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Josiah Hawthorne

@josiahhawthorne.bsky.social
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I'm not Young, Restless, or Reformed -- I'm Old, Exhausted, and (Ana)baptist. Half Took, Half Baggins. #ADHD. He/him.

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Jennifer Lee ☀️ @uofagrad97.bsky.social · 6h
This is alarming.
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 1h
No no. Hear me out. Inauguration Day arrives. The cameras follow Donald and Melania as they walk out of the White House into the waiting helicopter. They get inside. The doors lock. The pilot turns around, grinning: it’s Jack Smith. The helicopter takes off and flies straight to The Hague.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h
dawg I WISH
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
BREAKING: Christa Pike - who survived two botched executions in Tennessee - is AWAKE and able to speak. apnews.com/article/chri...
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Christa Pike is conscious and speaking after Tennessee failed execution, her attorneys say
Attorneys for Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her, say she is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h
The archdiocese of St Louis has become the eighth American diocese to sue the Trump administration over its repression against Catholics. The gravamen this time focuses on the fact that Markwayne Mullin refuses access of priests to ICE facilities to hear confessions and deliver the sacrament.
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Archdiocese sues Trump administration over sacramental access to detainees
The lawsuit says priests are restricted to four-hour weekly visits and are separated from detainees by a glass partition
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Jim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 7h
If Talarico and Hamilton both win their races, pastors will replace veterans as the preferred career background for Dem candidates in 2028
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Tori Kamal @torikamal.bsky.social · 5h
D&D and Magic The Gathering developers unionize, allege Wizards of the Coast is pushing "adoption of LLMs and generative AI" | GamesRadar+ share.google/A0IgkO6Ey2d9...
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D&D and Magic The Gathering developers unionize, allege Wizards of the Coast is pushing "adoption of LLMs and generative AI"
The union is demanding "fair wages" and better protections from AI
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Geek Slop @geek-slop.bsky.social · 5h
Wizards of the Coast union pushes back on generative AI in Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering D&D and Magic developers have joined UWOTC-CWA, demanding limits on generative AI, layoff protections, and ownership of their own creative work....
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Wizards of the Coast union pushes back on generative AI in Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering
D&D and Magic developers have joined UWOTC-CWA, demanding limits on generative AI, layoff protections, and ownership of their own creative work.
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Roman, Slavering Beast 🔜 MFF @cpt-moreau.bsky.social · 5h
Spreading this around, For those whom enjoy DnD and/or magic: the workers have organized a petition to try and get a union made, for better conditions and various other things actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...
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Stand with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic Workers Forming a Union!
The Dungeons & Dragons team and Studio X (Magic: The Gathering; Duel Masters) are forming a union! We are joining the ranks of United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC-CWA) and following in the fo...
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Gordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 4h
Wizards of the Coast could really restore a lot of goodwill towards itself if they just… voluntarily recognize the union. Maybe not to the biggest haters, but to ones like me who generally think D&D rules & has a lot of talented staff, and it’d be nice if they stopped laying people off so much.
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Kerry Amburgy-Dickson @kaiodan.bsky.social · 4h
www.gamesradar.com/tabletop-gam...
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D&D and Magic The Gathering developers unionize, allege Wizards of the Coast is pushing "adoption of LLMs and generative AI"
The union is demanding "fair wages" and better protections from AI
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Jay Mallow @jaymallow.bsky.social · 6h
Reminder that Vought who is the product of American Evangelical intelligentsia is in the running for being the most evil person in this administration
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 7h
Does anyone know how much stretch stretchy “smocked” fabric has in it? Like, if a dress is smocked around the waist because it’s supposed to be snug around the waist, but the listed relaxed waist measurement is 3 inches smaller than the person’s waist, can that person comfortably wear that dress?
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Chris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 10h
my cousin is a prominent Christian nationalist pastor (sorry, self-described theonomic pastor) and this is dead-on perhaps the unifying principle in so much of this is using the gospel to have power over others
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N. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 13h
Imagining someone coming across my long- abandoned original Skyrim house... those cabinets have so much treasure.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 16h
Trump’s supporters also like the idea of nuking their fellow citizens.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15h
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 14h
Not even joking: Every so often I look around at all the accoutrements of abandoned former hobbies and the detritus of incomplete projects tucked away into corners of my attic or garage... ...and think to myself "It's a good thing I only have one finite lifetime or this would be really bad."
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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 22h
wake up babe new Celebrimbor just dropped
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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 16h
peace which the world cannot give, I give to you
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You see a lot of this in philosophy and political theory where these guys are constantly putting up some variant of “has anyone thought about this thing [that St. Augustine was fighting with people about]”
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think one reason it’s good to have a liberal arts education in the classic sense is that you don’t then spend time trying to invent the concept of “intellectual pursuits” from first principles
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Haunted Hannah 👻 🍂🎃 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jubilee year but it's everyone forgiving me for not texting back and I get to start fresh
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 05/10/2026
NEW: Fresh off of announcing her intent to resign as the Episcopal Bishop Washington (a process that will take ~2 years), Bishop Mariann Budde is featured in a new election ad that references her Trump sermon as she urges people to vote and "choose love, not ICE." religionnews.com/2026/10/05/b...
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Bishop Mariann Budde, in new election ad, urges people to vote
(RNS) — 'I am asking for your courage to love your neighbor, to respect the dignity of every human being, and now, to vote,' Budde says in the new ad, which references her headline-grabbing sermon to ...
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Timon talks to Pumbaa
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Erin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can one nominate oneself? This was a recent one of which I was irrationally proud.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Me seven days ago: *no opinions on suit construction* Me yesterday: “Oh COME ON! They made this gorgeous 36% wool, 34% silk, 30% linen summer suit in a grey glen plaid, and they stuck a POLYESTER LINING on it?!”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You couldn't have scripted a more fitting endgame for the Republican Party than the cult members desperately trying to distance themselves from the cult leader, with the cult leader being too narcissistic to let them go and dragging them down with his sweaty smothering embrace
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You ever have that thing where you're reading a book and you can do the lift for suspension of disbelief for the entire fantastical premise of the thing but then you hit one detail and your brain is like "absolutely not"?
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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just to state it in another way: this administration (and the ideologies behind it) is trying to forcefully socially engineer the military and U.S. society into the society it wants. Any means necessary is on the table. It does not seek the flourishing of all, but only the flourishing of some.
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razor blade in your candy corn @ghoulmouse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
Jesse Raub @jesseraub.online
King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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Jay Mallow @jaymallow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A quick reminder that REN is partnered with Josh Abbotoy and Nate Fischer and works out of American Reformers’ stated workplace. AmRef is the Center for Baptist Leadership that just helped elect the current President of the SBC
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Anakin/Padme meme -- Anakin is quoting Hegseth's "Send me to fight the redcoats, send me to fight the communists" (America's antagonists in the Revolutionary and Cold Wars, respectively).  Padme is asking, "And the Nazis and the Confederates, right?" (America's antagonists of WWII and the Civil War.)  Anakin/Hegseth is not answering.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
looks like a still shot from a movie about world war II ending ... differently.
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Rachel Darnall @trueconsolation.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The fundies have found my channel on fundamentalism.
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It's Happening Meme
ALT: It's Happening Meme
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/10/2026
Watch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s.
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am the Robin Hood of this ten year old’s birthday party.
A “throwing axe” that stuck to a “throwing star” instead of to the target itself.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i hate digger and i love how much i hate digger. i am going to see the movie again in two days with more friends. it is climate change freddy got fingered
'Digger' review
The first 20 minutes of the film set up a brilliant comedy that skewers our modern lives today. And then it spends about 2 hours making us feel awful for thinking the first 20 minutes were good, on purpose, over and over again. It is a joyless, colorless film that poorly parodies Citizen Kane and Dr.
Strangelove intentionally, making a mockery of essentially all modern American liberal political commentary and comedy. And a parody of a parody is interesting but uncomfortable and challenging to watch.A parody of Donald Trump today is neither funny nor poignant and the movie knows that. By the film's conclusion, you're left wondering whether spending big budgets to make climate films at all makes any sense. It
would be reductive as well to say the film inspires you to take on the actual
catastrophe outside, because its so confident in its future of doom that really, you're only left with a wordless unease about the idea of apocalypse fiction itself. To watch "Digger" is to experience a deeply miserable punk rock waste of more than one hundred million dollars, à la Freddy Got Fingered - but you will not laugh, unless you're laughing at yourself for being in the theater at all.I enjoyed Digger, and then I hated Digger, and then I enjoyed hate-watching Digger, and then I felt weird because the movie flat out told me to feel disgusting for enjoying hate-watching Digger, and to like hating myself, and I didn't want to listen to that part, and that's the point. Andy Kaufman couldn't have done it better. The Wolf of Wall Street tried to pull this trick and failed. Vice and Don't Look Up both tried to pull this trick and failed. So many other meta-media films have tried to do this recently and they're boring because they are entertaining. Digger is so boring, and frustrating, and uncomfortable, and that's why it works, and I hate that, too, which I also love.Digger will be a massive commercial flop and then go to streaming where it'll be remembered as a cult classic forever. I will watch this movie again and again, and I will find new things to hate to love and love to hate. I couldn't recommend it more highly to anyone who wants to see a piece of ridiculous high-budget avant garde mistakenly promoted as a mass appeal "dark comedy" because it stars Tom Cruise. And yet even the inaccurate PR is part of the point of Digger, to reel you in with precisely the bait it wants to chide you for taking.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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