Jed Leonard
@jedleonard.bsky.social
(He/him)
Raleigh-based fantasy author and man of many hats. Cofounder of the Oak City Literary Salon. Chronically ill, occasionally brilliant.
WIP: Wonders Never Cease, in which a middle-aged fisherman definitely does not become a god.
Raleigh-based fantasy author and man of many hats. Cofounder of the Oak City Literary Salon. Chronically ill, occasionally brilliant.
WIP: Wonders Never Cease, in which a middle-aged fisherman definitely does not become a god.
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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
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This, but with society as the unit of analysis is basically my whole thing right now. Get out your vision boards for parallel institution building. Nope. Don’t tell me what can’t be done. Tell me how we figure out how to do it.
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This, but with society as the unit of analysis is basically my whole thing right now. Get out your vision boards for parallel institution building. Nope. Don’t tell me what can’t be done. Tell me how we figure out how to do it.
The 50-year mortgage thing has to be coming from Vance. It's just one more step towards Peter Thiel's vision of modern serfdom. Debt bondage and all.
Ingraham: Is a 50 year mortgage really a good idea?
Trump: It’s not even a big deal. You go from 40 years to 50
Ingraham: 30
Trump: It’s not even a big deal. You go from 40 years to 50
Ingraham: 30
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The 50-year mortgage thing has to be coming from Vance. It's just one more step towards Peter Thiel's vision of modern serfdom. Debt bondage and all.
...For now. I don't trust these weasels any farther than I can throw them. And I'm not a particularly talented weasel-thrower.
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
...For now. I don't trust these weasels any farther than I can throw them. And I'm not a particularly talented weasel-thrower.
Read it, pass it on. Don't flinch.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Read it, pass it on. Don't flinch.
Target continues to be the easiest boycott of my life for two reasons:
1. They really don't stock anything I can't get elsewhere, often for cheaper
2. They just can't seem to stop themselves from pulling shit like this
1. They really don't stock anything I can't get elsewhere, often for cheaper
2. They just can't seem to stop themselves from pulling shit like this
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Target continues to be the easiest boycott of my life for two reasons:
1. They really don't stock anything I can't get elsewhere, often for cheaper
2. They just can't seem to stop themselves from pulling shit like this
1. They really don't stock anything I can't get elsewhere, often for cheaper
2. They just can't seem to stop themselves from pulling shit like this
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I was born with a trust.
That didn't survive.
The white noise of the lies.
The white heat of injustice
Has taken my eyes
I just wanna get high.
(Elbow's "Giants of All Sizes" - an incredible album, if you've got some time to listen)
That didn't survive.
The white noise of the lies.
The white heat of injustice
Has taken my eyes
I just wanna get high.
(Elbow's "Giants of All Sizes" - an incredible album, if you've got some time to listen)
elbow - White Noise White Heat (Official)
YouTube video by elbow
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I was born with a trust.
That didn't survive.
The white noise of the lies.
The white heat of injustice
Has taken my eyes
I just wanna get high.
(Elbow's "Giants of All Sizes" - an incredible album, if you've got some time to listen)
That didn't survive.
The white noise of the lies.
The white heat of injustice
Has taken my eyes
I just wanna get high.
(Elbow's "Giants of All Sizes" - an incredible album, if you've got some time to listen)
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
Hey, maybe newspapers should be worker-owned
Wow, sounds like Jeff Bezos is mad
(from A Washington Post editorial entitled "Zohran Mamdani’s victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party")
(from A Washington Post editorial entitled "Zohran Mamdani’s victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party")
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Hey, maybe newspapers should be worker-owned
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How to write for men.
November 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
How to write for men.
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“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
Eugene V. Debs
Eugene V. Debs
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
Genuinely wish nothing but the best for this dude. Just a total class act.
Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Genuinely wish nothing but the best for this dude. Just a total class act.
Schmoyoho don't miss, y'all 🔥
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Schmoyoho don't miss, y'all 🔥
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
The sheer poetry of Cheney dying *and* Democrats sweeping the municipal elections on the anniversary of Trump's victory
Like our immune system is finally kicking in or something
Like our immune system is finally kicking in or something
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The sheer poetry of Cheney dying *and* Democrats sweeping the municipal elections on the anniversary of Trump's victory
Like our immune system is finally kicking in or something
Like our immune system is finally kicking in or something
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Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
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Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
November 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???
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between cuomo and portnoy, mamdani is poised to kill new york's thriving Allegations Industry
now that's what I call a Mamdani endorsement. Don't threaten New Yorkers with a good time, Dave. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Dave Portnoy Threatens To Move Barstool Sports Out of New York City If Zohran Mamdani Becomes Mayor: ‘I Hate This Guy So Much’
Portnoy, 48, admitted that he has already asked his "finance guy" to begin looking at potential office spaces outside of the city.
www.yahoo.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
between cuomo and portnoy, mamdani is poised to kill new york's thriving Allegations Industry
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A thing you're not seeing if you haven't checked Twitter in the last week is all the political betting markets (Polymarket, Kalshi) are actively caping for Cuomo and spreading Zohran conspiracies on there. Usually this would be a cause for some sort of regulatory oversight but that no longer exists.
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A thing you're not seeing if you haven't checked Twitter in the last week is all the political betting markets (Polymarket, Kalshi) are actively caping for Cuomo and spreading Zohran conspiracies on there. Usually this would be a cause for some sort of regulatory oversight but that no longer exists.
Oh goodness me, his little fists
Since Q is a boomer who doesn't understand technology I have done you all the favor of posting this insane footage
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Oh goodness me, his little fists
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90% of political coverage should be telling voters what Ds and Rs do when they wield power.
Yes Dems can be feckless and performative but if you're a low-information voter who likes it when poor kids eat, you should just vote Dem and not overthink it. Pundits are weirdly allergic to saying this.
Yes Dems can be feckless and performative but if you're a low-information voter who likes it when poor kids eat, you should just vote Dem and not overthink it. Pundits are weirdly allergic to saying this.
November 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
90% of political coverage should be telling voters what Ds and Rs do when they wield power.
Yes Dems can be feckless and performative but if you're a low-information voter who likes it when poor kids eat, you should just vote Dem and not overthink it. Pundits are weirdly allergic to saying this.
Yes Dems can be feckless and performative but if you're a low-information voter who likes it when poor kids eat, you should just vote Dem and not overthink it. Pundits are weirdly allergic to saying this.
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Woke up today to the news
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Woke up today to the news