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jerry buchko ·☽︎.˙
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jerrybuchko.bsky.social
👀😷 ... still wearing a respirator whenever i'm out & about in public

& glad i got my updated novavax shot bc it's still not looking so good out there,, #CovidIsNotOver #WearARespie
"One in five (20%) adults now say they have received the new, updated COVID-19 vaccine that became available in September. An additional one in four adults say they will "definitely get" (13%) or "probably get" (15%) the updated shot. Consistent with demographic differences across other COVID-related behaviors, uptake is highest among those ages 65 and older (34%) and Democrats (32%). This is in comparison to smaller shares of younger adults ages 18-29 (18%), Republicans (12%) and independents (16%) who report getting the latest vaccine"
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 i can imagine what people might expect from clinging to people who are basically using them, but i've never seen it work out positively for anyone i've known who went down this path

& collectively, it's clearly been a disaster for many of us who thought assimilation would be our salvation,, 💍😇🤌🏼
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🍵😶 it doesn't have to be this way;
none of us has to keep normalizing & perpetuating this arrangement

we can choose to embody & assert ourselves on behalf of something better

we shouldn't have to beg 'our betters'
for what we need to live our lives & to thrive, fam,,
“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else's work. In antiquity, just as in Asia and in Africa today, as well as even in a part of America, slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of serfs: nowadays, they are called wage earners. The position of this latter group has a great deal more dignity attached to it, and it is less hard than that of slaves, but they are nonetheless forced, by hunger as well as by political and social institutions, to maintain other people in complete or relative idleness, through their own exceedingly hard labor. Consequently, they are slaves. And in general, no state, ancient or modern, has ever managed or will ever manage to get along without the forced labor of the masses, either wage earners or slaves, as a principal and absolutely necessary foundation for the leisure, the liberty, and the civilization of the political class—the citizens.” ~ Mikhail Bakunin
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
... well, wait until i tell you about the three seashells! 🧋😏
associate bob (glenn shadix) wearing a futuristic kimono would like a word with you about the three seashells. demolition man (1993).
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😶 ... again, this is the voice of one of the people complicit in our mass harm from being returned 'back to normal' in the face of this ongoing #Covid19 pandemic

complicity they share with the tyrant alluded to in their post

in case this escaped attention,, 👀

#TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social Follow Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte Lawyers/Law Firms Paul, Weiss et al Retired Donors Securities & Investment Yale University Joined Jan '25 Standing up to a tyrant - who is willing to impose pain as leverage to compel loyalty or acquiescence - is hard. You can convince yourself that yielding stops the pain and brings you back to "normal". But there is no "normal". Submission emboldens the tyrant. The threat grows. November 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM Everybody can reply trolley problem meme: they parrot "we grieve with you 🙏🏻😢" as they stuff their pockets with profits created out of our suffering & deaths graph of cumulative confirmed covid-19 deaths from Our World in Data (data source WHO COVID-19 Dashboard) biden/harris administration enters office jan. 20, 2021,, the population of the U.S. is only ~4% of the world's population & has far outpaced any other country in covid-19 deaths they understood from the start what they could do to prevent our harm & deaths & they're choosing not to do them so their economy can "get back to normal", providing their & their donors' profits & political power off our harm,, screenshot of scientific american article by Steven W. Thrasher: there is nothing normal about one million people dead from covid - mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre-covid times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll image: a person sits on a bench amongst a field of white flags each representing a person who died from covid in the upper left of the image, sitting amongst the flags, is bernie sanders in his winter coat & surgical mask, sitting on a folding chair with his arms crossed
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😏 ... yes, though i'd say the people most ignorant of the way the u.s. moves are its wage slaves;

the citizens know damned well how it works,,

#TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver
“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else's work. In antiquity, just as in Asia and in Africa today, as well as even in a part of America, slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of serfs: nowadays, they are called wage earners. The position of this latter group has a great deal more dignity attached to it, and it is less hard than that of slaves, but they are nonetheless forced, by hunger as well as by political and social institutions, to maintain other people in complete or relative idleness, through their own exceedingly hard labor. Consequently, they are slaves. And in general, no state, ancient or modern, has ever managed or will ever manage to get along without the forced labor of the masses, either wage earners or slaves, as a principal and absolutely necessary foundation for the leisure, the liberty, and the civilization of the political class—the citizens.” ~ Mikhail Bakunin trolley problem meme: they parrot "we grieve with you 🙏🏻😢" as they stuff their pockets with profits created out of our suffering & deaths
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😏 ... & once again
"the good guys 💙😄" are also aligned with this anti-communist (& anti-socialist) attitude as well

they're showing us explicitly they're just as invested & committed to feeding their wealth & power on our continued subjugation & harm, fam,, 🤌🏼👀
#TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver
"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties." ~ Gore Vidal “Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else's work. In antiquity, just as in Asia and in Africa today, as well as even in a part of America, slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of serfs: nowadays, they are called wage earners. The position of this latter group has a great deal more dignity attached to it, and it is less hard than that of slaves, but they are nonetheless forced, by hunger as well as by political and social institutions, to maintain other people in complete or relative idleness, through their own exceedingly hard labor. Consequently, they are slaves. And in general, no state, ancient or modern, has ever managed or will ever manage to get along without the forced labor of the masses, either wage earners or slaves, as a principal and absolutely necessary foundation for the leisure, the liberty, and the civilization of the political class—the citizens.” ~ Mikhail Bakunin trolley problem meme: they parrot "we grieve with you 🙏🏻😢" as they stuff their pockets with profits created out of our suffering & deaths
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🍵😶 ...

“It’s really interesting to see how the U.S. is different, but where we want to explore next is what other countries are doing that the U.S. can do to bring down avoidable deaths,”
graph of cumulative confirmed covid-19 deaths from Our World in Data (data source WHO COVID-19 Dashboard) biden/harris administration enters office jan. 20, 2021,, the population of the U.S. is only ~4% of the world's population & has far outpaced any other country in covid-19 deaths they understood from the start what they could do to prevent our harm & deaths & they're choosing not to do them so their economy can "get back to normal", providing their & their donors' profits & political power off our harm,, side eye monkey is facing left at the previous image & looking aside at you,,
November 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🍵😶 ... one reason our critical understanding of historical events is so important is that the sense we make out of these events often reveals things about us,
esp about our social material assumptions,
which critically inform how we make sense of
& justify our responses to our present moment,, 🤌🏼👀
... "is the question hideously loaded, & then one’s response to that question... has to depend on effect and, in effect, where you find yourself in the world, what your sense of reality is.. it depends on assumptions which we hold so deeply so as to be scarcely aware of them." ~ james baldwin
November 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 ... mood,,
the Dude & the Stranger sitting at the bowling alley bar: sometimes you eat the false consciousness, and sometimes the false consciousness, well, it eats you.
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 ... "it's too soon to be cynical.
he just got into office 🫤" #TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😏 baby ... you, your friends, & your oligarch patrons
are all feeding your already grotesquely bloated wealth & power on our disease, destitution, & death by pandemic by the 10s of millions - literally

the cynicism is more than reasonable,
it's deserved,, 🤌🏼👀

#TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social + Follow Oxford (PPE) Joined May '23 Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed. November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM Everybody can reply trolley problem meme: they parrot "we grieve with you 🙏🏻😢" as they stuff their pockets with profits created out of our suffering & deaths
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😏 " ... no American should go without food because of political games in Washington"
is not an endorsement of ending food insecurity & hunger;

it's a defense of a return to a 'back to normal'
which ensures our basic needs *are not* met
to benefit a tiny wealthy few,, 🤌🏼👀 #TheCivilityOfNormal
it always was meme: "Wait, it's all just a political economic hierarchy of coerced labor for the benefit of a tiny community of elites? In the U.S.? Nah, that's freedom,,, 👀🙄" “Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else's work. In antiquity, just as in Asia and in Africa today, as well as even in a part of America, slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of serfs: nowadays, they are called wage earners. The position of this latter group has a great deal more dignity attached to it, and it is less hard than that of slaves, but they are nonetheless forced, by hunger as well as by political and social institutions, to maintain other people in complete or relative idleness, through their own exceedingly hard labor. Consequently, they are slaves. And in general, no state, ancient or modern, has ever managed or will ever manage to get along without the forced labor of the masses, either wage earners or slaves, as a principal and absolutely necessary foundation for the leisure, the liberty, and the civilization of the political class—the citizens.” ~ Mikhail Bakunin trolley problem meme: they parrot "we grieve with you 🙏🏻😢" as they stuff their pockets with profits created out of our suffering & deaths
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😏 ... maybe despite all their establishment relationships
& history feeding establishment power & wealth,
these people are now socialists
committed to serving the wellbeing of the common people, instead

"they have to in order to govern effectively 😐 - & besides, they're the best we have 🤷🏼",, 🙃🫠
baby rhesus monkey clings to its false cloth mother.
November 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 ... well of course they did

WE can't just go about
ensuring everyone has enough to eat!

there are issues here of fundamental consequence
to OUR great country!! 🙃🫠

#TheCivilityOfNormal
Jamie Dupree 15m ago This just into the newsroom WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments. “Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else's work. In antiquity, just as in Asia and in Africa today, as well as even in a part of America, slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of serfs: nowadays, they are called wage earners. The position of this latter group has a great deal more dignity attached to it, and it is less hard than that of slaves, but they are nonetheless forced, by hunger as well as by political and social institutions, to maintain other people in complete or relative idleness, through their own exceedingly hard labor. Consequently, they are slaves. And in general, no state, ancient or modern, has ever managed or will ever manage to get along without the forced labor of the masses, either wage earners or slaves, as a principal and absolutely necessary foundation for the leisure, the liberty, and the civilization of the political class—the citizens.” ~ Mikhail Bakunin
November 8, 2025 at 2:58 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 ... was a big day for
thinking about these two, fam,, 🤌🏼👀
“'queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.” ~ bell hooks subjugation from the inside: “what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. you become a collaborator, an accomplice of your own murderers, because you believe the same things they do.” ~ james baldwin
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🍵😶 * the plutocrats (& the people hanging off them) want inequality to continue ...

#TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver
"The plutocrats want inequality to continue because it’s what allows them to live as modern-day monarchs. When money is power and power is relative, you’re going to see the people with the money making sure they have as much as possible while everyone else has as little as possible, because if everyone is king then nobody is. They want the public to have just enough spending money to keep the wheels of capitalism turning, without having enough money to do things like fund political campaigns or buy up media influence. The poorer everyone else is, the more powerful they are."
November 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🍵😏 just to be clear,
bob is one of our wealthy neoliberal establishment

he isn't endorsing much less agitating for socialism here

bob's doing his part to preserve the 'back to normal' status quo for himself, his peers, & their billionaire patrons

we understand this right?

#TheCivilityOfNormal
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Follow Oxford (PPE) Joined May '23 Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. -Harry Truman, 1952 November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM Everybody can reply 2.4K reposts 75 quotes 6.7K likes 109 saves 176 2.5K 6.7K ...
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🍵😷 #CovidIsNotOver #WearARespie
Did you know that we’re still in a pandemic? In Scotland, doctors are recommending face masks in crowded public spaces. New Health Canada guidelines recommend masks “when appropriate.” Public health in North Carolina also recommends masks when in public areas. Why are health agencies still recommending people try to protect themselves and others from COVID-19? Probably because hundreds of thousands of studies continue to show that COVID-19 is destructive for immediate and long-term health. Odds of getting “long COVID” or some other health issue go up with every infection. About one in six infections leads to long COVID. Rolling Stone reports, “long COVID is real and it’s changing an entire generation.” People have lost housing because of long COVID and are more likely to get COVID again if they are unhoused. Governments, in the interest of maintaining the status quo and keeping the population calm and under control, seem to be misleading people and hoping for the best.
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😷 ... well at least someone's benefitting from all of this ongoing avoidable & debilitating #Covid19 pandemic sickness & death, i guess,, 🤷🏼🙃🫠

#TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver
screenshot of scientific american article by Steven W. Thrasher: there is nothing normal about one million people dead from covid - mass media and policy makers are pushing for a return to pre-covid times while trying to normalize a staggering death toll image: a person sits on a bench amongst a field of white flags each representing a person who died from covid in the upper left of the image, sitting amongst the flags, is bernie sanders in his winter coat & surgical mask, sitting on a folding chair with his arms crossed trolley problem meme: they parrot "we grieve with you 🙏🏻😢" as they stuff their pockets with profits created out of our suffering & deaths graph of cumulative confirmed covid-19 deaths from Our World in Data (data source WHO COVID-19 Dashboard) biden/harris administration enters office jan. 20, 2021,, the population of the U.S. is only ~4% of the world's population & has far outpaced any other country in covid-19 deaths they understood from the start what they could do to prevent our harm & deaths & they're choosing not to do them so their economy can "get back to normal", providing their & their donors' profits & political power off our harm,, "There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties." ~ Gore Vidal
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😶 ... it's important to seriously think about how our 'betters',
who taught us to see this relationship w/ them
as both normal & good,
use both our dependency on them
& our aspiration to 'rise above' our dependency
to feed themselves on our further exploitation
& continued subjugation & harm,, 🤌🏼👀
“Slavery may change its form or its name—its essence remains the same. Its essence may be expressed in these words: to be a slave is to be forced to work for someone else, just as to be a master is to live on someone else's work. In antiquity, just as in Asia and in Africa today, as well as even in a part of America, slaves were, in all honesty, called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of serfs: nowadays, they are called wage earners. The position of this latter group has a great deal more dignity attached to it, and it is less hard than that of slaves, but they are nonetheless forced, by hunger as well as by political and social institutions, to maintain other people in complete or relative idleness, through their own exceedingly hard labor. Consequently, they are slaves. And in general, no state, ancient or modern, has ever managed or will ever manage to get along without the forced labor of the masses, either wage earners or slaves, as a principal and absolutely necessary foundation for the leisure, the liberty, and the civilization of the political class—the citizens.” ~ Mikhail Bakunin trolley problem meme: they parrot "we grieve with you 🙏🏻😢" as they stuff their pockets with profits created out of our suffering & deaths
November 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😷 ... & all during this ongoing #SarsCov2 / #Covid19 pandemic too!

that's quite the accomplishment

i wonder how they managed that as so many of us struggled & were lost? 🤷🏼🙃

#CovidIsNotOver #TheCivilityOfNormal
trolley problem meme: they parrot "we grieve with you 🙏🏻😢" as they stuff their pockets with profits created out of our suffering & deaths graph of cumulative confirmed covid-19 deaths from Our World in Data (data source WHO COVID-19 Dashboard) biden/harris administration enters office jan. 20, 2021,, the population of the U.S. is only ~4% of the world's population & has far outpaced any other country in covid-19 deaths they understood from the start what they could do to prevent our harm & deaths & they're choosing not to do them so their economy can "get back to normal", providing their & their donors' profits & political power off our harm,, screenshot of Collin English Dictionary entry: democide in british english noun the killing of members of a country's civilian population as a result of its government's policy, including by direct action, indifference, and neglect
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😏 well, that turned dark rather quickly,,
liam neeson on the cell phone: i don't know who you are but i will find you and rapture you.
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
🧋😏 psst... hey, can someone please explain
the reasoning behind
exposing kids & their caregivers to #Covid19
to win a campaign
in order to get free childcare,
which itself will further expose kids & their caregivers
to this disease, destitution (via debilitation), & in more than a few cases, death?
a white cat with black patches laying on the kitchen counter appears to clasp its (fake plastic human hands) & really sees you: "go ahead, i'm listening".
November 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
jerrybuchko.bsky.social
☕😶 & that wealth was & continues being fed on our lives ... literally

not just via the ongoing pandemic, but also via the decimation of social supports & employment stability for the sake of feeding their already grotesquely bloated wealth & power,,

#TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver
trolley problem meme: they parrot "we grieve with you 🙏🏻😢" as they stuff their pockets with profits created out of our suffering & deaths
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM