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John Sundman@jsundman.bsky.social |
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Biodigital novelist, mover of heavy objects, volunteer firefighter (retired), national treasure.
"Sundman figures it out!" : johnsundman.substack.com/
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Yeah, daily death tolls that matched 9/11 every single day there for a while and the guy who bumblefucked his way through the bloodbath is now trying to get his job back.
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Daniel Roberts
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BREAKING: Billionaire Donors and Celebrities ≠ Voters
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Ian Miles Schlong
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Trump could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and the press wouldn’t cover it
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Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙
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Legacy journalism has so many great ideas: ‐ Maybe let's hear some of Project 2025 out? - Here's a rich celebrity with some harebrained fanfic about how elections should work - Does the president have Secret Parkinson's!? (We ripped this off from John Rightwingratfuck shh don't tell them)
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John Sundman
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This is why the money boys and (a few) money girls are behind Trump. They really do believe that all wealth legitimately belongs to them.
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Sean
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lina khan is the absolute shit
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John Sundman
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I had to google a bit to figure out who these people are but now wish I had those 6 minutes back. The world sure is full of all kinds of people, ain't it?
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John Sundman
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Middlebrow, middle aged white guys are the bane of this country & have ever been. Thank Christ I'm not one of them. I have nothing but contempt for those ass-clowns. By the grace of God I'm an old white guy. I know whereof I speak.
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Emma Evans
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I just want to beat Trump and whatever gets us there. If this is it, I'm on board. If it's something else I'm on board. I am on team beat Trump.
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Bolts
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“Slavery was not abolished... It evolved.” Prison labor is often referred to as the last frontier of slavery in the United States. While the 13th Amendment of 1865 formally abolished chattel slavery, it legally remained as a punishment for crime. boltsmag.org/colorado-pri...
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Critical Nostalgia
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Let this be a balm upon your timeline. Blessed are the furry. Blessed are the vore.
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Paperback Paradise
@paperbackparadise.bsky.social
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Book
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John Sundman
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Fuck.
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Lawrie
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This, please, pay attention
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Angie Wang
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OMG.
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Max’s Dad
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate."
news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...
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eva
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okay where can i download the leaked data
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John Pfaff
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Pre-existing conditions bans: insurers reserved right to limit a person’s insurability if they had certain illnesses prior to getting insured. You know what completely innocent NICU babies are? Giant clusters of pre-existing conditions. The most vulnerable, the most innocent, the most uninsurable.
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Karl Bode
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the FCC under the leadership of Carr is also 100% going to dismantle net neutrality and telecom oversight, and levy a multi-billion dollar tax on tech companies (that you'll pay for) to fund fiber connections you'll never actually get (not that anybody cares about telecom policy anymore)
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Anna Orridge
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That, and, bluntly, humiliation. Derail them in any way you can. This is not a tournament, and below the belt is absolutely fine in the case of people who want to wipe out our neighbours.
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John Sundman
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Sign up for a newsletter; get a free book. This promo includes my illustrated dystopian phantasmagoria The Pains, abt a fight for decency in a world run by fascist theocrats & libertarian transhumanist techbros. "Orwell's 1984, as told by Philip K. Dick." 💙📚 #sciencefiction #
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John Sundman
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Free books. Sign up for an author's newsletter, get a free novel. This promo includes my hackertastic nano-bio-cyberpunk Biodigital: A novel of technopotheosis. books.bookfunnel.com/sci-fi-fanta... 💙📚#sciencefiction
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John Sundman
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There were some things that irked me a bit about that book, but Damn!, it was right on the money in so, so many ways.
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Max Kennerly
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Among these, I always get stuck on the Senate filibuster. It did not exist in any form while the Framers were alive. The current form, in which a Senator can stop a bill permanently without doing anything, did not exist until the 1970s. But it's treated as sacrosanct.
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John Sundman
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I haven't seen Mother's Day but I did once hang out for a couple of days with "Billy Ray McQuade" just after he had finished the shoot. My Clowntown 4 is The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. Or any movie by Greenaway.
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John Sundman
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He was one of those macho types, couldn't wait half a minute for the step ladder that had been radio'd for. If he had fallen with that fucking saw it would not have been pretty, but no harm, no foul, I guess. I should tell you about that 'Bumpy Road' fire sometime. It's a pretty funny story. 2/2
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John Sundman
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I had to look up 'Molly Meldrum' and I don't understand what he has to do with your story, but all's well. I once saw a firefighter in full gear stand on a swivel chair to get at the ceiling with a saw. There was fire in attic above, but it wasn't too bad. 1/2
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John Sundman
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Ted Chiang is pretty much always right about everything.
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🏳️⚧️ The Josie Zone
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The quotes from sf writer Ted Chiang are GOLD
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John Sundman
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You have not addressed my point about the aspect of patriarchal religious fundamentalism pervading U.S. Christian nationalism, and your condescension is insufferable. But our political goals are pretty much aligned. I wish you well. Cheerio.
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John Sundman
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Tinnitus does suck and I'm glad that you got some relief from it. But am I a bad man for laughing at the image of you going at the alarm with a cricket bat?
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John Sundman
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I'm not trying to argue, I'm just trying to get an accurate fix on the true nature of the fascism we're confronting. It's not exactly Hitlerian Nazism with the Aryan blood purity and all that. It's a new, US-grown species. All cancers are alike but they're not all identical. I'll stop now.
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John Sundman
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Racist white people are the core of MAGA. Agreed. Evangelical Christianity took off after Brown v Board of Education, Christian academies, etc. Agreed. But somewhere in Massachusetts there's a Christian evangelical male-supremecist homophobic POC MAGA guy who's going to cancel-out my vote.
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John Sundman
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OK, bro. Whatever you say.
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John Sundman
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That's true. But it has morphed & grown since then is all I'm saying. I'm no scholar on such things but it seems to me that patriarchy, while not quite as important as white supremacy, is an important component of Christian nationalism in 2024. That, and heteronormativity.
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John Sundman
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I'm not your dude, Brian.
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John Sundman
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OK, fine. We're in agreement. You don't have to explain it to me, I get it. But if you're discounting the importance of Christian nationalism, then maybe we're not completely in agreement.
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John Sundman
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I don't deny your premise. but that "Christian" "Evangelical" shit has a lot to do with it also. Those people are irredeemably fucked up. They would vote for a Black MAGA Christian con-artist preacher over Joe Biden, I have no doubt.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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The fact that qualified, capable candidates with normal flaws are having trouble with a gold-plated tin pot dictator and convicted felon is not a reflection on the candidates; it is a reflection on the electorate. White people are outrageously racist. That’s it. A smidge less racism and we’d win.
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John Sundman
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Looks like Walter White has been tasting his own crystal.
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John Sundman
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You are the one who knocks, is that what you're saying?
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Jay Willis
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IMPORTANT: The website for Jonathan Mitchell's sock puppet org suing Northwestern for "bias against white men" is an open submission form asking for "evidence of race or sex preferences at any university you've been associated with." Just FYI! fasorp.org
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Bilbo Yaga
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NYC Dept of Health tweets from July 9. Both are reasons to wear an n95 in public. Not just in NYC. COVID, pollution, and climate change are everywhere. Covid and air pollution can cause cumulative damage and disability that will make you more vulnerable to heatwaves and other climate effects.
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Benjamin Dreyer
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The number of writers who, apprised that the quote they found at BrainyQuote and want to use as an epigraph is a bit of refrigerator door wisdom that was not in fact written by Voltaire, Emerson, or Mrs. Parker, will still insist on using the quote, with the attribution, is far more than zero. 1/
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John Sundman
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Imagine their surprise when they discover that all refrigerator door wisdom is properly attributed to Mary Oliver.
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Mark Shore
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I'm waiting for the angry ghost of Ben Franklin to appear. "When I said 'a republic, if you can keep it' I didn't mean losing it to Donald Fucking Trump."
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John Sundman
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I've never met Hillis but I do know the guy who married his ex-fiancée — and that same fiancée, actually. Lovely people. The guy was my boss for a couple of years at one of the best jobs I ever had.
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John Sundman
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I just spent 15 minutes on google because I confused Danny Elfman with Danny Hillis but I couldn't remember Hillis' last name. If you know who Hillis is without googling, I'd like to know you, because you're the kind of reader who might like my novels. 1/2
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John Sundman
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I enjoyed this.
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