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17.10.2025 15:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@jherlocker.bsky.social
Retired IT guy, former US Navy. Deb’s husband. Writer. Find me on Medium (medium.com/@jherlocker), Substack (substack.com/@jackh318325), and Amazon (www.amazon.com/Intersections-collection-non-fiction-heart-heart/dp/B0DMFC7MRV/ref=mp_s_a_1_1)
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17.10.2025 15:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TIL that I would not have been allowed to serve in Hegseth’s Navy. Before I was commissioned in 1980, I was diagnosed with pseudofolliculitis barbae and needed a waiver.
Troops with medical shaving waivers to face separation, Hegseth says www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
At any time, at any place, the United States Department of “War” may kill you because their dear leader says you are a terrorist.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Have a nice day.
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13.06.2025 15:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A useful and well-researched article on what's going on with Social Security by an MD who has worked with the system:
medium.com/crows-feet/s...
A Canadian with a passport, who offered to buy her ticket home, was instead held for 2 weeks in a for-profit detention system:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And sadly, this all makes sense:
24.02.2025 18:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A technogeek’s take on what Musk & crew are up to. It’s worse than you think.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
But I’m sure he means well! 🙄
20.02.2025 17:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So much winning going on for US farmers thanks to Trump 2.0:
open.substack.com/pub/farmerge...
Just sayin’!
08.02.2025 13:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Your wife now has a permanent excuse. “Dirty clothes on the floor? Wasn’t me, honey! Must be that worthless husband of yours!”
17.01.2025 22:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Seeing occasional “25 years ago, the millennium bug didn’t happen, so how can we believe it when so-called experts tell us <whatever>?”
Speaking as one of many many tech geeks who put in 80+ hour weeks fixing, testing, and testing again so nothing happened on 1 Jan 2000 — you’re f**king welcome!
I was in submarines and computers
08.12.2024 17:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I did not know that! OK, extra careful from now on…
07.12.2024 16:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0South Korea underwent an attempted self-coup by its president, only to see the South Korean people force him to back down as they reasserted their democracy. So the question Americans will have to ask, when thing get dicey: What would the Koreans do?
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@aluncrn.bsky.social saw this in a local market the other day and thought of you:
23.11.2024 20:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, of course, for heaven's sake . . .
22.11.2024 14:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0