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jdm

@jdm0079.bsky.social
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Editor of academic books by trade. Hobbyist gamemaker. Lapsed Gundam scholar. Cat and Bird enjoyer. Watches Tora-san films. My views are my own and do not represent my employer or my god. john.bombdotcom.net south salt lake, utah

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Potëmkin Spice 🐳🪐 @themontgomery.bsky.social · 1h
J6 part 2 with Le Epic Bacon Tatenokai
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 2h
I’d sure love to see a LOT more work on this. We cannot let this blood-spattered beast continue to control anything.
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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 1h
Nonzero chance Musk does an extremely Stupid Mishima
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 3h
i was 44 when qud came out you can just keep doing stuff. frankly they make you
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

Overall, if the CIA or whatever other malign force wanted to commit a psyop to undercut the left, I doubt they could do anything more damaging than connecting all of us to social media and convincing us that it is an important front of political struggle and maybe even a way to gain cultural hegemony on the cheap. But the CIA did not do that. Russian bots did not do that. We did it to ourselves, and most of us continue to do so. If everyone on the progressive left simultaneously and permanently quit Twitter-style social media, that would be better. Whatever we would be losing would be more than offset by no longer allowing social media to teach us to be more rude, more arrogant, more stupid each and every day. We might even stand a chance! At the very least, our collective blood pressure would be lowered, our anxiety and irritability decreased, our one finite irretrievable life less thoroughly wasted on stupid arguments about stupid topics carried out in the stupidest possible way.
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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🔲 try to get comfy inside this square and somehow succeed, to verify that you are a cat
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17h
The misogyny in this letter is appalling and if Bessent had ever sent something like this to a woman colleague in the private sector he’d have been sued for gender discrimination and fired. What an asshole
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 12h
Bit of a non-story here
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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 15h
I really wish more people realize the conservative crackdown taking place at public universities affects way, way more people than the overstated and overdramatized issues at the Ivies.
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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 15h
Things aren't going great down here, y'all.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026
I was at a conference last week where a well known 1st Amendment professor claimed it was silly to think that free speech was under attack in the US because people at that conference were criticizing the administration, so clearly everyone felt free to speak.
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Dave Calder @ldsfn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The LDS church is funding a campaign to keep in place a cruel law that demonstrably increases health risk to women.
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LDS Church donates $1 million to fight Idaho's Proposition 1 - East Idaho News
IDAHO FALLS — Less than a month before the November general election, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has donated $1 million to the campaign opposing Idaho’s Proposition 1. Tom Luna, a...
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Paxton’s support isn’t rooted in racism, it’s just an accident that every Paxton text I get is about being white.
YOUR NAME could be put on a terrorist watchlist in Texas...
...if you have white skin
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まのでまりな❤️‍🔥TCM2【58】&CdeC展&画集発売中 @mrn0093.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Un jour / CYBORG009
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You should be able to briefly kill yourself in order to emphasize your point
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 10,1954
P1- A BURGLAR STEPS THROUGH THE SLUGGO’S BEDROOM WINDOW 
P2- THE BURGLAR SEES SLUGGO ASLEEP IN HIS BED, AND HE SEES THE CONDITIONS SLUGGO IS LIVING IN
P3- THE BURGLAR FEELING SORRY FOR SLUGGO, PLACES SOME COINS INTO SLUGGO’S PIGGYBANK AS HE STEPS OUT THE WINDOW AND LEAVES
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Low-hanging fruit for reporters and Dem trackers: ask a Republican running for office, "what would you do if you were in a car with your child and men in hoodies charged at you with guns drawn?" Follow up with "do you think it's reasonable for a parent in that situation to use lethal force?"
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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Put him in hell
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ever wonder how people know to show up on a movie's opening weekend? The truth will shock you
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As usual, he says it so clearly: "The Afrikaner policy... proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you're poor, you're a moocher, and if you're gainfully employed, you're taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian."
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think, if I’m being honest with myself, this is the main reason I refuse to touch these things. More so than being environmentally dilligent, even more so than wanting to avoid being a thief. I am very good at my job. I enjoy being very good at my job. I do not want to become less good at my job
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 10/10/2026
⚠️ Border wall contractors to remove thousands of sacred saguaros (ha:ṣañ) on sovereign O'odham land starting Monday — Indigenous People's Day.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"freedom of speech" became code for a series of privileges our masters get. harsh punishments for speech is for us. tyranny
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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If we haven’t done something in 90 years—when the last people who would’ve attended are probably in memory care units—I am comfortable calling it “new” and “bad.”
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You want white people to *not* lend their voice to the chorus that we should not return to the days of public executions? What side do you think that helps?
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
To be fair, Pete Hegseth's religion is basically just "what if ISIS was Evangelical Christian instead of Salafist?" Slavery, murdering infidels, female subjugation, you name it!
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PLDH @pldhnet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Need everyone to see this
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Jonathon M. Floyd @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don't know under what law it is possible to hold these people accountable, but they must be held accountable. Every person from Trump to Vought to Musk and down to the psychotic twenty-somethings running DOGE's day-to-day operations needs to face the consequences for this evil.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Almost nobody watched The Critic but everyone who did is an elder Millennial who posts on Bluesky
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
2/ Between this and Trump/Hegseth's livestream execution porn, they're not even trying to hide their fervent wish for more violence. Violence begets more violence. Desensitizing people to it is one of the goals.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Beyond impeachable. Inciting violence again is illegal, but hey…SCOTUS says it’s all good.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth
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intracranial aneurysm (spooky, scary) @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
in the 20th century we were involved in a lot of horrors, and the response to those horrors was to do things to make them more scarce. then everyone forgot what causes the horrors, and people were like maybe the horrors were good actually? and that's why measles and public executions are back.
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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At last, recognition for that uncle he had at MIT.
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Ghostship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You need not fear skynet, but you gotta fear a dumbass teen being able to run 30 hacking operations at once thanks to AI. Again why the fuck is this a consumer product? Why did none of these guys think this through?
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 08/10/2026
amongst all the other reasons it’s bad, racism makes you stupid
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
when the metaphors get too strained, tech gets especially evil. email is meant to be like writing and receiving letters. a streaming service is meant to be like renting a dvd. a folder should be like a folder. etc.
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
so infantilizing to add a prompt at the top of Word asking what you want to write, like it's a toy for uncreative children instead of a metaphor for a piece of paper
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Carole @bnzoot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ah, the Good Old Days. "We guess the only real difference between Trump and the TV evangelists who preceded him is that when those guys had sex or money scandals, they were sometimes shamed out of their jobs."
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Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dang! I knew the 9th & 9th Whale was powerful, but they just *barely* unveiled the new paint job and already Hurricane Rachel is aimed straight for SLC!
Chart map showing the predicted path of Hurricane Rachel cutting across Baja California, San Diego, Las Vegas, and terminating in Salt Lake City.
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You guys ever think about how unrelentingly stupid everything is all the time
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gundampixel @gundampixel.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Have you heard of the Gundam Manhole Project? It’s an initiative where Bandai ‘donates’ Gundam-themed manhole covers to local prefectures. There are currently over 40 peppered around Japan! Let’s take a look at those donated so far (mini thread) 👇
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 08/10/2026
Finally Treatlerism has its Triumph Of The Will
THE TRUE STORY OF AN AMERICAN DREAMER
HERSHEY
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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
i bet it would be fun to run one of those youtube channels that tries to squeeze regular animal crossing news from a stone but for something that's not even popular like Bug! for sega saturn. i feel like doing Bug! clickbait for no one would be a good mental exercise like writing essays in school
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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Stopppp paaaaperinnng”
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 07/10/2026
Alabama Makes State Workers Say ‘Gulf of America.’ Colleges Aren’t Spared. Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too. bit.ly/4rTEVJg #EDUSky #AcademicSky
A photo illustration of an old map of the southern United States of America including the gulf. It has “Mexico” crossed out and the replaced text now reads “Gulf of America.”
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Constitution may not be a suicide pact, but living under this Administration sure is.
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