Josh Klun
@snack-cake.bsky.social
Father, mountain biker, skier, software engineer, video game aficionado and progressive.
A modest proposal: Wisconsin and Minnesota do an inter-league trade of Justin Jefferson for Giannis Antetokounmpo. Packers and Wolves instantly become championship favorites. Bucks and Vikes seasons are already a disaster.
JJ + JL = Wins
Freak + Ant = Wins
JJ + JL = Wins
Freak + Ant = Wins
December 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A modest proposal: Wisconsin and Minnesota do an inter-league trade of Justin Jefferson for Giannis Antetokounmpo. Packers and Wolves instantly become championship favorites. Bucks and Vikes seasons are already a disaster.
JJ + JL = Wins
Freak + Ant = Wins
JJ + JL = Wins
Freak + Ant = Wins
Winter is here and my new (to me) Cykel fat bike has been busy up and down Minnehaha Creek.
November 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Winter is here and my new (to me) Cykel fat bike has been busy up and down Minnehaha Creek.
This morning’s project
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This morning’s project
In shape Luka is terrifying.
October 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
In shape Luka is terrifying.
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If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
I’m reading Dresden Files - Battle Ground, a story where a bronze titan sends an army to invade Chicago, but the City’s weirdos and regular folks band together to drive them back.
Or is that the news? Tough to keep track.
Or is that the news? Tough to keep track.
October 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I’m reading Dresden Files - Battle Ground, a story where a bronze titan sends an army to invade Chicago, but the City’s weirdos and regular folks band together to drive them back.
Or is that the news? Tough to keep track.
Or is that the news? Tough to keep track.
Yesterday I told ChatGPT that it made a mistake and after apologizing, it told me it made a HUMAN ERROR.
September 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Yesterday I told ChatGPT that it made a mistake and after apologizing, it told me it made a HUMAN ERROR.
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Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division.
RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.
While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...
www.propublica.org
August 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Erin McCanlies spent almost two decades at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals affects the chance that they will have a child with autism. This spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated her entire division.
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"Zohran Mamdani is a job-killer, not a job-creator," continued Andrew Cuomo. "Not like me. I've created jobs. Mortuaries, mass grave facilities managers, trauma therapists, pepper spray salespeople, sexual assault hotline operators -- they'll all tell you. That's what I told my good friend Don."
August 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"Zohran Mamdani is a job-killer, not a job-creator," continued Andrew Cuomo. "Not like me. I've created jobs. Mortuaries, mass grave facilities managers, trauma therapists, pepper spray salespeople, sexual assault hotline operators -- they'll all tell you. That's what I told my good friend Don."
Just got choked up watch the trailer for "The Paper" and I think it's because The Office was kind of the Obama era and I'm just so worn down by the constant psychic assault of Trump's America.
August 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Just got choked up watch the trailer for "The Paper" and I think it's because The Office was kind of the Obama era and I'm just so worn down by the constant psychic assault of Trump's America.
“My whiskey neat, my coffee black” he belts out while destroying a cookie dough Blizzard.
July 31, 2025 at 2:38 AM
“My whiskey neat, my coffee black” he belts out while destroying a cookie dough Blizzard.
Mountain biking is more expensive than therapy and you get injured.
July 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Mountain biking is more expensive than therapy and you get injured.
I passed a group of kids on the trail and when one saw my bike he shouted “it’s so shiny!” and that’s possibly the highlight of my week.
July 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I passed a group of kids on the trail and when one saw my bike he shouted “it’s so shiny!” and that’s possibly the highlight of my week.
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There's a bombshell story about New York City elites running a sex trafficking ring patronized by the president from New York City and other New York City elites but the New York City elites that run the New York Times say there's no story there so hey, it's all settled, ha ha, hey what's over there
July 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
There's a bombshell story about New York City elites running a sex trafficking ring patronized by the president from New York City and other New York City elites but the New York City elites that run the New York Times say there's no story there so hey, it's all settled, ha ha, hey what's over there
An excellent elaboration of a point I’ve been trying to communicate.
Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…
Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…
Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who didn't really surprise anyone—Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, Elon Musk (pre-fallout)—but the more troubling trend has been watching younger entrepreneurs and VCs listen to their podcasts, read their posts and books, and slowly nod along to the idea that democracy is holding back innovation.
www.techdirt.com
July 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
An excellent elaboration of a point I’ve been trying to communicate.
If anyone is making Minneapolis unsafe it’s homegrown MAGA psychopaths like the one that murdered Melissa Hortman, her husband and dog. And those people are animated by this shrieking Temu Goebbels.
Stephen Miller: "We have communities all across this nation that 20 years ago, before the era of open borders, were completely peaceful, completely stable. Look at a place like Minneapolis. Post mass migration they're unsafe, they're violent, you cannot use the public parks."
July 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If anyone is making Minneapolis unsafe it’s homegrown MAGA psychopaths like the one that murdered Melissa Hortman, her husband and dog. And those people are animated by this shrieking Temu Goebbels.
Considering a new mountain bike and thought I'd see what the AI agents would recommend.
ChatGPT: Santa Cruz Tallboy
Claude: Santa Cruz Tallboy
Grok: MechaHitler
ChatGPT: Santa Cruz Tallboy
Claude: Santa Cruz Tallboy
Grok: MechaHitler
July 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Considering a new mountain bike and thought I'd see what the AI agents would recommend.
ChatGPT: Santa Cruz Tallboy
Claude: Santa Cruz Tallboy
Grok: MechaHitler
ChatGPT: Santa Cruz Tallboy
Claude: Santa Cruz Tallboy
Grok: MechaHitler
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Pretty weird how everyone in America openly understands the sitting president is actively covering up his involvement in a massive pedophilia and human trafficking operation, but we're somehow talking about the "threat" posed by nine-year-old trans girls on soccer teams.
July 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Pretty weird how everyone in America openly understands the sitting president is actively covering up his involvement in a massive pedophilia and human trafficking operation, but we're somehow talking about the "threat" posed by nine-year-old trans girls on soccer teams.
The whiplash between "holy shit, that's exactly what I would have written" and "holy shit, please stop hallucinating for a damn second" while using AI codegen tools is intense.
July 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The whiplash between "holy shit, that's exactly what I would have written" and "holy shit, please stop hallucinating for a damn second" while using AI codegen tools is intense.
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The great thing about living in a state that votes 53% D is i'm allowed to say that if your state votes 53% R your kids deserve to die. I'm still a good person because of where I live. Please dont all applaud at once
July 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The great thing about living in a state that votes 53% D is i'm allowed to say that if your state votes 53% R your kids deserve to die. I'm still a good person because of where I live. Please dont all applaud at once
Rode my bike listening to Woodie Guthrie this morning and construction routed me past Loring Park, where Melissa Hortman’s funeral was steps away from TC Pride. Forever love to Minneapolis. Hateful, murderous, fascist bigots please feel free to steer well clear of our city.
June 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Rode my bike listening to Woodie Guthrie this morning and construction routed me past Loring Park, where Melissa Hortman’s funeral was steps away from TC Pride. Forever love to Minneapolis. Hateful, murderous, fascist bigots please feel free to steer well clear of our city.
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To jump on this point, here are places that have implemented some of these radical ideas:
City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas
Free buses: Akron, Ohio
Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota
City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas
Free buses: Akron, Ohio
Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota
Exactly! Mamdani's most "radical" proposals — free buses, government grocery stores, higher taxes on the wealthy, a huge increase in affordable housing — really aren't that radical.
The centrist meltdown has to be about something else.
The centrist meltdown has to be about something else.
on Mamdani's city-run groceries idea, "laboratories of democracy" are one of the great U.S. strengths - even if you don't think it's likely to work, it's really interesting to see it tested. Maybe it'll be really successful! Maybe it'll fail for reasons we don't expect!
June 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
To jump on this point, here are places that have implemented some of these radical ideas:
City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas
Free buses: Akron, Ohio
Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota
City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas
Free buses: Akron, Ohio
Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota