John Brownlow
@johnbrownlow.bsky.social
Screenwriter, author, knowitall, dilettante. AGENT SEVENTEEN won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller of 2022, soon to be a major movie. ASSASSIN EIGHTEEN out now. Tech, math, photography, music. Fan of bicycles and guillotines.
Whenever I see a craze like this I think about killer whales putting dead salmon on their heads as a fashion statement.
It's the same thing.
It's the same thing.
Look, I've got an idea: can we not just tie old beanie babies to handbags. It's vintage. It's 90s core or whatever.
I get it because I was once young and the proud owner of several (counterfeit) beanie babies but I am disappointed that people are still getting suckered into collecting expensive plastic crap that they will not give a single fuck about before long why are labubus
July 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Whenever I see a craze like this I think about killer whales putting dead salmon on their heads as a fashion statement.
It's the same thing.
It's the same thing.
War is peace. Peace is war.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
June 22, 2025 at 2:25 AM
War is peace. Peace is war.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
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who needs state media when the private outlets will defend the empire to its dying breath?
June 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
who needs state media when the private outlets will defend the empire to its dying breath?
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My son once asked me, "Is today Father's Day?" And I said, "I don't know, do we do that?" And he said, "No, but I feel badly about it."
June 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
My son once asked me, "Is today Father's Day?" And I said, "I don't know, do we do that?" And he said, "No, but I feel badly about it."
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Me: Honestly guys don’t plan or do anything special for Father’s Day, it’s been so busy.
Family: We weren’t planing anything.
Family: We weren’t planing anything.
June 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Me: Honestly guys don’t plan or do anything special for Father’s Day, it’s been so busy.
Family: We weren’t planing anything.
Family: We weren’t planing anything.
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200 people spent millions on Trump’s memecoin and were rewarded with this dinner
www.wired.com/story/a-heli...
www.wired.com/story/a-heli...
May 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
200 people spent millions on Trump’s memecoin and were rewarded with this dinner
www.wired.com/story/a-heli...
www.wired.com/story/a-heli...
An AI tragedy in three acts (the string I gave it is random)
May 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
An AI tragedy in three acts (the string I gave it is random)
Once upon a time the most famous person in the world -- Christ, Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, the Pope -- was famous for being good at something. Now the two top ones are known for being an idiot and an asshole respectively.
Yes, and you know who I mean too.
Yes, and you know who I mean too.
May 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Once upon a time the most famous person in the world -- Christ, Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, the Pope -- was famous for being good at something. Now the two top ones are known for being an idiot and an asshole respectively.
Yes, and you know who I mean too.
Yes, and you know who I mean too.
"It'll never just say, 'Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?'"
this feels like an incredible new urban legend taking shape on reddit otoh I've lowkey seen this happen. like jerusalem syndrome but for talking to the computer
April 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"It'll never just say, 'Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?'"
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Once again, the curse of our age is the Counterreformation of the Most Special Boys
AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels.
The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people
The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people
April 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Once again, the curse of our age is the Counterreformation of the Most Special Boys
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personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
April 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
*will not actually work for scale
April 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
*will not actually work for scale
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For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.
April 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.
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Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now
April 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now
This is the GOPs Brexit, which will simultaneously crater both them and the economy.
I am comforted that the people who love tariffs are going to get them, good and hard.
Republicans in Congress had a shit sandwich to eat with Elon and DOGE.
Now they’re utterly, absolutely eating a full fecal buffet.
Republicans in Congress had a shit sandwich to eat with Elon and DOGE.
Now they’re utterly, absolutely eating a full fecal buffet.
April 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This is the GOPs Brexit, which will simultaneously crater both them and the economy.
New DOGE dishwasher is lit
March 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
New DOGE dishwasher is lit
As the spouse of a librarian, YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE how much use libraries get. It's insane.
I finally bullied my friend into getting a library card, and I’m coming for you next:
Get a library card! Use it or lose it! They are terrific local resources in more ways than you think! And you’ll find out how when you go get that library card!
Get a library card! Use it or lose it! They are terrific local resources in more ways than you think! And you’ll find out how when you go get that library card!
March 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
As the spouse of a librarian, YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE how much use libraries get. It's insane.
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When I was baby KGB agent we'd spend years digging tunnels, tapping phone lines & honey trapping civil servants to get 2% of what team trump incompetently send to a journalist.
March 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
When I was baby KGB agent we'd spend years digging tunnels, tapping phone lines & honey trapping civil servants to get 2% of what team trump incompetently send to a journalist.
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I’m sorry but I’m still thinking about the Secretary of Defense texting “We are currently clean on OPSEC” to a group chat that, unbeknownst to him, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine.
March 25, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I’m sorry but I’m still thinking about the Secretary of Defense texting “We are currently clean on OPSEC” to a group chat that, unbeknownst to him, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine.
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In another blow to legacy media, I'm hearing that the Trump administration plans to remove The Atlantic from its war-plans group chat. The outlet will be replaced in the chat by the Gateway Pundit.
March 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
In another blow to legacy media, I'm hearing that the Trump administration plans to remove The Atlantic from its war-plans group chat. The outlet will be replaced in the chat by the Gateway Pundit.
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the obsession with USAID and the US Institute of Peace (which studies peaceful transitions to democracy) are particularly instructive. they believe that all protesters are paid. what's the solution? dismantle the payment agencies which pay the protesters.
ah i see bret had this observation earlier! but he's right. and it is downstream of the idea that most people are NPCs who perform whatever programming they're given. as the administration sees it, they're going after the programmers.
My sense, from the swamp that is Twitter, is that this may be ideological: these folks have talked themselves into the idea that American liberalism is wholly synthetic, entirely the product of government money diverted into 'George Soros' projects, illegal immigrants voting, etc. and so on. 4/
March 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
the obsession with USAID and the US Institute of Peace (which studies peaceful transitions to democracy) are particularly instructive. they believe that all protesters are paid. what's the solution? dismantle the payment agencies which pay the protesters.