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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want to build something RE: the Wiener / Chan election.

John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you get offered a free trip to Portugal because you are good at community building trainings, highly recommend saying yes

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@itswanda.bsky.social I think you might like this! I’ve been using baseball stuff to test out my skill in vibe coding ways to show people complex information like this, and to make data viz models that are functional. Next up: local politics dashboards (Or maybe 1 more baseball test run first)

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love periodically checking the memories Claude has made about me, and being like “yeah! That’s a pretty decent summary!”

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk recently about MLB doing an expansion / realignment on teams. So I made an interactive tool to compare different expansion options. j-r-r-o.github.io/MLB-Expansio...

j-r-r-o.github.io

MLB expansion sandbox

37 candidate markets scored and ranked, plus six realignment drafts from 32 to 50 teams.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It really is pretty cool though! You should check it out.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I built a cool baseball website this week: j-r-r-o.github.io/MLB-Player-L... Lets me check fWAR and bWAR on the same page, along with lots of other quick lookup stuff. It will prob save me an avg of 30 seconds a day during baseball season, so totally reasonable to spend 6 hours making it LOL

j-r-r-o.github.io

2026 MLB player lookup

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Soft tossing lefty with weird arm slot and fun nick name is one of my favorite types of guy

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

FYI @itswanda.bsky.social I made a top 30 prospects list this week. We might not have a giants team on the field that is exciting anymore; but the farm is really fun to watch

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Trying to come back to BlueSky again after getting sucked back into my prev twitter communities again. I miss old twitter. :/

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If it fits you well. Not as in “tight” fit. Just relatively recent purchase, and ideally slightly tailored. But the easier / cheaper version of this is to wear just the tie and a vest. Optionally sleeves rolled up. Looks good on everyone.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

re: crisis of masculinity in Dem politics, I'll note that a time-tested way to look attractive, masculine and manly even if you have kind of an objectively normal or even kinda old or dumpy body is to wear a suit and tie all the time.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

People still talk about this quite a lot. Just not in your bubble, apparently. (Not meant as an insult. But I think you are dramatically underestimating how much of this discourse still exists. Also consumer sentiment data. Etc)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/07/2026

Get rid of your imposter syndrome (which tends to afflict smart people more than dumb people anyway). NO ONE is a "real expert." You have every right to be there. And you can make an enormous difference if you're in the room at the right time. Get involved. Participate. You can matter.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

But these specific critiques felt worth sharing. Keep up the good work at MissionLocal.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

…activist chats by people who I’m confident were oblivious they were sharing hook-nose-Jewish-banker type stuff. When I go back and trace those memes, it’s usually eventually GRU or even Babylon Bee (masked as “anti Israel”) Anyway, IMHO the premise of the article is still broadly correct though.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

…that encouraged signing petitions to send to congressmembers. They language on the signing page was all anti-palistine genocide, but the language of the petition was mostly anti-Ukraine with a little Palestine at the top. I’ve also seen pretty explicitly antisemitic memes shared on private…

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

…and moreso friends-of-friends. A lot of people with hearts in the right place, good energy to burn, and leftist politics, but who also have horrific media hygiene and frequently fall for Russian disinfo campaigns. For example, I’ve seen people spreading a lot of “anti imperialism” activist stuff…

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

…be precise in what we mean by “radical.” On top of that, there really is a lot of simmering antisemitism in some of the activist groups of the bay in eg: the current generation of black panther legacy groups of Oakland and such. But I’ve also seen this in a lot of “radical” activist friends…

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

…generally never consider themselves to be so. Namely: “there is zero political constituency for radicalism in [SF]” is clearly objectively wrong. We elected Chesa pretty recently! Much as how “progressive” is used in SF in a way that is totally upside down, I think we need a better way to…

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I almost posted this article, b/c it gets a lot right. But it also gets some other stuff very wrong. I think lack of precision around the word “radical” is the issue. And lack of nuance around the ways that explicit antisemitism can filter into the actions and beliefs of activists who would…

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Which is to say, this case is very likely to be worse than Plessy. On its merits, this is likely to be worse than Dred Scott.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Bush v Gore (and Citizens United) were both SCOTUS *overturning* a previously reasonable status quo in exchange for something horrifyingly worse. I think this potentially is like that. >100 years of established equality struck down by a corrupt and illegitimate court.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In a very weird way, I would argue Bush / Gore was worse than Plessy. Idk, that’s a nuanced take. I don’t in any way mean to imply that the history of institutionalized racism is less than the impact of Bush/Gore! But Plessy was SCOTUS rubber stamping an evil situation as it already existed.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I’ve literally never interacted with that person on any thread ever until this exchange, and they also don’t have me blocked or muted (b/c they are still interacting with my posts now). Presumably they are thinking of someone else.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

But also, I’m the one who bought these groceries and gave him the heads up a few days ago that he was free to use of them if he needed any. Pretty just reinventing tribal/coop benefits from first principles, and without all the jealousy stuff.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

General Polyamory discourse really fails to account for how spreading specialized skills throughout the extended network is so delightful. My metamour is a chef at a Michelin starred restaurant and he sometimes makes me breakfast in bed on the weekends, just as a way to be sweet and supportive.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

A lot of people have already died because of the Iran war. But way way way way more will die from the environmental fallout. And that’s not even accounting for the burning oil fields and sunken tankers. But maybe, just maybe, this leads to rapid solar adoption or something. 3rd order effects?

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Looks like your other two responses are spam which makes me worry my uncharacteristically glib response will be read that way too. My point was just this: While I’m broadly in favor of any possible AI Pause / Stop, think your read is wrong and I worry about how prevalent it is on the left.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Do we think any meaningful portion of the gulf countries are updating their priors on Trump right now? Like maybe his ability to be bought is not worth the other disasters? Or are they excited about the high oil more than the bombs? Genuine question.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Giants haven’t scored a run yet, after 15 innings. But it’s still really nice to have ⚾️ back. And it’s a beautiful day out.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Has anyone asked Pope Leo what he thinks about Daredevil? He’s the first pope who might plausibly have Daredevil opinions

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This is an extremely good piece and it’s worth your time to read it.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I’m >90% sure this was accidental on his part. But today I’m deciding to give him the credit. He encouraged me to read a lot of the best books of my life at very early and important years. Good job Dad.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/03/2026

okay, a happy holidays video, we see those all the time *ten seconds in* "a british warlord named coroticus" you have my attention sir

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

most hilarious wiki factoid in my brain: William of Ockham is not a catholic saint even though The Church has repeatedly attempted to canonize him. (The committee evaluating his miracles has always used Occam’s Razor to assume he didn’t *really* do the magic stuff).

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

middle-class soft, womanly, weak, working class manly, strong, natural. actual working class people very often being, like, female service workers does not factor into this equation, which is largely based on memories of things that were already outdated when the pundit was a child

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

If the NYT quoted Trump as they quoted AOC it would be: "Uh, numerous countries have told me they're on the way, uh, some are very enthusiastic about it, and some aren't. Some are countries that we've helped for many, many years, uh,"... (cont.)

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I love the WBV and genuinely love our country and I have this so deeply. What a shame. (Great article though). I can’t imagine rooting for Cal Raleigh again after this and that sucks. He had such an historic season last year.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My dad tried to keep me from reading books by giving me the youth-abridged version of that same book (eg: count of monte cristo). It was accidental 4D chess on his part, b/c you better believe I chucked the kids version in the trash and went and read the real version of each book the next day.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Tbh it would prob be a swing state. Nominally socialist but still pretty conservative.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

are you an oil tanker? because you dress like you're trying to pass with the straights

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Fair. I checked those stats at way too fast a glance. They’re “similar size” though in the sense that they are way closer to one another than most of the small states are to the big ones

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Venezuela is marginally smaller in population than California. If the people of that sovereign country wanted to join ours and be a state they would be a huge boon and we’d be lucky to have them. Republicans would never allow that though. I know worrying about Trump being logical is silly. But 🤷

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

There were literally right wing women who watched Handmaids Tale season 1 in April 2017 and criticized it for being a lib fever dream of unrealistic conservative goals… …and by the time S6, the final season, aired in 2025 those same women were trapped living in Handmaiden-esque lives.

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

From that recent NY Mag article on women in MAGA. Personal reflection: it was so strange to watch this play out in real time because — simultaneously — these were the years when Handmaid’s Tale was winning Emmy’s and filling up cultural zeitgeist space. A subculture can shift that fast!

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John R.R. Owens 🩸🦷🗽🥑❤️‍🔥⛓️ @jrro.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The first few lies from his “advisors” might have even been laudable! Everyone around Trump lies to him constantly b/c that’s what his ego demands, and that’s the only way to manage him. But REALITY has always at least been a vague tether forcing his ego back very slightly closer to truth.

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