Jay Bryant
@jaybryant.bsky.social
Retired writer, editor, and software developer. Very liberal fan of Bernie Sanders. Proponent of letting people make their own choices rather than letting the government tell women to not have abortions and the families of trans kids to not have treatment.
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Jay Bryant
@jaybryant.bsky.social
· Nov 28
I automatically block certain people who follow me: Accounts about spreading religion, accounts about pictures of pretty girls, accounts about sharing the winnings of a lottery, accounts about MLM and other scams (including "entrepreneur coaching"). Some of you folks are wasting your time.
This. The EU can HURT the US, so attacking one of its member is beyond stupid.
This is in response to Congressman Randy Fine announcing the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act.
January 13, 2026 at 2:24 AM
This. The EU can HURT the US, so attacking one of its member is beyond stupid.
Very much this. I doubt that I'll live long enough to see the United States be a democracy again.
In conversation back in 1994, the late Russian environmentalist Alexi Yablokov explained the problem of rebuilding democracy this way:
"If you have a tank of live fish, it is fairly easy to make fish soup.
Once you have fish soup, however, it is very difficult to make a tank of life fish again."
"If you have a tank of live fish, it is fairly easy to make fish soup.
Once you have fish soup, however, it is very difficult to make a tank of life fish again."
January 13, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Very much this. I doubt that I'll live long enough to see the United States be a democracy again.
This. We've created a society that abuses people and makes them to turn to anything for relief.
The cartels or other illicit drug orgs didn’t force the US to shove shit into their bodies, that guilt belongs to the billionaires, politicians, and corporations that stripped people of the resources, medical care, and housing and placed them in situations where they’d choose illegal narcotics.
January 12, 2026 at 5:51 PM
This. We've created a society that abuses people and makes them to turn to anything for relief.
An evergreen post, but especially so today.
It’s hard to believe that one man can cause so much stress, so much fear, so much pain and suffering…a man who took an oath to preserve and protect our Constitution. This man, who is inciting terror across our land, must be removed from office. In a sane world, it would happen immediately.
January 8, 2026 at 4:17 AM
An evergreen post, but especially so today.
It's because we have insurance companies skimming off profits and because we have for-profit hospitals and medical groups and for-profit pharmaceutical companies. They should all be not-for-profit, and health insurance should go the way of the dodo.
January 7, 2026 at 4:53 AM
It's because we have insurance companies skimming off profits and because we have for-profit hospitals and medical groups and for-profit pharmaceutical companies. They should all be not-for-profit, and health insurance should go the way of the dodo.
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I concur with @maddow.bsky.social, who, last night on her show, said, “Maybe what this is, is a president who can barely bother with coming up with some clearly false pretext because what he really wants is totally unilateral, totally unaccountable, 1/2
January 6, 2026 at 9:48 PM
I concur with @maddow.bsky.social, who, last night on her show, said, “Maybe what this is, is a president who can barely bother with coming up with some clearly false pretext because what he really wants is totally unilateral, totally unaccountable, 1/2
This is more important than many people think. The folks in power are punching down at people with no power - again. The society that lets this happen will soon see similar erasure from the public sphere happening to more groups.
“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 6, 2026 at 1:32 AM
This is more important than many people think. The folks in power are punching down at people with no power - again. The society that lets this happen will soon see similar erasure from the public sphere happening to more groups.
For fuck's sake. I wonder when congress will do its duty or if it ever will.
(I'll go back to capitalizing "congress" when it goes back to deserving even minimal respect.)
(I'll go back to capitalizing "congress" when it goes back to deserving even minimal respect.)
This is *extremely* weak leadership from Jeffries and Schumer. When the wannabe king ignores congress to initiate regime change abroad, they are requesting a fucking briefing sometime soon.
January 3, 2026 at 10:24 PM
For fuck's sake. I wonder when congress will do its duty or if it ever will.
(I'll go back to capitalizing "congress" when it goes back to deserving even minimal respect.)
(I'll go back to capitalizing "congress" when it goes back to deserving even minimal respect.)
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It's stupid to threaten Iran over its internal protests. That makes it easy for the Iranian regime to direct the anger against the US and away from itself. Better to let them tear themselves apart. So, naturally, this dis-administration doesn't get that and does exactly the wrong thing - again.
January 3, 2026 at 12:14 AM
It's stupid to threaten Iran over its internal protests. That makes it easy for the Iranian regime to direct the anger against the US and away from itself. Better to let them tear themselves apart. So, naturally, this dis-administration doesn't get that and does exactly the wrong thing - again.
Accurate. Autocracy happens when people who should know better roll over.
January 2, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Accurate. Autocracy happens when people who should know better roll over.
It's hard to imagine being dumb enough to believe this kind of thing.
January 1, 2026 at 1:32 AM
It's hard to imagine being dumb enough to believe this kind of thing.
@pbsnews.org You receive no funding from the government, so now you are an independent news organization. Please act like it and stop normalizing the madness.
President Donald Trump is not the first president to want more room at the White House for entertaining, says the longest-serving top aide in the executive residence, offering some backup for the reason Trump has cited for his ballroom construction project. https://to.pbs.org/4qxXOiY
Trump not first president to want more room to entertain, White House usher says
"All the presidents that I had an opportunity to serve always talked about some possibility of an enlarged area" for entertaining, Walters said in an interview with The Associated Press about his recently published memoir.
www.pbs.org
December 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
@pbsnews.org You receive no funding from the government, so now you are an independent news organization. Please act like it and stop normalizing the madness.
I see all these NYE posts about hope for next year. I don't trust hope. Hope has let me down far too many times. I trust persistence. The only way through is to accept that we'll crawl through a river of shit to get there and get on with it.
December 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I see all these NYE posts about hope for next year. I don't trust hope. Hope has let me down far too many times. I trust persistence. The only way through is to accept that we'll crawl through a river of shit to get there and get on with it.
Speaking of USPS, the assholes literally delivered an empty box, with a note about how the contents were destroyed during delivery.
That's it for me and USPS. From now on, if I can't have whatever it is shipped by some other means, I won't buy it.
That's it for me and USPS. From now on, if I can't have whatever it is shipped by some other means, I won't buy it.
The GOP are great gaping assholes.
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Speaking of USPS, the assholes literally delivered an empty box, with a note about how the contents were destroyed during delivery.
That's it for me and USPS. From now on, if I can't have whatever it is shipped by some other means, I won't buy it.
That's it for me and USPS. From now on, if I can't have whatever it is shipped by some other means, I won't buy it.
The GOP are great gaping assholes.
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The GOP are great gaping assholes.
This is why my investments are now out of #AI and into things like discount retailers, which will (mostly) at least survive the coming crash (and a few may thrive).
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The AI that we’ll have after AI
Cheap GPUs, unemployed engineers, and open source models.
doctorow.medium.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is why my investments are now out of #AI and into things like discount retailers, which will (mostly) at least survive the coming crash (and a few may thrive).
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The #finance sector is worse than useless. It lowers the value of real transactions
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A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance
A final thought for the yule.
doctorow.medium.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The #finance sector is worse than useless. It lowers the value of real transactions
doctorow.medium.com/a-perfect-di...
doctorow.medium.com/a-perfect-di...
From that page: Fascism is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state. - 1/3
December 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
From that page: Fascism is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state. - 1/3
True. This is the state of our nation.
It Wouldn't Surprise You If This Headline Was About 318 People Being Shot In 12 Different Public Places https://theonion.com/it-wouldnt-surprise-you-if-this-headline-was-about-318-1819574532/
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
True. This is the state of our nation.
Exactly right. They want us to be intimidated. Fuck that, and fuck Sauron and his Nazgul helpers
What Trump and his allies are doing, after all, is not really about honoring him. These tributes are meant to carry the same message as an unrepaired hole in the wall left by a violent domestic abuser’s fist.
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The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification
As the president graffitis his name to beloved institutions and builds monuments to his own vanity, we must focus on how much fun it will be to tear it all down.
trib.al
December 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Exactly right. They want us to be intimidated. Fuck that, and fuck Sauron and his Nazgul helpers
Yes, NOW, dammit!
December 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Yes, NOW, dammit!
Hard to argue with that one.
Alright. Everyone can stop now. We have a winner.
these documents are more blacked out than Pete Hegseth on New Years Eve
December 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Hard to argue with that one.