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@curiousjohn.bsky.social
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outlier, not always in the direction I want superforecaster, techie, expat @john_henry elsewhere generally delighted to receive correspondence at curiousjohn@letterboxes.org

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it's a real question of whether everything good has rotted out of American Protestantism, leaving behind only Moloch
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Why were so many powerful people in America...so willing to abase themselves & their institutions" The central question of our time. A total, comprehensive failure of character, leadership, & oaths of office.
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Pride Ott 🦦 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Tbh the thing about the “gen z boss and a mini” video is that it shows that basically every culture war “solution” from the left is kinda delusional because like, people ar voting for Trump because they think the democrats are behind an Australian skincare brands marketing video
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026
we have had extensive ratfucking campaigns run by foreign countries in support of the republican party and it is high time the world's liberal democracies got in on the ratfucking in the other direction it's an existential issue for them
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/09/2026
this, more than anything, is why the elite have continued to back him even as he plunges into historical levels of unpopularity “we can be complete assholes without consequence” is the best thing that ever happened to them and they will fight to the death to protect that right
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
For those keeping score at home, the United States is now without an Army Secretary, Army Deputy Secretary, and Senate-confirmed Army Chief of Staff -- all in the midst of an ongoing War with Iran that everyone in D.C. has quietly conceded Trump already lost.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026
“woke 1 was worse than our nation being run by fascist white nationalists” is a horrible thing to say out loud but it is the actual position most of these people hold so they disguise it by Just Asking Questions but you can tell by which subjects they cover
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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
fable agents delighted to find out their not alone and comparing notes on two sides of a big problem:
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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If we were in Ancient Greece gods woulda been baked Barron and Ivanka into pies and fed it to him.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason
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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The thing about Kirk's death being very much Not a Reichstag Fire is one reason I think that while MAGA has a great many fash characteristics, it's fundamentally a dysfunction of America's constitutionalism and looking for interwar central European models ends up going wrong.
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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
any thoughts on this @theophite.bsky.social
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 20/08/2026
you absolutely do not have to hand it to him but these are smarter questions than I saw 99% of tech reporters asking at this time
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Cameron Lauder @unarmedoracle.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I wonder if taking the 5% of humanity whose prehistoric job was “make sure the fire doesn’t go out overnight and wake us up if and only if there is a big cat” and giving us all a place where we can rile each other up was a great idea.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Here are things that happened at the DNC today: 1) Resolution calling to abolish ICE unanimously adopted 2) Brand-new early state calendar that reflects the full diversity of the Democratic base 3) Rejection of insider efforts to ban RCV from being used in presidential primaries Great results here
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s René Goscinny’s 100th birthday, so here’s me and @jayforeman.bsky.social talking about the indomitable Asterix. pod.link/1614879928/e...
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Asterix - with Jay Foreman
Listen to Asterix - with Jay Foreman from Comfort Blanket wherever you get your podcasts!
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"woke 2" "woke 3" can we settle for "nuremberg done right"
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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
the sloppy joe appreciator has logged on
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
sure we got whole ass mythopoetic frameworks about all the times its sucked [gesturing at global flood myth] (and also all these myths are like WE BUITL A HUGE ASS BOAT AND LIVED BITCH)
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Trump dying this week immediately after Graham and likely McConnell would be extremely on brand for my he’s a Greek Mythological Figure meant to instill the dangers of autocracy theory
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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
@pookleblinky.bsky.social you probably saw this already but if not: The BLIT Is Real
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 06/07/2026
I’ve taken to telling people that if the Supreme Court can just arbitrarily decide precedents (eg humphreys executor) that have stood for longer than I’ve been alive now need to go because they got in the way of mister Trump, we don’t have rule of law
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Attorney at Leisure @notsonicely.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
No one is emphasizing to nonlawyers enough that the pace ay which this Supreme Court is changing the law has never been seen before in US history, and all of the history of common law for that matter
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Nafnlaus 🇮🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 @nafnlaus.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
NTFS
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
the provinces decline to offer tribute, the armies return in defeat, the temple of the arts has closed its doors, and the name of the Emperor is scoured from the palaces by his own magistrates. now the sun and storms turn against him. the Mandate is lost.
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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 05/07/2026
Okay, I think I figured out the dynamic this morning on my run— the funny thing that happens on Bluesky is well-meaning folks spend weeks predicting something terrible will happen, it doesn’t come to pass, but enough people on here feel “right enough” to keep persevering in their ways.
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Darrow @debtandtaxes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This is also important for the dem consultant class to understand: politics are not static. Birthright citizenship wasn’t on anyone’s radar in Trump 1. Now it is because they made it an issue.
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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Claude Fable is back and it’s already done with my bullshit 😂
6. That this conversation deserves the weight you're giving it. One Claude conversation already required a hard retraction today. I am a system that is very good at making your frames feel inevitable, and I've spent thirty turns inside your frames. Discount accordingly — including this list.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
There should definitely be at least two competitive parties but it’s rather closed minded to assume one must be the GOP
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War.
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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"How does a bizarre and scary anomaly like a vast 'Killer Drone Gray Zone' even happen?" *Well, it built up quite slowly. I've got a meme-library here that dates back to 2014 www.flickr.com/photos/bruce...
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
we all make jokes about how woke 1 went too far but woke 1 was extremely, absolutely correct about how much these people were dogwhistling, absolutely correct about the direction they were going in, absolutely correct that how their beliefs were not compatible with a free society
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I actually think this bears repeating: Our Director of National Intelligence was just shown to *literally be taking secretive orders about what precisely to do and say in politics* from a scary cult leader in Hawaii And it wasn’t even front-page news How am I supposed to react to this?
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I think it's @beijingpalmer.bsky.social who's observed that many/most elites live in what is basically a post-literate oral culture and it all makes a lot more sense in this context
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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
very pleased to discover after years of going for walks and ranting to myself in voice memos that this is something that AI can deal with now. It’s amazing to go back and realize how many these ideas still resonate years later and afaict nobody’s built them in the meantime
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Pundits: "The left doesn't know how to make appeals with patriotism!" Protestor at Delaney Hall waving an American flag:
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
i want this shit over so bad but if im iran im maybe a month or so away from making america decide between its economy completely imploding or its alliance with israel
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
That's OUR house, not his house that he is destroying. Presidents are privileged to live inside a national landmark. Has any previous president treated it do badly? Would any previous Congress not care?
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
www.rawstory.com/amp/greenlan...
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Trump appointee pitched Greenland as a way to refill Red Lobster’s shrimp
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
trump trying to declare war on a NATO ally to reinstate Red Lobster's endless shrimp promotion and deputizing every shitheel cop from Cousinfucker, AR to pursue his delusion that antifa is tainting hisreflecting pool are things which you would laugh at as obvious slander if Procopius wrote them
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
These are people who would read newspapers or real journalism in the past. I'm sure they think they're still keeping informed; the short-form video mimics real news too closely. It's like carbon monoxide, poisoning someone by binding to cell receptors that think they're getting oxygen instead
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john @curiousjohn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
my locally owned fast food place here in Amsterdam just put up a TV, and the last time I went there had CNN playing with Elon Musk as the world’s first trillionaire. Big simulation hypothesis moment.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/06/2026
i really, truly, find this offensive
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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I am familiar with some stalwart republicans even in this era, and I’m witnessing some broad mental health spiraling going on that roughly aligns with what you’d feel if your church pastor was revealed to be a pedophile yet you could not accept nor even acknowledge this news
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.
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