Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Overheard a snippet of a conversation between two young people, likely UC undergrads, discussing how the city of Berkeley is “sort of like between being in NYC and being in Michigan.” . I think you’re on to something there, kids. 000
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Dear Bluesky: I don’t care about U2, but tbh I liked them when I was about 15. 220
Reposted by Jason Eric Bystromrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen 743216446
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11996981913
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Unrelated, you say 🧐 “In response to a request for comment about the Wyoming attack, DHS told NPR: ‘Any attempt to blame DHS for an unrelated attack is RECKLESS and FALSE.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comSikh truck driver survives harrowing stabbing attack at Wyoming rest stopSuspect charged with attempted murder as driver, identified by surname Singh, reportedly stabbed 17 times 000
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 09/09/202671°F at 8:45am in Berkeley. So far , this is the first “hot” morning that we have had the entire year. 000
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromChris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’ll ask Cloud 2251
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026All the UC kids are back in Berkeley, and it seems like every fifth person I see is carrying a bouquet of flowers. Perhaps it’s a TikTok related thing, or maybe it’s in preparation for tomorrow in honor of all of those who have labored before them? 020
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Just spoke with an old dude who lives down the block from me. He told me that he was the photo editor for Berkeley High’s student newspaper about 60 years ago. It was a DAILY that published five days a week 🤯 010
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromJason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026For a minute I confused Paul Schrader with Paul Verhoeven. Big difference, it turns out. Whereas Schrader was raised Dutch Reformed, Verhoeven was raised Dutch. Also, Verhoeven, I just learned, was a non scholarly member of the Jesus Seminar 🤷♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_S...en.wikipedia.orgJesus Seminar - Wikipedia 121
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My Arabic class has been canceled 2 quarters in a row for under enrollment. I’m terrible with the discipline part, and I can tell that my (very basic) vocab is slipping away. But yesterday I saw a new barbershop with the word “صالون" on the sign which reminded me of that whole fascinating etymology. 110
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I am on a roll today! Just now I walked by two LDS elders and the entirety of our exchange was: Them [formal, tentative]- How are you doing today, sir? Me [jovial]- Pretty good. Them [earnest nod]- Have a nice one. 020
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromJason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026“Prayer” as a descriptor doesn’t look right. “Praying person?” Or is that triggering like “pregnant person”? 001
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 28/08/20261/2 Just had an amazing random interaction with a person on the street. Gentleman approached me and asked me to “pray over” him. Was about to politely say that I don’t pray, but he continued with something about being haunted by these demons and just needing someone to pray over him right now. 100
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026One time when I was about 17, me and two friends got pulled over by about 6-8 cop cars. They were looking for some stolen microwaves. We were in a pickup truck with an empty cargo bed. And we were LITERALLY coming from a Bible study 😂 bsky.app/profile/raxk... 020
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Just saw “Dollyscrolling” on a post. Yeah. 020
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromDeeplyFlawedReplyGuyFromNH @finegentlemaninnh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Every day we stray further from God's light. 3844872
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Ace of Spades on church bells. Happy Sunday. www.instagram.com/reel/DcDQ1n1... 000
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & statemiamiherald.comCatholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops. 15881322337
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The muscular Christians got some competition at the Muslim Man Camp right up the road in …checks notes… CedarRapids, Iowa!??!! www.instagram.com/p/DbTVX1Fu4y... 242
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Maybe it’s better this way. (Apparently, a West Coast server is down.) 000
Reposted by Jason Eric Bystromaohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Who is proud of being a "dogmatist"? Is it a philosophical school or political trend? If you're a Buddhist, Confucian, or contemporary "centrist," claiming you're a "pragmatist" essentially means you think the other guys are inflexible idiots who are insensitive to context, difference, or change 111
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromGreg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Every executive, investor, marketer, and indeed even every user of an app so cynically and amorally trying to (further) gamify democracy and indeed our humanity itself...should be deeply ashamed. But many seem lacking in basic capacity for shame or thoughtfulness. So we must hold them accountable. 1103
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Turn a movie into a linguistics article Some Like It Hot: Approximative Adverbs, Discourse Markers, Hedging, and Quotative Devices or Like Water for Chocolate: Approximative Adverbs, Discourse Markers, Hedging, and Quotative Devices 030
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The Amazing World of Tomorrow 48109262707
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Phenomenal!, and a super fun thread. Having seen the megachurch praise-and worship aesthetic and ethos make incursions into contemporary Hindu and Muslim music, this was more or less inevitable. 010
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve 1469521538
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Visiting Weed, California, specifically the local Grocery Outlet. I do not want to get into an argument with this korma! Also, I learned about a completely different definition of “retort” than the one I was thinking about when I made the above quip. 010
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromPat Schmear @patomicbomb.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The lord is telling you it’s time for an icy cold beer outside in his creation yet sinners stay inside with the devil’s AC watching Netflix 0122
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Nobody’s sexed their last pistols yet??? (Fun thread if you’re looking for a few minutes of mindless diversion.) 000
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromBrian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Maybe just paint the Strait blue instead 2718
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Because the store had already sold out of toilet paper? 000
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 16/06/2026@mpgphd.bsky.social and @profirmf.bsky.social I thought you might be amused to know that, as of this afternoon around 5:30, your book sits right next to Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism at the main branch of the Berkeley Public Library. Religious Studies canonhood achieved! 190
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I'm a progressive because I value diverse and multiethnic spaces with people from many different places and backgrounds intermingling and developing new cultural forms together. A certain kind of discourse of cultural appropriation truly borders on "blood and soil nationalism, but call it leftist." 321837
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026however much you hate billionaires is not enough 574379746
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Perhaps the biggest yikesaroonies of them all is that there’s a guy out there pushing whatever “Chicago Studies” is when every self-respecting academic worth their weight in Old Style knows that it’s “Chicagoland Studies.” 020
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromMelissa Stewart @lissajostewart.bsky.social · 09/06/2026This is actually the secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord 544570863
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 08/06/2026My coworker in a staff meeting, said dismissively, “This whole obsession with what generation you belong to like the new astrology!” Agreed. 000
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromChris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I’m so frustrated that I have to argue 20th century philosophy about whether machines are people and 18th century science about whether germs are real and fucking 15th century colonial bullshit about whether people are human beings. 212203668
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Blatant, overt, and deliberate violation of the Establishment Clause by Hegseth here “In previous administrations, our Chaplain Corps was infected by political correctness and secular humanism," he said. "...Faith and virtue were traded for self-help and self-care. We started correcting that drift” 020
Jason Eric Bystrom @jasonbystrom.bsky.social · 31/05/2026This morning in downtown Berkeley I witnessed a flock of seagulls and a small handful of crows (too few to be a proper murder of crows) band together to chase away a single red-tailed hawk. It was impressive on everyone’s part. 010
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I'm not surprised but I am baffled that "whiny, self-absorbed, untrustworthy, amoral, clearly no principles or sense of duty" is routinely labeled as "masculine." It's like they read scholarly articles on the interwoven nature of masculinity and toxic masculinity and decided "just the toxic parts." 1136046
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromLurks-No-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Bouncy feudalism, to be replaced by bouncy mercantilism and bouncy capitalism, until (as described by Marx) the society achieves bouncy communism. 021
Reposted by Jason Eric BystromStephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 27/05/2026encyclical against the machine 1578