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Kristen Johansen

@kristenjohansen.bsky.social
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Tech, design, science, social justice, letterpress, neurodiversity. All opinions are my own.

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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This motherfucker is definitely running for president.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When the AI voicemail transcription gets it wrong but also right
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I think we just passed oops.
A timeline of climate change concern.
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
THIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSS
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Paging @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 14/06/2026
A chart showing the US birth rate from circa 1990 to 2026A chart showing the share of net worth held by the top 1%
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
C’mon LA I know you got it in you
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/06/2026
By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The fact that they haven’t thought through what could go wrong here tells you everything you need to know.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026
“…the character is being trained on the billionaire’s mannerisms, tone and publicly available statements, as well as his own recent thinking on company strategies, so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it.”
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Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff
Chief executive is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop ‘personal superintelligence’
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Ted Mills @tedmills.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
gofund.me/6ffd0d5a9 It is sad that such an influential musician as Bill Laswell has to rely on a GoFundMe for essential needs, but here we are. I chipped in, if you are a fan consider doing so too.
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Donate to Support Bill Laswell’s Essential Needs, organized by Orange Music Collective
Bill Laswell has spent his life creating music that has shaped generati… Orange Music Collective needs your support for Support Bill Laswell’s Essential Needs
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Medical experiments on prisoners? Where have we seen this before?
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The process that led to the Holocaust didn't start with killing people. First it made them non-people. Then it killed them.
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
hey! if you didn't see that Kansas has requested trans folks to surrender their Driver's Licenses, I'll link it below - but meantime, this urgent appeal is worth your time & $$. I just donated, join me.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
“military-grade intelligence tactics” “Pattern-of-life” intelligence Bro, you are eating microwaveable Campbell’s Soup for every meal and crashing out in front of the Home2Suites while you’re geared up like you’re in Fallujah
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 31/01/2026
gosh wonder who could be under these redactions
: Appalled and angry over failures to secure Epstein 00:45
(CNN) — Staffing shortages at the Bureau of Prisons are dire and widespread, according to agency employees and
Lawmakers who say they've been warning the Justice Department about the problem and demanding changes for years.
Attorney General has launched investigations into Jeffery death. But earlier this year, he referred to
delays in hiring new people at the Bureau of Prisons as a "snafu" caused by bureaucracy in the federal prison system.
suicide has exposed what the employee union says are chronically overworked and short-staffed conditions at
the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan, including forced overtime and officers reassigned to guard duty.
A key US Senate committee has also repeatedly told the Justice Department to hire full-time correctional staff and end an
"overreliance" on the type of reassignments that have existed in the MCC and elsewhere.
The Justice Department said Tuesday that it was reassigning the
warden at the MCC and it was suspending two guards at the facility.
The department didn't identify the guards or say whether they were
the ones on duty and assigned to monitor Epstein when he died.
Days after death. BOP officials and FBI investigators are still
piecing together even basic details of the incident such as how he
was found and how long he was dead before an employee found
him, people briefed on the matter said. Some employees have
refused to cooperate with investigators
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Nature and Language of Computers Biochemistry Psychobiology Letterpress Printing Sociology of Death Yes I have ADHD, why do you ask
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Dan Ancona @danancona.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Blue state govs need to start talking about how to stop this right now. You wanna be President? Great, show me how you are stopping the funding of literal fucking concentration camps.
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
My kid’s school had an active shooter drill followed by a student-organized walkout to protest ICE this morning which feels like the most 2026 thing possible
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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The same way gravity is a theory
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Leigh Kunkel @leighkunkel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
For sale: Nazi coat, gently worn (Size small)
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I CANAE BREATHE!!!
Melania documentary struggles in UK cinemas as Vue admits sales are ‘soft’
Only one ticket sold for premiere of film about US first lady at Vue’s flagship London branch as insiders question launch strategy
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SwampLizard @swamplizard.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
These are profoundly evil people And that evil is a conscious CHOICE
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
It me
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Happy 2026! To start the year, here's a tree ring chiton, a 5cm ocean mollusk that sticks to rocks. Instead of having obvious eyes on a head, it's got 100s of tiny eyes embedded in the hard plates on its back, each with a rock crystal to focus light. Its top is one big eye spying on the world above
A tree ring chiton - a pink-ish oval mollusk with eight decorated plates along its back. Photo credit Dave Holland
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.
Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
always remember:
shiba ennui @TomSchally
the secret to work-life balance is inherited wealth
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I thought Eleanor Roosevelt and Mamie Eisenhower were dead
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Froggie dude is our tank man and I am 100% here for it
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This video of an ENTIRE LECTURE HALL of students chasing this hateful piece of garbage out made my morning — highly rec. it’s a great reminder that majority of people find this stuff disgusting.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
one of the through-lines of this administration is that it is ideologically pro-rape
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Homeschooled by pigeons
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
So far this has been a useful exercise in whittling down my following list on the other social medias. Yikes.
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Guy who wrote a book saying his mom is a junkie slag and his people are lazy trash thinks that everyone else should be more grateful
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Happy Labor Day Weekend!
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a man in a blue jacket sits on a chair holding a milkshake
ALT: a man in a blue jacket sits on a chair holding a milkshake
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
It's always "find what causes autism and destroy it" and never "hey we heard u guys have floppy bones and you forget to eat so ur tummy always hurts and and u forget to pee so u ruined your bladder so we did some science about it to make your life better"
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Kristen Johansen @kristenjohansen.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Hey so how’s everybody doing this ev—
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CooknColorado @cookncolorado.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
ICE just fired shots into a car near Colorado Springs. They claim the occupants tried to run them over. No proof of that, though. I knew this was coming. ICE is the Gestapo.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We told you they were going to do project 2025 and it’s 2025 and they’re doing project 2025
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
ok I decided to actually read up a bit on the Epstein case and my initial takeaway is that a great way to protect women and children from sexual predation would be to prosecute white collar crime
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Now THAT’S transformative philanthropy.
Photo of the all-gender restroom entrance at the Baltimore Museum of Art, named for benefactor and patron of the arts John Waters.
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended. This is so horrifying I made a bar graph www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
Bar graph showing the change in percentage of calls answered after FEMA laid off contractors on July 5th (over 99% on July 5, about 36% on July 6 and 16% of calls answered on July 7)
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