Jim Ray @jimray.net · 27/09/2026I also feel like I am losing what's left of my mind when smart people who work in media use Facebook's apps and discourse about it on Twitter as if they have no theory of how media has worked for two decades or agency in the process. 3263
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 04/09/2026Towards the end I was vacillating between South Carolina and Virginia and the final question saved me 120
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 28/08/2026Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express. 0180
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 22/08/2026Well. We had a good run. Quite possibly the greatest return on a $0.99 investment I've ever made, the fidget toy and security blanket that's been ride or die since 2009, doesn't seem to load on iOS 27. RIP Strategery, you were a real one. 130
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 04/08/2026Just deployed this, you should be all set now github.com/bluesky-soci... 090
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 02/08/2026Ugh. The Jack Skellington face is showing up in my coffee grounds already?? It’s barely August! 1391
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 17/07/2026A retired, divorced cybersecurity consultant with a shih tzu? You don’t say… 000
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 13/07/2026Once again, we all owe George Lucas a huge apology for clowning on the idea that a dispute over the taxation of trade routes would engulf a once great republic in turmoil. 1288
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 25/06/2026My contribution to AC discourse: we installed a new heat pump to replace our 15yo forced air split system at the same time we installed 10.5kw of solar. We’ve net exported about 1.7MWh in 2 years. 2100
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 16/06/2026I think about this graf from that McDonald's post probably once a week. 000
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 14/06/2026Exceedingly, perhaps a bit *too*, proud of this plywood sheet-cutting benchtop I put together to fit on my Bora Centipede workbench. Broke down TWENTY SIX full sheets of plywood by myself his weekend thanks to this bad boy 250
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 10/06/2026This summer, I've commissioned a series of portraits of artists and writers important to me, to be completed by a hyper-local artist interested in subsidizing their lavish lifestyle (my older son) 160
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 07/06/2026Incompetence and weaponized cruelty is the hallmark of Trumpism that non ideologues were willing to overlook for the promise of returning to Obama’s economy. Which obviously isn’t working out so well. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m... 130
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 06/06/2026A dear friend took me to “morgue barbecue” (street barbecue next to the morgue in Seoul) and it remains a singular experience 110
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 04/06/2026Was it worth the lost sleep and general disruption to my evening to get a huge unironic thank you and hug this morning? Every damn time. 2110
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 26/05/2026Rest in peace to the last of a generation of greats, American genius Sonny Rollins 021
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 24/05/2026This morning I woke up and our son had brought our ski gear up from the basement and had a list of places in Chile and Australia fit for June skiing. He's bored and funny, I also think he's internalized he's not going to be able to do his favorite sport in 20 years. 050
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 23/05/2026Join me fellow elites as I regale you with an anecdote of this novel gustatory experience, quaffing a local ale produced mere miles from my humble abode. 190
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 20/05/2026It would be a massive failure of democracy if we let AI companies get away with paying residents to just build data centers. The "obvious solution" is strong environmental regulation and if they want to build new capacity make them pay for green infrastructure upgrades. 030
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 16/05/2026I’m in the southern Appalachians, lots of sun in the spring summer fall. Shorter winter days and cold from mid Jan through Feb mean we run a deficit in midwinter but by the end of March we’re back in the green. I’ve got a 10.5kw system, here’s our graph for this year so far 340
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 22/04/2026X, The Everything App, launching custom feeds after Threads ripped it off, but it’s just a few dozen pre-filled topics powered by the temu gpt 3.5 CSAM machine. Nikita’s product genius truly knows no bounds. 140
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 20/04/2026Did the ZOOM ENHANCE thing and it turns out John Ternus is a fellow wide toe box zero drop shoe guy, we are so back 150
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 15/04/2026In an effort to sort this out I was led to this utterly depressing entry 0471
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 06/04/2026Most nights I'm excited to start my shift as short order cook and discover a new random bit of detritus left in the kitchen that will be somewhere between mildly annoying and outright poisonous. 010
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 20/03/2026X, the everything app, commits to bringing about the most boring version of the robot apocalypse: writing 3 bullet points to turn into a blog post that people then ask an AI to summarize in 3 bullet points. More amazing leadership from product genius Nikita Bier. 020
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 13/03/2026This is obviously hilarious coming from literally breitbartdotcom but this is also the exact same take (including capitalization) of your median elite media pundit podcaster or seven-figure substacker still brining in the cesspool that is X, the everything app. 130
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 12/03/2026Love to live in a golden age of scams where family op-sec is a thing. Remember, we could organize our society against this kinda thing but it means a few very wealthy people would be less free to extract as much as they can from us, so we don't! 121
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 10/03/2026"Cool mornings, warm evenings: a study in contrast" (2026, mixed media) 000
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 06/03/2026Emil Michael is pivotal to what's going on with the Defense Department and AI right now and no one covering this seems to think it's germane he's the former Uber exec who literally wanted to surveil journalists covering his transgressions. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o... 130
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 22/02/2026If you see this guy do NOT let him into your home he WILL break something 000
Jim Ray @jimray.net · 22/02/2026Got to meet the great Steve Sando (@ranchogordo.bsky.social) tonight and he’s as wonderful and generous as you would imagine. The team at Cúrate was as incredible as ever. Bean people are truly special. 2160
![Tanya was completely blindsided by this. She was told that she was coming into a meeting to discuss the past season and the next season. She walks in; she sits down. And Tom starts the meeting with, the nature of this meeting has changed. We're letting you go. And told her she was fired and had to get out of her office by 5 ơ'clock.
Can I give you a little bit of background? The Simon family is legendary at CBS News. Her father was a famous Vietnam correspondent and then Bob Simon covered every single war, everywhere in the world throughout his entire career. I was with him in Kuwait during the Gulf War in 1990. We would stand on the roof of the hotel and watch the missiles come in. He taught me how to be a war correspondent. And then Tanya Simon comes in. She's at the broadcast 30 years. There is no respect for that. Get out of the office by five 'clock? What company in the world treats their precious people that way?
[Tears up] Tanya Simon spent her whole childhood waiting for the call that her father was dead, never knowing if she would ever see him again. Her whole childhood. Get out by 5 ơ'clock.
Make of that what you will.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ditsi7667pzlxve5kr63u6c/bafkreiblplja2mhazdtohle324n7tteivxlpvygjwqn2nwtvf3436o2rna)
![From the Wikipedia entry for Squirt (drunk), a brief history of the corporate consolidation the basically defines the latter half of the 20th Century
In 1978, Squirt was sold to Michigan bottler Beverage America. 8! In 1986, Squirt was acquired by A&W. 191 In October 1993 A&W
Beverages was folded into Cadbury Schweppes.
In May 2008, Cadbury Schweppes spun off Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages into an independent company called the Dr Pepper Snapple Group, and renamed itself to Cadbury plc. 10] Dr Pepper/Seven Up still exists as a trademark and brand name as of 2024.]
On July 9, 2018, Keurig acquired the Dr Pepper Snapple Group in an $18.7 billion deal. The combined company was renamed
"Keurig Dr Pepper".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ditsi7667pzlxve5kr63u6c/bafkreiam66zrrpmvj5sphlumcywab3g5jzxewfrs72fg5qu4do4zdjpvru)
![Text exchange with my son
I'm home! [heart emoji reacji]
Your cinnamon rolls were an absolute hit!
Me:
But not bussin'?
Him:
They were Bussin [cry laughing reacji]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ditsi7667pzlxve5kr63u6c/bafkreifuc5gnwj2og4u4ffjtkf5o2zt6nzv5pruraejdbqkrby4od6cnjm)
