Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I ancitipate this hitting the Deconstruction community like Dylan going electric. 000
Reposted by Jason NeradProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️ 9660063434
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This was all foretold in prophecy.youtu.beAmazing! This Boy Saw Heaven During His Near-Death Experience!YouTube video by ClickHole 000
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Started!goodreads.comVathekVathek (1786), originally written in French, remains on… 000
Reposted by Jason NeradHigh Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome 404798665
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My delightful little sojourn into Greek myth—as recounted by the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy—concluded. I highly recommend the whole series.goodreads.comOdyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)Read the final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internat… 000
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And sometimes Chicago cops end up shooting one, leading to a disturbed naturalist trying to burn down Mayor Daley's vacation home. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...cbsnews.comBotanist Pleads Guilty To Threatening Cops After Police Killed Mountain Lion In ChicagoRich Hyerczyk, 54, pleaded guilty in federal court that he sent 90 threatening letters over nine-year period starting in 2003 — including one in which he threatened to burn down former Mayor Richard M... 101
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It'd matter if we were having a philosophical dialogue, but American politics and discourse runs on eristics and rhetoric. It's vibes and identity politics all the way down. BlueSky is just a political fantasy football league for autists, former gifted kids, and liberal arts grads. It doesn't matter 010
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“Trump really has created a jobs program for men who have thrown full cans of Monster at their mother‘s head before.”youtube.comICE make cops look goodYouTube video by Stavros Halkias 000
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Is RFK Jr. doing other stuff to the road kill before eating it? 020
Reposted by Jason NeradMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 485297777666
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I may have more thoughtful things to say at a later date, but my dad, Jerry Nerad, died on August 6th. www.thehinsdalean.com/story/2026/0...thehinsdalean.comJerry NeradJerry Nerad, born Oct. 4, 1942, of Hinsdale, Ill., and Naples, Fla., passed away peacefully on Aug. 6, 2026, of complications from multiple myeloma. He was surrounded by the love of his wife, Ann, the... 111
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My two year old really loves those delivery robots though. Just goes nuts any time she sees them. That's how the machines will take over. 010
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Elementary school Curriculum Night gives parents a chance to once again experience zoning out in a school auditorium. 110
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 02/09/2026ELO’s Mr. Blue Sky could double as a hymn to Tengri, Sky Father of the steppe nomads. 000
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I’ve made some casting decisions. Taika Waititi will be playing the CEO of Planatir, the guy who played Duck Phillips on Mad Men will be Prime Minister Mark Carney. Greg Kinnear will continue as Chief Justice John Roberts. 021
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I enjoy subject matter experts dressing down the appetitive BlueSky commentariat. 070
Reposted by Jason Nerad"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Those emotional impulses bubble up, devoid of reason - reason would tell them stop - and that is fascism. Because it is common in the human heart, it bubbles up in every society, except - I suppose - for those that are already authoritarian (and sometimes there too). 246420
Reposted by Jason Nerad"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026We lived like that - brutal, slavery-and-genocide beggar-thy-neighbor competition for resources in which suspicion and violence towards outsiders was a key survival skill - for many tens of thousands of years before we even developed farming. We created culture for it. We *evolved* for it. 1961331
Reposted by Jason Nerad"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Fascism (which sucks) strikes us as aberrant *because* we are so modern. But wanting a strong leader to suppress minorities and lead your tribe in a brutal war in which you enslave or massacre your neighbors and take their resources - that was the DEFAULT mode of most polities before modernity. 976160
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Also available in its watered down format: BlueSky dogpiles! 100
Reposted by Jason Nerad"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Fascism is not new, in a sense, it is old: fascism is the emergence of our old, pre-liberal, pre-enlightenment emotional gestures, bubbling through the cracks of modern society: suspicion of outsiders, the desire for uniformity, for a strong leader, for conquest of the out-group. 1782776
Reposted by Jason Neradjordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 18/07/2026“Money, power, respect… the last one is better.” -Kendrick Lamar money - ❌ (I make just above minimum wage as a docent in a natural history museum) power - ❌ (see above) respect - ✅ this meant a lot to me to see!! an artist I have loved for 20 years took the time to piece together the dig site 361218118
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Protip: The key is Gas X. It kills the hunger pangs. I also started taking it outside of prep and suddenly discovered you don't *have* to feel sick after every meal! 000
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Sky King’s blessings to all those who commemorate.youtu.be#SKYKING | Official Trailer | HuluYouTube video by ABC News 000
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I don’t know about the rest of you, but I take comfort that all we are is hormone-soaked meat and gut flora with emergent self-awareness.youtu.beIan McConnell - Season 1 - EP. 4: ImportantYouTube video by Ian McConnell 010
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Here on BlueSky we dress up our Big Feelings as discourse. 160
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Two Chicago mayoral candidates: one who is looking to lockdown the Boystown vote and one who presently represents Boystown. 000
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I would very much be down for a World of Darkness setting with Forged in the Dark inspired mechanics. 010
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This screenshot of Jason Pargin reposting Will Stancil willstanciling about Kat bullying him for willstanciling somehow captures the *essence* of my BlueSky FYP these days. I don’t know what that says about me or this place. 031
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The Odyssey lives up to the hype. I’m glad I’m not a member of a tribe whose identity politics would require me to perform conviction to the contrary. 010
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 27/07/2026…The irony being I really do like sea lions and would feel intuitively compelled to defend them to strangers on the internet. 020
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Though I guess there may have been moments when he felt like he was living in Faf and Mouser's squat on Dim Lane. 010
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The end of his life would make for a devastating biopic. Or, I guess, Mountain Goats song. 130
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 17/07/2026“Here. You’re such a good customer. Have some extra bones. As a treat.” <sigh> What is the world coming to when you can’t trust Ren Faire bonemongers any more.reddit.comFrom the bonecollecting community on Reddit: got these free at a ren faire market, any idea what either are from?Explore this post and more from the bonecollecting community 000
Reposted by Jason NeradMinnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Rep. Aisha Gomez: “To look at people standing up against ICE and see ‘paid protesters’ says nothing about us and everything about you.” “That you cannot conceive of us loving our neighbors so much that we would actually do something for them.” 162266720
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Evolution seems to favor eusociality though. Wolves beat out cats as apex predators almost everywhere. Ants are super social wasps. Termites are super social cockroaches. Maybe the aliens don't talk to us until we become a planet-wide hive. We wouldn't look to have conversations with skin cells. 030
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Short but it holds its own with the first two in the series. It’d be a great resource if you were looking to needle anyone mad about Nolan’s Odyssey.goodreads.comTroy (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #3)In this brilliant conclusion to his bestselling Mythos… 000
Reposted by Jason NeradDan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Sodom & Gomorrah is not about homosexuality #maklelan3321 youtu.be/dx3zLFej2Wkyoutu.beSodom & Gomorrah is not about homosexualityYouTube video by Dan McClellan 2616
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Do both, like that summer we had Deep Impact AND Armageddon. 030
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I agree Bouie is great! Stancil discourse, however, is fascinating to me. Like watching natural disaster footage. 0130
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I think he may have a brat kink and the entirety of this website is unwittingly participating in playtime. 0110
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I believe in BlueSky parlance this is called "Getting Stanciled." 5662
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Third time's the charm (as far as Bulgarian Empires go). 170
Jason Nerad @ourintrepidhero.bsky.social · 26/06/2026@chrislhayes.bsky.social Senior year of college, I was assigned Revolt of the Elites but never read it because I wanted to play GTA: San Andreas instead. I felt bad in retrospect because it seemed rather relevant to our current dystopia. Would reading your book count as penance? 000
