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Jared 🔶

@quantumjared.bsky.social

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UK physicist 👨🏻‍🔬 with a US partner, rock climber 🧗🏻‍♂️, social liberal 🧡, LGBTQ+ rights 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, YIMBY 🚆🏠 (he/him). Hoping the world doesn’t go fully to shit in the next five years 😬 PS: genocide apologia, transphobia, spam, & dickheadery will all get you blocked

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · Nov 17

I’m seeing a polar bear standing on a crescent iceberg in my morning coffee…

If this had been intentional I’d be very proud of myself! 😂

A top down view of a cup of coffee (latte style). Silhouetted in the pattern of white and brown is what looks like a polar bear on top of a white blob

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J. Smith @jooltman.bsky.social · 6h

The joy on Flatbush is palpable. People hooting, banging on pans, high fiving. Three young women crossing the avenue saying, “Cars are through! We’re taking the BUS!!!” #VoteZohran

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Spicy Bonus Content @spicybonuscontent.bsky.social · 7h

JONES: I have just been elected for my political beliefs

ME: Holy shit! You were elected for wanting to prosecute corruption?

J: LOL, not those beliefs

ME: So… ensuring free and fair elections?

J: Haha not those beliefs either

ME: Which beliefs, exactly?

J: Oh, you know the ones

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6h

regret to say I will probably get capital e Emotional when Mamdani and Sadiq eventually end up meeting

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phil @philjamesson.com · 6h

as a longtime cuomo hater, i would've been happy if he just lost. but him going full mask-off racist, begging the republicans to help, getting endorsed by trump and the elon musk, spending millions on millions of dollars, and getting drubbed anyway feels like a real Vampire Staking

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 6h

No he was a fucking monster

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 7h

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 12h

It turns out I was wrong about what the numbers were for, sorry for accidentally spreading misinformation!

(But that being said, the police could just subpoena Bluesky for the guy's IP address and email and get him that way, if they wanted to, it takes a lot of effort to be genuinely anonymous).

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 12h

My bad, I've looked it up and seen that the US doesn't have the same system. Some states do attach numbered stubs to ballots but don't have any way even in principle to connect them to a specific person.

(Still, there are many ways to ID some idiot posting ballots online! Like a subpoena to BSky)

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

My partner’s family is from NJ, it’s been wild the last few times I’ve visited watching things get more and more MAGA.

Not her parents though! Because they’re already MAGA 😭

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

He’s the mayor Gotham City deserves (complementary)

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 1d

“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

don't be silly, that's not a constraint

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

I think most young people are very experienced with showing ID at the till, seeing as that's also how you buy alcohol!

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 1d

Haha that's incredibly relatable

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 2d

That’s been my experience too, probably the confusion here is that only the larger shops will have cookware at all. But I’d expect any shop big enough to be selling saucepans to also sell knives.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 2d

It is? I don’t think it’s any more strenuous than buying alcohol.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 2d

I think it was a joke about the US’s current lawlessness haha

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libdemvoice.org @libdemvoice.org · 2d

What is a liberal party for? by @caronmlindsay.bsky.social. Some thoughts on party strategy and the controversy over diversity quotas. www.libdemvoice.org/what-is-a-li...

What is a liberal party for?

We've talked a lot about the changes the party has made to diversity quotas for the forthcoming presidential election this week. Presidential candidates Prue and Josh have had their say, as have Rebec...

www.libdemvoice.org

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I’m praising the whole team!

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 2d

And yet make sure it didn’t slow down a moment too soon as every second mattered.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 3d

It’s not free from “algorithm bullshit”, the following feed is an algorithm, everything is an algorithm.

The point is you get to choose a 3rd party feed and your own algorithm.

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Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t say that, the right wingers are already convinced the “fans” are going to take away the wind, or speed up the earth’s rotation, or something stupid 😂

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 3d

Just admit that you know nothing about science and hate progress.

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 3d

I’d say especially on long haul ones…because that’s where, as a 6ft tall person, I am going to really struggle if I don’t have any legroom.

Jared 🔶 @quantumjared.bsky.social · 4d

Bark Watney!