jmraykowski.bsky.social
@jmraykowski.bsky.social
Yells at clouds.
The most shocking thing to me regarding Trump / MAGA is how shocked everyone else seems to be that it has happened.
Title does not dictate behavior.
Randal Graves covered this in the movie "Clerks".

You're free to not like it (I sure don't), but all these folks doing all these horrible things are proud, practicing, church-going, Jesus-loving, Bible-believing Christians.

Argue with them if you don't accept it.
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Well, mother and child are with baby Jesus now, so it's all good.
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Software utilities, I think, must be treated the same way: regulated (including price) and operated under oversight. Otherwise, they're just a robber-baron monopoly with a stranglehold on the economy.
4/5
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
40% of the country "knows" the planet was created 6000 years ago and science is "lies from the pits of hell".
50+%: demons are real
60+%: angels are real
70+%: their specific deity is real
80+%: 'supernatural' is a meaningful explanation.

Optimist.
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
" If he was, could not have stomached ..."

Oh. Please. Just. Stop.

Christians have and will continue to stomach far worse. I don't get it. Instead of, you know, helping, you ... what... prefer to close your eyes, block your ears, and repeat "they're not like me" to make yourself feel better?
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics,
And the Catholics hate the Protestants.
And the Hindu's hate the Muslims.
And Everybody hates the Jews"
--Tom Lehrer, National Brotherhood Week
November 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It'd be nicer if they simply faced reality.
We need more of that, too.
November 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
That is a complete misrepresentation. None of those "atheist dictatorships" did anything in the name of or because of "atheism".
There is no worldview called "athey" with a set of dogmas and doctrines (the ism) or followers (the ists).
Learn, then speak.
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
You do understand the irony in that statement, right?
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
IMO, having a call on speaker in public is an invitation for everyone to join the conversation.

Like when there's a big family gathering but a couple of folks couldn't make it so you put 'em on speaker so the whole family can say "Hi!" and tell them what a wonderful meal they missed and so on.
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Well, you have to view it through the lens of conservative religion. Then it makes total sense. Apparently.
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
*imagine
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Oh, goodness, I can only imaging the pain must be unbearable.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Would this be the same one that referred to Halligan as "the indictment signer"?
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Recalls watching the fast food guy fill the drink until the ice was sticking out above the rim of the cup and then getting upset when he got sticky putting the lid on.

Apparently, we don't teach things like "displacement" anymore.
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Get snacks & a drink, internet postings from emergency services is a rabbit hole all its own, esp. the small towns.
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Ah, that must explain why they're just so darned good, it's an entire field of study with academics and everything!
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM