rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Yes, he may be dead, but his legacy lives on every time the House shuts down for a month to prevent having to take a vote on a popular but politically tricky policy 030 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There are probably other states with the same problem, but Virginia really does seem disproportionately cursed with "pull the ladder up behind you!" localities. 010 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Tell me you sucked at high school debate without telling me 010 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Fighting the AI apocalypse by responding "Thanks! That worked and I especially appreciate how this solution did not involve killing a bunch of people!" whenever I ask Claude to write an Excel formula 010 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Louis Pasteur: So, you have brought me to the future to show how relevant my work has become? Surely, you have universal adoption of warming up milk and other liquids to kill off bad microbes? Me: Um... so... Louis: What about my groundbreaking rabies vaccination? Me: Welllll..... 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I know WaPo is like what it is now, but it's certainly a move to normalize McConnell's disappearance by referencing John McCain and Dianne Feinstein's absences from the senate before, you know, they *died*. 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Get fucked, Jamie Dimon - while you are a stagnant dinosaur working with Navy SEAL-sized teams (15-18 people), I am an agile titan of business with my Second-Violin-section-of-the-New-York-Philharmonics-sized teams (15-18 people) 011 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I really appreciate how the writers gave us the big boat in the Suez canal as a relatively fun, low-stakes primer to teach us about global trade routes 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Lorelei Gilmore is the platonic ideal of a particular "working class" in she spends a year or two in a service industry job, moves into management, and then is "paycheck-to-paycheck" only in the "40% of my income goes to retirement and saving which leaves me nothing left in my budget!" 210 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One of us speaks only the truth and one of us speaks only lies 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Did they steal FROM the NIH or just steal WITH the NIH? 012 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I drop "Y'all"s in work emails, as there is literally nothing else that works so perfectly to (1) show that we're collegial work buddies! It's a contraction! I only use that with people I like! and (2) completely remove myself from responsibility for whatever stupid thing they are trying to do. 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Is Cleveland near great because he had non-consecutive terms like a certain other president? 110 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This pales in effectiveness to my strategy: an excel workbook with 40 tabs that causes my computer to smoke when I tell it to run calculations 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I suppose since SpaceX and Blue Origin became things, there's now only one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Benito Cereno on my Billy Budd till I White-Jacket 010 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I don't think we should give hearts to the robots 030 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026<extremely sincere youth pastor voice> hey, you know who else cared so much about others that He died? 040 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Yes, I know Prometheus was condemned to eternal torment by the gods for his hubris, but I'm different and better. Maybe even better than the gods themselves 110 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Dems are going to have 67 seats in the Senate after the election, and then they are going to pass the strongest worded censure resolution ever 010 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026There's a crisis of masculinity in this country. Specifically, yelling at old men when you're mad at God, instead of getting together a bunch of guys, getting on an ill-fated ship, and having an ambiguously homoerotic time while hunting the physical embodiment of God's capriciousness toward creation 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Ted Allen: Today contestants, we have a special challenge for you! You will need to cook all of your ingredients to 170 degrees or our judges will get painful diarrhea, but also because of the ongoing heat dome, you will be penalized if you raise the ambient temperature of the kitchen. 120 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Upholding Jeffersonian values today by starting off every meeting with a list of grievances 120 0
Reposted by @rcjacks.bsky.socialAnd-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 14/07/2026or the New Pittburgh Platform Translation: "Yinz, no killin'." 063 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Thinking about staging an intervention for a colleague who has started referring to Thursday as "baby Friday" 010 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 08/07/2026You know what? S56 is probably a cheater, but I respect that they had the humility to not overdo it like most of their classmates. Just the right amount of plausible deniability there 000 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026If Andy Beshear would like to get my vote in the primary, pretty much all he would have to do is go to the hospital with a bouquet of flowers, a get-well card, and an absolute a determination to stay until he was able to give them to Mitch in person 130 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Professions of love: 20 seconds Interpretive Touchdown dance: 2 minutes Singing her hit song "Wood" 7 times in a row: 17 minutes 30 seconds Exchange of rings: 10 seconds someone who is good at marriage please budget this. my wedding coordinator is dying 010 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 06/07/2026So, the ref, who has been accused of corruption in the past, made a questionable call that FIFA (historically v. corrupt) overturned after being called by Trump (lol). 120 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026A long speech, coupled with weather conditions injurious to the health? That's William Henry Harrison-maxxing! 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Great Fire of Rome: Nero immediately using the cleared land to build his new residence, the Domus Aurea (Golden House):: The 250th Anniversary Fireworks Fiasco: ____________ 110 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Imagine having the hubris to try to seize control of one of the world's great manifestations of human flourishing in a post-(Taylor's Version) world. 000 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The US Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision on a solution to the trolley problem 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The reflecting pool is also one of the few things that is emotionally asymmetrical in our favor. While the pool is a mess, Trump clearly finds it distressing and it preoccupies him; if it were fixed tomorrow, most of us would just not think about it again. 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Time to play my favorite game "Can I make it through this meeting about AI without opining that the people most dedicated to AI are mid-career folks trying to leverage short term improvements AI provides to get faster promotions while knowing they'll retire before the bad long term effects happen?" 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026[Captain Ahab voice]: Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! 010 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Seasonal reminder to fellow dads - if someone does this for your kid, you are morally obligated to buy him a beer at the next opportunity. 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Come on! It's not like there's a strait important to oil and gas exports that Cuba has ideal geographic position to obstruct! 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 11/05/2026If someone is keeping a list of things to dismantle once that ol' arc of the moral universe finishes its barrel roll, I've got a candidate for their consideration. 110 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I keep thinking about the scene in Chernobyl where they keep ratcheting up the pressure and removing safeguards under the belief that they have a button that they can always press to shut everything down, which - in a twist of dramatic irony - is the thing that ultimately causes the explosion. 120 0
Reposted by @rcjacks.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 08/05/2026that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it 193080699 0
Reposted by @rcjacks.bsky.socialDavid H. Montgomery @dhmontgomery.com · 06/05/2026This week, Donald Trump asked a child, "You think you could take me in a fight?" So we at @today.yougov.com obviously polled Americans on the topic. Our results:yougovamerica.substack.comPresidential fight clubSurveys about Donald Trump and fights, the 2010s, Spirit Airlines, abortion pills, and short-form video. 1071064198 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 06/05/2026[Guy with an armadillo ranch in financial distress]: Can I also bet on leprosy outbreaks? 032 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Unpopular take, I know, but Comey and everyone else who uses "86" and who is not now or has not recently been employed in the hospitality industry should be prosecuted for stolen valor 010 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026You are going to look like a fool when Mr. Beast releases his latest hit video: “We Opened the Most Questionable Workplace Ever (DON'T TRY THIS)” 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 22/04/2026For future reference, one thing that would make me feel more opposed to gerrymandering would be a representative who actually seemed to care about the district they represent, rather than solely being a +1 for their party's whip count 140 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Glad someone is finally calling out all those charlatans who are looking for easy money and a lavish lifestyle and go into <checks notes> education research 020 0
