jdm
@jdm0079.bsky.social
editor of books in archaeology and anthropology. hobbyist gamemaker. gundam scholar. cat and bird enjoyer. my views are my own and not a representation of my employer or anyone related to me.
http://john.bombdotcom.net/
south salt lake, utah
http://john.bombdotcom.net/
south salt lake, utah
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@jdm0079.bsky.social
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Zem by John D. Moore
Place blocks to help Zem make it to the exit!
jdmgames.itch.io
Just released my newest game: "Zem!"
It's an indirect-control puzzle game, loosely based on a 30-year-old series of ZZT games. 35 increasingly difficult stages, plus a level editor. Free download for Windows and macOS at @itch.io. #gamemaker #gamerelease #freegames #indiegames jdmgames.itch.io/zem
It's an indirect-control puzzle game, loosely based on a 30-year-old series of ZZT games. 35 increasingly difficult stages, plus a level editor. Free download for Windows and macOS at @itch.io. #gamemaker #gamerelease #freegames #indiegames jdmgames.itch.io/zem
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Worth emphasizing that all of these military options for attacking Iran—without congressional authorization—would be flagrantly illegal under both US and international law.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
Trump Weighs New Military Options Against Iran
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Worth emphasizing that all of these military options for attacking Iran—without congressional authorization—would be flagrantly illegal under both US and international law.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
it is insane this isn’t being talked about more tbh
Now is the time for democrats to introduce a bill for comprehensive immigration reform.
Do they lack the skill to do this? Change the discussion to reform.
Own fixing it.
@schumer.senate.gov time to take the wheel on the issue.
Do they lack the skill to do this? Change the discussion to reform.
Own fixing it.
@schumer.senate.gov time to take the wheel on the issue.
January 30, 2026 at 7:29 AM
it is insane this isn’t being talked about more tbh
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Now is the time for democrats to introduce a bill for comprehensive immigration reform.
Do they lack the skill to do this? Change the discussion to reform.
Own fixing it.
@schumer.senate.gov time to take the wheel on the issue.
Do they lack the skill to do this? Change the discussion to reform.
Own fixing it.
@schumer.senate.gov time to take the wheel on the issue.
January 30, 2026 at 6:34 AM
Now is the time for democrats to introduce a bill for comprehensive immigration reform.
Do they lack the skill to do this? Change the discussion to reform.
Own fixing it.
@schumer.senate.gov time to take the wheel on the issue.
Do they lack the skill to do this? Change the discussion to reform.
Own fixing it.
@schumer.senate.gov time to take the wheel on the issue.
"hell of an act. what do you call it?"
"the golden age!"
"the golden age!"
feel like this is one of the bigger labor stories of Our Current Regrettable Age variety.com/2026/gaming/...
One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off in 2025, GDC Study Reveals
One-third of U.S. video game industry workers say they were laid off last year, according to GDC.
variety.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:25 AM
"hell of an act. what do you call it?"
"the golden age!"
"the golden age!"
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Someone upload everything trump and gop is doing onto the porn sites Mike johnson's son visits, so Mike Johnson will see them
January 30, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Someone upload everything trump and gop is doing onto the porn sites Mike johnson's son visits, so Mike Johnson will see them
i hope it's chaffetz just because there's no way this gig *helps him* become the next governor of utah
Who will replace Kristi Noem as the next Stasi commissar? Jason Chaffetz, Glenn Youngkin and Lee Zeldin are being floated as potential replacements for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/202...
January 30, 2026 at 7:22 AM
i hope it's chaffetz just because there's no way this gig *helps him* become the next governor of utah
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Tom Homan?
More like,
Bask Om, man
More like,
Bask Om, man
June 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Tom Homan?
More like,
Bask Om, man
More like,
Bask Om, man
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the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 AM
the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system
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He was a person.
He was murdered.
He’s not a “stock” to follow.
What a ghoul of a person Trump is 🤮
He was murdered.
He’s not a “stock” to follow.
What a ghoul of a person Trump is 🤮
Trump: “Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent.”
January 30, 2026 at 6:38 AM
He was a person.
He was murdered.
He’s not a “stock” to follow.
What a ghoul of a person Trump is 🤮
He was murdered.
He’s not a “stock” to follow.
What a ghoul of a person Trump is 🤮
5 jobs you've had:
blendtender
senior customer service supervisor (jewerly & intimates)
legal assistant
book publicist
acquisitions editor
blendtender
senior customer service supervisor (jewerly & intimates)
legal assistant
book publicist
acquisitions editor
5 jobs you’ve had:
university instructor
courier
freelance author
journalist
public historian
university instructor
courier
freelance author
journalist
public historian
5 jobs you’ve had:
Web designer
Car sales 😩
Milliner
City planning journalist
Systems Administrator
Web designer
Car sales 😩
Milliner
City planning journalist
Systems Administrator
January 30, 2026 at 7:10 AM
5 jobs you've had:
blendtender
senior customer service supervisor (jewerly & intimates)
legal assistant
book publicist
acquisitions editor
blendtender
senior customer service supervisor (jewerly & intimates)
legal assistant
book publicist
acquisitions editor
the nurse who's become a national hero's 'stock has gone way down' according to normal, likeable, and intelligent human being donald trump
Trump: “Agitator and, perhaps, insurrectionist, Alex Pretti’s stock has gone way down with the just released video of him screaming and spitting in the face of a very calm and under control ICE Officer, and then crazily kicking in a new and very expensive government vehicle, so hard and violent.”
January 30, 2026 at 6:40 AM
the nurse who's become a national hero's 'stock has gone way down' according to normal, likeable, and intelligent human being donald trump
i got this email back from my house rep. in response to an email i'd sent her about ice and immigration issues. and reader, i found this condescension downright offensive.
January 30, 2026 at 5:19 AM
i got this email back from my house rep. in response to an email i'd sent her about ice and immigration issues. and reader, i found this condescension downright offensive.
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Donate to Michael Finch whose running against this fat bigot in a R+1.5 seat
secure.actblue.com/donate/purrtah
secure.actblue.com/donate/purrtah
January 29, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Donate to Michael Finch whose running against this fat bigot in a R+1.5 seat
secure.actblue.com/donate/purrtah
secure.actblue.com/donate/purrtah
my favorite* thing about how much people hate will stancil is they've just kind of decided he's a piece of shit, so they accuse him of doing every shitty thing and holding every shitty opinion they can think of.
*it actually fuckin sucks
*it actually fuckin sucks
January 30, 2026 at 1:57 AM
my favorite* thing about how much people hate will stancil is they've just kind of decided he's a piece of shit, so they accuse him of doing every shitty thing and holding every shitty opinion they can think of.
*it actually fuckin sucks
*it actually fuckin sucks
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look I'm going to give the guy some credit, he's always finding brand new ways to fuck things up that I simply never would have considered
"I'm blowing up aircraft certifications because of private jets and also because I want to take over canada" I mean what
"I'm blowing up aircraft certifications because of private jets and also because I want to take over canada" I mean what
January 30, 2026 at 12:58 AM
look I'm going to give the guy some credit, he's always finding brand new ways to fuck things up that I simply never would have considered
"I'm blowing up aircraft certifications because of private jets and also because I want to take over canada" I mean what
"I'm blowing up aircraft certifications because of private jets and also because I want to take over canada" I mean what
the republican-appointed court system in utah keeps delivering legal defeats on constitutional grounds for the truly overreaching, scummy state legislature, so the state legislature is planning to create a whole separate constitutional court that they and the governor would control. absurd.
The Utah Legislature’s laws have frequently been found unconstitutional in recent years.
Now the GOP supermajority wants to create a panel of three judges — chosen by the governor and confirmed by the Senate — to make those determinations.
Now the GOP supermajority wants to create a panel of three judges — chosen by the governor and confirmed by the Senate — to make those determinations.
Does Utah need a new court to hear a constitutional case? House GOP is moving quick to make it happen.
Republicans in the Utah House of Representatives are moving quickly to try to pass a bill that would create a new Constitutional Court.
www.sltrib.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:52 AM
the republican-appointed court system in utah keeps delivering legal defeats on constitutional grounds for the truly overreaching, scummy state legislature, so the state legislature is planning to create a whole separate constitutional court that they and the governor would control. absurd.
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These are my favourite trump idiotic pronouncements, the ones that have far bigger impacts on americans than Canadians. Just the dumbest loudest idiot to ever live.
January 30, 2026 at 1:40 AM
These are my favourite trump idiotic pronouncements, the ones that have far bigger impacts on americans than Canadians. Just the dumbest loudest idiot to ever live.
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love that early american colonial vinyl siding
January 29, 2026 at 6:44 PM
love that early american colonial vinyl siding
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just choked on my beverage
January 29, 2026 at 11:19 PM
just choked on my beverage
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we do, in fact, owe each other things. one of those things is accountability for the results of our actions.
January 29, 2026 at 5:11 PM
we do, in fact, owe each other things. one of those things is accountability for the results of our actions.
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ICE dining at a restaraunt and then arrsting people working there isn't just cruel and racist, it also invokes power and a master-slave dynamic: being served by those over whom you exert power to abuse, brutaluze, and destroy symbolically harkens back to slavery and conquest.
New in PN: 'Abolish ICE' is imperative
"There's no amount of training that can instill basic humanity in thugs who willingly mistreat women, children, and old men. ICE agents reportedly dined at a Mexican restaurant in MN before arresting employees. How will 'training' fix that level of depravity?"
"There's no amount of training that can instill basic humanity in thugs who willingly mistreat women, children, and old men. ICE agents reportedly dined at a Mexican restaurant in MN before arresting employees. How will 'training' fix that level of depravity?"
'Abolish ICE' is imperative
It's also better politics than you might think.
www.publicnotice.co
January 29, 2026 at 7:58 PM
ICE dining at a restaraunt and then arrsting people working there isn't just cruel and racist, it also invokes power and a master-slave dynamic: being served by those over whom you exert power to abuse, brutaluze, and destroy symbolically harkens back to slavery and conquest.
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Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF
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A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 3:58 PM
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
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Days after Secretary Noem took office, she purported to "vacate" decisions by Secretary Mayorkas to extend TPS for Venezuela and Haiti — even though the law says repeatedly that TPS, once granted, lasts until it expires.
The 9th Circuit says she had no authority to do that.
The 9th Circuit says she had no authority to do that.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans and Haitians was unlawful, a Ninth Circuit panel found.
It’s the first time an appellate court has ruled on the substance of Trump efforts to dismantle the TPS program.
It’s the first time an appellate court has ruled on the substance of Trump efforts to dismantle the TPS program.
DHS Unlawfully Ended Venezuelan Migrant Status, Ninth Cir. Says
The Trump administration’s termination of humanitarian protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants violated the Immigration and Nationality Act, a federal appeals court ...
news.bloomberglaw.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Days after Secretary Noem took office, she purported to "vacate" decisions by Secretary Mayorkas to extend TPS for Venezuela and Haiti — even though the law says repeatedly that TPS, once granted, lasts until it expires.
The 9th Circuit says she had no authority to do that.
The 9th Circuit says she had no authority to do that.