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Bishop Joey (he/him)
@bishopjoey.bsky.social
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Antifascist.
This means: I.Fucking.Hate.Nazis.
Tech writer by profession. Music lover, occasional fiction writer, studying Yiddish. My posts are often tagged *NowPlaying*.

A Republic... if you can keep it.

UNAPOLOGETICALLY WOKE

New liver, same eagles.
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Fine niece who lives in Seattle just brought me #StarshipIris tea! Woot!
November 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I'm not sure this actually works (I think the web site is blocking IP addresses abroad). Please try it and let me know if it works as advertised.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Carmen G posted this without alt text, but it deserves a wider audience...
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wearing a blue suit jacket with US flag lapel pin and blue and white striped necktie. The Washington Monument is blurred behind him. The caption reads: This guy was complaining non-stop about unemployed people sitting at home, collecting government checks and now he has Congress literally SITTING AT HOME NOT WORKING COLLECTING GOVERNMENT PAYCHECKS
October 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.
Cover of Dramarama's 1989 album Stuck in Wonderamaland. Five bandmembers seated with eyes closed in meditation poses. Brick wall behind. a hand floating in the upper left. And flowers across the bottom.
October 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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'Day' alone is looking like this:
illustration of person in black shoes, white socks, blue shorts, a gold belt and red tank top lifting a bar with six large red weights on it.
October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Non, General Zod, and Ursa from the 1970s Superman films, with the caption Siouxsie and the Banshees.
October 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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On Wednesdays, we wear black
#MusicSky
Andrew Eldritch (third from left) and the other members of the 1985 edition of Sisters of Mercy wearing black. Three wear sunglasses. It's night. Behind them is a marquee reading "Detroit's Finest Adult Movies"
October 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Social media post from @DrChrisThompson (dated 17/12/2021): Time for your annual reminder that, according to A Christmas Carol, Bob Cratchit makes 15 shillings a week. Adjusted for inflation, that's $530.27/wk, $27,574/yr, or 13.50/hr. Most Americans on minimum wage earn less than a Dickensian allegory for destitution.
October 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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So what're y'all picking up for #BandcampFriday?
A list of releases purchased on Bandcamp Friday this week: Aeris Suite by Erik Wøllo Concrete Above by NYX Deodada by NYX Stellar Drone 1 by NYX Scrap Cult by NYX Creation Myth by NYX Nooooooo​!​!​! VOLUME V by Trigger Cut Disaster Relief Changes by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Live In San Francisco '16 by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Polygondwanaland by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Origination by Morris Kolontyrsky Winter Suite by TRABANT ECHO ORCHESTRA Pictures of You: A compilation o... by Various Artists A Carnival of Sorts: An R.E.M. c... by Various Artists Operation Ivy Live at The Empty ... by Catbite, Laura Jane Grace book of sorrow by Bohdan Stupak Treize Regards Sur L'Enfant-Jésu... by Thomas Oboe Lee Evan Greer - Never Surrender by Evan Greer A Quinn Martin Production by Engine Kid Edit Moi (2015) by Fritz von Runte Wait by Powderpaint Powderpaint by Powderpaint origin of tragedy ep by DΛRKNΣSS
October 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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There are so many of us...
Combined YouTube views for Charlie Kirk's memorial between Fox and Turning Point USA: 6.9 million. Jimmy Kimmel show views: 19 million and counting. Don't let them ever convince you that they are a majority. Liberalism, fairness and justice are still far more popular in the US and around the world.
September 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Goob morbier!
A wedge of morbier cheese, and a small slice of same on a block of wood. Two red pears in the background.
September 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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A new Monza!

#TheTubes #WhatDoYouWantFromLife
A blue 1975 Chevy Monza 2-door (near which is parked a red BMW model 2002).
September 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Seen 10 minutes later elsewhere on bsky:
Bugs Bunny dressed as Rick Blaine from Casablanca nursing a shot of carrot juice, ears down, eyes at half mast, hair tussled. A bottle of carrot juice stands on the bar to the rabbit's left.
September 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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A well-groomed brown duck-billed platypus looking to the left. Caption: Because the platypus both lays eggs and produces milk, it's one of the few animals that can make its own custard.
September 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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It's #BandcampFriday and I bought a buncha stuff....

@jesserbest.bsky.social #Triobelisk #SunnO @gregnieuws.bsky.social
A list of recordings I bought for Bandcamp Friday: Wild Thing by X Low Sunday Ghost Machine (2025 r... by lowsunday 暗闇の中で何かが咲く by 夢研究センター (Something Blooms in the Dark by Dream Research Center) Hightower by Thou Thousand Ages On The Loose by The Cosmodelics Mayim (Khoshek) by †The Lord† w/ Katie Jacoby Live at the Rave Milwaukee 20 Ju... by Legendary Pink Dots Awakening by Triobelisk 光なき花 by 夢研究センター (Flowers Without Light by Dream Research Center) Elephant by Greg Nieuwsma Terry Riley's In C - Flea Market by Greg Nieuwsma Guitar Constructions by Greg Nieuwsma Rabbit Hole Variations by Greg Nieuwsma Travel Log Radio by Greg Nieuwsma Dreams of Steve by Alan Morse Davies and Gregory Nieuwsma Arrival at Myriah's Shadow by State Azure Summer 2014 by Jessica Best and the Creeping Doubts
September 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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To which I gotta ask:
David Mitchell in fascist uniform looking left and asking 'Are we the baddies?'
August 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
Black and white photo of Tubes singer Fee Waybill in the character of Quay Lude in a white spiky wig, the word Quay across his eyes. Elbows akimbo, his hands are at crotch level. Wearing a silver lame vest and silver lame leggings and silver platform boots. The heads of a few audience members are at the bottom of the photo and a drum kit behind Fee.
August 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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#Last4Albums
Covers of the albums Sleep's Holy Mountain, Triobelisk's A Live Transmission, The Cosmic Scene by Duke Ellington's Spacemen, and Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run.
August 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Probably not Lords of Flatbush, but it was charming...
Autographed photo of the four stars of Lords of Flatbush all wearing black leather jackets, blue jeans, and motorcycle boots. Paul Mace, Perry King, Henry Winkler, and Sylvester Stallone.
August 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Copied from usconstitution.net Article 1 – The Legislative Branch Section 9 – Limits on Congress <<Back | Table of Contents | Next>> The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person. The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. (No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.) (Section in parentheses clarified by the 16th Amendment.) No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State. No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another. No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time. No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.
August 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Yes. Pickle flavored sour candy.

And oddly tasty.
August 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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My Fantastic Four
Painting of Ernest Hemingway in a blue suit and tie holding a martini, Gertrude Stein in a yellow jacket and grey shirt, James Joyce in a white suit with a red bow tie, slouching, right had at his right ear, wearing an eye patch over his left eye, and F. Scott Fitzgerald holding a pen over a sheet of paper in a black suit and green tie. They're sat at a table. A vase with a single tulip by Hem's right elbow and a plate of maybe a whole chicken or game hen in front of him, a bowl of oranges in front of stein, a glass of liqueur in front of Joyce, an empty martini in front of Fitzgerald.
July 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Probably not, but a few come close.
The first four songs on Side A of the Replacements' Pleased To Meet Me: I.O.U., Alex Chilton, I Don't Know, Nightclub Jitters
July 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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The sunflowers in my neighborhood are fantastic.
Sunflower blossom with a bee on it.
July 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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And with this, I am giving up on the long streaks. Need to focus on something else.
Duolingo badge with owl on fire with text: I'm on a 2000 day learning streak.
July 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM