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virtuallyjack

@virtuallyjack.bsky.social
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I love music, wildlife and paying it forward. I like my politics non-violent and non-fascist. I’m a Sacramento Kings fan and have passed that burden to my children.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 5h
Everyone in politics and media does spooky voice about high corporate taxes and high top marginal rates, and then you look up the period of history where we had that and it's called ~the golden age of capitalism~
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You should prosecute politicians when they break the small laws, because you won’t have the chance later, when they break the big ones.
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Slapping the Beaver
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bird watching bird.
Great Egret on a log staring at a mallard
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joe Walsh Is Right......
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Brain-Rot President shouldn’t be a thing.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Angela Marie Morton @angemmorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Came across an oldie but a goodie in a sketchbook I just used the last page of this afternoon....🖤
A brush pen drawing of a heron standing in shallow water. Art by Angela Marie Morton.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
9/21/26 101 freeway in Encino A free press is the cornerstone of democracy. Silencing it is fascism. PERIOD.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If NFL owners want to censor who performs in stadiums, they shouldn't ask taxpayers to help build them. You can't take public subsidies for stadiums then use them as your personal editorial board. Pay for it all out of your own pocket and hold as many Kid Rock concerts as you want to.
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Important read: The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o...
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Opinion | The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End (Gift Article)
The Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/09/2026
Nailed it as always, sir
Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion column by Peter Navarro, published March 12, 2026, headlined “Iran War Will Lower Energy Prices,” with the subheadline: “The risk of regime violence has long been baked into the global price of oil and gas—and everything else.”
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If Trump wanted to impose more sanctions on Russia, he could do so right now without new legislation. But he doesn’t want to.
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hanging with Herons
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Flying Salmon spotted in the American River - I’m not lion.
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Sex Crazed Salt Shaker of Death @dsmdexter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
nazis winning elections in germany. nazis running the us. nazis making strides in England. It seems like appeasement still doesn't work. But it is hard to stand up to nazis. They might say mean things. And people who already like them might like them more. What do you do. Better hire a consultant...
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I egret to inform you fish, your time is done.
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s heron time!
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
just an otter American River breakfast.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
2:05 pm 2:21 pm @atrupar.com
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/09/2026
The NYT lost the Pulitzer for their transphobic podcast series with Azeen Ghorayshi to Pablo Torre and his reporting on the Clippers. They're salty about it so of course they're not going to properly credit him.
Screenshot of an X (Twitter) post by journalist Julie K. Brown (@jkbjournalist) criticizing coverage by The New York Times and The Athletic.
​The post text reads:
"It is shameful that @nytimes @TheAthletic buried the fact that the biggest punishment in NBA history was the result of an investigation by journalist @PabloTorre. And to call it the result of a 'podcast episode' is a further slap in the face. He won a Pulitzer for this story and they call it an 'episode' instead of, at the outset -- crediting him with exposing this scandal. Really really lame."
​Below the text, the timestamp shows "8:18 AM · Sep 3, 2026 · 32.7K Views".
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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Honestly, you can just assume eating ten as a given and move on. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dilemm... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
2-panel SMBC comic update. The two panels feature the same art, with the text illustrating the contrast between both situations. The art is of one stick person beginning to explain a philosophical dilemma, while the other reacts quickly to the setup. In the first panel - identified as "normal people hearing philosophical dilemmas," the set up is "you have to eat 10 babies, but are guaranteed world peace for -" The reactive characters cuts the other off, saying "what's the matter with you?" In the second panel - identified as "philosophers hearing philosophical dilemmas," the reactive character cuts off the first after "you have to eat 10 babies but," prompting the first character to "get to the interesting part."
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
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The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.
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David W. Pippy @davidwilliampippy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Good morning! On a Halifax Pier photographed in Nova Scotia by Shane Paris.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
one piece of advice i can share as a parent: certain phases can be really tough, but they do pass. around 18 months my son kept demanding that i condemn hasan piker. all day and night too, i was at the end of my rope. now he’s really into fire trucks. it’s always something new
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A Most reluctant subject
Finally snapped a decent photo of a black crowned night heron that usually flies away when I reach for my phone.
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Dave Lack @davelack.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't amplify Enes Dumbass Kanter by reposting his stupid tweets here. Summarize if you must before refuting him, but we certainly don't need to see his tweets here. That's why we don't stay on Twitter.
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Billionaires are faring well on corporate welfare.
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
on.soundcloud.com/NiUbjpa9sawP... Buddy and I mixing some very safe for work tunes live in the American River (no apologies for my lack of skills on the controller).
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Creek Party - Camp Sac 2026
3 hrs of sunny tunes with B2B sets from b.schmitt and Virtuallyjack. Recorded live at Camp Sac's 2nd Annual Daytime Creek Party - off the grid with the signature 6-point floating sound system. #miniwe
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"I have a very glad feeling about this... " #DitchMcConnell
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The Donk @thedonk.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Bombs Iran - pays Iran $300B Sells memecoin for $75 - now worth $2 Endorses candidate - candidate loses "Fixes" reflecting pool - algae blooms, paint peels Goes to Knicks game - Knicks lose Hijacks 250th birthday - no one attends Meddles in World Cup - US loses It's like there's a pattern #ETTD
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🍁Capt.John E. Rock @johnerock.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Awesome 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
You might disagree with Kavanaugh about the constitutionality of high school athlete genital inspections, but you can't deny he's always been very consistent in his support for nonconsensually groping teen girls.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Department of War and the Injustice Department are grosser than gross.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
PSA: If you dip your hand in the Reflecting Pool, you will be arrested and prosecuted. If you do this, Trump will pay you. 👇
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haterofhate62.bsky.social @haterofhate62.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hunter speaks! Dems need to listen. 🙌🔥
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Breaking Sacramento Kings news: Industrial vats of fish grease are arriving at G1C today.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Austria-Argentina is a top-tier "just to be clear, what exactly did your great-grandfather do for work" game
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Dave Lack @davelack.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Can I introduce you to the Iran-Contra Scandal as an example of what conservative administrations will or wont allow?
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virtuallyjack @virtuallyjack.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It’s difficult to negotiate with dementia.
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John @johnbull.wtf · 15/06/2026
Last night while eating at a restaurant my daughter was talking about how she is the only person in the family the listens to country music and the only person in the family that believes in God... To which my son immediately responded... "white girls, am I right?" gdi 😭😭
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