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Jason K Pargin, author

@jasonkpargin.bsky.social

Author of John Dies at the End, formerly David Wong of Cracked.com fame

28,719 Followers  |  350 Following  |  1,530 Posts  |  Joined: 01.05.2023  |  2.4214

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WASHINGTON (AP) β€” Judge dismisses cases against James Comey and Letitia James after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed.

24.11.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 6571    πŸ” 1235    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 301

Grok please jangle some shiny keys in front of my face. Nuance level zero

24.11.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1194    πŸ” 122    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 1

I've seen all sorts of instructions for how to turn off copilot on windows 11, but as an fyi, you can go into "add and remove programs" and just uninstall it. surprisingly, they let you do that. Does that remove every stupid ai thing? No idea, but in theory copilot is gone

23.11.2025 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 175    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
"Mariana Times" supports deporting Zohran Mamdani but

"Mariana Times" supports deporting Zohran Mamdani but

This account is based in India

This account is based in India

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

23.11.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 13719    πŸ” 3452    πŸ’¬ 404    πŸ“Œ 352
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This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year

21.11.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 15147    πŸ” 2367    πŸ’¬ 248    πŸ“Œ 154

this is very good journalism

22.11.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1094    πŸ” 161    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 0

The thing about Star Trek is that the majority of it has the crew spending most of the episode trying to figure out, through arguing and investigating, what's the right thing to do in a complicated situation and I don't think any shows do that now? Like in a Very Special Episode but not all the time

22.11.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

For every carefree, "Don't stress, things always work themselves out!" person there is at least one extremely anxious, detail-oriented, forward-thinking loved one or coworker who has spent years behind the scenes making sure things work out

22.11.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 333    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 6
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This is a good gift for someone you don’t have to interact with the rest of the year

22.11.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Heat pumps are the most efficiency heating technology ever invented.

That's because they harvest, compress and transport pre-existing heat from the air, the ground or the water.

Compared to a gas boiler heat pumps deliver ~4x more heat for each unit of energy inout.

21.11.2025 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2958    πŸ” 700    πŸ’¬ 176    πŸ“Œ 37
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We can't just eliminate all the bad guys: a holiday message.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Gz...

21.11.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5

That’s right hell yeah

21.11.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 398    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 3
Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
(New York Times) -- In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an interview that he personally instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to abandon its longstanding position that vaccines do not cause autism β€” a move that underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy and bend the health department to his will.
In an interview on Thursday explaining why the C.D.C.Β website now says the claim that vaccines do not cause autism is not β€œevidence-based,” Mr. Kennedy acknowledged that large-scale epidemiological studies of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccineΒ had found no linkΒ to autism, and that studies of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal had also shown no link.
But he cited gaps in vaccine safety science. He said he ordered the C.D.C. to change its guidance in part because high-quality large studies had not been conducted to examine a potential link between autism and other shots given in the first year of life. Those include the hepatitis B vaccine and a combination shot that protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough.

Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines By Sheryl Gay Stolberg (New York Times) -- In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an interview that he personally instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to abandon its longstanding position that vaccines do not cause autism β€” a move that underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy and bend the health department to his will. In an interview on Thursday explaining why the C.D.C.Β website now says the claim that vaccines do not cause autism is not β€œevidence-based,” Mr. Kennedy acknowledged that large-scale epidemiological studies of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccineΒ had found no linkΒ to autism, and that studies of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal had also shown no link. But he cited gaps in vaccine safety science. He said he ordered the C.D.C. to change its guidance in part because high-quality large studies had not been conducted to examine a potential link between autism and other shots given in the first year of life. Those include the hepatitis B vaccine and a combination shot that protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough.

NYT: RFK Jr personally ordered the change in the CDC website's language around vaccines and autism

My own editorial: I hope that RFK Jr is [redacted] until he [redacted].

21.11.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 673    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 14
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We can't just eliminate all the bad guys: a holiday message.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Gz...

21.11.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5

It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."

21.11.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3707    πŸ” 555    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 5

The month the Cybertruck was released I immediately saw two of them in my part of the city, always driven by the same two guys. I was shocked. "People are actually buying this thing!"

Almost two years later, I have never seen a third.

21.11.2025 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 388    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 8
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Kristen Bell, Malcolm McDowell, more had 'no knowledge' their voices would be used in Fox News Jesus podcast β€” Entertainment Weekly A representative for the

This is bizarre

apple.news/AHfALvDKsSY-...

21.11.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 449    πŸ” 98    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 9

lol come on

21.11.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2197    πŸ” 351    πŸ’¬ 131    πŸ“Œ 88
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Fucking Day: Fat Hen Farms 🌭 | 1900HOTDOG Get more from 1900HOTDOG on Patreon

I wrote about the fascinating ways people are using OF as a side hustle, including a guy who got famous on TikTok by working on his farm while having a huge penis. WARNING: We have censored the adult material but we can only censor it so much, so view in private:

www.patreon.com/posts/fuckin...

19.11.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
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Fucking Day: Fat Hen Farms 🌭 | 1900HOTDOG Get more from 1900HOTDOG on Patreon

I wrote about the fascinating ways people are using OF as a side hustle, including a guy who got famous on TikTok by working on his farm while having a huge penis. WARNING: We have censored the adult material but we can only censor it so much, so view in private:

www.patreon.com/posts/fuckin...

19.11.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5
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Interstellar Space Travel Will Never, Ever Happen It's basically impossible and they know it.

New column from me on why interstellar space travel will never, ever be a thing, and how it's kind of weird that they keep telling us otherwise:

jasonpargin.substack.com/p/interstell...

18.11.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 263    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 16
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The title of my next book, the 5th in the John Dies at the End series, has been leaked, by me. It will be called,

'THERE ARE NO GIANT CRABS IN THIS NOVEL: A Novel of Giant Crabs'

There is a free preview chapter in the paperback edition of I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom.

18.11.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 418    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 9
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Interstellar Space Travel Will Never, Ever Happen It's basically impossible and they know it.

New column from me on why interstellar space travel will never, ever be a thing, and how it's kind of weird that they keep telling us otherwise:

jasonpargin.substack.com/p/interstell...

18.11.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 263    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 16

Hot take: the Rian Johnson Benoit Blanc movies are more true to the spirit of Agatha Christie mysteries (smart, ensemble driven, all clues in plain sight, everyone confused about the detective's cultural background) than the Kenneth Branagh adaptations of actual Agatha Christie titles

18.11.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom [Pargin, Jason] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

The free preview chapter is at the end of this book's paperback edition, out today: www.amazon.com/Starting-Wor...

18.11.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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The title of my next book, the 5th in the John Dies at the End series, has been leaked, by me. It will be called,

'THERE ARE NO GIANT CRABS IN THIS NOVEL: A Novel of Giant Crabs'

There is a free preview chapter in the paperback edition of I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom.

18.11.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 418    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 9
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Part 1: How I Found Out Olivia had just returned from a reporting tripβ€”at least that’s what she told me it wasβ€”and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...

had me in the first half not gonna lie BUT IT DOMINATED THE FOURTH QUARTER www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

18.11.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 951    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 38
Screenshot from a Hallmark movie wherein a website called "The Search Engine" is displayed with a textbox reading "attractive missing woman New England"

Screenshot from a Hallmark movie wherein a website called "The Search Engine" is displayed with a textbox reading "attractive missing woman New England"

i love when people use search engines in movies but i love when people use search engines in hallmark movies most of all

16.11.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3184    πŸ” 575    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 26
BIGFEETS Episode 59 - AIMS vs The Cherokee Death Cat
YouTube video by 1-900-HOTDOG BIGFEETS Episode 59 - AIMS vs The Cherokee Death Cat

You can also watch @seanbaby.bsky.social, @brockway.bsky.social, and @jasonkpargin.bsky.social discuss how badly the AIMS team is losing to the Cherokee Death Cat on our YouTube channel! youtu.be/TT8QN9K81Xc

17.11.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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