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@johngcole.bsky.social
WV born in AZ half the year, veteran, hillbilly, cat servant.
Have a 22 year old blog: https://www.balloon-juice.com
Have a 22 year old blog: https://www.balloon-juice.com
and it's so funny because New Mexico is so gorgeous
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
and it's so funny because New Mexico is so gorgeous
one of my favorite things about the thorougly trashy show Landman is how they keep trying to romanticize west texas with all these filtered lenses and sunsets and they just can't because it's west fucking texas and ft worth and odessa and all those places are some of the ugliest in the country
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
one of my favorite things about the thorougly trashy show Landman is how they keep trying to romanticize west texas with all these filtered lenses and sunsets and they just can't because it's west fucking texas and ft worth and odessa and all those places are some of the ugliest in the country
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Important to remember that both Jared & Witkoff do business with Dmitriev's companies too. And Witkoff also does business with Blavatnik, whose hotel was the site for their meetings in Miami.
Pretty remarkable that Trump has installed someone on the Saudi dole — Jared Kushner collects millions in fees from the Saudis every year — in a key role for America's most sensitive and consequential foreign policy negotiations (Gaza, Ukraine), and it is largely TREATED AS A NON-STORY
November 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Important to remember that both Jared & Witkoff do business with Dmitriev's companies too. And Witkoff also does business with Blavatnik, whose hotel was the site for their meetings in Miami.
I will say one really positive aspect of all the fuckups in the trump administration just doing stupid insane shit every day is that it should help a lot of women get over their imposter syndrome at work
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I will say one really positive aspect of all the fuckups in the trump administration just doing stupid insane shit every day is that it should help a lot of women get over their imposter syndrome at work
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Can we talk about the fact that there's a company that wants to block out the sun AND a company that wants to put mirrors in space so you can aim sunbeams in the middle of the night if you want to and I need EVERYBODY to quit torment-nexusing the sky?
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Can we talk about the fact that there's a company that wants to block out the sun AND a company that wants to put mirrors in space so you can aim sunbeams in the middle of the night if you want to and I need EVERYBODY to quit torment-nexusing the sky?
my favorite hopecore videos are the ones where someone is driving along a road and finds a litter of kittens or puppies abandoned and all you hear them saying is "oh no, damnit" and continue to say "oh no" as each additional one appears
because you know the "oh no" means "fuck I have 7 kittens now"
because you know the "oh no" means "fuck I have 7 kittens now"
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
my favorite hopecore videos are the ones where someone is driving along a road and finds a litter of kittens or puppies abandoned and all you hear them saying is "oh no, damnit" and continue to say "oh no" as each additional one appears
because you know the "oh no" means "fuck I have 7 kittens now"
because you know the "oh no" means "fuck I have 7 kittens now"
Joelle informed me this is inaccurate my first piece of forwarded mail was a fruitcake catalogue which is somehow worse
my first piece of mail came today being forwarded from back in WV and it was my AARP magazine
Getting old is just fucking cruel it's one unexpected dick punch after another of varying degree of insult to the spirit or body
Getting old is just fucking cruel it's one unexpected dick punch after another of varying degree of insult to the spirit or body
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Joelle informed me this is inaccurate my first piece of forwarded mail was a fruitcake catalogue which is somehow worse
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to whom it may concern in the national media: it is perhaps worth further investigation that the answer to “who is in charge of foreign policy” appears to be whoever is currently answering the phone
or that we do not, in fact, appear to have any coherent foreign policy
or that we do not, in fact, appear to have any coherent foreign policy
State Dept. Spokesperson now refuting GOP and Dem senators’ account of their joint briefing from Rubio - and claiming the 28 point plan IS authored by the US.
Hard to believe several senators would have fundamentally misunderstood what Rubio told them.
Breathtakingly dysfunctional government.
Hard to believe several senators would have fundamentally misunderstood what Rubio told them.
Breathtakingly dysfunctional government.
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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your periodic reminder that all of this is punishment for us having the nerve to elect a black man in 2008
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
your periodic reminder that all of this is punishment for us having the nerve to elect a black man in 2008
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
one of the weirder things people say about woke culture is when they say things like "you couldn't make that these days" about movies like Blazing Saddles when you, you could, it's just no one would watch it because comedy has evolved as the world around it did
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
one of the weirder things people say about woke culture is when they say things like "you couldn't make that these days" about movies like Blazing Saddles when you, you could, it's just no one would watch it because comedy has evolved as the world around it did
my first piece of mail came today being forwarded from back in WV and it was my AARP magazine
Getting old is just fucking cruel it's one unexpected dick punch after another of varying degree of insult to the spirit or body
Getting old is just fucking cruel it's one unexpected dick punch after another of varying degree of insult to the spirit or body
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
my first piece of mail came today being forwarded from back in WV and it was my AARP magazine
Getting old is just fucking cruel it's one unexpected dick punch after another of varying degree of insult to the spirit or body
Getting old is just fucking cruel it's one unexpected dick punch after another of varying degree of insult to the spirit or body
If I had Elon Musk's money I would become a light and tree evangelist. All my resources would be spent educating people on better lighting and making it happen in public spaces and planting fucking trees everywhere and creating trusts for arborists to maintain them
November 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
If I had Elon Musk's money I would become a light and tree evangelist. All my resources would be spent educating people on better lighting and making it happen in public spaces and planting fucking trees everywhere and creating trusts for arborists to maintain them
When we eat beef in this household there is a Steve tax because unlike any othercat I have known the man loves him some beef. At any rate, here he is extending the paw of understanding after getting his cut- his ears are perked because he is fighting the itis and will be asleep in ten seconds.
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
When we eat beef in this household there is a Steve tax because unlike any othercat I have known the man loves him some beef. At any rate, here he is extending the paw of understanding after getting his cut- his ears are perked because he is fighting the itis and will be asleep in ten seconds.
Another difference between me and Joelle is you could rub a stick of butter on the lenses of her glasses and she would either not notice or not care enough to do anything about it whereas a miniscule speck of dust on mine will ruin my entire day until it is gone like I go blue screeen of death
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Another difference between me and Joelle is you could rub a stick of butter on the lenses of her glasses and she would either not notice or not care enough to do anything about it whereas a miniscule speck of dust on mine will ruin my entire day until it is gone like I go blue screeen of death
in case y'all ever need to teach a low level stats class
November 23, 2025 at 1:18 AM
in case y'all ever need to teach a low level stats class
I'm 8 o'clock high at 6 pm.
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I'm 8 o'clock high at 6 pm.
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would still clog if you flush wipes.
Sadly, we both missed an opportunity to bid on this last night at Sotherby’s
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
would still clog if you flush wipes.
I wonder if people from other countries look at things like deer, raccoons, possums, and ground hogs and think "wait you have shit like that just running around in y'all's yards" like I just did with this Costa Rican tapir
Bananas came by just now and did a little pruning for me at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica
#tapirs #tapiroftheday #bairdstapir
#tapirs #tapiroftheday #bairdstapir
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I wonder if people from other countries look at things like deer, raccoons, possums, and ground hogs and think "wait you have shit like that just running around in y'all's yards" like I just did with this Costa Rican tapir
some animals just have really shitty pr when it comes down to it. Possums, bats, groundhogs- the whole lot of them need better PR reps.
In fairness possums bring it on themselves by looking so fucking weird when they are scared
In fairness possums bring it on themselves by looking so fucking weird when they are scared
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
some animals just have really shitty pr when it comes down to it. Possums, bats, groundhogs- the whole lot of them need better PR reps.
In fairness possums bring it on themselves by looking so fucking weird when they are scared
In fairness possums bring it on themselves by looking so fucking weird when they are scared
hear me out- if bat's wings were covered in soft fur and not angular, they would be one of the most coveted pets because they have adorable faces and bodies like all the other animals we love I mean I internally squeal when I see a sugar glider it would be the same with bats
November 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
hear me out- if bat's wings were covered in soft fur and not angular, they would be one of the most coveted pets because they have adorable faces and bodies like all the other animals we love I mean I internally squeal when I see a sugar glider it would be the same with bats
Joelle is doing laundry so I handed her some white towels and said can you do these with the whites and she told me "Those aren't white they are towels."
People, I am as surprised as you to learn I apparently have been doing it all wrong for 55 years. And I don't just mean laundry, I mean "it all."
People, I am as surprised as you to learn I apparently have been doing it all wrong for 55 years. And I don't just mean laundry, I mean "it all."
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Joelle is doing laundry so I handed her some white towels and said can you do these with the whites and she told me "Those aren't white they are towels."
People, I am as surprised as you to learn I apparently have been doing it all wrong for 55 years. And I don't just mean laundry, I mean "it all."
People, I am as surprised as you to learn I apparently have been doing it all wrong for 55 years. And I don't just mean laundry, I mean "it all."
Don't ever change west by god virginia
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Don't ever change west by god virginia
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Someone in the crowd "I don't know if it's the MDMA hitting or the Holy Spirit"
November 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Someone in the crowd "I don't know if it's the MDMA hitting or the Holy Spirit"