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J.R.

@contactjr.bsky.social

I research my family history and watch pro wrestling. DC resident who can't avoid politics. Loving the vibes here.

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…and that’s why I love it!

10.12.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œas the tail met the jaw” man wtf?

08.12.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The thing I try to explain the most to those who don’t live here is that the Nuzzis of the world live in Washington (the place that deserves your ire) and the rest of us live in D.C., a collection of diverse, mostly quiet, walkable residential neighborhoods with no federal representation

08.12.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1089    πŸ” 192    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4

Here’s a thought for the ACC: instead of whatever convoluted tiebreakers put Duke in the ACC title game over Miami, maybe, I dunno, CFP ranking should be the primary tiebreaker?

07.12.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jeff Pearlman is writing/has written a book about Tupac and some of the stories he’s uncovered have been wild, amazing, shocking, inspiring.

This one is just… OMFG. 🀯

07.12.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Came here to suggest Blue Lights, Shetland and Happy Valley!

06.12.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This account is so calming for me for reasons I don't understand. Like somehow I feel centered every time it posts🀣πŸ₯΄πŸ₯΄πŸ₯΄. Like "oh yea I did watch these shows and enjoy them, and because I've been reminded of this, I'm at peace in this moment."

05.12.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Gone too soon. Legend.

05.12.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sure, but I think it’s emblematic of how cynical it all felt, especially to those of us in the very communities it was meant to benefit.

05.12.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was there in 2020 when these efforts went into overdrive. It was incredibly patronizing and cringeworthy, e.g. "a day of learning and reflection" on Juneteenth, instead of, you know, just giving us the day off or not giving us the day off.

Good riddance.

04.12.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Loved her in β€œPitfall” with Dick Powell

04.12.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.

27.11.2025 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 5829    πŸ” 939    πŸ’¬ 138    πŸ“Œ 53
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Sutter Health reports early gains from AI-assisted mammography screening Tapped Ferrum Health to deploy AI supporting mammography workflows and risk assessments

This is correct. Computer vision is just as much β€œAI” as LLMs, and computer vision has had powerful impact on the ability to detect breast cancer (for example): www.dotmed.com/news/story/6...

26.11.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Max Headroom signal hijacking - Wikipedia

β€œβ€¦soon after the initial events …WMAQ, another Chicago station, humorously inserted clips of the hijacking into a newscast during … sports highlights. "A lot of people thought it was real … We got all kinds of calls about it,"

Lmao wut
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...

25.11.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was a pretty huge deal in Chicago when it happened!

I’d never seen the 90-second clip until just now, and yeah, this would have freaked me tf out had I seen it in real-time as a kid.

25.11.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The best part of the thread was when he’s all β€˜Newsom was right there!’

If you think folks stayed home because they thought Harris was too liberal, buddy I got news for ya.

23.11.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She stinks. Can’t just take a W, oh no, too in her head to avoid centrisming.

23.11.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

23.11.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2372    πŸ” 784    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 18
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a man in a suit and tie is making a surprised face . Alt: Trump either feigning surprise or being totally ignorant (who can tell?)

Taps sign -

23.11.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hearing reports Mamdani hit a buckshot lariat on Tr*mp the second he got into the White House, more to follow

21.11.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

β€œSidney, I don’t do this sorta thing!”
β€œWhat sorta thing?”
β€œTHIS sorta thing!”

22.11.2025 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hell yea, it rocked. Great complement to your writing. You should do it more!

21.11.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dick Cheney’s expansive vision of presidential power lives on in Trump’s agenda Cheney thought that Congress went too far after Watergate in reining in the presidency. Now Trump and the Supreme Court are embracing Cheney’s views on executive power.

Were you … alive those years? That man was most certainly not antifa! theconversation.com/dick-cheneys...

21.11.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agree with all this. I still want to see TayJay in the mix and elevated eventually, whether as a team or in singles. It’s just not their time right now.

21.11.2025 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t understand how anyone who’s paid attention to the presentation of the AEW women’s division this year would fantasy book TayJay as the first women’s tag champs.

20.11.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If only AEW booked Hangman liked this in 2022. It's been a long time since we've had an asskicking babyface World Champion who doesnt take shit from anyone. Feels like prime Stone Cold Steve Austin.

20.11.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4

Lmao I was there!

Ari was awesome, man … always finding trouble like a proper Tree should

Btw, Cal sucks. Then. Now. Forever.

20.11.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ€¦πŸΎβ€β™‚οΈ

20.11.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A number of these folks represent suburban districts. Very anti-urban vibe here.

20.11.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gluesenkamp is low-key brutal. She was also one of the Al Green censure votes. Sorry that you’re stuck with her.

20.11.2025 03:37 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

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