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JD Yates

@jdyates.bsky.social
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Nerdy nerd being gay and doing nerd things, most frequently just idle commentary on whatever I happen to be reading/watching/playing. (He/Him) 🏳️‍🌈 🤓 🖖 Dallas is home. Primarily Mastodon: @jdyates@mastodon.social

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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 23m
Watching The Grab (doc about global water and food security/food imperialism in Africa) in context of the current data center push only intensifies my rage that this is not the only thing we talk about ever. Is there any water we won’t gleefully export only to steal that belonging to someone poorer?
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 3h
It’s raining, Damien Rice is playing, and I am LIVING. #SADBoiFall has arrived, y’all.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Since we can’t get them into anything else, I would like a congressional investigation into why the yogurt I buy is thinner than it was six months ago. I’m already on the Fun Free Diet, the least they can do is not shrinkflation my god damn cultured dairy products. 😤
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I just want y’all to know that I came this 🤏 close to posting SCS. Bloomf saw it tho. 😏
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I hope nobody ever talks about me like I’m talking about the date I just went on, my self esteem would not survive it. Like, I’m mad I wasted moisturiser on that.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One of my favourite things about living in the gayberhood is even the sidewalks are part of the Tea News Network. 🤣
Sidewalk chalk saying trasher hole whore home wrecker selfish bitch in front of an apartment building
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am once again begging, pleading, the hot men in my phone to look at the camera rather than down at the screen when taking a mirror selfie. 🙏 Let us see those pretty eyes! 👀
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Was pretty sure I’d seen some discourse about where we’d seen the cunt-serving congressman’s wife from Reacher before and thought I’d blow y’all’s minds with this one from Expanse.
Kathleen Robertson as rosenfeld on the expanse
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This season of Reacher was a… reach… for me. See what I did there? 😝
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the mood to gayze at males but can’t bring myself to reheat the Rivalry, having recently struck out with every dude in a ten mile radius, so we’ll start Reacher instead then. 🫠
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That three episode stint where they tried to replace Ainsley Hayes with Matthew Perry. 😂
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My entire kingdom for just one man that acts like he’s interested in me and then actually engages in the activity of being interested in me.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Forced to acknowledge the very real possibility that I know not one single thing of value about what goes on in the minds of men. Have scientists looked into whether it’s like an orange cat situation where they all share one brain cell? 🤔
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sucker Punch (2011) was unfairly maligned. There, I said it.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well, that's Heated Rivalry finished (book 26 for the year). I am slightly embarrassed at how much I enjoy reading these, mainly for what a cheesy sap it turns me into. 🥺
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This was literally a West Wing B-plot they laugh out of the building. 😂 www.newsweek.com/new-world-ma...
newsweek.com
New world map upsets multiple countries: Full list
The U.N. voted to promote map projections that more accurately represent the world, drawing official opposition from the U.S.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Can finally confirm “I’m coming to the cottage.” is just as devastating a moment in the book. Wrecked. 😭
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“We’ll make America’s defences the strongest in the history of the world.” … “The history of the world, when we say that are we comparing ourselves to the visigoths adjusted for inflation?” West Wing was great at dragging maga fifteen years too early. 😂
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I stay on his list just to monitor their messaging, but I’m responding to all of Talarico’s fundraising texts from now on.
Fundraising text from talarico campaign where I respond by insinuating his issues raising money are because of his bullshit stance on trans kids.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cute guy I’d been hanging out with just cancelled date three with a lame excuse, so that’s my cue to crawl back into my cave for another seven years.
Gollum in the fetal position in a cave
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Watching the bad X-Files movie so I can then palette cleanse with the good X-Files movie, which is technically its prequel, because I am a sense-making logical adult and also no one can stop me.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s so funny/sad that no Scifi that attempted to predict how evil humans would become once in possession of planetary fortunes has even come close to the reality of how evil they became with only nation-state fortunes.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Marking myself as post broke containment and the barbarians (weirdos) are at the gate (my mentions). 🙄
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If HBO can overnight take possession of the entire collected works of Tom Cruise I have to wonder how deals like that get struck and who is the owner of his entire filmography and are they holding him hostage. … it’s the church of Scientology, isn’t it.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
American cheese is to cheese just as American culture is to culture: should be a ceaseless source of national shame and yet is passed off as the real thing by people who’ve never experienced it.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The iPhone Duo is a device designed specifically for people who watch themselves fuck in a mirror.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s crazy to me that I can nail, within one or two, when in the order of West Wing episodes that 9/11 happened based on the way the writing changed.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am actually fine with GOP apoplexy vis a vis hasan piker, because it stems from an inability to conceive of a party not led around by the nose by its most extremely online-pilled wing and that means they’ll never see the rest of us coming.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Russell Tovey in a never-ending series of bespoke suits is enough to get me to watch the most inane drivel ever written, apparently. I’m a simple man.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In which Sam Seaborn, an ostensibly liberal legal expert, refers to his coworker as a “sex kitten”, in the workplace, to his boss. Ahead of its time and yet still extremely written by a man in the nineties. 🙄
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Went from reading hockey smut to historical nonfiction because I contain multitudes. 💅 (I’m bored, gimme back my boyfriends)
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“What we’ve got is two corporate parties. One pro-life, and one pro-choice.” -A quote from a show you could be forgiven for believing was written this year, not thirty years ago.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I realised I was a person of acute debilitating second-hand-embarrassment experience when I was subjected to watching CJ do The Jackal. If you don’t get the reference, count your blessings.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Love and Thunder was so forgettable that I completely memory holed that Christian Bale was in it.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wouldn’t it be funny if the UK didn’t want him either and they tried to send him back and we just kept passing him around like a game of hot (ugly) potato (faggot)?
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So I finished the silly hockey-sex novel... And I am more in my feelings about it than I expected. Sure, I knew an idyllic love story would pull some heart strings but I guess I didn't anticipate finding Scott's journey so relatable.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Turns out the thing most depressing about a West Wing rewatch is less the functional government than when they write in a contemporary event like a Matthew Shepard-esque lynching and realising not only have we not made progress but, one could argue, rather regressed in the near thirty years since.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The more I read the more Heated Rivalry was an inaccurate representation because, page for page, Game Changer is more sex than hockey. Also, the telltale sign that it was written by a woman is the religious use of condoms. 😂
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How many orders of magnitude too cheesy would it be to put “looking for the Kip to my Scott” on a dating profile. Asking for a friend.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If this isn’t a microcosm of our whole broke-ass reality (but, mainly, end-stage capitalism). “Sure, you can’t have any of the things you want, but you can definitely have some of the things you don’t!” www.macrumors.com/2026/08/26/m...
macrumors.com
75% of US Adults Aren't Interested in a Foldable iPhone
Three out of four U.S. adults say they have no interest in buying a foldable iPhone, according to a new survey from CNET. CNET's survey was conducted online by YouGov between August 13 and 17, polling...
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This would be a craaaaaazzzzyyyy time for somebody to idk close a strait and then maybe who knows place a bunch of kalshi bets about it. 🤷‍♂️ 👀
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Couldn’t not share this, received from noomf. 😭 🖖
Klingons screaming their deceased into stovokor but it’s Dolly Parton.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Do we think a West Wing rewatch would make me feel more hopeful about a future functioning government or more despondent about the present dysfunctional one? 🤔
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Have spent the last couple of weeks a bit buried in the first two thirds of Jemison’s Broken Earth trilogy so taking a breather from that to finally start Game Changer. We’re going to the cottage! (Almost)
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Up before 7am, on a Saturday, not hungover... That's
Kayshon from Star Trek Lower Decks, speaking in metaphor, saying Betty ford at Sierra Tucson.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I feel like if I show weakness by admitting to never knowing what the shit’s going on on this site I will be culled from the herd. 🙊
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We, as gays, do not talk enough about the hotness of Christopher Abbott.
Abbott in a white tee doing slutty arms over his head thing.
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JD Yates @jdyates.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“I am not at a point in my life, right now, where I can be taken seriously.” -the Happy Endings token gay finally saying something relatable after four episodes. Also, me.
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