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Jeremy Bornstein @socle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Before I moved to Melbourne, I looked around the net to see if I could find anything interesting going on with shakuhachi. I discovered that there was one guy--David Brown--who was making beautiful wooden ones, and not only that, he also taught aikido.

David Brown and Jeremy, in David's house, talking

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MaskTogetherAmerica @togetherwemask.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Michelle ( @cometyhour.bsky.social ) faced ragebait just for choosing to mask. What about you? It’s challenging to protect each other during the current COVID wave. What's your biggest challenge when it comes to masking alone? #MaskTogetherAmerica is here to support you! ❤️😷🩵

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Jeremy Bornstein @socle.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

For my partner's recent birthday, I wrote her this sonata for string quartet. It could benefit from some polish but I'm pretty happy with it at this point (and I think she has listened to it about 50 times so far). jeremy.org/music/2026/s...

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Jeremy Bornstein @socle.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In the tradition of my people, here's a new website that asks and answers an important question of the times. I like to think that this one advances the field a bit. hasithappenedyet.org

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Has It Happened Yet?

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Jeremy Bornstein @socle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

for some reason, i thought that the world needed an(other) introductory essay on structural mysogyny (written by a man). nevertheless, here it is (below). monastic.org/structural-m...

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Why Structural Misogyny Is Structural

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history
pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast
about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed
psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The
"known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis
White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale
Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television
and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing
wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked
whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether
his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but
he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from
his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this
interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think
that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself."

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from
the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into
ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten
a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further.
It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity
agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that,
but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person
who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the
statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had
a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the
U.S.

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Laura Kowalski Linden @samoart.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

U.S. CONGRESS WE DO NOT WANT WAR WE DO NOT WANT TO HEAR EXPLANATIONS WE WANT AN EMERGENCY MEETING OF CONGRESS WE WANT HIM IMPEACHED FOR UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTION WE WANT HIS DEMENTED ASS OUT NOW YOU HAVE MORE POWER THAN THE PRESIDENT. USE IT.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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Jeremy Bornstein @socle.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

IMNSHO, if you fuck with Nagi Maehashi you are basically going to hell.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

(HERE is the bench slap I've been looking for) HITTING THE DOCKET: In Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals DENIES the Trump Administration's request for an emergency stay pending appeal & DENIES its request for a writ of mandamus. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 25/03/2025

It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 04/03/2025

We put together a resource so you can track mask ban legislation and take action against it: www.stopmaskbans.com

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Stop Mask Bans

Take action to stop mask bans.

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𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖕𝖗𝖆𝖜𝖓 //- KOSA must be stopped. @winterwarpath.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Here's the statement posted by those who claimed responsibility for the fire: iaata.info/Salut-incend... In English and French, with alt-text.

Incendiary greeting to tesla
Published on 4 March 2025

There is now an acceleration of the fascist, patriarchal, ecocidary and colonialist project. As the elites multiply the Nazi salutes we decided to greet in our own way a tesla dealer in the night of 2 to 3 March 2025 at pleasure-of-touch.
We set fire to vehicles inside the enclosure using two gasoline cans. We wondered after the fact whether fireball plates would not have been a more effective way.

Faced with the strengthening of the neo-Nazi movement on a global scale, we are the anti-fascism that does not believe in the myth of democracy.

Faced with the current maleistic and transphobic offensive, we are a fragment of the fight against patriarchy.

Faced with the industrial devastation that is destroying the planet, we are the radical ecology that does not believe in technological solutions.

In the face of colonialism and white supremacism, in the face of poverty and widespread exploitation, we express our rejection in deed.

With this act, we are part of the call 'Welcome Spring, burns a tesla', to the international momentum that targets Tesla from Germany to the United States through the Netherlands, and more broadly to anarchist conflict.

We support Louna, charged in the fight against the A69 and all the anarchist prisoners, the cavale and the fighters.

Let us continue the offensive against techno-fascists.

Salut incendiaire à tesla
Publié le 4 mars 2025

Il y a aujourd’hui une accélération du projet fasciste, patriarcal, écocidaire et colonialiste. Alors que les élites multiplient les saluts nazis nous avons décidé de saluer à notre manière un concessionnaire tesla dans dans la nuit du 2 au 3 mars 2025 à plaisance-du-touch.
Nous avons incendié des véhicules à l’intérieur de l’enceinte à l’aide de deux bidons à essence. Nous nous sommes demandé après coup si des plaques d’allume-feu n’auraient pas été un moyen plus efficace.

Face au renforcement du mouvement néonazi à l’échelle mondiale, nous sommes l’antifascisme combatif qui ne croit pas au mythe de la démocratie.

Face à l’offensive masculiniste et transphobe actuelle, nous sommes un fragment de la lutte contre le patriarcat.

Face aux ravages industriels qui détruisent la planète, nous sommes l’écologie radicale qui ne croit pas aux solutions technologiques.

Face au colonialisme et au suprémacisme blanc, face à la misère et à l’exploitation généralisée, nous exprimons notre refus en acte.

Par cet acte nous participons à l’appel "Accueille le printemps, crame une tesla", à l’élan international qui cible tesla de l’allemagne aux états-unis en passant par les pays-bas, et plus largement à la conflictualité anarchiste.

Nous apportons notre soutien à Louna inculpée dans le cadre de la lutte contre l’A69 et à tous les prisonniers anarchistes, à celles en cavale et celleux qui se battent.

Poursuivons l’offensive contre les techno-fascistes !

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2600 - The Hacker Quarterly @2600.com · 04/02/2025

There is nothing illegal about naming inexperienced people currently accessing sensitive government data at the behest of Elon Musk. They are: Akash Bobba Edward Coristine Luke Farritor Gautier Cole Killian Gavin Kliger Ethan Shaotran This is a major security breach. SPREAD

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.

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Jeremy Bornstein @socle.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A friend who works for NASA in an engineering capacity was supposed to go speak to a different friend's daughter's "Women in STEM" high school lunch group. The NASA speakers bureau forbade it because "it sounds too much like a DEI project." This is a rerun of Nazi Germany and I'm not kidding.

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Diceweaver @diceweaver.com · 11/02/2025

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

It's really embarassing losing our democracy to people this fucking weird and gross.

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Jeremy Bornstein @socle.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

homemade hot sauce and cultured ghee

bottle full of yellow sauce on the left, jar full of yellow ghee on the right

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

oceanbornfoundation.org/stop-octopus... Block construction of the wold’s largest octopus farm

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/11/2024

AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride. "They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."

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Jeremy Bornstein @socle.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

For those of you not on #mastodon, I invite you to follow me here at @jeremy.jeremy.org.ap.brid.gy. That account should have all of the main posts. If you are on mastodon, I'm now @jeremy@jeremy.org, which lives on a server I wrote myself with my own ten fingers and some portion of my brain.

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Jeremy Bornstein @socle.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

It is possibly relevant that the author of this wonderful piece concentrating on violin appears to be the granddaughter of Yehudi Menuhin, one of the world's best-regarded violinists ever.

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Jeremy Bornstein @socle.bsky.social · 08/05/2024

It seems my Mastodon posts will be bridged here at @jjb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, so if you want to follow me from here, that's the current best way. The bridge doesn't let me-there follow you-here though, unless you affirmatively turn it on, so not as useful as it could be.

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Jeremy Bornstein @socle.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

More frequent and interesting posting from me is likely to be found at mastodon.social/@jjb. (I prefer platforms which are not controlled by a single corporate entity.) Here mostly because I was suffering a dearth of posts by @greatdismal.bsky.social.

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920 Posts, 501 Following, 372 Followers · "the New King of Deadpan" (Esquire) and "an advanced composite material which also has interesting civilian applications" (Benjy Feen)

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