J T Cockrill
@jargonsociety.bsky.social
Mid Century boomer. Old North State
Great Society, New Deal Dem
Great Society, New Deal Dem
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There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.
May 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.
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Clouds at sunset seen from the ISS
April 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Clouds at sunset seen from the ISS
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It's like suggesting that your household should sell exactly as much stuff to Target as it sells to you
It is hard to express, without resorting to expletives, how utterly stupid it is to suggest that the United States, world's richest economy with a population of 334 million, should have a bilateral trade balance of zero (no trade surplus, no trade deficit) with every country in the world.
I want to note again how completely insane you have to be for your goal to be a “bilateral trade balance of zero” with every country. Just nutso.
April 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It's like suggesting that your household should sell exactly as much stuff to Target as it sells to you
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Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
March 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog
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Not to get all hyperbolic, but between Trump’s “l’etat c’est moi” and Bessent’s “let them eat cake,” it does feel kind of pre-French Revolution-y around here.
March 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Not to get all hyperbolic, but between Trump’s “l’etat c’est moi” and Bessent’s “let them eat cake,” it does feel kind of pre-French Revolution-y around here.
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Spoiler: kids started dying
Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...
Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’
Researchers believe personal stories are more persuasive than facts alone in addressing vaccine skepticism
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Spoiler: kids started dying
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This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.
February 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.
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Write beautifully, tell a good story, back it up with evidence, and be unafraid of the folks who will screech about your 'biases' when you dare to show them how the powerful and rich are fucking everyone over
And yes, pick up that picket sign when the time calls for it
And yes, pick up that picket sign when the time calls for it
March 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Write beautifully, tell a good story, back it up with evidence, and be unafraid of the folks who will screech about your 'biases' when you dare to show them how the powerful and rich are fucking everyone over
And yes, pick up that picket sign when the time calls for it
And yes, pick up that picket sign when the time calls for it
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Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
February 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.
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I’m not being prescriptive (really!), but I’ve noticed a recent increase in non-Republicans calling it the “Democrat” party. There’s important history here; GOP messaging since the 1940s has been trying to get people to stop calling them Democratic. www.pressreader.com/usa/the-guar...
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February 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I’m not being prescriptive (really!), but I’ve noticed a recent increase in non-Republicans calling it the “Democrat” party. There’s important history here; GOP messaging since the 1940s has been trying to get people to stop calling them Democratic. www.pressreader.com/usa/the-guar...
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Hey, sorry but no more Yosemite. It’s getting more efficient.
Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Hey, sorry but no more Yosemite. It’s getting more efficient.
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The inability of the national media to understand this basic point ABOUT AMERICAN CIVICS is simply wild
THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS A DEPARTMENT CREATED BY STATUTE; IT CANNOT BE ELIMINATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER! EXECUTIVE ORDERS CANNOT REPEAL STATUTES! JUST LIKE DEPARTMENTS CANNOT BE CREATED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER!
she shouts into the void
she shouts into the void
BREAKING: The White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, two sources familiar with the plans tell NBC News.
February 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The inability of the national media to understand this basic point ABOUT AMERICAN CIVICS is simply wild
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Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize *Mexico* when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of *Mexico* today.
It's the little things. Microdose hope.
It's the little things. Microdose hope.
February 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize *Mexico* when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of *Mexico* today.
It's the little things. Microdose hope.
It's the little things. Microdose hope.
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A bit of professional disappointment that Wired beat me to it. But glad the info is out. I can confirm the key details of this report based on my own reporting -the name of the DOGE operative and that yes the reports about read only access is categorically false. Not only does Marko have full …
February 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
A bit of professional disappointment that Wired beat me to it. But glad the info is out. I can confirm the key details of this report based on my own reporting -the name of the DOGE operative and that yes the reports about read only access is categorically false. Not only does Marko have full …
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Mexican president calls on Google to identify US as 'América Mexicana’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Mexican president calls on Google to identify US as 'América Mexicana’
President Claudia Sheinbaum attacks Google for caving into Trump’s meglomaniacal move to change the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America
www.independent.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Mexican president calls on Google to identify US as 'América Mexicana’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Opinion | As a Republican senator, I know America would suffer if I lost my job to a right-wing zealot. That's why, to hold onto my seat, I'm voting exactly the same way that they would.
January 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Opinion | As a Republican senator, I know America would suffer if I lost my job to a right-wing zealot. That's why, to hold onto my seat, I'm voting exactly the same way that they would.
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Bernie Sanders is undefeated in inauguration shade.
January 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Bernie Sanders is undefeated in inauguration shade.
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A poem for reflection, 01/20/24: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes. poets.org/poem/let-ame...
January 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A poem for reflection, 01/20/24: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes. poets.org/poem/let-ame...
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
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Greetings fellow NetHeads...
December 15, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Greetings fellow NetHeads...
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Whatever the answer to Fermi’s paradox, lets try and avoid the Singularity: a self-aware AI that upgrades itself so frequently it becomes intelligent beyond our comprehension and leaves us all behind. In which case I’d better get off the internet.
More stories another time…
More stories another time…
December 15, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Whatever the answer to Fermi’s paradox, lets try and avoid the Singularity: a self-aware AI that upgrades itself so frequently it becomes intelligent beyond our comprehension and leaves us all behind. In which case I’d better get off the internet.
More stories another time…
More stories another time…