Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 26/02/2026www.instagram.com/reel/DUI30wk...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 000
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 19/09/2025substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comNonattachmentLoosening the Grip of Anger 010
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 25/05/2025The right-wing tech magnates like to think of themselves as heroes. They aren't. open.substack.com/pub/mythicwo... 110
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 23/03/2025mythicwoman.substack.com/p/always-wan...mythicwoman.substack.comAlways Wanting Morethe slippery slope that leads to evil 020
Reposted by Jody BowerStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." - Hannah Arendt 12228107
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 10/03/2025He lies by the heat vent until he gets too hot then does this 020
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 10/03/2025What do you know, it's not coming from Canada. www.cfr.org/article/how-...cfr.orgHow Does Fentanyl Reach the United States?President Trump has imposed steep tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico in the name of curbing fentanyl flows into the United States. In reality, supplies of the drug—and related deaths—have sharply d… 010
Reposted by Jody BowerJesse : 💙💙💙 @journeyled1.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Good afternoon @obijuanjalapeno.bsky.social @wtfisthis0.bsky.social @busydrizz.bsky.social @thexfile.bsky.social @patawan1.bsky.social @qm-b.bsky.social @pittsburghlady.bsky.social @choudry1.bsky.social @lunonni.bsky.social @sassysister27.bsky.social 1014247
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 04/03/2025The Lover King and the Tyrant. Guess which one we've got right now. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comFasten Your SeatbeltsIn my blog “Myths and Archetypes in Film” (https://jodybower.com/myths-archetypes-in-film/) I often write about doubled archetypes. 010
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 04/03/2025yeah because men never let testosterone-fueled rage affect them . . . 010
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 04/03/2025“And I have — I first started thinking, is it — am I feeling grief? Am I feeling shock, like I'm in a hallucination? But I just think shame, moral shame. It's a moral injury to see the country you love behave in this way.” 000
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 04/03/2025“Donald Trump believes in one thing. He believes that might makes right. And, in that, he agrees with Vladimir Putin that they are birds of a feather. And he and Vladimir Putin together are trying to create a world that's safe for gangsters, where ruthless people can thrive." 100
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 04/03/2025" . . . vilely to our friends in Europe. And today was the bottom of the barrel, vilely to a man who is defending Western values, at great personal risk to him and his countrymen." 100
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 04/03/2025And we make mistakes, Iraq, Vietnam, but they're usually mistakes out of stupidity, naivete and arrogance." “They're not because we're ill-intentioned. What I have seen over the last six weeks is the United States behaving vilely, vilely to our friends in Canada and Mexico . . ." 100
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 04/03/2025"All my life, I have had a certain idea of about America, that we're a flawed country, but we're fundamentally a force for good in the world, that we defeated Soviet Union, we defeated fascism, we did the Marshall Plan, we did PEPFAR to help people live in Africa." 100
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 04/03/2025THIS. (continues in comments) Longtime Republican columnist and commentator David Brooks said the following after the White House mistreatment of the Ukrainian president on Friday. “I was nauseated, just nauseated." 120
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Triggered by the abusive treatment of Zelenskyy. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comSystemic AbuseThere’s a theory I like that says we elect as president someone who reflects the psychological state of the nation. 100
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 26/02/2025You can sue for wrongful termination if you're fired without documented cause. ESPECIALLY if you're a government employee. 000
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 26/02/2025I've changed my name twice. It's simple. Easy enough to change it back to the one on my birth certificate . . . 000
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 25/02/2025 In 2023, national parks contributed a record $55.6 billion to the U.S. economy. They cost the US $3.6 billion to run. 010
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 24/02/2025a cautionary tale substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comHow to Destroy a Company in Less Than 10 Years(any resemblance to current people-in-charge is intentional) 000
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 24/02/2025who's going to read all those emails? Who's going to pay for the staff necessary to read all those emails? This is bluster to look good to the Magats. 000
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Exactly! The stages of "knowing" (per Belensky et al.) 1. Don't know, don't want to know. 2. Believe everything I'm told by my accepted authority. 3. Hey! I have my own opinions! (Don't tell ME what to think!) 4. Learned a METHOD for analyzing information. 5. Began questioning my own assumptions. 010
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I think his point is that the English were the role models for how their former colonists have behaved since. 000
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Where to get your news The Guardian (UK) www.theguardian.com/us BBC News (UK) www.bbc.com/news/world The Irish Times (Ireland) www.irishtimes.com CBC (Canada) www.cbc.ca/news The Globe and Mail (Canada) www.theglobeandmail.com The NZ Herald (New Zealand) www.nzherald.co.nztheguardian.comLatest news, sport and opinion from the GuardiandocumentariesLatest US news, world news, sports, business, opinion, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice 010
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 19/02/2025substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comDismantling StructuresA Latina friend and colleague asked me to be on her dissertation committee some years ago, which meant that I got to attend her oral defense, where she presented her work and a panel of professors ask... 000
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 19/02/2025my rehomed kitty was starved for the first two years of his life. I've had him for four and a half years now and he still doesn't trust that I'll feed him. He gets six meals a day because he bolts his food & throws it up if I just leave the bowl full. 030
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 19/02/2025wondering what Big Pharma thinks of all the spending cuts for medical research . . . 000
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 18/02/2025I was married to a contractor, and I learned that remodeling a house, you're always going to be limited by the existing structure to some degree. Sometimes to get what you really want, the whole thing has to come down. 000
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 18/02/2025A Latina friend at her oral defense said something about the irony/difficulty of "dismantling any structure you're struggling to be part of." This struck me hard. Now we're watching the old rich white men destroy those structures themselves. 100
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 17/02/2025gosh, almost like male legislators making laws about women . . . 130
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 16/02/2025yes please learn from the USA's example before it's too late. 010
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I dunno . . . it hasn't worked to try to talk people out of believing crap. Now they're going to find out for themselves. Maybe that's how it has to be. 010
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Wish I could! Just over the border from BC, maybe when the US falls apart y'all could annex us? We Washingtonians would be happy to be South BC - and then the San Juan and Gulf Islands could just be the Salish Sea islands . . . 000
Reposted by Jody BowerElle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 10/02/2025m.youtube.com/@americanmed... 212239
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 10/02/2025was wondering what we're calling Leon's gang of adolescent hitmen . . . oh, right, MuskRats. 000
Reposted by Jody BowerElle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 09/02/2025I'm already tired of football here are two small froggs 1033554
Jody Bower @mythmuser.bsky.social · 09/02/2025yup www.instagram.com/p/DDGzRj7x9O4/instagram.comLogin • InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. 000