Jason Bock

Jason Bock

@jasonbock.net

Living in reality. Residing in Shakopee. Writing code. Playing music. Husband + father. Staff Software Engineer at Rocket Mortgage (opinions are my own). Author. Speaker. Cyclist. And more! https://jasonbock.net

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The Downballot
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Justin Pearson's response: "Men of faith––let alone men who are married, in their fifties, and in public office––have no business sending unsolicited nude photos to women."

The Downballot@the-downballot.com

Tennessee Republican Brent Taylor, running to flip a House seat his party radically gerrymandered, reportedly sent unsolicited nude photos as recently as 2021. Taylor faces Democrat Justin Pearson for a seat that Trump won 60-39 under the new lines. www.the-downballot.com/p/the-downba...

nashvillescene.comBrent Taylor's Sexting ProblemState Sen. Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) has sent unsolicited nude photos as recently as 2021, dismissing past sexual advances as “youthful indiscretions” that marked his 30-year marriage.
Jason Bock
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The last 2 years have generally sucked. Sure, there are good things I can say about my life. But to see how far this country has fallen, it's depressing and infuriating. I want to have hope, but my hopes were blowtorched in 2016 and 2024.

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Jason Bock
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I personally feel like the US is ready to fall off a cliff. We need to start making some radical, hard changes to right the sinking ship Trump is steering. It won't be easy. Not even close to that. But it has to happen, and stay that way for a long, long time.

Jason Bock
@jasonbock.net

Please, vote for sanity, vote for effective change, vote for candidates that don't defend a rapist and a felon. You don't have to vote for a "perfect" candidate that aligns 100% with you. That'll never happen. Vote for the best candidate - hell, write in a name if you want. But VOTE.

Jason Bock
@jasonbock.net

The last 2 years have generally sucked. Sure, there are good things I can say about my life. But to see how far this country has fallen, it's depressing and infuriating. I want to have hope, but my hopes were blowtorched in 2016 and 2024.

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Jason Bock
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I want to have hope that in 1 week, we have an inflection point where we can start to turn the tide. I want to see a massive blue wave. But, like I said, I've been let down before.

Jason Bock
@jasonbock.net

The first step is to see what happens on the 3rd. If the results show that MAGA is being soundly rejected, then ... Expect 2 months of rage, lawsuits, screaming, etc. from Trump. The battle isn't won in a week. Hell, assuming results like that hold, it's just the start.

Jason Bock
@jasonbock.net

The last 2 years have generally sucked. Sure, there are good things I can say about my life. But to see how far this country has fallen, it's depressing and infuriating. I want to have hope, but my hopes were blowtorched in 2016 and 2024.

Jason Bock
@jasonbock.net

At least in 2016 there were still some checks and balances in place. For the last two years, there have been none. If it wasn't for the ludicrous incompetency MAGA has demonstrated over and over again (and for the push-back that has been done), I think things would be even worse.

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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

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Andy Craig
@andycraig.bsky.social

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Jason Bock
@jasonbock.net

Just came up with a fun little programming idea that if it's already been done fuck it I'm going to do it anyway because I think it'll be fun and I want to learn stuff.

Jason Bock
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This weekend Liz and I went out to dinner at a local place called Turtle's. It's kind of a smaller-ish "dive" restaurant. It's not bad, but it's not fine dining either. We just wanted a change of pace (and it's close to my favorite brewhall).

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Jason Bock
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Oh, and look, gas prices are $4.39 at the station I usually go to. Having a blue wave in 1 week doesn't immediately fix everything. But it gives us a potential inflection point to start righting the ship that Trump is rapidly sinking.

Jason Bock
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Vote, and then expect a LOT of litigation and fighting for the next 2 months to stop the results if it shows a blue wave really happened (funny enough, if Republicans win, nothing will be disputed).

Jason Bock
@jasonbock.net

This weekend Liz and I went out to dinner at a local place called Turtle's. It's kind of a smaller-ish "dive" restaurant. It's not bad, but it's not fine dining either. We just wanted a change of pace (and it's close to my favorite brewhall).

Jason Bock
@jasonbock.net

We usually go to Bravi's, a great Mexican restaurant. These days, dinner there runs us up to at least 60$. Which is not cheap, but ... it's really good food. We both got a burger and a drink at Turtle's, and our bill was 60$ :|

Jason Bock
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My point is this: cost in America has risen and it's not going down. Relatively speaking, it's outrageous compared to where things were a couple of years ago GEE WHAT HAPPENED RIGHT AROUND THAT TIME.

Jason Bock
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This is beyond racism.

Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social

It’s never been more clear that racism is a scam perpetrated by wealthy elites to convince working people to blame someone other than the wealthy elite.

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Adam Bonin
@adambonin.bsky.social

The time to determine whether Dan J. Sullivan Jr. could appear on the Alaska ballot for U.S. Senate was months ago, and Alaska courts did so. What's additionally batshit about this is that the candidates' names are printed on the ballot in a way which makes abundantly clear who's who.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Breaking news: The Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses his tight race against Democrat Mary Peltola next month.

washingtonpost.comDOJ seeks to block Alaska Senate result if Republican incumbent narrowly losesIn a lawsuit, the Justice Department cited confusion over two similarly named candidates, including Republican Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan.

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF
@jennifershin.bsky.social

Omg...this is horrific. “So Much Worse Than People Realize”: Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal Damage at U.S. Bases as Troops Describe Being Abandoned open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

open.substack.com“So Much Worse Than People Realize”: Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal Damage at U.S. Bases as Troops Describe Being AbandonedService members, contractors, and military families share photos, videos, and firsthand accounts of the Iran war that they say the Pentagon has kept from the American public

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AltWatcher
@altwatcher.bsky.social

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

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nightshade →home, for now
@nightshade.technology

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

nightshade →home, for now@nightshade.technology

oh it's bad. oh it's BAD bad. oh this is CATASTROPHIC, drop-whatever-you're-doing-and-patch-NOW levels of bad cert.europa.eu/publications...

Jason Bock
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This is a fantastic article. I highly recommend you read it. Doesn't matter if you're anti-AI or "all in" on the topic. Do yourself a favor and spend the time to actually READ IT (don't have an LLM summarize it, that's missing the point). You may disagree with it, but challenge yourself.

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Bobby Kogan
@bbkogan.bsky.social

Bookmark this for every time they say “we have no problem with legal immigration, we’re just trying to stop illegal immigration.”

Jason Bock
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Sometimes, the best choice is to delete your work, start over, and do it again knowing what you learned the first time.

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Josh Sternberg
@joshsternberg.com

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

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Brad Tabke
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Our new yard sign colors were a bit more popular than we’d expected...a great problem to have! In the interest of sustainability, we’ll be delivering our “vintage” color yard signs to new orders soon. Different color, same name and message. Thanks friends.