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Jordan Reiter
@jordanreiter.bsky.social
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Dad. Husband. Food/cooking, pottery, general geekery. He/him

Profile photo: man yelling cheerfully in front of green screen.

Cover: Space background with caption reading "Thank you for contacting the abyss. Your scream is very important to us."
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The "shaking hands" meme. The arm on the left is labeled "TERFs". The arm on the right is labeled "Misogynistic incels". The hands shake in the middle signifying agreement with the text in the middle, "calling women 'females".
May 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Without downloading new pictures, where are you mentally?
March 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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@samreich.bsky.social always has this facial expression when laughing.
Sam Reich, a mid-30s white male with a graying beard, on the Make Some Noise set holding Make Some Noise flashcards. He wears a broad smile and his eyes are scrunched up into two thin curved lines. Sam Reich, a mid-30s white male with a graying beard, on the Make Some Noise set. He wears a broad smile and his eyes are scrunched up into two thin curved lines. Sam Reich, a mid-30s white male with a graying beard, on the Make Some Noise set. He wears a broad smile and his eyes are scrunched up into two thin curved lines. Sam Reich, a mid-30s white male with a graying beard, on the Make Some Noise set. He wears a broad smile and his eyes are scrunched up into two thin curved lines.
March 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Not much time left. I submitted my comments.
I am deeply concerned about the phrase "to ensure that unnecessarily burdensome requirements do not hamper private sector AI innovation". Already we have seen examples of AI being used for making critical decisions and making mistakes where the reasoning cannot easily be determined. AI should be subject to *significant* regulation and human oversight precisely because if an AI makes a wrong decision, it is impossible to hold that AI accountable. While there are plenty of machine-mediated decision engines out there, GenAI has the distinction of not only miscalculation but of hallucinating incorrect facts or conclusions out of thin air.
March 16, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Obama was a moderate who bent over backwards to avoid directly confronting conservatives or make white people uncomfortable.

His sin was being president while black. Racism was bad before and it's bad now. White people were just able to pretend like it wasn't there.
Tweet from @JesseKellyDC: For those who aren’t old enough, you cannot imagine how little race tension there was in this country before Obama got into power and started stoking those flames. It was here, sure. But it was so small you hardly knew it existed.
January 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I'll absolutely take it:
boffo: very successful or wholeheartedly commendatory
… (of a laugh) deep and unrestrained
Screen crap of Merriam Webster skeet: "Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2025. Godspeed." The screenshot has stopped on the word "boffo"
January 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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#MeatlessMonday

Goi Ga with tofu instead of chicken. I borrowed elements from this recipe

www.thekitchn.com/recipe-goi-c...
December 10, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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How does such a despicable person look so much like this lovely angel
Sue Heck from the TV sitcom The Middle. A goofy looking teenager in braces.
December 6, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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The decorations at my office have strong "always winter but never Christmas" energy.
Nearly all white holiday decorations featuring pale artificial birch-like trees covered with white lights with large tree ball ornaments on the ground in silver and gold nestled in fake fabric "snow".
December 3, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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Interesting, I've always come from the other angle where people misinterpret human emotions and intentions in the behaviors/expressions of animals.
November 28, 2024 at 1:07 AM
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Pretty happy with my mac n cheese.
November 26, 2024 at 12:33 AM
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All of this is going into my vegetable stock.

Let us pray:

May these vegetables and herbs come together in harmony, and work together as one flavor.

And may it be for the sweet & savory and not for the bitter.

For ever and always, or at least 3 quarts, amen.

#Thanksgiving
A circular cutting board covered with a pile of different vegetables and plant materials: tomatoes, potatoes, Japanese sweet potato, mushrooms, garlic, lettuce, a hunk of parsnip and some carrots mostly covered with a pile of leek leaves
November 25, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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"Post a you from a different era."

First night I held my newborn son, who is now 13.
Me, a white man with dark hair and stubble, holding in my arms a swaddled newborn as I lean against a hospital room wall with my eyes closed.
November 24, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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When TERFs get started on "people should use the bathroom of their real gender! Men don't belong in women's bathrooms!"

I usually reply with "Oh so do you think this person belongs in the woman's bathroom?"
Trans man with a beard, baseball cap and sports jersey taking a selfie in a bathroom mirror.
November 23, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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These are 2 pages (164+165) from Understanding Comics. These are realistically drawn line drawings. In this first page, McCloud describes art as anything that "doesn't grow out of either of our species' two basic instincts: survival and reproduction". He then imagines the experience of a caveman, first running after a woman then being chased by a saber tooth tiger. In the second page, the caveman evades the saber tooth tiger by climbing a tree. The tiger misses the caveman and falls to its death. McCloud writes "His next move might be to look for food (survival) or perhaps another female (reproduction). But instead…" The caveman sticks out his tongue at the saber tooth tiger and goes "Thplplp!", blowing a raspberry. McCloud: "ART."
November 18, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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Way ahead of you
Rat teapot, unfired, with a spout shaped very vaguely like a rat's head, with tiny eyes and pointy ears at the base of the spout where it meets the body.
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
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Quote with your full avi 🤓
Middle aged man standing in front of a green screen making an exaggerated gesture.
November 15, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Cartoon shows a stick figure shooting a laser gun. The gun shoots out a laser beam labeled "bodyshaming" which goes towards a stick figure labeled "Guy u don't like but will never care" but bounces off a mirror they are holding and instead strikes a figure labeled "Person you care about with the same trait who now knows you think they're ugly"
November 14, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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Does stuff I made myself count?
"Takeout container with wings" a Styrofoam container made out of clay. Inside a hunched figure sits cross-legged, a pair of wings lying on the ground. There are two large bloody holes in the person's back the wings were ripped out of. A close-up of the wings. You can also see the edge of the take out container.
November 13, 2024 at 4:13 AM