J.S. Aughtnik 🏳️⚧️🚺🤷🏻♀️
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Now mostly angry reposts about the political & pop-cultural fallout of Reagan/Thatcher. Always 100% objectively correct (trans rights are human rights; capitalism is a death cult & Republicans its priests; abolish private motor vehicle ownership). She/her
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Oh hey it didn’t really come up over here—this account’s now mostly just reposts of more general political stuff and/or nerd stuff, occasionally “local to NoVA” stuff—
—but yeah, I’m trans. Surprise!
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I’m all out at work & with my family & stuff, it’s neat. DM me with Qs, long as you’re chill.
—but yeah, I’m trans. Surprise!
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I’m all out at work & with my family & stuff, it’s neat. DM me with Qs, long as you’re chill.
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I think a lot about a line my therapist's secretary once said the first time I went there:
"Well of course you have anxiety: the world's ending, and it's taking *forever*!!"
"Well of course you have anxiety: the world's ending, and it's taking *forever*!!"
The sky probably is falling, actually, but it is doing so more slowly than the worst case scenario had it.
Truly I have no sense at this point which pieces are breaking, it just seems very clear that the entire thing is structurally unsound.
Truly I have no sense at this point which pieces are breaking, it just seems very clear that the entire thing is structurally unsound.
August 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I think a lot about a line my therapist's secretary once said the first time I went there:
"Well of course you have anxiety: the world's ending, and it's taking *forever*!!"
"Well of course you have anxiety: the world's ending, and it's taking *forever*!!"
If our not-openly-fascist elected officials are going to act so performatively incapable of solving problems while looking down their noses at us could they AT LEAST have the decency to also dress slutty
September 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If our not-openly-fascist elected officials are going to act so performatively incapable of solving problems while looking down their noses at us could they AT LEAST have the decency to also dress slutty
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Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
September 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
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if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social was curious; so he asked Ben Smith — co-founder of Semafor, and former media columnist at the New York Times — if Smith thought democracy is under threat in the U.S.
Good question.
Good question.
September 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
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The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
September 1, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
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In all seriousness this is a devastating loss of knowledge. Cheap, available patterns is something that would be properly respected in any other era of human history.
the big 4 sewing pattern brands are being sold off for parts. if you want patterns, get them *now*.
(if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook)
craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...
(if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook)
craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...
Parent Company of the Big 4 Sewing Pattern Brands Sold to a Liquidator - Craft Industry Alliance
The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator.
craftindustryalliance.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
In all seriousness this is a devastating loss of knowledge. Cheap, available patterns is something that would be properly respected in any other era of human history.
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Happy labor day gang!
September 4, 2023 at 5:59 PM
Happy labor day gang!
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This is how you handle someone who tries to sell AI slop at a con: remove them, and then clown on them relentlessly
September 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is how you handle someone who tries to sell AI slop at a con: remove them, and then clown on them relentlessly
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Morrison's one of the all-time bests to ever carry the baton in this serialized, super-storytelling relay, but their technique is so instinctive and original, it can occasionally confuse the next runner on the team into taking the handoff, then just bolting backwards around the goddamn track.
Also, Magneto was Xorn and Ernst was Cassandra Nova, I literally do not care what was in some Chuck Austen comics
August 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Morrison's one of the all-time bests to ever carry the baton in this serialized, super-storytelling relay, but their technique is so instinctive and original, it can occasionally confuse the next runner on the team into taking the handoff, then just bolting backwards around the goddamn track.
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rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
August 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
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For me, Trump is dead until proven otherwise
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
August 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
For me, Trump is dead until proven otherwise
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You know, I laugh at Wile E. Coyote when he runs into a wall he himself painted like a tunnel, but then I try to open a menu by clicking on a screenshot I just took, and I realize we’re not so different, he and I.
August 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
You know, I laugh at Wile E. Coyote when he runs into a wall he himself painted like a tunnel, but then I try to open a menu by clicking on a screenshot I just took, and I realize we’re not so different, he and I.
Correct approach. Never engage in “good faith” with anything the right says. Their “reasons” for fascism are immaterial; if you counter one they’ll just find two more.
Talk about their actions and counter those. *With concrete actions of your own,* please, politicians.
Talk about their actions and counter those. *With concrete actions of your own,* please, politicians.
Pritzker out here giving a master class in countering the right wing propaganda machine’s efforts to justify further federal invasions and occupations of American cities: he’s effectively reframing the discussion (beyond debates re: crime rates) to one of rising authoritarianism & federal overreach.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
August 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Correct approach. Never engage in “good faith” with anything the right says. Their “reasons” for fascism are immaterial; if you counter one they’ll just find two more.
Talk about their actions and counter those. *With concrete actions of your own,* please, politicians.
Talk about their actions and counter those. *With concrete actions of your own,* please, politicians.
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The far right succeeded in this country in large part because adult men were angry about this supposed theft, and the Nazis learned to channel that rage.
"[Marginalized group] stole your sex mommy!" is quite literally their rallying cry a lot of the time.
"[Marginalized group] stole your sex mommy!" is quite literally their rallying cry a lot of the time.
Speaking as someone who used to spend time in their chats, SO much of US contemporary fascism is a function of men assuming that the way adulthood worked was, you got a job and in exchange you got a woman to be your mom plus your sex toy.
They are ENRAGED that they have a job but no sex mommy.
They are ENRAGED that they have a job but no sex mommy.
August 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The far right succeeded in this country in large part because adult men were angry about this supposed theft, and the Nazis learned to channel that rage.
"[Marginalized group] stole your sex mommy!" is quite literally their rallying cry a lot of the time.
"[Marginalized group] stole your sex mommy!" is quite literally their rallying cry a lot of the time.
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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
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There are very few things I experienced as a kid where I’m like “the youngs are missing out, it built character” but this is absolutely one
all American schools should ban phone use during class hours, but we CAN compromise by bringing back Internet-connected computer labs where the nerd kids can retreat to look at fanfic during lunch
August 31, 2025 at 1:23 AM
There are very few things I experienced as a kid where I’m like “the youngs are missing out, it built character” but this is absolutely one
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weimar germany was actually a bit of a globally renowned intellectual and scientific powerhouse until it got taken over by people who thought the theory of relativity was a piece of jewish trickery meant to deceive them
August 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
weimar germany was actually a bit of a globally renowned intellectual and scientific powerhouse until it got taken over by people who thought the theory of relativity was a piece of jewish trickery meant to deceive them
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tired: a man who is not a liberal at nineteen has no heart and a man who is not a conservative at forty has no brain
inspired: every year you must make a will save against deciding everything new is bad and scary and eventually everyone fails
inspired: every year you must make a will save against deciding everything new is bad and scary and eventually everyone fails
August 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
tired: a man who is not a liberal at nineteen has no heart and a man who is not a conservative at forty has no brain
inspired: every year you must make a will save against deciding everything new is bad and scary and eventually everyone fails
inspired: every year you must make a will save against deciding everything new is bad and scary and eventually everyone fails
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The reason they hate Mamdani so much and instead rave about Bannon BFF & transphobe Newsom is because Mamdani proves us right and them wrong. Turns out you can be anti-genocide and pro-people and win elections by a landslide. Sucks doesn't it?
August 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The reason they hate Mamdani so much and instead rave about Bannon BFF & transphobe Newsom is because Mamdani proves us right and them wrong. Turns out you can be anti-genocide and pro-people and win elections by a landslide. Sucks doesn't it?
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I’ve never understood why it isn’t a source of enduring shame for us as a country that other nations have decent affordable high speed rail systems and we have the shit we have
Where’s nationalism when it might motivate something vaguely constructive
Where’s nationalism when it might motivate something vaguely constructive
thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago
August 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’ve never understood why it isn’t a source of enduring shame for us as a country that other nations have decent affordable high speed rail systems and we have the shit we have
Where’s nationalism when it might motivate something vaguely constructive
Where’s nationalism when it might motivate something vaguely constructive
Fourth wall’s gettin’ a little creaky there, Schkade 😏
(I am delighted)
(I am delighted)
Time's arrow moves only forward, but there ARE ricochets
Flash Gordon Comic Strip 2025-08-30 | Comics Kingdom
Read the Flash Gordon comic strip from August 30, 2025, and check out other Flash Gordon comics by Dan Schkade.
comicskingdom.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Fourth wall’s gettin’ a little creaky there, Schkade 😏
(I am delighted)
(I am delighted)
“Don’t you get it? If you die in the CDC, you die in real life!”
August 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“Don’t you get it? If you die in the CDC, you die in real life!”
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You took a (long) break from wearing a mask, right? You got away with it. But, guess what? There's a *lot* more Covid around again. And, access to vax is up in the air.
Just put a (good) mask on again when you're out and about and you'll be much more protected as well as protecting others. ✨✨✨
Just put a (good) mask on again when you're out and about and you'll be much more protected as well as protecting others. ✨✨✨
COVID cases are up throughout the country. I talked to doctors about where cases are highest right now and what folks should do to stay healthy: www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-...
COVID-19 Is Surging Again — And These Regions Are Facing The Sharpest Spikes
While everyone should take precautions to stay well, folks in certain states should be extra careful.
www.huffpost.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
You took a (long) break from wearing a mask, right? You got away with it. But, guess what? There's a *lot* more Covid around again. And, access to vax is up in the air.
Just put a (good) mask on again when you're out and about and you'll be much more protected as well as protecting others. ✨✨✨
Just put a (good) mask on again when you're out and about and you'll be much more protected as well as protecting others. ✨✨✨