Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 1hNo 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. 2190
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4hSUSAN 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 876127402935
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7hBREAKING: Christa Pike - who survived two botched executions in Tennessee - is AWAKE and able to speak. apnews.com/article/chri...apnews.comChrista Pike is conscious and speaking after Tennessee failed execution, her attorneys sayAttorneys 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. 1351517436
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5hThe 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.thecatholicherald.comArchdiocese sues Trump administration over sacramental access to detaineesThe lawsuit says priests are restricted to four-hour weekly visits and are separated from detainees by a glass partition 68848
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneJim Saksa @jimsaksa.com · 7hIf Talarico and Hamilton both win their races, pastors will replace veterans as the preferred career background for Dem candidates in 2028 181
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneTori Kamal @torikamal.bsky.social · 5hD&D and Magic The Gathering developers unionize, allege Wizards of the Coast is pushing "adoption of LLMs and generative AI" | GamesRadar+ share.google/A0IgkO6Ey2d9...share.googleD&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 062
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneGeek Slop @geek-slop.bsky.social · 5hWizards 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....geekslop.comWizards of the Coast union pushes back on generative AI in Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The GatheringD&D and Magic developers have joined UWOTC-CWA, demanding limits on generative AI, layoff protections, and ownership of their own creative work. 011
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneRoman, Slavering Beast 🔜 MFF @cpt-moreau.bsky.social · 5hSpreading 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...actionnetwork.orgStand 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... 293
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneGordon McAlpin @gmcalpin.bsky.social · 4hWizards 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. 1202
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneKerry Amburgy-Dickson @kaiodan.bsky.social · 4hwww.gamesradar.com/tabletop-gam...gamesradar.comD&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 011
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneJay Mallow @jaymallow.bsky.social · 6hReminder that Vought who is the product of American Evangelical intelligentsia is in the running for being the most evil person in this administration 45112
Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 7hDoes 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? 720
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneChris @chris-hhh.bsky.social · 10hmy 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 0123
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneN. Cognito @ncogneato.bsky.social · 13hImagining someone coming across my long- abandoned original Skyrim house... those cabinets have so much treasure. 021
Reposted by Josiah Hawthorne𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 16hTrump’s supporters also like the idea of nuking their fellow citizens. 194622191
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15hHot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...courthousenews.comAI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third CircuitUsing someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found. 573490840
Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 14hNot 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." 3342
Reposted by Josiah Hawthorneit's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 22hwake up babe new Celebrimbor just dropped 1226
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneBCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 16hpeace which the world cannot give, I give to you 0214
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You 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]” 447928
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneVituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I 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 411274177
Reposted by Josiah Hawthorneshauna @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.” 👏 👏 👏 461895431
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneHaunted Hannah 👻 🍂🎃 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Jubilee year but it's everyone forgiving me for not texting back and I get to start fresh 1473
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 05/10/2026NEW: 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...religionnews.comBishop 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 ... 217949
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneErin Tinsman @erinjoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Can one nominate oneself? This was a recent one of which I was irrationally proud. 533014
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 54117873492
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This 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 10489682806
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026 30126533937
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneElsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart 167142404686
Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Me 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?!” 0220
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026You 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 351012140
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneShepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026You 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"? 5355336
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneMarlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just 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. 093
Reposted by Josiah Hawthornerazor blade in your candy corn @ghoulmouse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026 81717191
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites 26268401073
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneJay Mallow @jaymallow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A 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 031
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part 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. 307121542222
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneDenny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026looks like a still shot from a movie about world war II ending ... differently. 341060141
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneRachel Darnall @trueconsolation.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The fundies have found my channel on fundamentalism.static.klipy.comIt's Happening MemeALT: It's Happening Meme 6241
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneUNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/10/2026Watch Tucker Carlson get a quick economics lesson after claiming Russia’s economy is bigger than Britain’s. 2821822402
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneMourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does. 1867114714414
Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I am the Robin Hood of this ten year old’s birthday party. 1220
Reposted by Josiah Hawthornejae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026i 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 2523836
Reposted by Josiah HawthorneHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌 1489230336503