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Jason B.
@jdb820.bsky.social
Cat Dad, Sports Fan, Professional Cynic, Transit Advocate, Xennial, anti-Republican. Nothing to write home about.

CT born, NY raised, Currently NC via DC/Boston.
Insta acquaintance has 3 kids with Friedreich's Ataxia and the two older kids were booted from a pediatric trial for Skyclarys and she wasn't happy.

To see the younger of said two pose at a county fair with an orange clown cutout when he crippled his life made me step away from said acquaintance.
NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.
November 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Remember when the #Canes couldn't sell their souls and mortgage their kidneys for a PPG?

Times have certainly changed!
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
First Wake Forest to Lenovo trip.

Capital to 440 can't be the best and most efficient way, right? #Canes
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I've spent too much time in the rabbit holes of Zoilo Versalles and Denny McLain to not have takes on this.

Put Cal Raleigh in the 60s and he would've won MVP.

Put those two in the 2020s and they perhaps play into the 1980s.
They would’ve invented incredible new forms of racism if Shohei was around in the 1960s, but also LA’s bookies would’ve thrown him a parade down Sunset Blvd so you take the good with the bad.
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Cal Raleigh got robbed. He had a season better than a good number of historical MVP's and he got robbed.

He had a good season for nothing. Can't we give the BBWAA members the same drugs they were on in the 60s when a scrub like Zoilo Versalles was able to actually win?

#MLB #baseball
November 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Reposted by Jason B.
Today’s mood.

“On November 13, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his wife.”

Happy “Odd Couple” Day!
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Last weekend, I heard "The First Night" by Monica for the first time in years and the intro by Jermaine Dupri is flat out skeevy with 27 years of hindsight.
Social media would also be crazy when TLC dropped "No Scrubs" and Destiny's Child dropped "Bills, Bills, Bills." I know the kids were going crazy. LOL
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Has New Hampshire become the new joke of New England here too, rightfully replacing Connecticut? Or is that just a thing on Threads?
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New gym I'm looking it has Yogalates and my mind went straight to that it was invented by Don Yesso, Shorty La Roux from "Frank's Place" and the running joke about it from @itwasathingontv.bsky.social. Help!
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I saw the trailer with the message thanking the military too many times and I feel ancient now.

2012 feels like two weeks ago and 30 years ago at the same time.
Smart people in Hollywood made a film based on the board game Battleship in 2012, and you would not believe the cast if I listed it here.
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Why did I remember Ronald Reagan trying to take Vin Scully's gig at the 1989 MLB All-Star Game the other day?

And why did the universe want a reboot? Reagan was a bad politician but at least had some charm.
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If Connecticut is such a utopia, why did the Whalers leave? Why are they constantly trolling New York on pizza and Massachusetts on basketball?

Heck, if Connecticut is a utopia, why haven't we seen a parade of people move there? I love Connecticut but it is it's own worst enemy.
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I just remembered when BioSteel was a thing and the #NHL went hard on it only to bail after 2 regular seasons.

Am I the only person who misses BioSteel? #Hockey #HockeyBluesky
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Wait. Did Threads break itself?
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is 2010 NC in reverse.

Emporia, Bracey/South Hill, Danville, Martinsville/Ridgeway, Galaxy, et. AL, don't mess this up.
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Twice I've missed voting in an election due to a move. The 2010 midterms going from MD to DC and today going from Raleigh to Wake Forest.

Good to see I wasn't let down!
Good guys win in Wake Forest (Vivian Jones canceled Pride, Pam James is a January 6'er)
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Toss in some acknowledgement of the clearing out of Chavez Ravine when lionizing Fernando like Vin and you're on.

Also, interpreters. Especially since Dodger Stadium is now akin to Graceland for Asian tourists to LA.

(Yes. I am aware of where my PFP was taken. Was the only non-Asian of 20).
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The GenZ movers I hired this weekend has no idea who Wallace Shawn, Don Rickles, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, or Jim Varney* are but know their Toy Story roles.

* I'll grant Blake Clark from Toy Story 3 on a pass. He survived "Women in Prison" and a week of The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour.
Imagine being Rex from Toy Story and it’s almost an afterthought on your resume.
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
God,

We know you wanted a backup to Summerall and Madden and that Dick Enberg is lonely in heaven, but we weren't calling on you to take Bob Trumpy!

Maybe God got bored of the 1990s NFC too. /s
November 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Unlike places like New York, Los Angeles cares about its sportsmen.

Remember how Southern California went into an extended state of mourning for Kobe, Vin, and Fernando? You've never seen that in New York.
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Another relic found!

The 2022 NCBE Judicial Voter Guide. Not a peep from the Dem candidates for SCONC to vote for them in order to keep a Dem majority. You wouldn't see that today. #NorthCarolina #NCpol
November 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This trade popped up in a dream last night:

LAD Gets:
Francisco Lindor
Juan Soto

NYM Gets:
About 7-8 current OKC/Tulsa/Mid Michigan guys.

Lindor/Soto deserve better & right now the first 162 for the Dodgers are a borderline Bananaball tour. The same is not true of the Mets. Do you make this deal?
November 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I bought a pair of Adirondack chairs several years ago which upon trying to clean them up for the move found a large bee nest under one of them?

Would you disrupt the bees and bring the chair with you or write off the chairs and leave them?
November 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
MTV is dead dead for real.
MTV has canceled ‘Ridiculousness’ after 14 years

(via TMZ)
October 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM