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fjf1.bsky.social

@fjf1.bsky.social
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Husband, father, managing editor emeritus of academic journal, ex-musician, writer as time permits, concerned citizen, audiophile and videophile tendencies, etc.

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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 18h
He wouldn’t have had a bunch of safe media outlets to spin him into a hero.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 18h
Nonetheless, Jack Smith has the longest left arm on record.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 18h
Who needs data? The job is yours.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 18h
If only more politicians would practice strength in looking, we would be a hotter country.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 18h
I get a kick out of the guy complaining about not getting any love but never considering the reason why he isn’t getting any love and then simply stating that if people would just start loving him for no good reason, all would be well.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What would we ever do without you, catching them in the act like that? By the way, Canadians pay the tariffs.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes, “flimsy” was reckless, given that my comment was based on dabbling, to be kind to myself, probably fifty years ago. I can no longer remember the book, but I’m willing to bet that you would know it if I had a clue to offer you. Anyway, “interesting” could also shortchange the issue. Cheers.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Are those cuspids really budding fangs?
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You can thrive in the womb, kid, but once you leave, you’re in another country altogether.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes, “fierce and nimble.” That pretty much covers it.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
…and do they take the comparison as an insult or a compliment in the privacy of their own lairs?
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And people wonder how AI could ever get so cruel and selfish.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
…unless China, Russia, or North Korea launch it.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The religious conceit of “pro life” isn’t an abstraction? What makes Alito’s opinion decisive? Intelligence? Arrogance? Power?The “reliance interests” that Roe engendered are hardly otiose. Who expects to be prosecuted for a miscarriage or to bleed out in a hospital parking lot?
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ha! An AI agent masquerading as a genie.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The original version of “The Fly.”
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Are you sure that’s not David Crosby?
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Did he ever stop to think that the opposition or outright indifference to him wasn’t a marketing error but a reality check?
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He has no idea how most senior citizens live. Take this cash and shove it.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
…a bottling plant that doubles as a plastic surgery facility.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So the lesson here is that when your best defense against criminal accusation is an amoral argument, you have a good chance of prevailing if you can talk excessively without saying anything. It also helps if your interlocutor will play along.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well, that’s all right then.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Isn’t it a wonder how they all get along? If these guys didn’t have “us” to attack, they’d be on each other in a heartbeat.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
…and the ones who love him will love him all the more for it because he tells it like it is.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We’re about to find out how many times people have to hear the same blather before they get the right message.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He can’t even report a simple exchange of information from someone who ostensibly knows more than he does without attaching the deferent “sir” to it.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Skin color is his super power.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It turns out to be the same address as the Republican party’s in Texas.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They’re just like everyone else who tries to force their beliefs on others. The “keep your opinions to yourself” rule doesn’t apply to them because their opinions are right.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
People can dream, can’t they?
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And what does loving America mean, anyway? Small samples and half-truths is all the flag-draped lovers of America usually have to offer. Living without conflict, whether inside or outside borders, demands commitments much deeper than that.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But, by all means, Mr Musk (pace Carl Sagan), abscond to outer space and take your robots, human or otherwise, with you.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With the likes of Peter Thiel encouraging undergraduates to drop out and start businesses, Sean Duffy telling his daughter that once-revered universities just corrupt minds, Donald Trump doing all he can to bring them to heel, and all things scientific subject to doubt and denial, is it any wonder?
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Barry Goldwater among them!
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So, Trump labels Cornell a “fine” school, ostensibly because Letitia James is now involved in the rape case that it mishandled and because rape is close to his heart. Harvard, Columbia, et al should be so lucky.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh oh. “A lot of people think I should use it.” Translation: “damned right I’m using it.”
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Sir” is a dead giveaway. It was a conversation between a narcissist and his adoring reflection.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kennedy always looks like he’s posing at the Mr Universe contest.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the choice is between a deal and annihilation, why make the deal fair, or why even make a deal? You’d think that accepting the not getting annihilated option would be enough.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Given his particular mania, I could understand him praising the cruel, misogynistic military proclivities of the ancient Spartans, but when he mentions Athens, isn’t he enlisting philosophers like Plato and Aristotle into his army?
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hegseth’s appropriation of Western civilization isn’t unlike Republicans’ appropriation of Biden’s infrastructure improvements in their states, except that Western civilization isn’t the unadulterated boon that he thinks it is.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excuse me. What would you call them if they are merely the “so-called press”? The word is simply a nickname for information that a printing press originally produced.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rethink it, Peter. The redcoats are no more. Your spirit guide happens to love the only remaining communist heads of state left in the world. And I confess to not knowing what you mean by Islamists…Saudis or Qataris, for example?
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So what’s left for Trumpians to live for?
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shrinking only its “woke” quotient (anyone who isn’t an obsessively vain, belligerently Christian, clean-shaven straight or closeted white aryan male with abnormally high testosterone levels) while expanding it as an imperial killing enterprise and a thoughtless cult comprised of the proudly dum.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What good is an office of religious affairs if its main purpose isn’t to ensure that the dept of defense doesn’t become a dept of war?
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Be that as it may, they wear their ignorance with style.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hegseth is a jihadist. You are who you hate.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Right-wing network: that is correct.
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fjf1.bsky.social @fjf1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Hitler did some good things.” John Kelly quoting Trump.
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