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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.
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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Guys stop saying the drug use plebiscite is cynical electioneering by ABC. It's a Very Important Question that they really want the answer to! The fact that they've plastered the question on every mail out, bus ad, billboard, flyer, and wrapped their campaign office in it is purely happenstance!
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 20h
The more people who vote, but don’t answer / spoil the plebiscite questions, the better. We’ll find out both totals, and the difference will tell a story.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 20h
Both questions are in bad faith. Neither deserve good faith answers.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 21h
Also, and seriously, did I actually “mark” it?
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 21h
Are “public safety plebiscites” actually “special ballots”? I guess I’m civilly disobeying. Either way, there’s no way I’m as fucking dumb as it is.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 22h
I don’t want it to either “succeed” or “fail”, it’s the least legitimate thing I’ve ever seen in #VanPoli, and instead of just ignoring it I’m going to throw my little tantrum about it. (I’m doing other things, too.) (Side note: spoiled ballots should be counted.)
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 22h
Oh, no, I hadn't realized that I'd spoiled it! This "plebiscite" is bullshit and spoiling it / posting a photo of it is one of the only ways I have - as a Citizen - to point that out.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 22h
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
3 1/2 year old’s Breka hot chocolate review: “A little hot. A lot good.”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
STANLEY KUBRICK: I invented the Army shooting a guy who couldn't even stand up as a cautionary tale about capital punishment. PETE HEGSETH: At long last we have decided to shoot a guy who can't even stand up from the classic war film PATHS OF GLORY bsky.app/profile/secr...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a truly bizarre troll job and I am here for it and pro sports needs more like it.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 08/10/2026
‘If AI doesn’t deliver on its promise then we face a double blow to growth: because AI didn’t expand our productive capacity as hoped, and because other investments which might have didn’t take place.’ www.ft.com/content/bf40...
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On the one hand, this sucks. On the other hand, a new menu, some new decor and some new vibes are decades overdue.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ughhhh, indeed, to which I’ll add, FFS. The mainstream press is just so far behind where we need them to be. (I know, I know, we don’t “need” the Economist at all.)
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Lauren Dracula 🧛‍♀️ @beavisetc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We have been living in the Black Hole Sun video for about a decade now
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Avi Lewis on C-39: "That's why Stephen Harper is cheering from the sidelines, because Bill C-39 enshrines in law the wish list of foreign investors and corporate Canada in a way that Stephen Harper was never able to do."
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Amazing, and but Atwood goes to the back of the line again.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The taste and texture of the skin balance the fruit perfectly, plus it literally holds it together, I’m actually grossed out by the thought of eating just the fruit, all content, no form.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I feel you.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(it’s also really more like the *start* of some good ideas)
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What works about so many of them is their internal coherence. The Peacemaker in particular really is a just great series of actions & reactions, causes & effects, setups & payoffs.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
LOL. A perfect reading of a perfect punchline.
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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We got this.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I like it, too! I mean, they could have done this anytime in the past 2 years, or anytime in the next 2 years, using, you know, THEIR MAJORITY GOVERNMENT! But better to wait until after they’ve called an election that they didn’t need to call, and that they’re going to lose! Very strategic!
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great idea! I mean, you could have done this anytime in the past 2 years, or anytime in the next 2 years, using, you know, YOUR MAJORITY GOVERNMENT! But better to wait to announce until after you’ve called an election that you didn’t need to call, and that you’re going to lose! Very strategic!
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey Sammy, Supreme Court Justices merely have an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they’re going to live in”, so let’s start packing the Court, OK? OK.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
If the Democrats win, they have to be ready to bring generational change. Reform the courts, eliminate the filibuster, expand the house, admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, pass a new voting rights act, and prosecute every single corrupt member of the Trump admin.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026
Again, the US isn't structurally racist because people *feel* it is. The US is structurally racist because empirical research across a wide range of fields, from history to sociology to economics, has *shown* it to be. This is the right way to think about US history, and people should be taught it.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The bridge scene in The Peacemaker (an underrated actioner all around).
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jeanne Dielman peeling those potatoes
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Carney, the economic genius, is pumping our public money into a losing bet.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
counterpoint: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYWA...
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Mr. Plinkett's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Review
YouTube video by RedLetterMedia
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
💯 (I'm not usually one for the 100 emoji, but I've been trying and failing to put it better in this thread, so.)
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The solution to the problem of corporate media consolidation (and diminishing media literacy) isn't some sort of disclosure policy for their columnists, it's independent journalists speaking truth to power in new ways. Maria Kabas is a great example. Rachel is no Maria yet but she could get there!
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Our current federal government is - no hyperbole - well on its way to becoming the most right-wing government we've ever had. Just because the corporatists aren't fascists doesn't mean that I'm not furious about the corporatism and I'm glad some journalists are furious, too.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Midnight Run, I’ll watch it any part of it, anytime.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why can’t she report as well as offer commentary? That’s kind of what indie journalists do?
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think that hyperbole is possible in covering right wing politics today, and I don’t think that it’s possible to be too angry about it.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m not one to body shame, but I’m one to Elon shame, and my dude is turning into a sandworm.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fargo S02 is not only much better about this, it’s one of greatest seasons of TV ever.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I’m afraid that this small clique of all-too-human dorkwads are trying to gain even more mind-boggling wealth and even more political and regulatory control over powerful AI technology, in ways that will allow them to further fracture democracy, privacy, and human flourishing.”
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And again, Buscemi just barely holds his own, I mean just look at Rothstein / Stuhlbargh absolutely wipe the floor with him here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDLv...
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Boardwalk Empire season 3 - Arnold Rothstein argues with Nucky Thompson about his liquor shipments
YouTube video by New illuminati
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I mean the whole thing was full of amazing scenes like this one, as parts of amazing episodes and amazing arcs, just the purest hits of peak TV (and in this case peak Shannon): www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMGu...
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Van Alden stands up to O'Banion. Boardwalk Empire.
YouTube video by mpride1911
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
absolute impunity to do random self-destructive shit with taxpayer money.
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John "Not That John Bolton" Bolton @opus59films.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WW is eviler than DD/TS, but DD is just as shaped by his evil upbringing/milieu & just as much of a killer as TS - and TS is the better family man! Either way, does it matter how much we empathize with characters? I might be more interested in characters (and stories) that I can't relate to.
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