Jim
@jimc5.bsky.social
#BList baseball, books, biking, beans, beach
#girldad, retired EE, enjoys Disney theme parks, fantasy baseball, cycling and coffee. Married to the smartest woman I know. 74.9% chance I will follow a fellow Jim.
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#girldad, retired EE, enjoys Disney theme parks, fantasy baseball, cycling and coffee. Married to the smartest woman I know. 74.9% chance I will follow a fellow Jim.
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Jim
@jimc5.bsky.social
· Oct 13
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Dudes rock, immigrants rock, New York fucking rules
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Dudes rock, immigrants rock, New York fucking rules
They made up the most fantastical justifications to avoid saying this about Iraq.
They aren't even lying badly anymore.
They aren't even lying badly anymore.
WATTERS: Taking out a dictator in Venezuela -- how does that help the average American?
JD VANCE: First of all, what it means is we're gonna be able to control the incredible natural resources of Venezuela
JD VANCE: First of all, what it means is we're gonna be able to control the incredible natural resources of Venezuela
January 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
They made up the most fantastical justifications to avoid saying this about Iraq.
They aren't even lying badly anymore.
They aren't even lying badly anymore.
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New quest just dropped.😋
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:39 PM
New quest just dropped.😋
RFK Jr. does not care if you die.
January 9, 2026 at 12:43 PM
RFK Jr. does not care if you die.
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Worth reading to the end.
This was one of our most-read pieces way back in 2015. Unfortunately, it is still relevant today.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
Facepalm Pilot: Where Technology Meets Stupidity: An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar
Depending on whom you ask, the use of the active voice over the passive is arguably the most fundamental writer’s maxim, thought to lend we...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Worth reading to the end.
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Fiesta could tie in a sponsorship for their finely crafted bowls. The Fiesta Bowl Fiesta Bowl.
January 9, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Fiesta could tie in a sponsorship for their finely crafted bowls. The Fiesta Bowl Fiesta Bowl.
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“A theater professor at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee who was fired in September for his “insensitive” social media post after Charlie Kirk’s assassination is back on the job and will receive a $500,000 settlement.”😃
January 8, 2026 at 5:57 PM
“A theater professor at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee who was fired in September for his “insensitive” social media post after Charlie Kirk’s assassination is back on the job and will receive a $500,000 settlement.”😃
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NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.
January 9, 2026 at 12:55 AM
NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.
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The paragraph just before this one goes particularly hard: “Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.”
January 9, 2026 at 12:30 AM
The paragraph just before this one goes particularly hard: “Vance knows. He doesn't care. Vance’s twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity has been repudiated by two popes. His Catholicism seems to be little more than a political prop, a tool only for his career ambitions and desire for power.”
They’re effectively flat Earthers, so showing them a globe wouldn’t help
per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing
Why is Trump fixated on Greenland? @sbg1.bsky.social recalls what he told us in 2021: "I said, 'Why don’t we have that?' You take a look at a map...I love maps. And I always said 'Look at the size of this, it’s massive and that should be part of the United States.'" www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
January 9, 2026 at 12:55 AM
They’re effectively flat Earthers, so showing them a globe wouldn’t help
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"I urge any who are involved in the administration of the current immigration enforcement regime at any level to seek the counsel of their clergy, given my urgent pastoral concern for the moral and spiritual injury that their participation is causing them." - Bp. Rob Price of Dallas, 1/1/2026
January 7, 2026 at 8:09 PM
"I urge any who are involved in the administration of the current immigration enforcement regime at any level to seek the counsel of their clergy, given my urgent pastoral concern for the moral and spiritual injury that their participation is causing them." - Bp. Rob Price of Dallas, 1/1/2026
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Like there’s a ton of individual issues but the broader problem is that there’s an assault on giving a shit about anyone besides yourself, nihilism that tells people the only way to prevent getting hurt is to hurt enough other people and that sickness is filtering into the bones of everything.
January 7, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Like there’s a ton of individual issues but the broader problem is that there’s an assault on giving a shit about anyone besides yourself, nihilism that tells people the only way to prevent getting hurt is to hurt enough other people and that sickness is filtering into the bones of everything.
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This is an article I keep coming back to with growing frustration, as I see so many of our mainstream outlets refusing to adapt to an authoritarian regime, and often capitulating to the regime. This particular quote from a Polish journalist strikes me as especially important today.
January 8, 2026 at 11:24 AM
This is an article I keep coming back to with growing frustration, as I see so many of our mainstream outlets refusing to adapt to an authoritarian regime, and often capitulating to the regime. This particular quote from a Polish journalist strikes me as especially important today.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
Don't let these fuckers grind you down
Don't let these leeches suck you dry
You've got the heart of a lion
You've got the strength to survive
Time is their punishment
They'll eat each other alive
Don't let these leeches suck you dry
You've got the heart of a lion
You've got the strength to survive
Time is their punishment
They'll eat each other alive
January 8, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
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oldhead advice from an oldhead.
every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown"
and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work
gotta build for long term
every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown"
and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work
gotta build for long term
January 8, 2026 at 7:32 AM
oldhead advice from an oldhead.
every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown"
and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work
gotta build for long term
every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown"
and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work
gotta build for long term
Imagine a small country with oil negotiating a contract with ExxonMobil. Then Marco Rubio walks in and says, ExxonMobil’s percentage needs to go up, or else.
Tell me that’s “free trade” or not a contract that could rightly be nullified by a local court.
Tell me that’s “free trade” or not a contract that could rightly be nullified by a local court.
“.. Mr. Trump did not give a precise time range for how long the United States would remain Venezuela’s political overlord. Would it be three months? Six months? A year? Longer?
“I would say much longer,” the president replied.
@nytimes.com 🇻🇪
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
“I would say much longer,” the president replied.
@nytimes.com 🇻🇪
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
January 8, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Imagine a small country with oil negotiating a contract with ExxonMobil. Then Marco Rubio walks in and says, ExxonMobil’s percentage needs to go up, or else.
Tell me that’s “free trade” or not a contract that could rightly be nullified by a local court.
Tell me that’s “free trade” or not a contract that could rightly be nullified by a local court.
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"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures...
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"
January 7, 2026 at 6:55 PM
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures...
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:"
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Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda
January 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda
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A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
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“When he tells a lie, he is only doing what is natural to him, because he is a liar and the father of all lies.” John 8:44 Some of the shit Father Dan tried to teach me in CCD stuck.
January 7, 2026 at 8:27 PM
“When he tells a lie, he is only doing what is natural to him, because he is a liar and the father of all lies.” John 8:44 Some of the shit Father Dan tried to teach me in CCD stuck.
I’ve long thought this, but slightly differently. Believing and repeating the lies gets you benefits in the group. They lie to them to figure out who will believe anything
/2 Lying, to Trumpists, is a sign of dominance, of Trumpian (that is to say, sad and pathetic) masculinity, of power.
January 7, 2026 at 8:31 PM
I’ve long thought this, but slightly differently. Believing and repeating the lies gets you benefits in the group. They lie to them to figure out who will believe anything
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Sometimes people ask me why I'm mad all the time, and I have to refrain from mentioning that Yarvin regularly visits the White House, while my friends who warned the world about him are dead.
January 6, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Sometimes people ask me why I'm mad all the time, and I have to refrain from mentioning that Yarvin regularly visits the White House, while my friends who warned the world about him are dead.