Chuck Smith
@chucklessmith.bsky.social
Nerd. Wine adviser. Data slinger and database evangelist. Linguistics, by letters. Used to host radio shows. ADS-B reporter. Grape smusher on occasion. Weekend beer league hockey. Cars going round! Maniac driving a Saab! Transit dork. How you get ants.
I don’t, however, know how to yell at the yacht maintenance people with the same soulless conviction that these folks seem to preternaturally possess, though, admittedly.
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 2h agoThis is gonna sound unfathomably arrogant but I think I could do every current cabinet secretary’s job better than it is currently being done
Time for your periodic reminder: Someone bothering you on transit? Look em square in the eye and say “Okay, let’s sing it again but this time *I’ll* be Elton John and *you* be Kiki Dee”.
Moving pictures?! Wait until someone tells Grandpa Loaded Diaper about the talkies!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "We have photographs or tapes -- like moving cameras, right? -- where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife."
My kingdom for a reporter who will ask Trump about crack spreads
George Pearkes@peark.es · 2d agothe competitive pressure that turns a barrel of oil into car juice is absolutely *wild*, it's one of the hardest markets in the entire world to capture excess profits in. Industry-wide margins are high because this is a global refining capacity shortage not a few US corps cornering a market.
We finally got the squirrel off of the craps table.
like clockwork, man, quick, put the war away before the markets come back from the weekend
Reuters@reuters.com · 3d agoOil tumbles as Trump cancels attack on Iran to reach nuclear deal reut.rs/3TzpU26
leaning back in my chair, running a hand over my chin, tapping on the desk for a minute, then clicking "interested"
okay THIS is my boomer moment. THIS is my "we must retvrn" conservative hill I die on. we gotta go back to this packaging design. It's so gorgeous, so stark and vivid, you can tell from 10 feet which is which, absolute perfection in design. Packaging today is garbage. This is ARTWORK
dmercer.bsky.social@dmercer.bsky.social · 6d agoVisited the new Chicago Brand Museum today. It's fascinating. (It's not a museum of just Chicago brands; it's a museum of lots of brand, which happens to be located in Chicago.) Fans of typography, graphic design, package design, and more will love it.
Shooter Jennings is…. I mean he gave us this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeJi...
4th Of July / He Stopped Loving Her Today (Medley)
YouTube video by Shooter Jennings - Topic
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Given his mastery of English, I mean, cast stones in glass house much, mein führer?
Ian Miles Schlong@tedcruznipples.com · last wk.Doesn’t this dumb pedophile ever shut the fuck up?
Or put another way, zero dollars feeds exactly zero hungry mouths. Fifty grand feeds a lot more.
Given that 50k might address the very foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy, people will (should? ought to?) take the 50k and eschew the even-odds chance for a million, which is more than they can basically even grok what to do with. The 50k is a practical, manageable, understandable amount, thus…
And so anyway, the rational empiricist would say of course you take the coin flip because a million is a lot more than 50k, but we do not live in a world fueled by rational empiricists. A known, certain, 50k is something people can work with. Nothing does no good, but 50k does a known amount.
And my reply was “It’s literally the fucking Monty Hall problem!” And we have been together ever since.
The “Get 50k for sure or flip a coin for a million” thing is an interesting quandary, but I am reminded of the time I dragged my partner down to a hockey game and during the intermission they did a game and I was like “You always take the swap!” And he was like “are you game theory-ing this?”
Fucking with the shop’s music selection and we’ve just gotten to “Every Light In The House Is On” by Trace Adkins. My goodness they give me latitude.
The tariffs on Canadian hockey sticks is totally bullshit, and pisses me off. That said, I checked mine and they’re all made in China 🤣
I have a new favorite San Francisco landmark. And it's the symbol the city needs. (Also in today's column — let us know your favorite S.F. landmark. Doesn't have to be something that appears in a snow globe.) Gift link 🏳️🌈 🎁 ⬇️ www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
Move over, Sutro Tower. This is my new favorite San Francisco landmark
Exploring San Francisco is my full-time job. I have a new favorite landmark, and it’s the symbol the city needs, culture critic Peter Hartlaub writes.
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www.rawstory.com Brazil doesn’t mess around with visas. I’ve only been once, but had to present in person at a Consulate, surrender my passport, and man do they love reciprocity for inconveniences inflicted upon their citizens. They denied chucklefucks entry to fuck with their elections? Yeah.
Trump admin fumes after Brazil kicks out US officials over election meddling fears: report
The State Department lashed out at Brazil Saturday after the country denied visas to two senior Trump administration officials over fears of a ploy to undermine its upcoming presidential election, The...
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“Dr. Dragon did not set out to find a contagious cancer.” — is one hell of a sentence. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/s...
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The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.
I don’t often read wine reviews that tickle me, but to describe a blend as “slightly slutty” is really freaking good and I am stealing that.
If Andy Beshear does not push this to a conclusion that either has him appointing McConnell's replacement, or McConnell reappearing, Beshear will be out of Democratic politics. We need rabble-rousers, not the same quiet, proper Dems who keep losing.
