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Jonathan Rigsby

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Author, father, and rideshare driver. DRIVE: Scraping by in Uber's America, now in paperback! Get your copy at https://bookshop.org/p/books/drive-scraping-by-in-uber-s-america-one-ride-at-a-time-jonathan-rigsby/20429413?ean=9780807016718&next=t

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · Nov 14

Okay Bluesky, here's a reminder of who I am and what I'm about. I'm the author of a memoir about working as an Uber driver after my divorce and how the gig economy lures in and exploits vulnerable people.

On some Friday nights, I do a ride-along thread where I post about people I'm meeting.

Yellow and black cover of Drive: Scraping by in Uber's America, by Jonathan Rigsby.

"This gripping read forces readers to finally see gig workers all around them, as well as to recognize how the middle class has become the Middle Precariat." -Alissa Quart, author of Bootstrapped and Squeezed

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 7h

Bacon, egg, and cheese on a roll with a quarter water. Plain bagel with a schmear is the bagel order.

Everything bagels are just plain bagels that let you throw a handful of birdseed on the ground while you eat them.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 7h

Ok we're having some confusion so let's get this ironed out:

Bacon, egg, and cheese on a bagel is the NYC order.

Obviously if you are wanting have this the CORRECT way, the TRADITIONAL WAY, you are ordering *TAYLOR HAM*, egg, and, cheese on a KAISER ROLL and you are IN NEW JERSEY.

Emily Hahn, MD @ehahnmd.bsky.social · 7h

Kaiser roll is also the traditional vehicle. A bagel is a modification.

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👻Captain SLAY-os🎃 @captainchaos.myatproto.social · 17h

It's weird to think that like the fall of the postwar order has "Obama makes fun of Trump at a WH correspondent dinner" as a causal event

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

Like 97 percent of why he’s obsessed with winning the Nobel peace prize is that Obama won it

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't he in treatment for cancer? I can understand him staying out of the public eye.

Obama, on the other hand...

Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 1d

You won't get it back, but you can visit the museum I would donate all of these to.

Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone have an estimated $850,000 to $1.4 million that I could borrow?

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

www.pbs.org

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 1d

"I've read seven books by Brandon Sanderson, and I can't find anything new or exciting. Is fantasy dying?"

My brother in Christ, have you tried leaving the S section of the shelves?

Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 1d

I think "never prosecute people for crimes" would set a worse precedent, but what do I know?

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

“What we don’t want to become the norm is where people think, ‘OK, there’s a new administration, now everyone in the old administration gets prosecuted. That’s an incredibly dangerous cycle where nobody wins.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Experts fear impact of deepening polarization and perceived political prosecutions

Reforms enacted after Watergate to bolster public confidence in the impartiality of prosecutions are proving dated and ineffective, legal experts warn.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 2d

For the record, I would have preordered the deluxe edition of this game.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 2d

"You need to be nice to Democrats."

bugs bunny is making a funny face with the words hard no behind him .

Alt: bugs bunny is making a funny face with the words hard no behind him .

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

I read somewhere recently that what the rich really want is slavery and it's hard not to read this article through that lens

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 2d

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 2d

Shar Lady of Loss symbol

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Loss

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 5d

A meditation on the grief of this moment. Worth the read.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 5d

I’m tired of chaos. I’m dying for order. A machine that’s functioning. It’s parts working in symphony with each other.

Everything in its right place.

Nothing is now. No one is doing the job, let alone doing it well. I feel like there’s something they’re all in on. Something drives them.
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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 5d

ICE and CBP in particular have a type, and that type is "just following orders."

Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 5d

"I'm the guy that just executes at this point. So whatever they want, they tell me to do it, I go do.”

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 5d

www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

Fired feds, Trump lovers and veterans: Meet the people applying for ICE jobs

At a recent DHS career expo in Provo, Utah, many attendees hoped to get hired to help with the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

www.npr.org

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 6d

It's a superb movie, and the special effects hold up completely.

Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 6d

That's fantastic! Congratulations to her!

Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 7d

How this story feels every time it pops up:

Ben Affleck smoking a cigarette and looking exasperated with existing

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 7d

WITH ALT TEXT BECAUSE I WAS EXCITED AND FORGOT

A VIEW OF A FUTURISTIC CITY FROM A ROOFTOP, SHOWING THE CITY AT NIGHT AND LIT UP BUILDINGS. A WOMAN IN RED STANDS HOLDING A HELMET. IN THE DISTANCE, A BEACON OF LIGHT CUTS THROUGH THE SKY AND BURSTS THE CLOUDS.

TEXT AT THE BOTTOM SAYS PROTOMEN ACT III: THIS CITY MADE US

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 7d

ACT 3 IS REAL AND IT'S RELEASING AND I'M GOING TO BE EXCITED AND YELL ABOUT IT. I HAVE WAITED 15+ YEARS FOR THIS.

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 8d

AI company safety plans:

No Context Achewood @achewoodnc.bsky.social · Sep 3

Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 8d

I've only ever seen Hunt Brothers advertised in gas stations. Gas station pizza should not be part of the conversation.

That is something consumed as part of a journey to rock bottom.

Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 8d

The entire trajectory of Tennessee as nominally blue swing state that descended into bright red hellhole is mirrored in Vanderbilt's decisions about the university and the med center.

Diermeier, like Carol Swain, knows better but chooses to buy into the bullshit for status.

I don't donate.

Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 8d

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon. It's the prequel to Priory of the Orange Tree. I have both but decided to read the prequel first for no other reason than that the dust jacket was nicer.

It started off slow, and I was getting frustrated. Then a mountain exploded.

Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 9d

My goal for the year was to read 25 books. I have surely not handicapped myself in this effort by choosing to read a 1,000 page fantasy epic.

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Jonathan Rigsby @ridetrips.bsky.social · 9d

And soybeans.

synapticmisfires.bsky.social @synapticmisfires.bsky.social · 9d

New CPI basket is nothing but eggs and gasoline.