John
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John
@johnlk.bsky.social
· Jan 15
I'm moving my comics tweeting (skeeting?) over here to Bsky, with Cyclops and a giant octopus, I guess. This thread will be #5501-5600 of the Complete Marvel Reading Order (cmro.travis-starnes.com). I did the first 5500 (!) comics over on Twitter.
Anyway, Cyclops! Giant Octopus! Let's begin.
Anyway, Cyclops! Giant Octopus! Let's begin.
Okay, starting my thread of comics threads. You can find the older threads (for now) on X/Twitter.
First thread: 5501-5594 is here, with Scott Summers fighting a giant octopus. bsky.app/profile/john...
First thread: 5501-5594 is here, with Scott Summers fighting a giant octopus. bsky.app/profile/john...
So I watched Highest 2 Lowerslt (Spike Lee/Denzel High and Low remake), and man, great premise, great performances, some very good individual scenes and sequences, let down by a very bad script that squanders the premise.
February 16, 2026 at 8:32 PM
So I watched Highest 2 Lowerslt (Spike Lee/Denzel High and Low remake), and man, great premise, great performances, some very good individual scenes and sequences, let down by a very bad script that squanders the premise.
"An international order needs common principles and a common moral outlook, as well as treat obligations, if it is to be effective." -- AJP Taylor, feeling more relevant than usual.
February 16, 2026 at 3:31 PM
"An international order needs common principles and a common moral outlook, as well as treat obligations, if it is to be effective." -- AJP Taylor, feeling more relevant than usual.
I feel like we don't talk enough about how Yoda pretends to just be a weird little guy for days(?) when he first meets Luke. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YtD...
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back - Luke Meets Yoda for the First Time [CLIP] | TNT
YouTube video by TNT
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:39 AM
I feel like we don't talk enough about how Yoda pretends to just be a weird little guy for days(?) when he first meets Luke. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YtD...
Look, lots of ways to say US culture from 1776 wasn't exclusively Anglo-Saxon, but Quakers are almost certainly the WASPiest religious group in the US.
American culture from 1776 on was Black, was Indigenous, was Spanish, was Jewish, was Quaker, was a whole lot of different things which then often got together and made splendidly non-European things, and most of our music has an African mother.
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Look, lots of ways to say US culture from 1776 wasn't exclusively Anglo-Saxon, but Quakers are almost certainly the WASPiest religious group in the US.
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Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell
February 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell
When Bernie Sanders last wo n re-election in 2024, he was 83 years old. Janet Mills will be 78 if she wins this fall.
So I'm going to say that you don't get to complain that she is too old unless you can point to evidence you complained about Bernie running.
So I'm going to say that you don't get to complain that she is too old unless you can point to evidence you complained about Bernie running.
February 15, 2026 at 10:02 PM
When Bernie Sanders last wo n re-election in 2024, he was 83 years old. Janet Mills will be 78 if she wins this fall.
So I'm going to say that you don't get to complain that she is too old unless you can point to evidence you complained about Bernie running.
So I'm going to say that you don't get to complain that she is too old unless you can point to evidence you complained about Bernie running.
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My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.
February 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.
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You know Reed’s board game involves the funniest shaped dice ever conceived because a 23.5 sided four dimensional hyper cube die provides the most elegant mathematical curve.
February 15, 2026 at 6:57 PM
You know Reed’s board game involves the funniest shaped dice ever conceived because a 23.5 sided four dimensional hyper cube die provides the most elegant mathematical curve.
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(laudatory)
“Hotel California” has Your Roommate Wrote A Screenplay energy
February 14, 2026 at 8:28 PM
(laudatory)
Christ
The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.
February 14, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Christ
Christ, this is Primo Levi If This Is a Man conditions.
February 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Christ, this is Primo Levi If This Is a Man conditions.
Re: the "CBP officer arrested for harboring illegal immigrant who was his niece and girlfriend" story, it seems like the "girlfriend" part is a bullshit smear from DOJ.
It's complete bullshit. Per the affadavit she regularly visited the US to stay with her American husband on tourist visas. Then she didn't return (illegally I guess), they were working to normalize her status when the husband dumped her. She got refuge with her uncle, a CBP officer. No "girlfriend".
February 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Re: the "CBP officer arrested for harboring illegal immigrant who was his niece and girlfriend" story, it seems like the "girlfriend" part is a bullshit smear from DOJ.
Fitzpatrick officially more scared of the general election than the primary.
As the DHS approaches an increasingly likely shutdown this weekend, Republican U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick said reforms to ICE, including banning masks for federal immigration agents, should be a part of any funding extensions for DHS.
Brian Fitzpatrick supports banning masks for ICE agents as lawmakers mull funding and reforms at Department of Homeland Security
www.inquirer.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Fitzpatrick officially more scared of the general election than the primary.
The sales pitch for GRRM's "Fire and Blood" (and by extension the House of the Dragon show)
"You know how I am famous for my characters and good dialogue? Well what if I didnt do any of them."
February 12, 2026 at 9:09 PM
The sales pitch for GRRM's "Fire and Blood" (and by extension the House of the Dragon show)
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🎶 Out by the West Texas town of El Paso
We reenacted an old Nena tune
Army believed cartel drones were encroachin’
That’s how we shot down a party balloon 🎶
We reenacted an old Nena tune
Army believed cartel drones were encroachin’
That’s how we shot down a party balloon 🎶
NEW: U.S. military shot down what was believed to be a foreign drone near El Paso this week, but it turned out to be party balloon - Fox News
February 11, 2026 at 8:52 PM
🎶 Out by the West Texas town of El Paso
We reenacted an old Nena tune
Army believed cartel drones were encroachin’
That’s how we shot down a party balloon 🎶
We reenacted an old Nena tune
Army believed cartel drones were encroachin’
That’s how we shot down a party balloon 🎶
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It's grand jury material. There would be no basis to release it except Trump and Bondi bre'r rabbitted themselves into getting a bipartisan bill passed.
Given how damaging the Epstein Files have been to Donald Trump specifically it’s political malpractice the Biden admin didn’t release them to the public.
February 10, 2026 at 11:05 PM
It's grand jury material. There would be no basis to release it except Trump and Bondi bre'r rabbitted themselves into getting a bipartisan bill passed.
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Whatever damage the "files" have done to Trump is almost entirely due to the intraparty struggle over releasing them and the shady way the administration has handled it. If Biden had released the files the GOP would be unified in condemning him for it and the media would take that seriously
February 10, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Whatever damage the "files" have done to Trump is almost entirely due to the intraparty struggle over releasing them and the shady way the administration has handled it. If Biden had released the files the GOP would be unified in condemning him for it and the media would take that seriously
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People are going to call mre alarmist and doomer for this, but I'm going to lay out the chilling truth.
There are several nightmare scenario where the opponent can move their pieces into a position where they can straight up capture our king, permanently ending the game of chess on this board.
There are several nightmare scenario where the opponent can move their pieces into a position where they can straight up capture our king, permanently ending the game of chess on this board.
February 10, 2026 at 9:07 AM
People are going to call mre alarmist and doomer for this, but I'm going to lay out the chilling truth.
There are several nightmare scenario where the opponent can move their pieces into a position where they can straight up capture our king, permanently ending the game of chess on this board.
There are several nightmare scenario where the opponent can move their pieces into a position where they can straight up capture our king, permanently ending the game of chess on this board.
I think the biggest misunderstanding of politics comes from people who think that a vote is a favor you do for a politician that they must earn in some way.
A vote is not a favor to a politician. You are voting to make the choice that will help your community the most/hurt it the least.
A vote is not a favor to a politician. You are voting to make the choice that will help your community the most/hurt it the least.
February 10, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I think the biggest misunderstanding of politics comes from people who think that a vote is a favor you do for a politician that they must earn in some way.
A vote is not a favor to a politician. You are voting to make the choice that will help your community the most/hurt it the least.
A vote is not a favor to a politician. You are voting to make the choice that will help your community the most/hurt it the least.
This is terrible.
Stunning stat from Mark: There’s now only 1 professional media outlet covering the Nats day to day: MLB.com, the league-owned outlet.
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Pitchers and catchers report for spring training tomorrow. And so do I.
Welcome to Nats Journal. Hope you'll join me on this new endeavor, and hope you'll help spread the word!
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Welcome to Nats Journal. Hope you'll join me on this new endeavor, and hope you'll help spread the word!
natsjournal.com/p/welcome-to...
February 10, 2026 at 3:21 AM
This is terrible.
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don't carry maga's water for them. don't try to work out how there's some secret loophole in the constitution that magically ends democracy. there isn't. that's the whole fucking point you fucking dopes
February 9, 2026 at 11:33 PM
don't carry maga's water for them. don't try to work out how there's some secret loophole in the constitution that magically ends democracy. there isn't. that's the whole fucking point you fucking dopes
No she can't because nobody would believe a word she says, what an utterly insane thing to report straight
February 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
No she can't because nobody would believe a word she says, what an utterly insane thing to report straight