Jim Hammerand
@jimhammerand.bsky.social
Journalist and photographer in the Pacific Northwest (Edmonds, WA)
Dimon rightfully afraid of bribery charges and/or investor lawsuits down the road. Next administration should focus on prosecuting corruption.
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 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Dimon rightfully afraid of bribery charges and/or investor lawsuits down the road. Next administration should focus on prosecuting corruption.
Can’t read this without hearing Gonzo’s voice
November 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Can’t read this without hearing Gonzo’s voice
Christmas tree’s going up today and the best thing we ever did was buy this super sturdy, no-hassle tree stand krinner.us/collections/...
Tree Genie XXL Deluxe
KRINNER’s Christmas Tree Genie XXL Deluxe is our most innovative stand. It comes with Krinner’s original single cable operation, ‘Ding’ technology and patented safety belt. Just place your tree in the...
krinner.us
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Christmas tree’s going up today and the best thing we ever did was buy this super sturdy, no-hassle tree stand krinner.us/collections/...
Fun holiday party game: Everyone gets one minute in the kitchen/pantry to find the oldest best-by date. I won at Thanksgiving with this 25-year-old chocolate buried in my in-laws’ freezer.
November 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Fun holiday party game: Everyone gets one minute in the kitchen/pantry to find the oldest best-by date. I won at Thanksgiving with this 25-year-old chocolate buried in my in-laws’ freezer.
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TFW you defy a boycott & karma is instant
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
TFW you defy a boycott & karma is instant
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Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
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#Seattle charges the LOWEST parking rates needed to keep 1 or 2 spaces available on every block most of the time. That makes on-street parking easy to find. It also brings in a lot of cash for public services: $34.9 million in parking revenue in 2024.
Where is street parking now $8 an hour in Seattle?
City code requires the transportation department to adjust prices seasonally. The department adjusts rates in 50-cent increments based on demand.
www.seattletimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
#Seattle charges the LOWEST parking rates needed to keep 1 or 2 spaces available on every block most of the time. That makes on-street parking easy to find. It also brings in a lot of cash for public services: $34.9 million in parking revenue in 2024.
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People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
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Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
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The details in this story are enraging
They planned to force him to crash or shoot him for recording their crimes. They then accused him of assaulting them. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
The details in this story are enraging
This E28 I’ve seen driving around town needs a little love but I’m a sucker for analog BMWs and couldn’t resist taking a photo when I saw it parked
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This E28 I’ve seen driving around town needs a little love but I’m a sucker for analog BMWs and couldn’t resist taking a photo when I saw it parked
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i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
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Woke 2 shows up at Game Day. #starbucksboycott
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Woke 2 shows up at Game Day. #starbucksboycott
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Really interesting story. “There is no world where this makes any sense.”
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart @wsj.com
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart @wsj.com
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart
Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Really interesting story. “There is no world where this makes any sense.”
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart @wsj.com
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart @wsj.com
Today’s widebody shot over Edmonds: This Boeing 777F for Qatar Airways Cargo (registration #A7-BTC) flying for the first time on a test flight out of Snohomish County’s Paine Field.
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Today’s widebody shot over Edmonds: This Boeing 777F for Qatar Airways Cargo (registration #A7-BTC) flying for the first time on a test flight out of Snohomish County’s Paine Field.
Medtech is the best tech right now! Lots of exciting advances like this out of ETH Zurich, where researchers developed injectable drug capsules that can be magnetically steered to a target for precision drug delivery. They've already tested clot-busters, antibiotics and tumor medication:
ETH Zurich researchers develop microrobots for targeted drug delivery
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed microrobots that use magnets to navigate to blood clots and deploy drugs to dissolve them.
www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Medtech is the best tech right now! Lots of exciting advances like this out of ETH Zurich, where researchers developed injectable drug capsules that can be magnetically steered to a target for precision drug delivery. They've already tested clot-busters, antibiotics and tumor medication:
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Oh god this is a true Smiling Man moment. The Era of Smiles begins
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Oh god this is a true Smiling Man moment. The Era of Smiles begins
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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Tim Cook, the head of Apple, is having a nice dinner with MBS, who regularly orders executions, including for tweets.
Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Tim Cook, the head of Apple, is having a nice dinner with MBS, who regularly orders executions, including for tweets.
Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
Edmonds’ own @ricksteves.bsky.social mentioned on Pluribus!
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Edmonds’ own @ricksteves.bsky.social mentioned on Pluribus!
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I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
A new study has quantified and categorized the clinical trials affected by NIH funding cuts under Trump and RFK Jr. Of the 383 trials hit by the cuts, 21% included children and 31% were studying cancer. I've got more at Medical Design & Outsourcing, where I cover medical device R&D:
Trump cuts to NIH hit hundreds of clinical trials, new study finds
The Trump administration's cuts to NIH funding affected approiximately 1 in 30 clinical trials and more than 74 ,000 patients.
www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A new study has quantified and categorized the clinical trials affected by NIH funding cuts under Trump and RFK Jr. Of the 383 trials hit by the cuts, 21% included children and 31% were studying cancer. I've got more at Medical Design & Outsourcing, where I cover medical device R&D: