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Jared Johnson is taking it one day at a time

@jaredparker.bsky.social

Former Christian fundie trying to redirect his idealism toward more humane ends. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. John Hodgman once told me I was just daddin’ it up. he/him

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I'm working on a country song called ”I'll drink, you drive”

Something something alive, that's what I think,
Ju-ust take my keys,
You drive,

I'll drink.

16.08.2025 18:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

lol

19.08.2025 21:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Asparagus makes EVERYONE's urine smell weird, but NOT EVERYONE can smell that smell. For years, scientists thought that asparagus made only SOME PEOPLE's urine smell, because some folks reported that it didn't. This is an example of why it's so important to ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION.

19.08.2025 01:03 — 👍 345    🔁 44    💬 13    📌 9

once again I will remind people that the structure of unions and labor relations we have in this country was a compromise because the alternative involved firebombing the houses of the executives

19.08.2025 16:46 — 👍 1240    🔁 430    💬 40    📌 16
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Meet the Livian Smurf EV: It's adorable and only costs $5,000 How about an electric Smurf-Mobile as your next ride? The Livian Smurf EV looks like it’s straight out of a...

Something I believe very strongly is cars should go meep meep and not vroom vroom electrek.co/2025/08/18/m...

18.08.2025 17:27 — 👍 2676    🔁 255    💬 65    📌 67

rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat

19.08.2025 14:52 — 👍 5209    🔁 719    💬 65    📌 10

Thank you. I am not a TL fan but it's really something how people seem to go out of their way to read her in the absolute least charitable way possible.

People read those as "Nazis are better than leftists" posts but they're actually "Nazis are better [at recruiting] than leftists" posts.

19.08.2025 15:05 — 👍 30    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 1

I do think she interprets the negative attention she receives from communicating poorly as a signal that she’s doing something right, though, and it only encourages her to keep generating engagement by being deliberately obtuse. I don’t assume she’s doing it “on purpose” though

19.08.2025 15:18 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is in the replies and it demonstrates a real issue which is if you find profundity from an AI, you’re responding to something profound a human being wrote that was vacuumed up and what ends up happening is you thank AI and not only don’t thank the person, you have no idea they were involved

19.08.2025 15:02 — 👍 2514    🔁 822    💬 33    📌 29

i have had to calm a UK parent who'd heard scary stories about mutilation of children (!) and was worried about their nonbinary kid and what to do

what got through was "you will either be your kid's first support or you'll be their first bully, those are the only two options"

it worked out :-)

19.08.2025 12:09 — 👍 265    🔁 49    💬 2    📌 3

Cc @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

19.08.2025 12:28 — 👍 102    🔁 19    💬 6    📌 1

The missing seventh image here is the shape of the gerrymandered districts

19.08.2025 03:27 — 👍 100    🔁 27    💬 3    📌 1

ah, yes, time for bed. time to shut my mind off and drift into slum-

my brain: "SO MUCH TO DO SO MUCH TO SEE SO WHAT'S WRONG WITH TAKING THE BACK STREETS YOU'LL NEVER KNOW IF YOU DON'T GO YOU'LL NEVER SHINE IF YOU DON'T GLOW"

19.08.2025 03:29 — 👍 130    🔁 10    💬 9    📌 1

furious not that yglesias is so stupid but that he's paid so much money to be stupid. I could be stupid for money. I could be so stupid

18.08.2025 20:02 — 👍 2709    🔁 345    💬 51    📌 20

a theory ive been working on -- that what i call "the ruling class" does not have the best interests of what we can call "the working class" at heart -- sadly seems to be being proven true

19.08.2025 01:18 — 👍 1292    🔁 130    💬 41    📌 3

just can not shake the feeling that democratic leadership really believes they are just a couple votes away from the halcyon times of enjoying senate softball and seersucker suit day

19.08.2025 03:10 — 👍 8244    🔁 1115    💬 251    📌 84

an old man in pedal pushers who likes pierogis and can’t quite remember his dead son and another who shuffles around the big house and really just wants to watch tv and show you his hats

19.08.2025 03:40 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Archie Comics presents Plato’s Republic

19.08.2025 03:44 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

this guy just has incredibly good vibes. imagine walking into a party and this fish is giving you the full dangerfield from across the room

19.08.2025 03:47 — 👍 266    🔁 28    💬 19    📌 2

I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.

19.08.2025 03:16 — 👍 11397    🔁 2014    💬 174    📌 55
Me watching some high fantasy shit: I would simply not be corrupted by the magical object. If it is actively harming you why don't you just put it down. Idiot
Me receiving psychic damage 23 hours a day from my phone: Ouuughhhh
OOUUuuwwwwaaaaaa
ooaaaaghuuuuuhhhowwgahhhhh guuuuuwah

Me watching some high fantasy shit: I would simply not be corrupted by the magical object. If it is actively harming you why don't you just put it down. Idiot Me receiving psychic damage 23 hours a day from my phone: Ouuughhhh OOUUuuwwwwaaaaaa ooaaaaghuuuuuhhhowwgahhhhh guuuuuwah

i think about this tweet every single day

18.08.2025 03:35 — 👍 4895    🔁 1730    💬 8    📌 27

Sometimes I’m scolded for sounding like a pack of colts

19.08.2025 02:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To me, when that happened and electeds across the Democratic party did not get in formation, it became crystal clear that they would not even be moved by a self-preservation instinct. So here we now are.

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The 504 Protests and the Black Panther Party – Disability Social History Project

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

19.08.2025 01:43 — 👍 1857    🔁 718    💬 18    📌 24
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This is one of the best videos I've seen in a week or so. The line delivery on that yt woman 🤌🏿🤌🏿

18.08.2025 23:10 — 👍 362    🔁 102    💬 15    📌 30

Let's be generous, here, and assume that by the solar system Altman wants to put the sphere outside the orbit of Neptune, and we'll just exclude the kuiper belt entirely.

That would be a sphere with a diameter of 6 billion miles.

Let's assume that it has the thickness of an eggshell: .3mm thick.

19.08.2025 01:00 — 👍 1355    🔁 427    💬 63    📌 130

Guys, I say this as a lifelong fan of Science Fiction.

I think Science Fiction might have been a mistake.

We never should have let a man like this learn these words from us.

19.08.2025 01:39 — 👍 804    🔁 63    💬 9    📌 10

This little guy befriends Sarah and Hoggle in the version of Labyrinth I just remade in my head

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