Jon
@akaten.bsky.social
Classical Five Element Acupuncturist in Seattle, specializing in tissue regeneration therapy (softwave therapy). Book, tea, and cat enthusiast. He/him. 🏳️🌈👨❤️💋👨🩸
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Many people think this race could be decided by only a handful of votes (here’s former Seattle mayor Greg Nickels). Have YOU checked to make sure that yours was counted? Check our link in bio to check on your vote with King County elections!
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Many people think this race could be decided by only a handful of votes (here’s former Seattle mayor Greg Nickels). Have YOU checked to make sure that yours was counted? Check our link in bio to check on your vote with King County elections!
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'Vidal saw Christopher Isherwood remind a young Jewish film producer that the Nazis persecuted gay people too. “After all, Hitler killed 600,000 homosexuals.” The young man was not impressed. “But Hitler killed six *million* Jews,” he said sternly. “What are you?” Isherwood asked. “In real estate?”'
Gore Vidal at 100 — the master of the waspish put-down
The American novelist and critic was born a century ago this month. John Self celebrates the best of his provocative, witty writing
www.thetimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
'Vidal saw Christopher Isherwood remind a young Jewish film producer that the Nazis persecuted gay people too. “After all, Hitler killed 600,000 homosexuals.” The young man was not impressed. “But Hitler killed six *million* Jews,” he said sternly. “What are you?” Isherwood asked. “In real estate?”'
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absolutely obsessed with this song rn
Cain Culto - KFC Santería feat. Sudan Archives (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Cain Culto
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
absolutely obsessed with this song rn
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How long until we start to see cops generate fake bodycam or surveillance footage to "justify" the violence they've committed against a victim?
OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this
October 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
How long until we start to see cops generate fake bodycam or surveillance footage to "justify" the violence they've committed against a victim?
The water was exceptionally beautiful today.
September 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The water was exceptionally beautiful today.
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seattle next
Kinda funny that a judge can speak the truth about New York state climate policy -- it isn't enough, it isn't complying with the law, no, you don't get a gold star for trying, no, you don't get to make excuses -- in a way that virtually no journalist or other public figure will.
Judge Skewers Hochul Administration Over New York's Climate Law Delays
The judge suggested he'll rule that the state is violating its climate law.
nysfocus.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
seattle next
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The Nazis made laws that made it legal to harm and even kill people. It's the mid 30s again and the Nazis now are the Republican Party.
July 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Nazis made laws that made it legal to harm and even kill people. It's the mid 30s again and the Nazis now are the Republican Party.
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remember that these people oppose trans healthcare for children because giving children agency over their bodies makes it harder for them to get away with preying on them and they see themselves entitled to sexually abusing children
June 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
remember that these people oppose trans healthcare for children because giving children agency over their bodies makes it harder for them to get away with preying on them and they see themselves entitled to sexually abusing children
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Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.
He Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him
Alex Taylor believed he had made contact with a conscious entity within OpenAI’s software, and that she'd been murdered. Then everything went wrong.
www.rollingstone.com
June 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Grateful to all who’ve read and supported my AI coverage lately. This is probably the most difficult work I’ve done on the subject to date and I hope it it can be a wake-up call. My profound thanks to Kent Taylor for trusting me with his son Alex’s story.
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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
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Whole thread. Seriously, if you don't care what the setting looks like and don't think it's worth spending time on, then why make your reader spend time on it? Just skip to what you *do* care about.
The choices the author makes are big parts of what makes a book interesting. It's part of what makes your authorial voice. Authors like this tell me they don't actually know what they're doing and I shouldn't waste my time. It's your voice and your creativity that I'm interested in. 3/
May 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Whole thread. Seriously, if you don't care what the setting looks like and don't think it's worth spending time on, then why make your reader spend time on it? Just skip to what you *do* care about.
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
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Harvey Fierstein has used art to uplift, to educate, to protest, to challenge, to speak up and speak out. This is the power and burden of art. It's why those who seek to control and subjugate attempt to erase it. There is courage in creation that those who seek to limit it will never understand.
March 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Harvey Fierstein has used art to uplift, to educate, to protest, to challenge, to speak up and speak out. This is the power and burden of art. It's why those who seek to control and subjugate attempt to erase it. There is courage in creation that those who seek to limit it will never understand.
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It's fascinating watching Democratic Party politicians who are behaving as if careerism remains a viable strategy with a long-term future under authoritarianism when you are on the losing side.
March 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It's fascinating watching Democratic Party politicians who are behaving as if careerism remains a viable strategy with a long-term future under authoritarianism when you are on the losing side.
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Will never cease to amaze and appall that pretty much every USA problem can be boiled down to “we didn’t want Black people to have it too so we rather not have it at all”.
March 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Will never cease to amaze and appall that pretty much every USA problem can be boiled down to “we didn’t want Black people to have it too so we rather not have it at all”.
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A decent chunk of the US economy is just unfairly incarcerating Black people and then charging them.
Usually, Black folk get caught up during traffic stops. This is why we get pulled over so much more often than white people.🤯
During covid, so many people stopped driving, the gravy train stopped.
Usually, Black folk get caught up during traffic stops. This is why we get pulled over so much more often than white people.🤯
During covid, so many people stopped driving, the gravy train stopped.
I'm sure very few people know about this. Inmates in 43 states are charged a per diem cost for "room and board" ranging between $40 to hundreds of dollars. In some states you owe for every day of your original sentence EVEN IF YOU GET OUT EARLY.
www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
February 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A decent chunk of the US economy is just unfairly incarcerating Black people and then charging them.
Usually, Black folk get caught up during traffic stops. This is why we get pulled over so much more often than white people.🤯
During covid, so many people stopped driving, the gravy train stopped.
Usually, Black folk get caught up during traffic stops. This is why we get pulled over so much more often than white people.🤯
During covid, so many people stopped driving, the gravy train stopped.
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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
This is a manifesto against disability.
This is the language of eugenics.
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People gotta get it through their thick skulls: Elon Musk is not actually good at business. Tesla would have died many times over by now, if not for outright fraud. The tactics he is using on government now have destroyed Twitter as an experience and business. His other companies aren't profitable.
February 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
People gotta get it through their thick skulls: Elon Musk is not actually good at business. Tesla would have died many times over by now, if not for outright fraud. The tactics he is using on government now have destroyed Twitter as an experience and business. His other companies aren't profitable.
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Both sides were right: Biden really was committed to supporting Israel beyond all justification, Trump really is meaningfully worse
On Air Force One from Las Vegas to Miami, President Trump says Palestinians in Gaza should be relocated.
“I’d like Egypt to take people. I’d like Jordan to take people,” he tells reporters.”We just clean out that whole thing.”
“I’d like Egypt to take people. I’d like Jordan to take people,” he tells reporters.”We just clean out that whole thing.”
January 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Both sides were right: Biden really was committed to supporting Israel beyond all justification, Trump really is meaningfully worse