Nice Joe Green
@alexfrompgh.bsky.social
An affable fellow IRL.
Likes: coffee, whisky, rewilding, socialism, & the Utah Jazz.
Dislikes: tradition, borders, nazis, & left turn arrows.
Chaotic good.
Likes: coffee, whisky, rewilding, socialism, & the Utah Jazz.
Dislikes: tradition, borders, nazis, & left turn arrows.
Chaotic good.
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🚨Imagine ICE conducting a raid on your PRIVATE PROPERTY.🚨
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
🚨Imagine ICE conducting a raid on your PRIVATE PROPERTY.🚨
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
Pretty sure all my friends who hung around long enough to hit it big all had wealthy parents to keep them going through all the mistakes and to ride out the industry ups and downs.
If you have ever thought that my journalism or my first book were net positives for the world, understand that they probably would not exist if I did not have a spouse who paid the mortgage. If I'd been a solo earner/parent, I likely would have left criticism, journalism or book writing long ago.
And the folks who are actually writing full-time generally only got there after years of day jobs, family support, or both.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
The point of sharing this is not to demoralize anyone, but to let emerging writers know they're not failing if they can't make a living off writing alone. Almost no one can.
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Pretty sure all my friends who hung around long enough to hit it big all had wealthy parents to keep them going through all the mistakes and to ride out the industry ups and downs.
Pecan pie is the best and the only bad pie is cherry, everything else has a time and place.
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pecan pie is the best and the only bad pie is cherry, everything else has a time and place.
Ah, it's my favorite time of year where I bang my head against the hardest brick wall I can find while I try to navigate America's godawful health insurance industry.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Ah, it's my favorite time of year where I bang my head against the hardest brick wall I can find while I try to navigate America's godawful health insurance industry.
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Socialism for fascists, violence for everyone else
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Socialism for fascists, violence for everyone else
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One of the very many reasons physical media can't be beat right now.
Buy cookbooks. (take them out from the library! buy fifteen cookbooks from your local goodwill for five bucks!)
Buy cookbooks. (take them out from the library! buy fifteen cookbooks from your local goodwill for five bucks!)
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
One of the very many reasons physical media can't be beat right now.
Buy cookbooks. (take them out from the library! buy fifteen cookbooks from your local goodwill for five bucks!)
Buy cookbooks. (take them out from the library! buy fifteen cookbooks from your local goodwill for five bucks!)
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
Jazz fans, next season would you rather have a starting lineup of:
A) Key/Ace/Lauri/CAM/Walker
B) DARRYN/Key/Ace/Lauri/Walker
C) Key/Ace/Lauri/CALEB/Walker
D) Key/AJ/Ace/Lauri/Walker
Or E): Other
A) Key/Ace/Lauri/CAM/Walker
B) DARRYN/Key/Ace/Lauri/Walker
C) Key/Ace/Lauri/CALEB/Walker
D) Key/AJ/Ace/Lauri/Walker
Or E): Other
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Jazz fans, next season would you rather have a starting lineup of:
A) Key/Ace/Lauri/CAM/Walker
B) DARRYN/Key/Ace/Lauri/Walker
C) Key/Ace/Lauri/CALEB/Walker
D) Key/AJ/Ace/Lauri/Walker
Or E): Other
A) Key/Ace/Lauri/CAM/Walker
B) DARRYN/Key/Ace/Lauri/Walker
C) Key/Ace/Lauri/CALEB/Walker
D) Key/AJ/Ace/Lauri/Walker
Or E): Other
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Carrick. Bertram Ave. Caller said they got a call that ICE picked up her roommate and they need $15,000 to be released. Caller wants to know more information.
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Carrick. Bertram Ave. Caller said they got a call that ICE picked up her roommate and they need $15,000 to be released. Caller wants to know more information.
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Musk is too inarticulate and too slow to come up with anything witty so he's got an app to do it for him. I can't think of anything more sad than asking your phone to knock out a yo mamma joke aimed at a random stranger at a party because you're incapable. Who invites this dweeb to parties anyway?
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Musk is too inarticulate and too slow to come up with anything witty so he's got an app to do it for him. I can't think of anything more sad than asking your phone to knock out a yo mamma joke aimed at a random stranger at a party because you're incapable. Who invites this dweeb to parties anyway?
Legend has it that every twenty years or so the Chicago Bears field a good team. As with most superstitions I was dubious about it but I just looked at the standings for the first time this season and now I might be a believer.
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Legend has it that every twenty years or so the Chicago Bears field a good team. As with most superstitions I was dubious about it but I just looked at the standings for the first time this season and now I might be a believer.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Really fun final minutes. As much as I'd like to see the Jazz beat the Lakers, doing all they can to get a top 5 pick is more important.
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Really fun final minutes. As much as I'd like to see the Jazz beat the Lakers, doing all they can to get a top 5 pick is more important.
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R.I.P. Udo Kier (1944—2025)
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
R.I.P. Udo Kier (1944—2025)
Weapons was fun but in the same way that Hereditary made me want to rewatch Kill List, Weapons made me want to rewatch Sightseers which reinforces my belief that more people need to watch Ben Wheatley's early films.
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Weapons was fun but in the same way that Hereditary made me want to rewatch Kill List, Weapons made me want to rewatch Sightseers which reinforces my belief that more people need to watch Ben Wheatley's early films.
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“Being complicit in criminal stuff and not standing up to bad people doing bad things carries possible risk of consequences for use of free will—
Even if you were —
say it with me —
just following orders.
News at 11.”
Even if you were —
say it with me —
just following orders.
News at 11.”
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to haunt them with the possibility of criminal prosecutions.Worse still is their growing belief that the b...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
“Being complicit in criminal stuff and not standing up to bad people doing bad things carries possible risk of consequences for use of free will—
Even if you were —
say it with me —
just following orders.
News at 11.”
Even if you were —
say it with me —
just following orders.
News at 11.”
Do I even want to know why everyone is talking about felching all the sudden?
November 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Do I even want to know why everyone is talking about felching all the sudden?
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It is very hard to overstate the evil of the fossil fuel industry.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
U.N. climate talks fizzle out 10 years after Paris accord
Nearly 200 countries at the U.N. climate summit reached a deal that didn’t include a road map to curtail use of fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It is very hard to overstate the evil of the fossil fuel industry.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
When people finally do figure it out, it may be too late to undo the damage.
Kinda wish I'd finished the 13th century werewolf script I'd started 10 years ago. 🤷♂️
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Kinda wish I'd finished the 13th century werewolf script I'd started 10 years ago. 🤷♂️
Save The Cat and screenwriting gurus the world over really have rotted the brains of so many potentially good writers.
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Save The Cat and screenwriting gurus the world over really have rotted the brains of so many potentially good writers.
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The only way we crawl out of this with a shred of respect, both for ourselves and from others, is to impose extremely harsh punishments on every member of this administration and many Republican members of congress (easy to do because they are all so corrupt).
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The only way we crawl out of this with a shred of respect, both for ourselves and from others, is to impose extremely harsh punishments on every member of this administration and many Republican members of congress (easy to do because they are all so corrupt).
Now watching: Weapons
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Now watching: Weapons