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Jason Kuznicki
@jkuznicki.bsky.social
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A gay dad cultivating his garden in Puna, Hawaii. Now working on some big projects for the future.🍍🌴🌱📖🌐☸️

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It doesn’t look like much, but this might be the most important plant picture I’ve ever shown. 🌱🌴🧵
Photo I took shows a 50’ diameter stand of naupaka, a medium sized shrub with thick oblong leaves and white berries. There are trees in the picture including coconut, ohia, and a small rainbow eucalyptus.
November 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Panel from Spider-Man. Spider-Man says, “YOU CAN REWRITE DNA ON THE FLY, AND YOU'RE USING IT TO TURN PEOPLE INTO DINOSAURS? BUT WITH TECH LIKE THAT, YOU COULD CURE CANCER!” A talking dinosaur guy answers, “BUT I DON'T WANT TO CURE CANCER. I WANT TO TURN PEOPLE INTO DINOSAURS.”
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Taro and pineapple beds 🌴🌱🍍
Photo I took just now shows a raised rectangular garden bed filled with several varieties of taro. Photo I took just now shows a raised garden bed full of pineapple plants in many different sizes, though none have fruit at the moment.
November 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Diderot, with a bit on what we’d call hard versus softcore porn.
Screenshot from Robert Darnton’s book The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France. Diderot writes: At that time [a girl] worked in a little book shop on the quai des Augustins: a doll-like figure, white and straight as a lily, red as a rose. I entered with that dashing, ardent, crazy manner I had in those days; and I said to her, "Mademoiselle, the Contes de La Fontaine, a Petrone [i.e., acceptable erotic literature], if you please." "Here they are, sir. Do you need any other books?" "Well, excuse me, Mademoiselle, but.." "Yes, do say.." "La Religieuse en chemise [Venus in the Cloister or The Nun in a Nightgown, a work considered obscene]. "Fie, Monsieur! Does one sell, does one read such wicked things?" "Oh, oh, they are wicked, are they, Mademoiselle? I had no idea ..." And then, another day, when I passed by again, she smiled, and I did, too.
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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And then there’s my all time favorite.
Screenshot of an ad. Text reads “Simple Habit That Harms Sleep (Read More).” The illustration shows a man sleeping on a mattress that’s on a beach and getting lapped by waves, which, yeah, that’ll do it
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Saying tariffs aren’t taxes would have been laughable in the nineteenth century.

No one, for or against, could possibly take it seriously.
Graph. Tariffs today make up less than 2% of federal receipts. Most years of the nineteenth century have the tariff share of total revenue above 50%, with many over 80%. Sources: WhiteHouse, Census, CEA calculations. Data as of June 20, 2024. Note: data prior to 1940 does not match current fiscal year convention. 2023
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Frog and scorpion meme. "But now we shall both surely drown", said the Frog. “lol" said the Scorpion, "Imao"
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Planted a cassava in June and it’s been busy 🌱🌴
Photo I took just now shows the corms of a mature cassava plant, moments after I hauled it out of the ground. They probably weigh about fifteen pounds.
November 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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😑
Screenshot from the linked quiz. Antonio opposes school vouchers, opposes mass deportation, and supports a stronger welfare state. He also voted for Donald Trump.
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Probably tomorrow. 🌱🌴🍍
Photo I took just now shows that pineapple I’ve been tracking. Its stem is bent over so it’s kinked parallel to the ground now. The fruit itself is getting nicely yellow too.
October 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Meme image: Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse are fighting. Donald says, “Everything that we know and love is reducible to the absurd acts of chemicals, and there is therefore no intrinsic value in this material universe.” Mickey answers, “Hypocrite that you are, for you trust the chemicals in your brain to tell you they are chemicals. All knowledge is ultimately based on that which we cannot prove. Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?”
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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This new crop of catfishers won’t take gay for an answer
A dialogue between me and a female-presenting catfisher whose command of English, and geography, is poor. She also wants me to cheat on my husband with her
October 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Soon. 🍍🌱🌴
Photo I took today: A Hawaiian white pineapple growing in a raised bed. It’s showing signs that it’s close to ripe, but it’s not there yet.
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Frog and scorpion meme. "But now we shall both surely drown", said the Frog. "lol" said the Scorpion, "Imao"
October 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Protests are for making friends. #NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Photo by my husband. Two inflatable frogs at the Hilo No Kings protest
October 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Protester at the Hilo No Kings protest is dressed like Snow White. Her sign says MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL WHO’S HOARDING WEALTH WHILE WE FALL
October 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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More pictures from Hilo #NoKings
Photo by my husband. I’m wearing an inflatable frog suit like the Portland Frog; my sign says FROGS AGAINST FASCISM. A woman next to me has a sign that reads THIS IS THE ONLY MONARCH I LOVE, with the butterfly.
October 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Photo by my husband. Two inflatable frogs at the Hilo No Kings protest
October 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Protester at the Hilo No Kings protest is dressed like Snow White. Her sign says MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL WHO’S HOARDING WEALTH WHILE WE FALL
October 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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More pictures from Hilo #NoKings
Photo by my husband. I’m wearing an inflatable frog suit like the Portland Frog; my sign says FROGS AGAINST FASCISM. A woman next to me has a sign that reads THIS IS THE ONLY MONARCH I LOVE, with the butterfly.
October 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Protests in Hilo, Hawaii, where the turnout was bigger than ever #NoKings
Photo: Protesters line Kamehameha Avenue in downtown Hilo for the No Kings protest today Photo of more protesters along Kamehameha Avenue in Hilo today Photo: No Kings protest under the monkeypod trees in downtown Hilo
October 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Dry run for the Hilo Hawaii protest #NoKings
Photo taken just now by my daughter: I’m standing on a lanai in one of those inflatable frog suits. I’m holding a sign that says FROGS AGAINST FASCISM This picture is the same as the other one but the sign says I HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE
October 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Time for another batch of protest signs.
Photo I took yesterday shows a bunch of poster boards and extra fat markers.
October 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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We’re not in agreement unless you agree that the idea of prohibiting denial of coverage for preexisting conditions IS popular. This paragraph says that the existence of the trade off means that it’s not:
Screenshot from the first linked article above. Text reads: Even the supposedly popular parts - the rules prohibiting exclusions or higher premiums for preexisting conditions — are unpopular. Former Biden economic adviser Michael Geruso has shown that those provisions are, in fact, limiting access to medications, top doctors and top hospitals at a cost to chronically ill patients of thousands of dollars per year. Polling consistently shows that when voters learn Obamacare reduces quality, even Democrats oppose it.
October 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM