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Jason Jong

@plesiomorphy.bsky.social

šŸ“Somerville, MA, Ward 7 bikes and bugs and snakes and salamanders and also a rescue pibble Wildlife photography | traditional art | environmental field audio https://soundcloud.com/jasonjong

created August 28, 2023

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Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Hell yeah

2/9/2025, 9:19:35 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I didn’t know they were so thick! I thought the first pic was an anaconda

2/9/2025, 3:15:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t understand how people fall for his shtick. He sounds so cringy and awkward, and often very transparently stupid.

2/9/2025, 3:06:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Nguyen (@dptbirder.bsky.social) reposted

I think I don’t have a choice by say this is my all time favorite Kingfisher photo I’ve had the chance of clicking The Queen of Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve fishing the moon šŸ“·šŸŒæšŸŖ¶šŸŒ”

2/9/2025, 1:48:02 AM | 668 114 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tapani Hopkins (@tapani-hopkins.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

* Admitted, everyone always goes "canopy specialist?" whenever a forest species is rarely caught. - Laticoleus are really rare? Canopy specialists. - Only one Epirhyssa johanna ever caught? Could they be ⭐Canopy Specialists⭐? - Didn't see any elephants 🐘 today? Perhaps they're in the canopy?

1/9/2025, 5:28:34 AM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

I’d suggest a tortilla, but suspect that would be too ethnic

31/8/2025, 2:50:13 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Wishing him the worst! What a garbage human being.

29/8/2025, 11:58:39 PM | 92 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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With a bore diameter limit, I don’t think there’s a civilian use for anything bigger than a 20 pound Parrot

29/8/2025, 6:27:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

I don’t like modern firearms but boy am I a sucker for muzzle loaders

29/8/2025, 5:49:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Ooo we finally get to see jump sails deployed

29/8/2025, 5:27:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Nice! Love my heat pump dryer and how it doesn’t need to vent outdoors

27/8/2025, 12:20:39 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s chilling to know that the Burlington ICE office exists and is staffed with some monstrous people.

26/8/2025, 12:20:58 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m tired of Enterprises and hero ships. I want to see a midsized cruiser doing supply runs and patrols, while having to deal with the bureaucracy and politicking of the shipyards and the admiralty. Give me Patrick O’Brien in space.

25/8/2025, 4:48:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Hegseth ordered it because he gets a boner thinking about a Kent State on a bunch of DC residents

25/8/2025, 12:57:12 AM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Literally a plot point in Andor

25/8/2025, 12:49:08 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

I always bring this up when it comes to American cops: there was a court case that affirmed that it was ok for police departments to reject applicants who scored too high on aptitude tests.

24/8/2025, 8:20:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

O scale? Did they build this in an airplane hangar?

24/8/2025, 12:45:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jesus. I don’t think he could pass the Turing test

24/8/2025, 12:31:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Steel is real

23/8/2025, 3:02:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Can the coasties use a few LCSs, or do we scrap them all?

23/8/2025, 1:36:24 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social)

Post your dream ride...

23/8/2025, 1:32:51 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Hegseth is such a piece of shit

23/8/2025, 1:15:50 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Total sycophancy to Israel while also catering to Nazis is the pairing that confuses me the most

23/8/2025, 1:01:43 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

What is there to scrub from YouTube?? There’s no way it can parse video content, is it just pulling from the comments? If so, Jesus Christ 🤮

23/8/2025, 12:36:39 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

If I want a dose of 80s nostalgia, I’ll rewatch Terminator 1 or Robocop. Those films had surprisingly accurate views on the horrors of corporate power.

23/8/2025, 12:30:29 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s heathy to go touch grass (or paper) from time to time

22/8/2025, 5:41:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

There’s something about the O5-O7 range that makes them insufferable.

22/8/2025, 5:00:59 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

You know he’s so proud of how witty he is for coming up with that name

22/8/2025, 2:22:23 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Love this—it’s even more powerful as a symbol if the community has to maintain the colors.

22/8/2025, 2:21:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Justices like Thomas and Alito I can accept as conservative automatons. But you know that Roberts is intelligent enough to know what he’s doing. He’s a total piece of shit.

22/8/2025, 12:27:49 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

I just listened to the @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode about San Fransicko. Shellenberger is a lazy, stupid, bad-faith piece of shit

22/8/2025, 12:17:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s amazing how jarring it is to see a CEO with messaging discipline, and who actually seems like a regular human being.

20/8/2025, 4:41:12 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Wasn’t the holy grail for Tesla a sub-30k vehicle? I rode in a friend’s Leaf and it was really nice.

20/8/2025, 12:30:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Whenever I want a laugh, I watch Arvin Haddad critique an "ultraluxury" property. Some of them are truly awful, just huge expanses of wasted space. This one looks like a Wolfenstein 3D level, only $29 million.

20/8/2025, 3:45:18 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean, with allies like these…

19/8/2025, 9:14:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Boy I love that they get the same representation in the senate as California

19/8/2025, 9:09:22 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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40k fatalities a year is a public health crisis

19/8/2025, 8:46:08 PM | 22 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Why do these master race types always look like live action Family Guy characters

19/8/2025, 1:41:20 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Is there an actual use case for these besides signaling that somebody needs to give you a wedgie?

18/8/2025, 3:33:56 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

No true ants, they're all spider mimics. There's also a shrimp-mimic spider (?)

16/8/2025, 8:54:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Why does the octopus have empty eye sockets

16/8/2025, 8:52:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Some dubious looking hybrids in the AI one

16/8/2025, 8:51:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

My brain is so cooked from thinking about proliferation, it took me a moment to parse that a nuclear test yield wasn’t underestimated by tens of kilotons.

16/8/2025, 2:04:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Was Rubio involved at all? Is he the weakest SoS of all time?

16/8/2025, 1:14:19 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

wtf

15/8/2025, 7:18:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Seeing this makes me feel sick

15/8/2025, 7:10:55 PM | 27 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Having grown up in coastal California, I was so accustomed to beaches being straightforwardly a public good that Massachusetts felt really jarring by comparison. @milesperhoward.bsky.social is all over this beat.

15/8/2025, 4:40:18 PM | 49 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

I was really impressed by the production values and how it different it felt from the Smoke Jaguar campaign. Looking forward to seeing what they make next!

15/8/2025, 1:10:00 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Try the stain first, then move on to paint if you don’t like how it looks?

14/8/2025, 4:25:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s been pretty good at killing the people who work on it

14/8/2025, 3:46:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

All I want from the future of Windows is for the search function to work properly

14/8/2025, 1:23:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

He has zero self awareness, he's rich enough to be permanently surrounded by total sycophants.

13/8/2025, 3:28:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

There's something sterile and anodyne about that cleanliness, though. Feels like the growth has all been in tech and finance.

13/8/2025, 3:22:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess I've spent most of my life in 100+ year old New England housing, but I didn't realize until recently that ensuite bathrooms were a thing. Having had to grapple with plumbing leaks, I want pipes well away from where I sleep!

13/8/2025, 2:31:22 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Interesting discussion. Definitely pros and cons to it, but I feel like at the bare minimum they should have had a cohesive plan for the sequel trilogy. I'm still baffled at how disjointed they ended up being, which also ruined opportunities for further tie-ins.

13/8/2025, 2:23:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Puff pieces to reassure the investor class that the gravy train is still alive

12/8/2025, 1:06:12 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah I was just annoyed that the external view seemed locked to an above-the-shoulder perspective and didn’t look into it any further

12/8/2025, 1:13:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Rare to see a domain that has significance beyond just marketing and sales. The most iconic one I can think of is goatse .cx

12/8/2025, 1:09:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the only ethical use of Subway

12/8/2025, 12:38:36 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Glad we can still find positive role models in this world

11/8/2025, 11:00:58 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Really thinking about this a lot with the 1933 series by @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social Some people knew what was coming at the start of the Nazi regime, and others who should have known better decided to play along

11/8/2025, 9:04:44 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jer Thorp (@jerthorp.bsky.social) reposted

This is Costasiella kuroshimae, the sea sheep. It's not a nudibranch, it's a sacoglossan, another mollusc clade. The green color is a tip-off: sacoglossans are herbivorous where nudis are carnivores. Like nudibranchs they can eat things and then repurpose cells from them, in this case chloroplasts

Leaf sheep
11/8/2025, 1:22:16 PM | 73 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

That DEA agent who shot himself in the foot while doing a gun demo in a school accomplished something useful

11/8/2025, 7:31:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Why does it sound like a televangelist

11/8/2025, 7:08:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That Marauder looks like it has a bad hangover

11/8/2025, 5:41:45 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Could also be a reference to the skin color of some of its residents 😬

11/8/2025, 3:39:12 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gives me a chill seeing a bunch of guys in the bow of the cutter and then just mangled metal a second later.

11/8/2025, 3:30:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Is this just because somebody beat up Big Balls?

11/8/2025, 2:55:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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11/8/2025, 12:14:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Student of the month gets to have the gluon gun

10/8/2025, 11:18:34 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's worth the $3.50 on GOG to relive these memories

10/8/2025, 7:53:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Damn I can hear the voices and see their low poly mouth movements

9/8/2025, 12:42:54 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Jesus

8/8/2025, 11:30:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Desch (@deschscoveries.bsky.social) reposted

I have a complaint about Avi Loeb's latest work and I want to speak to management. medium.com/@steve.desch...

8/8/2025, 6:23:56 PM | 406 110 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

Are these all bots? I can’t even tell these days

8/8/2025, 8:09:28 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I always wonder at what the day to day is like for the unqualified morons Trump appoints to these positions. Just a lot of nodding and saying yes to what they hear from career staffers?

8/8/2025, 7:59:48 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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She’s 100% perfect

8/8/2025, 4:56:45 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Astounding! Is this what it’s like to stare at a buttermilk pancake when you’re on acid?

8/8/2025, 1:31:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I feel dirty when I preface that I’ve lived in my neighborhood for 20 years before I comment in support of housing and bike infrastructure. It shouldn’t matter, but I feel like I have to go through the motions.

7/8/2025, 1:11:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s the best kind of pfp šŸ™Œ

6/8/2025, 5:42:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You can also go the other way around. Cast a container of Morton’s iodized into a solid disk and lick it like a cow.

6/8/2025, 5:00:09 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I bet it’s colloidal silver

6/8/2025, 12:47:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Not my favorite show but Discovery is a cool ship design

5/8/2025, 11:56:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I totally forgot Duffy was running NASA. Met some engineers from JPL last week, sounds like morale there is tanking

5/8/2025, 11:22:29 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jason Jong (@plesiomorphy.bsky.social) reply parent

This! It’s always eye-rolling, at my local level it’s an indicator of opposition to bike lanes and building housing

4/8/2025, 5:34:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I always carry two tubes or a tube and a patch kit. The redundancy has saved my ass a few times

4/8/2025, 1:22:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had a similar experience with bourbon in college

4/8/2025, 1:16:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Holy moly, you are living life correctly šŸ˜

2/8/2025, 11:46:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Watching a Nobel laureate grab a plate of food at an event and scurry back into their office with it is so humanizing

2/8/2025, 6:57:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m still confused by all this. You can use a credit card to buy actual pornography, but adult themes incorporated into creative work is not ok because…?

2/8/2025, 6:54:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes I loved this piece! I’ve always wanted to see a hellbender but I don’t want to disrupt their habitat. Good to know it’s possible to see them respectfully

2/8/2025, 4:07:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There’s something provincial about Boston that rules it out. And I say this as a Boston resident.

2/8/2025, 2:12:03 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Anytime somebody tries a bold iteration on living room furniture, it just looks bad

2/8/2025, 2:06:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m impressed that they were able to find a rolling BTR

2/8/2025, 1:32:31 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He just said nuclear submarines, so they could be SSNs. I don’t think Navy brass wants to mess with Ohio deployment schedules too much and Trump probably doesn’t know the difference

1/8/2025, 5:06:12 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You could also get a banh mi and a fresh coconut from a street vendor for less than an little bag of Lay's here

1/8/2025, 2:23:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I just got back from Vietnam, I didn't know how good I had it there

Chip aisle in a Vietnamese bodega. Lay's flavors include: Brazilian BBQ, baked prawn with cheese, Hanoi beef pho
1/8/2025, 2:19:00 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's called "Wagyu chili" on the menu (lol)

1/8/2025, 12:19:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The DOE doesn’t have anything to do with power generation. This is psychotic.

31/7/2025, 9:13:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A friend of mine was meeting his wife’s business school classmates at a party. He mentioned that he was an electrical engineer, and was excited when someone said they were an engineer too. He asked what kind, and they replied with a straight face, ā€œfinancial.ā€

31/7/2025, 6:01:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view