PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Donald Trump promising payment later on for work done now, what do you think will happen 040
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A smarter person than me once joked that his default facial expression is that of a dog being shown a card trick 010
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026He looks like he invented the Klingon word for negging 000
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“By the authority vested in me, Canute the Great, I announce that since the Sea very greatly has not resisted my Overlordship with impunity, I command my Subjects that high tide is now to be referred to as ‘Low Tide,’ a term I just thought of. Thank you for your attention to this matter.” 011
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I found it really interesting, and these are definitely people from whom you don’t often read first-person accounts: www.portfoliosofthepoor.comportfoliosofthepoor.com 000
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There’s a book called Portfolios of the Poor that interviewed people living below the poverty line in India, Bangladesh, and South Africa and had them track their spending/saving. The poorest of the poor know exactly what money is and strategize around their financial situation in great detail. 120
Reposted by PJ Riedertaber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there 72566217
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I would pay money to watch any trio of these muscular Christians try to change a car tire 1280
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“In a lot of ways, second-and-10 is first-and-10 to me, eh?” 000
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The worst bet of the last ten years is always “It can’t get dumber” 030
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So many forensic accountants!They need snappy uniforms, possibly featuring green eyeshades 040
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Make sure you have warm socks for when you have to give your dropping-out-of-the-race speech in the New Hampshire snow 010
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026And not that Donny Helicopter cares, but the GW Parkway is a really busy road, not sure what the alternatives are if they shut it down in both directions. 120
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Surely there are many secure military installations on busy public roads within sight of two busy tourist attractions. 1727526
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Seven working papers Six best sellers Five! Weird sex cults! 1113
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“That’s too realistic. Can you make it look like it was 3D printed out of rabbit shit? Great!” 000
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026For more information on whether he’s dumb or just pretending to be dumb, please see Kurt Vonnegut, “Mother Night” 010
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026They might want to start being really nice to the people who will be the paid security for this sooner rather than later. Learn their kids’ names! Pay for college! (Still probably won’t work) (also they won’t do it) 080
Reposted by PJ RiederAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown. 352484739
Reposted by PJ RiederAlex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Reporter: You haven’t heard her name until now. She’s only seventeen years old. But White House intern Crespa Blumbo has been in charge of all nuclear missiles for the last two years and she just ordered the military to enact Project Acheron 553465509
Reposted by PJ RiederJohn Skonieczny @johnnyskins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Thank you President Trump for visiting the great state of Minnesota on primary night!!! 28615
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Remember all those times you needed to bake something for 30 minutes but forgot to set the timer until 1-5 minutes later? Let’s enjoy those together 000
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“The women I love to hate on social media are really at fault here.” 1140
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Someone in front of Union Station, DC: „In England they are building a complete mini-model of the USA. It is NOT TO SCALE.” 000
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I am interested in what they think the mechanism is to get ~0% of 80,000 global oncologists to talk about a cancer breakthrough. 020
Reposted by PJ RiederSam @samd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...secure.actblue.comDonate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymanderingThese are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races 481561557
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Born on third base and he thinks he just ran a sub-2-hour marathon and won the French Open 050
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Of all the possible Mike Love/John Phillips collaborations, it’s way better than a potential and horrific meditation/sex cult 050
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The people who had no problems with Reagan and GWB have opinions about politics! 070
Reposted by PJ RiederFinal Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out 4643041438
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 19/07/2026When people complained about the Turnpike, my Perth Amboy–born father would always say, “Yes, New York City should really have to build plants to make all the gasoline it uses” 020
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 19/07/2026My experience living in rural NY and doing roadside cleanup is that Bud Light and Busch Lite run neck-and-neck as the preferred brands of people who throw their cans out the window of their cars 020
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 17/07/2026You come off like a fucking creep. If that’s of concern to you. 050
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Fucked that there are a million songs about love but only one about The Replacements by They Might Be Giants. 130
Reposted by PJ Rieder𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11/07/2026We‘re one executive order away from a chocolate fountain. 2012169183375
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Not pictured: the fence around Lafayette Park, and whatever is happening behind it 010
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Monty Python is also full of super-specific contemporary political and cultural satire that time and distance has just turned into more weirdness 010
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 08/07/2026There should be a different colored checkmark awarded if you listened to Tom Lehrer, the First Family LPs, David Frye, the Smothers Brothers, or the Firesign Theater (not even a little high) as an actual child 10-30 years after their sell-by date. The biohazard symbol would work. 4530
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Surely the New England prep school-to-mercenary pipeline has a few other Men of the People they can conjure up. It’s not like they have to work. 000
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 28/06/2026As a ten-year-old I played 3 innings of a 200-inning baseball game. I think it must have included every Little League, school, and adult team in the county… 000
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I’m still confused about the exact role of the Lib Dems, perhaps they need a fanciful costume as well 010
PJ Rieder @pjrieder.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Make it shaped like a hammer and also weighing as much as a hammer and I’m in 040
Reposted by PJ Rieder𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Breaking Bilbo Better Call Smaug David Simon presents "The Shire" Valar & Mordor: Special Hobbits Unit "Say my name." "M-M-Mithrandir. Lathspell, I name you." "You're goddamn right." 7718
Reposted by PJ RiederLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Their new girlfriend is women 1517198873114
