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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 5h

Someone come kick me in the shins until I'm better

Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 9h

Can't shake the feeling that the rich and powerful just see the rest of us as livestock these days. Maybe that's how it's always been, but it's so much more obvious now than at any other point in my life.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

They're never going to say anything different. They aren't allowed to deviate from their marching orders.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For those who don't know: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurbans...

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Gurbansoltan Eje - Wikipedia

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh, so we're in like... Turkmenistan territory now.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ah, Cigarettes Georg strikes again

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wake up boys, it's yoinkin time

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If a man can't fire off a spiteful invoice every now and then, is he truly free? 🤔 Jk, that must suck to navigate. I don't have any advice or anything, but I do hope things clear up for you, my man.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh believe me, I know exactly what you mean. My own income is lower than ever (thanks, disability), all the small businesses around me seem to be dying, and my groceries cost twice as much as they did 5 years ago. So... Yeah, maybe "fascinating" was ill-considered, lol

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just fascinating to watch the whole "capitalism subsuming even the critique of capitalism" thing happen in real time, right before your eyes

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Half the posts I see going viral on social media these days are about how much social media fucking sucks Surely this is a sign of a healthy ecosystem

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Waiting with bated breath for the inevitable IBCK / Mike's Mic crossover

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Think I'm done trying to box-breathe my way through the collapse of liberal democracy, gang. It's not working like it used to.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

More fuel for the thesis "coders think AI can do everything because AI can code and they can't imagine anything being more difficult than coding"

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Kinda starting to miss the days when new tech products came with straightforward value-props. With AI, it's "this product will probably kill us all, also you HAVE to use it or else the economy will collapse." Completely incoherent.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Might write some of this into a little appendix the way Alex Pheby did. Gotta admit, it was great fun getting to the end of Mordew and combing the glossary for hints on WTF just happened.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Feels like this is a solid exercise for anyone writing fantasy. It's so freeing to be able to go into excruciating detail on the nature of the Gods, how magic works, the various political tensions animating the plot... Usually you can't expound on that stuff without boring the reader.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Inspired by Mordew, I've spent the past few days creating an Obsidian vault that contains all my setting notes for Wonders Never Cease. (TOTALLY not just procrastinating on this edit, what are you talking about)

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He literally was elected though

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Next he's going to say the cootie shot causes autism

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well then I reckon that's just all right

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Hague is too good for him.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm no expert, but MAYBE you shouldn't imply that this new yoga studio is for murderous clowns only. Other, less murderous clowns might feel left out.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They're literally trying to crash the system. There's no other explanation. Millions of people will lose their health insurance despite being model customers. Premiums will skyrocket. In the end, only the rich will be able to afford even the most basic healthcare. This is what Republicans want.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seriously, no President in history can own the state of the nation the way Trump can. No one is standing in his way. His entire cabinet is comprised of yes-men. The head of the DOJ is his personal lawyer. He owns the Supreme Court and a majority in both houses of Congress. This is all on purpose.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A little boy showing off his favorite toys

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New York’s DSA @nycmayor @zohrankmamdani continues to erase barriers and center regular folks 👇🏽👏🏾 Again: They weren’t scared of him failing, they were scared of him succeeding.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

join the military, you get to starve on a rusting ship that repeatedly sails into and out of the range of enemy missiles in order to manipulate gambling websites where people bet on your death

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Over/under on this being a hallucination from whatever godawful AI they're using at DHS?

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really seems like, between their legions of yesmen and their rampant AI addictions, billionaires have deskilled themselves to such a degree that they can no longer function as normal human beings within society. Which is bad enough before you consider that they want the same thing for you.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Defunding is step one. Prosecutions ought to follow.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment

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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 20/09/2026

The Metro reporting on Stuart Murdoch & ME "Due to his myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME, Stuart & the band too) remained reclusive, doing rare shows and interviews." We are reading Stuart's book 'Nobody's Empire' in our Cripademia book club! 🔗👇 metro.co.uk/2026/09/18/u...

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UK band plays impromptu gig in a park after show was cancelled last minute

Belle and Sebastian forced to play impromptu gig in a park after 30th anniversary show was cancelled last minute in Australia

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm not saying he's a Russian asset... I'm just saying, if he were, what would he be doing differently?

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Trans rights are human rights" should be an uncontroversial statement because every individual should own their own body outright, full stop. Your body belongs to you. Not your parents, not your doctor, not your government. Never give a single inch on this.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Chronic illness and long-term unemployment have taught me a lot of hard lessons, mostly about how much sheer effort it takes to even begin to access public assistance. The endless phone calls, emails, appointments, paperwork... I have nothing but respect for anyone who manages to navigate it all.

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New SSD is IN! Linux Mint is RUNNING! I feel like I KINDA know what I'm doing!

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Things that make sense only in context of the Unitary Executive Theory for $2000, Alex

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

to be clear, because I have a lot of trans friends and I do not want to cause unnecessary freakouts, I think dems presently are very far away from where labour is and I do not believe the party as a whole is meaningfully moving in that direction but we have to make sure they don't take that path

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

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Jed Leonard @jedleonard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Crossing my fingers for this one, which incidentally makes it much harder to post about it

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Read only the first and last sentence of this paragraph

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