jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We’re in an AI transition & I get that many are confused about. Let me be clear, I canceled my MSWord subscription (of 20 years) bc there’s no way to turn AI off. Now using Notes and AI-disabled Pages to write. I will go back to spiral notebooks if I have to. I went back to college to learn. 361
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Kind of depends on what’s getting done, doesn’t it, Peter? If a serial killer gets away with murder for decades, he is not morally good, just good at killing. The 2 “goods” here are not the same. One is functional good. The other is ethical good. He’s conflating them. He thinks we’re all stupid. 350
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I look forward to the day when we can all look back on these fools like American Idol contestants and go, “Who was she again?” I’ve had almost no time for SM lately and the dissipating fog of bullshit is most welcome. These people will suck up all your oxygen if you allow it. 000
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My uncle is a retired USAF test pilot and worked for Lockheed designing and testing the cockpit of the F-35 for several years. I can only imagine how thrilled he must not be about this. 020
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This reminds me of Robert DeNiro’s character in Casino when the gaming commission took his license so he started his own chat show. Bring on the show girls! 140
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026So many proverbs in here. He dug deep and he deserved it. 120
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Saw this in my readings this morning and imagining Tom Hank’s reaction to being the literal textbook definition of aging badly lol 011
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 19/09/2026First month of school. I’m Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory and I am all out of hat.static.klipy.comI Love Lucy Chocolate Factory SceneALT: I Love Lucy Chocolate Factory Scene 350
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I know I’ve been busy & haven’t checked news or SM much, so just scrolling along & this was pretty shocking. How did we get HERE? What is happening? www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...nbcnews.comKash Patel defends FBI’s new policy on bestiality at Senate hearingSen. John Kennedy grilled the FBI director about a recently revised policy that doesn’t automatically disqualify job applicants who have engaged in bestiality. 210
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Feeling very unsure about the destiny of my absentee ballot rn 120
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Almost exactly the route (root) my ancestors took from the East to Oklahoma. My 3 x great-grandfather came from Georgia to Texas in 1847 with several families. 320
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Academia hates AI. With a passion usually reserved for the adjunct trap. I’ve had 3 essays in 3 different classes in 9 days that have all have been about critical media literacy and AI in the age of post-truth, disinformation, misinformation & politics. We in trouble, y’all.static.klipy.comMitchell Moffit: We May All Be In DangerALT: Mitchell Moffit: We May All Be In Danger 230
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I’m going to start using this line at parties. 040
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026First week of school was madness. Tears, sweat, blood, dead MacBook 1/2 day before first exam. My head is swimming, but I’m very happy. No break this weekend, but maybe next.static.klipy.comWeekend Over? Monday Arrives!ALT: Weekend Over? Monday Arrives! 060
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I bought a MacBook Neo because my Air went to MacBook heaven and I love it. emergency buy due to a looming online exam & I didn’t expect much. It’s an amazing swap for the 13” Air,$599. If anyone’s considering it, do it. The only drawback is no backlit keyboard, but it’s a great machine. 😀👍 261
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I’m at the point in this Hellscape 2.0 where I look at stuff like this & rate whether they’d make the cut in my fortified post-apocalyptic underground cave village. If this guy’s got a loom, he’s Otherwise, no matter how cool this video is, he’s on the bubble. 020
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I haven’t worn a bra since the pandemic. I am well and truly over this shit. All of it. Whatever shit you’re thinking of right now, I’m over. 490
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I (cis-het) grew up in a gay household so I would have zero problem with living with a big old group of aging lesbiankas. I’d love it. I would do this without hesitation. Just leave the world of men behind for a happy home full of love, respect and too many cats. 091
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2026My classes start Monday and I woke up before 6 am this Sunday morning in a state of gleeful frisson. Panic competing with joyful excitement bc of all the stuff I still need to do. Never been so relieved to be wrong. Lead butterflies be gone until this time tomorrow. Happy Saturday!static.klipy.comDr Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) Deep BreathsALT: Dr Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) Deep Breaths 160
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2026This woman was fucking done. “Let’s just start ripping their dicks off. See if that makes these motherfuckers stop and think twice.” 052
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I got all my childhood vaccines several times. At least 4. We moved around a lot and my mother was uh, let’s say “mentally erratic.” She kept losing the records, forgetting the names of the doctors, etc. Back then there were no vaccine exemptions for school. 1/ 280
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Whoa, whoa! Who’s “we” you fucking poltroon? 030
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 21/08/2026How many times a day do you think he mistakenly calls her Ivanka? 050
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Everything you need to understand narcissists right here. 020
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2026My first experience with norovirus. Holy god. Had me praying to a god I don’t believe in last night.static.klipy.comOh No. Not Again!ALT: Oh No. Not Again! 460
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I toss a lot of gray water from the kitchen sink on my aloe vera plants. They love it. But this, this is genius. 041
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Pool party yesterday. I politely passed on the sun-baked homemade ceviche our friends brought. My dude had 3 plates. Beef broth and bread for dinner tonight!static.klipy.comRun DMC Performs "You Be Illin'"ALT: Run DMC Performs "You Be Illin'" 030
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Can someone explain flick cameras to me like I don’t live in an authoritarian police state? 381
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Same guy who stood up from an “assassination attempt” in Butler, PA & defiantly yelled “Fight! Fight! Fight!” hides in a catering cart while spirited out of Turkey like a shivering coward. Sure, Trump. Sure. 021
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I need first to know (before I read their gr-grandmother’s life story and how she carried her cast iron skillet on a wagon from Tennessee to Oregon & learned to make gluten-free gluten from the Arapaho), I need first to know if I have all the fucking ingredients in my pantry, Becky! 140
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 10/08/2026As a USian trying to eat & survive in Yucatan, get the canned Herdez salsa. It’s already cooked before it’s canned, but you can heat it up again to 165 degrees to make sure, then let it cool again before you make guacamole. My recipe is: 1 small can of Herdez salsa roja, 3 medium avos, salt, lime 010
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Is this another group we’ve lost, the AI people? Like we did MAGA. 040
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Ya know what? It’s my fault for having an internet connection 040
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I fear not the Blue Book. Got an A in Russian Lit writing in them for mid-terms & finals. Do you know how hard it is to remember Russian names, Rodion (Rodya, Rodenka, Rodka) Romanovich Raskolnikov, much less spell them correctly? I fucking do. 😂✌️ 240
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026They are laughing at us. Anyone NOT want to vote these fuckers out in November? 030
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2026So ominous I feel like there’s a horror movie in the words: “Wellness Retreat” 120
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I’m only going to say this once. Americans who eat meat get more than enough protein from their normal diet. You do not need to add more on purpose. Or to be healthier or to lose weight. It’s a marketing scam. If you’re worried about protein intake, worry about the developing world, not yourself. 6571255
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This man has definitely 💯 absolutely bitten the head off a chicken. 350
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Why is he an orangutan? A chimp, I’d buy because they’re angry fuckers who will chew your face off, but orangutans are gentle and solitary little guys. A chimp will fling its shit at you which seems far more on brand for Boomers. 251
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2026One of my little pleasures these days is waking up and checking BlueSky before the news and attempting to decipher what international fuck-up Trump has done overnight based only on the context of outraged posts here. 140
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Wife: “I want something simple and functional.” Husband: “I want a castle!” Wife: “Fine. We’ll compromise.” What really bothers me is this not only fails as a house, it fails as a defensive retreat. How do u expect to survive the cannibal apocalypse w all those windows, Sheila?” 340
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I love how he waits for his little buddy at the shoreline. So adorable. And then they swim away together. ❤️❤️ 070
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I’ve got the perfect title for RFK, Jr’s new cooking show: “Roadside Gourmet” 571
jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Can you imagine if someone said this about gun-toting racist rednecks and their mass-shooter kids? 021