Gabriel R Johnson, novelist
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Surrealist coming-of-age comedy-horror novel A BAD DREAM WHERE YOU'RE BACK AT SCHOOL available in paperback now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSMY81PP
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Stranger Things S1: oh no! People are getting attacked by the monsters from the Monsters Dimension.
Stranger Things S5: the Monsters Dimension is a place we regularly drive around in, only seldomly encountering monsters.
Stranger Things S5: the Monsters Dimension is a place we regularly drive around in, only seldomly encountering monsters.
December 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Stranger Things S1: oh no! People are getting attacked by the monsters from the Monsters Dimension.
Stranger Things S5: the Monsters Dimension is a place we regularly drive around in, only seldomly encountering monsters.
Stranger Things S5: the Monsters Dimension is a place we regularly drive around in, only seldomly encountering monsters.
Ik so maybe the Stranger Things ep where Eleven joins a gang of Double Dragon enemy types kinda rules?
December 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Ik so maybe the Stranger Things ep where Eleven joins a gang of Double Dragon enemy types kinda rules?
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We already have flying cars. They’re called helicopters and they are insanely dangerous.
December 30, 2025 at 12:41 AM
We already have flying cars. They’re called helicopters and they are insanely dangerous.
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Lotta folks in my mentions arguing about aspects of this thread that I carefully hedged and caveated, which is fine by me but not something I'm interested in wading into much. Just remember, earnest liberals: A big antifascist tent has a left wing as well as a right wing.
December 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Lotta folks in my mentions arguing about aspects of this thread that I carefully hedged and caveated, which is fine by me but not something I'm interested in wading into much. Just remember, earnest liberals: A big antifascist tent has a left wing as well as a right wing.
Writing sci-fi is hard because really the whole job is coming up with new kinds of Torment Nexus to Don't Create.
December 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Writing sci-fi is hard because really the whole job is coming up with new kinds of Torment Nexus to Don't Create.
Stranger Things S1: I really like Steve's arc here. There’s a lot of talk about Steve being justified breaking Jonathan's camera, but in the context of the whole season, Steve really is the bigger asshole of the two of them, and it’s not close.
December 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Stranger Things S1: I really like Steve's arc here. There’s a lot of talk about Steve being justified breaking Jonathan's camera, but in the context of the whole season, Steve really is the bigger asshole of the two of them, and it’s not close.
Way more tired of hammer-and-sickle avatars being smugly condescending towards "liberals" because of the perverse inventives of their online social circles honestly.
Is everyone else getting a little tired of liberals fantasizing about how the administration is going to be charged and publicly executed any minute now?
December 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Way more tired of hammer-and-sickle avatars being smugly condescending towards "liberals" because of the perverse inventives of their online social circles honestly.
This seems way more complicated and burdensome than just firing every one of these freaks and garnishing all future wages until every dollar of salary ever awarded to them is repaid.
"No personal firearms/gear, and a $500 limit on the value of your GI issued weapons and accessories"
If we have to deal with these tacticool jackasses, we can at least make them all use Hi Points.
If we have to deal with these tacticool jackasses, we can at least make them all use Hi Points.
December 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This seems way more complicated and burdensome than just firing every one of these freaks and garnishing all future wages until every dollar of salary ever awarded to them is repaid.
Rewatching S1 of Stranger Things and it really is remarkable how much better this is on every level than the latest season. You can see why this revitalized Winona Ryder's career, she's excellent as a mother caught between grier, hope, and madness. New season gives her nothing to do!
December 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Rewatching S1 of Stranger Things and it really is remarkable how much better this is on every level than the latest season. You can see why this revitalized Winona Ryder's career, she's excellent as a mother caught between grier, hope, and madness. New season gives her nothing to do!
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bruno latour: in my paper "Why Critique Has Run Out of Steam," i invented the paranoid hermeneutic as a cautionary tale
engineers trying to do STS: at long last we have invented the paranoid hermeneutic from the famous STS paper "Don't Invent the Paranoid Hermeneutic."
engineers trying to do STS: at long last we have invented the paranoid hermeneutic from the famous STS paper "Don't Invent the Paranoid Hermeneutic."
December 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
bruno latour: in my paper "Why Critique Has Run Out of Steam," i invented the paranoid hermeneutic as a cautionary tale
engineers trying to do STS: at long last we have invented the paranoid hermeneutic from the famous STS paper "Don't Invent the Paranoid Hermeneutic."
engineers trying to do STS: at long last we have invented the paranoid hermeneutic from the famous STS paper "Don't Invent the Paranoid Hermeneutic."
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Eh the oligarchy has really picked a side lately
The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats.
It’s between democracy and oligarchy.
The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re getting the shaft.
Know the truth.
It’s between democracy and oligarchy.
The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re getting the shaft.
Know the truth.
December 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Eh the oligarchy has really picked a side lately
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Right, it's complex. Which is why sometimes you gotta just do something you believe in and hope fortune favors the bold.
December 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Right, it's complex. Which is why sometimes you gotta just do something you believe in and hope fortune favors the bold.
In the interest of prison abolition, every ICE agent should have to repay every dollar ever awarded to them as salary, with garnished wages for all future employment, until their natural deaths if need be.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
December 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
In the interest of prison abolition, every ICE agent should have to repay every dollar ever awarded to them as salary, with garnished wages for all future employment, until their natural deaths if need be.
We have no idea if this method of campaigning is better or worse at winning elections than doing it the Normal Way.
winning elections and exercising power
Man, if you don’t recognize the power of the message "even if we lose, the existence of this campaign still did some good in the world" then what do you even think politics is for?
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
We have no idea if this method of campaigning is better or worse at winning elections than doing it the Normal Way.
Man, if you don’t recognize the power of the message "even if we lose, the existence of this campaign still did some good in the world" then what do you even think politics is for?
It’s good Kamala Harris spent her money campaigning and not doing mutual aid! Generally we need candidates to try to win!
Kamala Harris literally wasted a billion and a half dollars but sure, okay, Kat Abughazaleh's way of doing things is the problem. Okay.
December 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Man, if you don’t recognize the power of the message "even if we lose, the existence of this campaign still did some good in the world" then what do you even think politics is for?
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I just want to say thank you for writing one of the best bluesky posts of all time
December 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I just want to say thank you for writing one of the best bluesky posts of all time
"I'm looking for someone with emotional intelligence" is just code for "I want to be able to yell at you over arbitrary bullshit that you could not have possibly anticipated or known about" right?
December 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"I'm looking for someone with emotional intelligence" is just code for "I want to be able to yell at you over arbitrary bullshit that you could not have possibly anticipated or known about" right?
"Oh, you’re arguing aout what is and isn't a sandwich? Get a personality!" is more a try-hard type of personality than just arguing about the goddamn sandwiches imo
December 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
"Oh, you’re arguing aout what is and isn't a sandwich? Get a personality!" is more a try-hard type of personality than just arguing about the goddamn sandwiches imo
I totally missed that the skill that Nancy brings to the Stranger Things gang is Gun, when was thos established?
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I totally missed that the skill that Nancy brings to the Stranger Things gang is Gun, when was thos established?
So of the couples that were introduced over the show, I'm thinking Robin/(robin's girlfriend, forget her name) and Lucas/Max are the only ones that are truly Gonna Make It.
Starting the last batch of Stranger Things eps. I hate this fake-ass Steve-Dustin drama. Ope, followed immediately by Steve-Nancy-Jonathan drama. Noah Schapp is such a weak link in this cast.
December 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
So of the couples that were introduced over the show, I'm thinking Robin/(robin's girlfriend, forget her name) and Lucas/Max are the only ones that are truly Gonna Make It.
Starting the last batch of Stranger Things eps. I hate this fake-ass Steve-Dustin drama. Ope, followed immediately by Steve-Nancy-Jonathan drama. Noah Schapp is such a weak link in this cast.
December 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Starting the last batch of Stranger Things eps. I hate this fake-ass Steve-Dustin drama. Ope, followed immediately by Steve-Nancy-Jonathan drama. Noah Schapp is such a weak link in this cast.
Got into an argument last year with a guy who said gentiles who do this are raping and pillaging jewish culture.
If ur having a bad Christmas I on behalf of all Jews am giving you permission to get Chinese food and see a movie today. It’s not too late to pivot
December 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Got into an argument last year with a guy who said gentiles who do this are raping and pillaging jewish culture.
I try my hand each day at both of the CtC sudokus and the bremster ones. 3/4 of the sudokus I did today were christmas trees made out of german whisper lines.
December 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I try my hand each day at both of the CtC sudokus and the bremster ones. 3/4 of the sudokus I did today were christmas trees made out of german whisper lines.
Having finished S2, I can now confidently say that the issue with Man on the Inside is that it's a bad show that sucks. A comedy that's basically never funny, a whodunnit that doesn't care about its mystery. All that's left is a deeply generic, sappy drama.
December 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Having finished S2, I can now confidently say that the issue with Man on the Inside is that it's a bad show that sucks. A comedy that's basically never funny, a whodunnit that doesn't care about its mystery. All that's left is a deeply generic, sappy drama.
Okay, yep, not unseeing that one.
the Crash of rom coms
December 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Okay, yep, not unseeing that one.