John Wenz
johnwenz.bsky.social
John Wenz
@johnwenz.bsky.social
Journalism dropout
I know this isn’t the case, but every time I see something about 67 I think The Youths are using us as the frick/frig equivalent of 69. Unfortunately, I am too old to be convinced otherwise despite all evidence.
November 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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i think this is a very clear limitation of schumer's convivial caucus management style, only using honey is good when you need to get someone to vote for something, but it is not nearly as as effective as getting someone to not doing somethig
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Don’t give the democrats another time and vote against them in every primary if they vote for this. Time to clean the Augean stables of these crusty horse apples.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Yeah these guys are born losers and are unable to even do basic spin for themselves
This, from Tim Kaine is HILARIOUS:
November 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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He was just promised nearly $1 trillion and he is up in the middle of the night asking a computer to love him.
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Great Midwest Baking Show: it’s just casseroles and weird salads
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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A thing I like to do as the Sleepytime Bear is blast 40,000 watts of fluorescent light right before bed
November 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Yes, of course we don’t allocate jobs among humans based on relative need, god knows, but all humans do share a fundamental requirement of “needing to purchase food and shelter to stay alive,” whereas all LLMs/Gen AI tools as a category do not face this hard imperative.
November 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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This looks like a concentration camp.
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work
December 1, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Being a tech executive is just a series of handouts from one incompetent drip to another
October 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Call it an anime tax and the opposition would probably claw back weeb support thehill.com/blogs/in-the...
Trump doubles down on film tariffs that experts call ‘impossible’
President Trump is propelling his film tariff plan into the limelight — renewing his call to tax “any and all movies that are made outside of the United States” — even as both allies an…
thehill.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I can now officially say I’ve had a painting in a show
September 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Couples costume idea for Halloween: Jack Parsons and L Ron Hubbard
September 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Not @andrewmoseman.bsky.social and I being cited on half a dozen Star Trek Wikipedia entries for a blog post we tossed off when we were bored.
writers, this is your periodic reminder to search your "last name, first name" on wikipedia and see what pages you're cited on. i learned i am cited on the page for "false protagonist" and nearly every episode of hbo's the last of us lmfao
September 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I've said for months that RFK Jr is the most dangerous member of the Trump administration, because his changes can cause irrevocable effects that will last for generation, and quite literally kill thousands of people in the process.
September 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It cannot be emphasized enough how many things in the right wing orbit revolve around various degrees to which they want to punish us for not liking them. Thinnest of thin skins.
Reporter: What do you make of Bondi saying she is going to go after hate speech, a lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech.

Trump: Probably go after people like you, you treat me unfairly, you have hate in your heart. ABC paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech,
September 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Meltdowns, nihilism, anhedonia mostly
So like how are y'all dealing with the fear?
September 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Trump wants to remove “corrosive ideology” from some natl parks, wherein "corrosive ideology" = the truth about slavery.

They can change signs & pictures, but they can't change facts.

Here's a whole bunch of ugly facts: bsky.app/profile/emil...

& here's what people did—gonna reup the whole thing⬇️
🧵This country has a deep history of resisting & rejecting oppression. It isn’t often taught or acknowledged.

We need to know. We need to learn from our elders, ancestors, & political forebears. Now.

A thread about that. I will inevitably miss many examples; pls reply or QT with additions.
September 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
If Olivia Jaimes is gonna get replaced, you could scarcely find a better replacement than Caroline Cash.
September 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Counterpoint: no.
Mike Johnson: "I cannot for the life of me understand how the Democrats think this is some kind of winning political message. Yield man! Let the troops come into your city and show how crime can be reduced."
September 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Democrats are actively refusing to treat Trump’s military campaign against American cities as a crisis, because they’re in thrall to a bunch of idiot pollsters who tell them to only ever react to Trump across a tiny range of kitchen-table issues. The Democratic Party is a huge part of the problem.
One of the biggest things Dems overlooked is how many of the "DoSomethings" that religiously attack Dems despite Republicans being 100% in control (because those same creators blamed Dems for Republicans in the courts keeping Trump out of jail) got famous BECAUSE of Trump's 1st term.
September 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Nightswimming, A Perfect Circle, Me in Honey, Finest Worksong
Without saying Losing My Religion, fav R.E.M. Song?
September 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM