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Jake Berg

@jacobsberg.bsky.social

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Libraries. Beer. DC. You always go to the show. DCBeer.com Editor/Co-Owner He/Him

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · Dec 30

Good morning, here's the music I listened to and the beers I drank in 2024.

Beer and Music, Music and Beer, 2024

The third to last and second to last sentences I wrote on this site were, "Next year is an election year, it's going to be bad. Here's hopin...

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 3h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 3h

The neighbor’s Samoyed came over

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 4h

It's dinner time.

Is This the End of an Era for Soul Food in Washington?

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 5h

Isn’t that the plot of at least two movies?

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 5h

Fur-lough 😎

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 5h

Impromptu furlough/shut down/whatever backyard dog park!

Two Great Pyrenees and one Samoyed getting filthy

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 10h

Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 11h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 7h

More please

CCscott @ccscott.bsky.social · 9h

✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 11h

Weirdly enough, I think this works. No one is more insecure than a new ICE agent. They want to be the blonde guy in DHS’s AI Nazi posting so badly. Instead, they’ll be guarding indistinguishable suburban warehouse #16361 while inflated frogs and dinosaurs thrust in their face all day every day.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 8h

Not a fan of moral panics, and yet… maybe a little moral panic here could go a long way

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 10h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 9h

can confirm!

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 9h

On my second bag!

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 9h

Becoming a Bean Guy™️ during the shutdown

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 10h

You and I will be the only 2 people in the Bottle Logic line waiting on Helles, but Saint X is your friend here with 2 beers under 4% and probably not much of a line.

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 10h

a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo and bow tie standing in a room .

ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a tuxedo and bow tie standing in a room .

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 10h

"Look, you know what I like, just tell me what's good on this list!"

Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 12h

Yaaaaaassssssssssssssss

Lars Gotrich @totalvibration.bsky.social · 12h

oh my gooooooooood errolshotwax.bandcamp.com/album/love-t...

Love Trinity, by Life Without Buildings

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 12h

This is not only amazingly racist but deeply anti-Christian. Fuck this shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Jake Berg @jacobsberg.bsky.social · 13h

Putting any and every fresh/wet hop beer at Snallygaster on my 'to try' list.

DC Beer @dcbeer.com · 14h

The only DC brewery to use fresh hops in a beer this harvest season is NoMA's Red Bear. Ten breweries are bringing fresh/wet hopped beers to Snallygaster. Let's investigate!

Snallygaster 25 (& Red Bear): Wet Hop American... Autumn | DC Beer

The mid-Atlantic has never been great for making beer with freshly picked hops; this year those beers will come to us from afar. We believe this to be the

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

This is so not normal. And so not right. And so unconstitutional. And if a Democratic president had the Governor of Illinois send IL national guard troops to Texas, @GregAbbott_TX would be having a meltdown.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot stress enough that the #1 rule of firearm training is you do not point your weapon at anything you do not fully intend to shoot.

These untrained fools need to be prosecuted when this is all done

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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