Jim Downey
@jimdowney.bsky.social
Ooh, this place still has that "new social media possibility" smell. Let's see how long it lasts. (I dunno, just here to post some shit takes and maybe learn a little somethin'.)
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RIP to Tom Stoppard, my absolute favorite playwright. Had a knack for dialogue that was clever, amusing, and perfectly fit his characters.
AND he ghost wrote all the Indy-Henry stuff in Last Crusade.
AND he ghost wrote all the Indy-Henry stuff in Last Crusade.
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
RIP to Tom Stoppard, my absolute favorite playwright. Had a knack for dialogue that was clever, amusing, and perfectly fit his characters.
AND he ghost wrote all the Indy-Henry stuff in Last Crusade.
AND he ghost wrote all the Indy-Henry stuff in Last Crusade.
That Jack White half time show (feat. Eminem!) was genuinely one of the best ever-- like would challenge any but the top 5 Super Bowls
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
That Jack White half time show (feat. Eminem!) was genuinely one of the best ever-- like would challenge any but the top 5 Super Bowls
"Artificial Intelligence??
It's Artificial that anyone with Intelligence would think computers...
could reproduce the darkness of the human
MIND."
It's Artificial that anyone with Intelligence would think computers...
could reproduce the darkness of the human
MIND."
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
"Artificial Intelligence??
It's Artificial that anyone with Intelligence would think computers...
could reproduce the darkness of the human
MIND."
It's Artificial that anyone with Intelligence would think computers...
could reproduce the darkness of the human
MIND."
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Going through TSA at the San Diego airport and oops I set it off. Look at the screen.
Big yellow exclamation mark on... my dick
Not the crotchal region, mind you. Just directly on the ol bait and tackle. The Johnson & Johnsons.
Big yellow exclamation mark on... my dick
Not the crotchal region, mind you. Just directly on the ol bait and tackle. The Johnson & Johnsons.
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Going through TSA at the San Diego airport and oops I set it off. Look at the screen.
Big yellow exclamation mark on... my dick
Not the crotchal region, mind you. Just directly on the ol bait and tackle. The Johnson & Johnsons.
Big yellow exclamation mark on... my dick
Not the crotchal region, mind you. Just directly on the ol bait and tackle. The Johnson & Johnsons.
The San Diego Zoo was one of my favorite experiences on a vacation ever. Hands down. Had so much fun today
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The San Diego Zoo was one of my favorite experiences on a vacation ever. Hands down. Had so much fun today
My vacation odyssey.
10 mins from the airport my car breaks down. Panic. Think it through, this is ok. Flight's transferrable. Get it towed to a local dealership. Have them look at it over the weekend. Switch flights to one 3 hours later with a layover in Dallas. Trip not lost. BUT WAIT...
10 mins from the airport my car breaks down. Panic. Think it through, this is ok. Flight's transferrable. Get it towed to a local dealership. Have them look at it over the weekend. Switch flights to one 3 hours later with a layover in Dallas. Trip not lost. BUT WAIT...
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
My vacation odyssey.
10 mins from the airport my car breaks down. Panic. Think it through, this is ok. Flight's transferrable. Get it towed to a local dealership. Have them look at it over the weekend. Switch flights to one 3 hours later with a layover in Dallas. Trip not lost. BUT WAIT...
10 mins from the airport my car breaks down. Panic. Think it through, this is ok. Flight's transferrable. Get it towed to a local dealership. Have them look at it over the weekend. Switch flights to one 3 hours later with a layover in Dallas. Trip not lost. BUT WAIT...
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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If they’re going to roll over like this after an electoral blowout less than a week ago, why bother electing Democrats to Congress next year? What would they actually do?
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
If they’re going to roll over like this after an electoral blowout less than a week ago, why bother electing Democrats to Congress next year? What would they actually do?
I cannot stress this enough:
**If you live in a Democratic district, LITERALLY ANY OF THEM, contact your rep right now and tell them if enough Dems cave on the shutdown they ALL lose your support**
It's not enough to just stop the cowards, we need to get the rest peer pressuring them.
**If you live in a Democratic district, LITERALLY ANY OF THEM, contact your rep right now and tell them if enough Dems cave on the shutdown they ALL lose your support**
It's not enough to just stop the cowards, we need to get the rest peer pressuring them.
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I cannot stress this enough:
**If you live in a Democratic district, LITERALLY ANY OF THEM, contact your rep right now and tell them if enough Dems cave on the shutdown they ALL lose your support**
It's not enough to just stop the cowards, we need to get the rest peer pressuring them.
**If you live in a Democratic district, LITERALLY ANY OF THEM, contact your rep right now and tell them if enough Dems cave on the shutdown they ALL lose your support**
It's not enough to just stop the cowards, we need to get the rest peer pressuring them.
This is my new favorite thread. What a cool answer about such a (on the surface) dumb name
I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark
Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap
The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name
He did this six times
Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel
what did ruth mean when she said her steakhouse was "chris"
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This is my new favorite thread. What a cool answer about such a (on the surface) dumb name
The sheer number of Republican donors who lit MILLIONS on fire for Ciattarelli and Cuomo has me non-stop grinning ear to ear tonight
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The sheer number of Republican donors who lit MILLIONS on fire for Ciattarelli and Cuomo has me non-stop grinning ear to ear tonight
Decision Desk HQ is calling NJ for Sherrill already! Based on their history that's very reliable and a HUGE win early in a tight race
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Decision Desk HQ is calling NJ for Sherrill already! Based on their history that's very reliable and a HUGE win early in a tight race
On the one hand, knowing early 2000s humor this absolutely fits... but on the other it's WILD that these lines were even *attempted* with a brand like MLB.
Still need more baseball?
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
November 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
On the one hand, knowing early 2000s humor this absolutely fits... but on the other it's WILD that these lines were even *attempted* with a brand like MLB.
Elon & Co. have embraced "The Scouring of the Shire" with zero effort to understand its themes or context. Tolkien never intended a direct allegory but the text itself is clear: Direct opposition to exploiting the people or the environment for capital. Support for collective resistance. Full stop.
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Elon & Co. have embraced "The Scouring of the Shire" with zero effort to understand its themes or context. Tolkien never intended a direct allegory but the text itself is clear: Direct opposition to exploiting the people or the environment for capital. Support for collective resistance. Full stop.
Somebody actually took the "looking for a partner in crime" cliche seriously
Looooove so many things I’ve got to tell you.
October 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Somebody actually took the "looking for a partner in crime" cliche seriously
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Counterpoint: 80-90% of these songs do, in fact, rule ("Waiting for a Star to Fall" in particular is a BANGER)
People need to stop retconning literally the worst era in American popular music history into something it wasn't, just because there were also some amazing records that like 250 people happened to be hunting down and listening to
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Counterpoint: 80-90% of these songs do, in fact, rule ("Waiting for a Star to Fall" in particular is a BANGER)
So I'm headed to San Diego for the first time next month. Any places I shouldn't miss visiting? Even if they're obvious.
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
So I'm headed to San Diego for the first time next month. Any places I shouldn't miss visiting? Even if they're obvious.
This isn't even racism by ignorance. EVERYBODY I knew growing up had people they called aunt and uncle that were often as distantly related to them as "really good friends with my mom or dad." Every culture embraced that kind of larger family and they're lying to deny it.
October 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This isn't even racism by ignorance. EVERYBODY I knew growing up had people they called aunt and uncle that were often as distantly related to them as "really good friends with my mom or dad." Every culture embraced that kind of larger family and they're lying to deny it.
This is an actual mural in Tucson. GodDAMN are there so many cool artists out there (this one is dannymartinart_ on insta)
October 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is an actual mural in Tucson. GodDAMN are there so many cool artists out there (this one is dannymartinart_ on insta)
Platner's background doesn't disqualify him from being a legit leftist candidate. But it does make the "I'm just a guy who joined the military out of high school, how would I know this was a Nazi tattoo" story sound REAL sus
![Early life
Platner was born in 1984 in Blue Hill, Maine. 111[21 He was raised in Sullivan, a coastal town in rural Maine near Acadia National Park, and Ellsworth. 131 14] 151 He is the elder of two sons born to restaurant owner Leslie Harlow and lawyer Bronson Platner. (51 (31 121
His grandfather was the modernist architect Warren Platner.
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October 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Platner's background doesn't disqualify him from being a legit leftist candidate. But it does make the "I'm just a guy who joined the military out of high school, how would I know this was a Nazi tattoo" story sound REAL sus
"Yo, I just got this cool skull & bones tattoo in the military-- it's what we did at the time. We didn't know shit about Nazis"
My dude, I don't think any of this, plus the fact you STILL HAVE IT, is a good argument for your ability to self-evaluate and grow as a *fucking member of Congress*
My dude, I don't think any of this, plus the fact you STILL HAVE IT, is a good argument for your ability to self-evaluate and grow as a *fucking member of Congress*
October 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
"Yo, I just got this cool skull & bones tattoo in the military-- it's what we did at the time. We didn't know shit about Nazis"
My dude, I don't think any of this, plus the fact you STILL HAVE IT, is a good argument for your ability to self-evaluate and grow as a *fucking member of Congress*
My dude, I don't think any of this, plus the fact you STILL HAVE IT, is a good argument for your ability to self-evaluate and grow as a *fucking member of Congress*
In retrospective cringe, there's little worse than 90s white kids at house parties singing along to Rage:
"FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YA TELL ME"
...and just meaning their parents
"FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YA TELL ME"
...and just meaning their parents
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
In retrospective cringe, there's little worse than 90s white kids at house parties singing along to Rage:
"FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YA TELL ME"
...and just meaning their parents
"FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YA TELL ME"
...and just meaning their parents
Grandpa Joe: "When a loaf of bread looks like a banquet, I've no right buying tobacco."
Me: "Actually my dude, you've no right buying tobacco cause you're FULLY capable of walking and instead have a CHILD working for you."
Me: "Actually my dude, you've no right buying tobacco cause you're FULLY capable of walking and instead have a CHILD working for you."
October 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Grandpa Joe: "When a loaf of bread looks like a banquet, I've no right buying tobacco."
Me: "Actually my dude, you've no right buying tobacco cause you're FULLY capable of walking and instead have a CHILD working for you."
Me: "Actually my dude, you've no right buying tobacco cause you're FULLY capable of walking and instead have a CHILD working for you."