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Jim Mayfield

@bigpoison.bsky.social

Data and word wrangler near the Salish Sound. Globalist Libtard. Reply Guy. (He, him, get over it)

created June 11, 2023

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Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

You know. Those...deaths.

1/9/2025, 10:45:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

85% of stolen cars are recovered...35% on the day-of. Most likely, not totaled like this one.

1/9/2025, 10:43:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

I am not at all surprised the Trump can APPEAR to be so in person. Gullible might be a better description Jr. in this instance.

1/9/2025, 8:38:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Cynicism is undermining us. And those theories are just one manifestation of that cynicism.

1/9/2025, 7:30:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah. "They" really should have lovingly embraced the candidate who offered the ethnic cleansing with better catering.

1/9/2025, 7:13:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

FWIW is routinely associated with those and other similar events. Great song...well-tuned for its era.

1/9/2025, 6:37:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Buffalo Springfield recorded it in 1966. It went to #7 on the Billboard 100 in 1967. It was written about November 1966 protests against a curfew on Sunset Strip (Hollywood.)

1/9/2025, 6:27:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah. The AI did it!

1/9/2025, 6:11:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Every little bit helps, no?

1/9/2025, 1:18:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

“Prophecy?” I’m pretty sure hubris, recklessness, chaos, and unaccountability were already well established in her time.

1/9/2025, 1:06:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m afraid that white people droning “shame” are not going to save us.

1/9/2025, 6:50:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

What event are you referring to?

1/9/2025, 6:34:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Wut? Do you have a reference to LBJ's attempted ban on the song and the SCOTUS "fight?"

1/9/2025, 6:30:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Confusing age effects with cohort effects is a mistake.

1/9/2025, 6:23:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

um...neat.

1/9/2025, 6:17:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

What responsibility looks like.

1/9/2025, 4:36:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Cities…blue cities in red states.

1/9/2025, 4:32:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Truly a man for all four seasons.

31/8/2025, 11:19:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, yes. Putting a a team of cops in every corner will tend to reduce street crime. This is not the science of rockets.

31/8/2025, 11:08:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, THAT'S what we should be emphasizing, not simply whether or not it is enforceable.

31/8/2025, 8:14:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

I prefer medical professionals who are partial to evidence-based practices.

31/8/2025, 7:59:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

The value (to MAGA) of the EO is not undermined by your finding it unconstitutional. It's purpose is to further undermine trust in our elections and provide political cover and direction to Red State officials who control red state elections

31/8/2025, 7:58:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Impartiality is a only virtue in courtrooms and pie contests.

31/8/2025, 7:40:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

No. Actually coercing them to obey the EO would be the Constitutional violation. Blue states will ignore this one. Red States will volunteer...

31/8/2025, 7:36:57 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey, they basically kicked off a comment with "the far left is as insufferable as the far right." Interpreting that as "the far left is as bad as the far right" may be a mistake, but probably not a lie. I think they both deserve a Bluesky Demerrit!

31/8/2025, 7:28:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

"Signed anonymously?"

31/8/2025, 6:51:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

I just did. I believe the triggering combo of letters is "Far anything is insufferable." It's right there in the lead-in. Some folks will have a hard time getting past that...and I can't really blame them these days.

31/8/2025, 6:48:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

What is the twuncy twast twiddler going on about? Wonder Bread and its equivalents are still widely available.

31/8/2025, 6:43:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

I noted for Harris and before her Biden and Clinton. Just fyi, sport.

31/8/2025, 4:31:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Jesus…

31/8/2025, 4:05:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

The EO, itself isn’t “unconstitutional.” It’s just a piece of paper…but it’s a piece of paper that undermines faith in our elections and gives red-state officials political cover to exercise their state and local authority over their elections in a way that serves Trump.

31/8/2025, 4:03:35 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Gaza was destroyed while Biden was still in office. But yeah. They should have lovingly embraced the candidate who offered ethnic cleansing with better catering. It’s really all their fault.

31/8/2025, 3:54:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

My pointing being…they aren’t Proud Boys or III-percenters, they are American LEOs, who we’ve been militarizing since 9-11. And Americans voted for an authoritarian 2024 because one 3rd of us are MAGA and another 3rd are cynical dopes.

31/8/2025, 3:39:01 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

They ARE cops. This is American policing on a bigger budget. This is what we made for ourselves.

31/8/2025, 8:01:21 AM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

A good money belt tucked in your pants does the trick.

31/8/2025, 7:38:02 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Ask him “how many” then!

31/8/2025, 7:30:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

The world’s biggest proven petroleum reserves.

31/8/2025, 1:30:24 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

That is a testable hypothesis. Do it and report the results.

31/8/2025, 1:26:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

AI evangelicals and AI Luddites deserve each other.

31/8/2025, 1:25:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

High school is free.

30/8/2025, 11:49:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, c'mon! We don't need a WoQAnon.

30/8/2025, 10:00:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Go back to Twitter.

30/8/2025, 9:12:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Just take the L.

30/8/2025, 8:24:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Would be a pretty heavy lift to charge non-cooperation as obstruction. Don’t see that happening. What WILL happen is Trump will flood Blue cities with federal officers and National Guard…and take away federal funding.

30/8/2025, 8:23:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

No. The Constitution is doing that work. In this case, the legitimacy of their actions is determined by the Constitution, not local ordinances.

30/8/2025, 8:19:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

They are correct…if the feds are performing legit, federally authorized duties.

30/8/2025, 8:16:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

30/8/2025, 8:14:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s pretty well established that state/local governments cannot interfere with federal officials performing federally authorized (constitutional) activities.

30/8/2025, 8:12:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Correct. Unless a federal statute says otherwise

30/8/2025, 8:09:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s pretty well-established that states cannot control or impede the legitimate exercise of federal authority — McCulloch v. Maryland (1819).

30/8/2025, 8:08:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah. Yes, they must obey state and local laws, but they CAN ignore any local police ordinance (e.g. mandatory body cams) that interferes with their federal law enforcement role.

30/8/2025, 7:53:25 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

wut?

30/8/2025, 7:41:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

If your cynicism was justified, Kilmar would still be in El Salvador or would already be in Uganda.

30/8/2025, 7:36:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

At least locals will know when they are dealing with local LEOs

30/8/2025, 7:33:17 PM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

An example to keep in your back pocket: patrons in a small bar have an average and median net wealth of $10,000. (Half of them have $10,000 or less). Musk and a Buddhist monk walk into the bar. The average wealth is now in the billions, but the median is still $10,000.

30/8/2025, 7:30:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

MAGA occupies the White House, Congress, many State Houses, and governor mansions. The far left in American posts on social media.

30/8/2025, 6:06:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s why median is a better measure of income distribution

30/8/2025, 5:56:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Nope. Half of all households are at or below the median income. Musk earning more doesn’t change that half-way point.

30/8/2025, 5:54:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

That raises average income, not the median.

30/8/2025, 5:45:57 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Pretty sure that should read “Medicaid”

30/8/2025, 2:09:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Not really the historical hill to die on. Fvck Lee.

30/8/2025, 5:35:36 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait until you hear about alcohol

30/8/2025, 5:28:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

What is a "public health epidemic"

29/8/2025, 8:11:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

France Libre

29/8/2025, 7:14:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

“Washington State revokes ICE access to driver’s license data.”

28/8/2025, 5:56:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Thought, prayers, and ivermectin

28/8/2025, 5:53:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

And the recruits will be issued the best footwear.

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28/8/2025, 5:21:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

"The Tom Clancy." Nope. Didn't work.

28/8/2025, 4:09:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

The reverse side of their Gadsden flag says "Tread on Them."

28/8/2025, 2:30:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes. Some, if not all. It's still tax revenue.

27/8/2025, 7:53:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Found it…

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27/8/2025, 3:31:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Some practical evidence would be cool.

27/8/2025, 7:49:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

"I'm in Scandinavia..."

27/8/2025, 7:33:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Um...Bernie actually does politics. Do that.

27/8/2025, 7:03:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, totally.

27/8/2025, 3:12:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Thanks for the respectful convo, friend.

27/8/2025, 3:05:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

"Drop of a hat?" Describe one "dropped hat" that meaningfully changed the outcome of an election.

27/8/2025, 12:30:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

All this hand-ringing about the supposed Balkanization of Dem voters is also rather fatiguing...and counter productive. The "big tent" includes everyone who believes people should be treated with dignity...full stop. Let's embrace that.

27/8/2025, 12:19:52 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm blocked from the original post and my comment, which characterized it as "tax revenue"

27/8/2025, 12:01:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

What a great moral booster!

26/8/2025, 11:28:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Um…that’s why I called it a tax.

26/8/2025, 10:32:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

How is that wrong? How else does a tariff work?

26/8/2025, 9:19:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Paid my American importers. It's an import tax. Import taxes paid to the treasury are tax revenue.

26/8/2025, 9:03:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay. Thanks for the good-faith and respectful convo.

26/8/2025, 9:02:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

AI does not do "basics" well. To everyone's amusement and to the satisfaction of the AI Luddite community, it makes mistakes. But it can do complicated, yet tedious, things REALLY really fast...imperfectly, but fast. And that's okay. Interns are much slower and also imperfect. I check their work.

26/8/2025, 8:56:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow. The North Korean applause at the end...

26/8/2025, 8:40:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Okay. I'll leave it at "There IS revenue. American importers write checks to the treasury." Those checks are tax revenue.

26/8/2025, 8:37:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Doing things faster isn't a technical solution, it is a gain in efficiency. If people are using AI to solve their technical problems, that not an AI issue, that's a people issue. AI doesn't make me worse at what I do, it makes me faster. As for collaboration...again, that's not AI's fault.

26/8/2025, 8:35:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

There IS revenue. American importers write checks to the treasury. But, yeah. A dividend check won't buy as much as it would would have pre-tariff.

26/8/2025, 7:43:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

The party of income redistribution

26/8/2025, 7:40:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s not because of the words Dems supposedly use too much, tho.

26/8/2025, 5:01:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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26/8/2025, 4:29:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They already think I’m driving a Soros-funded Antifa bus.

26/8/2025, 2:40:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

They aren’t moved by the “hypocrisy” argument. We need to move on from that.

26/8/2025, 2:12:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ve found it useful for knocking ideas around, especially after the world moved to Zoom and I don’t have those of chats in the hallway anymore.

26/8/2025, 2:11:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

You’ve never bounced an idea around with someone less versed in your field?

26/8/2025, 2:08:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

They don't notice any tradeoffs between the material and the hot buttons. It's just the cultural war.

26/8/2025, 9:02:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

The judge gave them a timeline.

26/8/2025, 8:17:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

Human dignity is a single issue.

26/8/2025, 8:01:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jim Mayfield (@bigpoison.bsky.social) reply parent

The "intellectual" version of the "cat litter boxes in school bathrooms" moral panic.

26/8/2025, 7:54:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view