Jim Vandewalker
@jimvan.bsky.social
Green Swamp dweller, Fear Nothing. "I ain't young like you, I'm old and give out." --Slingblade
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This Thanksgiving, it's important to think about what kind of Thanksgiving column you want to wind up in—the hot cousin one, or the Marine Todd one. Then I explain how we can take direct action against your family.
The Importance of Being ‘That’ Person This Thanksgiving - Truthdig
As we carve the turkey, we can all serve as something of a measure against the mess.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This Thanksgiving, it's important to think about what kind of Thanksgiving column you want to wind up in—the hot cousin one, or the Marine Todd one. Then I explain how we can take direct action against your family.
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You know what? I'm going to toot my own horn a little bit. Here are the first two pages from "Lost Worlds." If you've read "Sapiens," compare the depth of his understanding of the material he's citing with what I'm doing here.
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
You know what? I'm going to toot my own horn a little bit. Here are the first two pages from "Lost Worlds." If you've read "Sapiens," compare the depth of his understanding of the material he's citing with what I'm doing here.
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Trump is the only president to fundraise for a super PAC while constitutionally prohibited from running again. (To be fair, only one other president, Obama, even had the chance.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Trump to Hold Two Fund-Raisers for His Super PAC Next Year
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Trump is the only president to fundraise for a super PAC while constitutionally prohibited from running again. (To be fair, only one other president, Obama, even had the chance.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
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These idiots are lying about vaccines to pander to the politics of cruel stupidity, and they are going to kill children.
The CDC amended its website to suggest that vaccines may cause autism. It now declares that experts “ignored” a potential link between infant vaccination and autism, and asserts that its earlier rejection of such a link was not “evidence-based.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...
C.D.C. Changes Website to Reflect Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
These idiots are lying about vaccines to pander to the politics of cruel stupidity, and they are going to kill children.
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Coinbase CEO says the company gave to Trump's ballroom fund to "keep good relations with the White House." www.axios.com/2025/11/18/t...
Exclusive: Coinbase explains donation to Trump's ballroom
Tech firms like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia also donated to Trump's ballroom fund.
www.axios.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Coinbase CEO says the company gave to Trump's ballroom fund to "keep good relations with the White House." www.axios.com/2025/11/18/t...
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If I move beyond simply cracking jokes about the alleged blowjob, my thoughts go in this direction:
bsky.app/profile/riki...
bsky.app/profile/riki...
Is this where I do my rant on the poisonous persistence of ideas from classical antiquity on the status implications of being the penetrator vs the penetrated, and how the misogyny is obvious but the homophobia is complex, and how it’s opposed to a view of sex as mutual pleasure?
All I’m going to say is, they don’t care if he’s had sex with children, but if they find out he’s had sex with another man, they will implode…
They have a fcked up sense of morality.
They have a fcked up sense of morality.
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
If I move beyond simply cracking jokes about the alleged blowjob, my thoughts go in this direction:
bsky.app/profile/riki...
bsky.app/profile/riki...
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the sense of incredulity and comic revulsion i get every time i see a cybertruck in the wild has not been reduced by even a single degree in all the time they’ve been on the street
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
the sense of incredulity and comic revulsion i get every time i see a cybertruck in the wild has not been reduced by even a single degree in all the time they’ve been on the street
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Rich people are complaining about their taxes going up and like, can't you just make more money? I swear, rich people these days just don't want to work anymore. They're so lazy and entitled. Like pull yourself up by your gold plated bootstraps, rich people, don't you always say that's so easy?
November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Rich people are complaining about their taxes going up and like, can't you just make more money? I swear, rich people these days just don't want to work anymore. They're so lazy and entitled. Like pull yourself up by your gold plated bootstraps, rich people, don't you always say that's so easy?
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Republicans yesterday 😂
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Republicans yesterday 😂
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I'm not old-fashioned about much but I do think it's a shame rock and roll is no longer blamed for all the ills of the world.
November 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I'm not old-fashioned about much but I do think it's a shame rock and roll is no longer blamed for all the ills of the world.
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Nature abhors a vacuum, but it loves a dumpling
October 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Nature abhors a vacuum, but it loves a dumpling
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I don't think there's a single group of people anywhere on earth who has not, at one stage of their societal development, looked at a piece of food and thought "You know what this needs? An edible wrapper"
October 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I don't think there's a single group of people anywhere on earth who has not, at one stage of their societal development, looked at a piece of food and thought "You know what this needs? An edible wrapper"
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And the universality of the dumpling creates a realm where no one can say, here is the apotheosis of the dumpling. There are a hundred sublime versions.
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
And the universality of the dumpling creates a realm where no one can say, here is the apotheosis of the dumpling. There are a hundred sublime versions.
*Doctor* Eric J. Harvey!
"Osteoracism is not a real condition." – Eric J. Harvey
My favorite is always "there's not a racist bone in my body!"
Like, I don't care about your bones. I care about your words and actions!
Osteoracism is not a real condition.
Like, I don't care about your bones. I care about your words and actions!
Osteoracism is not a real condition.
October 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
*Doctor* Eric J. Harvey!
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When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
October 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
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"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
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In a major break from the past, the Supreme Court is frequently using its emergency docket to rule on challenges to government actions — almost always in favor of the Trump administration and without explanation. bit.ly/4nXIr2p
Supreme Court Shadow Docket Tracker — Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
The Court is ruling on challenges to government actions on its emergency docket, often without explaining its decisions or providing guidance to lower courts.
www.brennancenter.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
In a major break from the past, the Supreme Court is frequently using its emergency docket to rule on challenges to government actions — almost always in favor of the Trump administration and without explanation. bit.ly/4nXIr2p
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Do your parents walk too slowly through palaces, monuments, and other places frequented by tourists? Do they stop to read every plaque while you’re trying to hustle them into the next room so you can see some cool stuff? You may be entitled to compensation.
October 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Do your parents walk too slowly through palaces, monuments, and other places frequented by tourists? Do they stop to read every plaque while you’re trying to hustle them into the next room so you can see some cool stuff? You may be entitled to compensation.
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This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived.
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles
This is the fifth and final part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd, IVe) looking at the structures of life for pre-modern peasant farmers and showing how historical modeling can …
acoup.blog
October 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived.
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
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My first day working at AWS is going great. For some reason they had a lot of computers plugged in that nobody was using, so I’ve started an initiative to lower our carbon footprint
October 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My first day working at AWS is going great. For some reason they had a lot of computers plugged in that nobody was using, so I’ve started an initiative to lower our carbon footprint
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Jeffrey Epstein was a hyper-parasite, a billionaire whose quarry was other billionaires.
Money, Women and Taxes: Jeffrey Epstein’s Fiery Friendship with a Wall Street Titan
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Jeffrey Epstein was a hyper-parasite, a billionaire whose quarry was other billionaires.