JaymesRS

@JaymesRS@literature.cafe

Nerd; Board, Card, Pencil & Paper Gamer; Avid Reader; to find me in other places: lnk.bio/JaymesRS

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JaymesRS,

John Roberts: “This is Fine” meme

JaymesRS,

There’s a new fungus among us?

JaymesRS, (edited )

Yes, but when those payments were to another party than the candidate to provide a non-monetary service to the campaign (burying news that could affect people’s actions) what’s called an in-kind contribution. If you don’t report those benefits publicly (or you try to disguise them as something else like legal fees for example), congratulations you broke election laws and interfered with the lawful election process.

Yes “Election Interference” is a specific term of art related to the conduct of the actual election and electioneering, but it can also be understood more broadly by laypersons as anything that interferes with the legal conduct of a wider election/campaign event.

JaymesRS,

Ugh, and during the start of Pride month too…. Why can’t people just leave these women and their sheep alone.

JaymesRS, (edited )

New Release:

New for 2024/2025 (no reprints or new editions). First translations into your language of choice are allowed. HARD MODE: This is the first work you’ve read by this author.

JaymesRS, (edited )

I finished Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn and really enjoyed it. If you struggle with dyslexia or are an adapted dyslexic reader like my wife, the last ¾ of the book gets pretty tough to read. I’m reading Swordheart by T. Kingfisher now. It’s the last book in her World of the White Rat collection I hadn’t read yet.

As to moving books around, absolutely! That’s in fact what I’ve had to do in the past Bingos when I had better options for some squares that left easier ones open as I went through the year.

JaymesRS,

Have you read The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton yet? It’s a pretty solid and enjoyable locked room style mystery. I read it a few years ago for a different Bingo and really liked it.

JaymesRS,

I’m split on King. Some of just stuff like Eyes of the Dragon I’ve read multiple times because it’s so good, others like Needful Things I DNFed quickly.

JaymesRS,

I lived there for 4 years while my wife attended school. U/half_built_pyramids nailed the big parts. It was easy to find areas that felt more like suburbs or urban neighborhoods if that is the vibe you want. Public transportation was pretty bad though that’s true for most of the large Midwestern cities. A lot of great green space and outdoor activity areas. Weather can be pro or con depending on how you feel about heat vs cold.

JaymesRS,

Both are good communities but !books is a bit higher traffic in my experience.

JaymesRS, (edited )

I have a bookwyrm account, but I just found it too frustrating to use regularly and I need something with very little friction if I’m going to use it at all. My hope is it improves as it ages. I like the interface and general features of The Storygraph, but its private equity backing concerns me, my personal favorite though is Hardcover.app. It’s got a funding structure that is super close to being self sustaining and there are plans to open source as soon as they meet their expectations for the base app features and interface. I’m JaymesRS on all of them.

JaymesRS,

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point meme from The Onion

JaymesRS,

Brb, I’m gonna go try and fly off my building. This’ll be so exciting!!!

JaymesRS,

drawing of a person with the text below in an impact font stating “Dear Lord, Please Grant Me the Ability to Punch People in the Face Over Standard TCP/IP.”

JaymesRS,

It was always fun to visit when hanging out with the old gang!

JaymesRS,

It’s my understanding that Trump’s hands are so small that before he was president, they used to call him “Mr. Hands”. You can definitely search for that to confirm.

JaymesRS,

Trump Steaks were said to be so good “you could stick a pin in them”. Just search meatspin to see what I mean.

JaymesRS,

Don’t just vote, do everything you can to get one additional voter out to vote too whether that’s organized text blasts, letters, phone banking, or just encouraging a friend that usually skips the election. I was a poll worker in 2020 and I texted 2 friends that were registered at that polling place to come vote and visit me and both came who otherwise would have sat out.

Walz, Moriarty exchange harsh criticisms of each other over dismissed criminal case (www.mprnews.org)

The governor and the chief prosecutor of the state’s largest county exchanged harsh criticisms of one another over how they handled the now-dismissed case against a state trooper in the fatal shooting of a Black motorist in 2023.

JaymesRS, (edited )

Not sure what you mean by that, Walz is a member of Minnesota’s variation of the Democratic Party, the DFL.

JaymesRS, (edited )

This was a terrible case all around with multiple bad decisions and a terrible outcome, but even Moriary’s use of force expert said that Londegren didn’t act unreasonably while Cobb’s car was dragging him along. Moriarty subsequently dropped that expert.

My supposition is that there was a better charging option and Moriarty went a step too far and that’s when Walz spoke up. He’s no stranger to calling out bad policing in the past.

JaymesRS,

This has an interesting potential given that the RNC Convention will be in Milwaukee, WI July 15, 2024.

JaymesRS,

Not sure what that has to do with the potential for shenanigans given the public news of a sentencing date being 4 days before the nominating convention, but ok.

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