Jeremy Kolassa
@jdkolassa.bsky.social
Geospatial Developer, sci-fi nerd, master of terrible jokes, and looking for love in Alderaan places.
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Just the perfect avatar of America’s ruling class in 2025: an upward trajectory built upon an utter, complete lack of competence in every conceivable way. A lack of morals and boundaries and judgement so complete you wonder if she’s an alien just descended to our planet in her space pod.
Perfect.
Perfect.
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Just the perfect avatar of America’s ruling class in 2025: an upward trajectory built upon an utter, complete lack of competence in every conceivable way. A lack of morals and boundaries and judgement so complete you wonder if she’s an alien just descended to our planet in her space pod.
Perfect.
Perfect.
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A Star Wars droid called 501C3 that doesn't ever do anything
November 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A Star Wars droid called 501C3 that doesn't ever do anything
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Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead
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mike johnson about to reach hitherto unknown levels of haven't seen that
November 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
mike johnson about to reach hitherto unknown levels of haven't seen that
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Katherine Boyle is a Silicon Valley caricature at this point.
I have a boy who's very good at math, not so good at illusory authority, and I parent him on how to work within the confines of that system but damn lol. "It's ok to be a dick if you're good at math" is not where I've taken it.
I have a boy who's very good at math, not so good at illusory authority, and I parent him on how to work within the confines of that system but damn lol. "It's ok to be a dick if you're good at math" is not where I've taken it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Katherine Boyle is a Silicon Valley caricature at this point.
I have a boy who's very good at math, not so good at illusory authority, and I parent him on how to work within the confines of that system but damn lol. "It's ok to be a dick if you're good at math" is not where I've taken it.
I have a boy who's very good at math, not so good at illusory authority, and I parent him on how to work within the confines of that system but damn lol. "It's ok to be a dick if you're good at math" is not where I've taken it.
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We are entering a deep recession brought on by Donald Trump's lawless policies as we go into Thanksgiving and Christmas.
You can stretch your money by shopping at thrift shops and yard sales and eBay for household tools and holiday gifts.
Used goods are already imported and avoid the tariffs.
You can stretch your money by shopping at thrift shops and yard sales and eBay for household tools and holiday gifts.
Used goods are already imported and avoid the tariffs.
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We are entering a deep recession brought on by Donald Trump's lawless policies as we go into Thanksgiving and Christmas.
You can stretch your money by shopping at thrift shops and yard sales and eBay for household tools and holiday gifts.
Used goods are already imported and avoid the tariffs.
You can stretch your money by shopping at thrift shops and yard sales and eBay for household tools and holiday gifts.
Used goods are already imported and avoid the tariffs.
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They should include the insults -- and add, "Official ____ provided no useful information on the issue." They won't listen to me but you might pass on the idea.
Of course, given that oligarchs own over 90% of US media, the whole system is a propaganda machine. Better to read non-US news sources
Of course, given that oligarchs own over 90% of US media, the whole system is a propaganda machine. Better to read non-US news sources
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
They should include the insults -- and add, "Official ____ provided no useful information on the issue." They won't listen to me but you might pass on the idea.
Of course, given that oligarchs own over 90% of US media, the whole system is a propaganda machine. Better to read non-US news sources
Of course, given that oligarchs own over 90% of US media, the whole system is a propaganda machine. Better to read non-US news sources
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I'd like to suggest that the lesson is not "this is an admin like no other so we should have different rules."
The lesson is "the unique toxicity of this administration reveals how malignant this 'standard journalistic practice' of charitable deference to the regime has always been."
The lesson is "the unique toxicity of this administration reveals how malignant this 'standard journalistic practice' of charitable deference to the regime has always been."
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I'd like to suggest that the lesson is not "this is an admin like no other so we should have different rules."
The lesson is "the unique toxicity of this administration reveals how malignant this 'standard journalistic practice' of charitable deference to the regime has always been."
The lesson is "the unique toxicity of this administration reveals how malignant this 'standard journalistic practice' of charitable deference to the regime has always been."
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Do politics!
It’s literally in your job title of “politician.”
We don’t elect “listen to risk averse consultants-ians.”
Do.
Politics.
It’s clear the country as a whole hates all of this. Even GOP suburbs in Cook County are berating ICE.
Doing the right thing is popular!
It’s literally in your job title of “politician.”
We don’t elect “listen to risk averse consultants-ians.”
Do.
Politics.
It’s clear the country as a whole hates all of this. Even GOP suburbs in Cook County are berating ICE.
Doing the right thing is popular!
So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Do politics!
It’s literally in your job title of “politician.”
We don’t elect “listen to risk averse consultants-ians.”
Do.
Politics.
It’s clear the country as a whole hates all of this. Even GOP suburbs in Cook County are berating ICE.
Doing the right thing is popular!
It’s literally in your job title of “politician.”
We don’t elect “listen to risk averse consultants-ians.”
Do.
Politics.
It’s clear the country as a whole hates all of this. Even GOP suburbs in Cook County are berating ICE.
Doing the right thing is popular!
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Introducing Information Wasteland, a package about misinfo on the internet –– from AI iterations of digital blackface to a growing "alt-right pipeline" among wellness influencers –– edited by former features director @brittneymac15.bsky.social: www.teenvogue.com/information-...
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Introducing Information Wasteland, a package about misinfo on the internet –– from AI iterations of digital blackface to a growing "alt-right pipeline" among wellness influencers –– edited by former features director @brittneymac15.bsky.social: www.teenvogue.com/information-...
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“But now when congressional Republicans answer “nothing,” that’s precisely what they mean. No harbor, no help, no empathy, no truth. By all appearances, Democrats seem to be waiting in vain for a return to rules they recognize — and a counteroffer that isn’t coming.”
A new column, this one on Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, and the price of bailing on a stand. #NHPolitics
The big political stand that wasn’t • New Hampshire Bulletin
I spend as little time as possible thinking about the game of politics, but the gambit was doomed from the beginning.
newhampshirebulletin.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“But now when congressional Republicans answer “nothing,” that’s precisely what they mean. No harbor, no help, no empathy, no truth. By all appearances, Democrats seem to be waiting in vain for a return to rules they recognize — and a counteroffer that isn’t coming.”
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“Shaheen said she took her stand for the people and ended it for the same, applying the highest principle of public service to both her defiance and her capitulation. But in the end, nobody was served.”
A new column, this one on Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, and the price of bailing on a stand. #NHPolitics
The big political stand that wasn’t • New Hampshire Bulletin
I spend as little time as possible thinking about the game of politics, but the gambit was doomed from the beginning.
newhampshirebulletin.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“Shaheen said she took her stand for the people and ended it for the same, applying the highest principle of public service to both her defiance and her capitulation. But in the end, nobody was served.”
I honestly hoped Dell was on Bluesky so I could try to tag them and ask them why their Precision laptops are such trash. Unfortunately, doesn't seem like they are. Bummer.
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I honestly hoped Dell was on Bluesky so I could try to tag them and ask them why their Precision laptops are such trash. Unfortunately, doesn't seem like they are. Bummer.
I would also really, REALLY want to know why all my other machines worked fine with a KVM switch, but for some reason Dell just refused to work with it and made everything crash. Oh, and then the RAM died & I had no work computer for a month b/c the tech Dell sent broke the motherboard. 🙄
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I would also really, REALLY want to know why all my other machines worked fine with a KVM switch, but for some reason Dell just refused to work with it and made everything crash. Oh, and then the RAM died & I had no work computer for a month b/c the tech Dell sent broke the motherboard. 🙄
Is there any laptop WORSE than the Dell Precision 7670? I have never had a computer have so much trouble with external monitors OR having functional RAM OR having enough power to run a mouse. And compared to the issues my co-workers deal with, I have it easy.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Is there any laptop WORSE than the Dell Precision 7670? I have never had a computer have so much trouble with external monitors OR having functional RAM OR having enough power to run a mouse. And compared to the issues my co-workers deal with, I have it easy.
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This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com
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Talked to so many people who were at the first protests of their lives today. Ex-Republicans, introverts, 90-year-olds and 3-year-olds. This was at an intersection in a 60,000 person town. Haven’t felt hope like this in my life.
June 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Talked to so many people who were at the first protests of their lives today. Ex-Republicans, introverts, 90-year-olds and 3-year-olds. This was at an intersection in a 60,000 person town. Haven’t felt hope like this in my life.
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Seriously though, why can't the AFU buy ad space for videos of American hardware stunting on Russians?
We let the Gulf States advertise how tourist friendly their cities in the desert built by slave labor are and this would be way less offensive than that
We let the Gulf States advertise how tourist friendly their cities in the desert built by slave labor are and this would be way less offensive than that
June 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Seriously though, why can't the AFU buy ad space for videos of American hardware stunting on Russians?
We let the Gulf States advertise how tourist friendly their cities in the desert built by slave labor are and this would be way less offensive than that
We let the Gulf States advertise how tourist friendly their cities in the desert built by slave labor are and this would be way less offensive than that
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one of the great messaging victories of the conservative movement is how it, outside of nerds like me, successfully buried the fact that it was vocally anti-anti-apartheid
You can’t say he doesn’t rep the White House’s point of view?
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight to End Apartheid talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight to End Apartheid talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight to End Apartheid
As Black activists in South Africa fought against their country’s racist apartheid...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
one of the great messaging victories of the conservative movement is how it, outside of nerds like me, successfully buried the fact that it was vocally anti-anti-apartheid
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the trump administrative is actively pro housing discrimination and wants to encourage it by non enforcement www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...
Consumer Bureau Seeks to Undo Settlement and Repay Mortgage Lender
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to return a $105,000 penalty it collected last fall when it resolved a discrimination lawsuit.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
the trump administrative is actively pro housing discrimination and wants to encourage it by non enforcement www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...
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journalists should assume the admin is lying. judges should assume the admin is lying. Dems voting on appointments should assume the admin is lying.
like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.
like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.
March 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
journalists should assume the admin is lying. judges should assume the admin is lying. Dems voting on appointments should assume the admin is lying.
like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.
like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.
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This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.