Jeff
@jefffreyspies.bsky.social
Wish I’d known I had ADD back then. Part of the problem but doing my best to limit the damage and help when I can. Can tell a hawk from a handsaw in most (many?) environmental conditions.
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Jeff
@jefffreyspies.bsky.social
· Aug 7
Until the revolution. And when the revolution comes, all I can say is that I except I’ll be in the vicinity of a wall
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“We weren’t taught in school the stuff we just didn’t pay attention to” undefeated around the world
The hill I'll die the hardest on is that almost everything "WE WERE NEVER TAUGHT IN SCHOOL" (slavery, Irish famine, etc) is stuff that you were taught in school but weren't paying any attention to because you were 14 and thinking about girls/boys/football/scifi/all of the above instead of the lesson
The comments here that are questioning the history curriculum: WE LEARN THIS IN SCHOOL. I DON'T KNOW HOW PEOPLE MISS THIS.
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
“We weren’t taught in school the stuff we just didn’t pay attention to” undefeated around the world
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"Mathematically, it might seem like I spend a disproportionate amount of my time making the world a significantly less safe and less empathetic place, but are you counting all the hours I spend sleeping?"
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Mathematically, it might seem like I spend a disproportionate amount of my time making the world a significantly less safe and less empathetic place, but are you counting all the hours I spend sleeping?"
Watch it at least twice, once to understand what Epstein and his associates did, and then watch it again realizing these are the “perfect victims” that have a platform to discuss their experiences. They are the “lucky” ones, most victims of sexual abuse get pushed entirely to the margins.
Listen.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Watch it at least twice, once to understand what Epstein and his associates did, and then watch it again realizing these are the “perfect victims” that have a platform to discuss their experiences. They are the “lucky” ones, most victims of sexual abuse get pushed entirely to the margins.
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Listen.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Listen.
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Lots of people been asking for book recommendations for help with background context for the Ken Burns RevWar documentary, so I’m very grateful to my past self for putting this together so that my current self can be lazy:
angrystaffofficer.com/2024/08/22/u...
angrystaffofficer.com/2024/08/22/u...
Understanding the Revolutionary Era: Recommended Reading List
As many of you know – and are no doubt really excited for – next years begins the semiquincentennial of the Revolutionary War here in the United States. Or, for those of us who have tro…
angrystaffofficer.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Lots of people been asking for book recommendations for help with background context for the Ken Burns RevWar documentary, so I’m very grateful to my past self for putting this together so that my current self can be lazy:
angrystaffofficer.com/2024/08/22/u...
angrystaffofficer.com/2024/08/22/u...
@heartpunk.bsky.social Sorry I haven’t been around, hope you are doing plausibility ok
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 AM
@heartpunk.bsky.social Sorry I haven’t been around, hope you are doing plausibility ok
Shoot anyone in mirror shades in the bar, after you geek the mage
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Shoot anyone in mirror shades in the bar, after you geek the mage
I’m old,, drunk, and wearing sunglasses after midnight, The Fragile would have been better without Statfuckers, but it’s a better song than I remembered
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I’m old,, drunk, and wearing sunglasses after midnight, The Fragile would have been better without Statfuckers, but it’s a better song than I remembered
Yes, but shared institutional structure?
Seconded.
I once again move that we rethink the whole elite thing.
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Yes, but shared institutional structure?
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For every 'famous' female writer or journalist etc. you hear about taking a stand against their one time mentor-abuser there are thousands of us who just kept going being like no shit sherlock
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
For every 'famous' female writer or journalist etc. you hear about taking a stand against their one time mentor-abuser there are thousands of us who just kept going being like no shit sherlock
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I wish men truly understood how often their peers only pretend to cultivate women's talents because they want to fuck us. I am a short Canadian nobody and it happened to me when I was starting out my screenwriting career no less than four times before I turned 26
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I wish men truly understood how often their peers only pretend to cultivate women's talents because they want to fuck us. I am a short Canadian nobody and it happened to me when I was starting out my screenwriting career no less than four times before I turned 26
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thread re kink
What people like to fantasize about, and very specifically when it involves power dynamics, has little to do with what they want IRL
A lot of older romance novels written specifically for cis straight women, involved themes of kidnapping and forced reluctance (soft rape).
Most readers did not...
A lot of older romance novels written specifically for cis straight women, involved themes of kidnapping and forced reluctance (soft rape).
Most readers did not...
Could be, but if you look at the amount of "stepdaughter" content on porn sites I think a very uncomfortable number of people may actually be into that. And I suspect they're mostly (although ofc not exclusively) in the enemy party.
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
thread re kink
When $15 an hour was a political rallying cry, oh my, a decade ago, I kept saying the exact amount was less important than tying it to inflation.
In 1974, working minimum wage at Mcdonalds, you were getting paid close to $15/hr in 2025 dollars.
When people talk about earning $5 an hour for normal jobs back then, that's $34.85/hr after inflation.
When people talk about earning $5 an hour for normal jobs back then, that's $34.85/hr after inflation.
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
When $15 an hour was a political rallying cry, oh my, a decade ago, I kept saying the exact amount was less important than tying it to inflation.
While this is entirely true, I wanna say some of us are honestly trying?
Dear white peopel , your quippy bullshit isn’t funny
Especially if the meme racism you mock is still better than how you behave in places where you have actual power
Your fellow white people are talking pellet guns to the face and organizing whole mutual aid websites etc
Especially if the meme racism you mock is still better than how you behave in places where you have actual power
Your fellow white people are talking pellet guns to the face and organizing whole mutual aid websites etc
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 AM
While this is entirely true, I wanna say some of us are honestly trying?
This is a great 🧵 but I do think there is something fundamentally different about the American Revolution vs the unrest in Europe circa 1850, which is not to praise America
I do kinda disagree with the statement that civil unrest in North America was different than Europe. Civil unrest was always the default for free speech when free speech didn’t exist. The English, French, Spanish, and Germans all rioted and smashed shit
We’re not the only unruly people
We’re not the only unruly people
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 AM
This is a great 🧵 but I do think there is something fundamentally different about the American Revolution vs the unrest in Europe circa 1850, which is not to praise America
I’ve been offline, I’ve been drinking, I’m nowhere near drunk enough to make sense of this.
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I’ve been offline, I’ve been drinking, I’m nowhere near drunk enough to make sense of this.
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Guys I am not saying her campaign was good. I am saying that it was focused on economic issues rather than identity politics and I am correct.
Name one policy that she held on that topic that people would've showed up for. Tax credits don't count.
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Guys I am not saying her campaign was good. I am saying that it was focused on economic issues rather than identity politics and I am correct.
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Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
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“There’re about a thousand of us.”
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“There’re about a thousand of us.”
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Hear it straight from the source 🗣️
November 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Hear it straight from the source 🗣️
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This Rose keeps on blooming 🌹
November 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This Rose keeps on blooming 🌹
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I am not quite radicalized to the point that I print this on my Xmas cards with the message ‘thinking of all those who cannot be with their families this holiday season, because they’re in ICE detention’
But I’m not far from it.
But I’m not far from it.
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I am not quite radicalized to the point that I print this on my Xmas cards with the message ‘thinking of all those who cannot be with their families this holiday season, because they’re in ICE detention’
But I’m not far from it.
But I’m not far from it.