Jonathan Rigsby - Your Rideshare Driver

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Author, father, and rideshare driver.

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And now France tells the Nazis to get fucked? A good week.

Amazing to wake up this morning to see the UK tossing their conservative party out of office en masse. Goals. 🥲

I wrote a novel that's currently sitting in my agent's inbox about a young man who gets a government letter that forces him to go work in a warehouse full of dangerous automation. Every citizen is supposed to do this on a random basis, like jury duty. I did not expect it to become this on the nose.

The cruelty of the Grants Pass decision perfectly distills the soul of this country down to its ugly punitive essence. Instead of using our vast wealth to help those in need we will use it instead to punish them. And hey if it ushers thousands more into the warehouses then all the better right?

Nothing but punishmentwww.welcometohellworld.com Micah Herskind joins us today to write about the latest developments in the Stop Cop City movement, including a major fuck up by the Georgia Attorney General’s prosecution of 61 activists that could p...

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The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.

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"Your first deadline's tomorrow. I want to see eight thousand words. Printable words. I still remember that essay you wrote when the Beast got elected. I do not want to see the word "fuck" typed eight thousand times again."

Me to my girlfriend: I have loved you in every lifetime.

two cicadas just hatched right next to each other. do you think they were friends when they lived in the dirt

Pineapple and pepperoni is amazing. Sweet, spicy, fatty, acidic, salty goodness.

I worked in pizza for nine years, and not only is it a good and common ingredient, most people who say it "doesn't belong on pizza" will like it on the right pizza. It's all about acid balance.

Men will stare at a flight map for twelve hours rather than go to therapy.

This is barbaric and these men must be studied for science www.gq.com/story/why-me...

Why Men Are ‘Rawdogging’ Flightswww.gq.com “I've got DMs on Instagram like, ‘Bro, you need to teach us how to bareback flights,’” says a pioneer of the swashbuckling trend.

I used to fill a thermos exactly like this every Friday morning to bring with me to my day job. I'd crack into it when I was changing clothes to go drive, and it would be piping hot. I'd drink the entire pot of coffee between 5PM and midnight, then coast on caffeine jitters until 2:00 AM.

My grandaddy brought a Stanley thermos looked just like this on every 0400 fishing trip he took me on as a child. My momma has it now. Stanley has also made travel mugs for decades (truckers used to use em cause that vacuum insulation works great).

The Little Caesars slogan suddenly makes so much sense.

to me the three most important components of a pizza are the dough, sauce, cheese, pizza, and toppings

I know I don't usually post stuff like this, but there's a friend of a friend who is having a really awful time, and she could use some help. Any help would be appreciated.

Help Sarah and Charmander's Journey Home, organized by Sarah Fowlerwww.gofundme.com I'm Sarah, and my dog Charmander and I are newly homeless, and trying to get hom… Sarah Fowler needs your support for Help Sarah and Charmander's Journey Home

It's Friday night, and that means it's time for the Friday night ride-along! Retweet and join me as I venture into the Florida night to see who is out and about. Buckle up!

I mean... I'd stop.

How to kidnap an adult

And we know not to listen to people who routinely tell us bullshit, yet somehow when you make a computer do it, now we should reorganize society around it.

“‘The machines are not trying to communicate something they believe or perceive,’ the paper reads. ‘Their inaccuracy is not due to misperception or hallucination. As we have pointed out, they are not trying to convey information at all. They are bullshitting.’”

Researchers Say There’s a Vulgar But More Accurate Term for AI Hallucinationsfuturism.com It's not just your imagination — ChatGPT really is spitting out "********," according to a group of researchers.

"In an email to PetaPixel, the competition’s organizers said that while it appreciates Astray’s 'powerful message', his entry has been disqualified in consideration for the other artists." Being real generous with the word 'artists' in that sentence.

Good! Miles Astray entered a real, albeit surreal photo of a flamingo into the AI category of the 1839 Color Photography Awards [...] “I wanted to show that nature can still beat the machine and that there is still merit in real work from real creatives,” Astray tells PetaPixel over email.

Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photopetapixel.com The photographers strike back.

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This book is fantastic. Got a dad in your life? Here's his gift sorted. (Three shopping days until Father's Day.)

Beacon Press senior editor Bev Rivero interviewed me about mental health, the gig economy, and how to write a book when you're working two jobs. The Uber grind isn’t what it’s cracked up to be, especially when you’re a divorced dad making ends meet to support a young son.

One Father, Three Years, and Thousands of Uber Rides to Rebuild a Lifewww.beaconbroadside.com A Q&A with Jonathan Rigsby | By the time I sat down to write “Drive,” I’d had to put a lot of thought into where I wanted to focus my energy. Working, parenting, and driving were taking up the majorit...

Last night's thread, for your reading pleasure. Make sure to enter the giveaway!

It's Friday, and that means it's time for the Friday night ride along! Join your favorite Uber driver as I explore Tallahassee's nightlife. It's been a long week. Let's see what the city has in store.

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You can eat a cheeseburger a day for an entire year and your diet will still not have the greenhouse gas impact of one fucking billionaire flying his cars to Europe and back one time, can we please stop with the lie that this is an individual consumer responsibility problem not a systemic issue.

PSA: there are many ways to reduce the impact of diet! it’s not “go vegan or nothing” one thing I do: meal kit box research sez the impact of meal kit packaging is far outweighed by the reductions in food waste they drive hmu if you want a free Blue Apron box, I got a few to give away

I'm really jazzed every time I see a review for my book, whether it's from an author, a publication, or even just someone who put a review up online. They all mean so much.

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computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong tech CEOs: let's add it to every product

How I feel every single time I post on social media about my book:

I spoke to Will Braunstein on A Dad's Path podcast about fatherhood, gig work, and life after divorce. Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/5z7l...

#100 - Balancing Acts: Fatherhood, Work, and Finding Purpose on the Roadopen.spotify.com Listen to this episode from A Dad's Path on Spotify. In this episode of A Dad's Path Podcast, host Will Braunstein sits down with Jonathan Rigsby, the author of 'Drive: Scraping By in Uber's America O...

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So much of US foreign policy in the Middle East makes sense when you realize a disproportionately influential Christian sect believes Israel is the material component in their Summon Jesus spell

Sorry, sometimes it's just... Look, I'm literally someone who studies the occult and has done rituals to contact the dead and my mind is still blowing at the thought that we have people in high positions of the government pushing policy to literally set up a ritual to bring about the Apocalypse.

And the winner is.... @lmccj.bsky.social She gets a free copy of Drive as well as some goodies courtesy of my publisher. (I have so many of these bookmarks, send help)

Giveaway alert! If you don't feel like ordering Drive right now, you can reskeet this post and be entered for a chance to win a signed copy. I'll pick a winner tomorrow.

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Last night's driving thread, for your reading pleasure. Don't miss the giveaway!

Good evening, everyone. It's Friday night, and that means it's time for the Friday night ride-along! Retweet this thread and join your favorite Uber driver as I explore wilds of Florida's nightlife.

In honor of Bluesky adding DMs that make it easy to contact people who win giveaways, I'll be giving away a signed copy of my book tonight during my rideshare thread. Check the thread around 7 EST for details.

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Gated health insurance plans are bullshit. I shouldn’t have to schedule an appointment with my primary care provider before I’m allowed to see Pagliacci

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Just picked up your book at Rediscovered Books in Boise!