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Jason Damas

@labelscar.bsky.social
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Digital marketer, former gotcha journalist and record store employee. Love indie rock, gin martinis, urban planning. Opinions are my own. 📍Los Angeles | 🏳️‍🌈

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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 2h
I don’t think Karen Bass was ever very interested in being mayor of Los Angeles or had any intellectual curiosity about the problems the city is facing.
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Peak New England
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'm continually surprised by how childish and unprofessional so many of our city council members are (speaking of Rodriguez, not Raman)
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This commercial for French's Mustard from 1987 is equal parts charming and also kinda unsettling, but what strikes me is the work that went into the absolutely delightful puppetry and practical effects for a *mustard commercial*!! Imagine that today??
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Stanley escaped this racket by opening his own Honeybaked Ham franchise
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Had basically the same experience trying to go to a Bowl show a few weeks ago. Gave up and took an Uber.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Going on record to say that for any company in America given the choice between 1. AI productivity gains mean our 10,000 employees can work 4 days a week. 2. AI productivity gains mean we can layoff 2,000 employees and have 8,000 people work 5 days a week. None will choose option (1).
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a wildly under appreciated point: social security taxes cap out at a very low rate, meaning low and middle income earners pay much more into the system than the highest earners. If SS taxed all income, most of its problems would go away
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I feel like the ones here are DESPERATE
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I still love this show but it lost something when all of the action moved to Mars -- I thought one of the best parts of it was how it was grounded in US politics and social trends but it's largely divorced from that now. I want more of what's happening in Houston and DC!
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Weeds" had a very steep drop-off -- Basically anything after they left Agrestic is rough, but it falls off a cliff after they leave Del Mar
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Weeds" had a very steep drop-off -- Basically anything after they left Agrestic is rough, but it falls off a cliff after they leave Del Mar
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america and people pointing it out are not the cause of it
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026
we are going to have to find an alternative to meta products for local communities and advertising, right now, it’s almost impossible to do any kind of local business or art project without it, but both their rules and support are so arbitrary and capricious that you can’t rely on them
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There also seems to be a third group of Boy Harsher boys who are opting out of it
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It looks like you were really enjoying the mid-2010s
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history
esquire.com
A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It didn’t show that. But I saw that there was a new Ladyhawke single a week or so due to you. Mostly I just see this:
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My friends playlist just got worse :(
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you have that feature turned on, which you do. But unless someone goes directly to your profile (which is fairly buried) it shows up aggregated in the “friends” playlist or in “friends are listening to”
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You could explain existentialism to somebody, or you could just have them walk into a CVS where “more than this“ by Roxy Music is playing 
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have the whole catalog in the Rhino versions, they look so nice together I won’t swap any of them out
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Funny to see the fierce divisions between Swiftie boys and Carly Rae boys under the "Friends are Listening To" section of Apple Music right now
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My spot for one should be coming up any day now 😬
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An obvious villain who isn’t vilified nearly enough by the opposition or the press and this is what happens.
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for
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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"San Franciscans are just a vote away from sending the state’s most relentless and effective legislator to Washington to zero in on universal healthcare, humane immigration policies, protections for the LGBTQ community and preserving democracy from President Donald Trump."
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Canada is maybe the best country. I love Canada so much that when I listen to Sloan I don’t even skip the drummer’s songs.
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Christi👻n Rinc🎃n @christianrincon.com · 28/09/2026
Here is Beshear's complete answer. He's in charge of a state that went for Trump by 31 pts. No one goes under the bus.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...
apricitas.io
AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely scorching endorsement, bringing serious heat for Weiner and against Chan, but a blast furnace at Pelosi for her role in this race and her true reasons for it. Never read an editorial this heated in Chron www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...
sfchronicle.com
Endorsement: Who should replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress? It’s not even a choice
OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.
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Kurchak: The Night Stalker @fodderfigure.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That's the kind of special interest rabbit hole I really love. Something more obvious catches your interest (the strip) and somehow your love for it takes you on increasingly niche adventures (historical societies, local arts) until you find yourself at a Mexican rockabilly party in parking lot.
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah weirdly I think some of the Pratt vote is “anti status quo” and will vote Raman, much like how there are people who voted Obama/Bernie/Trump
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This tweet sums up why I stopped visiting home
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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For anyone unable to access
Bar graph showing how little housing has been build since 1990
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Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New playlist THE BEST OF ADULT CONTEMPORARY 1987-1992 Sincere, mature, and dramatic songs about love A nearly extinct style of music, people are too cynical now 💝 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5S5... ❤️ Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... ❤️‍🩹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Astounding to me any rock critic ever thought this album was bad. We could've had at least another decade of stuff like this if they didn't fuck with Rivers' head by hunting around for a single. Anyways it's not possible to find a riskier guitar solo on a pop record than the one in The Good Life.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy 30th to Pinkerton www.welcometohellworld.com/the-world-ha...
The thing is the realization of just how revelatory Pinkerton was retroactively unlocked things about the Blue Album that I didn't notice within it at the time. 1996 would have been right around when I and almost everyone my age first started getting into emo (which I wrote about here) and the desperate raw emotions and barely held together fraying textures of Pinkerton cast some of the more yearning songs of TBA in a different light. Oh. Ok. Wow. These guys aren't just songwriting and production perfectionists and "nerd chic" hipsters they're also fucking weird and very very very sad. One of them anyway.
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Read that message to the tune of “Steal My Sunshine” by Len
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/09/2026
every time i see tom cotton i think about the fact that he just buys grocery store birthday cakes to eat as a snack. for most people this would be charming. not for this dude.
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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x
The Pope at his crazy as fuck 40th birthday party wearing a tiny sea captain hat, holding a tiny ice cream surrounded by THREE sad looking balloons. He's wearing a blue jacket and jeans with a brown belt and he's got a navy polo shirt on.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
nytimes.com
Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
yeah the 'main' antagonist (Sean Penn/Christmas adventurers) are kinda a bizarre cartoon characters but all the secondary ones (all the paramilitary agents) that he leads are played straight and serious as a heart attack and it really balances out very well.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Weird" was OK, but I really wish someone would call Republican voters what they are: Suckers. These are dumb rubes who fall for the wallet inspector routine over and over again. They spend their last pennies on magic beans because are in the constant thrall of some grifter. Be meaner to them.
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
People in this area knew they were buying a house in view of a theme park
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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 14/09/2026
Do you ever think about how San Francisco basically went through an economic miracle, with multiple years of double-digit growth, and about the only thing they have to show for it is a world-famous housing crisis? Data from fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPAL...
Chart labeled Economy of San Francisco, showing rapid growth from 2011 to 2024. On the right is a chart showing the GDP per year in billions, and percentage change. 
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPALL06075

Year	Billion	% Change
2001	$70	
2002	$68	-3.5%
2003	$68	0.8%
2004	$70	2.0%
2005	$76	8.7%
2006	$81	7.5%
2007	$87	6.3%
2008	$88	1.1%
2009	$88	0.3%
2010	$92	4.6%
2011	$100	8.6%
2012	$112	11.8%
2013	$119	6.7%
2014	$131	10.3%
2015	$144	9.7%
2016	$157	9.2%
2017	$173	10.0%
2018	$189	9.4%
2019	$207	9.6%
2020	$215	3.7%
2021	$250	16.4%
2022	$246	-1.8%
2023	$259	5.3%
2024	$268	3.7%
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"After years of lagging behind the commercial-real estate recovery, malls are outperforming every other property type as more investors conclude that enclosed shopping centers have more staying power than previously understood." www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
wsj.com
Malls Were Left for Dead. Now They Are the Top Performer in Commercial Real Estate.
Mall values jumped 13% in a year, more than doubling commercial-property price gains as malls adapt with new tenants and entertainment.
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Jason Damas @labelscar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I vividly remember going to Newbury Comics to buy TMBG, Ben Folds, and Bis later that afternoon
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