thinkjeffthink
@thinkjeffthink.bsky.social
just happy to be here
The view from my perch tonight...
January 2, 2026 at 10:19 PM
The view from my perch tonight...
Are articles like this simply click bait? Or are they written to soothe subscribers by normalizing ridiculousness? Or is this just a joke I'm not in on?
I keep hearing that journalism is in crisis, but how could it not be if this is what the WSJ is covering?
I keep hearing that journalism is in crisis, but how could it not be if this is what the WSJ is covering?
January 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Are articles like this simply click bait? Or are they written to soothe subscribers by normalizing ridiculousness? Or is this just a joke I'm not in on?
I keep hearing that journalism is in crisis, but how could it not be if this is what the WSJ is covering?
I keep hearing that journalism is in crisis, but how could it not be if this is what the WSJ is covering?
Reposted by thinkjeffthink
fun fact about that Rose Bowl in 1917:
UO didn't have money to send the team to Pasadena, so they sold the campus bookstore.
The company that ran it was so awful that in 1920 students, faculty, and staff raised money to buy it.
The Duck Store is the nonprofit co-op they established 105 years ago.
UO didn't have money to send the team to Pasadena, so they sold the campus bookstore.
The company that ran it was so awful that in 1920 students, faculty, and staff raised money to buy it.
The Duck Store is the nonprofit co-op they established 105 years ago.
January 1, 2026 at 8:56 PM
fun fact about that Rose Bowl in 1917:
UO didn't have money to send the team to Pasadena, so they sold the campus bookstore.
The company that ran it was so awful that in 1920 students, faculty, and staff raised money to buy it.
The Duck Store is the nonprofit co-op they established 105 years ago.
UO didn't have money to send the team to Pasadena, so they sold the campus bookstore.
The company that ran it was so awful that in 1920 students, faculty, and staff raised money to buy it.
The Duck Store is the nonprofit co-op they established 105 years ago.
Reposted by thinkjeffthink
You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check
December 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check
Fun watching the frangipani worms grow from less than an inch long to the length of my hands in just a few weeks. #CaribbeanSky #USVI
December 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Fun watching the frangipani worms grow from less than an inch long to the length of my hands in just a few weeks. #CaribbeanSky #USVI
Drone light shows are sorta meh.
Watched one last night that was followed by fireworks. The fireworks were viscerally exciting.
The drone stuff was cliche, slow and silent.
The difference was so evident seeing them back-to-back.
Watched one last night that was followed by fireworks. The fireworks were viscerally exciting.
The drone stuff was cliche, slow and silent.
The difference was so evident seeing them back-to-back.
December 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Drone light shows are sorta meh.
Watched one last night that was followed by fireworks. The fireworks were viscerally exciting.
The drone stuff was cliche, slow and silent.
The difference was so evident seeing them back-to-back.
Watched one last night that was followed by fireworks. The fireworks were viscerally exciting.
The drone stuff was cliche, slow and silent.
The difference was so evident seeing them back-to-back.
Reposted by thinkjeffthink
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
Looking at the Street View of an apartment building in Naples, Italy that my daughter is considering... hard to imagine a more stereotypical scene: older fella with a cane chilling on the corner, laundry hanging, scooters.
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Looking at the Street View of an apartment building in Naples, Italy that my daughter is considering... hard to imagine a more stereotypical scene: older fella with a cane chilling on the corner, laundry hanging, scooters.
Reposted by thinkjeffthink
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
Reposted by thinkjeffthink
The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years.
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave $7.1 billion to nonprofits in 2025, a major increase
The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years.
Reposted by thinkjeffthink
Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable
Reposted by thinkjeffthink
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
It's kinda funny to be in Idaho and see all these cute little government-approved "Don't Tread on Me" license plates driving around.
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It's kinda funny to be in Idaho and see all these cute little government-approved "Don't Tread on Me" license plates driving around.
It's odd to read these mainstream news stories about war with Venezuela — they don't even attempt to explain the logic, reasoning, or in any way explore the "why" of such actions.
Just "he said" this/that.
I guess this this just life in the new reality-TV universe we inhabit.
Just "he said" this/that.
I guess this this just life in the new reality-TV universe we inhabit.
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
It's odd to read these mainstream news stories about war with Venezuela — they don't even attempt to explain the logic, reasoning, or in any way explore the "why" of such actions.
Just "he said" this/that.
I guess this this just life in the new reality-TV universe we inhabit.
Just "he said" this/that.
I guess this this just life in the new reality-TV universe we inhabit.
Reposted by thinkjeffthink
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.
Reposted by thinkjeffthink
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
One of my favorite from Todd Snider... the groove, the story... www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcRb...
Money, Compliments, Publicity (Song Number Ten)
YouTube video by Todd Snider - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
One of my favorite from Todd Snider... the groove, the story... www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcRb...
Todd Snider?!!! Nooo... RIP.
Not just a great songwriter, one of the best ever for my money. So few gave us the cutting insights & social commentary through real-world stories.
Recently been listenin to Just Like Old Times & Easy Money a ton.
Plus Looking for a Job + Money, Compliments, Publicity
Not just a great songwriter, one of the best ever for my money. So few gave us the cutting insights & social commentary through real-world stories.
Recently been listenin to Just Like Old Times & Easy Money a ton.
Plus Looking for a Job + Money, Compliments, Publicity
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Todd Snider?!!! Nooo... RIP.
Not just a great songwriter, one of the best ever for my money. So few gave us the cutting insights & social commentary through real-world stories.
Recently been listenin to Just Like Old Times & Easy Money a ton.
Plus Looking for a Job + Money, Compliments, Publicity
Not just a great songwriter, one of the best ever for my money. So few gave us the cutting insights & social commentary through real-world stories.
Recently been listenin to Just Like Old Times & Easy Money a ton.
Plus Looking for a Job + Money, Compliments, Publicity
Reposted by thinkjeffthink
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
When the airbnb photographer is like, man, you are REALLY gonna like this chair.
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
When the airbnb photographer is like, man, you are REALLY gonna like this chair.
I'm in Italy at the moment, and I thought this local angle on Zohran Mamdani in the newspaper was interesting... "the problem" they are referring to are the things his opponents don't like about him.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I'm in Italy at the moment, and I thought this local angle on Zohran Mamdani in the newspaper was interesting... "the problem" they are referring to are the things his opponents don't like about him.
Perhaps the best thing I've ever read on this app...
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Perhaps the best thing I've ever read on this app...
The ancients not shaking the aliens rap.
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The ancients not shaking the aliens rap.