Reposted by John CunninghamLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I think "reading a book is performative" is the end point of American anti-intellectualism. The mere act of reading is now suspicious to swaths of slug people. 1249669
Reposted by John Cunninghamdan sinker @dansinker.com · 12/10/2026An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' dansinker.com/posts/2026-1... 1151865364
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I was working in Denver bookstore when LD was published. The book flew out of the store, many to customers who were not regular customers. Curious, I read the book and my immediate conclusion was that no one was reading this book… 010
Reposted by John CunninghamKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities 207126123133
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 06/10/2026But he won All The Counties Jonathan! Lolololololololol. What a waste of your time.. 000
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 06/10/2026His argument has been I Won All The Counties. This doesn’t change that… 100
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is imminently logical which is why it’s hilarious that you think it would make a difference in America… 100
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Part of what’s throwing people is that EVERYONE seems invested in explaining away this cretin’s obvious mental incompetency by parsing his sentences. 040
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don’t want you to feel bad, David. You like Trump and want to help him. No biggie… 040
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There is NOTHING The Press will not do to “explain” this jibbering senile old fool. It’s grotesque… 050
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The current President is shedding voters because gas prices are “too high” (renditioning folks off the street still ok with them) but “the average person” bears no responsibility for global warming. Ok… 000
Reposted by John CunninghamSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Seems fundamentally unfair that men whose most honed skill is golfing with clients make so much more money than these guys. 1024963
Reposted by John CunninghamEthan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The music that suits my personal emotional needs the best was made by Duke Ellington in 1938 without his knowing or caring anything about me or my needs whatsoever 515725
Reposted by John CunninghamElizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Okay I guess I’m just a Big Sleep poster now (though next week I’ll be moving on to Double Indemnity) but my class is having its final discussion about the book tomorrow & man the second to last paragraph is just so fucking fantastic. Pardon my almost-correct Hamlet annotations. 2113
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This is as pathetic a display as I’ve seen from the mainstream press. Gee, @jaketapper.bsky.social do you think they’ll listen?? 021
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Winner of The Best American Music Criticism Award for 2026… 0193
Reposted by John CunninghamJeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ray Charles performing live in São Paulo for a Brazilian television special, the day before his 33rd birthday in 1963. Released on DVD in 2004 as “Ô-Genio,” meaning “The Genius” in Portuguese, the special saw Charles backed by The Raelettes and a fifteen-piece band. 082
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Find yourself some data when you conflate my well earned mistrust of the scumbags running Silicon Valleyand my lifelong embrace of medical science, please. 030
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So the Sheriff broke the law. Arrest this shithead. 000
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The arrogance of these Know Nothing Fucks is beyond enraging. 011
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Insane levels of delusional arrogance from these fucks… 000
Reposted by John CunninghamAdrien Begrand @adrienbegrand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026static.klipy.comBasil Fawlty's Mad Car TroubleALT: Basil Fawlty's Mad Car Trouble 163
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So you admit that you are prejudiced all by your lonesome?? Well played, sir! 070
Reposted by John CunninghamJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253922348
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The article suggests that it is Brendan Carr not Musk that is the issue here 010
Reposted by John CunninghamJeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Tony Williams soloing during a performance of “Captain Marvel” at Montreux Jazz Festival, alongside Stan Getz, Stanley Clarke, and Chick Corea (1972) 2214
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Fbook has mastered the art of user manipulation with their goddam red buttons. “A notification? For moi?” 110
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I haven’t been on X in years so I can’t compare but every time I open Threads I feel like I have invited Beelzebub in for a chat… 110
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I am a car driver, not a cyclist. You are so full of shit it’s grotesque… 040
Reposted by John CunninghamPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/202635% of this country would *vote* to bring back chattel slavery if they could. 12750107
Reposted by John CunninghamThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda) 15246382043
Reposted by John CunninghamStone Butch Blue Velvet @jennyllello.bsky.social · 11/09/2026the aesthetic triumph of The Sopranos is that from within the period (and not a decade or two hence as is typical) it saw and reflected PRECISELY how tacky everything about everything was. they were gross people! and so was basically every other part of The Last American Monoculture!! 152
Reposted by John CunninghamDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026Idk, but I don’t think a mass casualty event that les to a new age of racism and xenophobia as well as security theater and mass surveillance in the name of safety is really necessary for a “shared bond” among Americans. 315827
John Cunningham @jwhip55.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It was terrific actually. If we want to talk about truly rambling tedious self indulgent wankfests, then I’m happy to talk about what I observed in my decade at DC Comics!! 000
Reposted by John CunninghamJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression. 16852981516