Joe
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Joe
@datamule.bsky.social
The space laser's broken, the space laser's broken...
I posted this elsewhere a few years ago, with a congresswoman from Georgia in mind.

Girl with a gun

You walked into the congress
like you were walking onto a yacht
Your heart existentially tied to the big lie
A peach tree dish full of rot (1/3)
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This should help lower the inflation rate.

:(
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A tangent, but this general notion shows up in employment. If someone has done the same job for decades and identifies strongly with, say, "I am a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman" it can be especially challenging to train to do something else.
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
With apologies to pathetic people, Sen. Ron Johnson is pathetic.

From 2019: thehill.com/homenews/sen...
thehill.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
about.rferl.org/our-history/

Related: Dick Carlson, father of another Carlson, was (among other things) head of VOA for several years.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Ca...
Dick Carlson - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Sermon on the mount.

Toxins in the water. It's been a year, so maybe everything is clean now. ;) www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/...
Elon Musk's Tesla dumps pollutants into Texas water, report says
Musk's businesses are reportedly not practicing what he preaches.
www.mysanantonio.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The line will form in about two weeks. ;)
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I do not like calling people "illegal." That said, if you park in front of a fire hydrant you're an illegal parker, or just illegal. And so on.
November 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
While many talk about transparency, blacking out documents still rules the day.
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Gettysburg Cemetery Dedication
www.norvig.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:37 AM
"Extremely dishonest..." ;)
November 18, 2025 at 3:21 AM
You're not missing much, but there are a couple of posts that aren't surprising (one has a picture of weapons).
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I think this is her on Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/Aly-B...
Facebook
www.facebook.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Eric Hoffer: "The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole -- the church, party, nation -- and not to his fellow true believer.”
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Department of Government Inefficiency. :(
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The "war on poverty" is gonna be messy. :(
November 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I posted this elsewhere a few years ago, with a congresswoman from Georgia in mind.

Girl with a gun

You walked into the congress
like you were walking onto a yacht
Your heart existentially tied to the big lie
A peach tree dish full of rot (1/3)
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Shorter, more useful version: "I don't think."
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hang in there and enjoy the conference.

As XTC sang years ago,
People will always be tempted to wipe their feet
On anything with Welcome written on it.
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Fr. Guido Sarducci on economics: Supply and demand.

People used to blame wealthy folks moving to lower-priced areas, driving up prices. Here's a take from just one vantage point: sycamoretn.org/tn-housing-c...
Tennessee’s Housing Challenges: Where and Why It Got So Expensive - The Sycamore Institute
Population and socioeconomic trends have driven a surge in housing demand in and across Tennessee—particularly since 2020. Because Tennessee’s housing supply hasn’t kept up with these demands, housing...
sycamoretn.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
In 2015, the Hoover Institution had an article entitled "Housing in California: A Profound Public Policy Failure."

You can disagree with the conclusion, but people have been talking about the lack of affordable housing for decades.
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Tell your GOP colleagues that Nixon has them covered. ;) ihpi.umich.edu/news/nixonca...
Nixoncare vs. Obamacare: U-M team compares the rhetoric & reality of two health plans
ihpi.umich.edu
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM