Jim Ray
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Jim Ray
@jimray.net
I used to be good at this.
My family loves to put each other on pretty much as a general rule. So when I showed up to my folks and mom asks "where's the roast?" I kept waiting for them to break.

And this was the Christmas we defrosted and grilled a flank steak and the boys ate chicken nuggets!
December 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Thankful we built the home office in a completely separate building when I have to try to set up a new Apple Watch, including creating a new family member account, one (1) mimosa in on Christmas morning.
December 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My ongoing frustration with smart people who work in media is a kind of steadfast refusal to understand how platforms work. The idea that Instagram's algorithm has a functionally different effect on our culture than Spotify's is not exactly borne out.
December 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Welcome to AirbnBoomer! We dropship all the creature comforts your visiting family can't believe you live without:

* Kuerig
* Too loud TV with motion smoothing (Fox News experiencing technical difficulties)
* Kitchen radio set to whatever station delivers weather and traffic on the nines
* Florida
December 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Is your home about to be invaded by people who say "ALEXA. PLAY CHRISTMAS MUSIC." even though you've never owned an Alexa? Are you desperate to avoid the seque of "Last Christmas" to "Dominick the Donkey" that only an algorithm could love?

I have a gift for you.
December 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.

www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...
Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end o...
www.wrecka.ge
December 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
You've heard of Elf On The Shelf, get ready for

Christmas Eve With
December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It's possible Weiss gets fired for failing at even the basic task of pulling off a Mildred Gillars. It's equally likely she's succeeding brilliantly at the job of epistemic collapse accelerationist.

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jamelle (@jamellebouie.net)
i think this is exactly right. she was hired to be a regime censor but that requires a bit of real skill and finesse to pull of successfully and she has neither. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
bsky.app
December 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"Hm. Nice. Your mother's gonna be irrationally upset about this one though"

[Four hours later]

"And THIS one's FUCKED UP with some CITRUS bullshit"

Stay tuned for further dispatches from the neighborhood cookie exchange.
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Turns out Trump moved to San Francisco in 1977, bought a house for $82,000 that’s now worth $2.4M, and put “IMMIGRANTS WELCOME HERE” and also “NO UPZONING” yard signs in the front yard
Trump: If we build more housing, the price of homes will go down, and homeowners will lose their wealth.
December 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I assume the reason parental controls in iOS suck such absolute shit is Apple execs all have three literal human nannies for each of their children and send them to $75k/yr schools where computers are banned within a 500ft radius.

First day of holiday break is going FANTASTIC thanks for asking.
December 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect
December 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
What's exciting about this is Kat has an understanding of contemporary media far too many otherwise smart people either lack entirely, or they think they're somehow built different. If you are to the left of Stephen Miller, even if you're not talking politics, Grok is going to downrank you.
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.

And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Good boys and girls (who happen to be our neighbors) got a little something extra this year
December 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Is your home about to be invaded by people who say "ALEXA. PLAY CHRISTMAS MUSIC." even though you've never owned an Alexa? Are you desperate to avoid the seque of "Last Christmas" to "Dominick the Donkey" that only an algorithm could love?

I have a gift for you.
December 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Amazing things are happening on Threads
“You’d PLAGIARIZE me??? On this PLAGIARISM APP???”
December 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.

And trans lives are grounded in reality.

We see y'all. No matter what.

www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Cornell Watson for Bloomberg in Rocky Mount last night.
December 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I nearly screw this up every. single. time. It's not the big blue check mark in the upper right that adds the event to my calendar, it's the white on gray button at the bottom.
December 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My wife put her heart and soul into making this holiday a little brighter for people in need. I'm so proud of what she accomplished with a little bit of time and a lot of determination.

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Phillygirl (@originalphillygirl.bsky.social)
Thanks to all of you who supported Stockings of Love. Because of your huge hearts, we exceeded our goal and can provide Christmas stockings filled with self-care items to unhoused women in SIX different Western NC shelters. xo Stay tuned for delivery photos! #StockingsOfLove #StockingsOfLoveOfWNC
bsky.app
December 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I'm writing bits of code again so I resurrected and slightly updated my creaky tmux and vim setup and, man alive. Like trading in a too-tight set of trendy slacks for a well worn, threadbare in spots pair of jeans.
December 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The six year old is apparently determined to see if it's possible to construct a puffy coat entirely out of repair patches.
December 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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These people don’t want to chat with you. They want to either kill you or control your every decision until you stop being useful to profit at which point see number one.
December 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
All the Bari news this week is delicious confirmation at how much she sucks at her job but that’s beside the point. The Ellisons are creating a hermetically sealed media ecosystem where news clips of tasteless billionaire morons show up between AI slop/ads on TikTok. Not even Murdoch managed this.
Americans are tired of what coastal elites have been shoving down their throats, so I think elevating fresh voices like the vice president, the head of one of the most valuable companies on the planet, a Times columnist, and a Jeffrey Epstein associate who teaches at Harvard is a risk worth taking.
Bari Weiss’ Next CBS News Move: Town Halls With JD Vance, Sam Altman and Debates About God and Feminism
The news division is also planning a town hall with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in the 'Things That Matter' series, with Bank of America lined up as a sponsor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM