the American economy rests upon the shared delusion that people are reading and agreeing to obvious contracts of adhesion!!!!
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
It is flatly insane that the American economy rests upon the shared delusion that people are reading and agreeing to obvious contracts of adhesion!!!!
The reward for doing more with less, is doing even more with even less.
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The reward for doing more with less, is doing even more with even less.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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I pledge to block every single Youtube channel I see posting AI generated science or history slop. Not because the AI imagery is misleading trash--which it is--but because the content is vapid and dubious. Give me kids who's passion for science or history pays for their home any day.
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I pledge to block every single Youtube channel I see posting AI generated science or history slop. Not because the AI imagery is misleading trash--which it is--but because the content is vapid and dubious. Give me kids who's passion for science or history pays for their home any day.
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"The campaign bus of Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears caught fire on Route 33 today. Earle-Sears was not aboard at the time." - @CBS19News bluevirginia.us/2025/10/roan...
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"The campaign bus of Republican gubernatorial candidate Winsome Earle-Sears caught fire on Route 33 today. Earle-Sears was not aboard at the time." - @CBS19News bluevirginia.us/2025/10/roan...
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Very cool and an honor: Interviewing Miles Caton about his phenomenal debut acting role in Sinners (and getting to be onstage when he performed!) at a 1000-strong sold-out showing at #VAFilmFest last night. Also look at my powerful calves 😅
October 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Very cool and an honor: Interviewing Miles Caton about his phenomenal debut acting role in Sinners (and getting to be onstage when he performed!) at a 1000-strong sold-out showing at #VAFilmFest last night. Also look at my powerful calves 😅
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🚫👑 protests were everywhere. @ashdashlee.bsky.social says “Appalachians don’t lick boots, and ICE belongs in sweet tea, not in Tennessee!” 19thnews.org/2025/10/kend...
The lone woman who staged a ‘No Kings’ protest in small-town West Virginia
Kendra Sullivan's one-woman stand received an outpouring of support from people in other conservative areas who "feel like a tiny blue speck in a red state."
19thnews.org
October 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🚫👑 protests were everywhere. @ashdashlee.bsky.social says “Appalachians don’t lick boots, and ICE belongs in sweet tea, not in Tennessee!” 19thnews.org/2025/10/kend...
AWS outage affecting taco acquisition, too.
Digital chaos today means your probably gonna have to come order your tacos in person
October 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
AWS outage affecting taco acquisition, too.
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Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.
#NoKings
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.
#NoKings
#NoKings
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Reader: "Can you explain why X did Y here?" Me: "First, let me ask. Do you read while also browsing on your phone?" Them: "Yes." Me: "Put down the phone. There's a whole-ass paragraph explaining why X did Y two pages before that point."
July 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Reader: "Can you explain why X did Y here?" Me: "First, let me ask. Do you read while also browsing on your phone?" Them: "Yes." Me: "Put down the phone. There's a whole-ass paragraph explaining why X did Y two pages before that point."
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All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
July 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
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I'm one of those "nostalgia makes you think shit is better than it was" but the 90s music scene was popping the fuck off. Every genre! Killer shit in rock and hip hop and dance and r&b and boy band shit and so so much good stuff around every corner.
July 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I'm one of those "nostalgia makes you think shit is better than it was" but the 90s music scene was popping the fuck off. Every genre! Killer shit in rock and hip hop and dance and r&b and boy band shit and so so much good stuff around every corner.
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A very Bluesky thing is people who agree with you but are upset because they think you should have made the point quicker, simpler, stupider, and louder
July 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
A very Bluesky thing is people who agree with you but are upset because they think you should have made the point quicker, simpler, stupider, and louder
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Part of my answer to "how'd we get here?" is an elite, institutional culture deeply opposed to calling bullshit. To do so is uncouth, uncivil, biased. Stated rationales must be taken at face value. There's no such thing as bad faith. Questioning motives is wrong. It's just debate, have some respect.
July 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Part of my answer to "how'd we get here?" is an elite, institutional culture deeply opposed to calling bullshit. To do so is uncouth, uncivil, biased. Stated rationales must be taken at face value. There's no such thing as bad faith. Questioning motives is wrong. It's just debate, have some respect.
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/3 My uncharitable view is that if someone is really loudly mad at me for liking Wagner’s art or at you for liking Hogan’s art, they are more likely highly invested in being performatively mad at people than they are highly invested in being against bigotry.
July 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
/3 My uncharitable view is that if someone is really loudly mad at me for liking Wagner’s art or at you for liking Hogan’s art, they are more likely highly invested in being performatively mad at people than they are highly invested in being against bigotry.
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July 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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In Charlottesville, Virginia (a univeristy town, with lots of bicyclists and scooter users) where there are several roads (West Main Street for example) that could use this approach to increase the safety of vulnerable road users.
Look at the entire thread.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
Look at the entire thread.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
There’s only a small amount of space between the parked cars and bike lane, but it seems to be fine (in the past this was avoided due to concerns of dooring by a passenger)
July 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
In Charlottesville, Virginia (a univeristy town, with lots of bicyclists and scooter users) where there are several roads (West Main Street for example) that could use this approach to increase the safety of vulnerable road users.
Look at the entire thread.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
Look at the entire thread.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
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In Charlottesville, VA the city has largely not been creating safe infrastructure for bicyclists, pedestrians and the diabled. I've testified before Charlottesville City Counsel, the Planning Commission and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisours about these issues.
@brenttoderian.bsky.social
@brenttoderian.bsky.social
Charlottesville judge’s decision leaves crosswalk maker with ‘mixed feelings’
Kevin Cox, the 72-year-old defendant and pedestrian safety advocate, has been ordered to fulfill 90 days of good behavior and pay a $606 fine.
www.29news.com
July 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In Charlottesville, VA the city has largely not been creating safe infrastructure for bicyclists, pedestrians and the diabled. I've testified before Charlottesville City Counsel, the Planning Commission and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisours about these issues.
@brenttoderian.bsky.social
@brenttoderian.bsky.social
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“anything that might possibly benefit a black person is anti-white discrimination” rests on the unspoken belief in black inferiority
July 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“anything that might possibly benefit a black person is anti-white discrimination” rests on the unspoken belief in black inferiority
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This is the bird that watches you not take your cart back to the cart return at the supermarket
Think I just found my favorite Eastern Screech-owl photo ever. By Christina Evans, in the Macaulay Library: macaulaylibrary.org/asset/621156... 🪶
July 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This is the bird that watches you not take your cart back to the cart return at the supermarket
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Car buyers will now be allowed write off up to $10,000/ year in interest paid on qualifying auto loans
Car drivers can still get over $3,500 in parking tax benefits too
But, bike commuters got their $240/year benefit cut
It's not about the budget, it's a preference & subsidy for people who drive
Car drivers can still get over $3,500 in parking tax benefits too
But, bike commuters got their $240/year benefit cut
It's not about the budget, it's a preference & subsidy for people who drive
Ugh. The megabill permanently killed commuter benefits for people who bike to work.
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July 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Car buyers will now be allowed write off up to $10,000/ year in interest paid on qualifying auto loans
Car drivers can still get over $3,500 in parking tax benefits too
But, bike commuters got their $240/year benefit cut
It's not about the budget, it's a preference & subsidy for people who drive
Car drivers can still get over $3,500 in parking tax benefits too
But, bike commuters got their $240/year benefit cut
It's not about the budget, it's a preference & subsidy for people who drive
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People talk as if rooms full of high-IQ people are zones of breathtaking displays of wit and wisdom, and clarifying insight. Anyone who went to a selective institution can tell you this is horseshit, but lots of folks enjoy the illusion, for lots of reasons.
July 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
People talk as if rooms full of high-IQ people are zones of breathtaking displays of wit and wisdom, and clarifying insight. Anyone who went to a selective institution can tell you this is horseshit, but lots of folks enjoy the illusion, for lots of reasons.
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And might I add, for one who loves language, I find “viewpoint diversity” such an ugly locution, and besides, it oversimplifies what is really at stake and in crisis in US higher education.
July 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
And might I add, for one who loves language, I find “viewpoint diversity” such an ugly locution, and besides, it oversimplifies what is really at stake and in crisis in US higher education.