JamieK

JamieK

@fodder-figure.bsky.social

retired programmer, science nerd, PC gamer.

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Waiting to see what Cornell does, but I expect it will be the minimal effort to kick this can down the road and hope it blows over. All the "men" involved in this situation, from frat boys to college president, need to be punished to finally set a public example of 0 tolerance. Zero.

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"boys will be boys" and "locker room talk" are just excuses for misogyny. America elected a "man" as president who proudly claimed he could sexually assault women because he was famous. And few seemed to care.

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No surprise here .. next Prez needs to freeze all that family's assets and make Trump pay for all the unauthorized damage he has caused. And investigate, charge, convict, imprison.

Sande@sande0724.bsky.social

Donald Trump. Corrupt as hell.

My Uncle passed away. He was the fun Uncle when we were kids and a talented wood carver. Unfortunately will have to be around MAGA voting family for the funeral. Wish me luck .. or better .. patience.

And of course this power was abused ..

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Trump's attacks on our civil liberties didn't come out of nowhere. The groundwork for his Orwellian surveillance state was laid by the post-9/11 PATRIOT Act. Only one Senator at the time had the foresight to see what it would unleash.

Despite the tonnage of shit Trump has dropped on Canada and Canadians .. I fully expect they will honor 9/11 on Friday, because they are a good nation and a good people, and America should never forget that.

Learned new slang ..bought an ebay item and thanked the seller for accepting my offer as it was something I had been wanting, and to please ship ASAP. They responded "say less" .. I thought I had pissed them off. Here it means "I understand". Glad some young folks I know explained that to me :)

This is an oil on canvas painting by my late great Uncle Walter Harwood, dated 1961. He studied at Norman Rockwell's studio in NYC. A woman in my hometown found this in a picker's garbage with a tear. We had it professionally repaired. He did portraits but landscapes were his best IMO.

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This should be another aspect of immediate journalistic inquiry: What has happened to other world leaders who have suffered from similar psychiatric issues in their decompensating end stages? How did that turn out for themselves and the people they govern?

As some point we need to stop being blue states and red states, or black americans or asian americans or hispanic americans. When will we get back to being americans first and differences second? If we don't pull together, surely we'll get pulled apart.

Dudes, stop posting pictures of your workout bod. Working out is great, posting pictures to make yourself feel accomplished is pathetic. The reward is the work itself, not admiring yourself. Go touch some grass or volunteer. Bluesky, me blocking these means stop putting them in my feed. Rant over.

Watching Hail Mary and it's cute that writers think aliens will be the existential crises to the human race .. when it's the human race that will be its own existential crises.

Yet they do sell some rainbow colored items in the shop. They are one of several NFL teams refusing to recognize Pride Month .. because old white men who inherited the family football franchise apparently don't give a shit about others. I posted several times on their FB page asking, no reply.

Just had the realization it's not only the visiting football fans enjoying their visit to America, but America now remembering what it's like to have fun despite all the depression this administration, and specifically this president, have caused.

This white bald announcer for the NBA game is a spineless spinner .. asking for "unity" .. does he care about the colored people rounded up by Trump's ICE?

Been a bit cold in the NE last 2 days .. snow flurries, some accumulation in the mornings .. But this morning there was a heavy dew on the grass and as the sun came up it lit up all those dew droplets on the blades of grass .. 1000s of rainbow droplets of red, blue, yellow, orange ..