JRoth
@jmroth.bsky.social
"The patriarchy hurts men too, but not enough of them if you ask me."
Architect. He/him.
🌩️👀 A85tO8wdT1JD
Architect. He/him.
🌩️👀 A85tO8wdT1JD
I'm not even sure what the 2 were before this one, but I'm feeling pretty good.
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I'm not even sure what the 2 were before this one, but I'm feeling pretty good.
What, no Springfield Sallies jersey?
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
What, no Springfield Sallies jersey?
Ted Mcginley as Derrick in "Shrinking"
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Ted Mcginley as Derrick in "Shrinking"
Don't even have to brine; 24 hours of salt does the trick.
You're right this is relatively recent, although we're now 25+ years into brining.
My go-to is grill-roasted on a Weber. Not smoked, just indirect charcoal heat. Hands-off, no oven.
You're right this is relatively recent, although we're now 25+ years into brining.
My go-to is grill-roasted on a Weber. Not smoked, just indirect charcoal heat. Hands-off, no oven.
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Don't even have to brine; 24 hours of salt does the trick.
You're right this is relatively recent, although we're now 25+ years into brining.
My go-to is grill-roasted on a Weber. Not smoked, just indirect charcoal heat. Hands-off, no oven.
You're right this is relatively recent, although we're now 25+ years into brining.
My go-to is grill-roasted on a Weber. Not smoked, just indirect charcoal heat. Hands-off, no oven.
Look, I try not to be an obsessive about this, I get that his postseason performances are pretty special, I won't get mad if/when he gets in.
But Bryce Harper is nowhere fucking near being a Hall of Fame player at this point in his career. He falls short in every measure we have. 82% of JAWS!
But Bryce Harper is nowhere fucking near being a Hall of Fame player at this point in his career. He falls short in every measure we have. 82% of JAWS!
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Look, I try not to be an obsessive about this, I get that his postseason performances are pretty special, I won't get mad if/when he gets in.
But Bryce Harper is nowhere fucking near being a Hall of Fame player at this point in his career. He falls short in every measure we have. 82% of JAWS!
But Bryce Harper is nowhere fucking near being a Hall of Fame player at this point in his career. He falls short in every measure we have. 82% of JAWS!
This person doesn't allow replies, so I'm clipping the handle, but:
This mass eviction was predicted for literal years, but never happened. Having predicted it, they now treat it as a fact that did happen. Fucking amazing.
Graph from the Eviction Lab.
evictionlab.org/eviction-tra...
This mass eviction was predicted for literal years, but never happened. Having predicted it, they now treat it as a fact that did happen. Fucking amazing.
Graph from the Eviction Lab.
evictionlab.org/eviction-tra...
November 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This person doesn't allow replies, so I'm clipping the handle, but:
This mass eviction was predicted for literal years, but never happened. Having predicted it, they now treat it as a fact that did happen. Fucking amazing.
Graph from the Eviction Lab.
evictionlab.org/eviction-tra...
This mass eviction was predicted for literal years, but never happened. Having predicted it, they now treat it as a fact that did happen. Fucking amazing.
Graph from the Eviction Lab.
evictionlab.org/eviction-tra...
What's funny is that I see writers of those critiques also sharing examples of buildings that they think are good, where the massing is absolutely broken up—because that's a normal thing to like. But they're negatively polarized into pretending 1950s projects were great.
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
What's funny is that I see writers of those critiques also sharing examples of buildings that they think are good, where the massing is absolutely broken up—because that's a normal thing to like. But they're negatively polarized into pretending 1950s projects were great.
Really unfortunate timeline sequence.
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Really unfortunate timeline sequence.
SCOPA retains its Dem majority, and every other PA Dem judge won as well.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
SCOPA retains its Dem majority, and every other PA Dem judge won as well.
Pittsburgh this afternoon. They later marched down the street to the front of the store itself.
AFAIK, there’s been no ICE presence at this store, which doesn’t have a big day laborer scene.
AFAIK, there’s been no ICE presence at this store, which doesn’t have a big day laborer scene.
November 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Pittsburgh this afternoon. They later marched down the street to the front of the store itself.
AFAIK, there’s been no ICE presence at this store, which doesn’t have a big day laborer scene.
AFAIK, there’s been no ICE presence at this store, which doesn’t have a big day laborer scene.
OK, so The Devil Is Here In These Hills (2105), the definitive history of the WV Coal Wars, doesn't include Red Neck Army at all. It cites Baldwin-Felts agents using redneck as an epithet in 1912, and then notes bandannas as symbolic wear in the runup to Blair Mountain. Footnote to the former:
![[Mine Guard] Phaup testimony, Conditions in the Paint Creek District, PP. 1378-80, 1391. The day after the incident, Elizabeth Fish, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a striker, let her curiosity cloud her judgment and decided that she and her friend would walk over and take a look at the body of the dead detective. "We were coming down the road, not saying anything, when these mine guards commenced to firing," Fish later testified. "They called us Rednecks and told us to wade the creek. The creek was pretty wide and was up to our waist. We didn't take off our shoes or stockings nor did we lift up our clothes. They wouldn't give us time. Once they told us to hurry, that we were too damned slow." Fish recalled being too scared to remember what else they hollered at her, but she knew they used profan-ity. "There were about nine of them, and they all had these long guns ... drawn on us until we crossed the creek." This incident is one of several suggesting that the Paint Creek strike may have been the first time coal-mining people were branded as "rednecks." Fish quoted in Dale Payne, The Mine War, 1912-1913: Cabin Creek & Paint Creek (Fayetteville, WV: privately printed, 2011), p. 50.
Many of the Baldwin-Felts agents had worked as policemen and deputy sherifts in southern towns where, during the 1890s, local residents began referring to poor white farmers as rednecks because of their sunburned necks. Like the word "hillbilly," which sprouted up about the same time, and the much older term "white trash," "redneck" was a designation wealthier or more powerful people-like mine guards and deputy sheriffs—used as a way of expressing contempt for lower- and working-class white people.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sxpfi55igpl7ccu6fbxuvb7h/bafkreidggx3o5umlovuw6ivb7stoi5ddm5d7w6xs5vvzx26gb6ss2qq5km@jpeg)
October 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
OK, so The Devil Is Here In These Hills (2105), the definitive history of the WV Coal Wars, doesn't include Red Neck Army at all. It cites Baldwin-Felts agents using redneck as an epithet in 1912, and then notes bandannas as symbolic wear in the runup to Blair Mountain. Footnote to the former:
Oh look, the most impactful bad call of the night.
October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Oh look, the most impactful bad call of the night.
After Kirk's single, it would've been 1 run in, 1st & 3rd, nobody out. Completely different game.
Christ.
Christ.
October 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
After Kirk's single, it would've been 1 run in, 1st & 3rd, nobody out. Completely different game.
Christ.
Christ.
The dog just left my wife in bed to find me on the couch.
October 28, 2025 at 5:55 AM
The dog just left my wife in bed to find me on the couch.
Ok, personal brag here: completed Pittsburgh’s Dirty Dozen hill ride today. 13 stupid steep hills, no foot down. Over a mile of total climbing.
October 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Ok, personal brag here: completed Pittsburgh’s Dirty Dozen hill ride today. 13 stupid steep hills, no foot down. Over a mile of total climbing.
I feel like this sort of thing goes around every so often, and what it actually reveals is that many people don’t recognize how pedestrian dynamics actually work. Almost nobody walks in an undeviating straight line, and everybody who does is being an asshole, regardless of social status.
October 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I feel like this sort of thing goes around every so often, and what it actually reveals is that many people don’t recognize how pedestrian dynamics actually work. Almost nobody walks in an undeviating straight line, and everybody who does is being an asshole, regardless of social status.
This morning’s cider donuts. Or what remain.
October 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This morning’s cider donuts. Or what remain.
Now that’s a platoon advantage.
October 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Now that’s a platoon advantage.
Forty-some years ago, You Can't Do That On Television used the following joke:
What's the official currency of Argentina?
The IOU.
What's the official currency of Argentina?
The IOU.
October 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Forty-some years ago, You Can't Do That On Television used the following joke:
What's the official currency of Argentina?
The IOU.
What's the official currency of Argentina?
The IOU.
Slightly different angle from December.
October 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Slightly different angle from December.