Jim
@blimjim.bsky.social
Pennsylvanian-Washingtonian. Likes: international broadcasting, history, personal finance, geography, what used to be called new wave, vexillology, slow travel, fast quizzing, smart movies, dumb jokes.
This must be his epitaph and I sure hope it’s what’s on his gravestone
Spain is trying and being threatened with economic sanction. And its not like you guys will do anything until the midterms
David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · 4w agoI wish just one NATO leader (or all of them) would say, "This is unacceptable. The US president has lost his mind. America come get your boy. He's broken and needs to be under a doctor's care back home." I wish someone would tell the damn truth about what's happening.
The AP has a live stream of the Freedom250 clusterfuck: www.youtube.com/live/IyEPha0...
LIVE: Trump gives a speech ahead of July 4th fireworks show in DC
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If it happens this week, they shouldn't cancel the fireworks in DC
What is going on behind that building wrap? He wouldn't be doing some stupid stunt like painting the columns gold, would he?
𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝@sundaedivine.lol · 2mo agoElect Bozo, get clown show.
AI definitely has its place, but companies never realize that forcing people to use something they might not be familiar with it is a surefire way to lose goodwill. tech.yahoo.com/ai/gemini/ar...
DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search
Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.
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Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny
Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer should resign their leadership positions as soon as possible. Their failure to so much as endorse Mamdani laid bare layers of incompetence. They are why Democrats have completely failed to combat Trump. The sooner they are replaced, the better.
Given all the hints that he realizes he's not long for this world, what if the White House Grand Ballroom is actually being constructed as a Grand Mausoleum, a la the Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang? Is he mad enough to do that?
The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
Jamie Gangel@jamiegangel.bsky.social · 11mo agoNew: FCC chair threatens ABC and Disney over Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...
It's just a little creepy how many normally professional reporters and government officials refer to him as "Charlie."
This is the way. We need to call it all out for what it is
White Rose Resistance@whiteroseresistance.org · 11mo agoen.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Se.... This 9.0 was in the same approximate area as today's Kamchatka quake. The resulting Tsunami did a fair amount of damage in Hawaii.
1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake - Wikipedia
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Noticing a LOT of guys driving big ol' trucks waving and supporting the #nokings protest over the beltway in Silver Spring. This isn't a niche movement. ✊
I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.
Not one Republican will speak out and say these tariffs are a terrible idea. May they all lose their seats in a couple years when we're in the throes of an entirely unnecessary depression.
I interned at the Voice of America in 1988 and saw first hand how trusted radio news could break through the Iron Curtain. Apparently with the effective shutdown of VoA, countering tyranny is no longer what our country stands for. This only pleases people like Putin and Lukashenko.
People are willing to give most older Teslas a break. But there's a real collective disdain for the CT and the wankers who own one.
Blair Hopkins@hopkinsmsb.bsky.social · last yr.They started throwing stuff at this one.
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Trump plays the same game every time. Take a perfectly normal situation -- say, Canadian-American trade -- totally fuck it up, return it to normalcy... And then take claim for "fixing" it.