Parkscope Joe
@parkscopejoe.bsky.social
My name is Joe. Parkscope is a site I write and podcast for about amusement & theme parks. I also am into: Tech, Sports, Food, Music, Gaming, and Pop Culture. He/Him
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I think it's time to put on the @kentremendous.bsky.social audio book again
we do, in fact, owe each other things. one of those things is accountability for the results of our actions.
January 29, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I think it's time to put on the @kentremendous.bsky.social audio book again
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This. People want Dems to be War Leaders but by *god* do we have a lot of deserters and active saboteurs among our War Soldiers.
January 29, 2026 at 5:23 PM
This. People want Dems to be War Leaders but by *god* do we have a lot of deserters and active saboteurs among our War Soldiers.
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we do, in fact, owe each other things. one of those things is accountability for the results of our actions.
January 29, 2026 at 5:11 PM
we do, in fact, owe each other things. one of those things is accountability for the results of our actions.
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Rejecting accountability for your own actions is wrong because no one can reasonably* reject the principle that you have a responsibility to help people if you can.
*yes, this very much hangs on what “reasonably” means
*yes, this very much hangs on what “reasonably” means
January 29, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Rejecting accountability for your own actions is wrong because no one can reasonably* reject the principle that you have a responsibility to help people if you can.
*yes, this very much hangs on what “reasonably” means
*yes, this very much hangs on what “reasonably” means
really wild the talking points are now "but the kids" as if the GOP didn't abduct a child in a cute backpack just last week
January 29, 2026 at 5:41 PM
really wild the talking points are now "but the kids" as if the GOP didn't abduct a child in a cute backpack just last week
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She’s not getting her medal back.
January 29, 2026 at 2:23 PM
She’s not getting her medal back.
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Yeah, exactly why ICE/CBP and DHS need to be brought to a heel.
Gov. Landry: "I like to ask Democrats if they like their communities to be dangerous or safe. Do they want their children to be able to walk to school or do they want to worry if they send them on the sidewalks, that unfortunate violent things are going to happen to them?"
January 29, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Yeah, exactly why ICE/CBP and DHS need to be brought to a heel.
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January 29, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 4:58 PM
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
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We're experiencing a specific moment in U.S. history in which our personal, working, and political lives are all entwined—the boundary between public and private has collapsed, and we’re watching the government commit atrocities that are spread across the same social media platforms. trib.al/giFmeys
January 29, 2026 at 5:28 PM
We're experiencing a specific moment in U.S. history in which our personal, working, and political lives are all entwined—the boundary between public and private has collapsed, and we’re watching the government commit atrocities that are spread across the same social media platforms. trib.al/giFmeys
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One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime in 2024. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did.
Reporter Beck Klein examines OPD's overtime use through 1 officer's astonishing schedule, revealing multiple problems and raising big questions.
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
Reporter Beck Klein examines OPD's overtime use through 1 officer's astonishing schedule, revealing multiple problems and raising big questions.
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did
One OPD officer logged 5,242 total working hours, racking up $490,000 in overtime pay. If he worked more than half of the time in a calendar year, why can't the city tell us what he did?
oaklandside.org
January 29, 2026 at 5:06 PM
One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime in 2024. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did.
Reporter Beck Klein examines OPD's overtime use through 1 officer's astonishing schedule, revealing multiple problems and raising big questions.
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
Reporter Beck Klein examines OPD's overtime use through 1 officer's astonishing schedule, revealing multiple problems and raising big questions.
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
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You can tell Evangelical Christianity is a fucking scam because they’ll give a supervillain speech about how the left doesn’t respect the sacred traditions over a Star Wars movie but cheer on their nominal coreligionists getting kidnapped for lawfully existing while black.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 5:17 PM
You can tell Evangelical Christianity is a fucking scam because they’ll give a supervillain speech about how the left doesn’t respect the sacred traditions over a Star Wars movie but cheer on their nominal coreligionists getting kidnapped for lawfully existing while black.
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Every tech thing now is like “we have listened and we hear you, calling you ‘meat money puppets’ wasn’t the message you wanted and the AI powered ‘dumbass browser for little dicks’ needs some fine-tuning”
scoop: Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows. The head of Windows tells me Microsoft will focus on "addressing pain points we hear consistently from customers." Full details in my Notepad newsletter this week, gift link here 👇 tinyurl.com/win11trust
Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows
2026 is all about improving Windows
tinyurl.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Every tech thing now is like “we have listened and we hear you, calling you ‘meat money puppets’ wasn’t the message you wanted and the AI powered ‘dumbass browser for little dicks’ needs some fine-tuning”
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MICROSOFT: "We're putting AI in Windows!"
CUSTOMERS: "No, please don't do that."
MICROSOFT: "You'll drink this fucking AI even if we have to hold your nose closed and use a vice to keep your jaws open."
CUSTOMERS: "That only sounds bad."
MICROSOFT: "Why have customers abandoned Windows?"
CUSTOMERS: "No, please don't do that."
MICROSOFT: "You'll drink this fucking AI even if we have to hold your nose closed and use a vice to keep your jaws open."
CUSTOMERS: "That only sounds bad."
MICROSOFT: "Why have customers abandoned Windows?"
scoop: Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows. The head of Windows tells me Microsoft will focus on "addressing pain points we hear consistently from customers." Full details in my Notepad newsletter this week, gift link here 👇 tinyurl.com/win11trust
Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows
2026 is all about improving Windows
tinyurl.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:16 PM
MICROSOFT: "We're putting AI in Windows!"
CUSTOMERS: "No, please don't do that."
MICROSOFT: "You'll drink this fucking AI even if we have to hold your nose closed and use a vice to keep your jaws open."
CUSTOMERS: "That only sounds bad."
MICROSOFT: "Why have customers abandoned Windows?"
CUSTOMERS: "No, please don't do that."
MICROSOFT: "You'll drink this fucking AI even if we have to hold your nose closed and use a vice to keep your jaws open."
CUSTOMERS: "That only sounds bad."
MICROSOFT: "Why have customers abandoned Windows?"
the takkis that are going to come out...
woke 2 is gonna have doritos at a power level that is impossible to comprehend right now
January 29, 2026 at 5:15 PM
the takkis that are going to come out...
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oh, so Daft Punk is playing at your house? should we throw a party? should we throw a big joyful party, invite all our friends, and dance as if we still occupy a more innocent time, when it was possible to imagine a better and brighter future?
January 29, 2026 at 5:12 PM
oh, so Daft Punk is playing at your house? should we throw a party? should we throw a big joyful party, invite all our friends, and dance as if we still occupy a more innocent time, when it was possible to imagine a better and brighter future?
and there's a reason those who brag about obstaining are generally antisocial miserable scolds. they hate doing things for others.
my increasingly curmudgeonly take is that we all, in fact, have responsibilities. politics isn't an arena for self-actualization. it's an arena for public service. this is as true of voters as it is of politicians.
Ps: a common refrain that you'll hear is that "you're saying the Dems can't be at fault, it's the voters, as if the voters owe something to politicians and not the other way around!"
Yes, actually, that's how the social contract of democracy works. Voters yet the government they work for. Or don't.
Yes, actually, that's how the social contract of democracy works. Voters yet the government they work for. Or don't.
January 29, 2026 at 5:13 PM
and there's a reason those who brag about obstaining are generally antisocial miserable scolds. they hate doing things for others.
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Do I blame "the Left" for Harris' defeat? No, there's lots of factors and frankly it was most of all anti-incumbency Malaise backlash, Gaza was imo just a particular subset's excuse.
But you can't really have it both ways, either you're an electorally impotent smol bean or you're a proud wrecker.
But you can't really have it both ways, either you're an electorally impotent smol bean or you're a proud wrecker.
January 29, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Do I blame "the Left" for Harris' defeat? No, there's lots of factors and frankly it was most of all anti-incumbency Malaise backlash, Gaza was imo just a particular subset's excuse.
But you can't really have it both ways, either you're an electorally impotent smol bean or you're a proud wrecker.
But you can't really have it both ways, either you're an electorally impotent smol bean or you're a proud wrecker.
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You know, leftists insisting that they did their bit in trying to elect Harris and it wasn't them would be more persuasive if a lot of the folks involved hadn't loudly gloated about their electoral power in the heady aftermath of her defeat, before they realized it would make everyone hate them.
January 29, 2026 at 4:29 PM
You know, leftists insisting that they did their bit in trying to elect Harris and it wasn't them would be more persuasive if a lot of the folks involved hadn't loudly gloated about their electoral power in the heady aftermath of her defeat, before they realized it would make everyone hate them.
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We do not want a world where people who know something is a scam are punished for saying so. At least, I don't, and you shouldn't, /unless you're a scammer/. But people have managed to hijack the social fabric here to make it so.
January 29, 2026 at 4:49 PM
We do not want a world where people who know something is a scam are punished for saying so. At least, I don't, and you shouldn't, /unless you're a scammer/. But people have managed to hijack the social fabric here to make it so.
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What I'm talking about is when other people are trying to spend their money wisely. Or warn you and others when they have actual experience or information to bring to bear as a fundamentally charitable and prosocial act. And the extraordinary antisocial response that engenders.
January 29, 2026 at 4:48 PM
What I'm talking about is when other people are trying to spend their money wisely. Or warn you and others when they have actual experience or information to bring to bear as a fundamentally charitable and prosocial act. And the extraordinary antisocial response that engenders.
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WELP
A Waymo autonomous vehicle hit a child near a Santa Monica elementary school, causing minor injuries, the company and federal regulators said.
The Waymo detected the child and braked, slowing itself to 6 mph before impact, the company said.
The Waymo detected the child and braked, slowing itself to 6 mph before impact, the company said.
Waymo robotaxi hits child at school drop-off, triggering safety inquiry
A Waymo self-driving car was involved in a minor crash with a child at a school drop-off, raising concerns about the safety of autonomous vehicles.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:41 PM
WELP
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Imagine being a 400th generation rat, thinking you are the apex predator, and then along comes fuzzy Godzilla.
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Wily coyote who swam to Alcatraz gets ‘much fatter’ on prison island diet
Officials are monitoring if the canine is preying on the island’s seabirds.
sfstandard.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Imagine being a 400th generation rat, thinking you are the apex predator, and then along comes fuzzy Godzilla.
sfstandard.com/2026/01/27/c...
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I think we're living in a period of extreme social distrust of the government coming across the political spectrum and part of that is manifesting as displacing that social trust into appealing scams and schemes.
why is such a large percentage of activity in america outright scams
January 29, 2026 at 4:39 PM
I think we're living in a period of extreme social distrust of the government coming across the political spectrum and part of that is manifesting as displacing that social trust into appealing scams and schemes.