John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The German ones: • Flugzeug – Airplane ("flight stuff" or "flying tool") • Werkzeug – Tool ("work stuff" or "work tool") • Spielzeug – Toy ("play stuff") • Fahrzeug – Vehicle ("driving stuff") • Feuerzeug – Lighter ("fire stuff") • Schlagzeug – Drum kit ("hit/strike stuff") 150
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026So many miserable hotel TVs don't allow access to the menu where you can turn off smoothing. 050
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Well done! Got the unknown answers on the crosses, so no Naticks for me. 050
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Thomas J Price sculptures, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 0476
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Back in the day we taped a polaroid camera to a stick. Hilarity ensued. 1023846
Reposted by John Linnellmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 04/01/2026My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives. 277197684198
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 27/12/2025“the Copyright Office has maintained – correctly – that AI-generated works cannot be copyrighted, because copyright is exclusively for humans…[this] means that the only way [Getty or Disney or Universal or Hearst] can get a copyright is to pay humans to do creative work.” 121653
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025I love that the expression is about how you're just like everyone else. I've been putting them on both legs at once since before I ever heard that saying. 071
Reposted by John LinnellThe Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised. 18545546622398
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Brian Dewan built this desk for me more than thirty years ago. Since then I’ve taken it apart and moved it five times. It’s now in it’s sixth studio and being readied for it’s fourth decade of service. 5937
Reposted by John LinnellAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people. 323189094309
Reposted by John LinnellChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21/09/2025We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America. 732185486203
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 10/09/2025My favorite misheard lyric courtesy Kristin Asbury 05012
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Curing cancer would be unfair to people who have already died of cancer 1120
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Randy Newman already turned in the definitive number. 150
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Are they repointing or is it something more drastic? 230
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Strolling around San Diego today I visited this monument depicting a sailor sexually assaulting a dental hygienist on V-J day. The name of the 25 foot high computer generated kitsch, if you weren’t already creeped out by what it depicts, is “Unconditional Surrender.” 8762
Reposted by John Linnellshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/05/2025oh yes the same people who acted like they were being murdered when they had to put a piece of cloth over their faces definitely understand the concept of shared sacrifice 1224345871
Reposted by John LinnellCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025HHS Plans to Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program for LGBTQ Youth www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comHHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youthIn February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day. 71371180
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Minuteman Statue, Lexington MA Given the ongoing debate about how we commemorate our history I just want to add a shoutout to D. Boon and the Minutemen, punk rock soldiers who deserve their own monument. camera: Argus Matchmatic 0606
Reposted by John LinnellZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Two-thirds of NYers support city-owned grocery stores. Three-fourths support free buses. Nearly 80% support a rent-freeze. I'm running for mayor to deliver these exact policies. Our campaign is surging because unlike Andrew Cuomo, we know what working people need and deserve. 6728137
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Our birthday tribute to Mickey Dolenz, who just turned 80. 1434466
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I think about this comic too. It feels so relevant now, and as grim as it is, it ends on a kind of optimistic note (for Crumb). 020
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Harding and Grant had scandal-plagued terms, W. Harrison and Garfield didn’t survive long enough to make a mark. Hayes, who lost the popular vote, was installed in a backroom deal to end Reconstruction. McKinley, lionized by the current president, didn’t rate having his name spelled correctly here. 2593
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Not to dump on Ohio, which has some fine qualities, but this gallery of Ohio born presidents doesn’t exactly make the case for great leadership. 2739
Reposted by John LinnellAlma Katsu (INCARNATE is out now!) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Rare good news in the book world www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...nytimes.comIndie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books (Gift Article)Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. 623168
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I’m going to continue saying the Gulf of Mexico and Denali, in the same spirit as sticking with the Triboro and Queensboro bridges. 3785
Reposted by John Linnelljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/01/2025latest column is on the dipshit curtis yarvinnytimes.comOpinion | The Dubious History of America’s Most Famous Monarchist (Gift Article)It’s not hard to understand how Curtis Yarvin won the admiration of powerful patrons. 1864356811
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 21/01/2025For everyone who despairs that this is somehow where the story ends, take heart and remember that the struggle for the rights of marginalized and oppressed people, and the work towards a healthy and sustainable planet earth never ends. We’re still here! But maybe it’s time to ditch the Tesla. 917942
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 03/01/2025note to math geeks: I don’t really get why, but if you square the sum of any number of sequential integers starting from 1: (1 + 2 + 3 +…)², you get the same result as summing the cubes of the same numbers. Maybe someone can explain it to me! 3413
John Linnell @linnell.bsky.social · 02/01/2025math fun for this year: 2025 = 45² (the only square year this century) also 2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² also 2025 = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³ 211618
Reposted by John LinnellViktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Your call is important to us. Here’s some fuckin’ Yanni 1864984