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Fighting the current status quo. Music nerd, OG #shoegazer. 404 & 313, with some 517. #OnePride #LGRW #GoGreen Fave 2025 tracks: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/2025-repeat-plays/pl.u-xlyNBlkTkAqgbJ
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Kinda like Michael Vick.
I usually get my dystopian tech news from @hypervisible.blacksky.app, though I could just be behind.
A Palo Alto company has launched more than 4,000 of its "smart" balloons. Looks like one of them smashed into a United 737.

Everyone was OK, but the pilot did tell passengers, “The aircraft has collided with an object and a window in the cockpit has shattered"

www.sfchronicle.com/travel/artic...
Silicon Valley startup admits its balloon may have struck United jet, forcing emergency landing
A Silicon Valley company says one of its “smart” weather balloons may have struck a United Airlines flight, cracking the cockpit windshield and injuring a pilot.
www.sfchronicle.com
Guided missile warheads are considered small arms?
Insert audio from Patty Donahue of the Waitresses at the end of “I know what boys like” sneering… “Sucker!”
“Put America first”: GOP senators are fuming at Trump’s idea to import Argentinian beef to lower US prices.

Lawmakers face blowback from angry ranchers who were already alarmed by Trump’s $40 billion bailout of Argentina — even as the country undercuts US soybean farmers over trade with China.
‘Put America first’: GOP senators fume at Trump’s idea to import Argentinian beef
Farm-state lawmakers and allies of the president are rushing to get him to reverse course.
www.politico.com
Maybe the greatest compliment.

“When you’re in a heavyweight fight, and you don’t cross your T’s and dot your I’s, the other team’s going to win,” Bowles said. “Dan did a great job, again, getting his guys ready.”
They said the window was closed. Too much change. This is what happens, they said, when your cabinet gets raided.

One problem.

Dan Campbell doesn’t have a cabinet. Dan Campbell is the cabinet.

Welcome to Detroit. Home of the NFL’s most resilient football team.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...
3rd string Lions secondary making a stand! #onepride
Insane amount of secondary injures for the Lions. #onepride
And very deserved chant.
So jersey grabs are penalties now. Make it make sense. #onepride
Somehow, a clear jersey grab is a “judgement call” now.
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I'm old enough to remember when David Broder said of Bill Clinton, "He came in here and he trashed the place, and it's not his place." Every day, in ways both literal and figurative, we now can see what trashing the place truly means. wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
Treating her staff like a hostile audience to be provoked is top class people management. So savvy.
No, he wrote “Columbia”. AP doesn’t need to quietly spellcheck his BS.
That is awesome.
Not tired of this. At all. #LGRW
Tonight's #LGRW game recap:

- 4 STRAIGHT WINS
- THE CAPTAIN WINS IT! Larkin OT hero 🚨
- ASP 1st CAREER GOAL (& point)!
- GIBSON 1st RED WINGS WIN, *massive* performance & huge for confidence
- Detroit was perfect through 2, fell off but survived a strong TBL surge in the 3rd
🎯 Direct hit.
French philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre knew what made fascists tick.
badfaithtimes.com/its-one-long...
Gianni might at least tease the possibility to assuage you know who.
I feel that. Wouldn’t put it past FIFA to at least consider moving games either, though it seems way too late and complicated to do so.
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You rarely get to see an actual photograph of the First Amendment being neutered.

1/2
No need to apologize for harping. More harping is needed, all over, because it’s too easy to lose focus on the constant stream of atrocities now.
This is the original alt text for that gif, the worst alt text ever.

“a giant inflatable orange man with a pitcher of iced tea on his head .”