Johnny Liesman
jliesman.bsky.social
Johnny Liesman
@jliesman.bsky.social
Writer
Musician
NYC
Trader Joe’s Mayo is a god damn disgrace.
February 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Mark my words. One day in the next ten years, Neuralink or some similar company is going to do a soft launch of a new revolutionary product with Gronk as their poster child and in the big reveal he is going to beat Magnus Carlsen in a chess game.
February 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
This is cool and important.
Our team has launched a tracker account for flights in and out of the US naval base and detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The tracker is based on open data from ADS-B signals. Check it out here @gtmowatch.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Old news, but boy would I love a limited series on whatever the hell this Wagner Group mercenary was doing crossing the US-Mexico border with a drone in his backpack.
www.rferl.org/a/wagner-vet...
A Wagner Mercenary Who Crossed U.S.-Mexican Border Was Honored In Russia Weeks Before Arrest
A man who illegally crossed the Rio Grande River into the United States reportedly admitted to having worked with the notorious Russian mercenary group Wagner. His arrest came just weeks after he appe...
www.rferl.org
February 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Books are humanizing; social media is radicalizing.

Books may appear passive, but they are energizing. Social media may appear active, but it numbs and stupefies.
February 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and the richest man in the world just advocated to “move on” from “past guilt.” That was not on my 2025 bingo card.
January 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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A must-read. This’d be worth creating a Facebook account just to read—and I know what a claim that is to make.

It’s a bracing essay about Elon Musk by someone very close to him.

(This is very much _not_ about me, of course, but I’ll say that if you ever doubted my writing on Musk, this will help.)
Philip Low
I have known Elon Musk at a deep level for 14 years, well before he was a household name. We used to text frequently. He would come to my birthday party and invite me to his parties. He would tell me....
www.facebook.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:50 AM
“I mean honestly, you hate the other team,” Patota said. “You want your team to win. But we want to bring both bases together and say, ‘Hey, this is more than a game.’”

Beautiful stuff from a college sophomore. Adults, take notes.
When the Baltimore Ravens player Mark Andrews missed a crucial pass in a playoff game, at least some Buffalo Bills fans felt sympathy, even amid their win. The Bills fans set out to raise money for a diabetes charity on his behalf, drawing more than $100,000 in donations.
Why Are Buffalo Bills Fans Giving to the Charity of a Ravens Player?
A charitable drive for diabetes research in the name of the Ravens receiver Mark Andrews, who missed a pivotal play in a game against the Buffalo Bills, has raised more than $100,000.
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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January 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Jimi Hendrix, playing at Monterey in 1967, introduces Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan and then says, “That’s his grandma over there.” Was he hallucinating? Making a weird joke about an old lady in the back? 1/2
Like a Rolling Stone (Live) by The Jimi Hendrix Experience on Apple Music
Song · 1970 · Duration 7:06
music.apple.com
January 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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One thing Twitter did well in its prime, is drive traffic. If BlueSky is going to succeed, showing creators (for lack of a better word) that they can succeed on this platform will be essential.

So, if you see someone you fuck with posting links to their work, support it. Click through...
January 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This sounds straight out of Rick and Morty interdimensional cable. “Once the Chonkus is removed from the ocean, it is attached to the flying plumbus and sent into the atmosphere to suck out co2, which is then turned in to florga florga, a delicious sweet treat for kids!”
A new bacteria was just discovered in underwater volcanoes that can absorb high levels of c02 through photosynthesis and scientists named it Chonkus.
Chonkus please save us
January 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
An incredibly sad day for USRAP. I am thinking today of families from all across the world who are now back to square one after years of suffering and false hope, and the thousands of Afghan allies who risked their lives for the US military, who we have now abandoned.
January 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I was on X for several months and decided as a little experiment not to follow anyone and to see what the algorithm gave me. Pretty quickly, my feed was filled with extreme right wing nonsense. Part of me wanted to stay and engage in civilized discourse with those I disagree with...
January 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM