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Jon Roberts

@jonroberts.dev
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web dev, pet lover, humanist. gonna post some dog pics. tech now and then.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 07/09/2026
Yep; the best framings of it I’ve seen have treated MAHA as a hostile wellness-industry takeover of the health sector. Any strategic response that fails to take on wellness firms’ economic power will founder.
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Jon Roberts @jonroberts.dev · 07/09/2026
I would say it is more relevant that they (low income) are not the demographic algorithmically targeted for "alternative medicine" influencers/marketing. That is where most of the wrong info starts.* *disability or chronic illness, can lead to a desperate search for alt. "cures", of course.
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Jon Roberts @jonroberts.dev · 05/09/2026
partly (mostly?) bc that is the opt-out mechanism that they built in. if you block the account you are out of the running
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Jon Roberts @jonroberts.dev · 01/09/2026
The complex progression is a pretty good memory exercise too!
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Andrew @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Morale is a terrain of struggle! Doing nice things with people you love makes you feel better! It is good to find delight and joy in this world!
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i believe our problems are fixable. we did manage to create a period of time when people could work a job, buy a house, and retire. i don't think this is some crazy unattainable thing, and i do believe essentially all of our big economic problems are fundamentally due to runaway wealth inequality
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room
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David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026
this guy wants as many americans as possible to die of preventable diseases. he views that as preferable to vaccines or long term medication. makes us “stronger”
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
On every July 4th recently, I think of this David Berman quote from 2019: "I've always been patriotic in the sense that I believe America was an amazing invention, and I still have hope for its redemption." As he so often did, Berman summarized complex feelings and ideas in just a handful of words.
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 03/06/2026
There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.
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Jon Roberts @jonroberts.dev · 10/05/2026
It was a very chill mother's day until my parents signed a neighbor's NIMBY petition as i was getting ready to leave. I got too worked up trying to explain why they shouldn't. Managed to not take it too far. The neighbor definitely heard me talking some shit tho.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/12/2025
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
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U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Mari Rochelle🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 ⚢ 💙🧬☮️🗳️ (she/her) ❤️🧡🤍🩷💜🌶️ @mari-rochelle.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
To all trans and queer people reading this and our cis allies,
To all trans and queer people reading this and our cis allies,

We know you're tired. So are we. Resisting dehumanization wears on the mind, the body and the heart. Maybe you're angry and snappy. Maybe you feel numb, dissociated or you can't sleep. Maybe you're barely holding up your routines.

That is a normal, healthy response to a sustained assault. It is not proof you've failed. It is proof you are human. It is proof you are standing up to a siege.

Trauma often shows up in two broad ways: hyperarousal (constant fight-or-flight) and numbing/avoidance. Both are normal. Both deserve care, not shame.

You might be noticing:
• Intrusion or re-experiencing: flashbacks, nightmares or involuntary recall of traumatic events.
• Negative mood and cognition shifts: persistent shame, guilt or distorted self-blame.
• Somatic symptoms: trauma showing up in the body as pain, fatigue or illness without a clear medical cause.

These are normal. Do not isolate yourself because of them. Do not be ashamed. Be proud. Stay connected.
We are under a steady psychological assault. They spend millions through PR firms to find the exact words that will wound us, to find the best way to divide us and make us turn on each other. But every day you wake up, their money is wasted. Every time you laugh at a meme, their work fails. Every time you pick up a hobby, even when it feels harder than before, you are winning.

And if all you can do is survive, if all you can manage is to stay alive through the day, you are defeating them by refusing to disappear.

Perhaps you read through this and don't recognize yourself. Perhaps all you feel is rage and the need to move forward. If so, good. We need you. Keep advancing.

We are not only survivors. We are the stubborn, joyful and proud light they cannot snuff out. Hate is unnatural; it burns through everything and eventually devours even those who feed it. Fire without fuel always dies. We will always have each other.

Show up when you can. Rest when you need to. Fight when you are able. When one of us falters, the rest of us hold steady.

Stay with us. Stay alive. We will make it through.

Weapons for survival:

• Rest is resistance. Sleep, warmth, food, laughter and little joys are fuel. Use them without guilt, they are what lift us up.

• Small acts are victories. When you reach for joy, when you answer a friend, when you refuse to stop breathing, you are cutting holes in their machinery of despair.

• You do not have to be "productive" to be valuable. Staying alive and present is itself a revolutionary act.

• Reach out. If you can, check in on one person today. If you can, offer water, food, a ride or a quiet place. If you are the one in crisis, say so. This is not the time to be a lone hero. Let people help. They deserve to take that role in your life.

• If you are in immediate danger, call emergency services or your local crisis line now.

Trans Lifeline US: (877) 565-8860
Trans Lifeline Canada: (877) 330-6366
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onion person @junlper.beer · 23/09/2025
the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective
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John Breen @breen.tech · 23/09/2025
I just want a world that stops trying to cure autism and starts supporting autistic people.
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This isn't even a slight exaggeration. He is actively working on destroying the US's entire vaccine infrastructure. The HepB vote will be tomorrow, where they will get rid of the birth dose and recommend it at 30 days, dooming a bunch of infants to chronic infection ft. cirrhosis, cancer, and death.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2025
RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.
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RFK Jr.-Backed Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine for Young Children
New members of a key committee tweak routine childhood vaccine guidance as some states and insurers go their own way.
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
one of my most popular designs
a black and white typography edit. there is white text that reads "don't want to see trans people? pluck out your eyes." in the middle of the design is a hand holding a scorpion by the tail. between the scorpion's claws is a human eyeball. the entire image is edited to look photocopied.
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 17/09/2025
People think the reason they need to leave Substack is “just” nazis. (Yeah I know that should be enough) The reason is that you’re now part of a big scary plan that has nothing to do with you. The billionaire’s mission to control the media journalistspaythemselves.com/p/why-substa...
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Why Substack's new valuation means a monopoly is brewing
Substack's new $1.1B valuation signals a new chapter and a point of no return for so-called independent media
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/09/2025
Tragic and alarming: From the states collecting data, 68% of U.S. counties and jurisdictions have immunization rates below 95% for the MMR vaccine — the level of herd immunity that is required to stop the spread of measles.
Map:
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 13/09/2025
the thing about nazis is theyre perfectly capable of empathy. theyre not bogeymen crawling from the dark under your bed. theyre not a different species. the fact that you believe otherwise is why you keep getting stumped by "actually this guy had a dog and a family"
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Mike Ryan @mikeryan.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story
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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.
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Merrymac Farm Sanctuary @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
This is why Molly is not allowed to do tours.
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
“When you look at the factors weighing down Democrats, it’s not crime or trans rights or wokeness. It’s the deep-seated belief among independents and Democratic voters that Democrats are weak and feckless.”
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/09/2025
Performative male discourse is just as much about policing gender boundaries as tradwife discourse.
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PJ Rodriguez @pjrodriguez.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The Labour government’s tacking to the right on trans rights and immigration should be a total wake up call to not let it happen here in the U.S.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
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Jon Roberts @jonroberts.dev · 29/08/2025
I just posted about this from a pop SF angle. You are clearly deeper into the philosophy of it! Do you have a good starting point for this "brain not consciousness-generating" (anti-physicalist?) view? I understand consciousness solely as a function of brain/body: bsky.app/profile/jonr...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2025
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.” This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM
COMPUTER POWER AND HUMAN REASON
FROM JUDGMENT TO CALCULATION
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Lot of people not familiar with RFK’s fucked up brain so let me translate: he thinks he can walk around and see how many kids are autistic, and he thinks vaccines caused it. Pretty much that simple
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Jon Roberts @jonroberts.dev · 29/08/2025
I basically love all the franchise. The show has time to mix more elements into the usual Alien mix - cyborgs , human synths, parasitic octopus eyeballs!!! - but the core themes are still intact. Some high tension, and it looks great! I'm optimistic for the rest of the season, we will see!
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Jon Roberts @jonroberts.dev · 29/08/2025
• if you want to live forever, you have to keep (at least) the brain alive forever. • if your ego is out of control, you may not care about this distinction! you may just want some version of you remaining to influence the world after you die.
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Jon Roberts @jonroberts.dev · 29/08/2025
• From your perspective, well, you have none, you are dead (OR, If the process didn't destroy your brain, this is all obvious, because you are still there, still experiencing your meat body experience, talking to a copy of you).
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Jon Roberts @jonroberts.dev · 29/08/2025
• BUT if the new machine version is indeed a good enough emulation of human consciousness, IT will indeed think it is YOU. From its perspective, the transfer was a success.
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Jon Roberts @jonroberts.dev · 29/08/2025
Your consciousness is a function of your brain (& body). If you manage to make a perfect duplicate of your 'Essence' (personality, memories, etc) and house that in a new machine: • you (the consciousness that YOU experience) still die with your brain
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Jon Roberts @jonroberts.dev · 29/08/2025
I am enjoying Alien Earth. I LOVE that they are exploring parts of the Mind Upload trope that are often glossed over. Is Wendy really Marcy? My answer is "No, but she thinks so."
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats can’t stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. It’s Politics 101.
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