Jim Douglas 🇨🇦
@jimsdouglas.bsky.social
Vancouver 🇨🇦
I write Java & JavaScript code for an Albuquerque software company, working from home in Vancouver.
I write Java & JavaScript code for an Albuquerque software company, working from home in Vancouver.
Reposted by Jim Douglas 🇨🇦
This evening was middle school entrepreneur fair. Kid & friends started a business selling spicy tortilla chips. Very spicy. At the last minute they decided to also sell water. And then a gift from the heavens: school watermain broke so the water fountains were out. They cleaned up on water sales.
December 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
This evening was middle school entrepreneur fair. Kid & friends started a business selling spicy tortilla chips. Very spicy. At the last minute they decided to also sell water. And then a gift from the heavens: school watermain broke so the water fountains were out. They cleaned up on water sales.
Creativity is mysterious. The music for “Blackbird” was inspired by Bach, but the lyrics were inspired by the American civil rights movement. If you’re not English, you might not notice that bird is British slang for a woman.
youtu.be/BpWHJkEosAA?...
youtu.be/BpWHJkEosAA?...
Paul McCartney – Blackbird (The Beatles) | Het verhaal achter het nummer
YouTube video by Top 2000 a gogo
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Creativity is mysterious. The music for “Blackbird” was inspired by Bach, but the lyrics were inspired by the American civil rights movement. If you’re not English, you might not notice that bird is British slang for a woman.
youtu.be/BpWHJkEosAA?...
youtu.be/BpWHJkEosAA?...
We had a bit of rain in the northwest.
King County Sheriff's office used a drone to deliver a life vest to a man stranded atop his car due to rushing floodwaters in Washington state.
Read more: https://cnn.it/4q26cXB
Read more: https://cnn.it/4q26cXB
December 13, 2025 at 5:32 AM
We had a bit of rain in the northwest.
He’s been singing this for more than five decades, and he sounds as good at 80 as he did at 30.
youtu.be/EjXyeQ2H_Zk?...
youtu.be/EjXyeQ2H_Zk?...
Valdy Performs 'Rock and Roll Song' in Episode 2 Season 2 of The Taylor James Show
YouTube video by The Taylor James Show
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 5:03 AM
He’s been singing this for more than five decades, and he sounds as good at 80 as he did at 30.
youtu.be/EjXyeQ2H_Zk?...
youtu.be/EjXyeQ2H_Zk?...
A Trump spokesperson said this: “President Trump has done more for American tourism than anyone.” Trump only hires people who are prepared to lie as easily as he does, even when the facts are readily available. Canadian visits to the U.S. have cratered, and now he wants to do the same with Europe.
“I don’t know about you, but if a country I wanted to visit was asking for all that information—while at the same time ramping up hostile mass surveillance and grabbing innocent people off the street without due process—I would think twice about visiting.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/come-to-tr...
www.americaamerica.news/p/come-to-tr...
Come to Trump's America...If You Dare
The Trump regime is pushing a paranoid new policy that will further discourage international travelers. The reputation of America's aggression is growing.
www.americaamerica.news
December 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
A Trump spokesperson said this: “President Trump has done more for American tourism than anyone.” Trump only hires people who are prepared to lie as easily as he does, even when the facts are readily available. Canadian visits to the U.S. have cratered, and now he wants to do the same with Europe.
A Nazi rocket builder working for the Russians who wants to bring down the British government? Hopelessly dated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrak...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrak...
December 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
A Nazi rocket builder working for the Russians who wants to bring down the British government? Hopelessly dated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrak...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrak...
Ok, next question: Can an AI be deported to El Salvador for correctly noting that the boss is a war criminal?
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Ok, next question: Can an AI be deported to El Salvador for correctly noting that the boss is a war criminal?
December 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Truth in advertising.
Hard to identify the best part of this 1964 ad--the obvious headline, the misspelling of Reagan's last name, or the shout out to John Stoemer's blockbuster (and howlingly inaccurate) conspiracy-ridden book "None Dare Call it Treason" about the supposedly "treasonous" thread of the US left.
December 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Truth in advertising.
Can it attend work meetings for me and convince my boss that I'm diligently working?
December 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Can it attend work meetings for me and convince my boss that I'm diligently working?
Who could have predicted this, besides everyone who's been paying attention?
"the bot—created in partnership with the third-party company Eleven Labs—appeared to fabricate quotes and wade into its own unsanctioned editorializing."
"the bot—created in partnership with the third-party company Eleven Labs—appeared to fabricate quotes and wade into its own unsanctioned editorializing."
"It’s a total disaster," one Postie candidly told @status.news. "I think the newsroom is embarrassed."
Story here: www.status.news/p/washington...
Story here: www.status.news/p/washington...
The Post’s A.I. ‘Disaster’
Staffers at The Washington Post revolted en masse after the newspaper debuted an error-prone A.I. podcast feature, according to Slack messages obtained by Status.
www.status.news
December 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Who could have predicted this, besides everyone who's been paying attention?
"the bot—created in partnership with the third-party company Eleven Labs—appeared to fabricate quotes and wade into its own unsanctioned editorializing."
"the bot—created in partnership with the third-party company Eleven Labs—appeared to fabricate quotes and wade into its own unsanctioned editorializing."
Welcome to America. How would you like to pay your bribe?
December 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Welcome to America. How would you like to pay your bribe?
A bored Boston teen submitted an update to Google Maps to add a name to a small side street. The update was accepted, and a few years later the bus company picked up the name when they updated their route information from Google maps.
www.masslive.com/boston/2025/...
www.masslive.com/boston/2025/...
Google deletes imaginary street after company and MBTA fall for teen’s prank
A Brookline teenager said this week that the MBTA had renamed a bus stop based on a fake street name he submitted to Google.
www.masslive.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A bored Boston teen submitted an update to Google Maps to add a name to a small side street. The update was accepted, and a few years later the bus company picked up the name when they updated their route information from Google maps.
www.masslive.com/boston/2025/...
www.masslive.com/boston/2025/...
So Long Farewell (A Breakup Anthem for Baroness Schraeder) by Riki Lindhome
YouTube video by Riki Lindhome
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The Virginia animal shelter that helped the hungover raccoon sleep off his poor life choices has raised $200,000+ selling trashed panda merchandise.
www.bonfire.com/trashed-panda/
washingtonian.com/2025/12/09/v...
www.bonfire.com/trashed-panda/
washingtonian.com/2025/12/09/v...
Trashed Panda | Bonfire
Proceeds from this campaign will directly support shelter animal care and enrichment.. While this raccoon gave us all a much-needed laugh, our officers handle hundreds...
www.bonfire.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The Virginia animal shelter that helped the hungover raccoon sleep off his poor life choices has raised $200,000+ selling trashed panda merchandise.
www.bonfire.com/trashed-panda/
washingtonian.com/2025/12/09/v...
www.bonfire.com/trashed-panda/
washingtonian.com/2025/12/09/v...
“Americans want to reinforce, not retreat from, U.S. global interests and commitments. Support for aiding Ukraine and defending Taiwan has grown, along with approval of NATO and Article V commitments. Americans see alliances as important to U.S. security….”
It seems many Americans have changed their position regarding NATO after international criticism over Trump's hostile policy towards Europe and Ukraine.
A Reagan Institute polling found that as many as 76% of Americans would want the US to defend our allies.
A Reagan Institute polling found that as many as 76% of Americans would want the US to defend our allies.
Support for NATO Reaches New High in Reagan Institute Polling
More than three-fourths of Americans would support using force to support NATO’s collective defense, according to a new survey.
www.airandspaceforces.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
“Americans want to reinforce, not retreat from, U.S. global interests and commitments. Support for aiding Ukraine and defending Taiwan has grown, along with approval of NATO and Article V commitments. Americans see alliances as important to U.S. security….”
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Kiddo is learning the Pythagorean theorem so I finally have the pleasure of introducing him to the hippopotenuse
December 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Kiddo is learning the Pythagorean theorem so I finally have the pleasure of introducing him to the hippopotenuse
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Maybe Trump's ham-fisted and increasingly aggressive interference with the EU will finally motivate them to push back?
🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump should not get involved in European democracy, Ursula von der Leyen said in an interview with POLITICO.
Her comments come after the U.S. president launched a stinging attack on Europe this week.
Her comments come after the U.S. president launched a stinging attack on Europe this week.
Don’t meddle in European democracy, von der Leyen tells Trump
Commission president hits back at U.S. plan to undermine the European orthodoxy it says will lead to “civilizational erasure.”
www.politico.eu
December 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Maybe Trump's ham-fisted and increasingly aggressive interference with the EU will finally motivate them to push back?
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Their denials aren't credible; it's been clear all year that Trump has an imperial worldview of a few great powers that carve up the world into spheres of influence where they're free to do whatever they like. The rest of us are expected to do as we're told.
globalnews.ca/news/1100502...
globalnews.ca/news/1100502...
December 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Their denials aren't credible; it's been clear all year that Trump has an imperial worldview of a few great powers that carve up the world into spheres of influence where they're free to do whatever they like. The rest of us are expected to do as we're told.
globalnews.ca/news/1100502...
globalnews.ca/news/1100502...
He's not really hiding anything. He's jealous of Putin and Xi's dictatorships. He's doing everything in his power to undermine the liberal democracies and reorient the world around three imperial powers dominating their regions, with him ruling the entire western hemisphere as an absolute monarch.
Trump: "We have to be unified. China is unified because they have one vote -- that's President Xi. He says 'do it' and that's the end of that. We have a different system."
December 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
He's not really hiding anything. He's jealous of Putin and Xi's dictatorships. He's doing everything in his power to undermine the liberal democracies and reorient the world around three imperial powers dominating their regions, with him ruling the entire western hemisphere as an absolute monarch.
Maybe Trump's ham-fisted and increasingly aggressive interference with the EU will finally motivate them to push back?
🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump should not get involved in European democracy, Ursula von der Leyen said in an interview with POLITICO.
Her comments come after the U.S. president launched a stinging attack on Europe this week.
Her comments come after the U.S. president launched a stinging attack on Europe this week.
Don’t meddle in European democracy, von der Leyen tells Trump
Commission president hits back at U.S. plan to undermine the European orthodoxy it says will lead to “civilizational erasure.”
www.politico.eu
December 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Maybe Trump's ham-fisted and increasingly aggressive interference with the EU will finally motivate them to push back?
Their denials aren't credible; it's been clear all year that Trump has an imperial worldview of a few great powers that carve up the world into spheres of influence where they're free to do whatever they like. The rest of us are expected to do as we're told.
globalnews.ca/news/1100502...
globalnews.ca/news/1100502...
December 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Their denials aren't credible; it's been clear all year that Trump has an imperial worldview of a few great powers that carve up the world into spheres of influence where they're free to do whatever they like. The rest of us are expected to do as we're told.
globalnews.ca/news/1100502...
globalnews.ca/news/1100502...
Trump appointees are expected to lie as readily as he does. She's not very good at it.
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Trump appointees are expected to lie as readily as he does. She's not very good at it.
And I'm going to assume that they were all purchased by journalists to review and/or hate-read.
“.. Nuzzi’s new book .. sold only 1,165 hardcover copies in its first week ..”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
And I'm going to assume that they were all purchased by journalists to review and/or hate-read.
What’s the point of owning a news network if you can’t use it as a political weapon?
David Ellison appears to be mortified that CBS/60 Minutes is “going rogue” by covering the news and by keeping him “in the dark” about a segment critical of Trump.
Because Ellison doesn’t realize that’s how it’s supposed to work.
nypost.com/2025/12/10/m...
Because Ellison doesn’t realize that’s how it’s supposed to work.
nypost.com/2025/12/10/m...
December 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
What’s the point of owning a news network if you can’t use it as a political weapon?