Harold J, full of rage
@haroldj.bsky.social
Blogger, poet, photographer, cat lover. Cishet male. He/him. Big guy. Ally. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/haroldj_nepa
Twenty years ago I wrote a twisted holiday tale called "The Littlest Turkey." Here it is in a special 20th Anniversary Edition!
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The Littlest Turkey 20th Anniversary Edition!
Some twenty years ago my office mate told me he had just picked up his free turkey with the coupon our employer had given us. Because he was...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Twenty years ago I wrote a twisted holiday tale called "The Littlest Turkey." Here it is in a special 20th Anniversary Edition!
anothermonkey.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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ATTENTION! ATTENTION! JOYCE CAROL OATES IS HIKING AGAIN!
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November 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
ATTENTION! ATTENTION! JOYCE CAROL OATES IS HIKING AGAIN!
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Something new in the land of Twitter.
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Something new in the land of Twitter.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Just learned that Sarah Kenzidor has been suspended on Bluesky. Anyone know why?
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Just learned that Sarah Kenzidor has been suspended on Bluesky. Anyone know why?
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In my professional opinion 'lewd conduct' laws are about actual dicks, not inflatable dicks
#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
October 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
In my professional opinion 'lewd conduct' laws are about actual dicks, not inflatable dicks
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AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
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This beautifully written story of discoveries about mycoheterotrophic plants in @science.org is such a lovely contrast (& antidote) to the dreadful AI-boosting PR of the @nature.com story about "a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews" were produced by AI bots
nerds freely nerding in their nerd field is really lovely www.science.org/content/arti...
These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how
Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi
www.science.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
This beautifully written story of discoveries about mycoheterotrophic plants in @science.org is such a lovely contrast (& antidote) to the dreadful AI-boosting PR of the @nature.com story about "a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews" were produced by AI bots
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"It was a day of terrifying buzzwords like 'weather modification,' 'Chinese agenda,' 'genomic surveillance,' and 'transhumanism,' and of empty slogans like 'Knowledge Is the New Medicine' and 'Healthy Is the New Wealthy.'"
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October 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"It was a day of terrifying buzzwords like 'weather modification,' 'Chinese agenda,' 'genomic surveillance,' and 'transhumanism,' and of empty slogans like 'Knowledge Is the New Medicine' and 'Healthy Is the New Wealthy.'"
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WOW. This entire story is HORRIFIC. This is FOIA of a body cam from the raid in upstate New York the same day as the Hyundai plant. It catches a Border Patrol agent on camera only bragging about denying medical care to migrants detained at the border under Biden — who he says are all "animals."
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The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"
September 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
WOW. This entire story is HORRIFIC. This is FOIA of a body cam from the raid in upstate New York the same day as the Hyundai plant. It catches a Border Patrol agent on camera only bragging about denying medical care to migrants detained at the border under Biden — who he says are all "animals."
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Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
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It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
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Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
heated.world
September 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
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streaming platforms have robbed us of the randomness that used to be both an essential property of tv watching and a quality that mitigated its addictiveness somewhat. we were wholly beholden to whatever happened to be on! if we didn’t like any of it we were obligated to go do something else!
September 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
streaming platforms have robbed us of the randomness that used to be both an essential property of tv watching and a quality that mitigated its addictiveness somewhat. we were wholly beholden to whatever happened to be on! if we didn’t like any of it we were obligated to go do something else!
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As we watch people get fired for saying the "wrong" things about Charlie Kirk (whether celebrating his demise or just accurately describing things he said), let's remember that the real threat of "cancel culture" is not individuals speaking freely, but cowardly institutions overreacting to speech.
September 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
As we watch people get fired for saying the "wrong" things about Charlie Kirk (whether celebrating his demise or just accurately describing things he said), let's remember that the real threat of "cancel culture" is not individuals speaking freely, but cowardly institutions overreacting to speech.
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I’m sour on my nation because the nation has soured on itself. As a people, we’ve decided to dissolve the uneasy bonds of comity between us. Rather than writing a peaceful sequel to the bloody 20th century, America began work on the prequel to "Mad Max."
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I Will Not Bother Wishing You a Happy 4th of July This Year
Like most of you, I’m not feeling particularly celebratory this Fourth of July.
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July 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I’m sour on my nation because the nation has soured on itself. As a people, we’ve decided to dissolve the uneasy bonds of comity between us. Rather than writing a peaceful sequel to the bloody 20th century, America began work on the prequel to "Mad Max."
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“In Pasadena last week, a man stepped out of his unmarked vehicle at an intersection, unholstered his pistol and aimed it at a group of pedestrians before returning to his car… That incident left the police chief of Pasadena resigned to figure out whether it was a crime or part of a federal raid.”
'Who are these people?' Masked immigration agents challenge local police, sow fear in L.A.
Local police have little or no insight into where the federal enforcement actions are taking place. In some cases, local cops have been mistaken for federal agents, eroding years of work to have immig...
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June 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“In Pasadena last week, a man stepped out of his unmarked vehicle at an intersection, unholstered his pistol and aimed it at a group of pedestrians before returning to his car… That incident left the police chief of Pasadena resigned to figure out whether it was a crime or part of a federal raid.”
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The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them.
June 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them.
Who is this even for? All the dumbasses who said "Well, I don't support Trump, but I definitely don't want Hillary/Kamala in office!" And there are plenty of them here on Bluesky.
I really cannot stand these types of posts. First off, who is this even for? There's not some huge crowd of Trumpers on here. And second, "Donald Trump is a madman who is bad in a whole bunch of ways" was not some forbidden knowledge that people only understood because the Dem candidate said so
June 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Who is this even for? All the dumbasses who said "Well, I don't support Trump, but I definitely don't want Hillary/Kamala in office!" And there are plenty of them here on Bluesky.
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I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
When the Trump administration froze this Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist's research funding, he received an email from China offering to relocate his lab to any city and university of his choice, with guaranteed funding for 20 years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
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U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.
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The crackdowns on civilians and the threat of the national guard being sent to LA should be *the* most important story right now-- not the Trump/Musk feud or whatever the f**k that was.
People are being terrorized all over the country. News outlets need to get it together.
People are being terrorized all over the country. News outlets need to get it together.
June 8, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The crackdowns on civilians and the threat of the national guard being sent to LA should be *the* most important story right now-- not the Trump/Musk feud or whatever the f**k that was.
People are being terrorized all over the country. News outlets need to get it together.
People are being terrorized all over the country. News outlets need to get it together.
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So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president.
And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict.
This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.
And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict.
This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.
Trump called Musk "a big-time drug addict" in a phone call shortly after their public feud. (WaPo)
June 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president.
And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict.
This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.
And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict.
This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.
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if you're not tuned into US politics you may see "LA County Sheriffs Department" and think that's just what they call their normal police
but they are actually a network of violent organized white supremacist gangs with tattoos, a code of silence, initiation rites that require police brutality, etc
but they are actually a network of violent organized white supremacist gangs with tattoos, a code of silence, initiation rites that require police brutality, etc
June 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
if you're not tuned into US politics you may see "LA County Sheriffs Department" and think that's just what they call their normal police
but they are actually a network of violent organized white supremacist gangs with tattoos, a code of silence, initiation rites that require police brutality, etc
but they are actually a network of violent organized white supremacist gangs with tattoos, a code of silence, initiation rites that require police brutality, etc
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These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
June 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
These are crimes. They're committing crimes. And when people understandably protest the fact that they're committing crimes, they're shooting flashbangs at them.
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1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
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So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
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Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow
Organizers demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
1. Florida banned cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
So the people of Jacksonville did it themselves using flashlights and gels.
They opened the drawbridge to block them.
So they marched to a different bridge.
The latest from S. Baum.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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New, from me:
The Trump administration is already making it easier for partisan political appointees to fire career civil servants.
A new policy will also allow them to politicize who is hired into the civil service. The spoils system returns! 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-politi...
The Trump administration is already making it easier for partisan political appointees to fire career civil servants.
A new policy will also allow them to politicize who is hired into the civil service. The spoils system returns! 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-politi...
The Politicization of Federal Hiring
A new Trump policy undermines the goal of a nonpartisan public service
donmoynihan.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
New, from me:
The Trump administration is already making it easier for partisan political appointees to fire career civil servants.
A new policy will also allow them to politicize who is hired into the civil service. The spoils system returns! 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-politi...
The Trump administration is already making it easier for partisan political appointees to fire career civil servants.
A new policy will also allow them to politicize who is hired into the civil service. The spoils system returns! 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-politi...