Chuck Smith
@chucklessmith.bsky.social
Nerd. Wine adviser. Data slinger and database evangelist. Linguistics, by letters. Used to host radio shows. ADS-B reporter. Grape smusher on occasion. Weekend beer league hockey. Cars going round! Maniac driving a Saab! Transit dork. How you get ants.
The AI Guy (tm) on that hockey game commercial really ought to know what a scrum is. I mean, even AI Guys still do Agile project management, right?
January 16, 2026 at 2:30 AM
The AI Guy (tm) on that hockey game commercial really ought to know what a scrum is. I mean, even AI Guys still do Agile project management, right?
…nor cast your pearls before swine.
María Corina Machado said she offered the US president her medal ‘in recognition of his steadfast commitment to our freedom’, but failed to secure his backing to be her country’s next leader. ft.trib.al/gAEZ6ZF
January 16, 2026 at 1:20 AM
…nor cast your pearls before swine.
Fantastic AI-generated image here demonstrating the massive improvements in reducing traffic-related deaths in Ohio:
Most cars going opposite the way the Speed Limit 50 (safety!) sign would be legible. Cars in the center, white-dashed-line-separated lane going for a head-on collision. Full marks.
Most cars going opposite the way the Speed Limit 50 (safety!) sign would be legible. Cars in the center, white-dashed-line-separated lane going for a head-on collision. Full marks.
January 15, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Fantastic AI-generated image here demonstrating the massive improvements in reducing traffic-related deaths in Ohio:
Most cars going opposite the way the Speed Limit 50 (safety!) sign would be legible. Cars in the center, white-dashed-line-separated lane going for a head-on collision. Full marks.
Most cars going opposite the way the Speed Limit 50 (safety!) sign would be legible. Cars in the center, white-dashed-line-separated lane going for a head-on collision. Full marks.
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Is this gay hockey thing you’re all talking about
January 15, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Is this gay hockey thing you’re all talking about
Five?!
A corpse flower at the Adelaide Botanic Garden is generating excitement but it is actually among five of the rare plant to bloom in the city this summer.
'Smellanie' the corpse flower set to attract thousands to Adelaide Botanic Garden
A corpse flower at the Adelaide Botanic Garden is generating excitement but it is actually among five of the rare plant to bloom in the city this summer.
www.abc.net.au
January 15, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Five?!
“Remember, Elon always told us to ‘eat our own dog food’!”
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
January 15, 2026 at 1:44 AM
“Remember, Elon always told us to ‘eat our own dog food’!”
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What's the difference between most of us and Donald Trump?
When someone screams "pedophile protector," most of us know it's not directed at us.
When someone screams "pedophile protector," most of us know it's not directed at us.
January 14, 2026 at 2:42 AM
What's the difference between most of us and Donald Trump?
When someone screams "pedophile protector," most of us know it's not directed at us.
When someone screams "pedophile protector," most of us know it's not directed at us.
It’s cool and very funny to me that people are all about this steamy hot gay hockey player smut show / book / genre. And I’m not here to shame! Do, go, enjoy!
It’s just — I and many people I know can assure you being gay and playing hockey is Not Like That. At All. 🤷♂️ 🏒 🥅
It’s just — I and many people I know can assure you being gay and playing hockey is Not Like That. At All. 🤷♂️ 🏒 🥅
January 13, 2026 at 1:44 AM
It’s cool and very funny to me that people are all about this steamy hot gay hockey player smut show / book / genre. And I’m not here to shame! Do, go, enjoy!
It’s just — I and many people I know can assure you being gay and playing hockey is Not Like That. At All. 🤷♂️ 🏒 🥅
It’s just — I and many people I know can assure you being gay and playing hockey is Not Like That. At All. 🤷♂️ 🏒 🥅
In actual Good News, holy shit!
January 13, 2026 at 1:22 AM
In actual Good News, holy shit!
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if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”
January 12, 2026 at 7:01 PM
if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”
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We are living in The Onion.
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 8:18 PM
We are living in The Onion.
I mean I guess it’s extraordinarily self-aware that he *wants* to go down in the annals as The Asshole President.
January 12, 2026 at 7:42 PM
I mean I guess it’s extraordinarily self-aware that he *wants* to go down in the annals as The Asshole President.
I’m not all that surprised that I just stepped on a dried lentil.
But I do wonder how I manage to step on a dried lentil *trapped inside my sock*.
But I do wonder how I manage to step on a dried lentil *trapped inside my sock*.
January 11, 2026 at 7:12 PM
I’m not all that surprised that I just stepped on a dried lentil.
But I do wonder how I manage to step on a dried lentil *trapped inside my sock*.
But I do wonder how I manage to step on a dried lentil *trapped inside my sock*.
Would just like to note that these super-cool SNAP restrictions a bunch of states are putting into place (no candy, specifically) are absolutely endangering folks with T1D, who literally need to buy and carry candies so as to not, e.g., die from hypoglycemia.
January 10, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Would just like to note that these super-cool SNAP restrictions a bunch of states are putting into place (no candy, specifically) are absolutely endangering folks with T1D, who literally need to buy and carry candies so as to not, e.g., die from hypoglycemia.
What impossibly dumb shit this “info?”graphic is. Really gotta limit those whole grains. Those fuckers will kill you!
RFKj is updating nutritional guidelines but how many Americans can afford steak?
January 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
What impossibly dumb shit this “info?”graphic is. Really gotta limit those whole grains. Those fuckers will kill you!
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This afternoon, retired Army general Stanley McChrystal spoke at the retirement ceremony hosted by HRC for six trans service members who were forced out under Trump’s ban.
“I shouldn’t have to be thanked for being here. First off, we shouldn’t be here. This shouldn’t be happening.”
Full remarks:
“I shouldn’t have to be thanked for being here. First off, we shouldn’t be here. This shouldn’t be happening.”
Full remarks:
January 8, 2026 at 11:39 PM
This afternoon, retired Army general Stanley McChrystal spoke at the retirement ceremony hosted by HRC for six trans service members who were forced out under Trump’s ban.
“I shouldn’t have to be thanked for being here. First off, we shouldn’t be here. This shouldn’t be happening.”
Full remarks:
“I shouldn’t have to be thanked for being here. First off, we shouldn’t be here. This shouldn’t be happening.”
Full remarks:
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my immediate thought is they are sending vance out to eat shit for the administration
January 8, 2026 at 7:05 PM
my immediate thought is they are sending vance out to eat shit for the administration
Jacob Frey has been kicking nuts and taking names.
January 8, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Jacob Frey has been kicking nuts and taking names.
“Get the fuck out of Minneapolis” is literally exactly what I want to hear my city’s leader say. A+ 100%. “We don’t murder innocents here” is a very good message.
If you’re more offended by a politician saying the F-word publicly than you are by ICE murdering a woman, you need to fix your heart.
January 8, 2026 at 2:59 AM
“Get the fuck out of Minneapolis” is literally exactly what I want to hear my city’s leader say. A+ 100%. “We don’t murder innocents here” is a very good message.
Chrystia Freeland to step down as MP on Friday
Longtime Liberal MP and former deputy prime minister accepted position with Ukraine
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Hmmmmmm! I have enjoyed hearing from Chrystia. It might be fair to say the Liberals are up against it in Canada, but hm. She was enjoyed on KCRW.
Longtime Liberal MP and former deputy prime minister accepted position with Ukraine
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Hmmmmmm! I have enjoyed hearing from Chrystia. It might be fair to say the Liberals are up against it in Canada, but hm. She was enjoyed on KCRW.
January 8, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Chrystia Freeland to step down as MP on Friday
Longtime Liberal MP and former deputy prime minister accepted position with Ukraine
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Hmmmmmm! I have enjoyed hearing from Chrystia. It might be fair to say the Liberals are up against it in Canada, but hm. She was enjoyed on KCRW.
Longtime Liberal MP and former deputy prime minister accepted position with Ukraine
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Hmmmmmm! I have enjoyed hearing from Chrystia. It might be fair to say the Liberals are up against it in Canada, but hm. She was enjoyed on KCRW.
Many of your freedoms end at the tip of your nose. Many more end at the tip of a gun.
January 8, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Many of your freedoms end at the tip of your nose. Many more end at the tip of a gun.
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It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.
January 7, 2026 at 9:29 PM
It has been an obvious, sometimes even almost stated project of Trump 2.0 to engineer a redo of the post George Floyd protests of 2020, this time with much more state violence. And now a federal agent has shot and killed a woman in a car at point blank range a mile from where Floyd was murdered.
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This is why it's good we saw the footage because the officer was angry he didn't get to drag her out of her truck so he killed her
Rep. Wesley Hunt: "The bottom line is this: when a federal officer gives you instructions, you abide by them and then you get to keep you life"
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 AM
This is why it's good we saw the footage because the officer was angry he didn't get to drag her out of her truck so he killed her
Just found a printout I made last weekend for the Saturday wine tasting.
It’s titled “Rioja Wine Styles” which is a fantastically-serviceable drag name if you know anyone in need.
It’s titled “Rioja Wine Styles” which is a fantastically-serviceable drag name if you know anyone in need.
January 7, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Just found a printout I made last weekend for the Saturday wine tasting.
It’s titled “Rioja Wine Styles” which is a fantastically-serviceable drag name if you know anyone in need.
It’s titled “Rioja Wine Styles” which is a fantastically-serviceable drag name if you know anyone in need.
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So, not " What I.C.E. is doing is abominable and we don't want to be involved".
Just "The abomination wasn't sufficiently beneficial financially to us".
JFC, Avelo...
Just "The abomination wasn't sufficiently beneficial financially to us".
JFC, Avelo...
🚨🧊✈️ AVELO DUMPS ICE‼️
Shutting down Mesa AZ ICE hub in 3 weeks:
“The program provided short-term benefits but ultimately did not deliver enough consistent and predictable revenue to overcome its operational complexity and costs,” an Avelo Airlines spokesperson said. www.azfamily.com/2026/01/07/a...
Shutting down Mesa AZ ICE hub in 3 weeks:
“The program provided short-term benefits but ultimately did not deliver enough consistent and predictable revenue to overcome its operational complexity and costs,” an Avelo Airlines spokesperson said. www.azfamily.com/2026/01/07/a...
Avelo Airlines to end deportation flights from Mesa Gateway Airport
Avelo Airlines says it will close its Mesa Gateway Airport base in the East Valley and end its deportation-flight work for DHS/ICE.
www.azfamily.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:11 PM
So, not " What I.C.E. is doing is abominable and we don't want to be involved".
Just "The abomination wasn't sufficiently beneficial financially to us".
JFC, Avelo...
Just "The abomination wasn't sufficiently beneficial financially to us".
JFC, Avelo...