Jerry Shaver
@jerryshaver.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Layabout. I mostly talk politics, baseball, and movies/TV, particularly Star Trek, Marvel, and related geeky stuff. Unless I actually know you, don't DM me. I have a real quick blocking finger.
Republicans never have agency in mainstream media framing. Even when they acknowledge that Dems are winning, it's up to Dems to stop the shutdown.
November 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Republicans never have agency in mainstream media framing. Even when they acknowledge that Dems are winning, it's up to Dems to stop the shutdown.
Child's Play: Starring a bunch of people you've seen in better movies.
October 26, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Child's Play: Starring a bunch of people you've seen in better movies.
From @sfstandard.com. This is one of those images that should just go down in history as symbolic of the trump era.
October 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
From @sfstandard.com. This is one of those images that should just go down in history as symbolic of the trump era.
Republicans: Democrats need to stop calling us Nazis and tone down their dangerous rhetoric.
Also Republicans:
Also Republicans:
October 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Republicans: Democrats need to stop calling us Nazis and tone down their dangerous rhetoric.
Also Republicans:
Also Republicans:
He's apparently a tour guide 😂
October 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
He's apparently a tour guide 😂
Harrison Ford will return as Indiana Jones in Avengers Doomsday
September 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Harrison Ford will return as Indiana Jones in Avengers Doomsday
Sweet, suffering Jesus, we've gotten old.
September 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Sweet, suffering Jesus, we've gotten old.
I think we probably ignore advice on how to treat the flag from a guy who has been caught several times dry humping it.
August 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I think we probably ignore advice on how to treat the flag from a guy who has been caught several times dry humping it.
Yep. I have no love for Evil Mr. McFeely, but he doesn't deserve this.
August 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Yep. I have no love for Evil Mr. McFeely, but he doesn't deserve this.
I'm ridiculously psyched about this...
August 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I'm ridiculously psyched about this...
I love the AP Stylebook, and this is a necessary update, but it's still so damn ghoulish....
June 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I love the AP Stylebook, and this is a necessary update, but it's still so damn ghoulish....
From today's Chop Wood, Carry Water, perhaps the most welcome paragraph I've read in a while.
chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/chop-wood-...
chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/chop-wood-...
February 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
From today's Chop Wood, Carry Water, perhaps the most welcome paragraph I've read in a while.
chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/chop-wood-...
chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/chop-wood-...
I'm just going to leave this here for reasons that should be obvious to most thinking people.
December 20, 2024 at 2:35 PM
I'm just going to leave this here for reasons that should be obvious to most thinking people.
Watching Kojak. Season 3, episode 1, "A Question of Answers" and check out the guy on the right. Eli Wallach was also in this episode, which made me start singing the Magnificent Seven theme.
December 9, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Watching Kojak. Season 3, episode 1, "A Question of Answers" and check out the guy on the right. Eli Wallach was also in this episode, which made me start singing the Magnificent Seven theme.
His 1976 Topps is one of the greatest baseball cards ever made.
December 2, 2024 at 5:22 PM
His 1976 Topps is one of the greatest baseball cards ever made.