@jericho89.bsky.social
Gameplay Programmer @ Epic Games.
Interests: Knitting, weightlifting, TTRPGs, SF/F
Interests: Knitting, weightlifting, TTRPGs, SF/F
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I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!
September 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I'm kind of shocked that anyone is still proposing technocratic solutions to the "debate" over immigration. Even if this were a good idea (and it is not), Republican elites and media will never tell their base about it. You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem!
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the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back
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But yeah, this is why spending the last five years embracing policing as a common-sense bipartisan institution, with critics being attributed to the result of some mass hysteria, was always going to end poorly. Because the police weren’t changing, and the violence never stopped.
August 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
But yeah, this is why spending the last five years embracing policing as a common-sense bipartisan institution, with critics being attributed to the result of some mass hysteria, was always going to end poorly. Because the police weren’t changing, and the violence never stopped.
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“I understand that there are parents who are concerned about trans kids in schools. I hope those parents are more concerned about the Republican destruction of opportunity for your kids. If your greatest concern is trans kids, there is a party that will harass them to death for you. It won’t be us.”
August 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“I understand that there are parents who are concerned about trans kids in schools. I hope those parents are more concerned about the Republican destruction of opportunity for your kids. If your greatest concern is trans kids, there is a party that will harass them to death for you. It won’t be us.”
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A new report by a former NYPD executive shows that more cops doesn't necessarily equal better public safety.
NYPD head count doesn't correlate to crime rates, data suggests, despite candidate rhetoric
A former NYPD executive crunched some numbers that appear to belie some candidates' calls for more police.
gothamist.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A new report by a former NYPD executive shows that more cops doesn't necessarily equal better public safety.
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The "we have to put obstacles in the way to make sure that people who don't deserve help don't get it" bureaucratic strategy just puts obstacles in the way for people who DO deserve help and then nobody gets help. It's a centrist, neoliberal tactic that keeps the status quo in place.
August 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The "we have to put obstacles in the way to make sure that people who don't deserve help don't get it" bureaucratic strategy just puts obstacles in the way for people who DO deserve help and then nobody gets help. It's a centrist, neoliberal tactic that keeps the status quo in place.
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I normally don't do character redesigns but Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School has been living rent-free in my head for thirty years and I finally decided to do something about it. #illustration #characterdesign
July 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I normally don't do character redesigns but Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School has been living rent-free in my head for thirty years and I finally decided to do something about it. #illustration #characterdesign
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cop is the only job in the world where if someone points out they're actually bad at their ostensible job, it's considered an implicit argument for giving them all raises
The thesis of the article is that because American cops are so terrible at solving murder (and getting much much worse than they used to be), "experts" believe the U.S. must spend massively more money on hiring police and surveillance.
July 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
cop is the only job in the world where if someone points out they're actually bad at their ostensible job, it's considered an implicit argument for giving them all raises
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64% of Medicaid recipients under age 65 work, per KFF. As for the rest, see below. There are not 34m potential agricultural workers on Medicaid just raring to go pick vegetables.
July 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
64% of Medicaid recipients under age 65 work, per KFF. As for the rest, see below. There are not 34m potential agricultural workers on Medicaid just raring to go pick vegetables.
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Sorry for losing my temper lol I’m really just sick of these conclusions that boil down to ‘how are we going to pay for that’ but only for things that liberate people like freedom of movement or shelter when you can look around & see the incalculable costs we pay to do harm as a form of status quo.
July 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sorry for losing my temper lol I’m really just sick of these conclusions that boil down to ‘how are we going to pay for that’ but only for things that liberate people like freedom of movement or shelter when you can look around & see the incalculable costs we pay to do harm as a form of status quo.
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i think that if you are an upper income writer living in a major urban area complaining about “the laptop class” — really, if you are a knowledge worker of any kind complaining about the “laptop class — you have an obligation to quit your job and go work in a factory for a year
Apparently Mamdani voters are the most privileged class in history AND are bitter about having no money and living in an apartment with 3 roommates into their 30s.
Pick a damn lane.
Pick a damn lane.
July 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
i think that if you are an upper income writer living in a major urban area complaining about “the laptop class” — really, if you are a knowledge worker of any kind complaining about the “laptop class — you have an obligation to quit your job and go work in a factory for a year
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What concerns me about renewed white-nationalist fervor in Western politics is not simply that it's genocidal. Most people recognize that.
I worry that 'progressives' will struggle to move beyond "we should go back to when immigrants were simply precarious and not being actively rounded up".
I worry that 'progressives' will struggle to move beyond "we should go back to when immigrants were simply precarious and not being actively rounded up".
July 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
What concerns me about renewed white-nationalist fervor in Western politics is not simply that it's genocidal. Most people recognize that.
I worry that 'progressives' will struggle to move beyond "we should go back to when immigrants were simply precarious and not being actively rounded up".
I worry that 'progressives' will struggle to move beyond "we should go back to when immigrants were simply precarious and not being actively rounded up".
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Most horrifying part of this imo is that this country never *stops* funding these things once they start. We've never closed Guantanamo, we've never shuttered Homeland Security. The potential damage here lasts forever.
More context of scale for the #ICE budget.
We are going to war with ourselves.
We are going to war with ourselves.
July 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Most horrifying part of this imo is that this country never *stops* funding these things once they start. We've never closed Guantanamo, we've never shuttered Homeland Security. The potential damage here lasts forever.
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The fact that Democrats spent last year touting their support for Biden’s “border militarization and no path to citizenship” bill, I’m scared of how Democrats’ default will be to normalize these fascistic levels of ICE funding if/when they get back power. We will need the agency dismantled.
July 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The fact that Democrats spent last year touting their support for Biden’s “border militarization and no path to citizenship” bill, I’m scared of how Democrats’ default will be to normalize these fascistic levels of ICE funding if/when they get back power. We will need the agency dismantled.
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Seeing a lot of racist pinkwashing bullshit about Muslims and homosexuality and it’s a good time to share how I was on the gay marriage beat for a decade and racist gays never believed me when I shared how US Muslims favored equal LGBT rights (52%) over Christian evangelicals (34%)!
June 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Seeing a lot of racist pinkwashing bullshit about Muslims and homosexuality and it’s a good time to share how I was on the gay marriage beat for a decade and racist gays never believed me when I shared how US Muslims favored equal LGBT rights (52%) over Christian evangelicals (34%)!
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is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,
June 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,
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law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called yesterday's decision about nationwide injunctions "an existential threat to the rule of law."
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Supreme Court Put Nationwide Injunctions to the Torch
That isn’t the disaster for birthright citizenship that some fear.
www.theatlantic.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen
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The fact that anyone could believe that Trump was going to be "only targeting criminals" is a testament to how much the media skews people's impressions of crime and public safety (also how racist people are that they would believe there was so much rampant criminality!).
June 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
The fact that anyone could believe that Trump was going to be "only targeting criminals" is a testament to how much the media skews people's impressions of crime and public safety (also how racist people are that they would believe there was so much rampant criminality!).
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Rosamund Pike singing “Coming Home from Tarwin’s Gap” from The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan, the fourth book of The Wheel of Time
June 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Rosamund Pike singing “Coming Home from Tarwin’s Gap” from The Shadow Rising by Robert Jordan, the fourth book of The Wheel of Time
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Is your child texting about Arthurian legend?
LOL: Lies of Lancelot
WTF: Way to Feud
BRB: Bors Refused Brandegorre
TTYL: The Tintagel Yule Log
TBH: That's Bertilak's Head
IKR: I'm King Rience
LOL: Lies of Lancelot
WTF: Way to Feud
BRB: Bors Refused Brandegorre
TTYL: The Tintagel Yule Log
TBH: That's Bertilak's Head
IKR: I'm King Rience
June 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Is your child texting about Arthurian legend?
LOL: Lies of Lancelot
WTF: Way to Feud
BRB: Bors Refused Brandegorre
TTYL: The Tintagel Yule Log
TBH: That's Bertilak's Head
IKR: I'm King Rience
LOL: Lies of Lancelot
WTF: Way to Feud
BRB: Bors Refused Brandegorre
TTYL: The Tintagel Yule Log
TBH: That's Bertilak's Head
IKR: I'm King Rience
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turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...
Climate Change Will Bankrupt the Country
Climate-fueled disasters cost America almost a trillion dollars over the last year, far more than economists predicted.
prospect.org
June 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...
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I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
June 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles