Jonathan David

Soft pitch for a Heated Rivalry adjacent series called Martial Hearts.

Thanks for taking us with you for all these years, Aunt Catherine. I hope at the end of the rainbow what you find is more precious than a pot of gold.

Bet he loves that AI generated country slop though.

I need to start playing D&D either way more carefully or way less carefully.

If I steal something from you, sell it to someone else, and they give it to their child, who owns it?

Their buddy tried helping everybody and got crucified for it. They wear his jersey but they don't go to bat.

I guess if you hold up a mirror, people will say to you what they can't admit they're saying to the mirror. That's brutal. I think the precise opposite of you. I'm continually impressed by your clarity, empathy, and fairness. You have not become like your oppressors. Nothing is more impressive.

Dealer angry about cards he foisted on the player? That must be the white race card.

A busload of white hockey players died by accident and we wept openly, held vigils, and raised 15 million in support. Meanwhile we spent 100+ years shovelling indigenous children into church prisons disguised as schools and the best we can do is say oops sorry but no you can't have your land back.

Where was that guy 248 years ago? He could have talked those rowdy colonists into staying off of Britain's list.

"If there are 10 bigots & you're cool with them, there are 11 bigots."

This this this this this. There is no halfway with prejudice. If we aren't standing up, we're lying down. The loudest voices for prejudice count on the rest of us staying quiet. Peace is not the same as quiet. Be loud.

Compromise is what you do when deciding what restaurant to eat at, not when it comes to choosing leaders that will fight for the most vulnerable.

I will not compromise when it comes to the lives of trans people, homeless folks, and the like.

Don’t ask me why I won’t settle. Ask why you will.

This.

* deturd

"At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted...all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted." @ericidle.bsky.social

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

I was photographing a gallery event one hot summer night, getting staff shots out on the crowded sidewalk, when two individuals walked by from opposite directions: K-OS, and a skunk. I said "Love the albums, watch out," then did my best not to get sprayed. They both kept going.

Haha basically my goal in life, cause a skypause in the skywalk.

Juneteenth tells us more about America than any of its founding documents. 160 years after "emancipation" Adriana Smith was forcibly used as an incubator by the state, then thrown away. America is braindead. Should we keep it on life support to see what comes out, or should we let it die?

I really appreciate this reminder. You too, benji.

Nine minutes, now five years removed.

George Floyd should still be here. But America.

People should have learned a lesson. But America.

I shouldn’t be crying typing this on a Sunday. But America.

400 years summarized in nine minutes. Because America.

Rest in Peace, brother George.

Sinners is everything and everybody knows it. Beautiful and ugly, tender and sexy, reverent and outlaw, homage and original. Watch out Hollywood vampires, the sun is rising.

An individual "known to police" committed a willing act of unbelievable violence against them. He murdered their families. He orphaned their children. They could have chosen revenge and no one would have blamed them. They chose restraint. Support this community. Donate to these survivors.

In the midst of grieving for and with the Filipino community of Vancouver, can we, their neighbours, take a moment to appreciate what it says about them that they did not immediately tear the suspect to pieces?

If my numbers are correct,
More people with the name Russell Brand have been arrested this year for sex crimes than trans people.

Bully from the Goonies as mum, a funhouse mirror as dad, Matt Gaetz as baby.

Eddie Murphy as mum + JK Rowling as dad = Dave Chappelle as baby.

Kind of you to say. Likewise. Writing about it is a kind of personal archeology, don't you think? It doesn't change anything, but there's a kind of completion in understanding how it got us to where we are.

Weekend At Bernie's except it's American democracy.

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.