Jase
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Programmer of locally sourced artisanal small batch code.
Setting up the LEGO Christmas village last night.
Me: Which set is that?
Wife: Firehouse.
My brain:
Me: Which set is that?
Wife: Firehouse.
My brain:
Firehouse - Don't Treat Me Bad
YouTube video by FirehouseVEVO
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December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Setting up the LEGO Christmas village last night.
Me: Which set is that?
Wife: Firehouse.
My brain:
Me: Which set is that?
Wife: Firehouse.
My brain:
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.
In politics as in construction.
In politics as in construction.
December 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.
In politics as in construction.
In politics as in construction.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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I'm the king of kings
I'm not the king of kings
but I'm the wreckage of a king
but really I'm not actually a king
but I am...
Shattered visage in the desert by the stone legs
wrinkles its lip at you.
See my works, ye mighty, and despair!
I'm not the king of kings
but I'm the wreckage of a king
but really I'm not actually a king
but I am...
Shattered visage in the desert by the stone legs
wrinkles its lip at you.
See my works, ye mighty, and despair!
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I'm the king of kings
I'm not the king of kings
but I'm the wreckage of a king
but really I'm not actually a king
but I am...
Shattered visage in the desert by the stone legs
wrinkles its lip at you.
See my works, ye mighty, and despair!
I'm not the king of kings
but I'm the wreckage of a king
but really I'm not actually a king
but I am...
Shattered visage in the desert by the stone legs
wrinkles its lip at you.
See my works, ye mighty, and despair!
Here's the thing about "fraud, abuse, and waste". If a program costs $1billion, and you determine that $1million (0.1%) is being "wasted" or "stolen" or "misspent", if you can "solve" it for less than $1million, great!
But if it's going to cost $10m or $100m to save that $1m, then it's not worth it.
But if it's going to cost $10m or $100m to save that $1m, then it's not worth it.
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Here's the thing about "fraud, abuse, and waste". If a program costs $1billion, and you determine that $1million (0.1%) is being "wasted" or "stolen" or "misspent", if you can "solve" it for less than $1million, great!
But if it's going to cost $10m or $100m to save that $1m, then it's not worth it.
But if it's going to cost $10m or $100m to save that $1m, then it's not worth it.
So I'm watching a Hallmark Christmas movie, and in it there is a doctor, in a wheelchair, and it is never mentioned. No comment. No joke. No explanation. No plot point hinging on it. She's just there, existing in a wheelchair as the colleague and best friend of the main female lead. Good job.
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 AM
So I'm watching a Hallmark Christmas movie, and in it there is a doctor, in a wheelchair, and it is never mentioned. No comment. No joke. No explanation. No plot point hinging on it. She's just there, existing in a wheelchair as the colleague and best friend of the main female lead. Good job.
People wonder how Trump can kill drug dealers but pardon a drug kingpin, but it's obvious. Much like how we arrest and deport illegal workers but often let the companies that hire them off the hook. The people at the bottom suffer, and the people at the top have no consequences.
December 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
People wonder how Trump can kill drug dealers but pardon a drug kingpin, but it's obvious. Much like how we arrest and deport illegal workers but often let the companies that hire them off the hook. The people at the bottom suffer, and the people at the top have no consequences.
How come the "do your own research" crowd never seems to, like, just google stuff.
I mean, I guess maybe they do, but they think just all those sites disagreeing with their pre-existing opinion are lying.
I mean, I guess maybe they do, but they think just all those sites disagreeing with their pre-existing opinion are lying.
December 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
How come the "do your own research" crowd never seems to, like, just google stuff.
I mean, I guess maybe they do, but they think just all those sites disagreeing with their pre-existing opinion are lying.
I mean, I guess maybe they do, but they think just all those sites disagreeing with their pre-existing opinion are lying.
A thread well worth reading, and bookmarking to check periodically for updates.
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
A thread well worth reading, and bookmarking to check periodically for updates.
Everyone should just assume and act as if heavily redacted documents are about PDFile activity. Elon Musk and Greg Abbott apparently share the same beautiful secret that Trump and Epstein did. All they have to do to prove me wrong is release the unredacted emails.
After fighting to keep emails between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and billionaire Elon Musk’s companies secret, officials have released nearly 1,400 pages of documents to @kutnews.bsky.social and The Texas Newsroom.
All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
All but about 200 pages are blacked out.
Gov. Greg Abbott Was Ordered to Release Some of His Emails With Elon Musk. Most Are Blacked Out.
Months after fighting to keep secret emails between Gov. Greg Abbott and Elon Musk, Texas officials released 1,400 pages of records. But they reveal little about the two men’s relationship or Musk’s i...
www.propublica.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Everyone should just assume and act as if heavily redacted documents are about PDFile activity. Elon Musk and Greg Abbott apparently share the same beautiful secret that Trump and Epstein did. All they have to do to prove me wrong is release the unredacted emails.
I used to love seeing videos of people doing amazing or strange things. Years ago I had to start approaching them skeptically because people were staging stuff but posting it as if it happened naturally. Now I've almost stopped watching random videos on the Internet because so many are AI.
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I used to love seeing videos of people doing amazing or strange things. Years ago I had to start approaching them skeptically because people were staging stuff but posting it as if it happened naturally. Now I've almost stopped watching random videos on the Internet because so many are AI.
Growing up, Christmas Eve was always "snacky supper". The table would get loaded with a couple or three kinds of bread, a handful of cheeses, a dozen meats, all the condiments and fixing, and everyone would make their own Scooby & Shaggy style sandwich. Plus an assortment of chips.
Xms eve was dad's time to shine with the crepe pan for creamy seafood ones. The day itself was leftovers paired with the navel oranges and pomegranates from everyone's stockings.
My Mom's Christmas Eve plate was hot and sweet Italian sausages with potatoes and roasted peppers, crusty bread, salad, and coffee and panettone for dessert.
We all filled up on hors d'oeurves and wanted to get back to presents anyway.
Christmas morning was bagels, but Eve was the real event.
We all filled up on hors d'oeurves and wanted to get back to presents anyway.
Christmas morning was bagels, but Eve was the real event.
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Growing up, Christmas Eve was always "snacky supper". The table would get loaded with a couple or three kinds of bread, a handful of cheeses, a dozen meats, all the condiments and fixing, and everyone would make their own Scooby & Shaggy style sandwich. Plus an assortment of chips.
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[P] WE'RE ALL-IN ON TULIPS, GANG
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
[P] WE'RE ALL-IN ON TULIPS, GANG
Hey, you. You're finally awake, Charlie Brown.
They mostly come at night, Charlie Brown.
I am that guy, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Hey, you. You're finally awake, Charlie Brown.
My university lost accreditation for its education degree program, so I switched to computer science, got a co-op internship that included supporting a phone system, and I've been doing telephony ever since. Thirty years.
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
My university lost accreditation for its education degree program, so I switched to computer science, got a co-op internship that included supporting a phone system, and I've been doing telephony ever since. Thirty years.
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This is an accidentally honest answer. What she's saying in code is:
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
Q: What did the president mean when he called a reporter "piggy"?
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is an accidentally honest answer. What she's saying in code is:
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
What. The. Actual. Jesus. H. Fucking. Christ. On. A. Stick?!
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
What. The. Actual. Jesus. H. Fucking. Christ. On. A. Stick?!
I've probably watched all the episodes of Speed Racer a few dozen times. And yet, if you were to ask me to name any particular villain or opponent, the only one I could tell you is the Mammoth Car.
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I've probably watched all the episodes of Speed Racer a few dozen times. And yet, if you were to ask me to name any particular villain or opponent, the only one I could tell you is the Mammoth Car.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
I think people need to stop saying it as "an-tee-fuh" and say "an-tie-fa", and put the pause after anti not an.
Less "an teefuh", more "anti fa".
And correct people saying it wrong, every time, until they stop.
I mean, they don't say things like "an teetank missile", they say "anti tank missile".
Less "an teefuh", more "anti fa".
And correct people saying it wrong, every time, until they stop.
I mean, they don't say things like "an teetank missile", they say "anti tank missile".
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I think people need to stop saying it as "an-tee-fuh" and say "an-tie-fa", and put the pause after anti not an.
Less "an teefuh", more "anti fa".
And correct people saying it wrong, every time, until they stop.
I mean, they don't say things like "an teetank missile", they say "anti tank missile".
Less "an teefuh", more "anti fa".
And correct people saying it wrong, every time, until they stop.
I mean, they don't say things like "an teetank missile", they say "anti tank missile".
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absolutely no one should be sharing intel with the US
- everyone at the highest level is complicit/likely to leak to adversaries
- everyone at the level below that is utterly incompetent
- everyone at levels below that are focused entirely on exit strategies and thus rich picking for foreign ops
- everyone at the highest level is complicit/likely to leak to adversaries
- everyone at the level below that is utterly incompetent
- everyone at levels below that are focused entirely on exit strategies and thus rich picking for foreign ops
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
absolutely no one should be sharing intel with the US
- everyone at the highest level is complicit/likely to leak to adversaries
- everyone at the level below that is utterly incompetent
- everyone at levels below that are focused entirely on exit strategies and thus rich picking for foreign ops
- everyone at the highest level is complicit/likely to leak to adversaries
- everyone at the level below that is utterly incompetent
- everyone at levels below that are focused entirely on exit strategies and thus rich picking for foreign ops
I accept that I have every privilege imaginable, except that I'm not a billionaire, but still, 5 days from online renewal request to having my new passport in my hands is ridiculously fast.
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I accept that I have every privilege imaginable, except that I'm not a billionaire, but still, 5 days from online renewal request to having my new passport in my hands is ridiculously fast.
I'm imagining that scene in Se7en where they find John Doe's apartment and all of his notebooks.
Mike Johnson on the Republican healthcare plan: "We've got notebooks full of ideas."
November 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I'm imagining that scene in Se7en where they find John Doe's apartment and all of his notebooks.
This country is in a lot of pain right now, but it is exactly that pain that would make taking a deal for a promise worth nothing. @ossoff.bsky.social and @warnock.senate.gov as a constituent of yours I urge you to only give in when they give solid concessions in writing with dollars attached.
November 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This country is in a lot of pain right now, but it is exactly that pain that would make taking a deal for a promise worth nothing. @ossoff.bsky.social and @warnock.senate.gov as a constituent of yours I urge you to only give in when they give solid concessions in writing with dollars attached.
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sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference