Reposted by jBitsy Ipswich @finduilas.bsky.social · 6hdrivers 🤝 pedestrians 🤝 cyclists being enemies of all humanity 1103
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 9hthinking about LIFE….as a game… hmm this could really unlock everything 010
Reposted by jMr. Always Thinking About Prom @beepthief.bsky.social · 10hAnother analytical dagger from the neighborhood AI hawker 1151
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026yeah yeah yeah can I bet on it yet tho, where’s the kalshi odds 240
Reposted by jAzure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Next say the act of contrition: I have failed to make my soul a mirror of the radiant weather that has been granted to me 0183
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026BASED slaughterhouse owner CLAPS BACK at PICKPOCKET attempting to recruit from his CHILD LABOR STAFF 020
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“We would like to condemn Americas actions in the strongest possible language. We would also like to offer our sincerest condolences to America on their losses at little big horn” 010
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You can’t call you book “the end of history” and then be like “ok but I didn’t mean the END end of history” 031
Reposted by jSlig @slig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Doctors & physical therapists recommend this one trick for chronic back pain 0112
Reposted by jSam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I often say that things "seem" instead of "are" because I am not fooled by the World of Appearances 2537
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026this one and the one (I think from the next days strip) about “nothing cures a bad mood like spreading it around” are Very Important imo 110
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I know he’s desperate for an Oscar and it worked for DiCaprio but a real flop of a choice to go back to “real acting” with that guy 000
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Ok now we’re cookin. Robert Pattinson is Starbuck chalamet is stubb and vin diesel is fedallah 110
Reposted by j聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026They’re making an elevated horror movie where a woman with a pretty face makes an un pretty face. She does like a beautiful model face but then screams or laughs or something and it will shake you to your fucking core, that a face can do that, in a movie at least 6526
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I remember my first time experiencing content, it was a whole new world 020
Reposted by j(°○°) @rarecryptid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We didn't have media back then, just like books and movies and stuff. 3403
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Should just pull these out on their own. bc the good stuff is Baldwins writing, not my 30 posts preceding it lol 000
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think it’s a deliberately obfuscating view of both how the world is and who makes it that way 120
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026lmao, I genuinely have been thinking a lot about genre and identity confined in and expressed in it (to sum up too broadly) a lot more because of your work though, it’s been stewing since All Units really. Also great rec! Looks like it intersects with exactly the stuff I’ve been ruminating on 020
Reposted by jAaron King @aaronmfking.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Relistening to the SFUltra episode now, and it has some all-time Sean insults. Steampunk is about... - "a guy making a thing for his leg so he can kick a bin in half." - "having sex with a woman made of door hinges." - "riding an elevator powered by hops." allunits.libsyn.com/sfultra-15-t...allunits.libsyn.comSFULTRA: SFULTRA #15 - The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers"All alone at the '64 World's Fair Eighty dolls yelling "Small girl after all" Who was at the DuPont Pavilion? Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there?" - They Might Be Giants, Ana Ng 091
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Shameless rip off of @nochorus.bsky.social who is constantly drawing comparisons between works and authors I would usually have never thought had anything in common 120
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026lol I don’t know, I think some of these are scanned in and if the pages/covers are marked up or wrinkled it throws off the scan somehow. Have seen some unbearably bad scans where you’re trying to figure out what the words are supposed to be because the words scanned in make no sense haha 010
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Giovanni’s room, where the denial of identity leads to destruction. Baldwin is never naively optimistic, he’s more critical of symbolic ‘progress’ than anyone, but he’s incredibly hopeful in his pursuit and embrace of honesty 030
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Le Carres characters are usually destroyed by their pursuit of a “true” identity (and women in his novels primarily function as an impetus for this journey of self discovery, nothing more). Compare with go tell it on the mountain where finding your identity and embracing it is salvation 140
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Anyways, incredible to have all that in mind and discover Baldwin already summed it all up in a dozen paragraphs inside an essay about identity manufactured via films lol 130
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Le carre can’t quite bring himself to that level of critique I think, still loves the idea of ‘Europe’ despite what it’s built on. He hates America bc it’s a nightmare, but it’s Europe that dreamed it 240
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026humanity forever, trapped inside the role of brutal oppressor, in the name of civilization. 130
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Baldwin wields words like a weapon, constantly slicing thru the false front of “America” and the ‘freedom’ it offers, accessible only to those capable of aiding America in its ever growing exploitation. And the people who do take this offer are never really free themselves, cut off from the rest of 130
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Baldwin finds socialist orgs lacking in an ability to deliver liberation to black Americans, sees the construction of white identity built on the foundation of the subjugation of the people it calls black and the recreation of this dichotomy recreated in liberal and socialist orgs 140
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Contrast with Baldwin who knows his country hates him and is determined to find out why, who escapes to France and then writes about America from a distance. He’s not offered the same escape route as le carre, he can’t wrap himself in the flag, not without a tremendous amount of self deception 130
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He makes one more escape at the end of his life, becoming a citizen of Ireland. Mostly bc of brexit. he can only justify England as part of “Europe” I think, a key upholder of western civilization. He’s very upset by UK’s exit from the EU 130
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He’s clearly very ambivalent about “England”, it seemed to offer an identity, it trains its young men in private schools to be ready made stewards of the empire, an empire built on exploitation and destruction and burning thru people with shattered identities. He loves England, he hates England. 120
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026And he’s always writing characters who realize too late they’ve been searching their whole lives for a real identity, been offered one a loyal servant of the empire, and are now trapped in a career of constantly shifting identities, constantly lying as a job 130
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026His books almost always feature double-agents who are unsure of their own loyalties, lost between 100 different identities that they pick up and drop at a moments notice. In his books ppl usually learn these skills as young ppl, trying to fit in and are recruited bc MI6 (the circus) find them useful 130
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Anyways, then he writes looking glass war, an almost satirical portrait of the espionage business, that features Smiley again. Then tinker tailor soldier spy which makes him famous. 120
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Allegedly bc Kim Philby, a Soviet double agent, blew his cover. But le carres stories about his life in the service (and out of it)constantly shift, that may not be the whole story 120
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He starts writing novels under the name John le Carre while stationed in Bonn, first a murder mystery featuring george smiley a retired spy, then a murder mystery that becomes an espionage story and finally spy who came in from the cold which is well received. Then a year later leaves the service 120
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He’s moved into the intelligence corps , right as the Cold War is really kicking off, does his time, goes back to college and reports on leftists groups there for MI5. Here’s a way to feel like he fits in- earning an identity by serving the country 120
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026So he basically abandons school I think right before college and runs to Germany and goes to the university of Bern and talks his way in. He learns German and loves German classic lit. Speaking German makes him useful to the British Army when he’s called up into the national service 130
j @jaynonamebe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Le Carrè’s dad conned people by pretending to be wealthier and more influential than he was and taught John (real name David cornwell) to do the same at the private schools he was sending him to (and usually always behind on the bills for) so John always felt he was pretending to be someone else 130
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