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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 9h

I could do without this golden oldie.

The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 9h

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 10h

That was the arrangement Putin had with Dmitry Medvedev.

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 10h

dropping those flamin poops from a height, incendirizing and stinkifying everything they land on

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 17h

"So, her name is Justice, right? And she's a poet, see?"

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 19h

New York City population: 8.8 million
Austria population: 9.0 million

NYC GDP: 2.6 trillion USD
Austria GDP: 600 billion USD

It's akin to being prime minister of a medium sized European nation.

JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 19h

"Well, you could run Paris-Bruxelles-Amsterdam instead of London, or you could try the France-Spain cross border, or you could find a different solution..."

Ticket to Ride Europe: box, board, cards, pieces

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 19h

fuck the Washington Post with a flaming cactus wrapped in infected razor wire.

as ever, only Democrats have agency; Republicans are just a fact of nature for Democrats to compromise with.

One reason the partial government shutdown has dragged on for nearly a month is because most Americans have felt no discernable impact on their daily life. That’s starting to change. This weekend, federal food stamps are scheduled to stop going out. Around 42 million people, or 1 in 8 Americans, receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

This pain point, combined with three other dynamics, should help hasten an end to the shutdown as early as next week by making Democrats blink.

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 21h

tyvm I love you

JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 23h

the heroes of innovation and infrastructure look on with weary disappointment and disdain verging on contempt

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

they began capering about most obstreperously

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

Holy. Moly.

Count Chuckula 🧛🏻‍♂️ (AH AH AH AH!) @sazeracla.bsky.social · 1d

#Dinner! My latest go at reproducing my beloved Galboroni Pasta from Liuzza’s in New Orleans, a dish lost since Katrina.

Long-cooked spicy tomato sauce with crisped pepperoni strips, tossed with spaghetti and topped with stuffed artichoke hearts. 😍

I think I got it, brah! #NOLA

Spaghetti tossed with dark red sauce, topped with artichoke hearts stuffed with seasoned bread crumbs. Spinach salad with blue cheese dressing.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

A nine year old brown boy living in NYC on 9/11 who grew up to love the city knows more about New York culture and New York values than this bitter, bilious husk of man riding his father’s coattails into his seventh decade could ever know

Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 1d

What an odious thing to say. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

On Fox Business, Cuomo continued to paint an ominous picture of New York City under Zohran Mamdani if he is elected mayor and questioned his allegiance to America and the city. “Dual-citizenship, he was a citizen of Uganda, his parents own a mansion in Uganda, he’s spent a lot of time there,” Cuomo said. He went on to again invoke 9/11 in conjunction with the candidacy of Mamdani, who was a 9-year-old boy living in New York when the attacks took place. “He just doesn’t understand the New York culture, the New York values, what 9/11 meant.”

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

"graffiti campaigns, sabotage of railway lines in Germany, cyberattacks, disruption of airports"

"The aim is to disrupt the unity of Western states and sow discord among the citizens of European countries."

I hope that -- in our own way -- we're doing the same to them.

JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

i thought the same -- are they going to compare your face against your birth certificate?

maybe they're going to compare against a database of people who entered legally and were photographed at port of entry, and thereby find those who've over stayed their visas?

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

the rabbis are ON POINT tonight

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lanyardigan @lanyardigan.bsky.social · May 13

Having a cup of English Breakfast (tea with beans in it)

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

oh no, all those laverbread exports to the US!

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

Wiki tells me the strip debuted in 1918. Frank King did the Sunday strips until 1951 and the daily strips until 1969.

King’s assistants took over until 1986; the strip is now on its fifth artist.

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. The story might be hokey, but the artist gave it 1,000%.

Bird’s eye, worm’s eye, close-up, long shot, realistic, abstract…. Tremendous!

Who’s the artist? Or who are the artists?

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

Gasoline Alley ran for decades -- I met it as a kid when it was far past its prime and entirely skippable.

Learning how good it was in its early days has been, as your say, a great discovery. Simple, gentle, imaginative, touching, surprisingly personal, one of a kind.

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

Some serious Bull Connor shit right there

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

"Your wife and kids hope you won't come home a murderer!"

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

what wonderful worms! what a wonderful wednesday!

something about the light and color makes them look translucent. i'm supposing they aren't really. still, pretty weird!

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

C.S. Lewis: Hold my inkwell.