I don't know much about Jesse Jackson. Anybody got a good book recommendation about him/the rainbow coalition/progressive politics in the 80s/etc.?
17.02.2026 16:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@dcmayo.bsky.social
I'm a programmer, a Kentuckian, a veteran, and a progressive. I helped send a spaceship to the moon.
I don't know much about Jesse Jackson. Anybody got a good book recommendation about him/the rainbow coalition/progressive politics in the 80s/etc.?
17.02.2026 16:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Reba" has two of these characters (out of seven), and they account for β conservatively β 85% of the funny stuff on the show, compared to 0% from the wisecrackin' characters.
Many such cases.
One lesson from the show "Reba" is that if you're making an unambitious, by-the-numbers sitcom, you should throw in a character whose defining trait is being dumb and confident, because that's easy comedy that always hits.
16.02.2026 20:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0RIP to Robert Duvall, star of "Phenomenon" and other, lesser films.
16.02.2026 20:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Time to dial."
15.02.2026 23:13 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I did not get it right.
15.02.2026 16:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Coast-to-coast MACtion! We did it!
15.02.2026 03:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They don't make movies like "Blue Chips" anymore.
15.02.2026 02:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Purchased $20 plan one week ago. Maxed out my weekly tokens this morning.
15.02.2026 00:15 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0They should make basketball coaches wear suits again.
14.02.2026 21:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Roses are red
The dot is pale blue
Here's a mote of dust in a sunbeam
From a distance of forty AU
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I only play bullet on there, and the result seems to be "you are bad at bullet."
14.02.2026 15:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I intend to run this report, and I intend to obsess about this report, and I intend to learn absolutely nothing from this report.
14.02.2026 15:28 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0An elderly man in pajamas in a Mayer lift
Type of shit I've been on.
13.02.2026 22:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Olympic ice dancers going with a medley that goes from "Wild Mountain Thyme" on bagpipes into "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" into "The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond" into "Scotland the Brave."
ME: "So I take it these guys are French?"
MY MOM: "I don't know. Maybe."
They renamed Georgetown Community Hospital to Centerpoint Health Georgetown, perhaps due to DEI/Woke.
12.02.2026 21:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0David Cross and Bob Odenkirk in the Mr. Show βBlow Up the Moonβ sketch
Bag holders can, should, must, and will short the moon
12.02.2026 17:39 β π 17 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0git add __pycache__
git commit --amend -m "add pycache"
git push --force
It's always the ones you most expect.
11.02.2026 21:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A new bit I've committed to is whenever a Bob Dylan song comes on, I refer to it as "a Nobel Prize-winning song."
11.02.2026 15:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0it is apparently the 25th anniversary of the greatest piece of art Denton, Texas, has ever produced
11.02.2026 03:04 β π 1979 π 806 π¬ 29 π 57No one needs that much Dr. Pepper.
11.02.2026 03:36 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0a classic forum interface for bluesky
a classic forum interface for hacker news
a classic forum interface for the new york times
coding assistance lets you fast-track important projects that improve your life, such as reformatting every single site you read into the old vbulletin 3.x default template
10.02.2026 14:05 β π 724 π 126 π¬ 21 π 34A cool thing about my phone is that if I have the ringer turned on, the phone makes a sound every time I send a text message, and there's no way to turn it off. Good feature.
10.02.2026 14:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm back caretakin' at my mom's, and she watches fourteen hours of television a day, and the Andy Barr white pride commercial comes on TV so damn much.
10.02.2026 03:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"We Are Charlie Kirk"
10.02.2026 02:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Bluesky map put me into "spaceflight enthusiasts" and not "professional astronautical community," presumably because it's assuming that I'm about to be fired.
09.02.2026 04:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0cause im
bad bunny
check it and see
im singing songs in spanish
on your tv
I just talked to my buddy who works in advertising, and he told me that the commercials for "the big game" that come out around the time of the Super Bowl is no coincidence. They do it on purpose.
08.02.2026 19:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0One thing that sucks ass is that this guy is still CLEARLY the best choice in that primary.
08.02.2026 18:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0