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Jim Ausman

@ausman.bsky.social
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. - Ursula Le Guin 🏴

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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If they do it to them They'll do it to you If they do it to them They're gonna do it to you
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah it’s a collective I think.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just get off Twitter already.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised or sickened but I am. What have we come to? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Woman in Cornell rape allegations case targeted with threats, her lawyer says
Attorney says people have threatened to silence or harm ‘Jane Doe’ if she does not withdraw civil lawsuit
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is puml really Dean Preston? It’s funny if it is because I have been going back and forth with them. They have good takes on everything except housing.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
puml.media/a-lifelong-r...
puml.media
A lifelong Republican anointed Daniel Lurie "the foil to the rising socialists" in Jeff Bezos' newspaper
In Lurie, the nation’s elites think they may have found the answer. ‘The foil to the rising socialists might be found in a red state with conservative values. But perhaps he’s a Democrat in San Franci...
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It has to start with us men. We need to change and we need to call out bad behavior in other men.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You are the only person you can control. And sometimes it's even hard to do that. Look I am a prick online sometimes too, but let's wait until after Nov 3 to go after each other. Please?
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And if the best thing happens and there are no darker times, what was lost? You pulled your loved ones closer and strengthened and extended your bonds with others: something that almost all of us could use and find valuable. In the end, each other is all we’ve got! ❤️
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If that’s not the case, just don’t engage. I am sure you can find better things to do with your time than trolling. You aren’t helping.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Respectful debate strengthens our communities. It means “I care enough about your ideas to listen to you, learn from you, and even change my mind.”
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Try not to bicker with each other. Jesus H Christ we have our differences and it’s fine, even good, to call out bad behavior or thinking. But do it respectfully, with good faith, and as kindly as you can muster.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Build the resilient networks we will all need. No one can do in alone and Solidarity will be essential.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Call your mother. Tell your husband/girlfriend/polycule mates that you love them. Have a campout with friends. Go shooting together. Check up on your old college buddies. Get therapy.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No one knows what is going to happen but we do know that we are going to need each other more than ever to thrive facing the rising tide of darkness and evil. We will need to lean on core values of Mutual Aid and Solidarity.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The MOST IMPORTANT thing we can do now politically is to expand and strengthen our tribes.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The MOST IMPORTANT thing we can do now politically is to expand and strengthen our tribes. 1/N
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You are no friend of liberty. Right now we need to be pulling together to face our external menace and infighting like this is bullshit. Don't do the enemies work for them.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I just venmo my broke ass relatives money. I don't say anything I just do it. If they as why, I say because of the SNAP cuts. No one has returned it, but I am their big brother.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just pass the god damn thing already. Billionaires already have too much wealth and power and they are rocketing away from us mere mortals.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In San Francisco we are losing control of our government. We are turning from a Democracy into an Oligarchy. missionlocal.org/2026/09/san-...
missionlocal.org
San Francisco's wealthiest have unprecedented control of city politics
Our city fathers (if you like them) or oligarchs (if you don’t) have never been richer, more brazen or faced weaker opposition
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They are going to try and steal it. Get ready. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
aljazeera.com
US top court allows Trump to use controversial voter verification system
Voting rights groups have warned system may falsely identify voters as non-citizens, leading to disenfranchisement.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin For the fourth or fifth time. I lost count. #booksy
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For the fourth or fifth time. I lost count.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Other than confusing filtering with chain migration there is nothing wrong with this article. Though I can tell he has never been poor because he turns his nose up at substandard housing.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"error"
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.” ― John Lewis, Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America 2/2
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“But we must accept one central truth and responsibility as participants in a democracy: Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest... 1/2
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
comic with two animated bears. one is purple and cheery and acting silly and the other is more somber and light blue. The blue one asks "why are you in such a silly mood." the purple one dances for a frame then replies "without it, darkness would consume me" and stares into the blue ones eyes as it sweats. Next frame the purple one does a silly handstand and the blue one sweats profusely.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bond Villain energy.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Many want to only have support for their dubious opinions. If they need emotional support that’s one thing but if they are talking about intellectual topics they presumably want engagement. Most Bluesky users are snowflakes.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The election is ours in the bag if they don't try some other fuckery. But they know they are headed for investigations and possibly prison time if they keep losing elections so I expect trouble. This is a big test but 2028 is even bigger. If the Dems wrest Congress it might go okay.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Obviously the original poster has no idea because they block any discussion on the topic. I never understand Blueskyers who post and then get mad when someone responds to what they say with anything other than vigorous agreement. What is the point of social media in the first place?
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s pretty hard to build a consistent moral system without at least considering the divine. You can just stumble on with thinking that something is moral because your feelings tell you that it is. But that isn’t really a good basis for decisions beyond your own nose.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jefferson believed in god did you know that? He just wasn’t a Christian. Tolstoy had his own brand of Christianity where he switched out all the mumbo jumbo and denied all the miracles including the resurrection of Christ and just based morality on Christ’s actual teachings.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. -George Orwell
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
lol. I am used to be being blocked but not usually when I am being so charming.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did I just get blocked for saying that or is the original post removed by the author?
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Most liberals never actually get beyond that. And increasingly, most conservative as well. It's the root of most of our problems today. Since no one can reason beyond "I am right because I know that I am right!" no one can even get to square one in a discussion about morality. Like ths one!
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Metaphysics is an important and valid way of understanding reality. Unless you rejec morality, it's the only way to really get there. And by there I mean a consistent set of moral principles to guide your actions more complex than "I just do what I know is right."
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Linus from Peanuts is talking to Lucy. They are sitting in desks in a classroom. He says "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them."
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The G7 of course said nothing when Saudi Arabia was bombing the Houthi’s and committing war crimes. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Iran must stop arming Houthis in Yemen, G7 says ahead of UN General Assembly
The G7 also condemns "in the strongest terms" Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, saying that the escalation in fighting in Yemen jeopardises regional security.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
wut
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I got off this hellsite and just started following people on kollectiva on Mastadon and am so much happier.
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Jim Ausman @ausman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Please. Musk didn’t buy twitter to make it successful. He prefers that people listen to his right wing message but whether CBS is successful is not the primary goal.
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