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Jared Johnson is ready for Christmas, dammit
@jaredparker.bsky.social
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Former Christian fundie trying to redirect his idealism toward more humane ends. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. John Hodgman once told me I was just daddin’ it up. he/him
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising.”

(Congrats to the CBS advertising department)
December 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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mementomorty.bsky.social
And we deserve backpay, Mark
December 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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lilcutiebutt.bsky.social
Congrats to our outstanding alumni: Hitler, MechaHitler, The People’s Justice, and Melissa
December 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
jaredparker.bsky.social
Y’all are a real buncha dipshits, you know that right
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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hurricanexyz.bsky.social
My grandfather wrote, during the Nixon impeachment, that it was improper for there to be public opinion polls on questions of impeachment. The matter is for Congress to decide, itself, using its own honor and judgment.

Obviously that feels quaint now, but like...
December 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
jaredparker.bsky.social
Now I’m gonna be thinking about this for a while because I’m SURE it’s been done
December 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Flights remain congested and often unpleasant.

But that misses the point that airlines core businesses are not flying planes. It is to build lounges so that people use their credit cards. And on that count, they have been incredible innovators. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Credit-card deals have become the core of the airline industry. During the pandemic, United’s mileage program, built around its partnership with Chase, was valued at around twenty billion dollars; the rest of the business—the passenger part—was ten billion dollars underwater. Annually, charges on Delta’s American Express cards total about one per cent of the U.S. G.D.P. (“It’s amazing how much money people will spend for a free flight,” Harteveldt observed.) In most years, the programs account for much of the airlines’ profits. This year, Delta’s card will earn the company eight billion dollars. Why do people sign up for the cards? “Lounge access is the No. 1 reason,” a Delta executive recently said, of their Reserve card. Since the airline business is largely a credit-card-loyalty business, and since the credit-card-loyalty business is largely a lounge business, it’s only a minor stretch to think of Delta or United as lounge companies that also fly planes. In Atlanta alone, there are two lounges that together cost more than a hundred million dollars to build.
December 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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rpxadair.bsky.social
A(in’t)
I (a stinker?)
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM