J. N. Hall
@joseph-n-hall.bsky.social
You might have seen me on the Tomorrow Show or in Reader's Digest. If so, congratulations on your extended survival.
Someone should ask the guy, what does it feel like to know that 2/3 of 350 million people literally have their lives on hold, waiting increasingly impatiently for you to die?
January 7, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Someone should ask the guy, what does it feel like to know that 2/3 of 350 million people literally have their lives on hold, waiting increasingly impatiently for you to die?
Not only is Trump a Putin asset, he seems to have become Putin (except with a better military)
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Not only is Trump a Putin asset, he seems to have become Putin (except with a better military)
Compared:
WinCo Italian Hoagie
$6
about a foot long, big
lots of meat+cheese
no tomato, no lettuce, no onion, no oil+vinegar
Town & Country Italian Hoagie
$12
smaller going on "small"
moderate meat+cheese
proper veggies and oil+vinegar
I'm going with WinCo but dang, I have to salad it myself?
WinCo Italian Hoagie
$6
about a foot long, big
lots of meat+cheese
no tomato, no lettuce, no onion, no oil+vinegar
Town & Country Italian Hoagie
$12
smaller going on "small"
moderate meat+cheese
proper veggies and oil+vinegar
I'm going with WinCo but dang, I have to salad it myself?
December 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Compared:
WinCo Italian Hoagie
$6
about a foot long, big
lots of meat+cheese
no tomato, no lettuce, no onion, no oil+vinegar
Town & Country Italian Hoagie
$12
smaller going on "small"
moderate meat+cheese
proper veggies and oil+vinegar
I'm going with WinCo but dang, I have to salad it myself?
WinCo Italian Hoagie
$6
about a foot long, big
lots of meat+cheese
no tomato, no lettuce, no onion, no oil+vinegar
Town & Country Italian Hoagie
$12
smaller going on "small"
moderate meat+cheese
proper veggies and oil+vinegar
I'm going with WinCo but dang, I have to salad it myself?
Anyone with any pyrotechnics knowledge is now laughing hysterically at this black powder
December 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Anyone with any pyrotechnics knowledge is now laughing hysterically at this black powder
Ben Affleck is so good at playing TJ Miller in Extract that first I thought, TJ Miller actually looks a lot like Ben Affleck, then I thought, TJ Miller is playing two parts in the movie?
December 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Ben Affleck is so good at playing TJ Miller in Extract that first I thought, TJ Miller actually looks a lot like Ben Affleck, then I thought, TJ Miller is playing two parts in the movie?
Additional PSA:
Pigeons home.
Missiles and investigators home in.
Knives and wit are honed.
Pores secrete.
Secret agents secret documents in dead drops.
"Secreted" and "secreted" are pronounced differently.
Secret agents are discreet.
Math and components are discrete.
Pigeons home.
Missiles and investigators home in.
Knives and wit are honed.
Pores secrete.
Secret agents secret documents in dead drops.
"Secreted" and "secreted" are pronounced differently.
Secret agents are discreet.
Math and components are discrete.
December 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Additional PSA:
Pigeons home.
Missiles and investigators home in.
Knives and wit are honed.
Pores secrete.
Secret agents secret documents in dead drops.
"Secreted" and "secreted" are pronounced differently.
Secret agents are discreet.
Math and components are discrete.
Pigeons home.
Missiles and investigators home in.
Knives and wit are honed.
Pores secrete.
Secret agents secret documents in dead drops.
"Secreted" and "secreted" are pronounced differently.
Secret agents are discreet.
Math and components are discrete.
The FBI periodically finds some rube who has "direct action" on his brain, helps him get diluted hydrogen peroxide and modeling clay-4, and after he is stupid enough on hidden camera, sends him away to prison for a couple decades.
Don't be that rube. I won't be too sad if you are.
Don't be that rube. I won't be too sad if you are.
Also: note the absolutely otherworldly quality of the diction and tone here. Only the Federal Bureau of Investigation is so precise. Note how the agent has absolutely no ear for what sounds sinister and what sounds silly.
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The FBI periodically finds some rube who has "direct action" on his brain, helps him get diluted hydrogen peroxide and modeling clay-4, and after he is stupid enough on hidden camera, sends him away to prison for a couple decades.
Don't be that rube. I won't be too sad if you are.
Don't be that rube. I won't be too sad if you are.
PSA:
Circuits and fireworks have fuses.
Munitions have mechanical fuzes.
Bomb techs defuse fuzes.
Gases diffuse.
Negotiators defuse situations by diffusing tension.
Bombs are ordnance.
Cities enact ordinances.
A cache of gold bars has cachet.
You're welcome.
Circuits and fireworks have fuses.
Munitions have mechanical fuzes.
Bomb techs defuse fuzes.
Gases diffuse.
Negotiators defuse situations by diffusing tension.
Bombs are ordnance.
Cities enact ordinances.
A cache of gold bars has cachet.
You're welcome.
December 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
PSA:
Circuits and fireworks have fuses.
Munitions have mechanical fuzes.
Bomb techs defuse fuzes.
Gases diffuse.
Negotiators defuse situations by diffusing tension.
Bombs are ordnance.
Cities enact ordinances.
A cache of gold bars has cachet.
You're welcome.
Circuits and fireworks have fuses.
Munitions have mechanical fuzes.
Bomb techs defuse fuzes.
Gases diffuse.
Negotiators defuse situations by diffusing tension.
Bombs are ordnance.
Cities enact ordinances.
A cache of gold bars has cachet.
You're welcome.
The fact that some rich old white assholes want to fuck up the United States' 250th Anniversary coinage by slapping busts of already well known white men (some of whom were slave owners) onto them, angers me hugely.
"We're a bunch of dicks -- stamp that on coins!"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
"We're a bunch of dicks -- stamp that on coins!"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
December 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The fact that some rich old white assholes want to fuck up the United States' 250th Anniversary coinage by slapping busts of already well known white men (some of whom were slave owners) onto them, angers me hugely.
"We're a bunch of dicks -- stamp that on coins!"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
"We're a bunch of dicks -- stamp that on coins!"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
Reposted by J. N. Hall
Measles sounds fun
"...the winter of 1917 saw more than 95,000 military measles cases, and more than 3,200 deaths, with thousands more soldiers disabled by empyemas and disfiguring/debilitating thoracotomies"
www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...
"...the winter of 1917 saw more than 95,000 military measles cases, and more than 3,200 deaths, with thousands more soldiers disabled by empyemas and disfiguring/debilitating thoracotomies"
www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...
How the 1917 army measles epidemics changed emerging infectious disease awareness
Background: An argument can be made that if there was a “moment” in time when our
response to emerging infectious diseases became recognizably modern, it may have been
in 1917-1918, during the fatal m...
www.ijidonline.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Measles sounds fun
"...the winter of 1917 saw more than 95,000 military measles cases, and more than 3,200 deaths, with thousands more soldiers disabled by empyemas and disfiguring/debilitating thoracotomies"
www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...
"...the winter of 1917 saw more than 95,000 military measles cases, and more than 3,200 deaths, with thousands more soldiers disabled by empyemas and disfiguring/debilitating thoracotomies"
www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...
The Law & Order episode where John (X.) Doe is channeling Dave Grohl
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The Law & Order episode where John (X.) Doe is channeling Dave Grohl
Honestly I don't like this game but ...
December 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Honestly I don't like this game but ...
My CDRs etc from the 1990s work great, zero errors, optical media will be workable for quite a while I think, just bought a stack of 50 GB M-DISCs
My DAT tapes, oh shucks, I should have done something about that
My DAT tapes, oh shucks, I should have done something about that
I talk about this sometimes to folks not in academic or archival spaces and they scoff, then they get 👀👀, then they drink
One of the books in my office is 290 years old. It’s still in excellent condition and easy to read. I wonder how easy it’ll be to read electronic texts 290 years from now. I expect it’ll be rather trickier.
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
My CDRs etc from the 1990s work great, zero errors, optical media will be workable for quite a while I think, just bought a stack of 50 GB M-DISCs
My DAT tapes, oh shucks, I should have done something about that
My DAT tapes, oh shucks, I should have done something about that
I feel like a fact-filled rant regarding execution by "inert gas hypoxia."
This is a topic with a few important points that media is getting entirely wrong or distorting.
Please read. Don't take this as advocating for the death penalty, as I strongly oppose it. It's information only.
This is a topic with a few important points that media is getting entirely wrong or distorting.
Please read. Don't take this as advocating for the death penalty, as I strongly oppose it. It's information only.
January 27, 2024 at 5:48 AM
I feel like a fact-filled rant regarding execution by "inert gas hypoxia."
This is a topic with a few important points that media is getting entirely wrong or distorting.
Please read. Don't take this as advocating for the death penalty, as I strongly oppose it. It's information only.
This is a topic with a few important points that media is getting entirely wrong or distorting.
Please read. Don't take this as advocating for the death penalty, as I strongly oppose it. It's information only.
I thought this fucker was dead already.
I will say: His restaurant in Scottsdale (well, not his for quite some time, but still) has fucking excellent food. The braised short rib is to die for. Seriously. OMG so good.
nypost.com/2023/12/02/n...
I will say: His restaurant in Scottsdale (well, not his for quite some time, but still) has fucking excellent food. The braised short rib is to die for. Seriously. OMG so good.
nypost.com/2023/12/02/n...
Notorious mobster Salvatore 'Sammy the Bull' Gravano stunned by...
Former Gambino underboss Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano spoke out to FOX News following the latest bombshell report in the Biden family influence peddling investigation.
nypost.com
December 5, 2023 at 7:20 AM
I thought this fucker was dead already.
I will say: His restaurant in Scottsdale (well, not his for quite some time, but still) has fucking excellent food. The braised short rib is to die for. Seriously. OMG so good.
nypost.com/2023/12/02/n...
I will say: His restaurant in Scottsdale (well, not his for quite some time, but still) has fucking excellent food. The braised short rib is to die for. Seriously. OMG so good.
nypost.com/2023/12/02/n...
Wearing fake lashes the size of her car's hood to court
October 25, 2023 at 11:16 AM
Wearing fake lashes the size of her car's hood to court
I wrote this in response to a manager overseeing my interview process at Canonical (Ubuntu) today. There's not room for the reply, so I'll post it as an image. But the summary is (and I am an extremely verbally skilled American white guy that this favors):
The Thomas GIA test is racist as fuck.
The Thomas GIA test is racist as fuck.
October 20, 2023 at 1:28 AM
I wrote this in response to a manager overseeing my interview process at Canonical (Ubuntu) today. There's not room for the reply, so I'll post it as an image. But the summary is (and I am an extremely verbally skilled American white guy that this favors):
The Thomas GIA test is racist as fuck.
The Thomas GIA test is racist as fuck.
Unsure how much I'll post here but we'll see.
Maybe some programming stuff.
Maybe some links to music.
Politics, not so much.
Maybe some programming stuff.
Maybe some links to music.
Politics, not so much.
October 18, 2023 at 6:26 PM
Unsure how much I'll post here but we'll see.
Maybe some programming stuff.
Maybe some links to music.
Politics, not so much.
Maybe some programming stuff.
Maybe some links to music.
Politics, not so much.