Jesse David Sykes
@jessedavidsykes.com
Software engineer for DHL Supply Chain (formerly Inmar Supply Chain Solutions)
Musician for Piedmont Opera and Winston-Salem Symphony Chorus
Writer for myself
Musician for Piedmont Opera and Winston-Salem Symphony Chorus
Writer for myself
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Jesse David Sykes
@jessedavidsykes.com
· Jan 20
Sorkin Exegesis
The blog in which we celebrate the Sorkinism phenomenon
sykesjd.github.io
Aight, let's give this Bluesky thing a shot.
Might I interest people in a form of light escapism? sykesjd.github.io/sorkin-exege...
Might I interest people in a form of light escapism? sykesjd.github.io/sorkin-exege...
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Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.
January 24, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.
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I'm an honest-to-God open migration guy, but I understand why people aren't. I do not understand the delight in a person weeping because they're being forced to leave or separated from a child, or any kind of joy taken in seeing someone upset to witness this sort of thing.
January 23, 2026 at 6:52 PM
I'm an honest-to-God open migration guy, but I understand why people aren't. I do not understand the delight in a person weeping because they're being forced to leave or separated from a child, or any kind of joy taken in seeing someone upset to witness this sort of thing.
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Trump To Europe: ‘Getting Greenland Was Mr. Dilbert’s Final Wish’
January 22, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Trump To Europe: ‘Getting Greenland Was Mr. Dilbert’s Final Wish’
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"All things being equal" lol I'm gonna stop you there
January 19, 2026 at 5:03 PM
"All things being equal" lol I'm gonna stop you there
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This isn't the most important thing now, but I'd love it if gov't agencies weren't allowed to post anything on social media but info. That could of course be done in better or worse ways but having the DHS make demands while addressing me as "citizen" is a repulsive encroachment on private life.
January 15, 2026 at 5:36 PM
This isn't the most important thing now, but I'd love it if gov't agencies weren't allowed to post anything on social media but info. That could of course be done in better or worse ways but having the DHS make demands while addressing me as "citizen" is a repulsive encroachment on private life.
I've not seen anyone else talk about is so I don't know if I'm alone on this, but I've always regarded software engineering to be as much an art as it is a science, and that it takes an artist to write truly good software.
January 15, 2026 at 12:09 PM
I've not seen anyone else talk about is so I don't know if I'm alone on this, but I've always regarded software engineering to be as much an art as it is a science, and that it takes an artist to write truly good software.
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I yearn for the days when the differences between liberals and leftists mattered.
January 14, 2026 at 2:23 AM
I yearn for the days when the differences between liberals and leftists mattered.
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Partisanship, though deplored by the Founders, was an inevitable result of the Constitution's design, just like a magnet instantly sorts iron filings to its poles. If all power goes to whoever gets 50% +1 votes, then people will form coalitions to get there.
Johnson surrendered the political gains that 100s of 1000s of soldiers had died for and still avoided an impeachment conviction. Even Nixon probably could have survived impeachment. It's never worked because this was one of those tools written before the framers understood partisanship existed.
January 7, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Partisanship, though deplored by the Founders, was an inevitable result of the Constitution's design, just like a magnet instantly sorts iron filings to its poles. If all power goes to whoever gets 50% +1 votes, then people will form coalitions to get there.
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Lord help me, the National Design Studio is back on their bullshit. realfood.gov This website weighs in at 16 (*six.* *teen.*) MB. The full game of the original DOOM was 12MB. 1/
America's New Dietary Guidelines
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans reset U.S. nutrition policy by restoring science, common sense, and real food as the foundation of national health.
realfood.gov
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Lord help me, the National Design Studio is back on their bullshit. realfood.gov This website weighs in at 16 (*six.* *teen.*) MB. The full game of the original DOOM was 12MB. 1/
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Put otherwise: a world of countries behaving themselves, trading, and just more or less getting along should be the goal. In the long run, everyone wins in a world of boring, boring abundance.
January 6, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Put otherwise: a world of countries behaving themselves, trading, and just more or less getting along should be the goal. In the long run, everyone wins in a world of boring, boring abundance.
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Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans
December 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans
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Hegseth’s Pentagon “renaming” these bases after obscure veterans with the same names as the Confederates the bases were originally named for has all the subtlety of a school bully putting his hand in your face and yelling “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!”
December 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Hegseth’s Pentagon “renaming” these bases after obscure veterans with the same names as the Confederates the bases were originally named for has all the subtlety of a school bully putting his hand in your face and yelling “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!”
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Annual reminder:
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
December 14, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Annual reminder:
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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The only throughline to me seems a desire to preserve an imaginary past. For a certain type of conservative, that's happy peasants living off the land locally. For a certain type of leftist, it's happy peasants living off the land that they can visit on a backpacking trip.
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The only throughline to me seems a desire to preserve an imaginary past. For a certain type of conservative, that's happy peasants living off the land locally. For a certain type of leftist, it's happy peasants living off the land that they can visit on a backpacking trip.
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I know not everyone is down for free trade and open immigration, but separate from the particulars, it's both sad and scary to me that every day Earth's countries seem to be closing the doors. There's plenty to complain about with the post-WWII order, but also so many good things taken for granted.
December 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I know not everyone is down for free trade and open immigration, but separate from the particulars, it's both sad and scary to me that every day Earth's countries seem to be closing the doors. There's plenty to complain about with the post-WWII order, but also so many good things taken for granted.
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"We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline".
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline".
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Realtalk:
Cornbread should not be sweet! If you want cake, eat cake. Cornbread is a carb-slab meant to be paired with stronger flavors like buttermilk or greens fried in grease.
Cornbread should not be sweet! If you want cake, eat cake. Cornbread is a carb-slab meant to be paired with stronger flavors like buttermilk or greens fried in grease.
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Realtalk:
Cornbread should not be sweet! If you want cake, eat cake. Cornbread is a carb-slab meant to be paired with stronger flavors like buttermilk or greens fried in grease.
Cornbread should not be sweet! If you want cake, eat cake. Cornbread is a carb-slab meant to be paired with stronger flavors like buttermilk or greens fried in grease.
Shooter: *worked for the CIA*
Trump: "Fuckin' immigrants, man..."
We have a deeply unserious man in the White House.
Trump: "Fuckin' immigrants, man..."
We have a deeply unserious man in the White House.
President Donald Trump vowed on Thanksgiving to "permanently pause migration" from poorer nations in a blistering late-night, anti-immigrant screed posted to social media. n.pr/4rqeWIA
Trump vows to 'permanently pause' migration from poor nations in social media screed
President Donald Trump vowed on Thanksgiving to "permanently pause migration" from poorer nations in a blistering late-night, anti-immigrant screed posted to social media.
n.pr
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Shooter: *worked for the CIA*
Trump: "Fuckin' immigrants, man..."
We have a deeply unserious man in the White House.
Trump: "Fuckin' immigrants, man..."
We have a deeply unserious man in the White House.
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Saying anything the administration does is a distraction from the Epstein files is like saying a psychopath commits mass murder to distract from their tax returns.
September 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Saying anything the administration does is a distraction from the Epstein files is like saying a psychopath commits mass murder to distract from their tax returns.
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Free trade, open borders, Mexi-Korean Halal trucks on every corner.
November 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Free trade, open borders, Mexi-Korean Halal trucks on every corner.
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Dunno if I'm alone in this but I've noticed that when I encounter someone who is actually, for real, straightforwardly racist... I tend to assume there's something else going on? Like surely the answer isn't simply "they hate these people." Like they're trying to be edgy or performative.
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Dunno if I'm alone in this but I've noticed that when I encounter someone who is actually, for real, straightforwardly racist... I tend to assume there's something else going on? Like surely the answer isn't simply "they hate these people." Like they're trying to be edgy or performative.
Even more relevant now that Texas voters have apparently decided teen suicide rates aren't high enough for their liking.
I would like to propose a new amendment to the Constitution:
"The right of the people to access medical care shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State."
I'll wait - but not for long.
"The right of the people to access medical care shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State."
I'll wait - but not for long.
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Even more relevant now that Texas voters have apparently decided teen suicide rates aren't high enough for their liking.
Unpopular opinion: you fundamentally cannot trust an institution to care for people's lives when that same institution is in the business of convincing those people that things will be better for them in "the next life".
Indiana's Christian nationalist Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith says "it's not the government's job to feed people" and so tens of millions of people losing SNAP benefits because of the government shutdown represents "a great opportunity for the local church to step up."
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Unpopular opinion: you fundamentally cannot trust an institution to care for people's lives when that same institution is in the business of convincing those people that things will be better for them in "the next life".