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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Honestly think a lot of people just can't come to grips with the idea of a capes show taking these kids of swings. But man, it nailed everyone out of the fucking park.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My wife and I gasped like three times during the confrontation with Guy/"Posterity".

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Overall I agree, but man John's message to Guy rocked me

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

John's message to Guy... Holy. Shit. Lanterns is nearly everythinf I've been pleading for superhero shows to be. Just incredible.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Look, I get why there are folks who don't like Lanterns. The True Detective vibe isn't gonna be for everyone. But I'm sorry guys, this show is a fuckin' gem. If the final episode can stick the landing, I will call the best live action Superhero yet (yes, including over Watchmen).

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

MACDUFF: "Despair thy charm/ And let the angel whom thou still hast served/Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb/Untimely ripp'd!" MACBETH: "...fuck."

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(This was the fifth paralegal she had to fire this year; the firm only has five lawyers.)

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That left my wife with no good candidates. The senior partner told her hire one anyway. The person she hired lasted three weeks, because they were, as she noted, very obviously incompetent.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My wife was recently hiring a paralegal. Only one strong candidate applied. She offered them the position, and they said thanks, and that they needed a couple of days to consider. After one day, the senior partner told her to rescind the offer, as waiting two whole days meant they were "entitled."

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Get you gone, you dwarf! You minimus of hindering knot-grass made! You bead! You f---ing acorn!"

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Answer all questions with anecdotes about my local bar. "I don't know. The school choice thing, it's like how Angie was telling me, they used to put down sawdust on the floor of the Goat and Compass. Soaked up the tobacco spit and vomit." *shakes head* "Not like today, that's for sure."

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Henceforth, the only ethical outreach is going to door and making your neighbors watch the Giant Douche vs Turd Sandwich south park episode.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's been a weird couple of year for me, a guy who whenever he sees "SWE" has to wait a good three minutes before his brain can read it as anything other than "Sex Worker Extraodiaire"

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(Genuinely curious, to be clear! I haven't done much experimenting and I'd be interested if there are more fruitful ways I to approach things.)

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Could you elaborate on this? I've been running a text RPG for six years, and I haven't noticed this. Do you mean in "word trees" in terms of having a more consistent vocabulary? Or in terms of being able to have responses to what players chose to do?

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ok, this is very intriguing! As a GM, I've had lots of non-TTRPG friends tell me that AI must be great for running games. And, not for lack of trying, I've yet to come up with a use case for any of it. What have you had success with Genuinely interested!

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The one thing I'll say for a Vance 2028 run is that no one's memory of him is going to improve with time. Rs will look at him as the guy from the Trump term where everything went to shit, and he'll become W-levels radioactive.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah, had this argument with my fam this weekend, and for me it came down to the fact that Vance may be the only one dumb enough to actually run in 2028. (Vivek Ramaswamy will also try, but will run straight into the wall of being Vivek Ramaswamy)

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Totally baseless extrapolation, but if what we see here stays true and "safe" red seats have less R proportional turnout than in purple/blue, we may be in store for some weird surprises, even if Dems lose a couple close races.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah, Trump has fucked the fundamentals into a place where the status quo is "shit just gets worse for Rs," so instead of just riding this out and taking the L they're gonna try some WaCKy bULlSHiT that will have a ~0% chance of helping but may very well make things even worse still

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Imagine what their other internals look like if the one they chose to release still has them barely within margin of error

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

With 55% somewhat/very negative on Dems lol holy shit

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We also need a new strategy for staying engaged with voters. Cautiously optimistic we'll see more Kat Abughazaleh-esque efforts to build lasting structures.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm also skeptical of how much of the New Deal era success was due to good policy alone. FDR also had an extremely savvy public outreach strategy, and was waaaaaaay more proactive at regulating media than modern Dems seem to have a stomach for so far.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think it's very likely the American public would get there eventually! I just don't want it to take eight years to sink in this time around.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Def true for most of the ones on top. But I've met enough upper-middle folks in national media to know that at least some of them are plagued by the insecurity that they're class-traitors to their middle-America roots, and get a *lot* of validation from anti-woke-scolding.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On the one hand, I'm very skeptical abou this. But on the other, I'm very, very curious if there is a threshold at which a lot of GOP voters look at the likelihood of Ds winning all over the place and just say "what's the point" and don't vote.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Again: NONE of these are reasons to not do M4A. We just need be ready for them now lawmakers don't get cold feet.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We also need to be ready for endless waves of "anonymous former United Health worker gives WSJ an exclusive insider look at all the wasteful spending they now have to accept as the National Debt hits a new high..."

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think there's a good chance many folks laid from health insurers will end up in gov roles! If Dems are smart, they should create some kind of pathway for just that! But there are still going to be *lots* of people for whom that is not going to work, and we should be ready with answers for them.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh absolutely. Almost any maninstream media ghoul looks at layoffs in the name of profits and only has one response.

static.klipy.com

Joker: It's All Part of the Plan

Alt: Heath Ledger's Joker explaining "It's all part of the plan."

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

To be clear, I am in no way saying this is a reason to *not* do M4A. We should do M4A. But we also need to be thinking *now* about how to manage the blowback so we don't get Tea Party 2.0 just in time for 2010's nostalgia to hit.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh, for sure, we should 1000% still do M4A. But we should also start thinking *now* about how we are going to counter-message when sad videos of former BCBS employees leaving their offices with cardboard boxes of their personal effects are playing on cable news for months.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah, even if we put all institutional resistance aside, Medicare for All would put almost a million people working in health insurance industry out of a job, and man are we going to Hear About It

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is there any good data to point to that shows the relationship between a president's approval and the turnout among members of their party during midterms? Or would trying to graph that rely too heavily on shaky exit poll data to be meaningful?

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The LLM Doom/Hype cycle is so bloody exhausting. Everytime I feel mostly settled that it's basically a nifty coding trick, a Very Serious Person says "oh shit no it's real this time guys" and for a week I'm like "fuck am *I* the one in a bubble??" but no it's always cultists and grifters again.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thinking more about it, seems likely this is an attempt to reverse engineer the Sydney Sweeney thing: make an ad that upsets a lot of people, but with enough plausible deniability that the debate makes it viral, the buzz outweigh any negative PR. If so, we're gonna see more of this kinda thing.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For sure, nothing wrong with seeing it differently. A layman could take this photo and have no idea it would upset anyone. But a professional photographer, not just snapping a photo, but staging it? With a creative director and brand manager behind them? And no one raised an alarm? Idk...

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know it would probably reflect changes only of a very small group, but I'd be curious to see how those engagements might key into early indicators of enthusiasm/momentum.

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Honestly I'd be super interested to know how much engagement people have with politics over time, how they engage/disengage. How much time do folks spend reading the news? Talking to friends? If they decide to donate/volunteer, how early and often?

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Me, yesterday: I should just turn off bsky and vote Nov 3 Me, 8:45am today: ID has ~1m RV, ~63% GOP, ~12%D, ~25% Ind. Only ~500k consistently vote in midterms, so in a slightly lower turnout environment for the GOP but Ds turn out at 90%, and 65% of Ind break for Achillies we could expct

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Robert H Jackedson @thatotherjim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Where the streets are narrow and broken down/ But there's a heart in there beating/ And every freak on every street/ Plays out tonight, go see them...

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