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Jeff Johnston

@koeselitz.bsky.social
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he/him | db programmer | New Mexican | piano, accordion, &c | bi, monogamous, married | medievalist: Dante; Farabi | now leading study groups on: Bach’s Matthew Passion; Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/06/2026
BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
$300 day rate for an art director for film is abysmal. when I work with design studios as a senior designer my day rate is easily +$100 more for a role w/ far less responsibility and skill. I’ve worked video productions before and the art director role is so crucial and demanding. this is insulting.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/06/2026
NYC is the safest it’s been in its entire 400-year history. Except for the Spurs.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
More young men were lost to aids than the Vietnam War, many of them creatives at the peak of their careers. Howard Ashman, Derek Jarman, Keith Haring and Freddie Mercury are some of the most famous but there are so many unknown writers/actors/artists/filmakers cut down before they even started.
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the most typical @jazzpomegranate.com · 05/06/2026
it’s fucking pride month shut up
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
she's finished 🥹 she's so beautiful (I had the great privilege of visiting her 26 years ago, very much in process)
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Gaudí’s Sagrada Família finally shakes off its ‘incompletable’ tag, as Pope prepares to inaugurate its tallest and final tower
Long considered forever unfinishable due to its extreme complexity and the loss of its architect’s original plans, the Barcelona basilica’s 18th tower has now been completed
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mr. kendal mintcake @mintcaketime.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
there should be an album where bands that wrote songs that were also the name of their band have to write songs named after other bands. “prefab sprout” by iron maiden. things of that nature
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It is the position of the state of Wyoming that Rhianna Kelver, a subhuman, was obligated to submit to being beaten to death for the entertainment of a group of real people
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Do Trans People Have “Stand Your Ground” Rights? Wyoming’s Answer May Be “No.”
Albany County Circuit Court Judge Robert Sanford agreed with the prosecutor that there was probable cause that Kelver committed assault.
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­­ ­ ­ the­ ­­ ­ ­ ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 04/06/2026
tumblr post from user asteroidtroglodyte:

Me, tears streaming down my face, sobbing, as I stare at the stars: it's just so beautiful

The medieval peasant I went back in time to give a bag of Doritos to, concerned: what terrible and powerful sorcerers they must have in your age, to be able to veil the vault of heaven itself from view, as you say

Me, sniffling: I didn't realize, I can't, it's so much, I, I... are the chips good, at least?

Medieval peasant, trying to make me feel better: they're... magical, strange traveler
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is an incredible story.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
the republic survived a civil war, it will survive a dying pedophile. anything else is loser shit. we're going to win.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/06/2026
Silicon Valley has spent the last 15 years or so making it clear that they are actively hostile to the human needs of their data-generating users and essentially view them as cattle: it is stupid for lawmakers to assume that many members of the public still find these people *preferable* to China.
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 03/06/2026
I’ve watched this 500x
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/06/2026
Discrimination based on gender identity or expression is illegal in New York City. Trans New Yorkers are protected by law. Our City will protect your rights, defend your humanity and stand beside you without hesitation.
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Kicks Off Pride With “Trans Rights Are Human Rights” Campaign
The campaign will highlight existing protections for transgender and gender-nonconforming New Yorkers.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
If you can’t tell the difference between an expert and a bot, what that tells you is that you can’t tell the difference between an expert and a bot. It doesn’t tell you anything whatever either about the bot or about the knowledge that you’re asking the bot to give you because you aren’t an expert.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Your soulmate... doesn't have to be your romantic or sexual partner. If they're really a soulmate and you both really love your partners, you'll just... build a different relationship with them?
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This pride month, if you’re not plugged in, please take a moment to think about what you specifically can do to support trans kids under attack. I get asked all the time about steps people can take, so I hope at least one person takes this to heart. I’ll be adding throughout June. A thread.🧵
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Guy at the bar last night had an extremely old persian cat who was a big hit with everyone. Before leaving he reassured me that they come there often in case I ever want to see the cat again. Then they got on his motorcycle together and vroomed off. There's hope for this country yet
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈
A rainbow colored box turtle looking nervously out of a drab gray shell. There is text above him that says “It’s OK if you’re not ready yet.”
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Wrote a letter to my MP, it’s probably not the most coherent thing in the world but I couldn’t not say anything.
Dear
For the five years I have lived in
, I've been proud to have you as my representative. Your
intervention when my gender identity clinic did not send my surgery referral for over a year was crucial in getting them to acknowledge and, vitally, rectify their error. I will remain forever grateful to you for this.
But I'm afraid will not vote for you again, not whilst the red rosette you proudly wear remains a symbol of my exclusion.
Your government's proposed guidance is innately dehumanising. It prioritises the comfort of others over my ability to use the toilet, to access services, and to play the sport love with my friends. Ultimately, it seeks to confine me to my home - away from those who view me with disgust. A dangerous precedent has been set that it is more important for others to be protected from acknowledging the existence of those they deem unworthy than for marginalised people to exist publicly at all.
No matter how hard your party tries to spin this, there can be no dignity and respect for trans people with this guidance in place. As a trans man, I am told am not permitted to change with my football team who have called family for the last five seasons - that I must use separate female facilities alone. But if a woman walked through the door whilst I was lacing up my boots, I could be removed from these facilities too if she objected to my presence. Where is the dignity and respect in changing in a corridor? I suppose the preference is that don't play at all and stay at home so others do not have to perceive me.
I expect this behaviour from the Conservatives and Reform. Had this guidance been proposed by the previous Minister for Women and Equalities, I would have been devastated but not batted an eye. To watch a party I campaigned for, a party I was proud to represent for several years as a candidate, the self-identified "party of equality" usher in the biggest rollback of LGBTQ+ rights since Thatcher's Section 28 is shameful. I will not choose betwe…
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Jeff Johnston @koeselitz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It is technically illegal to enforce an NDA in the United States, because doing so violates the First Amendment, which affords everyone free speech and does not have exceptions for things like “it might be bad for business.” We should make it explicitly illegal to ask someone to sign an NDA.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Just under 5 years ago, The Guardian censored these words of non-binary academic Judith Butler arguing that transphobia is fascism. Butler has quite obviously been proved right. A good day to share this widely.
It is very appalling and sometimes quite frightening to see how trans-exclusionary feminists have allied with rightwing attacks on gender. The anti-gender ideology movement is not opposing a specific account of gender but seeking to eradicate "gender" as a concept or discourse, a field of study, an approach to social power. Sometimes they claim that "sex" alone has scientific standing, but other times they appeal to divine mandates for masculine domination and difference. They don't seem to mind contradicting themselves.
The Terfs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) and the so-called gender critical writers have also rejected the important work in feminist philosophy of science showing how culture and nature interact (such as Karen Barad, Donna Haraway, EM Hammonds or Anne Fausto-Sterling) in favor of a regressive and spurious form of biological essentialism. So they will not be part of the coalition that seeks to fight the anti-gender movement.
The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the Terfs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism, one that requires a coalition guided by struggles against racism, nationalism, xenophobia and carceral violence, one that is mindful of the high rates of femicide throughout the world, which include high rates of attacks on trans and genderqueer people.
The anti-gender movement circulates a spectre of "gender" as a force of destruction, but they never actually read any works in gender studies. Quick and fearful conclusions take the place of considered judgments. Yes, some work on gender is difficult and not everyone can read it, so we have to do better in reaching a broader public. As important as it is, however, to make complex concepts available to a popular audience, it is equally important to encourage intellectual inquiry as part of public life.
Unfortunately, we are living in anti-intellectual times, and neo-fascism is becoming more normalized.
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
this type of transvestigation is punitive degendering; if you can prove Sidney Sweeney is REALLY A MAN you can avenge the injury of your attraction to her, regain your control that your attraction threatens. if you can prove Erica Kirk is REALLY A MAN you can take the status she has away from her.
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Degendering and Regendering
There is an asymmetry inherent to transphobia, due to the patriarchal ideology of sex.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
My insistence that the world is still a warm and beautiful place is sorely tested by the fact that the world is a cruel and stupid dogshit hell
11:55 PM • May 15, 2026
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
IMPORTANT! I’m working on my tenure file. LMK if you teach one of these works of mine or use them in other concrete ways: 1. Genderfucking as a Critical Legal Methodology 2. Any of my work on gender modality 3. Don't be so hateful: The insufficiency of anti-discrimination and hate crime laws
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride!
The Museum of Curiosities
@CuriosMuseum

Drink Ovaltine to wake up gay in the morning!

(images of old-timey Ovaltine ads)
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"Just sit back and relax" Everything he says sounds like rape.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us. But don't the Dumocrats, and various seemingly

u patriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively "chirping," at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or

whatever. Just sit back and relax, it will all

work out well in the end - It always does!

President DJT
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Jeff Johnston @koeselitz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
asking someone to “hop on a call” is a mean thing to do, and no polite person ever does it
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There are very few things as despicable as preemptive compliance. Shame on the NJ governor, shame on the NJSP, and shame on everyone justifying this cowardly assault on peaceful protestors.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This was by far my favourite thing at the @edinburghnapier.bsky.social degree show, by Sofiia Omelchenko 😻🪦🥀
Funeral for your dead plant by Sofiia Omelchenko
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 31/05/2026
God didn’t intend for us to hear this much about Maine
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Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🙀 @sarahkite.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Seen tacked to a community board on my walk
laminated flyer pushpinned to a community board. we see a photo of a coyote, and the text reads:

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS DOG?

[photo of a coyote]

DUMMY THAT'S A COYOTE.
OH MY GOD WHAT DO I DO???:
—NO ACTION REQUIRED
—IT IS WILDLIFE IN THE WILD (!)
-HERE TO EAT DELICIOUS RODENT
-LET HER COOK
—NOT INTERESTED IN YOU, LOL GET OVER YOURSELF BABE;)
—KEEP DOGS ON LEASH AND CATS INDOORS
-(LIKE YOU SHOULD BE DOING ANYWAY)
—YOTE IS A RESPECTED NEIGHBOR AND CRITTER CONTROL PROFESSIONAL
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Flock-o'-Lantern @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
crime stems from societal failures
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John Robinson @hannibalv.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Large banner held by two people. Text of banner is "RESPECT MY TRANS HOMIES OR I'M GONNA IDENTIFY AS A FUCKING PROBLEM". "Respect my trans homies" is painted in the colors of the trans flag; the rest of the text is black. The banner is painted on brown cardboard.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Let the word go out now: If your seats are good enough that you’re seen on camera or by the press at this event, YOU ARE GUILTY OF BRIBING THE PRESIDENT. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
As revealed by Uncrowned on Wednesday, the money coming in for each ticket will be distributed to various parties. The White House and/or President Donald Trump will receive part of the proceeds, the UFC and its parent company of TKO take their standard percentage, and some of it will go "to the troops." This all gets turned up to 11 when the "partner investment" is involved.
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Walked in on my bard performing for other travelers
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years
A man in the 19th century wearing a chicken suit. It has feathers, a full on tail, and even shoes shaped like chicken feetA chicken suit currently for sale. It's just a smooth white zip-up onesie with no tail, no chicken feet, and just some flappy thing under the arms and some striped leggings. Pathetic
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026
We should start hunting billionaires for sport.
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Jeff Johnston @koeselitz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
smash burgers are dry, disgusting, boring food that has poisoned fast food and destroyed the quality of american hamburgers
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Forbes @forbes.com · 29/05/2026
Castro is accused of lying under oath about the shooting of Venezuelan immigrant Julio Sosa-Celis.
forbes.com
ICE Agent Charged In Shooting Of Venezuelan Man In Minnesota Is Arrested
Castro is accused of lying under oath about the shooting of Venezuelan immigrant Julio Sosa-Celis.
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Luke Bones 🦴🦴 @lukemeister.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Did other officials suggest that it could have been a meteorwrong?
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Considering Labour has announced plans to make it harder for unaccompanied asylum seeking children to be recognised as children, and how border officials routinely mis-age children as adults, I think it is reasonable to say this is state authorised child abuse. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Lone children held at UK-run detention centres in France 284 times last year
Refugee charities say the numbers revealed in freedom of information data are ‘shocking’
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This is an absolutely terrifying escalation by the regime. They have now criminalized our freedom to fight the crimes they commit against us and our neighbors. These protesters acted with extraordinary courage and moral clarity.
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
anyways we should staff up da's offices with investigators to deal with violent crime during the inevitable wildcat strike cops will impose on the city if their asses aren't kissed we must build a world where detectives are not a subtype of cop (which is in the genus jannisary)
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Never know what you're gonna get with a fella who likes to go up to the rooftop. Little spot to have a smoke? Best view in the city? Maybe he wants to show you his pigeons? Nope, he's assassinating the archduke. Rooftop guys: Personality's lucky dip.
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The Oaklandside @oaklandside.org · 29/05/2026
Oakland voters are weighing in on ballot measures and the district attorney — plus governor and a slew of other statewide races. Here’s some helpful information.
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A last-minute voter's guide to the June 2 primary election
Oakland voters are weighing in on ballot measures and the district attorney — plus governor and a slew of other statewide races. Here’s some helpful information.
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living and working as a cowboy @tape.website · 29/05/2026
hell yes
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 29/05/2026
to say the quiet part out loud: most PhD programs fund grad students with a mix of fellowships and teaching, but mostly through teaching. if TAs are replaced by AI, most PhD programs will cease to exist
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/05/2026
They’re turning the entire federal internet apparatus into a galaxy of phishing sites that are controlled by the president and do not adhere to any federal privacy or disclosure rules.
While I was finishing this piece, I typed passports. gov directly into my browser, just to see what was there. A sign-in page came up: enter your email and we will send you a six-digit code. No State Department seal. No agency name. No privacy notice. Just a black button that says Send code. The owner of passports. gov is the Executive Office of the President, White House Office. The State Department does not own this domain. The security contact field is blank. The first certificate was issued May 5, three weeks ago.
Based on what I can see in the staging environment, the next step will ask Americans to upload their passport photo through a White House-controlled website, on the same Cloudflare account, by the same people, with no privacy notice on file. A passport photo is biometric quality. Linked to your identity through Login.gov. Collected through infrastructure the White House owns, sealed from public view. They are building it this week.
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