Jerry
@geraldlombardi.bsky.social
Mostly-retired private sector anthropologist, "overeducated" (Penn, NYU, Chicago), spent years in Brazil and Japan. Once voted for a Communist and a Republican on the same day. I like taking pictures of abandoned road signs.
JD Vance is repeating an old tale.
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
JD Vance is repeating an old tale.
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📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.
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So like… train them… like literally every manufacturing company in the world use to do.
I feel like the first business news site that actually calls out CEOs on this bullshit will make millions on traffic. I get they’re all access whores but c’mon.
fortune.com/2025/11/12/f...
I feel like the first business news site that actually calls out CEOs on this bullshit will make millions on traffic. I get they’re all access whores but c’mon.
fortune.com/2025/11/12/f...
Ford CEO says he has 5,000 open mechanic jobs with 6-figure salaries from the shortage of manually skilled workers: ‘We are in trouble in our country’ | Fortune
“We do not have trade schools. We are not investing in educating a next generation of people,” Jim Farley said.
fortune.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
So like… train them… like literally every manufacturing company in the world use to do.
I feel like the first business news site that actually calls out CEOs on this bullshit will make millions on traffic. I get they’re all access whores but c’mon.
fortune.com/2025/11/12/f...
I feel like the first business news site that actually calls out CEOs on this bullshit will make millions on traffic. I get they’re all access whores but c’mon.
fortune.com/2025/11/12/f...
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Over nearly three years, @mariamelba.bsky.social and I have examined hundreds of fatal domestic violence shootings in TN to understand how often they are committed by someone legally barred from having a gun, and the gaps victims fall through in the system. 2/7
Guns in Dangerous Hands Archives
Tennessee has one of the highest rates of women killed by men in the country. Loose gun laws and weak enforcement make it easier for dangerous people to keep their guns, even if they are barred from h...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Over nearly three years, @mariamelba.bsky.social and I have examined hundreds of fatal domestic violence shootings in TN to understand how often they are committed by someone legally barred from having a gun, and the gaps victims fall through in the system. 2/7
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
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The choice America had in 2024.
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The choice America had in 2024.
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
See? We already have socialism, but it's only for the ultra-rich.
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
See? We already have socialism, but it's only for the ultra-rich.
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"These are not the droids you are looking for"
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"These are not the droids you are looking for"
But of course we can't do it in the US because.... uh.... freedom, I guess?
“Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones.”
South Korea (click the globe)
www.asiae.co.kr/article/2025...
South Korea (click the globe)
www.asiae.co.kr/article/2025...
공공주차장에 태양광 의무 설치해야…기존 주차장도 소급적용 - 아시아경제
올해 11월 말부턴 80면 이상 규모의 공공주차장에는 태양광 발전설비를 의무적으로 설치해야 한다. 신규로 조성되는 주차장은 물론 기존 주차장도 의무설치 대상...
www.asiae.co.kr
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
But of course we can't do it in the US because.... uh.... freedom, I guess?
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You shouldn't use Meta products if you can avoid it, because Meta is an unethical company that makes the world worse. But you particularly shouldn't use Meta's WhatsApp if you care about your privacy. (And you should care about your privacy.) aboutsignal.com/news/whatsap...
WhatsApp’s ‘We see you’ joke sparks global privacy backlash - AboutSignal.com
WhatsApp thought it was making a ‘We see you’ joke on social media, but unintentionally revealed that it really does see a lot about you. Signal, on the other hand, sees nothing.
aboutsignal.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
You shouldn't use Meta products if you can avoid it, because Meta is an unethical company that makes the world worse. But you particularly shouldn't use Meta's WhatsApp if you care about your privacy. (And you should care about your privacy.) aboutsignal.com/news/whatsap...
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It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.
November 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.
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“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
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I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
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“If they need SNAP they should work”.
Most people receiving SNAP are working. Some are working two jobs.
Be angry at the employers who pay such a pittance that people are living below the poverty line.
Be angry at the billionaires hoarding the wealth
Stop blaming the poor.
Most people receiving SNAP are working. Some are working two jobs.
Be angry at the employers who pay such a pittance that people are living below the poverty line.
Be angry at the billionaires hoarding the wealth
Stop blaming the poor.
October 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“If they need SNAP they should work”.
Most people receiving SNAP are working. Some are working two jobs.
Be angry at the employers who pay such a pittance that people are living below the poverty line.
Be angry at the billionaires hoarding the wealth
Stop blaming the poor.
Most people receiving SNAP are working. Some are working two jobs.
Be angry at the employers who pay such a pittance that people are living below the poverty line.
Be angry at the billionaires hoarding the wealth
Stop blaming the poor.
"The working class"
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
October 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"The working class"
The architectural equivalent of hands with 6 fingers. This monstrosity wasn't designed, it was extruded from a list of instructions.
October 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The architectural equivalent of hands with 6 fingers. This monstrosity wasn't designed, it was extruded from a list of instructions.
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Ontario launches the perfect ad. Canadians are true brothers 💙🇨🇦
October 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Ontario launches the perfect ad. Canadians are true brothers 💙🇨🇦
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The AWS outage bricked people's $2,700 smartbeds, leaving them in a reclining position or with the heat up. People were unable to use them, basically. A GitHub repo exists that lets people operate their beds without reliance on the normal infrastructure
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.
www.404media.co
October 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The AWS outage bricked people's $2,700 smartbeds, leaving them in a reclining position or with the heat up. People were unable to use them, basically. A GitHub repo exists that lets people operate their beds without reliance on the normal infrastructure
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...