rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The Daniel Tiger "Inside Beach" episode aired in 2012, which means it's been long enough that a four-year-old who watched it then would be starting college this year. 030 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026(potentially laudatory, if morally compromised) 020 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Good thing lockjaw is just a government conspiracy to sell more stainless steel 000 0
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 · 03/10/2026It really did turn out that the America-flag-blue reflecting pond was a load bearing pillar of "it can only good happen" 010 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Also feels likely that they have no clue how to actually approach this since they went straight to the Vatican to try and "wine and dine" the Pope, rather than, say, throwing some pocket change at UChicago to save the Div school and gain influence there 120 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026People are going to be citing this in 30 years when they're arguing for canonization 1140 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sure the national environment is shit and the economy is on fire, but Republicans also went above and beyond picking absolutely atrocious candidates 161 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 · 23/09/2026It's Charlottesville! Where regardless of individual preference, everyone naturally has strong affection for the NFL franchise helmed since 2017 by alumni of the flagship Virginia university [William and Mary] 100 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Oh shit bro, does this mean you're going to vote "present" instead of "aye" in the next Senate confirmation? 0120 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"we're not smart enough to understand technology" is a perfectly accurate and insightful statement from Rick Scott. The problem is that it wasn't followed by "and that's why I'm calling to abolish the Senate." 020 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 · 09/09/2026There are only 4 Stars Hollow residents that are good people: Babette, Brian, Tom the contractor, and Doyle. I will accept that people could make a good faith argument for TJ. Everyone else is going to hell. 011 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"I CAN'T AFFORD to heat my 2-story detached HOUSE because all my money is going to my passion-project of an inn and that is STRESSFUL! So much so that I have to ASK my rich FRIEND for a LOAN, but not so much that I will take on additional CATERING GIGS." 010 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"My kid's exorbitant private school tuition is a LOAN that I will have to PAY BACK to my parents interest-free, which I do thanks to a SAVVY INVESTMENT my father made on my behalf when I was a BABY" 100 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 · 08/09/2026Might have wanted to leave this one in drafts, bud 110 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 · 31/08/2026The prevailing assumption seems to be "lol silly spouses, the video game can't be complex enough to create emotional attachment!" whereas I think the actual contention is "my husband is going to be more emotionally invested in this game than in my Christmas stocking" 010 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 · 23/08/2026#13 in the list holds a professorship named for a man whose fortune was built on enslaved labor, including stealing an invention from one of the laborers, so it feels very on the nose for that professor to have signed this. slavery.princeton.edu/stories/endo...slavery.princeton.eduEndowed Professorships 0132 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Um, out of curiosity, are any of the roads for the race the same as the roads used for the birthday/army tank parade route? 100 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It should be a depiction of the corner bridge in the act of can-opener-ing a truck. Ideally, it should be oversized enough that the monument itself becomes a hazard to large trucks. 020 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 · 07/08/2026It has to be called something inquiring and not obviously advocating for it because if it was named "Let go and let Grok: Using AI to create compelling visuals and messages for children's sermons" the only question would be whether you were mandated to report all the attendees or just the panelists. 020 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 · 29/07/2026Every 20 years or so, someone suggests merging Hampton Roads into one big city, but it's thwarted by the fact that the governments of the cities in question hate each other and would rather the area be reclaimed by the sea than make common cause with one another www.dailypress.com/2002/01/31/l...dailypress.comLEGISLATORS STUDY MERGING CITIES OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS INTO 1The idea of merging the five cities in South Hampton Roads into one bustling metropolis has caught the fancy of some legislators. A Portsmouth Democrat is generating excitement over a proposed study, ... 1141 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 · 29/07/2026If you get two copies you'll have Spider-Mens 010 0
rcjacks.bsky.social @rcjacks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The two cybertruck genders are the Snow's one wrapped in branded matte black that they proudly parked by the road for all of three (3) days before hiding it behind the building, and the standard water stained one with "don't tread on me" plates that is frequently parked at Planet Fitness 020 0
