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Jason Jong

@plesiomorphy.bsky.social

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📍Somerville, MA, Ward 7 bikes and bugs and snakes and salamanders and also a rescue pibble Wildlife photography | traditional art | environmental field audio https://soundcloud.com/jasonjong

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Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 3h

Is real estate speculation in the metaverse still a thing? Shit gets hyped sky high and then there’s never any retrospection when it fades away

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 16h

The last moment where this might have been feasible was when O’Connor mentioned regretting her vote in Bush v. Gore

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 1d

If I ever want my blood to boil, I listen to the @fivefourpod.bsky.social episode about Bush v. Gore. The entire saga is so insane

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Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 2d

Ultegra 6600 in all silver was the pinnacle of groupsets. The only electronic bits I want on my bike are the lights.

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 2d

His head looks like a hot air balloon

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 3d

I met a couple of their engineers a few weeks ago. There have already been layoffs and early retirements, morale there is at rock bottom. They were predicting massive cuts if Mars Sample Return gets cancelled.

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Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 4d

That Burlington office again. I really loathe knowing these goons are nearby

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Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 4d

Still annoyed at the breathless adulation about his stupid book from people who should have known better

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 4d

Same energy

Mike Pence wearing a leather jacket looking at the Korean DMZ. He’s posturing with his arms bent like a toddler pretending to be tough

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 5d

That’s a far more honest profession than being a republican member of congress

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 5d

Good use for the Leo 1 chassis

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 5d

He’s more fun to watch than Froome, I kind of lost interest in those years

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Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 6d

Eli Lilly will Venmo you 20 dollars every time you use a vial of insulin

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 6d

Guessing the wild increase in productivity is because it spits out something resembling useful code and a lot of white collar workers spend the majority of the day just dicking around on the internet

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 7d

Feeling increasingly insane when I remember learning about Watergate in history class

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 7d

It’s kind of funny how car designers are obviously flailing to come up with distinctive light designs for their brands to stand out. But car taillights have been a solved problem for decades! I don’t care if they all look the same!

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 8d

!! That’s cooler than pseudos! I’ve only ever seen a schizomid once

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Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 8d

There are already six Weinermobiles in the national fleet, so we have ample decoy vehicles to improve survivability

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 8d

The fact that he's not hounded over this at every interview is a failure of our society. People worked at USAID to help humanity, and he wiped it out because he's a gullible, conspiracy-addled, drugged-out moron.

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Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 8d

I regularly see them when I sift leaf litter, but I've only observed phoresis once. There was one riding on the back of this harlequin beetle.

A harlequin beetle with its elytra open and its wings coming out. There is a tiny pseudoscorpion riding on the back of the beetle's abdomen.

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Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 9d

I’ve always wanted to know her opinions on the Star Wars prequels

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Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 9d

She’s spent so much time falling upwards, I’m sure she genuinely believes she’s some kind of hard-hitting visionary

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 10d

I eat every scrap of skin and flesh off of chicken wings, then I eat the cartilaginous ends of the bones off and suck the marrow out.

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 11d

These are the same type of creeps who declared that the Kirk shooting was “our reichstag fire” so no, they don’t care

Jason Jong @plesiomorphy.bsky.social · 12d

Ironic that the Heritage Foundation sells a pocket constitution. I wonder if they’ve actually read it.

Pocket constitution, one dollar

This perfectly pocket-sized paper booklet holds two of the greatest statements of human liberty ever written: The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. These two documents are the highest achievements of our political tradition.