CitizenJer

CitizenJer

@citizenjer.bsky.social

Husband. Father 3X. CI guy. Leftist. Opinions are my own (but backed up by research and common sense).

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Early Red Hot Chili Peppers song: Zeeba greeba zippadee zam Late Red Hot Chili Peppers song: Flip flop flippity hibbidy zam When you’re in California

Comfortably Boo@numb.comfortab.ly

Early Pink Floyd song: This bloke steals Ladys underpants Peculiar innit? Late Pink Floyd song: Life is a slow decay Every day you're One day closer to death.

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It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

Happiness is a warm gun: a Bulletproof (I wish I was) Mystery

DC Pierson@dcpierson.bsky.social

Let’s play a game. In your alternate universe, GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY is named after a different Beatles and Radiohead song, respectively. Quote this with the name of the movie

You could be the most punk rock anti-everything piss-taking shit-talking two chords on a good day cynic , and if you don’t fuck with Rush, I don’t want to know you

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! Triumph (3x) Rush (soon to be 5x) Fishbone Slayer Living Colour Afghan Whigs (2x including 2 nights ago) Ted Leo + Pharmacists (2x) Bad Brains Dinosaur Jr Lord Huron

Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live! • Emerson, Lake & Palmer • Joan Baez • Bette Midler • Sufjan Stevens • Teddy Thompson • Rosemary Clooney • Peggy Lee • Steve & Eydie • Andrea Marcovicci • Marilyn Maye

Five television programmes to get to know me: MTV’s 120 Minutes MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball The Simpson Freaks and Geeks Star Blazers

William Bibbiani@williambibbiani.bsky.social

Five television programmes to get to know me: - Jeopardy! - Sweet/Vicious - Batman: The Animated Series - Star Trek: The Next Generation - Mystery Science Theater 3000

If I am applying via an online form to get a list of quotes or offers for a good or service, I expect an online response, not a ‘thanks for filling out the form, someone will call you shortly.’ If I wanted to speak to someone on the phone, I would have made a call and provided info that way.

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This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

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Nunca creí que los leopardos comerían MI cara

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social

The co-founder of Latinas for Trump is now condemning Trump’s ICE raids: “I’m afraid of someone stopping my son.” “This is not what we voted for.”

They’re reporting that the pilot slightly resembled Tom Hanks and Trump wouldn’t stop telling him “Look at me. I’m the captain now”

HELL Kennedy@helenkennedy.com

Is this real? I don’t know how to look up Air Force One on flightradar

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Some ICE vehicles got taken and a streamer is saying that the entire MPLS city wide battle plan, operational overviews, tactical details and agent lists + id info just got found in the car lmao these clowns driving around with hatchbacks full of their whole shit like the villains in an immersive sim

I feel like I’d be so hyped to be an elected democrat in 2028. Every day you’d have an opportunity to undo some travesty from the previous four years and people would just love you for doing it

Pop Crave@popcrave.com

The Donald Trump administration has removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks. They will be replaced with Donald Trump’s birthday.

I feel like not creating the conditions for the internal recriminations in the first place was a better way to ensure victory next November, but then I’m not beholden to airlines.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse@whitehouse.senate.gov

The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.

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Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

Finally watched Sorcerer for the first time ever and how in the world did this movie not make truckloads (see what I did there) of money? (I actually know how, but come on American viewing public in 1977)

I like how The Six Million Dollar Man began as a drama about a guy who has to overcome the horror of being reengineered as a cyborg and devolved into ‘maybe let’s have him fight Bigfoot or some shit’

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Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

Part of why it’s easy to say ‘I’d be just as upset if a Democratic administration was abusing power in the same way’ - which is an important part of being intellectually consistent that the GOP is incapable of - is because no Democratic admin in my lifetime has ever come close to behaving this way

I feel like we’re starting to fall into a pattern of watching Trump and Elon take L’s all week and then we find out on Friday nights that women are no longer allowed to wear pants and the admin is taking money from entitlement programs to launch a mission to retrieve the US flag from the moon.

Saw Lord Huron in Reno last night (amazing). Very disorienting to go see a band I thought few people had heard of and then discover after the fact that two of my high school aged daughter’s friends were at the same show.

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“After library officials resisted, the DOJ officials departed without resolving the conflict.” One of those sentences that tells you who and where we are as a country in 2025: librarians are braver than law firms and CEOs.

Politico@politico.com

Top congressional leaders are pushing back against Trump’s attempt to replace two Library of Congress leaders.

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Released 48 years ago today "In the City", the debut single by English mod revival / punk rock band The Jam. The Jam - In The City (Electric Circus, Manchester, Aug 1977) #punk #punks #punkrock #modrevival #thejam #inthecity #history #punkrockhistory #otd