Jared Johnson is
@jaredparker.bsky.social
Former Christian fundie trying to redirect his idealism toward more humane ends. Black lives matter. Trans lives matter. John Hodgman once told me I was just daddin’ it up. he/him
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The plot of the comic book "A-ha", which a woman reads as part of the music video for "Take on Me" by the band A-ha, is that guys show up and beat the singer from the band A-ha to death with wrenches. That's what's inside the comic book. That's how it ends.
February 20, 2026 at 3:18 AM
The plot of the comic book "A-ha", which a woman reads as part of the music video for "Take on Me" by the band A-ha, is that guys show up and beat the singer from the band A-ha to death with wrenches. That's what's inside the comic book. That's how it ends.
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I hate to beat the dead horse that is the NYT here, and this isn’t even the Bad Reporter, but “adolescents who say their gender identity does not align with their sex at birth”? Who “say” that? Is there a risk of flim-flammery here I’m not aware of?
February 20, 2026 at 3:16 AM
I hate to beat the dead horse that is the NYT here, and this isn’t even the Bad Reporter, but “adolescents who say their gender identity does not align with their sex at birth”? Who “say” that? Is there a risk of flim-flammery here I’m not aware of?
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Chris Burden, Medusa's Head, 1990
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136362
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136362
February 20, 2026 at 2:06 AM
Chris Burden, Medusa's Head, 1990
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136362
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136362
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Perseus Rescuing Andromeda, by Paolo Veronese, 1576-78, 📸 by @JOHNRU55ELL
January 29, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Perseus Rescuing Andromeda, by Paolo Veronese, 1576-78, 📸 by @JOHNRU55ELL
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La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative
February 19, 2026 at 9:26 PM
La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao
February 19, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao
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<stares directly into camera and then also a hundred yards past the lens>
In his new book, Dr. @drkevinrmcclure.com "presents the thesis that higher education leaders often exploit the good will of faculty and staff by expecting them to view their work as a labor of love with unending reservoirs of devotion."
Full review here: bit.ly/46dGTKP
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
Full review here: bit.ly/46dGTKP
@hopkinspress.bsky.social
February 20, 2026 at 12:58 AM
<stares directly into camera and then also a hundred yards past the lens>
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Look at my lawyer dawg I'm going to jail
February 19, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Look at my lawyer dawg I'm going to jail
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chicago cubs century of humiliation
February 19, 2026 at 11:43 PM
chicago cubs century of humiliation
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Revisit "Powers of Ten." Very curious exactly age you have to be on either side not to have this seared into your brain:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKB...
Powers of Ten™ (1977)
YouTube video by Eames Office
www.youtube.com
February 20, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Revisit "Powers of Ten." Very curious exactly age you have to be on either side not to have this seared into your brain:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKB...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKB...
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i bet this is how it felt to write one of those angry letters to the newspaper in 1982
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
i bet this is how it felt to write one of those angry letters to the newspaper in 1982
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there it is
February 19, 2026 at 7:02 PM
there it is
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One day I'll probably look up from my phone and realize my kids put me in a nursing home.
January 31, 2026 at 1:14 PM
One day I'll probably look up from my phone and realize my kids put me in a nursing home.
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it is quite literally a global security issue, as the very rich are in some cases more powerful than entire governments
You can go after them on so many fronts that can even appeal to right wingers like national security; remember when Elon shut down Starlink for Ukraine because he had a call with Putin?
February 19, 2026 at 5:19 PM
it is quite literally a global security issue, as the very rich are in some cases more powerful than entire governments
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it’s true that a functional welfare state requires more of a contribution from society at large than just soaking the rich can provide, but that’s besides the point
soaking the rich is a goal unto itself
soaking the rich is a goal unto itself
February 19, 2026 at 5:07 PM
it’s true that a functional welfare state requires more of a contribution from society at large than just soaking the rich can provide, but that’s besides the point
soaking the rich is a goal unto itself
soaking the rich is a goal unto itself
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the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life
billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus
billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus
It will not work, and is wrong in principle
Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets
It will not work, and is wrong in principle
econ.st
February 19, 2026 at 4:56 PM
the main reason to go after the rich is that if you don’t the entire structure of your society is predicated on the whims of people who are entirely disconnected from ordinary life
billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus
billionaires are simply too dangerous to exist, and any budgetary stuff that comes out of it is just a bonus
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Someone who’d known me for over a decade before coming out had a response that still has me processing it, 6 years later: they told me they’d never once seen me smile before.
This is what I try to help people understand. If you could see the way my daughter smiled and laughed for the FIRST TIME IN YEARS after she came out to us as trans, you would get it.
My father was quite transphobic, and was not convinced I was really trans at first. He thought it was a new manifestation of mental illness. But as time went on and he saw how much happier I was he's been completely convinced, and he's growing less skeptical abt other trans ppl over time.
February 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Someone who’d known me for over a decade before coming out had a response that still has me processing it, 6 years later: they told me they’d never once seen me smile before.
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do you think the ewoks were pissed that the rebels wasted all that perfectly good meat on a funeral pyre
February 19, 2026 at 4:09 PM
do you think the ewoks were pissed that the rebels wasted all that perfectly good meat on a funeral pyre
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I'm of the opinion that trans issues did not move almost any votes in 2024 and pinning Harris' loss on her being too permissive in regards to transgendered people completely misses the mark. Trump won despite all his "they're for they/them rhetoric," not because of it. 1/2
disregarding the point about gender stuff, i feel like this explains so much about why Helen Lewis seems to struggle how US politics works. the Democrats are not the Labour Party. there is no top-down whip by Obama
February 19, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I'm of the opinion that trans issues did not move almost any votes in 2024 and pinning Harris' loss on her being too permissive in regards to transgendered people completely misses the mark. Trump won despite all his "they're for they/them rhetoric," not because of it. 1/2
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Liberals: trans people need to shut up and take one for the team!
Trans people: well at least we’re on the team
Liberals: you’re not. sorry, but we have to protect the integrity of metaphorical sports
Trans people: well at least we’re on the team
Liberals: you’re not. sorry, but we have to protect the integrity of metaphorical sports
February 19, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Liberals: trans people need to shut up and take one for the team!
Trans people: well at least we’re on the team
Liberals: you’re not. sorry, but we have to protect the integrity of metaphorical sports
Trans people: well at least we’re on the team
Liberals: you’re not. sorry, but we have to protect the integrity of metaphorical sports
This is what I try to help people understand. If you could see the way my daughter smiled and laughed for the FIRST TIME IN YEARS after she came out to us as trans, you would get it.
My father was quite transphobic, and was not convinced I was really trans at first. He thought it was a new manifestation of mental illness. But as time went on and he saw how much happier I was he's been completely convinced, and he's growing less skeptical abt other trans ppl over time.
February 19, 2026 at 2:47 PM
This is what I try to help people understand. If you could see the way my daughter smiled and laughed for the FIRST TIME IN YEARS after she came out to us as trans, you would get it.
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My father was quite transphobic, and was not convinced I was really trans at first. He thought it was a new manifestation of mental illness. But as time went on and he saw how much happier I was he's been completely convinced, and he's growing less skeptical abt other trans ppl over time.
February 19, 2026 at 2:34 PM
My father was quite transphobic, and was not convinced I was really trans at first. He thought it was a new manifestation of mental illness. But as time went on and he saw how much happier I was he's been completely convinced, and he's growing less skeptical abt other trans ppl over time.
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> butterfly in the sky
heck yeah, nature is beautiful!
> i can fly twice as high
oh damn we're doing a diss track
heck yeah, nature is beautiful!
> i can fly twice as high
oh damn we're doing a diss track
February 19, 2026 at 3:40 AM
> butterfly in the sky
heck yeah, nature is beautiful!
> i can fly twice as high
oh damn we're doing a diss track
heck yeah, nature is beautiful!
> i can fly twice as high
oh damn we're doing a diss track
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Fucking INSANE that there is an actual lake out there called "Titicaca." I wish I could re-experience what it felt like to learn this for the first time as a child.
February 17, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Fucking INSANE that there is an actual lake out there called "Titicaca." I wish I could re-experience what it felt like to learn this for the first time as a child.