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JaySinWA

@jaysinwa.bsky.social

Retired Software Developer. Balloon Juice Jackel also at https://universeodon.com/@JaySinWA occasionally lurking at https://x.com/JaySinWA

created October 19, 2023

522 followers 1,622 following 406 posts

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Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump announces that he is in fact the anti-Christ.

2/9/2025, 2:58:13 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

My ankles are the size of cantaloupes because of my fabulous golf workouts.

2/9/2025, 2:49:43 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social)

As long as the GOP supports RFK Jr, they are responsible for the results of his actions. The President or congress under GOP control has the power to remove him.

29/8/2025, 10:25:09 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Plague Poems (@plaguepoems.bsky.social) reposted

My aunt, the doctor, told me a new joke. She asked: What did those who saw this coming pray for? I said I did not know. And so she answered: Those who saw this coming prayed that they’d be wrong. And then neither of us laughed.

29/8/2025, 5:40:45 PM | 240 46 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I think the author went a negative too far, and that first sentence doesn't say what they think it says.

29/8/2025, 7:44:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture xbigdunkx.bsky.social (@xbigdunkx.bsky.social) reposted

These two men have proven one thing without a doubt. If you are born wealthy in America no amount of stupidity, lies, or fraud will limit your opportunities. You can fail upwards to the very highest levels of power as long as you have no shame.

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28/8/2025, 8:37:37 PM | 1000 312 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Soylent Green is coming to store shelves soon.

29/8/2025, 7:22:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

This baby boomer goes "What?"

29/8/2025, 6:41:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted

My play-by-play of the hearing on Lisa Cook’s request for a temporary restraining order, now up on our site: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

29/8/2025, 5:46:28 PM | 249 76 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Sure, Tony's showgirl digital assistant Lola was accosted by a guy. His name was RICO, he wore a diamond.

29/8/2025, 5:28:29 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Last I heard, he was fighting a massive revenue shortfall.

29/8/2025, 5:20:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Isn't that just basic prep for going before a judge?

29/8/2025, 4:51:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Fred Guttenberg (@fredguttenberg.bsky.social) reposted

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29/8/2025, 4:10:01 PM | 5373 1804 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not sure you can affix the blame for an AI going wrong on a single dev or a small enough group of devs to make that liability work. There are teams working with libraries of code and corpuses of training material. Who gets what part of the blame?

28/8/2025, 5:06:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I suspect the cat is considering shredding it.

27/8/2025, 3:52:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

So many MOTU's see this as an opportunity not to change the Universe but to exploit the new Universe.

27/8/2025, 3:44:41 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

CEO's are thinking about how to profit from this.

27/8/2025, 3:33:48 AM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Are we going to do an analysis of the Star Trek economy?

27/8/2025, 3:02:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I didn't realize Charlie Kirk was a whaler back in the day.

27/8/2025, 2:58:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

That doesn't match what I understand he did in DC. There the performative stuff is being done in areas that white people frequent. It's done to get news coverage and show "his people" that he is there for them. Maybe other targets will be different.

25/8/2025, 5:42:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

"Scavengers ravage New York", "Socialist rampage, directed by Mamdani", "Mamdani marauders scour city for historical landmarks". So many possibilities.

25/8/2025, 3:35:05 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

At first blush, I thought this might have come out as something from "Digging the WeUns" (apparently not). It shows up in the urban dictionary with a reference from 2005. (Pronounced you-ess-ee-yen) www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...

25/8/2025, 3:22:21 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Reducing virtue and integrity to "no gays" seems like a very Spartan viewpoint. /s

24/8/2025, 10:14:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey, there are a whole bunch of scavengers running rampant. Katie bar the door.

24/8/2025, 10:01:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Do they know about night? Supposedly that's their argument against solar power. Isn't this just solar power?

20/8/2025, 3:00:49 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Epistemic closure?

19/8/2025, 8:35:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I call it the gilded cage.

19/8/2025, 8:29:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

It may be a transactional thing. They think they are going to get better ego stroking from the robot than they will from people. Or maybe the novelty effect, they have lost any respect for people that they may have had, but this is shiny new.

19/8/2025, 7:17:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I read caving as craving at first. Not sure it was wrong.

18/8/2025, 4:50:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

You are the tyrant that I've always dreamed of I knew it from the start I saw your face and that's the last I've seen of my heart [Outro] I saw your face and that's the last I've seen of my heart Of my heart Ooh, of my heart

18/8/2025, 4:41:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe they use the same autopen?

16/8/2025, 10:12:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

That sounds like a dunk tank with a mesh sling seat.

16/8/2025, 9:29:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

can we expect Taser equipped FBI agents to conduct "Tase me bro" training sessions? With Kash demonstrating is endurance?

16/8/2025, 7:24:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

sub tweeting

14/8/2025, 10:24:20 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social)

Beans, beans, the magical fruit. The more you chew the less you puke.

14/8/2025, 9:37:55 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I fell into a burnin' ring of fire I went down, down, down And the flames went higher And it burns, burns, burns The ring of fire, the ring of fire

14/8/2025, 9:27:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Reference to Pew poll bsky.app/profile/djso...

14/8/2025, 9:19:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I sense another polling company lawfare attack coming.

14/8/2025, 9:06:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social)

Pew! Pew! Pew! goes the polling!

14/8/2025, 8:51:54 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

So it's likely to be a bust out?

14/8/2025, 8:29:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

It will be ICE protecting us from the alien invaders. muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Pigs_in...

14/8/2025, 8:23:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, thanks, the person arrested accounted for 2 infractions, so that makes sense.

14/8/2025, 6:22:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

"28 were stopped, 38 infractions were issued" How do you issue an infraction without a corresponding stop?

14/8/2025, 6:14:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Au contraire, our history has taught us that we can get everything we want from the rest of the non-english speaking world just by saying things loudly and forcefully. Even people like Putin will give us totally unbiased translators for free. Who even needs Google Translate?

14/8/2025, 6:11:06 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

You need to include bribes and account for illegal construction. Throw in inspections and tear downs when neighbors complain.

14/8/2025, 4:25:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

The select We'ans saved in the space arks will naturally include "lucky" consorts and life time servants to keep the VIP Billionaires happy.

14/8/2025, 4:18:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

After looking up tactical baby gear, thankfully they appear to lack shoulder holsters, and ammo storage. I see some do include Molle straps. These seem like holders for little human shields or REMF gear.

14/8/2025, 3:47:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Here you go.

14/8/2025, 1:04:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this a cuck joke?

13/8/2025, 6:44:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

While the article's story is about a very bad event, the summary written by the poster is grossly incorrect. The server tried to eject the customer from the restroom (not hinder her from leaving) under the assumption she was male, and did not insist she expose herself to prove she wasn't.

12/8/2025, 10:38:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I expect many are hearing that there is money to be had running against her to stuff in their campaign coffers, given the text messages you are getting.

12/8/2025, 6:44:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

So the MPD is directing them to be busy in ineffectual ways? Resistance!

12/8/2025, 4:50:13 AM | 22 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

As the X-files poster says "I want to believe"

12/8/2025, 4:44:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

77 here north of Seattle. Relatives south of Portland were in the 90's while we were in the 80's this afternoon. Take care down there.

12/8/2025, 4:39:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

It's kind of the inverse of what I understood pitching woo to mean. Although there is a horse shoe theory of love and hate. /s

12/8/2025, 4:34:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

New Hampshire seems to be embracing the "or die" part of the "live free or die" motto

12/8/2025, 3:44:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess we are stuck with sub-version.

12/8/2025, 3:27:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social)

I hadn't heard of proposals for "teacher housing" [ghettos for teachers?] but checking, I see that it already exists to some extent. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

11/8/2025, 7:14:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social)

He's building the gilded cage. Who will be the bird? Is it him? www.lyricsondemand.com/t/traditiona...

10/8/2025, 4:45:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social)

Trump is constantly demonstrating that he has no sense of gilt.

10/8/2025, 1:05:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

It looks a little like the Union during the Civil War.

9/8/2025, 4:13:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Is this the Spherical cow joke?

8/8/2025, 6:05:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Patriot front has moved on from U-Haul after Idaho?

7/8/2025, 12:22:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Wasn't there some kerfuffle about Clinton meeting someone on the tarmac? This of course is behind closed doors, like any good, non conspiratorial meeting should be.

6/8/2025, 5:01:54 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

So who is Trump going to fire now?

5/8/2025, 10:17:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

The answer to a headline ending with a question mark is always no [said someone smart that I can't remember who to credit.]

5/8/2025, 10:09:07 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I swear some of these reporters are manifesting bad behavior just by fishing for clickbait. Did Trump ever think of [some bizarre hypo]? [bizarre hypo] becomes a possibility because of press repetition.

5/8/2025, 9:20:04 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

VBSA (Vaccine Bull Shit Artist) is probably too long.

4/8/2025, 5:05:21 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... NIH article using vaccine hesitancy .

4/8/2025, 4:56:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Unfortunately the term vaccine resistance has already infected a large portion of the media. I see NIH has used Vaccine Hesitancy, and I believe that (or hesitance) is a term I've heard doctors using.

4/8/2025, 4:53:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Reagan / Iran-Contra might be a more reasonable catalyst for Fox news than Watergate.

2/8/2025, 5:36:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

It took from 1973 to 1996 to respond to Watergate? CNN was established in 1980 and seems a more natural cause for a Fox response, but still a slow one.

2/8/2025, 5:26:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Lumps of coal in your Christmas stockings will warm your heart!

1/8/2025, 2:06:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Sorry, I forgot about Nosferatu. Never mind.

30/7/2025, 1:25:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Subtweeting a blood sucking billionaire?

30/7/2025, 1:14:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) reposted

the thing about marketplaces is that you get marketing

29/7/2025, 11:30:26 AM | 98 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Silverman on Security (@silvermansecurity.bsky.social) reposted

Very important 🧵!!!!

26/7/2025, 6:38:10 PM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

You say that like it is a bad thing. Seems like a concrete solution to a CEO who can't see the big picture. Of course it would be bad if they took out an innocent driver instead of a concrete wall, and probably more likely.

24/7/2025, 3:56:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

"as driving a car and piloting a boat/plane/spaceship are so different" I suppose current Teslas don't qualify as Land Yachts yet. But seriously, I don't see the difference as being significant in this context.

23/7/2025, 4:46:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

That's pillow talk.

20/7/2025, 3:28:42 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

CHOCOLATE GREEN IS NOT PEOPLE! (probably)

20/7/2025, 1:42:06 AM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Government reports "Eight year old feigns death to avoid subway horrors."

20/7/2025, 1:33:18 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Hear me out. What if the Reavers in Firefly/Serenity were really created by chatbots?

19/7/2025, 6:15:26 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I wouldn't be surprised if he gives Epstein a posthumous pardon , claiming a miscarriage of justice and thinking that will make everything go away.

16/7/2025, 11:54:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm pretty sure you are using IDPs to mean internally displaced persons, but I had to look it up.

16/7/2025, 5:23:40 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) reposted

I keep referring people back to this because it keeps coming up. People ask me how long things this regime does will be allowed or tolerated and I keep asking “by whom”? Dad is not getting home later. The most charitable view of SCOTUS is that they have decided to be hands-off…. /1

15/7/2025, 6:02:38 PM | 4585 1218 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I read a story somewhere today about someone who claimed to have a "peak experience" by catching a fish by hand, thinking they would never replicate that experience. There may be other pursuits that bring at least temporary highs that you haven't found yet.

15/7/2025, 5:00:06 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

UBI (Universal Basic Income) might work around some of that, but I doubt that is an option these big thinkers would accept.

15/7/2025, 1:33:32 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

If those are really white stripes, it could be a bald faced hornet, although the body looks more compact than ones I see. leafyplace.com/types-of-was...

13/7/2025, 10:45:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The martyrdom of J Epstein not coming to a theater near you. /s

13/7/2025, 10:35:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

So you're saying Bondi doesn't have a ghost of a chance?

13/7/2025, 8:31:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

He ain't heavy, he's your brother.

12/7/2025, 6:24:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

I keep think Who's on first whenever I see this. abbott-and-costello-whos-on-first.info/whos-on-firs...

12/7/2025, 5:01:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Are you sure it's not just self delusion or delirium from all that blood rushing to your head?

12/7/2025, 3:41:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

okay, i doubt that given his prior claim to want to expose the files. OTOH he could be trying to be an anti-pedo/sextrafficer to hide like the anti-Russian Russian in Ice Station Zebra, but that seems unlikely. The obvious lies about no list and no extortion would work for either assumption.

12/7/2025, 3:35:10 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social)

Shouldn't that be TrumpNoCare?

9/7/2025, 3:52:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social)

MAHA brings "reformed through labor" to health care via ICE sweeps. But will competition with ICE concentration camp laborers squeeze out Medicaid reformation camps?

8/7/2025, 4:13:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture JaySinWA (@jaysinwa.bsky.social) reply parent

Brittish or American fanny peach emoji?

7/7/2025, 5:59:23 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've read the original a few times. It still grabs.

6/7/2025, 4:49:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ed Bott (@edbott.com) reposted

Grab a hot dog and read this entire thread.

5/7/2025, 1:14:30 AM | 11 4 | View on Bluesky | view