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James Mackinnon
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Parenting through an age of nihilism.

"Disoriented" "Alienation" "Reality"

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jamackinn.bsky.social
It only took an hour after the "Trump blowing Bubba" image was released for the entire world to decide the Internet was a mistake and nobody ever logged on again.
coachfinstock.bsky.social Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h
I just saw this photo and now you have to see this photo
Trump appearing to grab Bill Clinton
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
Why call it Woke 2.0? We should call it The Great Awakening
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
Wasn't she supposed to already be doing that? Wasn't "the list" on her desk? Didn't the FBI director say there was nothing to investigate?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
he’s crashing out
Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures, I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him. This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats. Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his “Island.” Stay tuned!!!
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
We Should All Become The Joker
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
This is how I found out The Carpenter's Son is a real movie and not the AI generated trailer that I believed it to be.
paris.nyc paris martineau @paris.nyc · 5h
in honor of nicvember (my made up holiday where i try to watch 30 nic cage films during november), i recorded fka twigs’ Q&A response last night about what it was like to work with cage on teen jesus horror film THE CARPENTER'S SON (cage plays joseph & twigs is mary)

here it is transcribed in full:
He really turns up at the scene ready to go. There's no warming up. You know, you say action and he's already there, like fully embracing the moment. So I think I, in working with him, learned about the importance of like winding myself up as an actor and giving myself those 10 minutes before a scene to really focus. Obviously I'm fairly new to acting in this respect, so I'm learning. And Nic's really committed, so when you look in his eyes, he's 100% there, and that was amazing, because it encouraged me to be 100% there as well. He's also incredibly generous. He has such a huge presence, which initially I was kind of nervous about to be honest, to be with someone that just takes up the whole scene, really. and he also, I mean, you can feel him before he comes on set, he's 10 minutes away in the car, and you're kind of aware that Nicolas Cage is arriving. He's kind of the last of this generation of superstars, this real Hollywood legend. But actually to be with is incredibly generous. He, in his own way, is so supportive to everybody that's around him. He kind of only speaks when spoken to, but then when you do get in a conversation with him, it's really insightful and it's really beautiful. He's just, you know, he's very much of an old-fashioned artist and gentleman and carries a lot of grace.
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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brandyjensen.bsky.social
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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shenanigoats.bsky.social
Another banger from @somemorenews.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
jamackinn.bsky.social
IMHO, Anyone out here today trying to tamp down rage at the NYT is just engaging in Centrism, but for the Media, and frankly, I won't stand for it today.
asherelbein.bsky.social Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d
I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
Lol was her recent press tour a campaign for Speaker?

Is she going to try and throw Johnson under the bus for covering this up?
shoe.bsky.social Shoe+ @shoe.bsky.social · 2d
Marjorie Taylor Greene is on the House Oversight Committee
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
People with terminal Online know that the phrase "[person] did nothing wrong" is always used in defense of historically unfairly maligned individuals and not, say, genocidal autocrats.
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d
CBS News' Weijia Jiang: "Did the president ever spend hours at Jeffrey Epstein’s house with a victim?"

Karoline Leavitt: "These emails prove nothing other than the fact that President Trump did nothing wrong."
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
It's not even that hot today
Screenshot of simpsons episode Bart the Fink, "Ah it's too hot today"
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
So many of these emails read like the ravings of an I Think You Should Leave character
jamescdownie.bsky.social James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 2d
"Subject: Trump"

"Importance: High"

"The allegation was not at a pedophile party. It was at my house with me."
From: "paul krassner" Sent: 2/16/2017 Subject: Trump Importance: High On Feb 1, 2017, at 7:39 am, jeffrey e wrote: "The allegation was not at a pedophile party. It was at my house with me." to what wording would you suggest I change that?
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
2 picture image, scene from Empire Strikes Back, Darth Vader with impact font "No, I am your father DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT" Luke screaming
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
Is this how dummies think "Off the record" works?
ericjgeller.com Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 2d
"Do not repeat this insight" indeed
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
Uhhhhhhhh
In a statement, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the Democrats of "selectively" leaking emails to "the liberal media" to create a "fake narrative to smear President Trump." She said the unnamed victim, whose name is redacted from one of the emails, is the late Virginia Giuffre, who had previously denied that Trump was involved in Epstein's crimes.
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
How much damage could President Vance do in 2 years, realistically?
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
Seems like a lot of the west coast is starting to log on, eh?
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
Still remarkable that every bad thing ever said about Trump has more or less been revealed to be true and often even worse than originally thought.

Truly one of the worst dudes ever.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
The fact that Wolff seems to be so deep into this stuff, he really gives me this guy vibes
Meme from the Spanish Fry episode of Futurama: Porno-Dealing Monster: Hey, I'm a prono-dealing monster. What do I care what you think?
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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gbsooner.bsky.social
I did not realize the Senate would also have to vote on this. I want to see way more reporting on how senators are planning to handle it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
Low on the list of important notes from this article, but I am bemused by Epstein referring to a guy who always uses dogs as a slur or lowly creature as "the dog that didn't bark"
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d
In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump spent hours at his house with one of Epstein’s victims
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
They're at their own 40 yard line. 10 yards to get into field goal range
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
jamackinn.bsky.social
The quackery is too damn high
Looking for a holistic dentist to avoid a root canal. Any recommendations? I've read ozone therapy is a part of trying to avoid it? I called Dr. i but they seem to be more airway focused and don't use ozone. Appreciate any help, thank you
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
jamackinn.bsky.social
Getting UBI by hating Trump enough that he keeps trying to send checks to everyone until his poll numbers go up
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d
lmfao he knows he's unpopular so he's trying to hit the affordability button by sending out checks with his name on it again
All money left over from the $2000 payments made to low and middle income USA Citizens, from the massive Tariff Income pouring into our Country from foreign countries, which will be substantial, will be used to SUBSTANTIALLY PAY DOWN NATIONAL DEBT. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
jamackinn.bsky.social
Reposting this everyday for the hell of it
jamackinn.bsky.social James Mackinnon @jamackinn.bsky.social · 5d
Call me poorly-read (because I am), but damn Colloquy feels like it exists in HellWorld
The doctor was competent-looking and respectable. Mrs. Arnold felt vaguely comforted by his appearance, and her agitation lessened a little. She knew that he noticed her hand shaking when she leaned forward for him to light her cigarette, and she smiled apologetically, but he looked back at her seriously. "You seem to be upset." he said gravely. I'm very much upset," Mrs. Arnold said. She tried to talk slowly and intelligently. "That's one reason I came to you instead of going to Doctor Murphy our regular doctor, that is." The doctor frowned slightly. "My husband," Mrs. Anold went on. "I don't want him to know that I'm worried, and Doctor Murphy would probably feel it was necessary to tell him." The doctor nodded, not committing himself, Mrs. Arnold noted. "What seems to be the trouble? Mrs. Arnold took a deep breath. "Doctor," she said, "how do people tell if they're going crazy?" The doctor looked up. "Isn't that silly." Mrs. Arnold said. "I hadn't meant to say it like that. It's hard enough to explain anyway, without making it so dramatic. "Insanity is more complicated than you think," the doctor said. "I know it's complicated," Mrs. Arnold said. "That's the only thing I'm really sure of. Insanity is one of the things I mean." "I beg your pardon?" "That's my trouble, Doctor." Mrs. Arnold sat back and took her gloves out from under her pocketbook and put them carefully on top. Then she took them and put them underneath the pocketbook again en she took then and put t again "Suppose you just tell me all about it," the doctor said. Part 2 of story Mrs. Arnold sighed. "Everyone else seems to understand," she said, "and I don't. Look." She leaned forward and gestured with one hand while she spoke. "I don't understand the way people live. It It all all used used to to be be so simple. When I was a a little little girl I I used used to to live in in a a world world where a lot of other people lived too and they all lived together and things went along like that with no fuss." She looked at the doctor. He was frowning again, and Mrs. Arnold went on, her voice rising slightly. "Look. Yesterday morning my husband stopped on his way to his office to a paper buys the office to buy a paper. He always buys the Times and he always buys it fro e dealer, and yesterday the dealer didn't have a Times for my husband and last night when he came home for dinner he said the fish was burned and the dessert was too sweet and he sat around all evening talking to himself "He could have tried to get it at another dealer," the docto Very often dealers downtown have papers later than local dealers. "No," Mrs. Arnold said, slowly and distinctly, "I guess I'd better start over. When I was a little girl -" she said. Then she stopped. "Look," she said, "did there use to be words like psychosomatic medicine? Or international cartels? Or bureaucratic centralization?" "Well," the doctor began. "What do they mean?" Mrs. Arnold insisted. "In a period of international crisis," the doctor said gently gently, "when you find, for r instance, instance cultural patterns rapidly disintegrating.. "International crisis," Mrs. Arnold said. "Patterns." She began to cry quietly. "He said the man had no right not to save him a Times," she said hysterically, fumbling in her pocket for a handkerchief. "and he started talking about social planning on the local level and surtax net income and geopolitical concepts and deflationary inflation. inflation." Mrs. Arnol wail. "He really said deflationary inflation."
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM