Profile avatar
oneinawilliam.bsky.social
@williamj on x Media technology product stuff Getting too old for this
36 posts 453 followers 1,282 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

If you're in the USA, you can no longer watch the Dutch TV special about my theories on fascism and pro wrestling on YouTube! Oh no!! But fear not, for I have uploaded the full thing to my Vimeo for American viewing and sharing Go forth:

From WFDD, a North Carolina public radio station, with some wonderful words about both "Radio Free Europe" the song, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the station, from the band's original producer, Mitch Easter. www.wfdd.org/story/early-...

Will just leave this clip here of Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings talking about what’s wrong with America from a 1991 interview and it’s still all very true today

Alice in Cheese

tech bro is short for technically broken

Panic! At the shitshow.

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

This is for @gtconway.bsky.social Five things I did last week. 1. Took too much ketamine 2. Danced onstage with a chainsaw 3. Ignored my new baby momma 4. Laughed at my own jokes. 5. Neglected all of my children except for the one I use as a human shield.

Let's spend our time on more important things like renaming Minnesota to The Paisley Park Purple Province.

Everything. Is. So. Fucking. Stupid.

Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Go Birds.

Each commercial is longer than most Chiefs drives

THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW IS UNION MADE! Shout out to Kendrick Lamar, and all the performers and behind the scenes workers that made this go off without a hitch!

The Super Bowl ads are striking me as the death of irony. Seal, the singer, imagined as a CGI seal. "Personal Jesus," a song notoriously about false worship, themed a commercial for Jesus. The Millennials are taking "literally" far too literally. Literally.

Jon Batiste, the guy who just sang the National Anthem at the Super Bowl, was on the board for the Kennedy Center until he was removed by Donald Trump a few days ago. Donald Trump also named himself the Chairman of the board.

Jon Batiste, who is performing the Star Spangled Banner right now, served on the Kennedy Center Board until he was removed by President Trump this past week.

Senator Ted Budd, your voice mailbox is full. @tedbudd.bsky.social

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

In other news, the administration will be renaming Dried Plums back to their original name of Prunes, yet another in a series of movements for regular Americans.

Jawn 3:16

This is perfect explanation

Michael Fanone live on CNN: "This is what I'd say to Stewart Rhodes: Go fuck yourself"

I wrote this in June 2023 a year or so after I tried to get mainstream outlets to cover the story. Haven’t been this angry about the collective failure of our society to properly address antisemitism in quite a while.

One thing I really wish more journalists would repeat like parrots when discussing birthright citizenship is that, unless you're naturalized (and a few other exceptions), that is how you got your citizenship. Even if your family goes back to the Mayflower, you got it that way.

This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie

He can't be both. He can't be a billionaire genius who launches rockets to Mars AND a man who doesn't understand what a Nazi salute is. He knew exactly what he was doing. He did it twice. And imagine how often he's done it in private.

When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

Wait. The orange one watched TT get banned, his m e m e c o i n pulled in 6bn, and TT relaunches within 12 hours of shutdown, and all of this happened in the same weekend? Bruh.

I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣

I didn't know I needed David Lynch Bluesky until today. RIP you brilliant man.

It's a damn shame that the hex color code #c0ff33 is nowhere near the color of actual coffee.

fixed it

Man Succumbs To 7-Year Battle With Health Insurance theonion.com/man-suc...

"In my administration, we will send snow to put out the California fires." --Trump, probably

Football people, since when have announcers been saying "line of gain" instead of the first down marker or whatever they used to say? It makes sense but I don't remember it being used by announcers as often in the past.