Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I just have to vent this out. To the asshole who played music on the flight, except whenever a flight attendant was around: get fucked 000 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This was the spectacular part of it. He clearly and repeatedly warned of Trump then immediately bowed to him. I don't know which was really him. And THAT was really him. 010 0
Reposted by Joel BergerTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 01/07/2026And I mean, in normal times I would say the idea of copying an obviously illegal gambling app would be rather on the nose but we live in hell now 863920 0
Reposted by Joel BergerDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I especially love this diagram. 5248542011 0
Reposted by Joel BergerTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 20/06/2026I definitely would rather *not* experience whatever calamity we very well might but at least the GOP is finally holding the bag when it happens for once. I'm so tired of the "they're better for the economy" myth and would like it to finally die. 30125450 0
Reposted by Joel BergerNick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 05/05/2026Tried to catch the rainbow and lightning photobombed my iPhone shot. #WXsky #ILwx 17984531230 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Happy Pi Day! youtu.be/Dp3IC5CoN2gyoutu.beComputing Pi For Pi Day! YouTube video by Dynamically Typed 000 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I have been in the Facebook system this last year due to my hobby and the fact that it's community organizes there and let me say, it is a complete cesspool of fake and click bait posts, stolen content reposts, troll bait, etc. I hate it there, i can't believe so many people use it 120 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I don't know if you need one @techconnectify.bsky.social but there's a CED player with some Disney disks and a few others in Des Plaines 000 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 04/10/2025@techconnectify.bsky.social I don't suppose you read these but I saw your underwood portable in the frame just now (has that always been there?). I wonder if you'd want to do a progression of typewriter tech? I have a collection with that focus and I live in the NW suburbs. 000 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Seriously our Reichstag Fire is a dork getting carjacked? That was the best they could muster? And we can't figure out how to not? What is going on?! 020 0
Reposted by Joel BergerPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Wouldn't it be nice to have a Congress with any modern history whatsoever at effectively asserting its authority to limit war powers. But that's not a living memory. 785958776 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 28/04/2025New video featuring a really cool Japanese typewriter! youtu.be/B5ZZyh_DWIIyoutu.beA Japanese Typewriter! Can I Fix an Incredible but Frozen 1950s Toshiba Index Typewriter?YouTube video by Dynamically Typed 010 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 21/04/2025I logged in to Twitte ... err ... X for the first time in a long time and, wow. It is unusably slow and searching a local town name the first thing that came up was porn. Doing great Elmo, doing great. 020 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 11/04/2025New typewriter repair video! The very cute Remington Portable 3-Bank youtu.be/pooAhI-NU_Iyoutu.beTreasure in an Orange Crate! Repairing a Tiny 99 Year Old Underwood Portable 3-Bank TypewriterYouTube video by Dynamically Typed 020 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025How is it possible that just one man is being allowed to bring down the entire world economy and perhaps the Pax Americana? Someone stop this! 000 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 30/03/2025I've taken up a hobby of repairing very old typewriters. It's a fun way to use my hands and think mechanically. It wasn't until yesterday that I actually sat down and wrote a letter using one. It was a revelation. 1/x 120 0
Reposted by Joel BergerGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime. 243157604414 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 29/03/2025To quote Ian Malcom: boy do I hate being right all the time fortune.com/2025/03/28/2...fortune.com23andMe says it won permission from a judge to sell customers’ medical and ancestry data. Here’s how to delete yoursDuring bankruptcy 23andMe says, its security regarding genetic data will remain the same, but its privacy policy says these measures can change at will. 073 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Honestly, if house Democrats don't at least introduce articles of impeachment then what are we doing here? 000 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 18/03/2025It seems obvious until you ask yourself, what if they accused you of being an illegal immigrant? How would defend yourself if you weren't given due process to do so? This is why obvious criminals are given trials, it's the only way to ensure that everyone gets a trial. 011 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 09/03/2025If the GOP was really the party that acted to "support our troops" we expect that VA budgets would actually increase under their administrations. Of course that doesn't actually happen as Republicans love military cosplay but actually hate our troops. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u...nytimes.comChaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans AgencyClinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired. With deeper cuts coming, some are warning of potential harms to veterans. 010 0
Reposted by Joel Bergerryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19/02/2025I'm convinced this is right. RFK fans aren't that numerous but they are precisely the kind of gullible low-info dipshits that ordinary campaigns struggle mightily to reach bsky.app/profile/unav... 1977879 0
Reposted by Joel BergerDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Sounds great but I refuse to use it. I am not going to build my own coffin, someone else will have to do that. 93584 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Dear gods he finally did something useful! @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social halp?! 000 0
Reposted by Joel BergerPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people. Identify those people and block and shun them. 332153032836 0
Reposted by Joel BergerGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Think about this and how Fox and the GOP would politicize an Army helicopter crashing into a commercial airplane days after a Black woman president tried to gut air safety & installed the least qualified man ever as Defense Secretary. THAT is the degree to which Dems should politicize this crash. 371825528 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Bennett: The World's Smallest Typewriter From 1911! Will It Type Again? youtu.be/SbGvI2nBwyMyoutu.beBennett: The World's Smallest Typewriter From 1911! Will It Type Again?YouTube video by Dynamically Typed 021 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 13/01/2025So this winter I've taken up a new hobby (obsession?) of buying and fixing up antique typewriters. Well I've made a YouTube channel for it. It finally got my first video live so if you or some other mechanical geek you now is interested take a peek: youtu.be/WqJkPUd_9lEyoutu.beSaving a 100+ Year Old L.C. Smith No. 3 TypewriterYouTube video by Dynamically Typed 000 0
Reposted by Joel BergerRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/01/2025after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that" 323332017985 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 10/01/2025The time-based feed is the only one I'll use. If a site doesn't offer it I don't use that site 041 0
Reposted by Joel BergerNick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 08/01/2025This is the time of year where a good cold snap can freeze the #Chicago river. It takes a sustained blast of sub-freezing air to form photogenic amount of ice, but despite the discomfort it's a spectacular scene to see in person. 1970482 0
Joel Berger @jberger.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Bluesky is getting more real again, I'm getting more and more follows from good looking women with 3 posts. I must be petty interesting 000 0
Reposted by Joel BergerBlack Cat Appreciation Society @michaelgerber.bsky.social · 25/12/2024THIS is what the world should look like. 0193 0
Reposted by Joel BergerNick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 17/12/2024It’s an especially magnificent mile this time of year #Chicago 822520 0
Reposted by Joel BergerGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Land doesn’t vote. Stop pretending it does. 15475824712965 0
Reposted by Joel BergerNick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 08/12/2024Sunrise over the South Loop was a burner this AM 1592275 0
Reposted by Joel Bergercamwing @camw.ing · 05/12/2024In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget. 366110538250 0
Reposted by Joel BergerMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Great piece from @wajali.bsky.social on all the "hypocritical outrage" from the GOP over the Hunter Biden pardon. He brings receipts:thelefthook.substack.comPlease Spare Me All Hypocritical Outrage Over Hunter Biden's PardonThe same movement that supports and celebrates a criminal, vulgarian insurrectionist who pardons his criminal friends now feigns outrage. Here's me playing the world's smallest violin. 17350401080 0
Reposted by Joel BergerAlison Malört @alisonmalort.bsky.social · 21/11/2024It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing. 561209643491 0
Reposted by Joel BergerJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/11/2024Good morning, Bluesky. There is beauty in the world, if you look for it. 495365691698 0
Reposted by Joel BergerNick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 19/11/2024I haven't been out shooting on a rainy night in a while, but today's weather reminded me of this photo. Which then reminded me that damp, dreary days can be just as photogenic as excitingly stormy or snowy ones. #Chicago #Photography 28146878 0
