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Johnny K

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A reliable source of clean burning lamp oil. On the run from whalers. Rinzai Zen Buddhist AnCom. MDiv. Birds are Dinosaurs. Collie protector. Piedmont Triad boy til the end, for better or worse. He/Him/Comrade

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*whispers* John Lennon would have been a Trump supporter if he had lived

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The gulf between one life and the next brings only sorrow and pain.

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I wish life was just the first level of Ecco the Dolphin where you're just swimming around with your pals seeing who can jump the furthest out of the water.

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Fundies really hate it when I point out their most deeply held beliefs only date to the 1870s.

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Moving slow (and that's being way more charitable than he deserves) is morally unacceptable when what you're moving slow on is genocide and mass starvation. How many deaths does it take until you're no longer okay with merely "moving slow"???

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The eternal dilemma between "having a quiet evening at home" and "making a series of escalating, incredibly stupid choices."

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Biden is harming his own re-election you doofus. Obviously the only rookie is you.

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Have the Harpers Letter signatories weighed in yet?

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The Orwellian idea of an "Antisemitism Awareness Act" to support the genocidal policies of the Israeli government is so grotesque that of course it passed the House. Brought to you by the same deadly partnership btw Evangelicals, the Zionist lobby, & the Dem/Repub parties that funds the genocide.

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If the moral arc of the universe actually bent toward justice Slavoj Zizek would have been eaten by a pack of otherwise super adorable and friendly wolves by now.

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Went into Alex Garland's Civil War with a lot of skepticism. Came out blown the fuck away. Phenomenal film.

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The folks at @thedailybeast.bsky.social asked me to review Jonathan Haidt's new book and I had some thoughts. The bad cherry-picked data is a problem. But the terribly confused and ignorant policy suggestions are way worse, and way more dangerous

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Every three months a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile in North Queensland.

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Hey bud, in the future you should probably not post stuff on the internet while mid-shart.

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And pedants will be insufferably pedantic and smug about it, as you've chosen to demonstrate for the class.

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me [on my deathbed]: but who will reticulate the splines when I am gone?

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an extrovert is mad at me for having a ton of mutual friends even though I'm a reclusive zen vagrant things are kinda swell atm, ngl

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Sometimes I think about the older Southie woman the press interviewed the day Whitey Bulger got arrested and when asked what she thought about his life of crime replied "Everybody needs an occupation." One of the few things that makes me miss my misbegotten early 20s in Boston.

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Ni No Kuni 2 is a cute and good action rpg that is very much helping me think better about the world and others while also checking out from the world and others as is sometimes necessary. The Joe Hisaishi score elevates an admittedly casual experience with a plot that knows not to try too hard.

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Nostalgia sucks. All it does is create false memories that wind up getting people killed.

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There's a certain type of dude who completely loses their shit when you say something like "I'm glad you're not my dad" and I would be lying if I said I didn't love saying this to those dudes.

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Disquieting the Protestants this St. Patrick's Day by interrupting a local Presbyterian church's service with "Come Out Ye Black and Tans"

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The Soviet Union has been gone for decades and nostalgia is the type of drug so powerful it gets people killed, so...way to stay shitty NYT.

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I have no idea why, but I just had a tremendous urge to build a time machine to go back in time and fist fight Isaac Newton.

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The oil for all this gaslighting has to come from somewhere, after all. /s

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I dunno why you need to wait - international aid organizations like the International Rescue Committee and Palestinians and others on the ground in Gaza have all come out and said this is not a workable solution. But sure, let's wait while mass starvation continues apace. Wtf even is this take?

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Gonna go vote "No Preference" for prez in the NC Dem Primary real quick.

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Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸]'s avatar Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸] @themckenziest.gay
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Fun reminder time! The reason a lot of major corporations in America have profits is due to prison slave labor.

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Sometimes when I'm at risk of experiencing nostalgia (which I try to avoid) I remind myself that I don't necessarily miss the good old days so much as I miss the experience of time seeming to pass by more slowly.

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As someone with bad allergies and chronic respiratory/sinus issues, N95s have made a huge impact. I used to get 2 - 3 sinus and/or chest infections a year. I've not had one since November of 2019. I know other behavioral changes play a role, but N95s have been a game changer.

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At the 4 minute mark in this clip Jake Tapper says Brett Kavanaugh was "unfairly smeared" during his confirmation hearing which is quite a fucking claim to make.

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Moving forward all less than positive things going on with my body are getting weaponized. Might as well do some damage if I'm falling apart.

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Entertaining hypotheticals (often deeply irrelevant to the topic at hand) invented purely to play devil's advocate isn't a discussion anyone should want any part of. They don't advance or refine ideas, they just waste time and allow bullying behind a veneer of respectability.

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