Jake Berg
@jacobsberg.bsky.social
Libraries. Beer. DC. You always go to the show.
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Jake Berg
@jacobsberg.bsky.social
· Dec 30
Beer and Music, Music and Beer, 2024
The third to last and second to last sentences I wrote on this site were, "Next year is an election year, it's going to be bad. Here's hopin...
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Good morning, here's the music I listened to and the beers I drank in 2024.
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[marc cohn voice]
🎶 working in sweatpants
🎶 working in sweatpants
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
[marc cohn voice]
🎶 working in sweatpants
🎶 working in sweatpants
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To simply give it would undermine the efficiencies of the free market. They should hold an auction for the bomb.
November 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
To simply give it would undermine the efficiencies of the free market. They should hold an auction for the bomb.
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look i think if your bomb ends up being uxo in lebanon it belongs to lebanon now
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
look i think if your bomb ends up being uxo in lebanon it belongs to lebanon now
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What is the farthest north and south you have ever been?
NORTH: somewhere north of Reykjavik, Iceland
SOUTH: Fjordland, New Zealand
NORTH: somewhere north of Reykjavik, Iceland
SOUTH: Fjordland, New Zealand
What is the farthest north and south you have ever been?
NORTH: Berlin, Germany
SOUTH: Olongapo, Philippines
NORTH: Berlin, Germany
SOUTH: Olongapo, Philippines
What is the farthest north and south you have ever been?
NORTH: Calgary, Alberta
SOUTH: Sydney, Australia
NORTH: Calgary, Alberta
SOUTH: Sydney, Australia
December 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
What is the farthest north and south you have ever been?
NORTH: somewhere north of Reykjavik, Iceland
SOUTH: Fjordland, New Zealand
NORTH: somewhere north of Reykjavik, Iceland
SOUTH: Fjordland, New Zealand
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I knew it was going to be a grad student or an adjunct. And because grad students and adjuncts are cheap and easy to replace, they're the front line in the student-as-customer model of higher ed. Unhappy customer? Sacrifice a lowly TA or adjunct, problem solved.
Unions now. Unions forever.
Unions now. Unions forever.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I knew it was going to be a grad student or an adjunct. And because grad students and adjuncts are cheap and easy to replace, they're the front line in the student-as-customer model of higher ed. Unhappy customer? Sacrifice a lowly TA or adjunct, problem solved.
Unions now. Unions forever.
Unions now. Unions forever.
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I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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people are entitled to their religious freedom, but not to a passing grade in a university psychology course because you espouse poorly formulated Christian beliefs bsky.app/profile/kiss...
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
people are entitled to their religious freedom, but not to a passing grade in a university psychology course because you espouse poorly formulated Christian beliefs bsky.app/profile/kiss...
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I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
November 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
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this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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The president routinely says shit that would cost my 8-year-old his iPad time.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The president routinely says shit that would cost my 8-year-old his iPad time.
He’s right, alt text
November 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
He’s right, alt text
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there will more attacks until we have made a crepe
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
French far-right leader hit on the head with an egg
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
there will more attacks until we have made a crepe
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Doesn’t this technically make him a Croque Madame
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
French far-right leader hit on the head with an egg
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Doesn’t this technically make him a Croque Madame
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Is it possible that whole “free speech” and “ending censorship” thing was all just a setup by election deniers and useful idiots to work platform referees into serving their objectives? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 Maybe there was no “censorship industrial complex” and these ppl never gave a shit ab free speech. 🙊
November 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Is it possible that whole “free speech” and “ending censorship” thing was all just a setup by election deniers and useful idiots to work platform referees into serving their objectives? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 Maybe there was no “censorship industrial complex” and these ppl never gave a shit ab free speech. 🙊
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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A delivery person on his route was kidnapped by this guy this afternoon in DC.
#bigballsdcshow
#bigballsdcshow
November 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
A delivery person on his route was kidnapped by this guy this afternoon in DC.
#bigballsdcshow
#bigballsdcshow
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No one deserves the pay packages these guys get, but if you’re getting one you should definitely be able to think far enough ahead to say “Maybe let’s hedge a little just in case the unpopular guy’s narrow win turns out not to augur the beginning of permanent one-party rule.”
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
No one deserves the pay packages these guys get, but if you’re getting one you should definitely be able to think far enough ahead to say “Maybe let’s hedge a little just in case the unpopular guy’s narrow win turns out not to augur the beginning of permanent one-party rule.”
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this guy is betting on a future with accountability for today’s crimes, so we should too
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
this guy is betting on a future with accountability for today’s crimes, so we should too
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So, troops were sent to DC to support law enforcement and now law enforcement is going to guard the troops sent to help them? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
D.C. police to begin patrolling with National Guard after fatal attack
If enacted on a long-term basis, the change would significantly shift the way National Guard troops have worked with law enforcement in the District since their arrival.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
So, troops were sent to DC to support law enforcement and now law enforcement is going to guard the troops sent to help them? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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I treat boycotts as personal blood vendettas. This is about me physically harming a corporation, not about me telling any other human how to live their life.
I don’t have time to judge others while I’m digging two graves for me and Target.
I don’t have time to judge others while I’m digging two graves for me and Target.
As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
November 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I treat boycotts as personal blood vendettas. This is about me physically harming a corporation, not about me telling any other human how to live their life.
I don’t have time to judge others while I’m digging two graves for me and Target.
I don’t have time to judge others while I’m digging two graves for me and Target.
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As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.
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in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
in the midst of our supposed campaign against Venezuelan drug traffickers the President of the United States has chosen to pardon the Former President of Honduras, freeing him from his long prison sentence earned for trafficking more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States