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@jimc5.bsky.social

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#BList baseball, books, biking, beans, beach #girldad, retired EE, enjoys Disney theme parks, fantasy baseball, cycling and coffee. Married to the smartest woman I know. 74.9% chance I will follow a fellow Jim. Looking for my next read

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Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · Feb 10

America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.

This field, this game -- it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNuL...

Field of Dreams | James Earl Jones

YouTube video by Universal Pictures All-Access

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Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 5h

100%. If he didnt hear his cover if Hurt or Reznor’s saying “thats not my song anymore”, he should just be quiet about music.

Reznor is a bfd and to defer in that way to Cash, opened up a whole new audience.

Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 6h

Disagree. You could have gotten into him via American IV, (released in 2002) specifically Hurt, gone back through his library, and know of his greatness.

Both he and the Beastie Boys have songs about Shadrach, Mesach & Abednego.

My girls are teens yet they know the greatness of the man in black

Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 6h

It’s really bad.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 23h

Me: I literally wrote my file sent to eds ran to sign a line full of fans vinyl then ran back to post to bluesky
Friend: Meanwhile 90% of dc news media can’t break a scoop without a typo in the tweet

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 10h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 9h

If people stop reporting those crimes, then less crime is happening, right?

Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 11h

Hoist by his own petard.

Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 11h

How much will concession stands charge AI fans for hot dogs or whatever it is AI models eat?

Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 11h

It's easy to BS thru 11th grade science, but when you start talking conservative (physics) forces, field lines, and Gauss's law for gravity, or how long it actually takes light to travel through the universe, it really becomes nonsense

Part of this is because people dont get past 11th grade science

Gauss's law for gravity. I am 30 years since doing these integrals, but the flux of a gravitational field over any closed surface is proportional to the mass enclosed.

Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 11h

Where do they think it is? Do they think the universe is ~14B years old and just Earth was formed 6,000 years ago?

What are the astronomical implications of Andromeda being roughly 1/500th as far away as modern science shows?

This is like my asking a flat-Earther to draw gravitational field lines

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Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 11h

My younger daughter has some friends whose families are young-Earth creationists. Earth is 6,000 years old.

#ShowerThought -- where do they think the Andromeda galaxy is? Astronomy says 2.5 million light years away. If the universe is 6,000 years old, how can we see that?

#AskCreationists

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12h

"Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus" might be the most astounding seven words any NYC mayoral candidate has ever spoken.

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 12h

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Rene Vielman @renevq.bsky.social · 12h

“Not implementing policies that benefit me, personally, wil bring about the anitchrist” sounds like something an antichrist would say.

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Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 12h

Kirk Herbstreit is biased against the Gators. Bob Griese HATED Spurrier

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

Once upon a time, people fled to the US from Spain to avoid fascism.
Now it's the other way around.

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Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 12h

I have plenary, no, blanket authority to remedy any provocatively obscene couch displays!

Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 12h

People used to be embarrassed by their ignorance and stupidity, now it’s a badge of honor

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16h

For some reason, though, people seem to have difficulty bringing that same analytical distance to politics. To take one very obvious recent example: all the sudden, everyone was talking about trans girls in high school sports. I'd venture to guess that 99% of the people involved ...

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Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 12h

Moat people have no idea why they’re seeing what they’re seeing and reading

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17h

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 12h

Add in Gay marriage, trans rights, abortion rights. But the underlying thought process has been consistent and I’ve tried to never post anything online I wouldn’t say IRL.

Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 13h

The issues that animated me as a voter in 2000 were making college affordable, universal health insurance, and reducing the power and influence of corporations. 8 years later, about the same, but add in immigration reform. Since then? Strengthening democracy and restoring science.

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Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 13h

That naked couch is considered nsfw in some circles. At least put a quilt on it or something.

Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks for the reminder to add his name to my mute list

Jim @jimc5.bsky.social · 13h

Is the Antifa in the room with us right now?

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13h

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

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