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John Loeffler

@johnloeffler.bsky.social
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He/Him | Science & technology journalist. Formerly US Computing Editor, TechRadar, bylines at GamesRadar+, Space, LiveScience, Interesting Engineering, and elsewhere

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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You do not, in fact, have to take the Klan at its word about anything, and doing so only helps the Klan.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wish I understood this one. Sounds like a banger
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Now we CAN talk about how reactionary politics has always tried to co-opt Christianity for secular ends. That’s as old as the faith itself. But to simply take that Klan’s word for it that they are Christians is to give the Klan the benefit of an association that explicitly rejects them.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They can’t say that, bc Jesus is very consistent in the Gospels & everything he teaches opposes Christian nationalism, white or otherwise. Other writers in the NT might be ambiguous or contradictory, but Jesus is not & it’s Jesus that defines the faith. We’re Christian’s, not Paulians or Peterians.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They sure as hell do not. The Klan is not a Christian organization just because they pretend they are. Christian nationalism is unequivocally anathema to the Gospel. At BEST, they are heretics.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This book had me sleeping with the lights on when i was six bsky.app/profile/slee...
The cover of Scary Stories to tell in the dark
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gravewalker @grovewalker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
photo of werner herzog with a speech bubble added so that it looks like he is saying the quoted post
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
themomoftheyear.substack.com
I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Given how important Oracle is to the entire infrastructure of the internet, it won't collapse. It will get bailed out by the taxpayer. My only hope is that when this happens, we nationalize the entire thing.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lulz
wired.com
Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros
Once seen as nerdy but harmless innovators, men in tech are now widely regarded as red pilled Elon Musk wannabes. It’s made getting laid a whole lot harder.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026
They even made DoorDash apologize.
DoorDash on Instagram: We messed up.
Our mistakes meant some NYC Dashers were underpaid or paid late. That's unacceptable, and we're deeply sorry to the Dashers we let down.
We've reached a settlement with the City of New York, and we will make this right by paying every impacted Dasher the amounts they are owed.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think we're gonna hit Seventh Consulship of Marius territory once we get past the midterms
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This post feels like a hostage video.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
gizmodo.com
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Everyone around him is looking at him all excited like “Do you like it?” and Leo very clearly does not.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I hate that his shitty paintings are going to be worth a fortune when he dies.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not just a machine god, a Catholic machine god, complete with original sin, hell, the devil, saints, everything.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Always be closing.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another banger
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So is the point that Hitler and Stalin are in Heaven? That sure is a take you can have.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A very tall person is going to have an unfair, unearned advantage in basketball, but no one is saying Wemby shouldn’t be allowed to play. In fact, this advantage is celebrated. It’s just this one specific instance where a PERCEIVED advantage (there’s no evidence one actually exists) is unacceptable?
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Washed empire
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That and resurrecting Kate Smith’s “God Bless America” and playing it at every Yankee game ever since. It’s an absolute dog shit song
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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time
a picture from the NY Post titled "	today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around
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Virginia Mercury @virginiamercury.com · 04/09/2026
Two families who faced harassment and racially derogatory comments from the owner of a Smith Mountain Lake property where they were camping in 2020 have received $420,000 each in restitution. The property was sold to facilitate the payments. virginiamercury.com/2026/09/04/r...
virginiamercury.com
Restitution delivered for Virginia families in 6-year housing discrimination case • Virginia Mercury
After a jury sided with the families in their case last year, Smith owed the families nearly $800,000. Smith’s 18-acre waterfront property has since been sold, facilitating the payments.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NYC is back, baby!
nydailynews.com
Men armed with spiked brass knuckles, box cutter duel inside NYC subway station
The combatants, 21-year-old Broadus Tushawn and 34-year-old Zubiru Ahamma, were arguing inside the W. 96th St. subway station when they drew weapons around 7:38 a.m., police said.
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Nathan Alderman @nathanalderman.com · 02/09/2026
With their parents' permission, I interviewed Riley about their self-dubbed "master plan" to prank Harrow, and whether we should, in fact, be more frightened of children. (Riley says yes.)
c-ville.com
Be afraid, be very afraid - C-VILLE Weekly
When we featured local author Alix E. Harrow on our August 19 cover, we never thought it would follow her to her kids’ bus stop. On August 25, Harrow posted on Bluesky: “one thing i didn’t anticipate ...
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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Stalin, FDR, and Churchill with a poorly made speech bubble.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
GTA VI is going to make like a billion dollars in its first week and cause the biggest loss of productivity since Covid. That’s a hell of a windmill to tilt at if you’re a manfluencer
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
He was also, amazingly, less problematic
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP King
youtu.be
Tim Curry as Premier Cherdenko - Space!
YouTube video by Athrun Talan
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026
This 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 & state
miamiherald.com
Catholic 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.
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Why is he wearing two soft-collared shirts?
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revolver ocelthot @rnaboursiii.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is what datacenters are taking from you
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is just necromancy
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HEALTH @health.band · 15/08/2026
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
lmao at Iddin-Sin, an ungrateful little shit of yore
Screenshot of a translation of this 4,000 letter, linked within the quote-skeeted article and reading as follows:

"Tell the Lady Zinu: Iddin-Sin sends the following message:
May the gods Samas, Marduk, and Ilabrat keep you forever in
good health for my sake.
From year to year, the clothes of the (young) gentlemen here
become better, but you let my clothes get worse from year to
year. Indeed, you persisted(?) in making my clothes poorer and
more scanty. At a time when in our house wool is used up like
bread, you have made me poor clothes. The son of Adad-iddinam,
whose father is only an assistant of my father, (has) two new sets
of clothes [break] while you fuss even about a single set of clothes
for me. In spite of the fact that you bore me and his mother only
adopted him, his mother loves him, while you, you do not love
me!"

Available at: https://lustria-online.com/threads/letters-from-mesopotamia.21099/
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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Standing on stage at the New York City Center, Mayor Mamdani announces his admin's opening a lottery for 2,000 free tickets to Broadway shows for local high schoolers. Noting that he's been doing sports game lotteries all summer, he says: "This is justice for theatre kids."
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Don’t let them come back home until they have an MiP citation
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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
millennials: we partied a lot gen z: we partied a little less gen alpha: (piloting a giant mech) war is hell
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OneDishwasher @onedishwasher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Nobody can see you crying if the room only has a blacklight
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
age 16: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 46: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for a functional search engine or the library or friends
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You know what's worse than getting cancelled? Getting prosecuted.
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sarah-rah-rasBOOtin @fannybandit69.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
which one of you FREAKS impregnated Burger King
burger king colour pregnancy tests reading positive with 'we're expecting...' written underneath. the burger king logo in on the top left
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One Perfect Shot @oneperfectshot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
SINNERS (2025, dir. Ryan Coogler) #OnePerfectShot #Filmsky 📽️🧛🎸
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John Loeffler @johnloeffler.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Starship is a bad design. They threw out ideas that have worked and have been tested and successfully tried for nearly 60 years to start over again, from first principles, a totally new design that no one has ever proven can work. Now, there's no where for SpaceX to go with this boondoggle.
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