Jay Reding
@jayreding.bsky.social
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Attorney, aviation enthusiast, and writer.
Opinions solely my own, especially the sweary ones.
Attorney, aviation enthusiast, and writer.
Opinions solely my own, especially the sweary ones.
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bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken
November 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken
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“We can’t afford a king”
Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.
October 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“We can’t afford a king”
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Basically Trump's promise, from The Apprentice to his campaigns, has always been "I'm going to share all the secrets of the elites and yeah the systems rigged but my success in that system means I know how to rig it for you." Epstein, combined with the quasi-recession, blows that up
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Basically Trump's promise, from The Apprentice to his campaigns, has always been "I'm going to share all the secrets of the elites and yeah the systems rigged but my success in that system means I know how to rig it for you." Epstein, combined with the quasi-recession, blows that up
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Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels
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[avengers mansion]
CAP: good morning Avengers let's begin
IRON MAN: wait spider-man is missing
OPEN MOUTH MAN: weird he was here when i went to sleep last nite
CAP: good morning Avengers let's begin
IRON MAN: wait spider-man is missing
OPEN MOUTH MAN: weird he was here when i went to sleep last nite
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
[avengers mansion]
CAP: good morning Avengers let's begin
IRON MAN: wait spider-man is missing
OPEN MOUTH MAN: weird he was here when i went to sleep last nite
CAP: good morning Avengers let's begin
IRON MAN: wait spider-man is missing
OPEN MOUTH MAN: weird he was here when i went to sleep last nite
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1. A thread by @reidhoffman.bsky.social — the tech entrepreneur/investor and philanthropist — who was named this morning by President Trump as a person the DOJ should investigate with respect to Jeffrey Epstein.
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
1. A thread by @reidhoffman.bsky.social — the tech entrepreneur/investor and philanthropist — who was named this morning by President Trump as a person the DOJ should investigate with respect to Jeffrey Epstein.
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It's really weird to see people like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, who once had sweet corporate gigs, have to turn up the creep knob to compete with a generation of personalities that started with an iPhone and a mental disorder.
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It's really weird to see people like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, who once had sweet corporate gigs, have to turn up the creep knob to compete with a generation of personalities that started with an iPhone and a mental disorder.
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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I actually think a more important version of this would be to cut it off at like 2014 or early 2015, before Trump was a frontrunner. He’s still the most commonly mentioned person during the period when nobody can say there was any political reason to mention him
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I actually think a more important version of this would be to cut it off at like 2014 or early 2015, before Trump was a frontrunner. He’s still the most commonly mentioned person during the period when nobody can say there was any political reason to mention him
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Every little girl dreams of her Prince Charming, a man with all the charm of a hobo ranting under a streetlight and a voice like a fork put down the garbage disposal
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every little girl dreams of her Prince Charming, a man with all the charm of a hobo ranting under a streetlight and a voice like a fork put down the garbage disposal
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i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”
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I hope this goes, I love Honor Among Thieves- these guys get it.
Another Trek movie project!
With the Paramount regime change, it could be serious this time... Or not 🖖
The good news?
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) will write and direct a movie that is said to be unconnected from anything previously done. 🙏
With the Paramount regime change, it could be serious this time... Or not 🖖
The good news?
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) will write and direct a movie that is said to be unconnected from anything previously done. 🙏
New ‘Star Trek’ Movie in the Works From John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
The 'Dungeons & Dragons' filmmakers will create a project unrelated to previous incarnations.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I hope this goes, I love Honor Among Thieves- these guys get it.
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What a terrible day to know how to read
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What a terrible day to know how to read
The bad news: the US is more at risk of a terrorist attack than it has been in decades, even before 9/11.
The good news: if you're a terrorist the best plan for destroying the US would be "just sit back and watch it happen." MAGA is far more effective than al-Qaeda in destroying the US.
The good news: if you're a terrorist the best plan for destroying the US would be "just sit back and watch it happen." MAGA is far more effective than al-Qaeda in destroying the US.
It's hard to overstate what a disaster Kash Patel is. See the many disturbing details here, from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, an expert on the FBI. "The longer this chaos continues," he writes, "the more likely we’re going to face a catastrophic intelligence failure." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Kash Patel, the FBI's agent of chaos
The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The bad news: the US is more at risk of a terrorist attack than it has been in decades, even before 9/11.
The good news: if you're a terrorist the best plan for destroying the US would be "just sit back and watch it happen." MAGA is far more effective than al-Qaeda in destroying the US.
The good news: if you're a terrorist the best plan for destroying the US would be "just sit back and watch it happen." MAGA is far more effective than al-Qaeda in destroying the US.
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I do not like thinking about how vulnerable the U.S. now is to genuine terrorism thanks to this fucking clown show
Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I do not like thinking about how vulnerable the U.S. now is to genuine terrorism thanks to this fucking clown show
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I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
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LIVE: Clergy protest at ICE facility outside Chicago youtube.com/live/vM-6akO...
LIVE: Clergy protest at ICE facility outside Chicago
YouTube video by Reuters
youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
LIVE: Clergy protest at ICE facility outside Chicago youtube.com/live/vM-6akO...
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For the past 45 years, the FCC & SEC have allowed consolidation of media outlets to a point where now the wealthy own & control the majority of the media, what stories are covered and more importantly which stories aren't covered. This isn't "frredom of the press" in any way.
As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
And they are all Trump supporters
"Liberal media" indeed
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
For the past 45 years, the FCC & SEC have allowed consolidation of media outlets to a point where now the wealthy own & control the majority of the media, what stories are covered and more importantly which stories aren't covered. This isn't "frredom of the press" in any way.
BlueSky is absolutely speedrunning enshittification through terrible moderation policies.
Sigh, at this rate we'll all be on Mastodon by early next year. Maybe someone can set up a competing site running under the ATProtocol so we can just use that? But BlueSky just is not meeting the moment.
Sigh, at this rate we'll all be on Mastodon by early next year. Maybe someone can set up a competing site running under the ATProtocol so we can just use that? But BlueSky just is not meeting the moment.
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
BlueSky is absolutely speedrunning enshittification through terrible moderation policies.
Sigh, at this rate we'll all be on Mastodon by early next year. Maybe someone can set up a competing site running under the ATProtocol so we can just use that? But BlueSky just is not meeting the moment.
Sigh, at this rate we'll all be on Mastodon by early next year. Maybe someone can set up a competing site running under the ATProtocol so we can just use that? But BlueSky just is not meeting the moment.
This is why my favorite Star Trek captain isn't Kirk, or Picard, or Janeway, but Sisko. (And no, even though the headline sounds like Avery Brooks has passed, he has not.)
Sisko is exactly what *positive* masculinity is about.
screenrant.com/star-trek-ds...
Sisko is exactly what *positive* masculinity is about.
screenrant.com/star-trek-ds...
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Cirroc Lofton Gives An Emotional Tribute To Avery Brooks: “I Will Always Love Him”
The best father-son relationship in Star Trek.
screenrant.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is why my favorite Star Trek captain isn't Kirk, or Picard, or Janeway, but Sisko. (And no, even though the headline sounds like Avery Brooks has passed, he has not.)
Sisko is exactly what *positive* masculinity is about.
screenrant.com/star-trek-ds...
Sisko is exactly what *positive* masculinity is about.
screenrant.com/star-trek-ds...
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We posted this so many times and now are really being put to the test
![Screenshot of a cartoon with two people next to a box with a big red button. One is wearing a blue "D" hat and the other is wearing a red "MAGA" hat.
Panel 1: MAGA: "Pushing this button will begin the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and Trump..."
Panel 2: MAGA: "... But! Bill Clinton must also ..."
[blue "D" guy is already slamming the button]
Panel 3: Blue "D" guy continues whacking the button, while red "MAGA" guy looks on with wide eyes and sweating face
Panel 4: Blue "D" guy continues hitting the button, while red "MAGA" guy tries to pull him away from the box, sobbing and saying "DUDE"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vhnfl7xl452tli2pzoqsxiu4/bafkreid6uba6nql5kckdavyvq4auuvzk36vowijq533aqj7isqwtqxhpfe@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We posted this so many times and now are really being put to the test
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I call this "blogbrain" btw, a thing I noticed when I realized that Matt Yglesias and Freddie deBoer couldn't write good books (One Billion Americans, Cult of Smart) because their writing style was entirely dependent on quoting opponents to rebut them.
legitimately i think one of the core failings of centrist pundits is that they have come to define themselves by what they are against--to chart their intellectual course by who they think is being annoying this week--instead of by recourse to genuine principle
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I call this "blogbrain" btw, a thing I noticed when I realized that Matt Yglesias and Freddie deBoer couldn't write good books (One Billion Americans, Cult of Smart) because their writing style was entirely dependent on quoting opponents to rebut them.
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America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
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Trump's killed 76 Venezuelans without evidence they were traffickers. AP found fishermen, bus drivers. Families can't hold funerals. Now he threatens invasion days after emails show he "knew about the girls." Distraction by massacre in hopes everyone forgets he's a child predator.
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Trump's killed 76 Venezuelans without evidence they were traffickers. AP found fishermen, bus drivers. Families can't hold funerals. Now he threatens invasion days after emails show he "knew about the girls." Distraction by massacre in hopes everyone forgets he's a child predator.