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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When something deeply, instructively stupid happens—and when that something is tied up in a supposedly populist party's utter ignorance about famous and popular sports teams—David Roth is there.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thinking about the "your pet's name is just a jumping-off point for all the stuff you'll actually call them" post Just 5 months in, and I've exhausted all permutations of "Squiggle," so I've ascended to variations on "Little Guy." Mister Guy. Commander Guy. Uncle Guy. Officer Guy. Prince Guy.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thinking about ruining my life by trying to write a long-form essay on how fiction transitioned from an opportunity to comment on the real world into a way to escape it, and is now finally being relied upon as a reality replacement.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This might actually be cool, but in a world where AI is transforming the worlds of crime, terrorism and nonconsensual pornography, this hits the ear like he's stanning hard for Roman Polanski.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The list of people—real and fictional—who *don't* want Cassie and Crystal to kiss is DWINDLING.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When you love freedom SO MUCH that you have to force regular mandatory hormone tests.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I mean it's weird enough to go, "We can prove that you were in Atlanta, therefore you were trying to meet with the prosecution in a case you were involved in." But then to be told, "Oh, no, he was provably not in Atlanta at all," and just go, "Well, yeah. But still…" This guy is just saying things.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gonna start framing it as a "back in my day" to get the boomers on board, but it used to be that if a company couldn't make enough money to pay their workers, they had to go out of business.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thinking about getting back into writing descriptive haikus instead of labeling my documents again.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is a kind of person that appears to really believe that poor people are only ever poor because they made some series of mistakes. Like, "what reason could there be for having no money, except that you've spent it too quickly?" But that is the Question that Must Not Be Asked.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is something ineffably, exquisitely 90s about Swanboy. Like when they used to make movies about just regular people doing stuff. There's an effortlessness to it that makes you think, "you know what? It WOULD be fucked up if street dogs used a condom."

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

PSA: They now make Diet Cherry Coke. Because the Coca-Cola Company has discovered that dirtbag suburban basement kids have become grown-ups with jobs.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have a set of Bluetooth headphones, where if you hold down a certain button, it pulls up the phone's AI assistant. And if you KEEP holding it down, it turns the headphones off. There's a metaphor here, somewhere.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Years of gotcha style debate have taken the teeth out of this sort of thing, but the Republican party should be shamed constantly for how much they seem to hate personal freedom in practice.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of my favorite scenes in the new season of Slow Horses has this dude—a well-established Guy Who Sucks—cornering his nemesis at a fancy dinner and absolutely HOUSING polysyllabic SAT words.

The character Peter Judd from Slow Horses played by Samuel West, bearded and besuited, wearing a characteristic shit-eating grin. West plays this dude so well. He AUDIBLY sucks every time he enters a room. He never speaks a single sentence that a decent person would put their name on.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An honestly good take undone by Current Posting Guidelines. I'm back on my meds, so I want to talk for a second about "who do you mean by *THEY*?"

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Disgusting. This is the future [*INCOMPREHENSIBLE STATIC NOISES*] want.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In my freshman year of college, I took a literacy class, and one of my favorite facts I learned is that the word "revolución" contains all of the vowel sounds in Spanish, which made it an incredible teaching tool for mass literacy. Just something I've been thinking about for no reason.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In my 20s I spent happy hours talking about music. In my 30s I spent happy hours talking about work. Now I'm in my 40s, and I spend happy hours talking about my mental health journey.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So is it all of television that is exclusively Insurance and Pharmaceutical commercials? or is that just streaming?

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think it's really cool what's happening to Ed Sheeran because 1. It's the best illustration yet of an "apolitical" entertainer deciding that an arena owner should have authority over him, which is an inherently political stance, and 2. It might make him go away.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

so like… exceptions are a thing. They could have had this be like, a footnote in somebody's file "Exception granted since the offense was due to coercion." This implies that there are SO MANY PEOPLE who are 1. trafficked into committing bestiality that then 2. want and deserve to become FBI agents

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It truly, existentially sucks to see this remake fever specifically targeted at things that only exist thanks to a widespread comfort with experimentation.

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Acting the Fulemin @actingthefulemin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

there are 70 million people for whom this is the biggest song in the world. they watch comedies called like "Wives of Jim" that have run for nine seasons. they're usually pretty affable in person. in 2024 they severed the fate of humanity because of egg prices

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For the record, if @bransonreese.bsky.social transitioned full time to just making and posting fake album covers, I'd be cool with it.

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Record Shopping

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This has ruined my week. Essential reading.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was *this close* to reflexively changing my profile pic to the bird logo as a prank, but then I remembered how much I have always hated twitter! This is really funny, though, because I did not realize that "tweet" was ever trademarked, and X losing access to these immediately reduces its value.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Captain Curiosity, uncovering the truth behind a specific leaf

small dog standing up as tall as he can to reach higher up on a low branch and sniff a leaf

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I want to be clear on my personal stance regarding AI writing. If you are working on something and you hit a wall, and you go to something like ChatGPT to have it work out happens next, the act you are engaged with is no longer "writing." You are now "being entertained."

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Branson Reese is a madman who must never be stopped.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026

i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So funny watching the media try to write 2000's era Grand Theft Auto Outrage articles now that the whole country is a casino run by murderers.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It is or was National Dog Day, so that means you get to look at my dog. Say hi, Squiggy!

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You have the power to say anything at all!

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Season 4 Episode 2 of Ted Lasso is about how the decision of what to put into the world should be made NOT based on whether you think that thing will succeed, but based on whether you think that thing should exist.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My new car has one of those fucked-up iPads instead of a dashboard, and it comes with a voice assistant, but every SINGLE time I've have asked for anything, it can't help. After a week, I asked "What CAN you do?" And it said I should have it tell me a joke. Why did we ever crawl out of the ocean?

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My Old Man Complaint this week is that it is rude when websites make you enter your date of birth via a dropdown menu. Or worse, that weird thing where you have to find your birthday on a calendar that starts Today.

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is kind of blowing my mind, because in Actual Reality, the Melania film was not a success by any reasonable metric. Very few people in the world wanted it to exist, but the people who wanted it also happen to be in charge of which things exist, so here we go. www.avclub.com/melania-docu...

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Prepare yourself for the Melania Cinematic Universe

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It is also nuts that we call it a "joystick"

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yet more Good Writing About Bad Writing. Pullquote: "The most obvious question is not whether Vance believes what he claims to believe, but why, if he believes it, he acts as he does." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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James Butler · Short Cuts: J.D. Vance’s Conversion

The most obvious question is not whether J.D. Vance believes what he claims to believe, but why, if he believes it, he...

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The actor John Cazale was only in five films before his death in 1978, but every single one of them was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. #DadFacts

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Jury Nelson, the Writer @jurynelson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Each letter in the supercomputer from 2001 "HAL" is one letter off from "IBM," but both Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick deny that it was on purpose. #DadFacts

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