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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hi, friends. Just now I learned what Alt + PageUp and Alt + PageDn do when I'm working with a spreadsheet, and it has changed my life. (That last clause should really be in all caps.)

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bluesky is not a place where I want to have an argument. It goes no better than the Argument Sketch from Monty Python.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dreams and fragments of memory: I had a dream where I was in a specific building of a certain name. It took me a long time to remember, after I woke up, that I once knew someone who lived there, and that I had been in the building. Decades ago.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Most people react to this as if the poll responses demonstrate stupidity or a sense of superiority. I don't think that's so. I would say, whether I want a factory job or not, if 33 percent of Americans think a factory job would be good for them, it might be good if more factory jobs existed.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you subscribe or want to subscribe to Robert Wright's Nonzero newletter, here's a iink to the article I read today: Always Forget open.substack.com/pub/nonzero/...

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Always Forget

My own personal takeaway from 9/11

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

At my high school, in the 1970s, the social studies teacher regularly brought in guests from fringey political movements. Some were there to spread the ideas favored by the John Birch Society. The Birchers were received politely, but were ridiculous, and our teacher never seemed to take their side.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Is it too late for Maine Republicans to drop Susan Collins from the ballot and replace her with Graham Platner? He seems like the kind of guy they cotton to.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'm deleting a post where I just disparaged a public figure whom I often disagree with. The guy is too easy a target, and other than giving me a moment to vent, the post accomplished nothing positive. I don't want to leave it in anybody's face.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Trying to catch up. Has Trump called out the far-left America-haters who rigged the Iowa Republican primary against his endorsee for governor?

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Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Uh.. www.elciudadano.com/en/hondurasg...

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I know, no kings, but what if we let DJT be King of Alcatraz?

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

The plural of "Kennedy" is not "Kennedy's". At least, not in the English I know. "Kennedys" is commonly used, though I prefer "Kennedies", which follows a general spelling rule.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

If you want more daylight in the evenings during spring and summer, start your evenings earlier. Leave the clocks alone; just shift to an earlier schedule for your daytime activities. Daylight saving time is stupid.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The happiest smug moment of my life was when I, a fifty-something guy, listened to a coworker refer to something he was old enough to remember but maybe I wasn't, and I informed him that I was older than him.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Great happy energy in that half-time show. I wish I knew Spanish.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

"Any more" and "anymore" mean different things, not just spelling variations. There's "I can't take meat loaf anymore," and there's "you can't have any more cookies."

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Catherine O'Hara was a joy to watch in many shows, starting with SCTV.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

First, the United States should acquire the Donbas. Then, Trump can swap it to Denmark for Greenland. Then NATO can build a couple big bases in the new territory of Danish Ukraine.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

We should use Standard Time as our official commonly used time in the United States, all year round. Anyone who likes Daylight Saving Time just needs to arrange for seasonal schedule changes for daylight sensitive stuff. Trying to push everyone into an abrupt shift in their sleep cycle is not smart.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

So, let's not say Trump is Hitler. But he's at least as bad as Nixon. Maybe we should call him Donald Milhous Trump.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

New slogan for Donald Trump: Make America Almost as Great As China

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Saw the word "post-hawk" in a quotation in an on-line story today. Reporter didn't know the phrase and didn't bother to look it up? Or used some auto-transcriber and missed this mistake?

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Even if people don't know what "subjunctive" means, they use it when they need to. Except at NBC News, where I read about "Donald Trump's insistence that Europe does more to defend itself." That seems to say that he's crediting Europe with doing more, but no, that's not what they mean. 1/2

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

dammit (complimentary)

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

A lot of people washing their hands, and plenty of others eager to get bloody. Who will stand for justice?

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It can be hard work just to be a nobody. Being somebody is often harder and riskier, but if you're going to have to work at it one way or the other, at least sometimes you should make yourself be somebody.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

It says here that women are now breaking the glass ceiling to reach the highest level of subservience.

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

How long before humans are bringing coffee to the robots?

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Here's the big kitchen-table issue at my house: Why is there so much crap on the kitchen table? #kitchentable

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I wouldn't say you need to grab torches and pitchforks and march on any billionaires, but you might plan to get to the polls at every opportunity and vote against the billionaires' allies. (To me, that has always meant to vote for Democrats over Republicans.)

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Brokedown Palace @thejerome.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Rip Van Winkle: "So we're not supposed to talk about 'compassionate conservatism' now?"

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