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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 24/09/2025

I've been quiet for a while. It's been due to a number of factors, the most prominent of which is poor health. I need surgery, and I'm stuck in limbo. Please help. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 12/06/2025

The sole thing I'm content with? I saw this shit with LA coming. ...In fact, thinking about it, the DOGE part was the only stuff I got wrong... ...Hmmm.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 12/06/2025

So, what happened to the near-future novel I was writing? It's parked on ice. Plot was solid, tested really well, but I made the crucial mistake of being way too optimistic about the progress of fascism in the USA. However, I also overestimated their competence in executing their schemes, frankly.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 06/04/2025

My hard tilt to utopian fiction would cause a small thunderclap.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 05/04/2025

Going to be real, the current vibe of the Democrats and the popular protests is this comic from 2005.

The Pain - When Will It End? Webcomic by Tim Krieder. Title of piece is "Liberals vs. The Empire."

A hippy-style protest, with signs such as "The People are the 'Ultimate Power'" and "NO to Galactic Imperialism" and Darth Vader in effigy. In the background, thr Death Star hovers ominously, with a jagged, speaker speech bubble saying "Commencing Primary Ignition."

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an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

A government against protest is authoritarian, and Authoritarianism becomes Fascism as soon as shit hits the fan. Check out Sinan's video: it's good, actually. More generally, please support voices like Sinan's by liking and sharing, especially outside your usual circles. We need this pushback.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 20/03/2025

If all the Americans asking Canada to save them through annexation were serious, what they'd actually say is "I want to be Canadian." That they don't is really telling about how they see Canada's role: in support of American protagonism.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 19/03/2025

Staring into the cold, dark void into which every society on earth is slowly being tipped, and asking "At what point do we admit this arrangement has failed, and eat the rich?"

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 14/03/2025

Cynic in me thinks AOC, pretty captured these days, is the sanctioned opposition to the current Democratic leadership , and her job will be to head off the "Replace the incumbents!" movement by taking the lead and making sure their replacements are still fundamentally libs (despite fiery rhetoric).

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an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

All the criticisms I've made of Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying programme, how it's smiling and polite eugenics against the poor and disabled, applies here. If you don't take a stand against this, I'm sorry, but you're sitting by while they gear up to murder the disabled. You have been warned.

Screenshot of post showing all amendments to medical suicide bill that have been voted down, all of them protections against abuse of the vulnerable. Author disabled quotes, but original is retweeted on my timeline.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 05/03/2025

Man, when even fucking Colbert is criticising the Democrats for doing nothing, they're really far out on a limb.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/03/2025

Love the strategy they landed on for trying to monster Luigi Mangione: "Everyone says he's hot so... how about we try to portray him as a narcissist? Yeah, he did a thing people universally approve of, but he only did it for attention!" How do they soft launch it? "Hot guy made sex tapes!"

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/03/2025

All those "Showing gratitude increases mental wellbeing!" studies you hear about: how many of them control for actually having something to feel grateful about? Seems to me that would be the more crucial component, no?

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/03/2025

Anyone else noticed how Employee Appreciation days/weeks/months have morphed from being appreciation of the employees by their employers to being opportunities for employees to "show gratitude" to each other?

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 13/02/2025

Kinda wild - that the only thing standing between the US Dollar being the global reserve currency and an astonishing bank run collapsing said dollar is a bunch of finance guys wrongly telling themselves "Well the government won't drain the accounts of anyone like /me/."

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an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

looking forward to getting an MRI later this month at the *squints* "MRI Van"? aye, sounds legit. don't mind me - i'm just off down the Taco Truck to get a colonoscopy. made an appointment at the Hotdog Cart to get an ultrasound. if you hear the ice cream jingle, that's just me getting an xray.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 07/02/2025

I won this! Carolyn's craft is absolutely phenomenal. I love this blanket so much — it's going to be my companion throughout the years ahead. Despite being woven from cool blue, it feels emotionally warm in a way I can't quite describe. I genuinely can't recommend her work highly enough.

Simply the finest, handmade blue blanket I've ever seen, that I will be carrying with me through the rest of my life.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/02/2025

AI can't really do hands holding things naturally, and it can't do perspective of objects held by hands. Look at the hand of the person in the red jacket holding the white flag: the stick breaks perspective either side of the hand. Fuck this theft engine shit. I'm so tired of them cheaping out.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/02/2025

In lighter news, excuse me while I do some ADHD bragging: For the first time since I started living where I am, I am completely on top of my laundry. Now comes the hard part: actually folding and putting stuff away...

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 03/02/2025

There's an amazing little trend on Liberal Bluesky I want to point out. Left: Do X, Y, and Z! 😡 Lib: Dems are doing all they can, stop hounding them. 🤫 *Dems do X and it works* Left: Okay! Now Y and Z! 😠 Lib: Typical; now the Left is saying X isn't enough. These children are never satisfied 🙄

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 02/02/2025

Any Dem congressperson could round up a few friendly and alarmed FBI agents right now and go arrest Musk’s gang of children. “Just fucking do it and see what happens” is a stronger move for the side that is upholding the law.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 02/02/2025

So the Second American Civil War is starting to boil, eh.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 01/02/2025

The Democratic Party, as an institution, is fine with what's happening, because their major donors want it. Senior Democratic campaigners are also fine with it because it lets them pretend they're the good guys and rattle the can for donations. Understand this clearly: they're collaborators. 🧵

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 01/02/2025

*sits cross-legged with a pot of green tea that slowly cools, meditatively contemplating the petition as day turns to night, in tune with the anima mundi, until at last the answer emerges — whereupon they type only four words* delete all after 'post'

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 01/02/2025

I have never once claimed to be experienced in the "post" genre. ...but if you want to pay me to fuck around and learn...

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 30/01/2025

Anyway, that's it for updates, I'm off back to work. See you all when I either have novel updates, or I write another short story/essay on the spur of the moment. Speaking of which, if you haven't already, check this short story out: jthornburyauthor.com#shortstoryhw...

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J Thornbury writes stories and essays that are commercially unviable, and therefore of no merit whatsoever.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 30/01/2025

So the novel I'm working on? I am very glad I delayed it for two reasons. 1. The excellent cover art is taking the artist an age of the earth to finish. 2. My timeline for certain events was far, far too optimistic. I think I'll restart it in March, to give things time to shake out.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 30/01/2025

So this essay has earned me the strangest ghost writing gig of my career. I've been asked to write a detailed, highbrow essay that's an apology for (as in, a defence of) the erotic in literature. That's not the only angle to it, and I can't be more specific - but damn, one hell of a gig.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 29/01/2025

PSA: I have new openings for ghost writing. Need someone quiet, dependable, who can match your style with a fast turnaround? Drop me a message. #Writing #Writer

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 21/01/2025

So update on what I'm doing: The novel I'm writing and giving away for free is still in development, but paused. I have client work to do, and when I'm not doing that I'm writing something else. A friend of mine is getting divorced (all very sad), and to cheer her up I'm writing her a story. 1/4

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an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Shout out to whichever employee at Meta was told to censor Democrat and leftwing content and decided to do some subversion on day one by doing it in the most obvious, transparent way possible, so that people would have warning it was happening and know it was being done to them.

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Gift @giftmacher.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Late to this, but it's a good read. We can dream.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 20/01/2025

Feeling down today? Have a read of this short story. "I think I needed this one today." "... Incredible piece of writing. It’s so emotive and engaging and it’s powerfully hopeful and intensely realistic." How We Got Over It, a short story about struggling jthornburyauthor.com#shortstoryhwgoi

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 20/01/2025

🧵 I have deadass been thinking about exactly this issue in art for over a year. There is stuff I would like to write as an artist that faces the problem of real literacy not being taught (because it's the same thing as teaching people to think critically and have their own moral judgements). 1/10

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 20/01/2025

90% of science nerds, including scientists, don't understand the epistemological basis for science, have no grasp of phenomenology, and so engage with 'science' like it's religious dogma. This rolls downhill to the rest of the population, because our ruling class doesn't want thinking people.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 20/01/2025

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 19/01/2025

Inspiration randomly struck today as I was changing my medication, so here's a new short story concerning revolutions: How We Got Over It, a short story about struggling jthornburyauthor.com#shortstoryhw...

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 19/01/2025

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 10/01/2025

"The government should nationalise the home insurance industry because of climate change." ...Insurance shouldn't exist. Society should cover the costs of people putting their lives back together after disasters. Why do we let people profit from tragedy? Creates perverse incentives.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 08/01/2025

De jure versus de facto in Scotland.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/01/2025

Re: the Discourse People don't understand that not all theft is equal. When a writer rips off larger cultural heritage for inspiration, or derives a story from a much more successful author, that's one thing. When a successful author takes from a marginalised writer, that's quite another. 1/5

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 04/01/2025

In case anyone is wondering why I'm quiet: since I'm no longer sprinting to a deadline, I'm not posting daily word counts for motivation. I'm also doing some work for a client atm. Speaking of which! If you want to commission writing, including ghost writing or dev editing, feel free to reach out.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/01/2025

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. propub.li/3DGXECO

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The Militia and the Mole

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 30/12/2024

Social media is good when there's no algorithm curating it, because it means we see our fellow human beings in need. All the begging posts? Those people still exist when an algorithm filters them out. They still need help. Social media like this is the opposite of a bubble. It's unfiltered society.

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J. Thornbury, author @jthornburyauthor.com · 29/12/2024

Wikipedia does not need your donations. Musk taking aim at them is not a problem whereby they urgently need money. The foundation that runs Wikipedia is loaded - lawyers only cost so much. If you're serious, then your action is needed, not your money.

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an arch on @anarchonbury.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

So many are going "Man when the healthcare companies deny care for profit they're murdering people," and not joining the last dot in their heads by applying the same principle to every other part of society.

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