Iohannes Rhetor
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Iohannes Rhetor
@jmnewman.bsky.social
Assistant, Library of Jürgen Leitner
https://youtube.com/@IohannesRhetor
pronouns: he/him
adverbs: well/actually
Can-Am NY diasporan in Missouri, woke social engineer
NOBYVFU VPR
I think I could work up at least 7-10 minutes of stand-up material on the ambivalence I would feel about adding my name to a class actions suit on behalf of Walmart Whippet consumers
November 15, 2025 at 5:33 AM
that's enough for me
July 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This used to be one of my userpics on LJ
June 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
somewhere in the middle is Christopher Rufo, the worst man in America
April 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
For all its abstract, folktale quality, King Lear feels like the most "relevant" play I'm teaching in Shakespeare this semester, at a time when the very idea of empathy itself is under attack as "woke" or whatever.
April 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Populism!
March 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
There are congegrations of Missouri Synod Lutherans who have a very Baptist flavor whatever the theological differences. They fly that creepy flag
March 12, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Love the glitch art Brightspace makes out of my Powerpoints.
March 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This makes those rustic cursive "Gather" signs in the kitchen way folk-horror creepy.
February 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I guess Deepseek has some limitations?
February 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
how it think i look when teaching / how i actually look
February 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I've decided to become a crank
February 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
well I think I sound supportive and encouraging here
January 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Genocide Joe" was an op
January 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Greetings from the Ozarks
January 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
January 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I have chosen one artifact to bring over from the predecessor site, which represents everything I loved about it at its peak.

Bombadil forever.
January 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
November 20, 2024 at 8:35 PM
November 5, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Michelle Obama: ". . . we cannot indulge our anxieties about whether this coutnry will elect someon like Kamala instead of doing everything we can to get someone like Kamala elected."
October 24, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Guilded age solutions (boarding houses) to guilded age problems (urban housing demand)?
October 23, 2024 at 3:40 AM
You think BlueSky is the thinking person's social media platform but Reddit has been right there all along.
October 8, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Made a PFP to support Amendment 3 (the restoration of women's* bodily autonomy in Missouri, feel free to share.

(*and other wise uterus-having)
September 29, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #581,198!

Yes, I feel basic for posting this.
September 19, 2024 at 1:22 AM
How I feel when I schedule 8 emails to send at the same time
August 14, 2024 at 1:43 PM