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David Jones

@davidjones.nyc
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graphic design, musical theatre, technology, history, and travel 🩷💜💙 📍 NYC

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 02/10/2026
Really grateful for the change of scenery this week.
A shirtless man wearing sunglasses while laying on a grey and white towel atop a sun lounger. A hot tub in a secluded grotto with a small “clothing optional” sign in front of the bushes.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 29/09/2026
Hotel lighting and a good hair day making me feel unstoppable this morning. 💪🏼⚓️
A man smiling while taking a selfie in a mirror. He is wearing a dark navy button-up shirt covered in nautical flags.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 21/09/2026
It’s not much, but it’s mine
The bisexual triangles on a male bicep.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 18/09/2026
Becoming an Aella stan account?
The chart that launched a thousand AI cults.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 18/09/2026
**Fucking brilliant!** This is kinda up there with Drop Dead Gorgeous for me, even with just one viewing. It's like if the sensibilities of DDG and Camp (2003) had a love child. I haven't laughed that hard in a movie theater ever. Literally snorted twice 😂
Theatrical release poster for “The Musical” (2026) starring Will Brill, Gillian Jacobs, and Rob Lowe.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 17/09/2026
10 years as a devoted fAAg 🤪 *Would be so much longer if they actually took into account my merged US Airways history - that would be like ~2005 (or 01?)* In good company with @epcot.gay and @ohnonotgenagen.bsky.social, while the rest of you are Stockholmed by Delta 😘
10 year anniversary of my American Airlines AAdvantage account.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 16/09/2026
Charli xcx'd
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 15/09/2026
Going with very basic and boring for the concert.
A mirror selfie of a white guy wearing dark grey jeans, a near-black t-shirt, and an olive green jacket.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 15/09/2026
This Indigo bug is hilarious to me. @anilineapps.bsky.social For @theranos.top, and seeming only him, the profile pic is an old profile pic until you open a thread, or in this case, show a quoted thread. And then the actual profile pic shows.
The two Elizabeth Holmes faces of theranos.top
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 13/09/2026
Yessir!
The cover for “Some Men in London, vol. 1” by Peter Parker on the screen of a Kindle e-reader sitting on a small table with Bryant Park in the background.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 10/09/2026
Cal Newport's take on the AI humanity extinction discourse yesterday is really well stated. This is from his most recent email newsletter.
All of which begs the question: Why have
these particular Al companies made these
alarming long-horizon LLM-powered agents
so central to their efforts? I'm not certain of
the answer, but if I were to guess, it probably
has a lot to do with the Silicon Valley
technological salvation ideology (to borrow a
term from Adam Becker) that heavily
influenced key figures like Sam Altman and
Dario Amodei, as well as many of their
employees. They think these types of agents
are their best bet to summon the digital deity
of superintelligent Al which, in their futurist
eschatology, will either heal the world or
destroy it. In some sense, they see themselves
as prophets attempting to usher in a new
Messianic age.
All of this should make you angry.
Like many computer scientists without formal
connections to Silicon Valley, I don't believe
that LLM-powered agents, on their own, can
become superintelligent and create existential
risk, as LLM capabilities are more jagged and
limited than the average person reading
triumphant OpenAl press releases might
realize. But you don't need superintelligence
to create a super amount of harm. The
combination of unpredictable, non-normative
output from unrestricted LLMs and powerful
digital tools will inevitably create issues.(I previously compared equipping long-
horizon agents with hacking tools to
strapping a weedwhacker to a dog. As these
companies increase their agents' power, it's
becoming more like mounting Gatling guns
on a pack of horses and then letting them
loose in Times Square.)
Clearly, action is needed. These companies
are acting outside market interest with
disregard for the safety of the general public,
developing tools they explicitly describe as
weapons, likely motivated by the anti-
humanistic visions of an unsettling ideology.
And now they're bragging about it.
This is not a state of affairs that can long
stand.
Gary Marcus recently called for a boycott of
Anthropic and OpenAl's consumer products.
That's a good start. Maybe it's Congress's turn
next?
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 08/09/2026
Cabbage Patch Doll
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 06/09/2026
The current queens are so phenomenal. I especially like the new key and stylings for Cleves. Olivia Donalson is so good in the role. And obviously Natalie and Aimie are out of this world as ever.
SIX on BroadwayAimie Atkinson in SIX on Broadway Cleves, Howard, and Seymour in SIX on Broadway
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 05/09/2026
But you’re from Pittsburgh!!! 🤯
T-Rex in the Pittsburgh airport.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 05/09/2026
Getting so sick of my body’s insane overreaction to bug bites. Had a mosquito bite me like 4 times in rapid succession at dinner on Thursday. And now my legs look like this. 😫 It’s so itchy and honestly painful!
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 05/09/2026
⚡️✅
David fresh after a haircut walking down the street.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 03/09/2026
Is that why it’s impossible to select (what I assume anyway is) the dropdown to choose anything other than “Both”? It just closes. I’ll be interested to see what the pricing is for only Bluesky as I don’t need Mastodon at all.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 01/09/2026
A bear artist
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 30/08/2026
Found it! 🥰🥲
Crossing the Bar by Tennyson on the memorial service bulletin for Wyn Jones in 2004
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 27/08/2026
Damn you, Helly R. (And now you’re gone 😢)
A chocolate frosty.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 18/08/2026
What a wild (nonsensical) way to present usage data of when the building’s laundry room is most frequently used. Especially since it’s only open 8a-10p. wtf?
August 2026 peak usage for my apartment building’s laundry room. It’s a terrible chart with a nonsense y-axis and shouldn’t be a bar graph.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 18/08/2026
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 18/08/2026
Really wonder what has changed about my immune system in the past ~year that any/every tiny mosquito bite turns into a massive, extremely itchy, painful, and hot site. Surely that must mean something right?
A mosquito bit on my left pinky has caused it to turn bright red and inflamed part of the finger to 1.5x its size.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 16/08/2026
What a wonderful evening. 🥰 Glad to be headed to bed though 🤣
David in a black, short sleeve button up shirt sitting on the M train headed home
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 14/08/2026
I made a thing. It’s fairly abstract. (And looks even less like the original image than my sketch did because the lines once printed are so much thicker.) Proud that I actually made something on the first try though!
My first linocut prints
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 14/08/2026
Had a pretty great evening so far: sugaring appointment (so smooth!) and then bought $100 of art supplies for yet another hobby I want to get into: linocut printmaking! 🤩
A brown paper bag from Blick art materials filled with Speedball printmaking supplies.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 11/08/2026
GN bloomfies… looking forward to finally getting back to the gym tomorrow after a few weeks away. Feeling really behind and even more overweight right now. Need to lock in and drop like at least 20 more pounds by my November trip.
A selfie in bed feeling very pudgy in a way I haven’t in quite some time
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 11/08/2026
Holy shit! What an awesome night! 5 of the 6 OG queens, and a poster signed (sharpie, not printed) by all 6! 💜👑💜👑💜👑💜👑💜👑💜👑💜 (God I love K Howard/Aimie Atkinson so much 😍)
A poster for the proshot of Six signed by the original UK queensAimie Atkinson and Natalie ParisAlexia McIntosh
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 08/08/2026
So far it’s looking promising 🤞🏼
David holding a mimosa
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 02/08/2026
🫩
A very low sleep score of 11, with 3 hours and 18 minutes of sleep
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 27/07/2026
Everyone’s most important movie genre, “with Denis” Who the hell is Denis? 🤣
A Plex screen with the genre, “Top Movies with Denis”
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 25/07/2026
I’m dying at this ad. Supposedly “Go on Trip”. Yeah…. #Goontrip 🤣💀
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 24/07/2026
Presumed, but will know for sure in a few days 😩🫩
Goody bag to test for the diarrhea parasite
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 23/07/2026
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 20/07/2026
I can’t read the new UK Prime Minister’s name in the news without my brain immediately appending “Bo” to it. Clearly this is not the new PM 🤣
Bo Burnham from his comedy special, “Inside”
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 20/07/2026
Sweeney Todd: Medicine Woman was quite enjoyable this afternoon. Phenomenal performances!
The program for Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo at the PAC|NYCCurtain call
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 20/07/2026
Ooops. $350 later 🤦🏻‍♂️😆
My new monogrammed Le Portfolio (a5) in olive green. A side view of a Paper Republic Le Portfolio (a5)Another photo of the journal with two pens underneath it
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 19/07/2026
Desperately need a haircut. But kinda want to see how crazy it gets
David with insanely messy hair
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 18/07/2026
What a fun evening! ⛓️🥀🪢
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 18/07/2026
Same! I desperately want to (unnecessarily) buy one of these overstuffed, customizable Paper Republic journals.
Paper Republic leather journal on a desk with a grey mechanical pencil.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 18/07/2026
Tonight’s fit for the Space Invader/HMU Midsummer Ball at Masquerade
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 16/07/2026
I love this poem. This was the poem I put on the front of the bulletin for my dad’s funeral. It felt extremely fitting for him. I can’t find my scan of that, so instead here’s a photo of him and my mom when they were dating. He’s been gone for 22 years. Miss him daily.
My dad smiling at the camera lounging with his shirt off on my grandfather’s boat, “D.J.’s Locker”. My mom is sitting next to him smiling at him with her eyes closed while holding onto his arm lovingly.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 12/07/2026
How am I only 22 minutes into The History of Sound and already crying this much? 🥺😭 (Folk music often has this effect on me… see also Wild Mountain Thyme at the nightly close of Maryland Renn)
Movie poster for “The History of Sound”
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 12/07/2026
This was really enjoyable and quite funny
Movie poster for “The Invite.”
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 11/07/2026
😘
A mirror selfie in a room lit in red of a man in a harness, a black mesh button down, and black shorts.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 10/07/2026
🏋🏻‍♂️✅
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 10/07/2026
This was a discussion with my aunt last summer telling me “you’re done now, right?” And that convo with her led me to know exactly what I had to get next haha This “WJ” that she said my great-grandfather got in WWI and was ashamed of. WJ were his initials, and also my father’s.
A traditional tattoo script of “WJ” on the inner portion of my upper left arm. Dad was a southpaw, and it falls near-ish my heart.
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 10/07/2026
This woman makes Elizabeth look saintly 😳… you’d love her @anthonyisa.top! A great new diva for you. Plus she’s your neighbor—at least while she awaits her long-term prison assignment! 😂
Nicole Daedone from OneTaste
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 10/07/2026
I love documentaries about crazy cults. Tonight’s feature: Orgasm Inc. I first heard of their whole Orgasmic Meditation thing in Emily Witt’s fascinating book, Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love, about ten years ago. Should be interesting!
A title card for the documentary “Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste”
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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 08/07/2026
I feel like you’d really loathe me/my apartment then 😩
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