Jonathan Sacks - Everybody Hates A Tourist
@jonthego.bsky.social
Bon vivant. Cultural travel, food & drink (beer, cocktails, everything), sports (ASU, Suns, D-backs, Cardinals, Arsenal, Yankees), politics, history, marketing, Simpsons references
AKA whiskytengo
https://everybodyhatesatourist.net #travelblogger
AKA whiskytengo
https://everybodyhatesatourist.net #travelblogger
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Germany had its own January 6-style attempt at a coup. It also failed. But Hitler was sent to jail.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
Rick Steves could have easily stayed apolitical in an effort to sell more books and tours. But I love that he hasn’t. Far more people in this country should be following his example
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IMPORTANT: NWS Boulder just issued a rare "Particularly Dangerous Situation" (PDS) Fire Weather Warning for Boulder, Hwy 93, and the Boulder + northern JeffCo foothills for tomorrow.
Winds: 85-110 mph. Bone dry.
This is a Fire Weather Warning with an exclamation point.
#COwx
Winds: 85-110 mph. Bone dry.
This is a Fire Weather Warning with an exclamation point.
#COwx
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
IMPORTANT: NWS Boulder just issued a rare "Particularly Dangerous Situation" (PDS) Fire Weather Warning for Boulder, Hwy 93, and the Boulder + northern JeffCo foothills for tomorrow.
Winds: 85-110 mph. Bone dry.
This is a Fire Weather Warning with an exclamation point.
#COwx
Winds: 85-110 mph. Bone dry.
This is a Fire Weather Warning with an exclamation point.
#COwx
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For the last few months, I've been working on a story about January's crash near Washington, D.C. What I learned was that it was simply an accident waiting to happen.
Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong (via @theaircurrent.com) theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf...
Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong (via @theaircurrent.com) theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf...
Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong
D.C. midair crash was the result of a complete collapse of the protections designed to keep aviation safe — and the institutions that design and maintain them
theaircurrent.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
For the last few months, I've been working on a story about January's crash near Washington, D.C. What I learned was that it was simply an accident waiting to happen.
Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong (via @theaircurrent.com) theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf...
Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong (via @theaircurrent.com) theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf...
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PEOPLE WHO MAKE SIMPSONS MEMES DO THEM BESPOKE AND HAND-CRAFTED AND ITS ONE OF THE INTERNET’S PROUDEST TRADITIONS
No more Gen X game devs. Society has moved beyond the need for them
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
PEOPLE WHO MAKE SIMPSONS MEMES DO THEM BESPOKE AND HAND-CRAFTED AND ITS ONE OF THE INTERNET’S PROUDEST TRADITIONS
Putting the hog in Chag Sameach
December 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Putting the hog in Chag Sameach
2. I'd usually never pick a middle seat, but I bet the kelp would be pretty comfy to lean on, and otters are otters
You’ve got a 5-hour flight over the holidays with some fronds from the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Who’re you sitting next to? 🦦🦀🦈🪱
Let us know in the comments below!
Let us know in the comments below!
December 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
2. I'd usually never pick a middle seat, but I bet the kelp would be pretty comfy to lean on, and otters are otters
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.
Belgian commutes pay off: Employees earn up to €810 for cycling to work
One in five people in Flanders commuted by bike and received compensation last year, but this figure is significantly lower in Brussels and Wallonia.
www.brusselstimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.
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TLDR: You fucking fight for the right thing. You fight for it because it's the fucking right thing. And when you do so, you do well. This is not hard to understand for anyone who doesn't have Pundit Brain. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
The high cost of rolling over on immigration
What Matt Yglesias, Hakeem Jeffries, and Keir Starmer got wrong about the politics of immigration
www.gelliottmorris.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
TLDR: You fucking fight for the right thing. You fight for it because it's the fucking right thing. And when you do so, you do well. This is not hard to understand for anyone who doesn't have Pundit Brain. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
Maybe I’m overly paranoid, but I wouldn’t fly to any of the ABC Islands right now. Too many careless people around
not giving the impression of being on the ball
www.cnn.com/2025/12/16/a...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/16/a...
Second near midair collision reported near Venezuela involving US Air Force tanker | CNN
“They were really close,” one of the pilots told controllers of the encounter at approximately 26,000 feet. “We were climbing right into him.”
www.cnn.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Maybe I’m overly paranoid, but I wouldn’t fly to any of the ABC Islands right now. Too many careless people around
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I would be... FURIOUS if people did this to me or someone I know.
December 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I would be... FURIOUS if people did this to me or someone I know.
Thinking about this more, Rob Reiner was also a patriot. That’s a word we need to reclaim from flag-humping idiots who do nothing but make us collectively worse. Rob. cared deeply about this country and what it could potentially be.
Rob Reiner was the definition of an absolute mensch
December 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Thinking about this more, Rob Reiner was also a patriot. That’s a word we need to reclaim from flag-humping idiots who do nothing but make us collectively worse. Rob. cared deeply about this country and what it could potentially be.
Rob Reiner was the definition of an absolute mensch
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Rob Reiner was the definition of an absolute mensch
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He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
Just finished watching “Wake Up Dead Man” only to then see the news about Rob Reiner and his wife. What in the absolute fuck
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Just finished watching “Wake Up Dead Man” only to then see the news about Rob Reiner and his wife. What in the absolute fuck
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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The UK has turned into a censorious nightmare state because of transphobia
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The UK has turned into a censorious nightmare state because of transphobia
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This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default
Fantastic news for anyone who wants to see an AI video of Donald Duck sucking off Mickey Mouse
NEWS
Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and licensing over 200 of its characters for use in OpenAI’s video platform Sora.
bit.ly/44pgsRr
Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and licensing over 200 of its characters for use in OpenAI’s video platform Sora.
bit.ly/44pgsRr
December 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Fantastic news for anyone who wants to see an AI video of Donald Duck sucking off Mickey Mouse
I wonder how much of this is due to suburbanite-targeted bullshit propaganda about how NYC is a crime-infested cesspool www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Broadway Sees Lowest Suburban Attendance in 30 Years
While attendance is returning to post-pandemic benchmarks, this key segment of theatergoers has declined.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I wonder how much of this is due to suburbanite-targeted bullshit propaganda about how NYC is a crime-infested cesspool www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...