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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

For my 50th b'day I made an autobiography just for me (2/3 photos). I made an appendix of year-by-year entertainment that I'm sharing here though... Generally I think our culture drastically over-values entertainment, but it is useful for jogging memory & getting a feel for a year. 3 in comment.

year by list of entertainment: 1975-1981

year by list of entertainment: 1982-1988

year by list of entertainment: 1989-1993

year by list of entertainment: 1994-1998

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Happy #caturday , hope your cat isn't as much of a turd as mine is.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Wish I'd filmed it... Just saw a rabbit use the crosswalk to cross the street!

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I've already spent $10k on editors, cover designers, etc. for my #novel, & made a miniscule fraction in sales, so despite all the problems of #AI, yes I do plan to submit for Apple's free AI #audiobook narration. Maybe later I'll self-record a version, w/ wife who was voice of 90s precursor to Siri.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We've gone from Reagan (R) and the "I don't recall" defense at Iran Contra hearings, to Trump & Friends (R) "I don't know because I never bothered to learn the laws of the land even though that's my job". I think (R) means " regression".

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

When extreme liberals go too far (like $180,000 for street signs in a Native American language), at least their intentions are usually good & hearts usually in the right places. Can't say the same for extreme conservatives (example: basically everything they do, pick anything from Trump/Bush admins)

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A game show where billionaires compete to show empathy. The winner gets to keep their money, losers have to donate 95% to charity chosen by viewers.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It never ceases to amaze me how the "liberal" media grades politicians from different parties by completely different scales. One gets praised if they manage to not start a nuclear war, another gets admonished for wearing an untraditional color of suit.

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Amy Shira Teitel @amyshirateitel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

BRAND NEW VIDEO! This one's been in the works for a while: a true deep-dive into space politics, focussing on the human side because why are we still trying to replicate Apollo? It's nearly two hours long. Enjoy! youtu.be/4FcuV4hvGDM

youtu.be

Why Our Space Dreams Keep Getting Grounded

YouTube video by The Vintage Space

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

8647309, I got it, I got your number on the wall.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Dear President Trump, I am a white African prince seeking asylum. I will give you $5 million dollars in exchange for this asylum, but in order for me to access my funds I'll just need you to wire me a temporary $1 million.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I like to re-use my coffee mug over and over for days on end, pouring fresh coffee on the dried crust of old. My wife decides when I'm done re-using a mug (leaving it soaking in the sink for me to wash). We're the complete opposite w/ the if-it's-yellow-let-it-mellow policy though. I'm the flusher.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

It is no fun being at a town hall where you're not allowed to get up to a microphone to say anything, even when you have an important perspective to add that no one else has mentioned yet, because a few people are hogging the microphone.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Washington DC is now a daily congregation of the type of person who would, with a sadistic glee, chop down a famous historic tree, damage a historic rock formation, or vandalize a 700 yr old famous statue. All the EQ of a toddler throwing a tantrum because a gumball machine gave them green not blue.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Gemini is extremely verbose and won't let me get a word in edgewise.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

In my novel I propose that the partitioning of the USA by political ideology would ultimately result in long-term harm to society, but right now in real life I'm feeling pretty pro-partitioning.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

"basket" of deplorables was a terrible slip up by @hillaryclinton.bsky.social... Way too small of a vessel ... Dumpster of diplorables? Grand Canyon full of deplorables?

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Sketch to image artwork inspired by conservatives who cherry-pick a crime in the news and incorrectly extrapolate it into full blown paranoia that the crime is everywhere.

Cherry-picked paranoia: a paranoid cherry artwork assisted by AI

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The quantity midlife-crisis-mobile sports cars out on Mother's Day today has been off the charts. Is mom impressed?

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I've always loved Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com & right now I'm really appreciating that she has a doctorate but doesn't put a title in her social media username. Dr, phD, or similar titles here seems so pretentious. This isn't LinkedIn. This isn't a professional networking site. Just be a coequal human.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Act local... Just sent this to the mayor of my city asking for an action plan to protect residents if #ICE agents or ICE-imposters (since they typically aren't properly identified) start grabbing residents off the streets.

Letter to mayor...
Mayor (redacted),

I'm writing to ask what (redacted), and the (redacted) police department, have as plans for if improperly identified people, likely wearing face masking objects, start grabbing (redacted) residents, who are doing nothing wrong, off the streets and throwing them into unmarked vehicles, like they have done in Somerville and Worcester. We have no idea whether they are ICE agents or not, and they are likely violating constitutional rights and laws. I would hope that our police department would intervene to protect our residents.

Thanks,

Jeff Reese
(redacted), MA

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

There are many types of #change: change to improve things, change for the sake of change, change to provide evidence of work done to justify one's job, change to make things worse. Over the last 20 years or so, I've been witnessing a lot of change that isn't the improvement kind. Examples:... 🧵

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

We know who the boss shmucks giving the orders are, but who are the ICE agents saying "Yes, boss, sure I'll illegally kidnap people for you"? If pressure from the top down isn't working, maybe it's time to also try from the bottom up.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

There are a lot of unused spaces perfect for capturing renewable energy. Love that this one is starting to be tested.

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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 08/05/2025

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

In happy news: Gretchen Walsh broke the 100 butterfly record this morning in prelims, and Katie Ledecky broke the 800 free WR this evening. Women's swimming continues to be phenomenal!

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I haven't seen a Selsun Blue ad in decades. Did the Selsun Blue tingle turn out to mean it's full of harmful toxic chemicals?

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Weather forecasting has been enshittified to the point that my 2 weather apps disagree on today's high temp by 8 degrees (I think I've seen by more than 10 recently). And on some apps good luck even finding your forecast buried in all those invasive ads. Defunded science, climate change, greed...

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

@netflix.com really lame to promote "The Sinner" when "Sinners" is the movie getting all the buzz. When you're trying to trick your customers, it shows what kind of company you are, beyond the unreasonable price hikes that already make you unlikable.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Please and thank you adds burden to AI and its energy supply. I wonder what my extraneous expletives do, as in "what the fuck is ____" or "who the fuck is _____" or " why the fuck does ____"?

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

If you enjoy watching #Shedeur Sanders drop in the #NFLdraft, the term is "schedeurfreude". (I have nothing against the guy, other than maybe not liking his dad's antics back in the day)

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Bluesky needs a button for all of these actions in a single press: "show less like this" + "mute account" + "hide post". The discover algorithm serves me way too much stuff that I'm painfully obviously not interested in based on past actions here, and doing this manually takes 7 actions every time.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I am an Olympics junkie. Right after Paris 2024 I was excited about LA 2028, but in recent months my enthusiasm has crashed as I realize that LA 2028 will likely be a boycott-fest. A partial USA vs El Salvador?

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Is it nougat? I'll bet it's nougat.

Article headline: astronomers found something very strange at the core of our Milky Way Galaxy.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Are there any Republicans here who could add me to the Signal chat for release dates & times of policies that mess with the economy, so that I can get in on the insider trading too?

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

20 years ago I couldn't imagine a bigger d-bag than a Hummer owner. In recent years I can.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Win % by conference thru 1st round of men's BB tourney (play-in games count losses but not wins): BIG 10: 1.000 (8-0) BIG 12: 0.857 (6-1) BIG EAST: 0.600 (3-2) SEC: 0.571 (8-6) ACC: 0.250 (1-3) huh, SEC not so mighty. Maybe select teams w/ winning conference records???

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I was pretty close... 14 of 16 SEC teams made it. Texas and Oklahoma had 6-12 conference records and made it over more deserving teams. SEC did well vs ACC & Big 12, but not vs Big 10. Guess if you're from an annointed conference, then in-conference performance doesn't matter or serve as weed-out

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I now read vanity mugs that explain the meanings of names in the voice of Ms. Casey from #Severance , changing the start of each description to "Your outie..."

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Anyone have a good list of comedy (human or funny animals) accounts? I'm losing interest in listening to nothing but political preaching (or more like shouting) at the choir.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Cannot wait for the TYR Pro Swim Series Westmont, IL meet to start Thursday (Wednesday if you like distance races)... A lot of big name Olympians entered and should be some good races.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Liberal collaboration is a more altruistic, win-win type. Conservative collaboration is a Darwinian collaboration solely with one's perceived tribe to defeat a perceived enemy tribe, & is practically incapable of functioning without an enemy. It is group competition always w/ a loser.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

1/4 In response to E. Jean Carol's request for ideas on how to save America (for me that means after Trump gone): A) read Puerto Paz, practically a blueprint for a better government in part 5... From it: B) Ranked-Choice Voting first step, need Grover Norquist type pledge from all candidates for RCV

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

My new supervisor is constantly looking over my shoulder.

Cat on top of seatback of office chair, behind its human can-opener

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Moving several weeks worth of work emails into their appropriate project subfolders and all I can think of is #severance macrodata refinement.

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Jefferey J. Reese @puertopaz.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I predict that the NCAA men's basketball selection committee, continuing their infatuation with the SEC & an inbred ranking system, and hoping to avoid the same embarrassment of the supposedly almighty SEC's football performances, will cancel 1st rounds of tournament and do all-SEC sweet 16 instead

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