Melee Kalikimaka🎄🎁☃️♂
@jack-hoff.bsky.social
Civil servant, manga reader, pianist, and drummer, in no particular order.
Earth Supremacist, Space NIMBY.
Earth Supremacist, Space NIMBY.
Pinned
Saddam Hussein taught me—and a generation of crooks, thugs and warlords since him have reinforced the lesson—that whatever consequences may arise from doing so, eventually tyrants simply need to be killed.
If only I could've known at the time how lucky I was to be a member of the Class of '20.
Legit getting my college degree and my especially my Master's *right* before ChatGPT feels like taking the last helicopter out of Saigon in 1975
i feel like having a college degree issued pre-ChatGPT and everyone collectively losing their minds is going to be worth significantly more than post-AllThat degrees
December 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
If only I could've known at the time how lucky I was to be a member of the Class of '20.
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It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It’s wrong to lump all top Trump people in one category. There are differences among them. But they do seem to fall into three (sometimes overlapping) categories:
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
• Ordinary criminals (grift and corruption).
• Sex criminals.
• War criminals.
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My most boomer video game complaint is stop trying to make be fucking social, stop trying to get me buy a season pass, stop trying to funnel me to a ‘community’. Let me buy the videogame and play the videogame. Stop microagressing me by implying it’s weird to want to play alone.
November 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
My most boomer video game complaint is stop trying to make be fucking social, stop trying to get me buy a season pass, stop trying to funnel me to a ‘community’. Let me buy the videogame and play the videogame. Stop microagressing me by implying it’s weird to want to play alone.
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"The exact level of automation that society reached when I entered the workforce was perfect"
Bluesky has got to be one of the most technophobic, Luddite communities in internet history, right? What even comes close?
Blusekyism is real it’s just not the idiotic version Nate Silver hallucinated.
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"The exact level of automation that society reached when I entered the workforce was perfect"
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bulldoze connection to the rest of the building and throw gasoline inside, call it a day
If they ever get around to building this thing, it should be bulldozed on Day 1 of a new administration. No messing around, no hemming and hawing about procedure or costs. Order heavy equipment in and start knocking it down immediately, as surely as an overthrown tyrant's statues would be torn down.
Even the architect Trump hired to build his massive addition to the White House objects to the president's vision. The two have argued about the size of the 90,000-sq-foot project that would dwarf the mansion. @jonathanreports.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
bulldoze connection to the rest of the building and throw gasoline inside, call it a day
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I have a way with words it’s because Fallujah taught me everything about patience under fire, the heat rising off the pavement, the tight alleys. You learn to read the crowd when the air smells like citrus and soccer moms in leggings close in on a bundle of basil like it’s an objective on the map.
you have such a way with words armor port
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I have a way with words it’s because Fallujah taught me everything about patience under fire, the heat rising off the pavement, the tight alleys. You learn to read the crowd when the air smells like citrus and soccer moms in leggings close in on a bundle of basil like it’s an objective on the map.
European "leadership":
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
European "leadership":
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Friends, upon several years of reflection, I've reached the conclusion that conducting society-wide epistemic discussions on social justice and ethics solely over microblogging social medial platforms was, in a matter of speaking, "not very cash money."
November 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Friends, upon several years of reflection, I've reached the conclusion that conducting society-wide epistemic discussions on social justice and ethics solely over microblogging social medial platforms was, in a matter of speaking, "not very cash money."
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I'm reminded of the whole "Anne Frank was a privileged Becky, fuck her" discourse back on Twitter some years ago.
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I'm reminded of the whole "Anne Frank was a privileged Becky, fuck her" discourse back on Twitter some years ago.
And any carveout for what "doesn't qualify" as prejudice will inevitably be used against Jews, because antisemites love nothing more than to frame themselves as embattled heroes on a morally righteous crusade instead of the tiresome, lazy bigots they are.
every liberal sj maxim like "in the US, POC can't be racist against white Americans" has become entirely scavenged for tankie excuses like "you can't feel immoral prejudice against people with privileges" and "expectations of behavior are punitive unless they are & always have been applied equally"
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
And any carveout for what "doesn't qualify" as prejudice will inevitably be used against Jews, because antisemites love nothing more than to frame themselves as embattled heroes on a morally righteous crusade instead of the tiresome, lazy bigots they are.
Going to need to once again request a reduction in the volume of millenarian wishcasting for a near-future scenario in which the United States violently collapses as divine punishment for its sins, thereby ushering in an epoch of peace and prosperity and the end of reaction for all the rest of us.
November 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Going to need to once again request a reduction in the volume of millenarian wishcasting for a near-future scenario in which the United States violently collapses as divine punishment for its sins, thereby ushering in an epoch of peace and prosperity and the end of reaction for all the rest of us.
Do you know how crooked a bribe has to be for the Swiss to consider it too much?
Swiss politicians file a criminal complaint over a Rolex table clock and engraved gold bar presented to President Trump by business executives .
Swiss Lawmakers File Criminal Complaint Over Trump-Tariff Gifts
Swiss politicians filed a criminal complaint with the country’s top prosecutor over a Rolex table clock and an engraved gold bar presented to US President Donald Trump by business executives shortly before he agreed to cut tariffs on the country’s exports.
bloom.bg
November 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Do you know how crooked a bribe has to be for the Swiss to consider it too much?
Post something random or you'll have an awful December.
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Post something random or you'll have an awful December.
-Metallica
-Tool
-Hella Mega Tour (Weezer, Green Day + Fall Out Boy co-headlining)
-Red Hot Chili Peppers
-Moby
-Tool
-Hella Mega Tour (Weezer, Green Day + Fall Out Boy co-headlining)
-Red Hot Chili Peppers
-Moby
Ozzfest 2004 (Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Slayer)
Motorhead (with Corrosion of Conformity and Zeke)
Weird Al Yankovic
They Might Be Giants
Jonathan Coulton, at least six times
Motorhead (with Corrosion of Conformity and Zeke)
Weird Al Yankovic
They Might Be Giants
Jonathan Coulton, at least six times
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
Weird Al Yankovic
G3 (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Kenny Wayne Shepherd)
Ben Folds (Five) (x5)
Nine Inch Nails
Regina Spektor
Weird Al Yankovic
G3 (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Kenny Wayne Shepherd)
Ben Folds (Five) (x5)
Nine Inch Nails
Regina Spektor
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
-Metallica
-Tool
-Hella Mega Tour (Weezer, Green Day + Fall Out Boy co-headlining)
-Red Hot Chili Peppers
-Moby
-Tool
-Hella Mega Tour (Weezer, Green Day + Fall Out Boy co-headlining)
-Red Hot Chili Peppers
-Moby
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Even worse than it seems, given that Irish GDP figures are essentially meaningless.
On the surface, Eurozone growth looks pretty decent all things considered. But when looking under the hood, the picture worsens considerably:
- Ireland (4% of the EZ) accounts for 40% of growth
- Spain (10%) accounts for 20%
- Half of the Eurozone is growing at 0.5% or below
- Ireland (4% of the EZ) accounts for 40% of growth
- Spain (10%) accounts for 20%
- Half of the Eurozone is growing at 0.5% or below
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Even worse than it seems, given that Irish GDP figures are essentially meaningless.
A true Milkshake Duck Hall of Famer.
i feel like a lot of people haven’t really paid any attention to what jackie chan’s gotten up to in the last 10-15 years
this thing is going to be an all-timer flop for several reasons, assuming it gets made at all, which seems unlikely
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A true Milkshake Duck Hall of Famer.
Another misuse of words I need to bitch about: the use of "tech" to describe an umbrella of implicitly homogenous and interchangeable corporations which are, in reality, doing very different things from one another and not at all identical.
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Another misuse of words I need to bitch about: the use of "tech" to describe an umbrella of implicitly homogenous and interchangeable corporations which are, in reality, doing very different things from one another and not at all identical.
When people say "AI" with no further specification, 99% of the time the obvious implication is they're referring to LLMs and image, video and audio generators.
Replying "yet you play single-player videogames and use spam filters" to anyone saying they dislike AI is a deliberately obtuse misreading.
Replying "yet you play single-player videogames and use spam filters" to anyone saying they dislike AI is a deliberately obtuse misreading.
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
When people say "AI" with no further specification, 99% of the time the obvious implication is they're referring to LLMs and image, video and audio generators.
Replying "yet you play single-player videogames and use spam filters" to anyone saying they dislike AI is a deliberately obtuse misreading.
Replying "yet you play single-player videogames and use spam filters" to anyone saying they dislike AI is a deliberately obtuse misreading.
He's the creator of Flask and you're laughing. You're *laughing*.
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
He's the creator of Flask and you're laughing. You're *laughing*.
We will align ourselves with Western interests as much as we damn well please, Russian ball cupper.
Now consider that if Ireland continues to more aggressively align themselves with western interests (which have a positively amazing record of respecting national sovreignty) what would an opposing power feel the need to do to that subordinate state?
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
We will align ourselves with Western interests as much as we damn well please, Russian ball cupper.
At this point, you should be reacting to Republican threats of galactic martial law and repression they don't immediately act upon the same way you should be reacting to Russian nuclear bluffs: with a dismissive "not this shit again" eye roll.
Republicans will respond to this by threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act and send in the army and the navy and the marines and the royal dragoons and accusing everyone else of being spies and traitors and cowards, which is how they have responded to every single other fucking inconvenience.
CBS is reporting the suspect ID-ed as 29 year old Afghan national who entered US in 2021.
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
The path of likely demagoguery seems obvious from here.
www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
November 27, 2025 at 7:05 AM
At this point, you should be reacting to Republican threats of galactic martial law and repression they don't immediately act upon the same way you should be reacting to Russian nuclear bluffs: with a dismissive "not this shit again" eye roll.
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Ready for my $175000/yr paycheck to tell readers of the New Yorker what rural white people think about stuff
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Ready for my $175000/yr paycheck to tell readers of the New Yorker what rural white people think about stuff
"The Grudge"—Lateralus, Tool
"Holy Wars… The Punishment Due"—Rust in Peace, Megadeth
"Enter Sandman"—Metallica, Metallica
"Pull Me Under"—Images and Words, Dream Theater
"Runnin' with the Devil"—Van Halen, Van Halen
"Holy Wars… The Punishment Due"—Rust in Peace, Megadeth
"Enter Sandman"—Metallica, Metallica
"Pull Me Under"—Images and Words, Dream Theater
"Runnin' with the Devil"—Van Halen, Van Halen
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"The Grudge"—Lateralus, Tool
"Holy Wars… The Punishment Due"—Rust in Peace, Megadeth
"Enter Sandman"—Metallica, Metallica
"Pull Me Under"—Images and Words, Dream Theater
"Runnin' with the Devil"—Van Halen, Van Halen
"Holy Wars… The Punishment Due"—Rust in Peace, Megadeth
"Enter Sandman"—Metallica, Metallica
"Pull Me Under"—Images and Words, Dream Theater
"Runnin' with the Devil"—Van Halen, Van Halen
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