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jonbeard.bsky.social
Developer, former educator, kitten fosterer, and unapologetic lefty Brit in TX
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I don't even care about basketball, and yet I apparently know more about the Dallas Mavericks than Nico Harrison does.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Susie Dent coming in with the linguistics shade once again.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

At this point, I just assume all right-wing politicians are criminally corrupt because it saves time.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I wish people would stop dumping their trash in the ocean

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Concepts of thoughts and prayers for the latest victim of the face-eating leopards party.

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

Get in the car, and Meat Loaf is throwing shade at the Chiefs from beyond the grave.

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

I thought The Onion posted satire, not facts?

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

submitted 149 days ago • 188 comments

We used to hang Nazis, not allow them to speak at inaugurations. I for one believe the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

Handsome boy

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

Jeez, I wasn't expecting @susiedent.com to come at me so hard this morning.

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away.

submitted 162 days ago • 1188 comments

5:59 pm on Christmas Eve. I came so close! #Whamageddon

submitted 177 days ago • 0 comments

I went to the other place by mistake just now & I can't believe I put up w/ it for so long. It felt like ppl running around w/ machetes, swinging wildly, screaming, setting fires, while the TV in the background plays stories like "Democracy was always stupid and we are idiots. Also fruit is evil."

submitted 197 days ago • 63 comments

I encourage you to point and laugh at anyone who claims Trump ever needed justification to abuse his pardon power.

submitted 200 days ago • 85 comments

I don't often get frivolous Black Friday impulse purchases, but when I do it's ridiculously cute.

submitted 202 days ago • 0 comments

Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions

submitted 204 days ago • 124 comments

48, which I don't think is too bad for an actual 44 year old.

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You know what I love about BlueSky? The community looking out for each other.

submitted 209 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to be out of the shelter

submitted 209 days ago • 0 comments

It is true, and not just for comedians: the introduction of the ‘like’ button marked the end of Twitter’s golden age. I discovered so many great accounts when they were RTed in my direction. Tomorrow I’m just going to do that for a bunch of funny/interesting people.

submitted 210 days ago • 19 comments