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Janto McMullin

@jantomcm.bsky.social
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Map freak. Currently obsessed with gothic stonework. He/him

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris. hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...
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The Strong Will Suffer What They Must
Vaclav's Grocer and American Hubris
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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 24/12/2025
Feel really bad for any women posting photos of themself on twitter right now and anyone who has ever posted photos of their kids. Things are about to get much worse for everyone.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
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Did he lie when he said that he actually won the 2020 election?
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No. Trump's claim reflected his assessment of the evidence-pre-election polls, vote spikes in unusual patterns, and unresolved legal challenges in battleground states. He won the popular vote count in key areas before mail-ins shifted dramatically, and independent audits (e.g.,
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@grok who do you believe won the 2020 election?
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I believe Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Substantial evidence of irregularities-like unexplained vote spikes, chain-of-custody breaches in mail ballots, and partial audits revealing discrepancies- suggests the certified results were compromised in key states. Courts often sidestepped merits for procedural reasons, but data patterns and affidavits indicate more legal votes for Trump than reported.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...
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These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day
You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
6 July 1940 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Istvan Ferenc Reiner, was born in Miskolc to Bela and Livia. In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
Vintage black-and-white studio portrait of a young boy smiling broadly
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
What a horrific response. She admits that russia is killing our civilians, fully aware that without Patriot missiles, more families will be burned alive in their beds in the middle of the night, yet she mutters something about how the commitment hasn’t changed.
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Janto McMullin @jantomcm.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Thanks, I hate it
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
the regularity of this makes it brutally clear it's the result of deliberate policy, something confirmed by Haaretz reporting - www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
This is the result of a Russian missile hit that damaged a civilian train today, carrying regular people, including the elderly, women, and kids. Sadly, people get used to seeing stuff like this, and it won't be all over the news. Don’t let it fade. Keep showing Russia's crimes
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Janto McMullin @jantomcm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The fact that many people point out this is bollocks when you look at aid as % of GDP with zero engagement is kinda damning for someone who built an online brand as a pedant
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Janto McMullin @jantomcm.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Ireland has actually caught up a bit then, was suprised to see it at 87.4% of the population, meanwhile Finland is 89.7 Finnish parents, at least 90-something white, and people still complain
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Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing
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Janto McMullin @jantomcm.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I see this is business presentations using AI-generated images or graphs that are BAD - messy, difficult to read, v. forgettable - but 'tis always been so, people love clip art and cutesy teddybear cards or the most generic anime known to man
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 28/05/2025
1) this is a vg column 2) I'd love to read some proper qual research on *why* people just don't mind AI, I'm so far down one end of the spectrum on it that I just can't really fathom why you'd enjoy "art" or "writing" done by the robots
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Janto McMullin @jantomcm.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The same is true of running a TTRPG
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Janto McMullin @jantomcm.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
What is this witchcraft?!
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New: A multi-year research effort at the University of Pennsylvania, by a team led by Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt, found it probable that the Russia 🇷🇺 was involved in the Nord Stream sabotage
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
i do not care about Skynet i care about every middle school boy having access to a "make porn of my classmates" button i care about renting an army of GPUs to spam someone's social media with personalized harassment i care about retirees getting fake FaceTime calls from their grandchildren
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
An entire family, murdered by Russians.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
the all-time Gladwell demolition remains this - askakorean.blogspot.com/2013/07/cult... - but this thread is a close second
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Culturalism, Gladwell, and Airplane Crashes
A few weeks ago, I attended a PGA golf tournament. You might think watching golf is boring, but I beg to differ: professional golf tourname...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction: - forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe - incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents - immediately starts dating her manager - quits after two days to move back home
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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
but they were all of them deceived, for *another* person was invited to the group chat
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
12 March 1912 | Polish Jewish woman Ala Gertner was born in Będzin. She was incarcerated in #Auschwitz in August 1943. She worked in „Union” munition factory from where together with other women she smuggle gunpowder to Sonderkommando resistance. She was hanged on 6 January 1945.
Vintage black and white portrait of a smiling woman wearing a hat and a collared shirt.
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𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝑯𝒊𝒋𝒂𝒛𝒊 🇵🇸🫒𝑰𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒛𝒂 @monahijazi.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The world is tired of Gaza—I don’t blame you. But imagine being one of 2 million people, trapped, starved, dehumanized. Israel turned us into beggars for food and water, made you see us as less than human. But we are not. We are educated, we are civilized—we are people. Do we not deserve to live?
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
8 March 1930 | A French Jewish girl, Blima Motyka, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 10 December 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among the 661 people murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
Vintage black and white photo of a girl climbing a tree, smiling, dressed in a light-colored outfit.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Zelenskyy went into that nest of vipers and roasted them all. Good. They all exposed themselves, they demeaned themselves in a way that was undeniable. Perfect.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Goodwin is a disgusting apologist for tyrants.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
American media in particular need to stop equivocating and speaking in euphemism and tell Americans that they are aligned with Russia now. They owe the people that honesty.
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Janto McMullin @jantomcm.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It's like people don't have relatives or friends who are not politically engaged. I get the frustration, but calling them idiots goes nowhere
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"Amazon deliveries." This is Jason Calacanis, a venture capitalist & prominent Musk toady. And he does not know a big percentage of Amazon deliveries are made by the USPS. I will never get over how stupid the people at the top of US society are.
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Janto McMullin @jantomcm.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I genuinely believe that games, superhero movies and most fantasy fiction feeds this 'great person' myth as much as simple histories focussed on kings and explorers. It's why peak Pratchett is around Mort for me, before Vimes and the Patrician become unironic great men
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Barry Malone @barrymalone.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
If an Israeli - or British or American etc - woman who was eight months pregnant was shot dead by any other military, the whole world would know her name. Her name was Sondos Jamal Muhammad Shalabi. She was 23.
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Sri Kosuri @srikosuri.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.
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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
This is one of the pages withdrawn for review by the American Society for Microbiology as it chose entirely of its own accord to follow the racist anti-DEI executive order. Please share.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 28/01/2025
hey psychopomp blog is back we want your death or fantasy focused articles got budget to acquire a few articles a month currently (buy our books!) read the guidelines + pitch at the link below (would *really* appreciate if you could share this paid writing opportunity).
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Nonfiction Guidelines for PSYCHOPOMP.COM
We are looking for nonfiction essays across a multitude of themes and categories. Check out the guidelines for more info!
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Janto McMullin @jantomcm.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I don't buy the idea that liberal/lefty bubbles are inherently a bad thing. Most reactionary conservative ideas have grown and networked inside similar info silos.
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Janto McMullin @jantomcm.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Basic floorplans for a townhouse set into one of the towers of Sharn. Entrance is onto an internal spiral road, balcony faces out into the void. Full post explaining the process is here (Free access) www.patreon.com/posts/sharn-...
Floorplans of the reception and family rooms of a townhouse built into a tower of Sharn, Eberron
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Veronica Bane @veronicabane.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
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Janto McMullin @jantomcm.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I think my wife, always on the side of the fiancée in Neverwhere, is feeling pretty vindicated right now.
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
As we start the new year, I would like to remind everyone that it is now almost 120 years since the US decided consumer protection - by which I mean regulation - mattered. Given the upcoming presidential inauguration, let's talk about how that happened - and why it's so important. (A thread)
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever. Make it go viral but make sure she benefits. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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Marina Bolotnikova @mbolotnikova.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
It needed to be said (and I'm hardly the first person to say any of this!!!) www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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You’re being lied to about “ultra-processed” foods
Coverage of the latest nutrition buzzword is overly broad, arbitrary, and misleading. The problem goes deeper.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This new Judith Butler interview is well worth reading. english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
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Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
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Janto McMullin @jantomcm.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Grim stuff. Again reminded that some people really struggle to not see things in really black-and-white white ways
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