Jim
@jimc5.bsky.social
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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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#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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@jimc5.bsky.social
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Screenshot to dunk. Quote-tweet to boost.
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Kind of amazing how as Chuck Schumer’s stock has dropped because Democratic voters see him as rolling over to Trump, Kathy Hochul’s stock has shot up for aggressively opposing Trump (and endorsing Zohran Mamdani).
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Kind of amazing how as Chuck Schumer’s stock has dropped because Democratic voters see him as rolling over to Trump, Kathy Hochul’s stock has shot up for aggressively opposing Trump (and endorsing Zohran Mamdani).
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1) Never get involved in a land war in Asia
2) Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line
3) Never start a flamewar with someone whose occupation on Wikipedia is "novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, literary critic, professor, editor"
2) Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line
3) Never start a flamewar with someone whose occupation on Wikipedia is "novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, literary critic, professor, editor"
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
1) Never get involved in a land war in Asia
2) Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line
3) Never start a flamewar with someone whose occupation on Wikipedia is "novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, literary critic, professor, editor"
2) Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line
3) Never start a flamewar with someone whose occupation on Wikipedia is "novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, literary critic, professor, editor"
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November 9 was the 138th anniversary of Svante Arrhenius’s “On the Dissociation of Substances Dissolved in Water,” Z. Phys. Chem., I, 637 (1887), describing how electrolytes break up into ions in aqueous solution. #ChemSky 🧪 Read the short paper here: www.chemteam.info/Chem-History...
ChemTeam: Arrhenius dissociation article
www.chemteam.info
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
November 9 was the 138th anniversary of Svante Arrhenius’s “On the Dissociation of Substances Dissolved in Water,” Z. Phys. Chem., I, 637 (1887), describing how electrolytes break up into ions in aqueous solution. #ChemSky 🧪 Read the short paper here: www.chemteam.info/Chem-History...
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
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Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
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No notes….nailed it 🎯
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
No notes….nailed it 🎯
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My post of Decision Desk's decision to call the Seattle mayor race for Harrell last week didn't hinge on who would ultimately win: The point was that a "call" isn't a race to get a prediction right.
But Wilson now being ahead should at least bring more attention to the importance of not rushing.
But Wilson now being ahead should at least bring more attention to the importance of not rushing.
Calls are about certainty and not risking people's confidence in the final result. Speeding through for competition is not good and irresponsible.
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
My post of Decision Desk's decision to call the Seattle mayor race for Harrell last week didn't hinge on who would ultimately win: The point was that a "call" isn't a race to get a prediction right.
But Wilson now being ahead should at least bring more attention to the importance of not rushing.
But Wilson now being ahead should at least bring more attention to the importance of not rushing.
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Thank God we still have marriage equality! I was so scared.
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Thank God we still have marriage equality! I was so scared.
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(She made a point about Musk that way too often goes without saying: He is a totally joyless man, so miserable he can hardly tolerate himself)
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
(She made a point about Musk that way too often goes without saying: He is a totally joyless man, so miserable he can hardly tolerate himself)
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it’s even better in video
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
it’s even better in video
Roy Cohn was a mentor to Trump and Joseph McCarthy’s chief council. We are one degree of separation from the red scare
I totally agree that "‘woke’ now performs the job that ‘communism’ did in the 1950s” -- but I'm sort of bemused that "communism" is also still doing work in our current Red Scare
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Roy Cohn was a mentor to Trump and Joseph McCarthy’s chief council. We are one degree of separation from the red scare
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Quick afternoon/evening update
$135 away from $4000 raised or about 8000 meals to support 2nd harvest food bank of OC
Truly every size donation counts $1 =about 2 meals
Can’t donate ? No prob please share
Due to traveling back I return Tue after 9pm all shares appreciated
$135 away from $4000 raised or about 8000 meals to support 2nd harvest food bank of OC
Truly every size donation counts $1 =about 2 meals
Can’t donate ? No prob please share
Due to traveling back I return Tue after 9pm all shares appreciated
Day 11 of Disney Fans for good, a fundraiser for the 2nd harvest Food bank of OC. This food bank supports CM’s,hospitality workers & community .With layoffs ,hours reduced, inflation, & external factors.Need is high & imminent.
Please share & or donate!
together.feedoc.org/fundraiser/6...
Please share & or donate!
together.feedoc.org/fundraiser/6...
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Quick afternoon/evening update
$135 away from $4000 raised or about 8000 meals to support 2nd harvest food bank of OC
Truly every size donation counts $1 =about 2 meals
Can’t donate ? No prob please share
Due to traveling back I return Tue after 9pm all shares appreciated
$135 away from $4000 raised or about 8000 meals to support 2nd harvest food bank of OC
Truly every size donation counts $1 =about 2 meals
Can’t donate ? No prob please share
Due to traveling back I return Tue after 9pm all shares appreciated
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What a great few weeks it’s been for people once pardoned by Trump.
@nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @politico.com
@nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What a great few weeks it’s been for people once pardoned by Trump.
@nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @politico.com
@nytimes.com @nbcnews.com @npr.org @politico.com
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New: I did a super quick audio update—a 'Breaking Basket'—about how SNAP recipients are feeling about Dems helping to reopen the government, and the lawsuit from states' AGs to protect their benefits.
(This is new format I'm experimenting with, so bear with me!)
(This is new format I'm experimenting with, so bear with me!)
Breaking Basket 11/10/25 — Government shutdown and the future of SNAP
Subscribe at thehandbasket.co
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November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
New: I did a super quick audio update—a 'Breaking Basket'—about how SNAP recipients are feeling about Dems helping to reopen the government, and the lawsuit from states' AGs to protect their benefits.
(This is new format I'm experimenting with, so bear with me!)
(This is new format I'm experimenting with, so bear with me!)
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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CVS is best thought of as a kind of interactive museum exhibit where you can experience everything that has gone badly wrong with American capitalism.
You almost have to respect how CVS keeps frantically changing their systems like every other month and each time it gets progressively worse
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
CVS is best thought of as a kind of interactive museum exhibit where you can experience everything that has gone badly wrong with American capitalism.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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Let people read in peace. I care less about what you’re reading than the fact that you’re reading a book. Hardcover, paperback, kindle, audiobook. They all count. New book, old book. Black book, blue book.
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Let people read in peace. I care less about what you’re reading than the fact that you’re reading a book. Hardcover, paperback, kindle, audiobook. They all count. New book, old book. Black book, blue book.
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Philanthropy will never be a replacement for the services that the government can and should provide. Which is why we should tax the shit out of wealthy people to pay for such services.
The SNAP Freeze Shows Charity Is No Substitute for Welfare
The Trump administration suspended funding for food stamps this weekend, and local food banks are already overwhelmed by hungry Americans — belying conservative arguments that private charities can fi...
jacobin.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Philanthropy will never be a replacement for the services that the government can and should provide. Which is why we should tax the shit out of wealthy people to pay for such services.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
Imagine a world where people choose to spend most of their day on social media, a metaverse of sorts, that is completely populated by AI. It's like they are choosing to hook themselves into the matrix. And many of them think that they'd choose the red pill not the blue one.
a man with his eyes closed is sitting in a dark room
ALT: a man with his eyes closed is sitting in a dark room
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Imagine a world where people choose to spend most of their day on social media, a metaverse of sorts, that is completely populated by AI. It's like they are choosing to hook themselves into the matrix. And many of them think that they'd choose the red pill not the blue one.
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I’m no great fan of the ACA.
I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.
But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.
But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I’m no great fan of the ACA.
I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.
But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.
I believe we should guarantee health care as a human right through a single-payer Medicare for All system.
But — at minimum — we cannot allow Republicans to destroy our already-broken system by doubling insurance premiums for 20 million Americans.