JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 19hFirst paragraph made me say "Ew", second paragraph made me think the authors are just living on a different planet? 000
Reposted by JPLShabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 12/10/2026She condemned the Biden U.S. arms deal with Israel, and as retaliation the Biden administration opened an investigation against her. The Trump administration is actually piggybacking off that Democratic investigation. Both parties are cesspools of Islamophobia. 11178413
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I started looking at projectors recently and, having been out of this market for a couple of decades, I was unprepared for how much modern receivers are just very fancy DACs. 110
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Gavin Newsom's favorite things to do are to give more money to billionaires, and to steal things from homeless people and burn them. 001
Reposted by JPLJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026He used his IRA account to buy private paypal shares below their value at like $0.001 per share, staying under the $2000 annual contribution limit AND making his taxable income less than the $110k IRA restriction. You, a regular person, cannot do this 26718
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 10/10/2026For anyone who doesn't know, chiropractic neck manipulation causes strokes in young people. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 010
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I think I was 14 when my English teacher assigned us The Sound of Waves. Good ass book. 000
Reposted by JPLgrapesmoker @grapesmoker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026actually having a bunch of rich assholes decide everything is antithetical to democracy. it is incompatible with it, and if allowed to continue, it will destroy it. we have to be able to just stand up and say that, in any context 082
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Did this person just not read the book or do they have some sort of brain damage? Many things in this world are contestable but the title is not ironic. 000
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is funny to me because one of the arguments constantly made against the welfare state (and indeed one of the O.G. arguments against democracy itself) is that people will bankrupt the government by voting themselves free money. As it turns out, no they won't. 000
Reposted by JPLrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026people are saying maybe the cornell case leads to the end of campus greek life. which feels daunting but plausible. my preference though would be the end of ivy league universities & everyone whose degree is from one of them has to wear a dunce cap until they've officially proven they aren't a shit 1667566
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 04/10/2026is 3. because both Fiume and Shandong were issues at the Paris Peace Conference, ultimately leading to the May 4th Movement and thus the CPC? I remember you posting about this a while ago but can't find the original and have forgotten the details. 100
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 04/10/2026By 2031 the dream of generations of French patriots will finally have been fulfilled. 030
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think politicians with hair like that top out at statewide elections, like John Edwards and Rick Perry. 070
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I went to one philosophy club meeting in undergrad. The topic was "what is art?" and this was the first slide. Everyone who spoke agreed it wasn't. Even the professors didn't take the other side. I didn't say anything because I hadn't really collected my thoughts into an argument. 000
Reposted by JPLhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Look obviously a lil guy in a room with a bunch of lookup tables in a language he can't understand doesn't form a sentient system, but if the lil guy speaks Chinese? hot damn then maybe we're onto something 749517
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not many people know that he was on the boards when Jimmy Rogers laid down Blue Yodel #8. 120
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I imagine the prospect of being drafted brought a lot of mental clarity 000
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Maybe I'm just built different but my mind can comprehend this quite easily. 000
Reposted by JPLmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The reality is that there is no non-violent way to non-consensually end a healthy human being's life. The effort spent to fool death penalty advocates into thinking they are participating in something clean and surgical makes an already barbaric spectacle disgustingly hypocritical as well. 439752
Reposted by JPLJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... 11646951166
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Such a funny contrast. Nader has done more for the average American than almost every member of Congress. 001
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a conservative org so they have to pretend that they don't understand the difference. 030
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You're in luck www.americansurveycenter.org/significant-...americansurveycenter.orgYoung Women Are the Most Likely to Believe that Men Are at the Root of Their ProblemsYoung women are unique in their perceptions of gender discrimination in American society. More than two-thirds of young women believe that women face “a lot” of discrimination in American society. Few... 370
Reposted by JPLLiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yeah, I don't think we're going to find a more succinct formula than this about what is & what isn't free speech: "Whatever comes from the top down is freedom. Whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship" 16016
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Reminds me of explaining to my advisor that the vanity press that emailed him was not related to Springer even though they both had "Verlag" in their names. 010
Reposted by JPLMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026"When my guests come over, it’s gonna be like BLAMMO! Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, assholes. Guess what season it is—fucking fall. There’s a nip in the air, and my house is full of mutant fucking squash." buff.ly/pykYN6fbuff.lyIt’s Decorative Gourd Season, MotherfuckersFor the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads. 10364116
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Glenn has always been a weepy motherfucker. There are compilation videos of him crying on his Fox show from 2009. 000
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I took my 9 year old to a pediatric dentist for a filling and was told he needed multiple crowns. We obviously found a different dentist. To subject a child to an unnecessary procedure like that should incur a jail sentence. 120
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's so weird to me that all the stories about him are like "this guy is trying to live forever" instead of "this guy is just another supplement swindler". 010
Reposted by JPLKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026This is surprising and welcomed news 4773111
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Anyone who interacts with a school principal knows that they have an incredibly demanding, incredibly stressful, thankless job. Demanding a meeting with my child's principal when it's too late to do anything and bullying them until they cry is utterly incomprehensible to me. 000
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 21/09/2026They don't have homework in the honors classes at my kids mostly white middle school and I think our whole family is grateful for it. 110
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Also the obsession with homework is bizarre? She acknowledges that there's no evidence that it helps students and just throws in a totally unsupported assertion that it would have helped her daughter. 110
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I understand that they were very difficult weeks for everyone involved but as adults we should be the ones maintaining perspective. There was clearly no serious educational deficiency here or she wouldn't have caught up so quickly. 100
JPL @teknonym.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Read the NHJ piece and, while I think I agree with her in the broad strokes I find the details a bit baffling. The core of the whole piece, the key evidence of educational failure, is that her daughter struggled at the start of high school. But that's all over in a few weeks. 100
