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Me celebrating my heterosexuality.

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I just learned about the straight pride flag from this post and why does it look like jail stripes. 😭

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I had my eye on the job market for new devs in 2019-20, and my impression was that it was already getting tougher by the year.

In the past year, both of our tweenage kids have put ramen in the microwave without water, and the smell lasts a long time. I think it might never go away and I just eventually got used to it.

This is beside the point, but it's amusing to me that "Lonesome Dove" is so far from being a manly man title that it basically refutes their entire premise.

Yeah, that's pretty clearly what they're trying to do. They want to say her father's immigration was fraudulent so that they can claim she never should have been here in the first place. I think TACO is going to come into play, but that's obviously the move they're lining up for him.

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Somebody in the X comments said that the artist is selling the bird for $12k. Good chance Kelly is going to generate more than $3k worth of profits for them by starting a public beef.

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This reminds me of the time @natplants.nature.com liked one of my posts and I told my wife that I'm basically a real botanist now.😆

River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I tried listening to one episode, the one with Sara Imari Walker, because I was reading her book at the time and I wanted to see what she had to say on the show. I had to turn it off when he asked her if she knew about Terrence Howard's ideas.

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As I once explained on Twitter, the path is base (chemistry) => freebasing (cocaine) => basehead (crackhead) => lil b the based god (reclaimed from pejorative epithet) => based meaning cool (aave) => based meaning cool (gamergate) => based meaning antiwoke/racist

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There are a lot of serious crimes that I'm genuinely surprised haven't happened and I only express this to my wife when we're alone in our house. I don't jump on social media and tell 40k followers that it sure would be easy for somebody to do them!

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Jordan Love throwing nothing but 40-yard passes, just like me on NFL2k for the Dreamcast in 1999.

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've been saying for probably a couple of years now that a used-car-salesman-looking white guy from California is obviously going to come in like 12th in the South Carolina primary.

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Jay-Z went through a phase where he would say in his songs that he dumbs his music down for his audience, and he never faced any backlash from any of the his fans who he apparently thought were idiots.

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One of my crank theories is that Podz hate is because he had that stupid hair and he'll get less hate now that he got a haircut. He's lowkey a pretty good basketball player.

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

ET would be cooking up conspiracy theories that the moon is artificial and built by some ancient civilization on Earth.

Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I understand the metaphor that's being made, but an actual cigarette will increase your ability to persist at hard things.

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh, I thought it was odd that Trump mentioned San Diego the other day, because it is not typically one of the top two California cities that most people think of.

Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What if QFT and GR are just kind of bolted together, and there's not a beautiful equation that fits on one line like everybody has been looking for?

Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"America's most elite universities ... Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Cal Tech, Arizona State, and MIT." -- Vice President JD Vance

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Ed @ed3d.net · 08/10/2026

this goes for people who are not "researchers" too never let them see you bleed, don't freak out in public

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

When your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gonna go from "God does not play dice with the universe" to "it's actually so much worse than that" in 100 years.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 07/10/2026

downloaded the photoshop one and i'd like to report my biggest Nevermind of all time

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

getartcraft.com

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I thought Dianne Feinstein was too harsh when she was talking to those Sunrise kids but I guess she was just ahead of her time.

Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We need to get this in front of Yud so that he has to dedicate his life to the idea.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Also: many of those same pundits think they are "data-driven" because they survey voters and conduct focus groups. That's so damn quaint. Trump's wealthiest allies purchased all the largest social media platforms+all the largest mainstream media outlets. Focus groups CANNOT measure those effects.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

what is important is that trump’s secretary of defense is a glorified crossfit influencer that has placed a higher importance on screening men for low testosterone and kicking trans service members out of the military than the normal functions of his job

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Reinventing the university is silly, but I also think he doesn't have a firm grasp on the reasons people go to the gym. "I don't want my muscles to atrophy from working at a desk" is a reason, but just one of many.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Such a good Nobel Prize! Francis Halzen is a great person, and “let’s turn the Antarctic ice sheet into a neutrino detector” is the kind of idea that deserves a Prize if you can pull it off.

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Your first day as a Piston, you gotta walk up to the other team's enforcer and choke him out. It's the only way they'll respect you there."

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Alpha males always be like

The mythology now is that Kobe wasn't a great athlete, he just worked hard and was a master technician. My siblings in Christ, Kobe could 360 dunk in a game. That is athletic freak of nature shit.

Going back and listening to a 30 year old rap album is usually disappointing because there's a better-than-average chance that it has homophobic lyrics that I had forgotten about, even from conscious rappers.

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I was looking for this tweet. I agree with the basic point that Zach is making, but we're specifically talking about a guy who shuts down "shut up and sing" people by pointing to his Harvard poli sci degree, so I don't know

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I'm under the impression that each instance of the chatbot is off whenever it's not actively responding to input.

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of my all time favorite albums.

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Tag yourself. I'm the Packer fan trying to commit suicide by cheese

Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We bought one tray of b52s in 2020 and now I can't count how many we have.

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Jacob @jgsimmerman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I had spent years trying to find something that I read 20 years ago and only vaguely remembered. An LLM found both the original webpage I had read and a forum post about it that I had made at the time and since forgotten about.