Mike Jurney
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Mike Jurney
@jurney.bsky.social
· Dec 27
"Wait, how many Argonauts?"
[staring across the wine-dark sea] "Countless. Screaming."
[staring across the wine-dark sea] "Countless. Screaming."
Man, that was a pretty egregious no-call. Glad the pats got it done anyway, but hell.
December 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Man, that was a pretty egregious no-call. Glad the pats got it done anyway, but hell.
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Drums In The Deep
A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Nick Cave Troll
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols
December 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Drums In The Deep
This case unironically rules
Fuck normal PC cases, I want the eyesore gem case.
December 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This case unironically rules
This post rips because I never look at the poster until after I've read the post
How to fix soccer:
1. The field is too big, shrink it.
2. Too many players on the field. Limit it to two.
3. Paint the field in a black-and-white grid.
4. The ball is replaced by pure positional advantage.
5. Pawns everywhere.
1. The field is too big, shrink it.
2. Too many players on the field. Limit it to two.
3. Paint the field in a black-and-white grid.
4. The ball is replaced by pure positional advantage.
5. Pawns everywhere.
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
This post rips because I never look at the poster until after I've read the post
Nothing informs your understanding of the police as a gang with state backing like living within sight of one of their precincts for a decade and watching them flagrantly, constantly violate laws they enforce on everyone else because they find them inconvenient.
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Nothing informs your understanding of the police as a gang with state backing like living within sight of one of their precincts for a decade and watching them flagrantly, constantly violate laws they enforce on everyone else because they find them inconvenient.
It's probably a little too on the nose, but when I was home in ABQ over Thanksgiving I definitely saw at least one "VOTE WHITE" sign in someone's backyard while diving down tramway. Glad that guy lost.
#Albuquerque Tim Keller wins, 58% to 42%
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It's probably a little too on the nose, but when I was home in ABQ over Thanksgiving I definitely saw at least one "VOTE WHITE" sign in someone's backyard while diving down tramway. Glad that guy lost.
The older I get the more I truly believe that you can't trust anything said by an entity that doesn't shit.
December 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The older I get the more I truly believe that you can't trust anything said by an entity that doesn't shit.
I'm going to say the same thing about SCOTUS overturning birthright citizenship that I said about them overturning Roe, which is this: Of course they're going to do it, doing it is foundational to why they entered the legal profession. It's a core value for them.
December 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I'm going to say the same thing about SCOTUS overturning birthright citizenship that I said about them overturning Roe, which is this: Of course they're going to do it, doing it is foundational to why they entered the legal profession. It's a core value for them.
In the exact same way that the left sees the right as incorrect but the right sees the left as illegitimate, they don't think of this as illegal, they consider the law irrelevant.
Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
In the exact same way that the left sees the right as incorrect but the right sees the left as illegitimate, they don't think of this as illegal, they consider the law irrelevant.
Not just that, but what the hell did these jerks do to portishead?
Unpopular opinion. This grilled cheese looks bad.
December 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Not just that, but what the hell did these jerks do to portishead?
The price per pound for sides at my grocery store's deli counter has increased by 1/3rd in the last 6 months, you dick.
Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.
December 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The price per pound for sides at my grocery store's deli counter has increased by 1/3rd in the last 6 months, you dick.
It wouldn't be a fraction of the disgrace he deserves, but at the very least I hope the practice of calling these Kavanaugh Stops fully saturates history and the law.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It wouldn't be a fraction of the disgrace he deserves, but at the very least I hope the practice of calling these Kavanaugh Stops fully saturates history and the law.
This is true, but it's also true that destruction and creation are fundamentally asymmetrical. Firing is cheaper than hiring, ignoring a law is easier than following it, and pursuing your goals recklessly is just more efficient than doing so conscientiously and that's a major part of their success.
i like dunkelman’s book as well but this argument really ought to grapple with the fact that trump’s agenda is mired in lawsuits and even the signature parts of it, the deportations, fall far short of the president’s ambitions
There is such a thirst in some progressive centrist circles that they will look at the Trump administration as a model to get things done. I think its worth addressing the argument. This is from Mark Dunkelman, author of the widely praised "Why Nothing Works."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
December 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This is true, but it's also true that destruction and creation are fundamentally asymmetrical. Firing is cheaper than hiring, ignoring a law is easier than following it, and pursuing your goals recklessly is just more efficient than doing so conscientiously and that's a major part of their success.
Fun thing that just occurred to me after having spent several weeks in Austin, TX this year: I've seen a LOT of Waymos. I've never seen a human in a Waymo.
December 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Fun thing that just occurred to me after having spent several weeks in Austin, TX this year: I've seen a LOT of Waymos. I've never seen a human in a Waymo.
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you might be wondering "who goes to see the avatars?" it's me, i go to see the avatars. i love that shit.
December 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
you might be wondering "who goes to see the avatars?" it's me, i go to see the avatars. i love that shit.
The couldn't be more true - every time some slice of effort is cast onto the individual it's transferring away the cost associated with the maintenance of trust. "Shopping around" for healthcare is the prime example, where they wash their hands of the cost of vetting anything so you can "choose".
One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
presented without comment
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The couldn't be more true - every time some slice of effort is cast onto the individual it's transferring away the cost associated with the maintenance of trust. "Shopping around" for healthcare is the prime example, where they wash their hands of the cost of vetting anything so you can "choose".
I've never attended reinvent, but I WAS recently in Vegas at the tail end of it and the best advice I can give anyone attending is to get out of the casinos and off of the strip. Vegas is a fascinating place, but the casinos are sterile nonsense through and through.
December 1, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I've never attended reinvent, but I WAS recently in Vegas at the tail end of it and the best advice I can give anyone attending is to get out of the casinos and off of the strip. Vegas is a fascinating place, but the casinos are sterile nonsense through and through.
The Sandias looked like an area I hadn't leveled up enough to reach.
November 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The Sandias looked like an area I hadn't leveled up enough to reach.
Truly the greatest thing about the open web was the lack of personal business models. Say what you want about GameFAQs, but at least it obviously wasn't a grift.
web search results are such a wasteland now and I hate it
I miss finding cool information on websites that were clearly personal passion projects, or giant FAQs formatted in pure ASCII that explained everything about a niche topic
I miss finding cool information on websites that were clearly personal passion projects, or giant FAQs formatted in pure ASCII that explained everything about a niche topic
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Truly the greatest thing about the open web was the lack of personal business models. Say what you want about GameFAQs, but at least it obviously wasn't a grift.
The winning message for the left in '26 and especially '28 will be anti-predation. I don't think the national democratic party has the stones to righteously call the politicians, companies, and agencies greedily flensing americans predators to their faces, though, and that's the entry price.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The winning message for the left in '26 and especially '28 will be anti-predation. I don't think the national democratic party has the stones to righteously call the politicians, companies, and agencies greedily flensing americans predators to their faces, though, and that's the entry price.
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This seems like a play to cut NPS profitability to make it easier to open these lands up to extraction. 35% of NPS visitors are from overseas
US triples national park fee for non-residents, amid ‘new’ fee for Americans
Interior department, which has defunded conservation organizations, claims fee hike is for conservation
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This seems like a play to cut NPS profitability to make it easier to open these lands up to extraction. 35% of NPS visitors are from overseas
"With National Park attendance down so dramatically over the last few years, the system is in crisis and funding has to be found elsewhere. That's why the Interior Department is partnering with ExxonMobil to bring limited, responsible gas extraction leases to Yellowstone", probably
National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!)
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc.
This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"With National Park attendance down so dramatically over the last few years, the system is in crisis and funding has to be found elsewhere. That's why the Interior Department is partnering with ExxonMobil to bring limited, responsible gas extraction leases to Yellowstone", probably
I think the successful message for the left in 2026 and 2028 is going to be full-throated anti-predation. It's insane that you can click through a dialog that legally makes you the fuckup if using the platform in a normal way leads to your suicide.
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I think the successful message for the left in 2026 and 2028 is going to be full-throated anti-predation. It's insane that you can click through a dialog that legally makes you the fuckup if using the platform in a normal way leads to your suicide.
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can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
Sitting here at a relative's house watching the Walmart-branded Whoville screensaver just scroll by on the Roku TV that's always on and having a weird feeling about it.
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Sitting here at a relative's house watching the Walmart-branded Whoville screensaver just scroll by on the Roku TV that's always on and having a weird feeling about it.