Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 14hMy daughter, the only person in Iowa who would meet Caitlin Clark and go “Ok cool, but can she bring Caitlin the hospital therapy dog over here” 🤣 140
Reposted by Jacob SerflingJacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 15hMan, can you imagine how good Aiden Ceilinga would be at football?! #BlueCy 031
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 15hMan, can you imagine how good Aiden Ceilinga would be at football?! #BlueCy 031
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 15hJust letting him take snaps at QB isn’t feeling like a totally crazy proposition 010
Reposted by Jacob SerflingDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 19hYou can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$. 301179348
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 16hWhy don’t the build the whole plane out of Aiden Flora #BlueCy 081
Reposted by Jacob SerflingFrank A. Spring @frankaspring.bsky.social · 17hmaybe a dozen years ago someone on the Fullcast - almost certainly Spencer - described Iowa State‘s general vibe as ”I ain’t going back to jail”. It’s three coaches and a generation later and by god it’s still true 062
Reposted by Jacob SerflingDes Moines Public Library @desmoineslibrary.bsky.social · 17hLatin Thunder has been visiting DMPL locations for Luchador storytimes for Hispanic Heritage Month! He will be visiting Central Library and the East Side Library next week, so there are still two opportunities to participate in this fun program! www.dmpl.org/events/list?... 041
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 17hA double pass AND we might get to leave the hospital tomorrow?! So many unexpected fun developments! 010
Reposted by Jacob SerflingKevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 02/10/2026Let's install two-way heat pumps, not one-way air conditioners: Reduce pollution by displacing fossil-fueled heat while adding AC that may save lives during the next heatwave. 2396
Reposted by Jacob SerflingLaura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Iowa legislature is in special session today to consider an incentives package for a large steel mill project. Bill text: www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/... I'm watching from home, as I tested positive for COVID on Wednesday (get your booster if you haven't already!) Will post updates.legis.iowa.govIowa Legislature - BillBookInformation pertaining to the Iowa Legislature as well as the Executive and Judicial branch in as much as they relate to the legislative branch 11203
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The best neighbor I’ve ever had was a retired farmer whose wife had wanted to move into the city to be closer to the kids. Literally just wandered the neighborhood seeing if people had little projects they’d like help with or offering to hit their lawn with his riding mower. 181
Reposted by Jacob SerflingDan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They've never had to log in to Teams or Outlook. 49116
Reposted by Jacob SerflingChampkin Spice @champychamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Local GOP ads are the Sickos meme, but the Sicko is a “criminal” saying “Ha Ha Ha! Yes!” 002
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Multiple rounds of calls and emails this morning because the kid who beat up our daughter’s friend and apparently has some crazy white supremacist dad is just back in school less than a week later 🤬🤬🤬 320
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026One kid from Mich. State going overboard chasing a loose ball off an aircraft carrier in 2011 would have been worth it to stop escalating stunt game locations in their tracks 000
Reposted by Jacob SerflingMatt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026oh hey, an ACTUAL threat to women's sports! 2489140
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Unscientific and I live in a lib-y corner of Des Moines, but the Sand signs are really proliferating in a way and in front of houses I can’t remember happening before, even 2018 020
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026It’s so funny that Zach Nunn had to put an AI “corporate fat cat” in his ads because any real person they’d show is probably a donor to him or the GOP that he can’t afford to offend 020
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Ok, but the whole chapter that’s just inaccurately defining and categorizing whales is basically what you’d get from an AI prompt asking for that 000
Reposted by Jacob SerflingJared Leeper @jaredleeper.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Can we all just pretend Royce White never set foot in Ames? 3234
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Came home to a little evening construction happening by the patio 🕷️🕸️ 130
Reposted by Jacob Serflingjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026i am very certain that ditching gas is why my oldest didn't develop asthma after being pretty clearly pre-asthmatic 1144875806
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Not just Washington. The Iowa legislature’s infinite wisdom has my city council sending out this tool/survey essentially saying “Either stop crying to us about cutting library hours or figure out your own plan if your so smart” #Iowa #DesMoines www.dsm.city/news_detail_...dsm.cityFY28 Budget Savings CalculatorCity of Des Moines residents and property taxpayers are encouraged to complete this budget exercise to help solve a 12 million dollar budget defict in FY28 due to State legislative changes. 240
Reposted by Jacob SerflingCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Oh boy did I call this one. He had to start early on the "They Canceled Me" tour because they took the Senate seat from him. Here comes the book and the podcast and the speaking tour and panel spots on cable news. 111328
Reposted by Jacob SerflingAmos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Maybe the solution to the male loneliness crisis is working in an NBA front office. Imagine coordinating a six team trade. So many phone calls with your dudes naming some guys. 1370088
Reposted by Jacob SerflingLinda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Ha ha I hate it here 626110782094
Reposted by Jacob SerflingAlex Falcone @alexfalcone.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Trump is treating the economy like he's hoping it'll get a first round draft pick next year 5598
Reposted by Jacob SerflingJon Green @modestholdings.com · 13/06/2026What this all boils down to – why we will win – is utter insecurity. "We must use the power of the state to defend our culture," uh, no, it's a marketplace of ideas, and yours suck. Sorry not sorry. 3469
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026It won’t happen, but I’d enjoy watching the Iowa GOP have to keep this infighting going through a convention 030
Reposted by Jacob SerflingDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 18/05/2026I don't know how much it broke through to people who weren't on the ground in the Twin Cities during Metro Surge, but ICE agents were so horned up for violence that they did shit like shoot through closed doors and into childrens' bedrooms. It was all a power fantasy come to life for them. 9610281
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 14/05/2026@hodgman.bsky.social Hy-Vee is open 24/7 so be careful what you ask for vis-à-vis documenting a boxer-clad chocolate chip run 😂nytimes.comCan You Sneak Chocolate Chips From the Pantry? (Gift Article)A ruling on a dispute over purloined baking ingredients. 000
Reposted by Jacob SerflingYell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 13/05/2026reminder that one of the most promising emerging treatments for glioblastoma, the most lethal of all cancers, is customized MRNA vaccines, which HHS under Trump now refuses to fund: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 91088359
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Surely, I thought as a child, someone besides Noah would have caught on that they were doing the wrong thing and started heading to higher ground… 020
Reposted by Jacob Serflingisaac @sevier.io · 06/05/2026We could have paid for nearly every single person's electricity bill in the U.S. this year instead of dropping bombs on Iranians. 428279
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Arrived at the house today and was paid the highest compliment of our 12yo: “I will read this all tonight, my library books will have to wait” 0184
Reposted by Jacob SerflingMatt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again. 9879922743
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026On a lighter note, highlight of my night was our son texting us at a dinner party about his research on whether are allowed to own swords and their cost relative to other potential birthday gifts 230
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Listening to my son’s Friday DnD group in the next room and a lot of *choices* have been made regarding character voices 😂 010
Reposted by Jacob SerflingLibrarian by Day 🏳️🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I have never been so furious listening to an NPR program that I normally enjoy (Up First @ayesharascoe.bsky.social). To go to the 2nd largest city in Iowa and interview a gay couple to frame the GUTTING of public schools as "choice" and "free market" by Cory Turner is lazy at best. 132
Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I really think this has it’s roots in Rotten Tomatoes popularizing the conflation of great or well-reviewed with “at least OK to the widest breadth of people” 020