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Jake Berg

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Libraries. Beer. DC. You always go to the show. DCBeer.com Editor/Co-Owner He/Him

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · Dec 30

Good morning, here's the music I listened to and the beers I drank in 2024.

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...

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 11h

America if everyone was Jewish:

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 7h

Welcome back?

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404 Media @404media.co · 17h

Help us investigate book bans across the USA.

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

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Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 11h

America if everyone was Jewish:

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 17h

This is a great reminder that the vast number of WWII propaganda posters are government works free of copyright and therefore available to remix!

escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 1d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 12h

My tomaters!

Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: Frost advisory early Friday expanded into entirety of Loudoun, western Prince William, northern Montgomery and western Howard counties.

More info at cwg.live

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13h

Sorry Jews

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16h

Wolf being absolutely destroyed in Jeopardy by Andy Richter

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 3d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 20h

Further reducing what library and information science actually is and further reducing the meaning and value of that specific line of training and education.

"Faculty were not consulted" ... of course.

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 1d

The neighbor’s Samoyed came over

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 1d

It's dinner time.

Is This the End of an Era for Soul Food in Washington?

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 1d

Isn’t that the plot of at least two movies?

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 1d

Fur-lough 😎

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 1d

Impromptu furlough/shut down/whatever backyard dog park!

Two Great Pyrenees and one Samoyed getting filthy

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 1d

More please

CCscott @ccscott.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 1d

Weirdly enough, I think this works. No one is more insecure than a new ICE agent. They want to be the blonde guy in DHS’s AI Nazi posting so badly. Instead, they’ll be guarding indistinguishable suburban warehouse #16361 while inflated frogs and dinosaurs thrust in their face all day every day.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 1d

Not a fan of moral panics, and yet… maybe a little moral panic here could go a long way

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 1d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 1d

can confirm!

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 1d

On my second bag!

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 1d

Becoming a Bean Guy™️ during the shutdown

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 1d

You and I will be the only 2 people in the Bottle Logic line waiting on Helles, but Saint X is your friend here with 2 beers under 4% and probably not much of a line.

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 1d

a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo and bow tie standing in a room .

ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo and bow tie standing in a room .

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