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Chris Johnson

@ectowombat.bsky.social
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Unitarian Universalist, humanist, lefty. Interests include linguistics and other cognitive sciences. Probably mostly reskeets. he/him/his

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2h
This is among the best analyses of this that I have seen.
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One of the main organizations assisting immigrants in Central Ohio.
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Columbus Underground @colsunderground.bsky.social · 14h
We’re launching something new today. If you love transportation, and have an hour to spare, give the whole video a watch: youtu.be/kERA2QnizbA?...
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The Past, Present and Future of Transportation in Columbus, Ohio
YouTube video by Columbus Underground
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Tan Copsey @tancopsey.bsky.social · 14h
One thing that struck me at the time was how lots of relatively smart people were taken in by the surface-level impression of wrongdoing and how few people were willing to go a step further and examine the evidence.
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Tan Copsey @tancopsey.bsky.social · 14h
Oh hello @ifbookspod.bsky.social are doing a ClimateGate episode. This is relevant to my interests. Also, I guess some of us kinda lived it? www.patreon.com/IfBooksPod/p...
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Conspiracies of Yore: Climategate | If Books Could Kill
Michael and Peter discuss Climategate, the scandal that rocked the climate science world. With scientists on one side, and paid lackeys for
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League of Women Voters of Ohio @lwvohio.bsky.social · 15h
Ohioans registering to vote at Bureau of Motor Vehicles offices again must prove they’re U.S. citizens, under a federal appeals court panel ruling issued days before the state’s Oct. 5 registration deadline. by Jeremy Pelzer www.cleveland.com/news/2026/09...
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Federal appeals court reinstates Ohio proof-of-citizenship voting law
A 2-1 ruling by the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals puts a requirement that residents prove they're U.S. citizens when registering to vote at a Bureau of Motor Vehicles back in effect days before ...
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 23h
this show became one of the biggest pop cultural phenomenons of the last 100 years.
kirk with sulu, who is holding a dog with an exospine and a little unicorn horn and antennae
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026
This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Discovered an awful new breed of AI boomer meme slop that’s like all these homey scenes played out with captions like “were you helping if you didn’t grab beers for dad” but everyone is cabbage patch dolls
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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Genuinely think we would be better off if we had an English word for Wissenschaft. Best I’ve come up with is to use the word “inquiry” in this way.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Brian Ruh @brianruh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What's a poster you had up in your room growing up? This is the earliest one I can remember.
Image from Star Wars of C-3PO and R2D2 facing each other in the Death Star control room.

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PARENTS OF EARTH, ARE YOUR CHILDREN FULLY IMMUNIZED?
MAKE SURE-
CALL YOUR DOCTOR OR
HEALTH DEPARTMENT TODAY.
AND MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU.
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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 27/09/2026
I'm gonna start calling all cozy bakery stories "crustpunk" to confuse and annoy everyone.
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jess @jessichords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
y’all rpfed too close to the sun and now the nhl is trying to make money off of fan fiction
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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sleepynaut @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember 3 years ago when a bunch of NFT bros blinded themselves at a party because they bought sterilizing high power UV lights instead of normal party lights? How many of them do you think have since attended those Silicon Valley Harry Potter fanfic AI sex cult parties?
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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Consultant: this is a great ad Marie, I give it my seal of approval Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: *eyes narrowing* your what
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Chris Johnson @ectowombat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes on 8! Mixed feelings on 9! Both suck compared to proportional representation via Single Transferable Vote which the Ohio legislature banned! (I need all that on a yard sign.)
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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
abc6onyourside.com/news/local/i...
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Issue 8 vs. Issue 9: what Columbus voters need to know before Election Day
Columbus voters are set to make an important decision on how their city council members are elected as two competing charter amendments appear on the ballot.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
dreamt I started a trend among gen-z of referring to each other casually as "girlyopteryx." like archaeopteryx, but also, girl.
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Chris Johnson @ectowombat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chad move on their part.
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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We have made a full documentary about what really happened at Reform conference. If you only watch a bit of it please make it these 39 seconds. You won't regret it.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
50,000 South Dakotans have health care coverage because voters expanded Medicaid in 2022. The initiative passed with 56% of the vote. So this year the GOP has put 2 measures on ballot: —one to roll back Medicaid expansion —another to require future initiatives like this get 60 percent.
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"Disrespectful for Voters": The Dakotas Weigh Raising the Bar for Direct Democracy - Bolts
Frustrated that voters are bypassing the legislatures they control, the GOP is pushing two ballot measures this fall in North Dakota and South Dakota to require a supermajority to amend the state cons...
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 27/09/2026
out on the road today I saw a wojack sticker on a cybertruck
cybertruck with a bumper sticker of the NPC meme that says ROCKET MAN BAD
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
There are like 500 of these books and they all exist in an alternate universe where trying to win over white working class voters is a Bold Forbidden Insight rather than the guiding ideology of the entire party.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall” is such a nice quote that you can almost forget that it comes from a book about disillusioned rich people committing vehicular manslaughter
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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 26/09/2026
God I wish I could unread this
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Alternate Histories @alternatehistories.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From CineFantastique magazine, January 1987 issue. “Star Trek: The Next Generation. Fans Irate Over Plans for New Series”’ I especially love the “It would be a disaster” guy.
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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My love language? English. I am a dumb American. I am not proud of this, I just don't have fluency in anything else. *loud whispering* Yeah, touch works too. Just tap me on the shoulder if you need my attention. *Angry whisper* I can point at things for service! I love that work sround
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Gangly Bitch @gangly-bitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"What is your name? What is your quest? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
Trump stands in silence then walks off as he's asked three humiliating questions in front of Xi
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Free Press has been pushing this lady since the election. they published six of her "why I left the Democrats" pieces since then, three since this May.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
every poster thinks they are casually sharing their passing thoughts; every replier thinks they are critiquing a manifesto
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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
(Also, to clear up any confusion, the SAVE *database* is completely different from the SAVE *Act,* which died in Congress a while ago.)
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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the long term, though, the decision will let states keep using SAVE to search for noncitizens on the voter roll. While the tool can be useful, it has been shown to have a very high rate of false positives.
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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Supreme Court's ruling on the SAVE database shouldn't affect the 2026 election. Under federal law, you can't systematically remove voters from the rolls within 90 days of an election.
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Scott 𐚁 Cataloochee Hogtoe 𐚁 Cave @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
a fun thing you can do to enliven history is to replace “state” with “snake”
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/09/2026
One thing that encourages me is that despite individual Democrats capitulating on trans rights, I think if the polling holds, we will elect the most pro-trans congress and senate in US history.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You better HOPE this is late-stage capitalism. But that phrase was invented to describe the post-WWI era, babes. Capitalism hasn’t been around long enough to make sweeping pronouncements about its natural life cycle. This could just be the awkward young adult years before things get REALLY messy.
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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC
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Larisa Aitch @llarisah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It’s like a lizard seeing a snack out the corner of their eye
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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josh terry @joshterry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I was interning for the A.V. Club when this published and when I'd brag that I worked with "Mr. Autumn Man" (@erikadams.bsky.social) people would go "holy shit that's awesome" way more than they would when I said I interned for the A.V. Club
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
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Chris Johnson @ectowombat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’ve never successfully worked “I’m just swinging on the flippity-flop” into causal conversation, despite wanting to for multiple decades now, and that makes me sad.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Surreal to start creeping into Bush 08 levels without a true GFC equivalent, like things aren't great but they aren't 10% unemployment either
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Chris Johnson @ectowombat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fred Clark’s deeply humane writing about religion is part of what led to me showing up at a UU congregation for the first time.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’ve advocated for this before, but every time it comes up I’ll call it out again. This series of blog posts is well worth your time to work through. Even though Fred only made it through two (of 13!) books and the first two movies, it gives you a better feel for these things than anything else.
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