Reposted by John FrancisNigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 8hThank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt 222229331
Reposted by John Francismallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 8hwhat the fuck? the right lost *Third Way*? 5664111
Reposted by John FrancisErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 14hA thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters. 121209382
Reposted by John FrancisT.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts." 151585319
Reposted by John FrancisJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026okay, strong closing message 31902109
Reposted by John FrancisPhoebe78 conetits @funkjunkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026sorry, i'm sorry, i'm trying to delete it 541604310
Reposted by John Francisgamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible. 4420921205
Reposted by John FrancisA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hard to imagine what that would be like 23173431216
Reposted by John FrancisRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Man you ever just get lost in absolute wonderment at the invention of PrEP within our lifetimes? Like that's insane, right, how far treatment and prevention for HIV has come? 1030820
Reposted by John FrancisBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"So many people are coming to us who have never come to the food bank before. It used to be people who were working hourly-wage jobs. Now we see salary employees." Maybe we should measure the "strength" of the economy not by the stock market but by the length of the line at our local food bank? 314661
Reposted by John FrancisChristopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Peter Thiel is lashing out at the pope because he is Thiel’s worst fear. Leo deals in a currency he doesn’t understand. There’s no election, no impeachment, no indictment, no deportation order, no tariff that touches him. His authority comes from somewhere Thiel has no instrument to reach.thelettersfromleo.com“A Useful Idiot for the Chinese Communists” — Peter Thiel Attacks Pope Leo XIV for the Third TimeThe billionaire who bankrolled JD Vance’s Senate race, and whom Vance credits with reopening the door to his faith, went after the American pope again on Thursday in Berlin. The vice president has sai... 21302109
Reposted by John FrancisAlex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Daniel has eyes on literally every county in every state, so you should trust the curation here and bookmark this: 010334
Reposted by John FrancisAlex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released. 7437561243
Reposted by John FrancisOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Most riveting thing I've seen all week 382112593028
Reposted by John FrancisParis Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 1633421481
Reposted by John FrancisSahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Days after the NFL fined him for wearing Hind Rajab’s name, Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair returned to the field with another Palestinian child on his eye black: 8-year-old Wafaa Akila. Wafaa was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza on September 6 — her first day of school. 81346323
Reposted by John FrancisBAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026MUCH RESPECT TO PEOPLE NICER THAN ME 2891623362
Reposted by John FrancisBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.washingtonpost.comParis said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes. 627580
Reposted by John FrancisQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“It’s all Covid” thesis undefeated 619619
Reposted by John FrancisBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Remember this one? “Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom.” The most efficient travellers are us on bikes. Proven science via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social #CityMakingMathscientificamerican.comThe Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a BikeA famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom 5498142
Reposted by John FrancisProfessionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched. 872688839
Reposted by John FrancisDoc Impossible @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It also supports the hypothesis of distributed cognition, which argues that what we imagine to he thinking is actually a whole-body electrochemical process, far exceeding the boundaries of what we imagined to be the brain, rather than something that just happens in your noggin. 1777265
Reposted by John FrancisBryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x 65250599
Reposted by John FrancisBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves! 7866841027
Reposted by John FrancisBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026🚨🚨🚨 Sub-30% presidential approval alert 🚨🚨🚨 1413801585
Reposted by John FrancisEndless Mike @squirrelsquirrel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It is right and just to constantly talk about how much things were *supposed* to cost if AI shitheads weren't constantly making everything worse 2749061863
Reposted by John FrancisBUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026NC State called The Aristocrats 733928
Reposted by John Francismattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/05/2026saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :) 1475802316
Reposted by John FrancisRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's vastly more comforting to believe in an imminent robot apocalypse than the truth: the things that will destroy us are extensions of the unsexy but obvious problems all around us. We are not doomed in one grand way, but a thousand petty small ways. 803181568
Reposted by John FrancisWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/09/2026If AI kills a lot of people, *this* is how it'll happen. AI won't do it, humans will do it, because they stupidly regard LLM output as gold-plated.cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 23110
Reposted by John FrancisDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Happy PARK(ing) Day to all who observe. 0388
Reposted by John FrancisGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18/09/2026this admin is not going to like the outcome of denying access because access is the only thing they have to offer 646146
Reposted by John FrancisRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Toxicologist here. If you have a working liver and kidneys then you are already “detoxing.” Supplement use is one of the leading causes of liver and kidney failure. The only thing you’re getting rid of when you fall for these predatory wellness grifts is your money. 20691260
Reposted by John FrancisAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio. 16637111036
Reposted by John FrancisDave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When these hidden background assumptions are exposed people get angry because doing so threatens the psychological comfort and shared social stability that holds their reality together. Exposing the Big Other pulls back the curtain on the fundamental illusions people rely on to feel safe and normal. 1876
Reposted by John FrancisSickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 17/09/2026THE 1998 CADILLAC GOPHEARSE IS FOR SALE ONLY 3,000 BUCKS 36588124
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