Lapsed blogger from Emptywheel, obsessed with barbecue and all things cooking, avid baseball fan, retired scientist, proud grandpa and political complainer. Not a football presenter!https://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mlb65xmwuc24It shows that this was done before the coffee was ready. Wordle 1,783 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩07 May 2026 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlb65xmwuc24https://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3ml57hox7ic2gGasoline costs 50% more in the US than it did before the Iran war (Once it goes down a bit, Trump will claim a 500% decrease.) https://apnews.com/article/gasoline-oil-war-iran-strait-of-hormuz https://apnews.com/article/gasoline-oil-war-iran-strait-of-hormuz-0e5b61be4a4c8a8a077ed5ff6f84c0ce05 May 2026 22:13 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml57hox7ic2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3ml4pa3dwh224Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally? [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4pa3dwh224https://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3ml4nikv3ss24The ship's doctor being sick is, to me, the strongest evidence of human-to-human transmission. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4nikv3ss24https://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3ml4lgtvsls24First world old person problem: my hands are too weak to open the compartment on my travel CPAP machine to replace its filter.05 May 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4lgtvsls24https://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mkxz6orpf22sFour home runs (so far) this inning for the Gators. The Sooner bullpen is…somewhat lacking.03 May 2026 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxz6orpf22shttps://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mksfis3zq223I have long been haunted by the photo that @willbunch.bsky.social used here. In 2020, I visited Selma with a group. I wanted to find the Haisten's building. It turns out that our tour guide at the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute II confirmed my suspicion that this was the very building. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksfis3zq223https://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mksesnb2b22ySCOTUS gutting 1965 Voting Rights Act is a wake-up call from a dream https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-20260430.html?utm_medium=referral01 May 2026 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksesnb2b22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mksa6b4ohk2pAtlanta, Jacksonville, Boca Raton [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 May 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksa6b4ohk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mks5w4rfjs2pI'm so old I remember when the legislative, executive and judicial branches were three legs on a stable stool supporting us all. MAGA has twisted those three together into a spiral so that it now is a giant screw boring deeper and deeper into us every day.01 May 2026 12:46 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mks5w4rfjs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mks5cwzb5s2pMay Day! May Day!01 May 2026 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mks5cwzb5s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mkqjzxpzlk2pFriedman Units are now much shorter. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 21:18 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqjzxpzlk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mkpjoqjze22pAw, come on. Just look at the health-care-profits-first model and its successes! Oh. Wait. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 11:39 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpjoqjze22phttps://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mkohaqbps22pWait. I'm sure he has them by the dingaling. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 01:22 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkohaqbps22phttps://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mkoewn5jpc2pDo you ever get a crazy food idea and then try it out, even though it's entirely off the wall? I present to you chorizo, onion and cilantro quiche! Amazingly, it turned out well. I thought it had the potential to be a disaster. 🍜30 Apr 2026 00:41 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkoewn5jpc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mkn2eapon22aI've been traveling and not paying much attention, but I had thought the initial line on the $400 million ballroom boondoggle was that it would be privately financed and donors were already putting in lots of money. Did Trump just pocket all of that and ask Congress to fund it instead?29 Apr 2026 11:59 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkn2eapon22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mkeiyx56q223Wondering if we’ll see martial law…26 Apr 2026 02:27 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkeiyx56q223https://bsky.app/profile/jimwhitegnv.bsky.social/post/3mjznpco2ok2aDumbass Donbas [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Apr 2026 18:52 +0000at://did:plc:rucwl4m3sprfpqibznpbiuyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjznpco2ok2a