Heather Jochens
@heatherjochens.bsky.social
A walking disaster with a hot beverage in hand. Geek with way too many random facts to share. Still having weekly existential crises . 日本語まだ勉強中です。
Pinned
As I grow a record collection, I might pin and start a thread of all of the records I’ve got/gotten…
I saw this album at Sister Anne’s and I GASPED.
You’re also damn skippy I bought it because ITS TRACY CHAPMAN. Also they apparently haven’t re released it until this year so… yeah.
You’re also damn skippy I bought it because ITS TRACY CHAPMAN. Also they apparently haven’t re released it until this year so… yeah.
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I saw this album at Sister Anne’s and I GASPED.
You’re also damn skippy I bought it because ITS TRACY CHAPMAN. Also they apparently haven’t re released it until this year so… yeah.
You’re also damn skippy I bought it because ITS TRACY CHAPMAN. Also they apparently haven’t re released it until this year so… yeah.
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Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose
YouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This bout was incredible!
November 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This bout was incredible!
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Day6
Sw Aonishiki 4-1 (L)
M3 Ura 3-2 (R)
Ura tries to drum up some magic like only he can. #kyushubasho2025
Sw Aonishiki 4-1 (L)
M3 Ura 3-2 (R)
Ura tries to drum up some magic like only he can. #kyushubasho2025
November 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Day6
Sw Aonishiki 4-1 (L)
M3 Ura 3-2 (R)
Ura tries to drum up some magic like only he can. #kyushubasho2025
Sw Aonishiki 4-1 (L)
M3 Ura 3-2 (R)
Ura tries to drum up some magic like only he can. #kyushubasho2025
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Surveillance, poetry and the coming of freedom: British writer Jim Potts recalls his years in Prague
english.radio.cz/surveillance...
english.radio.cz/surveillance...
Surveillance, poetry and the coming of freedom: British writer Jim Potts recalls his years in Prague
Jim Potts is a poet, writer and filmmaker who was head of the British Council in Prague from 1986 to 1989. On a recent visit to Prague he shared his memories of the time.
english.radio.cz
November 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Surveillance, poetry and the coming of freedom: British writer Jim Potts recalls his years in Prague
english.radio.cz/surveillance...
english.radio.cz/surveillance...
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
Let’s watch: Dark Man!
Surprise Bruce Campbell shows up in this movie!
Surprise Bruce Campbell shows up in this movie!
November 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Let’s watch: Dark Man!
Surprise Bruce Campbell shows up in this movie!
Surprise Bruce Campbell shows up in this movie!
Oh my god, it’s Justice Horn!
In @huffpost.com: The Trump backlash that's transforming the Democratic Party in red states, blue states, and everything in between -- driven by @runforsomething.net & the 75,000 people who've signed up with us in the last year. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The Trump Backlash That's Flying Under The Radar
In the past year, nearly 75,000 people have signed up to run for local and state office through Run for Something. And its candidates are winning.
www.huffpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Oh my god, it’s Justice Horn!
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
You know, these freaks are just okay with people sexually abusing and exploiting teenagers. This is why they say this. This is why they also don’t get super upset when the genders are reversed. They give these kids so much more agency in a dynamic that is not equal. It’s disgusting.
We're in the "raping young teenage girls isn't pedophilia" part of the cope from MAGA.
These people are evil.
These people are evil.
November 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
You know, these freaks are just okay with people sexually abusing and exploiting teenagers. This is why they say this. This is why they also don’t get super upset when the genders are reversed. They give these kids so much more agency in a dynamic that is not equal. It’s disgusting.
Decided to settle in for a midweek bath so I could relax and watch Harakiri by Masaki Kobayashi and starring the late Tatsuya Nakadai… now I’m sad again.
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Decided to settle in for a midweek bath so I could relax and watch Harakiri by Masaki Kobayashi and starring the late Tatsuya Nakadai… now I’m sad again.
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
I think most immigrants I know are renters.
Also, housing is super expensive because you have a market that has made property mostly investment NOT necessity. A lot of these homes are also being bought up by people that make them into investment properties or short term rentals. NOT homes.
Also, housing is super expensive because you have a market that has made property mostly investment NOT necessity. A lot of these homes are also being bought up by people that make them into investment properties or short term rentals. NOT homes.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I think most immigrants I know are renters.
Also, housing is super expensive because you have a market that has made property mostly investment NOT necessity. A lot of these homes are also being bought up by people that make them into investment properties or short term rentals. NOT homes.
Also, housing is super expensive because you have a market that has made property mostly investment NOT necessity. A lot of these homes are also being bought up by people that make them into investment properties or short term rentals. NOT homes.
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In You Will Die In This Place, @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social explores questions of design, ownership, and artifact. Check out her interview with Dan now:
www.thefandomentals.com/you-will-die...
www.thefandomentals.com/you-will-die...
"How Do You Scare People With Words": Elizabeth Little On The Personal and Post Modern TTRPG 'You Will Die In This Place' - The Fandomentals
Dan chats with Elizabeth Little about You Will Die In This Place, her new TTRPG that blends nihilistic dark fantasy with a metanarrative inspired by found footage horror and Little's own experiences
www.thefandomentals.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In You Will Die In This Place, @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social explores questions of design, ownership, and artifact. Check out her interview with Dan now:
www.thefandomentals.com/you-will-die...
www.thefandomentals.com/you-will-die...
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"Gavin's writing is nuanced and compelling"—@chicagotribune delivers a thoughtful review of Thinking Historically on why historical thinking matters now more than ever.
John T. Shaw: Johns Hopkins scholar shows that knowing history is invaluable to statesmanship
A Johns Hopkins scholar believes a skillful understanding of history can translate into practical tools for confronting contemporary problems.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"Gavin's writing is nuanced and compelling"—@chicagotribune delivers a thoughtful review of Thinking Historically on why historical thinking matters now more than ever.
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there are soooo many good suggestions here, but I wanted to throw my hat in the ring for the Q Lazzarus doc that's on Criterion right now. www.criterionchannel.com/goodbye-hors...
Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Eva Aridjis Fuentes • 2025 • United States, Mexico
In the early 1990s, Diane Luckey—known by her stage name Q Lazzarus—seemed poised for stardom when her darkly ravishing synth-pop anthem...
www.criterionchannel.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
there are soooo many good suggestions here, but I wanted to throw my hat in the ring for the Q Lazzarus doc that's on Criterion right now. www.criterionchannel.com/goodbye-hors...
“What if you’re level 3 D&D party goes to confront Strahd.”— whoever wrote Legend apparently
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
“What if you’re level 3 D&D party goes to confront Strahd.”— whoever wrote Legend apparently
So I just watched Legend for the first time… this is at least one of the movies that made A LOT of monster fuckers out of my generation and it’s because Ridley Scott put Tim Curry in red make up and horns. Well played.
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
So I just watched Legend for the first time… this is at least one of the movies that made A LOT of monster fuckers out of my generation and it’s because Ridley Scott put Tim Curry in red make up and horns. Well played.
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
This is the bullshit I have to listen to from my basement while I work…. 🫠
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This is the bullshit I have to listen to from my basement while I work…. 🫠
Same old Fox Tactic too— when an extremely inconvenient thing happens to run against whatever narrative they have crafted, they don’t talk about it until they can find a proper narrative to explain it away.
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Same old Fox Tactic too— when an extremely inconvenient thing happens to run against whatever narrative they have crafted, they don’t talk about it until they can find a proper narrative to explain it away.
A reminder that whatever the Republicans release about the Epstein files is just in response to that email. They think it’s tit for tat and they legit don’t understand that most Democrats are fine with not protecting people who think sexually exploiting children is totally fine and good.
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A reminder that whatever the Republicans release about the Epstein files is just in response to that email. They think it’s tit for tat and they legit don’t understand that most Democrats are fine with not protecting people who think sexually exploiting children is totally fine and good.
I’m sorry, but I need this publication to explain to me about how I can be more objective about a bunch of masked thugs coming into my city and threatening to kidnap my neighbors because they think they’re here illegally based on skin colour. I’ll wait.
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I’m sorry, but I need this publication to explain to me about how I can be more objective about a bunch of masked thugs coming into my city and threatening to kidnap my neighbors because they think they’re here illegally based on skin colour. I’ll wait.
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein changed me because they showed me what horror can FEEL like if you do it subtly.
I have kind of searched for that feeling ever since. I wonder if I can try to write like that…
I have kind of searched for that feeling ever since. I wonder if I can try to write like that…
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein changed me because they showed me what horror can FEEL like if you do it subtly.
I have kind of searched for that feeling ever since. I wonder if I can try to write like that…
I have kind of searched for that feeling ever since. I wonder if I can try to write like that…
I do not live in a real country
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I do not live in a real country