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Jacob Serfling

@jserf.bsky.social
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Des Moines resident/MN raised, working towards equitable clean energy transition, dad, Iowa State grad

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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 14h
My 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” 🤣
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 15h
Man, can you imagine how good Aiden Ceilinga would be at football?! #BlueCy
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 15h
Man, can you imagine how good Aiden Ceilinga would be at football?! #BlueCy
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 15h
Just letting him take snaps at QB isn’t feeling like a totally crazy proposition
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h
You 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) $$$.
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 16h
Why don’t the build the whole plane out of Aiden Flora #BlueCy
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 17h
Can’t believe he held onto that!
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Frank A. Spring @frankaspring.bsky.social · 17h
maybe 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
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 17h
Libraries rule
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Des Moines Public Library @desmoineslibrary.bsky.social · 17h
Latin 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?...
Latin Thunder a luchador reads at storytimeLatin Thunder a luchador reads at storytimeLatin Thunder a luchador reads at storytimeLuchador storytimes with Latin Thunder, Monday, October 5 a 4 PM at Central Library and Thursday, October 8 at 6 PM at the East Side Library
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 17h
A double pass AND we might get to leave the hospital tomorrow?! So many unexpected fun developments!
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 02/10/2026
Let'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.
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 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.
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Iowa Legislature - BillBook
Information pertaining to the Iowa Legislature as well as the Executive and Judicial branch in as much as they relate to the legislative branch
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 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.
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They've never had to log in to Teams or Outlook.
over a dozen brown bears at brooks falls waiting for salmon
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Champkin Spice @champychamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Local GOP ads are the Sickos meme, but the Sicko is a “criminal” saying “Ha Ha Ha! Yes!”
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Multiple 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 🤬🤬🤬
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One 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
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
oh hey, an ACTUAL threat to women's sports!
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Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 30/08/2026
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Unscientific 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
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It’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
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It’s a tough life
Dusty the Pomeranian seemingly falling asleep with a squeaky toy in his mouth
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Ok, 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
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Jared Leeper @jaredleeper.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Can we all just pretend Royce White never set foot in Ames?
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Came home to a little evening construction happening by the patio 🕷️🕸️
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
i am very certain that ditching gas is why my oldest didn't develop asthma after being pretty clearly pre-asthmatic
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Not 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_...
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FY28 Budget Savings Calculator
City 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.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Oh 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.
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Maybe 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.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Ha ha I hate it here
From the New York Times:

It is a chaotic scene on the National Mall.
Several hundred people have refused to leave despite an order to evacuate because of severe inclement weather that is approaching. Some are even arguing with Secret Service agents. At one point, a crowd of people began running back toward the stage. An officer is sternly repeating the order over a bullhorn and the crowd is booing. Many have begun chanting "U.S.A., U.S.A." A federal law enforcement officer is trying to assure people that the event has not been canceled. Many are not convinced.
One man walking by blamed the situation on "liberals in the weather service," adding,
"I think this is baloney."
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy July 4th!
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Alex Falcone @alexfalcone.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Trump is treating the economy like he's hoping it'll get a first round draft pick next year
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Jon Green @modestholdings.com · 13/06/2026
What 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.
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It won’t happen, but I’d enjoy watching the Iowa GOP have to keep this infighting going through a convention
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 18/05/2026
I 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.
“One of the things [the BCA] does is it put rods through the bullet holes,” Moriarty said, adding that the bullet went “in-and-out” of Sosa-Celis’ thigh and kept moving. “[The bullet] goes through the front door, it goes through a closet and then the child’s room, it hits and you can see it in the child’s room, bulging. It stopped in the wall. You can see the protrusion there. You can see how dangerous this was.”

A lawyer for one of the residents of this north Minneapolis duplex examines damage, including a bullet hole, to an interior bedroom reportedly sustained Jan. 14 when a federal agent fired his weapon toward a Venezuelan man following an alleged assault outside. The fragment apparently traveled past a portable crib and a mattress in a room where several small children sleep. (Provided)
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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 😂
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Can You Sneak Chocolate Chips From the Pantry? (Gift Article)
A ruling on a dispute over purloined baking ingredients.
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
reminder 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/...
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Of course it was an ethanol guy
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Surely, 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…
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isaac @sevier.io · 06/05/2026
We could have paid for nearly every single person's electricity bill in the U.S. this year instead of dropping bombs on Iranians.
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Arrived 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”
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Let’s go!!! 🐺🏀 #timberwolves
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
In 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.
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Dear lord….we’re considering it
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
On 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
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Listening to my son’s Friday DnD group in the next room and a lot of *choices* have been made regarding character voices 😂
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Librarian by Day 🏳️‍🌈 @librarianbyday.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I 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.
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Jacob Serfling @jserf.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I 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”
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