John Harrold's avatar

John Harrold

@abumirchi.com

61 followers 248 following 565 posts

I like math, I make drugs.


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

@volts.wtf Is there a good feed for energy policy here?

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

The literal alternative is a president who stays up all night watching Fox news for policy cues and to fuel his grievances as he posts through the scandal of the day.

0 replies 0 reposts 5 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

If you click on any album/ep there is a link to the whole catalog just below the album/ep purchase details it says " Buy Digital Discography for $40". It's a really good deal. 71 albums/eps. It took forever to download.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

I was on bandcamp to buy an album and I noticed that I could get all the albums from the record label for like $40. Evidentally the label went out of business. It's FDH Records

fdhrecords.bandcamp.com

1 replies 0 reposts 2 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

I’m not from California. I moved here in 2013, and I really don’t know any of these things.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

Sure that might explain you but I grew up in Arkansas.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

This is really nice.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


Reposted by John Harrold

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis's avatar Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
[ View ]

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

27 replies 466 reposts 1483 likes


Reposted by John Harrold

Mike Masnick's avatar Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social
[ View ]

Did the NY Times opinion section suggest Trump should drop out given that he couldn't get through half a sentence that was (1) actually in response to the question asked or (2) truthful?

20 replies 65 reposts 259 likes


Reposted by John Harrold

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
[ View ]

website needs more rocksteady fans, if you’re one of them, local radio here has a fantastic rocksteady show on saturdays followed by an excellent soul show

6 replies 6 reposts 44 likes


Reposted by John Harrold

John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

I live in California. He seems to be a generic left of center politician.

1 replies 0 reposts 3 likes


Reposted by John Harrold

John Dellaporta's avatar John Dellaporta @johndellaporta.bsky.social
[ View ]

A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

71 replies 1215 reposts 3744 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

I’m sure the normally contrarian tech bros will be totally amenable to this take.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


Reposted by John Harrold

The Onion's avatar The Onion @theonion.com
[ View ]

"I keep meaning to get around to it, but the month is almost over and I still haven’t screamed, ‘You’re a groomer!’ at the cashiers in this place."

6 replies 98 reposts 660 likes


Reposted by John Harrold

Tristan Snell's avatar Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social
[ View ]

Joe Biden has one subpar debate, and the New York Times calls for him to drop out. Donald Trump got convicted of 34 felonies, and the New York Times said nothing.

12 replies 77 reposts 294 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

I think I saw From Here to Eternity a long time ago, when I was a kid, but I don't remember it. Romance is a big market, and I'm guessing you're writing from some kind of personal experience? Do you set writing quotas for yourself?

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

I'm trying to think about southern rural crime/noir. Have you read Souther Gods from John Jacobs? Would it be something like that?

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

If you're trying to build an audience like that, I think that John Scalzi is a good model. He puts himself out there, but not his entire self. I don't think he misrepresents himself, but I do think it's measured.

2 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

Yeah this is what I was talking about. You know it's OK to take money from those folks. If you feel guilty you can donate part of it to something like the Bridgid Alliance.

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

What kind of writing do you do?

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

"Drugs, firearms and martyrdom are a dangerous combination" Someone should tell this guy about the founding of the country. As I understand it they were all drunks, keen on militias, and were all about dying for liberty.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


Reposted by John Harrold

ex-Lethality Jane's avatar ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social
[ View ]

Fuck all your doomposting. No one who has ever accomplished anything did it by giving up and whining that there was nothing to do, the bad guys won and we are all doomed. Defeatism is death.

28 replies 175 reposts 810 likes


Reposted by John Harrold

Andy Craig's avatar Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social
[ View ]

This has been an absurd little digression they both kept coming back to, to pick out just one tid-bit from this smorgasbord of national shame.

0 replies 1 reposts 3 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

Or how about this. Can you suggest a site for good reviews on heat pump dryers?

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

I opened up CNN to watch and there was a anchorperson talking about this like a sports commentator. I just closed the window. I cannot deal with this.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


Reposted by John Harrold

rahaeli 's avatar rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social
[ View ]

I keep seeing people today say "these labeler implosions just prove that Bluesky needs a T&S team". Folks: Bluesky has a T&S team. @aaron.bsky.team runs it. They've gotten incredibly fast at handling issues. I've seen sub-5-minute responses on some of my reports.

8 replies 112 reposts 548 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

I for one would like to read the self evaluation of SCOTUSs annual goals.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

I'm here because it just feels right in terms of the general discourse, the types of people it attracts, the way the app works. Honestly if all the folks I follow on Twitter who focus on Ukraine came here, I'd have no reason to go there.

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

God bless @aaron.bsky.team. T&S is a thankless job. No matter what they do, no one will be happy or satisfied. In general everyone has opinions about the jobs of others, but damn if it isn't always much harder when you're the one doing it. It applies to everything but to T&S more acutely so.

0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

I thought I was pretty generous with door dash and pizza delivery folks, but now I realize that I've seriously underestimated the effects of inflation.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

This position that AI will save us seems more like a religious belief than a rational assessment of what is likely to happen.

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

This is a good point.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


Reposted by John Harrold

kilgore trout's avatar kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social
[ View ]

run a coup attempt in america and the supreme court is like whoa hang on that might be fine give us several months

8 replies 71 reposts 473 likes


John Harrold's avatar John Harrold @abumirchi.com
[ View ]

☝️ This me! I don't answer unrecognized phone calls, I'm nervous about the election, and I vote in every election.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes


Reposted by John Harrold

Hal Duncan's avatar Hal Duncan @halduncan.bsky.social
[ View ]

amazing how you can just... arrest the leader of a failed coup??? immediately??? what kind of sorcery is this???