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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

For first time parents who are given Nancy Tillman books, it's a real whiplash when you see the bottom right corner of this book and look up the guy.

The cover of "It's time to sleep, my Love", which was illustrated by Nancy Tillman (and has her name displayed prominently), and in the bottom right of the book cover it says "written by Eric Metaxas".

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It’s my understanding that she sees and approves. Nodding down to all of us.

A meme someone posted that says “Gillian Anderson made me gay”, being quote tweeted by Gillian Anderson saying “Always thrilled to be of service”

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

RTP's Elion-Hitchings Building. Gone now, forever creepy.

The inside of a retro-style brutalist building, with red carpets and plain concrete walls. The walls jut out at odd angles, forming trapezoids and parallelograms throughout the building.

The outside of the brutalist building, which consist of several honeycomb pods stacked against each other in an irregular manner.

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

You can turn them off for everyone in the main app by by managing the preferences in the main app in settings-> content and media -> following feed preferences.

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

There’s a reason it feels older (also it was reposted here after originally being posted on Twitter even before this)

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

My favorite bit from football friends was “Wanna Monica (by Billverclear)” not because the song itself was funny, but because literally every other person on the podcast was groaning and telling you it was a terrible idea, and you went all out on it.

And I think even when we're being crass, the joke is almost about how we're being crass, not just that we're being crass. If you can appreciate the distinction there, that's like a big thing for me.

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

“Haha he says that now but at 2 it’s really going to start coming down” 5pm:

A very light dusting of snow with totally drivable roads

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Neve is HELPING with the presents.

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Yo I’m getting spammed from your campaign again

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Tag yourself, I'm a person held prisoner in a sewer.

A sewer tunnel. On the right side is a metal gate with people on the other side of it.

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Really, I just did it and this is what I got. If you're going to cite research, then cite it. Don't rely on the bullshit machine. Don't give summaries that might or might not represent the work. Don't go cherry picking data either (try to find contrary studies!).

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

These externalities can be easily tweaked.

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

What is the current worldwide fertility rate though, and how long of a window are we talking about? I think when I hear about population collapse (by, say, Musk), it’s hard to square that with this graph.

Worldwide population estimated showing a slow growth that plateaus around the year 2100

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Reminds me of this Mattie Lubchanski comic

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

No, in this very thread which you should read through. Also I’m not interested in splitting hairs about whether this was “technically” spam. It’s true that it “may” not have been irrelevant to someone, but it was irrelevant to me.

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Also, for reference. It’s not “cut off” so much as “impossible to screenshot the entire thing in one go”. Since you’re unfamiliar with the genre, here’s the whole thing.

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

“No spam texts!” ::5 hours later::

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Jeffries is bad at communicating. The guy and sounds, and writes, like Principal Skinner. The guy doesn't speak directly and he puts in too many rhetorical concessions. Here is a better statement he could have given, where I've simply removed the unnecessary crap he puts in.

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Jon Russell @watchreader.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I generally like Ezra Klein but wow this is an embarrassing thing to write. Like, you asked the model, known for making stuff up, for information that you didn't check? You do this multiple times a day?? You asked the model what it needed, it said something weird, and you take that at face value??