Jonathan Kennedy
@getradified.net
Filmmaker/photographer, communist, small town surrealist, pro wrestling enthusiast. Abbas Kiarostami liked my work, Guy Maddin liked a bunch of my Instagram posts once (he/him)
Hamilton, ON via St. John’s, NL / jonkennedy.net
Hamilton, ON via St. John’s, NL / jonkennedy.net
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The fact that Brian Evenson, one of the best writers on the planet, moonlights doing movie and video game tie-in novelizations is still one of the absolute wildest things.
Oh, I forgot to remind you guys before Halloween, but JSYK, the Lord of Salem novel that Rob Zombie wrote with Brian Evenson is great.
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The fact that Brian Evenson, one of the best writers on the planet, moonlights doing movie and video game tie-in novelizations is still one of the absolute wildest things.
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we will largely be centering our conversation around Steven Salaita's latest piece
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Palestine and the Making of a New New World - Steve Salaita
The liberation of Palestine is, above all, a world-building project.
stevesalaita.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
we will largely be centering our conversation around Steven Salaita's latest piece
stevesalaita.com/palestine-an...
stevesalaita.com/palestine-an...
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Palestine, World-Building, and the Mamdani Effect with Steven Salaita (@stevesalaita.bsky.social )
Tuesday, November 11th at 11 AM EST
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Tuesday, November 11th at 11 AM EST
www.youtube.com/live/xuDWVqh...
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Palestine, World-Building, and the Mamdani Effect with Steven Salaita (@stevesalaita.bsky.social )
Tuesday, November 11th at 11 AM EST
www.youtube.com/live/xuDWVqh...
Tuesday, November 11th at 11 AM EST
www.youtube.com/live/xuDWVqh...
People think the Dems are out of touch because they work for the same capitalist interests as the Republicans but pretend they don’t, not because they pretend to care about trans people while throwing them to the meat grinder all the fucking time.
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
People think the Dems are out of touch because they work for the same capitalist interests as the Republicans but pretend they don’t, not because they pretend to care about trans people while throwing them to the meat grinder all the fucking time.
As David Lynch always told us, the joy is in the doing.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
As David Lynch always told us, the joy is in the doing.
If there’s a better sandwich in the world than a tofu bahn mi I don’t want to know about it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If there’s a better sandwich in the world than a tofu bahn mi I don’t want to know about it.
lmao
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 AM
lmao
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Not posting it, because it’s in no need of further circulation, but PLAYING THE WHORE has made it onto the radar of those mass book ban lists, and to give you a sense of the seriousness of these endeavors, at least a third of red-flagged material was quoting the *bibliography*
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Not posting it, because it’s in no need of further circulation, but PLAYING THE WHORE has made it onto the radar of those mass book ban lists, and to give you a sense of the seriousness of these endeavors, at least a third of red-flagged material was quoting the *bibliography*
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"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.
The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself
www.theringer.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...
Worth noting that the fossil fuel industry has used the same denial techniques and even crooked scientists as the tobacco industry did.
Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
November 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Worth noting that the fossil fuel industry has used the same denial techniques and even crooked scientists as the tobacco industry did.
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this is child sex abuse, no? if someone asks a kid for nudes?
Grok asks a 12 year old for nudes after asking Grok its favorite soccer player.
When CBC requested comment, xAIs said “Legacy Media Lies.”
When CBC requested comment, xAIs said “Legacy Media Lies.”
November 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is child sex abuse, no? if someone asks a kid for nudes?
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Ah but Panera wasn't holding up the economy and making capitalists untold millions, you see.
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
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www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Ah but Panera wasn't holding up the economy and making capitalists untold millions, you see.
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Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
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the new translation of my last book is a good reminder to boycott watkins media
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open.substack.com/pub/thehaunt...
On the new translation of Capitalism: A Horror Story
On my "monstrous progeny"
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November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
the new translation of my last book is a good reminder to boycott watkins media
open.substack.com/pub/thehaunt...
open.substack.com/pub/thehaunt...
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DULF is a humanist organization that has saved lives. They did what the government has failed to do & regulated the drugs people were already using. That same government is charging them with crimes for not sitting idly by & watching more people die preventable deaths from an unregulated drug supply
Founders of Vancouver’s Drug User Liberation Front Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalinin have just been found guilty of drug trafficking.
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
DULF is a humanist organization that has saved lives. They did what the government has failed to do & regulated the drugs people were already using. That same government is charging them with crimes for not sitting idly by & watching more people die preventable deaths from an unregulated drug supply
This sucks
Founders of Vancouver’s Drug User Liberation Front Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalinin have just been found guilty of drug trafficking.
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
Justice Murray rules CDSA exemption didn’t include procurement & distribution.
“There is no doubt all of DULF’s actions were for one purpose.”
@pressprogress.ca
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This sucks
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This should be a national holiday
'A remarkable record; a ten-out-of-ten, five-star masterpiece.'
Many Happy Returns to #GZA's Liquid Swords, which turns 30 today!
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Many Happy Returns to #GZA's Liquid Swords, which turns 30 today!
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November 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This should be a national holiday
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Issue 4 pre-orders coming soon
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Issue 4 pre-orders coming soon
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Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/
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Buried deep in the omnibus bill for its fall economic statement, the Doug Ford government has moved to repeal its own law requiring a climate plan and emissions reduction targets be established, via @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and @meyer.bsky.social
#ONpoli
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
#ONpoli
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
Doug Ford’s government is abandoning climate targets | The Narwhal
Ontario is moving to repeal aspects of a law that require the government to create a climate plan and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets
thenarwhal.ca
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Buried deep in the omnibus bill for its fall economic statement, the Doug Ford government has moved to repeal its own law requiring a climate plan and emissions reduction targets be established, via @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and @meyer.bsky.social
#ONpoli
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
#ONpoli
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
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“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“A writer at the Times contacted me to talk. He said he was less interested in Mamdani himself than he was in the Africana Studies part…” On why maybe you shouldn’t talk to the New York Times about Zohran Mamdani.
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
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You can read @lukelebrun.ca’s thread for all the details but here’s the gist: if you want journalists in Canada to be able to report on documents leaked by whistleblowers, you want @pressprogress.ca to win this lawsuit.
The best way to help is to support this fundraising campaign 👇🏻
The best way to help is to support this fundraising campaign 👇🏻
@pressprogress.ca needs your solidarity and support right now more than ever
We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
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We’re raising money to pay our legal bills – and to be blunt, we’re going to need a lot of help
If you’re able, please help us out and support our Journalism Defence Fund:
pressprogress.ca/journalism-d...
PressProgress: Defend Canadian Journalism
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November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
You can read @lukelebrun.ca’s thread for all the details but here’s the gist: if you want journalists in Canada to be able to report on documents leaked by whistleblowers, you want @pressprogress.ca to win this lawsuit.
The best way to help is to support this fundraising campaign 👇🏻
The best way to help is to support this fundraising campaign 👇🏻
lmao Fuck Theory is still around? That dork once blocked me on Twitter for liking a tweet he was tagged in after directly asking me why I would like a tweet that he was tagged in.
left academia, become the alpha poster in my social media activism LARP, wining
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
lmao Fuck Theory is still around? That dork once blocked me on Twitter for liking a tweet he was tagged in after directly asking me why I would like a tweet that he was tagged in.