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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)

@shengokai.blacksky.app
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Martial artist, motorcyclist, pragmatist, comics philosopher, queer phenomenologist. Assistant Prof @CSUN. Japanese philosophy, race, gender, disability, tech/AI. Inquiries: johnathan.flowers@csun.edu IRON LORD. Rider of the mind shaitan. He/Him/His 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Me, returning from yet another seven day suspension:
An image of Scorpion holding his katana at sei-gaedan with the text "I have risen from Hell to kill you."

The image represents the poster's return from an unjust seven day ban and his intention to read BlueSky moderation for filth, for all the good that it might do. 

To be clear, this post should not be taken to indicate that the author wishes any bodily harm towards BlueSky moderation as it is intended in a joking way. While it could be assumed that any reasonable person would recognize the humorous intent, given BlueSky Moderation's inability to discern context from posts, this disclaimer is necessary to prevent yet another suspension.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
So, apparently I got suspended from the main Bluesky PDS AGAIN. See the images below:
Hi,
We've reviewed a post on your account @shengokai.blacksky.app  and found it violates Bluesky's Community Guidelines on Respectful Discourse (https://bsky.social/about/support/community-guidelines#:~:text=Respectful%20Discourse). We create a safe space for discussion by prohibiting threats and content meant to scare or intimidate people.

For example:
 - Do not threaten others with death, serious harm, or express that others should be hurt or killed.
- Do not promote, glorify, or incite violence against individuals or groups.
- Do not share graphic violent content designed to shock, disturb, or intimidate others.
The following Post was removed:

> Fuck Gavin Newsom. He is unworthy of your vote, unworthy of your predictions about 2028, unworthy of the governorship. Grethor is not enough, I need this peta'Q drowned in the river of the damned.

Your post was classified as a Serious Violation, adding 4 strikes to your account. You now have 4 total strikes.

Because you reached 8 strikes, your account has been suspended for 7 days. You will be able to access your account again on 7th Oct, 2026.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Actually my favorite bad movie is this one, but it’s obscure as hell:
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
The iPhone 18 Pro has an amazing fucking camera.
A tortoiseshell kitten looking off in the distance. She is plotting mischief The same tortoiseshell kitten occupying her human’s jacket
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
A meme of John Wick loading what appears to be a Glock with the text "Guess it's time for the Butlerian Jihad." This represents the user's distaste for AI and its imposition into everything.

The user would also settle for a butlerian jihad led by judith butler against gender, but we will take what we can get.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Girls will be like "I know a place" and then take you here.
The entrance to the vault of glass. An ill-fated fireteam is approaching the entrance, having completed the plates puzzle, unaware that they will spend the next three hours (minimum) dealing with the vex.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
That’s pretty true of all naked streetfighter sportbikes. Even my Z.
A bright orange 2013 Kawasaki Z100.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
Look at this fucking thing.
A 2026 z1100. It is a naked, streetfighter style sport bike with black and gray fairings, green rims, and green frame accents
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
Fixed that for you.
An image of academic fields arranged by purity. in ascending order: sociologists, psychologists, biologists, chemists, physicists, and mathematicians furthest to the right. Underlying all of them are epistemological philosophers who appear to be supporting the whole thing.

While this is technically true, many fields owe their existence to philosophy or draw directly upon philosophy for its theories. The American Psychological Association, for example, used to meet concurrently with philosophy and William James and John Dewey were founding members.

That said, the argument about purity of fields is largely useless as fields developed to engage in inquiry into specific areas. To put them in competition is to fail to realize that we all can learn something from the other and that no one field has a claim to ultimate truth. Not even philosophy.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
For example, from the Anthropic website dated July 10, 2025:
Here's when and how to use Claude (or other AI tools) when applying to and interviewing with Anthropic. Where it makes sense, we invite you to use Claude to show us more of you: your unique perspective, skills, and experiences.

How to collaborate with Claude during each stage of our process

When applying (resume and application questions) Please create your first draft yourself, then use Claude to refine it. We want to see your real experience, but Claude can polish how you communicate about your work.

Example prompt: “Please review my resume and the job description. Identify the experiences I should highlight in my application responses that align most with the job requirements.”
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
The incredible irony about this isn’t so much that Anthropic is asking folks not to use shit it has created, it’s that Anthropic actually told applicants how to use AI in earlier guidance.
Anthropic, the company that made one of the most popular AI writing assistants in the world, requires job applicants to agree that they won’t use an AI assistant to help write their application. 

“While we encourage people to use AI systems during their role to help them work faster and more effectively, please do not use AI assistants during the application process,” the applications say. “We want to understand your personal interest in Anthropic without mediation through an AI system, and we also want to evaluate your non-AI-assisted communication skills. Please indicate 'Yes' if you have read and agree.”
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
An image of some large billed waterfowl with the text “may I be the first to say fuck this shit.”
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026
Me, upon seeing "Clanker Slur Debate" trending:
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
Academic freedom is not freedom from the consequences of shitty fucking inquiry nor is it freedom to be ignorant of the context in which you perform your inquiry. No inquiry is value neutral, nor can it escape from history as part of the material conditions that make inquiry possible.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
Me, logging on after my suspension:
An image of Scorpion from the 2011 Mortal Kombat movie wearing samurai armor with a hood and a mempo (face mask) holding his sword in a sei-gaedan stance with the text "I have risen from Hell to kill you."

The image is intended to poke fun at the still unknown reason for the user's suspension, and the idea that being offline is "hell." To be clear, for a great many people offline is hell, but this is the result of structures of oppression perpetuated by a powerful few.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
Lmao, they got me.
An image saying “account suspended” which is displayed when I click my profile in the standard BlueSky app
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
See, this is where you start verging onto asshole territory but I'll bite.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026
Additional Datapoint
Image of the Magic the Gathering Angel of Glory Rise card. Five colorless two white, four/six creature. Flying: when angel of glory's rise enters the battlefield, exile all zombies, then return all human creatures from your graveyard to the battlefield. "Justice isn't done until undeath is undone."
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026
The user cutting kiriage in 2018. There are some problems with the cut, namely his heel lifting off the ground, but everything else is generally correct. The cut is fast enough that the target has begun to fall after the user has cut through it.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026
I actually had this one in my drafts for months, but fuck it. The fact that I have not once been banned for threatening violence or for using abusive language should be taken as an indictment of the utter hypocrisy of BlueSky moderation or evidence that I possess the Mandate of Heaven.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 02/08/2026
A split frame of a black woman. On the left, she is saying "politics doesn't interest you. Why?" on the right she is saying "because you have no interest in changing a world that already suits you."
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026
Me, in class today:
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026
Some kind of tortoiseshell creature (it is a cat) mid yawn.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 22/07/2026
A queen in repose.
A tortoiseshell cat stretches out on the arm of a chair, happily asleep.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026
In Sephiroth’s case, he is contemptuous of his opponents. They’re beneath him. Like here:
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026
Now, from a combat perspective Sephiroth lets his opponents in too close for such a long sword but this is forgivable when your attacks can launch people across parking lots. Also, Sephiroth always interposes his blade between himself and his opponent’s even when it’s not necessary.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026
Since no one asked, Sephiroth actually uses his sword like a fucking sword. The fact that the Masamune is made of unobtainium and Sephiroth is supernaturally strong is what makes it work. Also, the shoulder check below is a big dick move.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026
This is a lightwhip.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 20/07/2026
When I stood for my dissertation defense, so many people sent me this and the linked XKCD. For reasons.
An image of a PhD candidate wielding a sword and saying "In conclusion, AAAAAA" as they attack their committee with a longsword.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
Some manner of bird accompanied by the text “look everybody, it’s some asshole with a worthless opinion.”
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 18/07/2026
So, I saw some kind of raptor at work yesterday. Just chilling.
Some sort of brown and white bird of prey surveying its domain. The same brown bird of prey at a distance.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 16/07/2026
Have you seen Terminator: Dark Fate? If not, might I interest you in this?
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 12/07/2026
Here’s an Aster.
A tortoiseshell cat mid yawn. The same tortie unconscious from petting.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 12/07/2026
Via Twitter:
A screenshot from Lindsey Graham's twitter which reads "Washington - The office of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) released the following statement.

"On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away from a brief and sudden illness. Senator Graham's family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period."
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 05/07/2026
Y’all want to see something cool?
A cutting board pre-sandingA cutting board after sanding but before oiling and conditioning. An oiled and conditioned cutting board
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 05/07/2026
Now, we get into some of the meat of Douglass writing, and some of the stuff that I think is most valuable, most prescient for our time. Naturally, it has to do with some tone policing.
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would, to day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 05/07/2026
This is an important note as Douglass turns to his very fucking audience to state the following:
But I fancy I hear some one of my audience say, it is just in this circumstance that you and your brother abolitionists fail to make a favorable impression on the public mind. Would you argue more, and denounce less, would you persuade more, and rebuke less, your cause would be much more likely to succeed. But, I submit where all is plain there is nothing to be argued. What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light? Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? That point is conceded already. Nobody doubts it. The slave-holders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 05/07/2026
Naturally, this is where I want to pick up. The following passage is among the more famous elements in Douglass speech, particularly insofar as it indicated his rejection of participating in the Fourth of July in the same way that white people did.
But, such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak today? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn you that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation whose crimes, towering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable ruin! I can today take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people!
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 16/06/2026
My measured thoughts on the officers involved, the department sheltering them, and the people who support them:
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 30/05/2026
An image from Bêlit, Queen of the Black Coast of Bêlit shouting “fight or die you slack jawed fools”
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