Jim Sharkey
@jsharkey67.bsky.social
Husband, father, gamer, actuary, metalhead. Everything else is just BS.
How openly racist can the Admin be? So, so very racist.
Pages 25 to 27 are most relevant here and should be read in their entirety
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
How openly racist can the Admin be? So, so very racist.
I just read an article in the NYT about some guy's battle against his HOA, and it's a great example of how you can be right, but still be an asshole. Like, how much of a prick do you have to come across as for me to sympathize with an HOA? 🤣
December 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I just read an article in the NYT about some guy's battle against his HOA, and it's a great example of how you can be right, but still be an asshole. Like, how much of a prick do you have to come across as for me to sympathize with an HOA? 🤣
"Why can't the lefties and libs find common ground with the other side?" It's a darn mystery, Scooby-Doo.
NEW: Tina Peters' attorney warns judges "If you're a traitor to this country, you don't get excused because you have a black robe."
Attorney Peter Ticktin and MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann spoke today of their shared vision of military tribunals and executions.
Attorney Peter Ticktin and MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann spoke today of their shared vision of military tribunals and executions.
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"Why can't the lefties and libs find common ground with the other side?" It's a darn mystery, Scooby-Doo.
The follow up to the poverty line post has a bit that explains one of my big pet peeves: your house isn't an asset. It's a tool. It is a place to live. If you look at it as an investment, you are doing it wrong. I have lived in my place over 28 years; I have gotten my $$ worth.
Part 2: The Door Has Opened
A discussion on the real word has begun. It's about time
www.yesigiveafig.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The follow up to the poverty line post has a bit that explains one of my big pet peeves: your house isn't an asset. It's a tool. It is a place to live. If you look at it as an investment, you are doing it wrong. I have lived in my place over 28 years; I have gotten my $$ worth.
"Financialize everything" is the sort of statement that should result in mass shunning for someone who says it.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"Financialize everything" is the sort of statement that should result in mass shunning for someone who says it.
Who in the electorate is asking for less fuel efficiency right now? The U.S. car companies might be, but who else is thinking "Lower MPGs? Yes, cannot wait to pay more to get to work every week!"? Trump's brain is stuck in the 80s permanently at this point, isn't it?
WHITE HOUSE TO ANNOUNCE SHARP REDUCTIONS IN FUEL ECONOMY REQUIREMENTS, OFFICIALS, AUTOMAKERS SAY
December 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Who in the electorate is asking for less fuel efficiency right now? The U.S. car companies might be, but who else is thinking "Lower MPGs? Yes, cannot wait to pay more to get to work every week!"? Trump's brain is stuck in the 80s permanently at this point, isn't it?
One of the more difficult things to do/know when to do as a professional is to say "I am not taking this work," whether because the headache is not worth it, or because you are not really the right person for it for whatever reason. 1/2
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
One of the more difficult things to do/know when to do as a professional is to say "I am not taking this work," whether because the headache is not worth it, or because you are not really the right person for it for whatever reason. 1/2
I picked up a fun Christmas-themed little game at PAX U called Holiday Hills. I recommend it, if you have family who are board game mid but love the holidays especially. Of course, I still played to win, because I am an old grognard, but it's cute!
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I picked up a fun Christmas-themed little game at PAX U called Holiday Hills. I recommend it, if you have family who are board game mid but love the holidays especially. Of course, I still played to win, because I am an old grognard, but it's cute!
Georgia O'Keefe has to be spinning in her grave.
Last week in our student reading group we read the portion of Wealth of Nations in which Smith comments on the way generally unedifying ways that young men spend their gap year/ study abroad/ grand tour time.
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
American Student Ends Up Trapped in Giant Vagina Sculpture
Firefighters embarked on an "extraordinary rescue mission" when an American exchange student got his leg trapped inside a giant vagina sculpture.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Georgia O'Keefe has to be spinning in her grave.
This is a bit of "How it started"/"How it's going," when it looks like a profile of Rubinstein and then pivots into how predatory and gross private equity is before returning to its initial topic. Pretty worth reading, I think.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
When Donald Trump Fired David Rubenstein
The private-equity billionaire spent decades building influence in the capital. Then his philanthropy collided with the president.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is a bit of "How it started"/"How it's going," when it looks like a profile of Rubinstein and then pivots into how predatory and gross private equity is before returning to its initial topic. Pretty worth reading, I think.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
One of the more insidious things Trump being in office has done is create an atmosphere where it's always all right to shirk responsibility. "I don't know, I didn't see it, it wasn't me, it was someone else." The buck is an Ouroboros, endlessly circling the table, looking for someone to claim it.
December 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
One of the more insidious things Trump being in office has done is create an atmosphere where it's always all right to shirk responsibility. "I don't know, I didn't see it, it wasn't me, it was someone else." The buck is an Ouroboros, endlessly circling the table, looking for someone to claim it.
A good portion of the last couple centuries of improvement in mortality from birth is front-loaded, and the ding dongs running the show right now do not grasp it at all.
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A good portion of the last couple centuries of improvement in mortality from birth is front-loaded, and the ding dongs running the show right now do not grasp it at all.
"Hey, here's this tech that can analyze 500M breast x-rays and improve oncology diagnoses."
"Oh, that's nice, but how can we instead use that tech for to line our pockets?"
It's so damn predictable.
prospect.org/2025/12/02/p...
"Oh, that's nice, but how can we instead use that tech for to line our pockets?"
It's so damn predictable.
prospect.org/2025/12/02/p...
Prices in the Machine - The American Prospect
AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.
prospect.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
"Hey, here's this tech that can analyze 500M breast x-rays and improve oncology diagnoses."
"Oh, that's nice, but how can we instead use that tech for to line our pockets?"
It's so damn predictable.
prospect.org/2025/12/02/p...
"Oh, that's nice, but how can we instead use that tech for to line our pockets?"
It's so damn predictable.
prospect.org/2025/12/02/p...
There are people in this world who I hope one day find enough of a conscience to realize how awful they have been, and spend years hating themselves because of it.
December 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
There are people in this world who I hope one day find enough of a conscience to realize how awful they have been, and spend years hating themselves because of it.
Edge ~= Tarkir > Avatar > Final Fantasy >>> Aetherdrift >>> Spider-Man
Put the sets from 2025 in order from best to worst.
We have 6 sets:
Aetherdrift
Tarkir: Dragonstorm
Final Fantasy
Edge of Eternities
Spider-Man
Avatar the Last Airbender
We have 6 sets:
Aetherdrift
Tarkir: Dragonstorm
Final Fantasy
Edge of Eternities
Spider-Man
Avatar the Last Airbender
December 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Edge ~= Tarkir > Avatar > Final Fantasy >>> Aetherdrift >>> Spider-Man
I can't unsee this, and now neither can the rest of you. 🤣
Is it me, or does Mark Kelly look like an old Hugh Jackman playing Professor X?
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I can't unsee this, and now neither can the rest of you. 🤣
Sting's version of "Three Ships" and U2's cover of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)".
What is your favorite "Christian" Christmas song and what is your favorite "Secular" Christmas song?
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
I will probably always adore "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Christian.
And "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" for secular.
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Sting's version of "Three Ships" and U2's cover of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)".
Lies and grift everywhere
Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Lies and grift everywhere
Blow up random fishermen clinging to life in the ocean? A-OK. Keep a guy who did favors for El Chapo in prison? Gotta let him out, & I bet this is at least in part because Biden was in office when the DOJ prosecuted him, but also prosecuting a former President anywhere might be a threat to him.
This article lays out just how clear the case was against Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran president convicted of trafficking cociane to the US was. He primised ro “shove cocaine up the nose of gringos”
Trump promises to pardon him. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Trump promises to pardon him. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Blow up random fishermen clinging to life in the ocean? A-OK. Keep a guy who did favors for El Chapo in prison? Gotta let him out, & I bet this is at least in part because Biden was in office when the DOJ prosecuted him, but also prosecuting a former President anywhere might be a threat to him.
"We need the find common ground with these people!" No we do not need to find common ground with people whose brains are this poisoned. We need to avoid them as much as possible.
On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳
November 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
"We need the find common ground with these people!" No we do not need to find common ground with people whose brains are this poisoned. We need to avoid them as much as possible.
Tagging @sincerelytechie.bsky.social for value.
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www.nerdgear.gg/b20ecq
The Corgi Caprice - 55mm Handmade Resin D20 Dice
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November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Tagging @sincerelytechie.bsky.social for value.
The difference between hiring an obsessive perfectionist like Anurag for casting your Magic matches versus whoever is doing the casting for EU Eternal Weekend is clear in the lighting on Twitch right now. The sleeves are so shiny, I can barely see one of the players' cards.
November 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The difference between hiring an obsessive perfectionist like Anurag for casting your Magic matches versus whoever is doing the casting for EU Eternal Weekend is clear in the lighting on Twitch right now. The sleeves are so shiny, I can barely see one of the players' cards.
The hilarity of the fact I could list Rush 5 times and it'd be true. But let's go with my favorite five shows:
Rush: Power Windows
Florence and the Machine: High As Hope
Faith No More: King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
Mastodon/Clutch/Graveyard: Once More Round the Sun
Rush: Power Windows
Florence and the Machine: High As Hope
Faith No More: King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
Mastodon/Clutch/Graveyard: Once More Round the Sun
God, painting a hell of a picture of myself here but
Tool
Blind Guardian
Napalm Death
Cat Stevens
Carly Rae Jepsen
Tool
Blind Guardian
Napalm Death
Cat Stevens
Carly Rae Jepsen
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.
Faithless
Bad Religion
Foo Fighters
Jamiroquai
Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts Orchestra with Yoko Shimomura
Faithless
Bad Religion
Foo Fighters
Jamiroquai
Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts Orchestra with Yoko Shimomura
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The hilarity of the fact I could list Rush 5 times and it'd be true. But let's go with my favorite five shows:
Rush: Power Windows
Florence and the Machine: High As Hope
Faith No More: King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
Mastodon/Clutch/Graveyard: Once More Round the Sun
Rush: Power Windows
Florence and the Machine: High As Hope
Faith No More: King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
Mastodon/Clutch/Graveyard: Once More Round the Sun
Thanksgiving batting avg so far: 0.800, I guess? Brine went well, eggnog is great again, garlic roasted up nice, pumpkin pie filling looks good, but making the crusts went to shit this year, glad I bought frozen ones for back up. Still disappointing, but at least I think I know where I went wrong.
November 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Thanksgiving batting avg so far: 0.800, I guess? Brine went well, eggnog is great again, garlic roasted up nice, pumpkin pie filling looks good, but making the crusts went to shit this year, glad I bought frozen ones for back up. Still disappointing, but at least I think I know where I went wrong.