@jfoy.bsky.social
Also @jfoy@mastodon.social. He/him, cishet xennial nerd in urban Cascadia. Gradatim.
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I am kind of sitting here mouth agape as I realize that the thing that really got eight Democrats to cave was a provision which provides backdoor criminal and civil immunity to them personally by making it functionally impossible to ever investigate the Senate
read the actual bill text and this is quite literally a provision designed solely to impede civil and criminal investigations into United States Senators and their staff. www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.appropriations.senate.gov
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I am kind of sitting here mouth agape as I realize that the thing that really got eight Democrats to cave was a provision which provides backdoor criminal and civil immunity to them personally by making it functionally impossible to ever investigate the Senate
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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91 votes separate the two mayoral candidates in Seattle, but Katie Wilson has pulled ahead of incumbent Bruce Harrell and is now in the lead.
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
91 votes separate the two mayoral candidates in Seattle, but Katie Wilson has pulled ahead of incumbent Bruce Harrell and is now in the lead.
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🧵 Okay so yesterday's vote has me needing to share something.
I've been tracking these 8 Democratic senators for months, and yesterday's surrender on healthcare wasn't surprising—it was predictable.
Let me show you why:
#Healthcare #CorporateDemocrats
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I've been tracking these 8 Democratic senators for months, and yesterday's surrender on healthcare wasn't surprising—it was predictable.
Let me show you why:
#Healthcare #CorporateDemocrats
1/12
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🧵 Okay so yesterday's vote has me needing to share something.
I've been tracking these 8 Democratic senators for months, and yesterday's surrender on healthcare wasn't surprising—it was predictable.
Let me show you why:
#Healthcare #CorporateDemocrats
1/12
I've been tracking these 8 Democratic senators for months, and yesterday's surrender on healthcare wasn't surprising—it was predictable.
Let me show you why:
#Healthcare #CorporateDemocrats
1/12
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Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
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Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
Mamdani is going to implement Shari Lewis law.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs
The Middle-Earthsea 'ship we need
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
The Middle-Earthsea 'ship we need
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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With another 56,000 votes counted in the Seattle mayor's race, Katie Wilson has narrowed the gap with incumbent Bruce Harrell to just 4,300 votes, and received just under 55 percent of the vote in the latest count, with perhaps 50,000 votes remaining to be counted. That's a solid turnaround.
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
With another 56,000 votes counted in the Seattle mayor's race, Katie Wilson has narrowed the gap with incumbent Bruce Harrell to just 4,300 votes, and received just under 55 percent of the vote in the latest count, with perhaps 50,000 votes remaining to be counted. That's a solid turnaround.
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Look At My Book Everyone :)
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Look At My Book Everyone :)
graaaaiiinnnns
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
graaaaiiinnnns
I performed this play in high school!
"Lucky Stiff" tells the scheme of an Englishman forced to take the body of a recently murdered uncle on a vacation to Monte Carlo. The cast includes WWSB meteorologist John Scalzi, who tells us what to expect.
Read more: www.wusf.org/arts-culture...
Read more: www.wusf.org/arts-culture...
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I performed this play in high school!
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Interesting angle www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The Situation: How Much Less Free Are We?
I gave a speech.
www.lawfaremedia.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Interesting angle www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Well! The sun just set. Hello, standard time, we've missed you.
November 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Well! The sun just set. Hello, standard time, we've missed you.
What a gorgeous autumn day for a #seattle #votingselfie
November 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
What a gorgeous autumn day for a #seattle #votingselfie
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Think and thump to protect our furry friends! 😸😻😽
BC SPCA warns drivers to check vehicles for cats in cold weather
When temperatures drop, animals seek out shelter -- and a warm car engine can be a tempting hiding place for a cold cat, the organization says.
vancouver.citynews.ca
November 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Think and thump to protect our furry friends! 😸😻😽
Gonna admit, not impressed with all the pointy-clicky QubesOS seems to want.
November 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Gonna admit, not impressed with all the pointy-clicky QubesOS seems to want.
Apropos of Nothing I'm Sure, everybody knows about the secret Congressional nuclear bunker that was hidden under the shiny new luxury wing of the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, right? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...
Project Greek Island - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Apropos of Nothing I'm Sure, everybody knows about the secret Congressional nuclear bunker that was hidden under the shiny new luxury wing of the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, right? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...
Hearing baseball called in Quebecois might be my new favorite thing of the evening.
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Hearing baseball called in Quebecois might be my new favorite thing of the evening.
cutting teeth
cutting through
cutting through
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
cutting teeth
cutting through
cutting through
NOPE. Who sends a campaign text like this on the day SNAP is cut off?
November 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
NOPE. Who sends a campaign text like this on the day SNAP is cut off?
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You know what’s up
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
You know what’s up
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.