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Justin
@justinreese.com
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Software developer, refugee advocate, recently Coloradan. Coloradian. Of Colorado.
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Barcelona is riddled with these spaces. Cafes on the margins, children playing in the center, parents and students watching and meeting, all just steps from home. It felt like a city built for humans and I yearn for it.
Plaza in Barcelona from the perspective of a cafe table. Sun filters through the towering trees, people sit at tables and on benches. Nighttime in a Barcelona plaza with nearly-full cafe tables and a streetlight overhead. View of Barcelona from a high place showing terraced open spaces going down level by level to the city, with people milling all about. Fountains and cafes visible.
December 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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This is insane, literal Torment Nexus stuff: wapo.st/3MeKCkf
Theoretically, rogue billionaires could afford to at least start changing the climate on their own. That's the premise of the science fiction novel "Termination Shock," which inspired Iseman to found Make Sunsets in 2022. It doesn't turn out well in the book. But if you're a billionaire and you'd like to put a lot of sulfur in the stratosphere without consulting anybody, Iseman said he'd be happy to help. "I am getting goose bumps just thinking about how awesome that would be," he said. "If every country in the world bans this, and a billionaire comes to me and says, 'Here's a boat with a flag of convenience that's not going to enforce that ban. ... I want to take credit if people like it and have plausible deniability if they don't. Go.' You know, I can think of no better way to spend the next several years.”
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I genuinely do not understand why the original comic is right-aligned. Wouldn't it communicate its point better like so? (Image not mine, etc.)
Comic in three panels. Panel 1: a Nazi in the center of the panel goose-stepping toward the right. Two character are on the left side of the panel, one of them an evident centrist pointing to the Nazi and saying to the other character, "We need to move toward him, to win the center." Panel 2: the Nazi has moved further right and the centrist has split the difference between them, saying back to the observing character (who hasn't moved), "I said, we need to move toward him, to win the center!" Panel 3: the centrist has overtaken the Nazi and is saying to them "On your right", while the observing character is still in their original spot, looking back toward the left at a now-revealed sign reading "The Center" with an arrow pointing left.
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Renewables are stabilizing Texas's grid during record-breaking usage peaks, according to the infamously lefty environmentalists at [checks notes] ERCOT.
The addition of more than 9,600 megawatts of capacity to the state’s grid since last summer, coupled with conservative operations and reliable management, has produced this result, Vegas said at an ERCOT board of directors meeting this week. “The state of the grid is strong, it is reliable—it is as reliable as it has ever been and it is as ready for the challenges of extreme weather,” Vegas said. “I feel confident that we are ready for this upcoming summer season.” Of the new capacity added, 5,395 megawatts came from solar, 3,821 megawatts from energy storage and 253 megawatts from wind power. Kristi Hobbs, ERCOT’s vice president of system planning and weatherization, said the risk of emergency as the sun goes down and Texans continue to pump their air conditioners has been greatly reduced due to the large contributions from solar and battery storage. “That does put us in a better position to get over those evening ramps as we go into late summer,” Hobbs said. In the same time frame of the solar and storage additions, there’s been a net loss of natural gas capacity. Retirements, deactivations and derates, or a loss of available capacity, of gas plants resulted in a reduced capacity of 366 megawatts on the grid since last summer.
October 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Team “Tell Family You’re Taking Off / Have Just Landed Using Illustrative Shorthand”, assemble!

(And yes, I too have witnessed this deceptive progression. Sometimes having received a reply to the “Not Delivered” message! 🤷)
An iMessage sent Wednesday 22:04 reading 🏔️🛫🤠 and another sent 23:40 reading 🏔️🛬🤠.
August 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Close-up of the section reading "Sarah Jessica Parker: Dresses her son in hand-me-downs" with a photo of Mike Tyson with a face tattoo smiling broadly.
July 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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This weird thing flitted across my wife's Facebook feed. And I don't know if it's intentionally art or just art by accident.
A set of celebrity photos titled "stars who are surprisingly frugal" with such entries as "Lady Gaga: Uses coupons at the grocery store". Most photos match the names but Sarah Jessica Parker ("Dresses her son in hand-me-downs") is illustrated with a photo of Mike Tyson.
July 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I draw the line at burgers. Egg on burgers is almost never a worthwhile idea. Egg on a chicken sandwich, though? 🤤 (Pictured: the all-timer Mother Clucker sandwich from local Tyler TX BBQ joint Stanley's.)
Chicken barbecue sandwich with an egg and other things
July 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Maybe my favorite food genre is "good fresh fried egg in unexpected places", e.g.
Two fried eggs atop a pile of fries and ground meat A fried egg atop a tostada at an outdoor seating area
July 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Literally my soundtrack as I read this.
July 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Pretty sure I know what it is.
Screenshot of a BBC article link reading "People say cola and fries are helping their migraines - but there's a twist" dated 1 June 2025 and illustrated with a hand plucking french fries from a paper cup
June 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Pardon me while I slam my head in the door a little bit.
Two adjacent Washington Post headlines: "White South Africans arrive at Dulles as refugees under Trump order" and "DHS to end deportation protections for Afghanistan"
May 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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May 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Don't forget to close any embarrassing tabs before sharing your screen.
Screenshot of the Safari web browser on macOS showing a Domino's pizza order page.
May 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Hard to pick
Screenshot of two of the post actions on Bluesky, reading "Block account" and "Report post"
May 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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April 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Quite literally the opposite. She was removed due to a loss of confidence in her ability to follow.
The head of the US military base in Greenland has been fired after she reportedly sent an email distancing herself from Vice-President JD Vance's criticism of Denmark. The US military's Space Operations Command said Col Susannah Meyers had been removed from her role at Pituffik Space Base due to a "loss of confidence in her ability to lead".
April 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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One party wants to see how an imperial presidency works out, while one agrees with the Constitution that we should not. Simple as that.

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“But how much authority does the Constitution really give the president to completely reorganize the government on his own?” Moore said. “We’re moving toward an imperial presidency. And whether or not that’s a good thing remains to be seen.”
February 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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January 31, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Animated GIF of Snape from Harry Potter seemingly leaning back in preparation for an approaching assault with the text "MY BODY IS READY".
September 30, 2023 at 3:19 AM
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Ah, neat, wish I'd known this was an option earlier. (I forget sometimes, and want to be reminded!)
Screenshot of the Bluesky accessibility preference toggle labeled "Require alt text on images" and currently enabled.
July 4, 2023 at 4:23 PM
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I've never been less sorry.
June 29, 2023 at 9:57 PM