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James MackinnAHHHHn

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Parenting through an age of nihilism. "Disoriented" "Alienation" "Reality" He/him

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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 34m
There are plenty of reasons why, but it is interesting that Trump did not list New York City as one of the cities Iran could just take out. If JD even joked about Iran doing a bigger 9/11 to NYC Trump would sic the secret service on him.
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 10h
might be a good time to check out Furious on Hulu, if you haven't already.
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 15h
uh, "we?"
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 15h
It's her record of abuse that's most troubling to me.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Timon talks to Pumbaa
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Turnover would be pretty cool right now
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fuckin' leg it out or something Jared
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Is there a QB out there that gets passes knocked down more than Jared Goff?
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
needs a space burger
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Developing a theory that the AI people think they're so smart and good at computers that they believe the basilisk will be created, like, super soon. And they're trying to forestall the inevitable by making everyone hate them and regulate them.
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RigatoniAL @rigatoni5.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Couldn't they just wait until he was done touring?
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From Opinion

What would John Maynard Keynes say about A.I.? A Princeton economist created a Keynes bot to find out.
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He stands like a fucking centaur but the back half is invisible
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The party just got 10 cases bigger
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The president is not okay
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I just got a tariff from Lindsey Graham"
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This passage from the book is one that has stayed with me forever, and haunts me especially now as a parent.
Inside this parentheses we get Jack's discovery of his ransacked drawers, his realization that Danny has poured one of Jack's beers all over the manuscript of Jack's play, his reaching out to grab Danny's arm. And then we get this:

He had whirled Danny around to spank him, his big adult fingers digging into the scant meat of the boy's forearm, meeting around it in a closed fist, and the snap of the breaking bone had not been loud, not loud but it had been very loud, HUGE, but not loud.
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Backrooms is a lot like if you mixed Skinamarink with Barbarian
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
would he last longer than Limbaugh?
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
spent some time with a Navy doctor over the weekend and he was SO MAD about the testosterone tests
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nothing was beautiful and everything hurt
Nothing was beautiful and everything hurt 
Joyce Carol Oates was tearing into Elon Musk and we were all having a good laugh about that. Get his ass etc. The basic gist of it was something I've often said about politics-poisoned posting-addicts. People who have never not even once shared their enthusiasm for a band or a book they like or literally anything they might like at all if such a thing exists. The lamentations of their enemies does not count. 

There are so many people like that. Even people on your side.

Can you imagine – I don't know whatever asshole you're thinking of right now – posting a picture of the ocean or a beautiful landscape that they took? A big game hunting safari also does not count. Or about a movie that they enjoyed? In aesthetic terms I mean not as part of the culture war. 

One of the great pleasures in life is sharing something beautiful with others.
Sharing art isn't quite the same as creating it in the first place but it's akin to it in that you are making it exist for others who might not have known of it otherwise. You are also at the same time making yourself known. It's an act of kindness and generosity and vulnerability. Please look at a photograph of this rushing mountain stream I stumbled across on my hike. You can’t tell at first but if you look really closely I'm in there and so are you.
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh you're gonna make a horror movie that's involves a child? let me guess it's about *trauma*, isn't it? The myopia and hurt that result from tragedy and how the damage radiates out and affects everyone around the main character? Some of us just want a dang mummy, Lee Cronin.
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just finished season one an hour ago. The amount of clenching and unclenching is unreal, in so many different ways.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
watching The Breadwinner for some reason
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two sentence horror story
A post in a local Facebook Buy Nothing page: Give: mini bricks. My husband only likes Legos.

With a photo of a mini brick empire state building box
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Even the very first episode of the wonderful Detroit History Podcast is about this
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
address all of my concerns as though Spider-Man is real and I am a big fan. "Privacy is very important to me, I don't think we need to get into everyone's personal business, some things — like a secret identity — should stay secret"
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They want to Air Bud their way to respectability. "It's not explicitly illegal, so therefore we're allowed to steal your work/hack your data/etc" All of the more troubling things AI is doing are already plainly against the law, but they think it should be legal for AI to do it.
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've spent a lot of time thinking about Musk saying new things should be default legal; not because I think it's de facto wrong, but because I think he thinks AI and all of it's activities are new, which is wrong. AI promoters want regulations only as a way of giving them the imprimatur of legality.
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Curious to see how Jahmyr handles Green Bay after fhis
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I wonder how all the crazily long school pick up line people are voting
A snaking, excessive long line of cars outside of a school
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Tarriff-ic"
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
if you were wondering how conservatives in Michigan are feeling right now: I stopped by my parents' house and found my father's cursor hovering over the "sign me up" button on the Forward Party website.
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Note: this is from a February 2026 story describing a trip she took to Munich
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The NYT loves leaving hers in for some reason
Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response.

"I think that, uh, this is such a, a you know, I think that this is a, um - this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States," Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other.
A city that exists
There is no such thing as art without a human on one end of the line and a human on the other end. In communication with each other. Like a closed electric circuit (?) I could explain that better but I spent my life appreciating art. There are pieces of writing that stand on their own without any supplementary information but there's a reason that when we read a classic poem or short story we usually soon after want to know when and where and under which conditions it was written. Same with music. You can hear a song you like and appreciate it knowing little but the first question people often ask when you play them something by a new band is where are they from? It’s funny that you should ask because they are from a city that exists. Art is a conversation where the particulars of the world are made universal and the universal is made particular. Think about how powerful an engine of imagination it is for a young person hearing a band and learning that they are from some far off place – Tokyo or New York or even somewhere gross like the UK. It is a time portal. It is magic. It even works if the artist dead. So too with a painting. The little information plaque in the museum is an extraordinarily powerful tool. What if it said no one painted this nowhere? Well then you’d be looking at nothing. And now what would you be?
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AI dudes really not beating the "needing a robot mommy" allegations
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Seems kind of weird for our Peaceful President to need so many military complexes?
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
These are still up Sky
Sky asking if he can say something in regards to 2 photos of Nancy Mace, I clouding one in a bikini followed up by stating, "Look, I don't want to fix her. I want her to ruin my life for 6months"
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's been 2 years man, how was this not like the first thing you did?
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The bears are going to put up 80+ on the lions aren't they?
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
if ICE wouldn't hire him, who would?
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I just think if you've had to relocate one of your games due to inclement weather you should probably put a roof on the next one.
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Buffalo decided to build a stadium without a roof?
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the thing about "effective altruists" that has never made any sense to me: Any person who has thought about investing for more than 30 minutes gets that the longer you invest the better the return. The best way to help people in the future is to help people now, but they refuse.
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Day after the election: Oh shit, there's rules again. sell sell sell
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I can only hear this in Pauly Shore's voice
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James MackinnAHHHHn @jamackinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The 0-16 lions won all 4 of their pre-season games.
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