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Jim Luther

@jimluther.bsky.social
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Retired Apple software engineer. I used to polish, refine and fix things, and sometimes I created completely new things. Many ancestors and relatives were/are lawyers, so the law interests me.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 26/08/2026
feels-good-man.bmp www.reddit.com/r/PlaydateCo...
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Playdate Tariff Refund- Massive respect for Panic!
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This is also what I see from @knkx.org here in the Pacific NW - lots of community involvement.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
@msnowevents.bsky.social live stream, waiting for Trump's name to be removed from Kennedy Center: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm...
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Anyway please donate to your local station. For real.
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I want a bumper sticker that says, “Rex Tillerson Was Right”. IYKYK
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I’d heard other stories on prediction markets that made me suspect they were a scam. OTM’s story this week confirmed my suspicions. They have little regulation and are very susceptible to fraud.
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
This shows why the 60 Minutes segment (that was pulled) should have been aired.
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I donate to KNKX monthly, but still donated again for this drive. News, music, and community support.
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
@annabower.bsky.social www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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No, DOGE Isn't Dead | On the Media | WNYC Studios
Late last month, Reuters reported that DOGE had “disbanded.” 
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
@moceanworker.bsky.social Hey Adam, with your family’s deep involvement in the music industry and your personal experience with music and podcasting, you might enjoy listening to this episode from @onthemedia.bsky.social www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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Bullseye's Jesse Thorn on Surviving in the Podcasting Industry | On the Media | WNYC Studios
This month marks 25 years of Bullseye
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#nokings Bothell WA
Many more than the last No Kings and there were 3 or 4 more locations than last time within a mile or two!
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
What’s your sign? (software architecture)
"Don't worry, it'll be fine. We can totally make this work... after everyone above us fixes their stuff...
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Hey, look what New York Public Radio is doing!
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
How close we are to repeating history.
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Look at the cool coffee mug you can get for being a sustaining member of @onthemedia.bsky.social (WNYC). This is in addition to my sustaining memberships at my home stations, KNKX and KUOW on the other side of the country.
WNYC “Public Radio Nerd” coffee mug
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Gary Larson predicted this in The Far Side years ago. www.npr.org/2025/08/09/g...
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Texas big game hunter killed while stalking African Cape buffalo
Asher Watkins had been tracking a cape buffalo for the kill when the animal instead turned its attack on the hunter.
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Yet another great show with two interesting stories. I’ve changed my periodic one time contributions to a monthly contribution because this is one podcast I’d really miss if it went away. You can too at pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm
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I just supported New York Public Radio! Join me!
Visit nypublicradio.org/join
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
We are sustaining members at both of our local NPR stations (KNKX and KUOW) and I just bumped up our monthly donation. I also have donated to @onthemedia.bsky.social at WNYC. If you can, this is the time to help out the station(s) you listen to or watch.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Tons of my colleagues at @americanprogress.bsky.social undertook the Herculean task of creating a timeline for when various parts of the "big beautiful bill" begin and when various temporary provisions end. You can read it here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Implementation Timeline of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
An overview of when the cuts to basic needs programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, and student loans and other provisions in the Republicans’ OBBBA go into effect.
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This is like assigning a beginning software engineer to do the work of an experienced engineer with the experienced engineer checking all of the code written. Good code reviews can take almost as much time as writing the code.
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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
You can also adopt a station to donate to and you can see how much revenue they are losing: adoptastation.org
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Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
When you get a message from a scammer at medicare.gov 🤦‍♂️
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
🧵 To make this more concrete: don't assume Trump himself knows what he is going to do next in in the Israel-Iran conflict. He definitely doesn't want to get the US involved in a major war in the Middle East (that much he's been clear on). But he loves to bomb and look tough. 1/
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Bothell, WA. It’s a 3-way intersection and it looks like this in all directions - both sides of the street.
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Michael Fischer @cal-bichael.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Homeland Security's (sic) Noem on why armed troops are in LA: "We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership ...." Noem obviously believes in military might over democratic elections and thus is unfit for her office.
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I waved at Muhammad Ali and he shook his fists back at me.
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
When we got the Seattle Times this morning, we expected the story of the National Guard being sent to L.A. to be front page, not page 4.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it
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What Are People Still Doing on X?
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
‘no principle, even his racism, overrides his desire for gifts—and this may leave the true racists “so disappointed.”’
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The scale of the alleged corruption is staggering - here is the total value of the most serious alleged direct benefit to past presidents or family members as compiled by o3.
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Adam Dorn aka Mocean Worker @moceanworker.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
When my good friends steven wolf and steve Jenkins decide to help the kids……..
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This Is Your Social Safety Net on DOGE www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/13/t...
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This Is Your Social Safety Net on DOGE - emptywheel
Not our Social Security, not our mail delivery, not a single government service should end up becoming a pricey-to-us privatized profit center for billionaires.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
guy loves a chart, hates a trade deficit susie wiles, for the sake of the country, get this man a little chart that shows the trade deficit disappearing and let’s be on our way
Trump Says Tariffs Will Stay Until Trade Deficit Disappears The president said he would not quickly reverse last weeks steep tariffs, which have sparked pushback and roiled markets.
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
@booker.senate.gov Go Cory Go!
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I was told the “too many guns” problem was actually a mental health problem. Were they lying to me? www.npr.org/2025/03/27/n...
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Trump team revokes $11 billion in funding for addiction, mental health care
The Trump administration says it hopes to save $11.4 billion by freezing and revoking COVID-era grants. Addiction experts say clawing back the federal funding is risky and could put patients at risk.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Pete Hegseth in 2016: "If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton, they would be in jail right now... because the assumption is in the intelligence community, if you are using unclassified means, there is the potential for and likelihood that foreign governments are targeting those accounts."
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’ve written to both of my Senators, @cantwell.senate.gov and @murray.senate.gov to encourage them to vote NO on the Republican CR. They need to ignore the leader of retreat @schumer.senate.gov Let the Republicans own any shutdown.
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Jim Luther @jimluther.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
@kenwhite.bsky.social Listen to DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar fail to answer direct questions. www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n... Michel Martin finally has to cut the nonsense off.
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DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations
NPR speaks with Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar about the arrest of a student protest leader and the Trump administration's ramped-up deportations of immigrants.
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