Jake Berg
@jacobsberg.bsky.social
Libraries. Beer. DC. You always go to the show.
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Jake Berg
@jacobsberg.bsky.social
· Dec 30
Beer and Music, Music and Beer, 2024
The third to last and second to last sentences I wrote on this site were, "Next year is an election year, it's going to be bad. Here's hopin...
beerbrarian.blogspot.com
Good morning, here's the music I listened to and the beers I drank in 2024.
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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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like you're a japanese POW in the Pacific and you get a look at the US Navy ship that literally does nothing but make ice cream
since we're talking about pies- one of my favorite internet traditions is r/costco every year, without fail, featuring multiple top-of-page posts of people completely agog at the scale of the costco pumpkin pie display. it must feel like walking onto a sherman tank factory floor in 1944
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
like you're a japanese POW in the Pacific and you get a look at the US Navy ship that literally does nothing but make ice cream
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since we're talking about pies- one of my favorite internet traditions is r/costco every year, without fail, featuring multiple top-of-page posts of people completely agog at the scale of the costco pumpkin pie display. it must feel like walking onto a sherman tank factory floor in 1944
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
since we're talking about pies- one of my favorite internet traditions is r/costco every year, without fail, featuring multiple top-of-page posts of people completely agog at the scale of the costco pumpkin pie display. it must feel like walking onto a sherman tank factory floor in 1944
She probably would have won if she ran again. I shed no tears of sorrow at this news.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser announces she will not seek a fourth term
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
She probably would have won if she ran again. I shed no tears of sorrow at this news.
I once named a fantasy team Sonny Gray Real Estate…
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I once named a fantasy team Sonny Gray Real Estate…
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“I wish someone at Google would remember scholar exists!”
…and the monkey paw curls.
…and the monkey paw curls.
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“I wish someone at Google would remember scholar exists!”
…and the monkey paw curls.
…and the monkey paw curls.
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Dudes rock
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Dudes rock
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they hate Drag Queen Storytime, but they don’t even know what librarians keep in their desk drawers
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
they hate Drag Queen Storytime, but they don’t even know what librarians keep in their desk drawers
Neighborhood Fox! 🦊
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Neighborhood Fox! 🦊
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It’s a great day for plunderphonics; I give the edge in this delacratic process to 3 Feet High and Rising.
The Best Album of 1989 Round 6 (Semifinal) Match #126
#2 Beastie Boys, PAUL'S BOUTIQUE
vs.
#3 De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING
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#2 Beastie Boys, PAUL'S BOUTIQUE
vs.
#3 De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING
forms.gle/bizatxQh3TFe...
The Best Album of 1989 Round 6 (Semi-Final) Match #126: Beastie Boys vs. De La Soul
This is the Best Album of 1989 match for Monday, November 24th, 9am CST. It will be open for 24 hours, and the winner will move onto the finals to determine the Best Album of 1989. If you haven’t hear...
forms.gle
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It’s a great day for plunderphonics; I give the edge in this delacratic process to 3 Feet High and Rising.
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Violating the First Amendment to hide the record of all their violations of the Fourth Amendment.
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Violating the First Amendment to hide the record of all their violations of the Fourth Amendment.
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What's the matter guys, don't like it when people recognize you for your work?
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What's the matter guys, don't like it when people recognize you for your work?
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An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀
Hot Dog will never let you down.
Vote Hot Dog.
Vote Hot Dog.
This was how I learned that Diet Coke is up 25% in price in 2 years, ground beef up 18%, Olive Oil up 28%.
This is cursed knowledge, but good to have. You're not going crazy, prices are way, way up.
This is cursed knowledge, but good to have. You're not going crazy, prices are way, way up.
Someone in the Costco subreddit has figured out you can a) grab your receipt data as json and b) built a dashboard for it and Oh My
November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hot Dog will never let you down.
Vote Hot Dog.
Vote Hot Dog.
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so many people thought they were taking the temperature of America when they were actually marinating their brain in an artificially constructed fake reality on their phones
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
so many people thought they were taking the temperature of America when they were actually marinating their brain in an artificially constructed fake reality on their phones
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Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
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The destruction of the federal government disproportionately affects black women. The federal civil service has long been a good career option because of the strong equal opportunity enforced in the civil service that has historically blunted the double discrimination that black women face.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The destruction of the federal government disproportionately affects black women. The federal civil service has long been a good career option because of the strong equal opportunity enforced in the civil service that has historically blunted the double discrimination that black women face.
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One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
Made it to Chai Pani. Ate way too much. Recommend.
November 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Made it to Chai Pani. Ate way too much. Recommend.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry