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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 6h

Perhaps Berkeley could use another round of "Yoo Sucks" graffiti, as a reminder.

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 6h

I assume that something like that was behind him showing up immediately to host The Charlie Kirk Show.

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 6h

Meanwhile, clinical trials for heart disease have been defunded, it's like the circle of ... well, not life.

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 6h

This guy thinks crudités require a pound of broccoli, a tub of prepackaged guacamole, and tequila, but all that costs too much because of Joe Biden. Numbers aren't his thing.

RFK will offer him a 650% discount on baby bear roadkill.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12h

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began https://theonion.com/ice-boasts-zero-murders-committed-by-5-year-olds-since-child-detainments-began/

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 10h

Do you understand what _The_Onion_ is?

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 18h

If you only read one of this trio, make it Life After Cars by @brooklynspoke.bsky.social & @sgoodyear.bsky.social.

It’s the most accessible and informative, as well as the most practical.

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 14h

Windows peaked at XP service pack 2. I still run across embedded versions of that in all the strangest places.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

🎧LEVER TIME: Bari Weiss’s billionaire-backed takeover of CBS News is the culmination of a secret plot detailed in never-before-seen documents that we're publishing in our new book MASTER PLAN, which launches on 10/14.

We preview some of the documents here — you won’t believe what they wrote down👇

Bari Weiss, CBS News, And The Conservative Media Takeover

The billionaire-backed overhaul of CBS News is the culmination of a decades-long master plan.

www.levernews.com

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 1d

One wonders whether Ed could say "acetaminophen" or "hydroxychloroquine" without some sort of wordplay, or he'd just default to "Tylenol®" or "bleach" like another old crank did.

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 3d

🪧 #TwitpicTuesday rescue this week is a poster of a Roller Derby competition between a San Francisco team and a Brooklyn team. I had just moved (back) to San Francisco from Brooklyn and definitely felt conflicted ... about a sport I didn't even follow.
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20080920 poster-divided-loyalties

We used to be a proper city, with roller derby world championships in Golden Gate Park. This was just a block away from me and I had recently moved back from Brooklyn, so I had divided loyalties. "Li...

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 3d

And yet SFist has me on double secret probation, such that if I type "ass" in a comment, it is immediately held for moderation.

Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 3d

BART was unsullied by any known best practices when built, because everything in the Space Age was going to be handled by IBM mainframes (using punchcards).

Some best practices were retrofitted over the years, but there's not even a third track anywhere and thus no local/express service.

Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 3d

#WarOnCars ain't playin'.

Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 3d

45 years after "feminine unrest," Clara sells everyone out.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 3d

1913

Civilization Rather Than Suffrage That's to Blame
Trouble Is Not That Women Are Growing Less Feminine, but Men Less Masculine

By HELEN DARE

So much is being said about feminine unrest that the fact that there is a very considerable masculine unrest is being overlooked; or is it that our attention is being artfully and deliberately diverted therefrom?
Men are conspicuously discontented and noticeably uneasy. They don't seem to like, even a little bit, the way things are going. So -- faithful to the example set for them by Adam -- they are laying th eblame for the changes on womankind.

--San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Oct 1913

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 3d

🧑‍🌾 1936: "The only he-men are engineers and farmers."

2025: Greeeeen Acres is the place for me:
sfist.com/2025/10/05/s...

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 3d

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 3d

A few times in San Francisco, at the end of a performance, I've exited the venue to find that a bunch of people (using their phones while still seated) had hailed a flashmob of robotaxis. I happily bike away, or stroll off to a transit stop.

If the venue IS the transit stop, we've got big problems.

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 4d

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 3d

It explains the back pain, though.

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 4d

The issue I have with SNL is that they beat a joke into the ground, draining it of all mirth, seemingly to pad things out to 90 minutes.

Carol Burnett has always been the opposite, a master of comic timing. When things do got drawn out, it's because everyone including actors can't stop laughing.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 4d

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sign up for our humor newsletter to get Daily Cartoons delivered to your inbox: nyer.cm/0EivDaD

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder what kind of music she was listening to in 1933.

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 5d

You're from the Bronx but did you ever consider the struggle of Manhattanites who somehow occupied an entire floor of spacious units each with their own rooms? And never encountered a nonwhite person?

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Jym Dyer =o= FREE ŁINK @jymdyer.bsky.social · 5d

This missing piece of the explanation is the non-voters. These "red 'n' blue" percentages explain a vote but are not a proxy for populations.

"Non-voters" includes those who chose not to vote (for a variety of reasons, not one soundbite) and those whose votes were systematically suppressed.

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