Travis Johnson
@travisjj.bsky.social
Writer, critic, film maker, diver, diletante lycanthropologist.
Film & Culture Editor at BLUNT Magazine. bluntmag.com.au
Film & Culture Editor at BLUNT Magazine. bluntmag.com.au
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crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
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hey if you want to help with the 3d printed whistles or get your own whistles or print some: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
3D Printed Whistles | Linktree
We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 1000) & where to send them.
linktr.ee
January 22, 2026 at 12:46 AM
hey if you want to help with the 3d printed whistles or get your own whistles or print some: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
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Please I am on my knees begging
My son is dying in front of me
He was shot and is now in critical condition, fighting for his life in surgery
Gaza cannot save him he needs urgent treatment outside
I am a desperate parent with nothing left but this plea
Please help. Please share. Please save my child
My son is dying in front of me
He was shot and is now in critical condition, fighting for his life in surgery
Gaza cannot save him he needs urgent treatment outside
I am a desperate parent with nothing left but this plea
Please help. Please share. Please save my child
January 21, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Funny thing: an ex of Jared Leto's crashed on my couch for six months a couple years back and man, she had Stories.
ahahah totally missed that Jared Leto had been cast as Skeletor in the new He-Man movie good god whoever's programming the simulation is just fucking LAZY at this point
January 22, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Funny thing: an ex of Jared Leto's crashed on my couch for six months a couple years back and man, she had Stories.
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Woof. The fascisms are really hitting me in the ability to post. HOWEVER THE ART MUST CONTINUE.
Posting one piece of art every day I can manage it #12 🧶
This one is still for sale, and while the camera can’t really catch it, there’s tiny lights inside the vines.
Posting one piece of art every day I can manage it #12 🧶
This one is still for sale, and while the camera can’t really catch it, there’s tiny lights inside the vines.
January 19, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Woof. The fascisms are really hitting me in the ability to post. HOWEVER THE ART MUST CONTINUE.
Posting one piece of art every day I can manage it #12 🧶
This one is still for sale, and while the camera can’t really catch it, there’s tiny lights inside the vines.
Posting one piece of art every day I can manage it #12 🧶
This one is still for sale, and while the camera can’t really catch it, there’s tiny lights inside the vines.
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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
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Second Hand Computer's art is locked. A bit more tinkering and it will become available on itch.
January 21, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Second Hand Computer's art is locked. A bit more tinkering and it will become available on itch.
Also out: dodo drumsticks, passenger pigeon pie.
amazed that dvd rentals were still in the inflation basket till now
January 21, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Also out: dodo drumsticks, passenger pigeon pie.
Is this a take on The Frost Giant's Daughter?
January 21, 2026 at 8:13 AM
Is this a take on The Frost Giant's Daughter?
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Separately, "I thought we would get cool tech shit in cyberpunk"
No, the fantasy of cyberpunk is that the rich hoard the cool tech, the poor are enslaved to renting it back and hacker wizards of the underclass are able to do quasi magical things in the technological refuse of late capitalism.
No, the fantasy of cyberpunk is that the rich hoard the cool tech, the poor are enslaved to renting it back and hacker wizards of the underclass are able to do quasi magical things in the technological refuse of late capitalism.
I can't help but wonder if the main problem with cyberpunk high tech low life romanticism for a lot of people in the imperial core is just that it allowed a lot of bourgeois fantasists to imagine themselves slumming it without...
January 21, 2026 at 5:47 AM
Separately, "I thought we would get cool tech shit in cyberpunk"
No, the fantasy of cyberpunk is that the rich hoard the cool tech, the poor are enslaved to renting it back and hacker wizards of the underclass are able to do quasi magical things in the technological refuse of late capitalism.
No, the fantasy of cyberpunk is that the rich hoard the cool tech, the poor are enslaved to renting it back and hacker wizards of the underclass are able to do quasi magical things in the technological refuse of late capitalism.
Digging into the lore of yesterday's main character, and it ain't great, gang.
The guy who, according to this police report, once threatened to harm his partner and their newborn child, wants to school me about my professional reputation. Unfortunately I have a busy day of actual writing ahead, so I’ll pass. But I’ll post a Rick Recycling update later.
January 20, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Digging into the lore of yesterday's main character, and it ain't great, gang.
You can have a chronological feed or you can have algorithmic virality. You can't have both.
January 20, 2026 at 11:18 AM
You can have a chronological feed or you can have algorithmic virality. You can't have both.
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Okay look - the dunking on this as self-serving etc is all good (really) but I think there is actually a meaningful insight here into why X becoming a child abuse material generator basically had near-zero impact on a huge chunk of the progressive / left base still using it as a comms platform
January 20, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Okay look - the dunking on this as self-serving etc is all good (really) but I think there is actually a meaningful insight here into why X becoming a child abuse material generator basically had near-zero impact on a huge chunk of the progressive / left base still using it as a comms platform
Reminder:
Relitigating
The
Election
At
This
Stage
Of
The
Game
Is
Masturbatory
Bullshit
Relitigating
The
Election
At
This
Stage
Of
The
Game
Is
Masturbatory
Bullshit
Reminder:
All
People
Had
To
Do
Was
Fill
In
A
Little
Oval
Next
To
The
Smart
Black
Lady’s
Name.
All
People
Had
To
Do
Was
Fill
In
A
Little
Oval
Next
To
The
Smart
Black
Lady’s
Name.
January 20, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Reminder:
Relitigating
The
Election
At
This
Stage
Of
The
Game
Is
Masturbatory
Bullshit
Relitigating
The
Election
At
This
Stage
Of
The
Game
Is
Masturbatory
Bullshit
Oh, I dunno...
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Oh, I dunno...
This kinda happened to me once, but the driver just didn't admit he was lost until he drive an articulated bus up a cul-de-sac and that was pretty much that.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 7:53 AM
This kinda happened to me once, but the driver just didn't admit he was lost until he drive an articulated bus up a cul-de-sac and that was pretty much that.
Having read Patrick S. Tomlinson's shitty prose, I should have been adequately prepared for his shitty online opinions, but nope.
January 20, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Having read Patrick S. Tomlinson's shitty prose, I should have been adequately prepared for his shitty online opinions, but nope.
I suspected Jarmusch might be an asshole when I found out he was an anti-Stratfordian.
While Dead Man is a unique take on the Western, its basic premise (protagonist gets shot in the heart, is considered a dead man, gets chased by lawmen/bounty hunters & in the end floats out to the ocean in a canoe to die) was lifted from Rudy Wurlitzer's late 70s script Zebulon:
January 20, 2026 at 6:35 AM
I suspected Jarmusch might be an asshole when I found out he was an anti-Stratfordian.
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Share a TV show that raised you.
I got a twofer, as for seemingly my entire childhood, these two were back to back on the ABC from 6pm.
I got a twofer, as for seemingly my entire childhood, these two were back to back on the ABC from 6pm.
January 19, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Share a TV show that raised you.
I got a twofer, as for seemingly my entire childhood, these two were back to back on the ABC from 6pm.
I got a twofer, as for seemingly my entire childhood, these two were back to back on the ABC from 6pm.
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Please get in touch if you are an illustrator who wants to get involved with our next zine - submission details all here - general-witchfinders.teemill.com/blog/call-fo...
A thread - 1 of 4
🧵 We make a twice yearly British horror zine and our next edition is the Beltane 2026 issue. General submissions will open after Christmas, but we are starting this thread now to connect with illustrators, ideally UK based, who might want to be part of it.
🧵 We make a twice yearly British horror zine and our next edition is the Beltane 2026 issue. General submissions will open after Christmas, but we are starting this thread now to connect with illustrators, ideally UK based, who might want to be part of it.
January 19, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Please get in touch if you are an illustrator who wants to get involved with our next zine - submission details all here - general-witchfinders.teemill.com/blog/call-fo...
Lestat. McCree.
January 19, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Lestat. McCree.
He does kinda look like a Whately, now that you mention it.
Story idea that I'll never get around to writing: Hillbilly Elegy, but for Cthulhu cultists.
January 19, 2026 at 8:08 PM
He does kinda look like a Whately, now that you mention it.