Jackelopette
@jackelopette.bsky.social
Fan, nerd, organizer, choir nerd, recovering 4-H’er, parent, staff to cats.
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Jackelopette
@jackelopette.bsky.social
· Mar 20
Since age 9 I have repeatedly pledged my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger service, and my health to better living for my club, my community, my country, and my world.
Hard to spend a lifetime saying these words without absorbing them at least a little I hope.
Hard to spend a lifetime saying these words without absorbing them at least a little I hope.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Turns out the way to get me to fold the ever growing basketsful of clean laundry is to turn on a 2000-2010 party hits playlist with the volume cranked.
PARTY 2000 2010 🔥 Nostalgia Pop Top Hits Dance Radio Summer Music Classic Friday Mix
Playlist - PARTY 2000 2010 🔥 Nostalgia Pop Top Hits Dance Radio Summer Music Classic Friday Mix - 94 items
tidal.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Turns out the way to get me to fold the ever growing basketsful of clean laundry is to turn on a 2000-2010 party hits playlist with the volume cranked.
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what's going on here what's this fom
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
what's going on here what's this fom
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No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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Sigh. Once again, things you think are ridiculous or wasteful are often meant to or happen to help disabled people. Forearm pan holder? Not because people are lazy. Tide pods? Have you tried pouring detergent with a tremor?
Don’t get me started on the damned pre-cut ingredients.
Don’t get me started on the damned pre-cut ingredients.
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Sigh. Once again, things you think are ridiculous or wasteful are often meant to or happen to help disabled people. Forearm pan holder? Not because people are lazy. Tide pods? Have you tried pouring detergent with a tremor?
Don’t get me started on the damned pre-cut ingredients.
Don’t get me started on the damned pre-cut ingredients.
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Just going to save this to use as a reaction image whenever someone comes out as trans
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Just going to save this to use as a reaction image whenever someone comes out as trans
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This is genuinely heartbreaking.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This is genuinely heartbreaking.
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I don't think it's moral to prevent doctors from prescribing the worldwide gold standard medical treatment that saves kids' lives just because people are scared of a bottle of calcium gummies.
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I don't think it's moral to prevent doctors from prescribing the worldwide gold standard medical treatment that saves kids' lives just because people are scared of a bottle of calcium gummies.
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Because I’ve seen what HOA meetings do to a man. The lawns are too green, the souls too soft. I speak like this because the spirit of war died in a cul-de-sac, and I was there to bury it—alone, beneath the flicker of a Ring doorbell camera.
Why are you talking like an anime villain
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Because I’ve seen what HOA meetings do to a man. The lawns are too green, the souls too soft. I speak like this because the spirit of war died in a cul-de-sac, and I was there to bury it—alone, beneath the flicker of a Ring doorbell camera.
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i like
big
trunks and i cannot lie
you other travelers can't deny
that when a shattered visage lies in the sand
with a sneer of cold command
you get sprung
from the passions read
from a hand mocked and heart fed
that pedestal tried to warn me
but "look upon my works" makes (me-me-me so horny)
big
trunks and i cannot lie
you other travelers can't deny
that when a shattered visage lies in the sand
with a sneer of cold command
you get sprung
from the passions read
from a hand mocked and heart fed
that pedestal tried to warn me
but "look upon my works" makes (me-me-me so horny)
Some traveller once told me
He's from a land so old he
Saw a pair of vast and trunkless legs
Near them on the sand
An expression of command
The sneering visage on a half-sunk head
Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Lone level sands to horizon running
He's from a land so old he
Saw a pair of vast and trunkless legs
Near them on the sand
An expression of command
The sneering visage on a half-sunk head
Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Lone level sands to horizon running
my name is Oz
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
and wen the stone
is broke to bits
and all alone
i lie in sand
it stretches bare
you read my words
you pls despair
October 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
i like
big
trunks and i cannot lie
you other travelers can't deny
that when a shattered visage lies in the sand
with a sneer of cold command
you get sprung
from the passions read
from a hand mocked and heart fed
that pedestal tried to warn me
but "look upon my works" makes (me-me-me so horny)
big
trunks and i cannot lie
you other travelers can't deny
that when a shattered visage lies in the sand
with a sneer of cold command
you get sprung
from the passions read
from a hand mocked and heart fed
that pedestal tried to warn me
but "look upon my works" makes (me-me-me so horny)
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I think a lot about how Halloween has been fucked up for the last 5 years. At the beginning of the pandemic we put runners on our porch so we could stay well more than six feet away and still give out candy. Now we have to patrol our neighborhood for stormtroopers looking to kidnap people.
Loads of families are currently trick or treating from business to business and parking lot to parking lot along 26th Street in Little Village. There’s also loads of rapid responders with vests and whistles patrolling making sure families can enjoy the holiday in peace.
November 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I think a lot about how Halloween has been fucked up for the last 5 years. At the beginning of the pandemic we put runners on our porch so we could stay well more than six feet away and still give out candy. Now we have to patrol our neighborhood for stormtroopers looking to kidnap people.
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Chicago Pope is going to say some things we all dislike because he is the Pope and still very Catholic but he is spending enough time poking directly at the worst Catholics alive that I’m ready to put him in the Pretty Good For A Pope bucket already
also the sports jersey thing is incredibly funny
also the sports jersey thing is incredibly funny
November 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Chicago Pope is going to say some things we all dislike because he is the Pope and still very Catholic but he is spending enough time poking directly at the worst Catholics alive that I’m ready to put him in the Pretty Good For A Pope bucket already
also the sports jersey thing is incredibly funny
also the sports jersey thing is incredibly funny
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As with everything, the technology is not the thing. OpenAI is a financial instrument more than it is a tech company.
"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Here are seven unusual financial agreements helping to drive the ambitions of the poster child of the A.I. revolution.
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
As with everything, the technology is not the thing. OpenAI is a financial instrument more than it is a tech company.
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Books and curriculum materials at five Defense Department schools that were removed to comply with Trump administration executive orders will be restored in accordance with a recent court ruling in a case brought by military families.
DODEA restoring books, curriculum items at 5 schools that are part of military families’ lawsuit
Students at five DODEA schools in Europe, Japan and the U.S. will soon see a boost in book titles and curriculum materials available to them.
www.stripes.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Books and curriculum materials at five Defense Department schools that were removed to comply with Trump administration executive orders will be restored in accordance with a recent court ruling in a case brought by military families.
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Never say this account isn't educational
August 1, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Never say this account isn't educational
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Southwest Airlines will begin serving pistachios to passengers in new premium seats next year, sparking backlash from hundreds of travelers and parents of children with tree nut allergies that can be life-threatening.
Southwest upsets fliers with allergies by bringing pistachios on board
Southwest will start offering pistachios in premium seats next year, upsetting travelers with tree nut allergies.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Southwest Airlines will begin serving pistachios to passengers in new premium seats next year, sparking backlash from hundreds of travelers and parents of children with tree nut allergies that can be life-threatening.
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This is just to say
I have crumbled the works
That were on this sand
And which you were probably saving
For posterity
Forgive me, Ozymandias
They were temporary
So fragile
And so lame.
I have crumbled the works
That were on this sand
And which you were probably saving
For posterity
Forgive me, Ozymandias
They were temporary
So fragile
And so lame.
i never saw two trunkless legs
i never hope to see 'em
but i can tell you, anyhow,
i'd rather see than be 'em
i never hope to see 'em
but i can tell you, anyhow,
i'd rather see than be 'em
Now Ozymandias was from the Himalayas, where a cold wind howls and blows.
Why he left his home in the peaks to roam 'round the sands, God only knows.
His statue fell down, the desert's boundless and completely bare;
Though it's still scrawled on his pedestal that "ye Mighty should despair!"
Why he left his home in the peaks to roam 'round the sands, God only knows.
His statue fell down, the desert's boundless and completely bare;
Though it's still scrawled on his pedestal that "ye Mighty should despair!"
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This is just to say
I have crumbled the works
That were on this sand
And which you were probably saving
For posterity
Forgive me, Ozymandias
They were temporary
So fragile
And so lame.
I have crumbled the works
That were on this sand
And which you were probably saving
For posterity
Forgive me, Ozymandias
They were temporary
So fragile
And so lame.
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This is such a nerdy joke but I actually laughed out loud.
Overton window costume but it’s just someone sprinting away
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This is such a nerdy joke but I actually laughed out loud.
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Eleanor: Who has a little party ever killed anyway?
Chidi: GATSBY!
Chidi: GATSBY!
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Eleanor: Who has a little party ever killed anyway?
Chidi: GATSBY!
Chidi: GATSBY!
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A friend thinks we should build a database of Pope Just Got A Sports Jersey facial expressions to calibrate his responses to non-Sports Jerseys events
Being Pope means just receiving baseball jerseys all day long of teams he hates
October 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A friend thinks we should build a database of Pope Just Got A Sports Jersey facial expressions to calibrate his responses to non-Sports Jerseys events
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Fun fact: We passed a bill in Montana that makes this kind of attack ad illegal.
HB 513 is a bill that gives individuals the rights to their likeness and allows you to sue anyone who creates digital fabrications of your likeness.
HB 513 is a bill that gives individuals the rights to their likeness and allows you to sue anyone who creates digital fabrications of your likeness.
This is an actual campaign ad by Andrew Cuomo.
It features an AI generated pregnant and feminized "bill."
It features an AI generated pregnant and feminized "bill."
November 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Fun fact: We passed a bill in Montana that makes this kind of attack ad illegal.
HB 513 is a bill that gives individuals the rights to their likeness and allows you to sue anyone who creates digital fabrications of your likeness.
HB 513 is a bill that gives individuals the rights to their likeness and allows you to sue anyone who creates digital fabrications of your likeness.
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ICYMI: the federal weather enterprise again rose to the occasion for #Melissa, but on backs of NOAA retirees volunteering for aircraft reconnaissance duty and employees not currently getting paid. Why the "shutdown" isn't really a shutdown due to feds dedicated to public safety: tinyurl.com/2wk36686
Federal weather enterprise rises to the occasion again with Melissa - thanks to volunteers and unpaid employees
When a federal government "shutdown" is not really a shutdown. And also looking at the continued longer term impacts of ongoing and threatened budget cuts.
tinyurl.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
ICYMI: the federal weather enterprise again rose to the occasion for #Melissa, but on backs of NOAA retirees volunteering for aircraft reconnaissance duty and employees not currently getting paid. Why the "shutdown" isn't really a shutdown due to feds dedicated to public safety: tinyurl.com/2wk36686