John Rogers
@johnrogers.bsky.social
TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
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“Why is literacy important?”
Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*
Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!
Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*
Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
“Why is literacy important?”
Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*
Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!
Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*
Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!
Hey #ttrpg folks, I'm struggling with really grokking Carved from Brindlewood play. Please drop any Actual plays -- YouTube or podcast, if you don't mind.
I get it, but I don't GET it, get it. Much like I really didn't get PbtA until a crapload of @thecritshow.bsky.social episodes.
I get it, but I don't GET it, get it. Much like I really didn't get PbtA until a crapload of @thecritshow.bsky.social episodes.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Hey #ttrpg folks, I'm struggling with really grokking Carved from Brindlewood play. Please drop any Actual plays -- YouTube or podcast, if you don't mind.
I get it, but I don't GET it, get it. Much like I really didn't get PbtA until a crapload of @thecritshow.bsky.social episodes.
I get it, but I don't GET it, get it. Much like I really didn't get PbtA until a crapload of @thecritshow.bsky.social episodes.
That is big! I'm a fan of both @laynemorgan.bsky.social and @skyepatridge.bsky.social and the premise is great. I'm in.
Want to hear something kinda big? In 2026 me and @skyepatridge.bsky.social are cocreating a series at White Ash as their first creator owned series!
RIGHT NOW the 8 page ashcan preview is yours as part of @charliestickney.bsky.social’s kickstarter for “The Game” as an add on or tier. Link below!
RIGHT NOW the 8 page ashcan preview is yours as part of @charliestickney.bsky.social’s kickstarter for “The Game” as an add on or tier. Link below!
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
That is big! I'm a fan of both @laynemorgan.bsky.social and @skyepatridge.bsky.social and the premise is great. I'm in.
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“Hopefully the Republicans may hear us” may be the dumbest sentence I’ve heard uttered since her colleague from Maine said Trump “learned his lesson” after his first impeachment.
Democratic Senator Shaheen says "Hopefully the Republicans may hear us."
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“Hopefully the Republicans may hear us” may be the dumbest sentence I’ve heard uttered since her colleague from Maine said Trump “learned his lesson” after his first impeachment.
If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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They also should have just said this aloud. I agree with this post, this is the wrong move, it was the opportunity to say "Trump is hurting you so much when all we're asking for is to make your health insurance less expensive." BUT - we just couldn't stand to see people hurt anymore is
like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
They also should have just said this aloud. I agree with this post, this is the wrong move, it was the opportunity to say "Trump is hurting you so much when all we're asking for is to make your health insurance less expensive." BUT - we just couldn't stand to see people hurt anymore is
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Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
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just fucking pathetic
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
just fucking pathetic
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These people have exactly one strong impulse and it's to immediately throw cold water on any indication that their own base is getting angry or making demands. They fundamentally see their purpose as telling anyone thinking about standing up for themselves to knock it off and be quiet.
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
These people have exactly one strong impulse and it's to immediately throw cold water on any indication that their own base is getting angry or making demands. They fundamentally see their purpose as telling anyone thinking about standing up for themselves to knock it off and be quiet.
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This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is my favorite part of this cycle we've been repeating for my entire adult life: when they sit backwards on the chair for some real talk and explain that you're a fucking peasant who doesn't understand how things work.
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The filibuster is so fundamentally anti-democratic that forcing the authoritarian party to kill it so that they could keep taking health care and food away from Americans was probably the cleanest out from the damn thing, yet this Cones of Duneshire-ass opposition party loves rules more than wins.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The filibuster is so fundamentally anti-democratic that forcing the authoritarian party to kill it so that they could keep taking health care and food away from Americans was probably the cleanest out from the damn thing, yet this Cones of Duneshire-ass opposition party loves rules more than wins.
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The answer Sen, Shaheen is that since America elected the Black man to be president, the official position of the Republican Party is “not to work together with Democrats to address the problems that are facing this country.”
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The answer Sen, Shaheen is that since America elected the Black man to be president, the official position of the Republican Party is “not to work together with Democrats to address the problems that are facing this country.”
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
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Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Every single person in Little Village fighting ICE/BP this week, each one of those people had more courage than the entire party leadership put together. Every single person in the street resisting in LA, Portland, Chicago, they're ALL showing more backbone than useless top tiers of Dem apparatus
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
March 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
To repeat: I have studied a lot of cases of autocratization over the past 15 years. Wrote about them, taught about them, consulting about them.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
I do not recall an opposition so apathetic, ignorant, and inept as the @democrats.org. They cling to their power, rather than fight for democracy. Shame.
This is genuinely top 5 dumbest thing any American politician has ever said. These fucking people.
Hassan: With the government reopening shortly, Republicans now finally have to come to the table. Or make no mistake, Americans will remember who stood in the way.
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is genuinely top 5 dumbest thing any American politician has ever said. These fucking people.
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Today you have access to my computer to see my files and process for assembling a book in Adobe InDesign. I've built a 204 page book of text and art. Here's how I did it, how I organized my files, my specs and settings, my measurements, page seizes, bleeds and margins, how to use Master Pages and...
Using Adobe InDesign To Assemble My New Book: HOW TO DRAW 2026
YouTube video by Terry Moore Art
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Today you have access to my computer to see my files and process for assembling a book in Adobe InDesign. I've built a 204 page book of text and art. Here's how I did it, how I organized my files, my specs and settings, my measurements, page seizes, bleeds and margins, how to use Master Pages and...
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I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
Coda to the ink thread from last week - two very nice choices here from your recs, people, thanks.
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Coda to the ink thread from last week - two very nice choices here from your recs, people, thanks.
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This how I find out I have a son??
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This how I find out I have a son??
You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.
I’m sorry, but a goofy looking guy who grew up a privileged son of a pediatrician and has a phd in social theory from the university of Goethe and started in tech by investing an inheritance left to him by his grandfather talking about being a “dude” is very, very funny to me.
November 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
You cannot separate the current nightmare we now inhabit from the collapse/crisis in how rich, powerful middle-aged men perceive masculinity, especially their own insecurities.
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"What we do know...is that crypto and meme assets have already become what I consider to be a financial cesspool that is leveraged by many of the darkest actors on the planet.
My earlier testimony in European Parliament.
youtu.be/xJaJfROLs6Y
My earlier testimony in European Parliament.
youtu.be/xJaJfROLs6Y
Prof Jagolinzer testifies to EU Parliament about the dark uses of cryptocurrency
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"What we do know...is that crypto and meme assets have already become what I consider to be a financial cesspool that is leveraged by many of the darkest actors on the planet.
My earlier testimony in European Parliament.
youtu.be/xJaJfROLs6Y
My earlier testimony in European Parliament.
youtu.be/xJaJfROLs6Y