Jonathan Dresner
@jondresner.bsky.social
Japan/World/Food/Migration historian. Nerd, geek, comics. Blogger. Rootless Cosmopolitan. Still masking. Views expressed are mine alone (RTs are someone else's). Cis he/him/his.
Same handle on Spore.Social.
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments.
Same handle on Spore.Social.
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments.
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Jonathan Dresner
@jondresner.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Our intolerance for disorder, diversity, and difference will kill us all. But we will kill the diverse, different, and creative ones first.
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GREAT NEWS THE ARTIST IS ON BLUESKY @liberaljane.bsky.social
LOOK AT THE SHIRT MY SISTER JUST SENT ME. OH MY GOD. I NEED IT.
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
GREAT NEWS THE ARTIST IS ON BLUESKY @liberaljane.bsky.social
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A bit of history from @esmat.bsky.social on Columbia's legacy of hosting colonial administrators on campus.
Colonial and Anti-Colonial Ideas at Columbia University (1970)
David Farhi and Edward Said. From The Spectator . Recently I had the pleasure of sharing my work and meeting people at an exciting event on...
pastandfuturepresents.blogspot.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A bit of history from @esmat.bsky.social on Columbia's legacy of hosting colonial administrators on campus.
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Fellow maladjusted malcontents: We need to fight like hell for the soul of our society. The general public tends to be ungrateful at best, but they're screwed without us & we're screwed without them.
Remember what Dr. King said: "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
Remember what Dr. King said: "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
Our intolerance for disorder, diversity, and difference will kill us all. But we will kill the diverse, different, and creative ones first.
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Fellow maladjusted malcontents: We need to fight like hell for the soul of our society. The general public tends to be ungrateful at best, but they're screwed without us & we're screwed without them.
Remember what Dr. King said: "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
Remember what Dr. King said: "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
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Anyway, there's a difference between a boycott, which is consumers, and a sell-off, which is investors.
Could be institutional investors worried about the boycotts, or individual stockholders finally extending the boycotts into finance. Hard to tell, I'm told.
Could be institutional investors worried about the boycotts, or individual stockholders finally extending the boycotts into finance. Hard to tell, I'm told.
I'm a little surprised there's enough boycott-ready people still on there after the "supporting dangerous flagship podcasts" boycott and the "not paying smaller artists" boycott, but I am sufficiently "online" that I am vulnerable to overestimating how aware people are of corporate sins.
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.
We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Anyway, there's a difference between a boycott, which is consumers, and a sell-off, which is investors.
Could be institutional investors worried about the boycotts, or individual stockholders finally extending the boycotts into finance. Hard to tell, I'm told.
Could be institutional investors worried about the boycotts, or individual stockholders finally extending the boycotts into finance. Hard to tell, I'm told.
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Mamdani is going to impose Selkie Law. Transformation rights for sea mammals on all piers and docks, eldritch lovers on all platforms, all public statuary to have mer-folk revisions, including NYPL Merlions.
mamdani is going to impose Sherry Law. sips before supper, subsidies for casks of amontillado, & rich fascists bricked up in high-rise basements.
Mamdani is going to impose Salvia law. Parsley, rosemary, and thyme will be hunted to extinction.
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Mamdani is going to impose Selkie Law. Transformation rights for sea mammals on all piers and docks, eldritch lovers on all platforms, all public statuary to have mer-folk revisions, including NYPL Merlions.
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Republicans vote to kill
One of the most important provisions of the ACA was eliminating pre-existing conditions exclusions from insurance plans.
Folks need to be reminded that if the ACA goes away, so does that provision.
Folks need to be reminded that if the ACA goes away, so does that provision.
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Republicans vote to kill
Thread, because there are no good-faith anti-trans arguments, but there are a lot of bad-faith ones.
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments, only patriarchal power grabs.
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Thread, because there are no good-faith anti-trans arguments, but there are a lot of bad-faith ones.
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I reopened my lino print shop and I'm shipping within Canada, for now. Get your linocut portraits of bear mamas and jack russell terriers wearing crowns and crashed cybertrucks
www.etsy.com/ca/shop/flit...
www.etsy.com/ca/shop/flit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I reopened my lino print shop and I'm shipping within Canada, for now. Get your linocut portraits of bear mamas and jack russell terriers wearing crowns and crashed cybertrucks
www.etsy.com/ca/shop/flit...
www.etsy.com/ca/shop/flit...
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They literally had a caucus meeting to decide who would vote against the filibuster. It's not an accident that no one up for reelection in 2026 is on this list save Fetterman, who is legit bonkers.
Schumer planned behind closed doors to do this & all agreed.
All of them are traitors. All of them.
Schumer planned behind closed doors to do this & all agreed.
All of them are traitors. All of them.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
They literally had a caucus meeting to decide who would vote against the filibuster. It's not an accident that no one up for reelection in 2026 is on this list save Fetterman, who is legit bonkers.
Schumer planned behind closed doors to do this & all agreed.
All of them are traitors. All of them.
Schumer planned behind closed doors to do this & all agreed.
All of them are traitors. All of them.
Republicans vote to kill
Yes you have good cause to be mad at the Democrats, but never forget that a political party emerged in this country whose platform included hungry kids, sick kids, and deported kids — and we were all conditioned to act like that was the party of “real America”
And so maybe it is.
And so maybe it is.
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Republicans vote to kill
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#DragonAscendant is the first English biography in over 130 years, on Japanese 17th century disaster bisexual warlord Date Masamune. From courage in battle to fame in the arts to emissaries sent to Rome, this story is now available end to end in one handy playlist!
buff.ly/pBnXesk #Skystorian
buff.ly/pBnXesk #Skystorian
Dragon Ascendant: The Life of Date Masamune
Playlist · Nyri Ani · 32 items
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
#DragonAscendant is the first English biography in over 130 years, on Japanese 17th century disaster bisexual warlord Date Masamune. From courage in battle to fame in the arts to emissaries sent to Rome, this story is now available end to end in one handy playlist!
buff.ly/pBnXesk #Skystorian
buff.ly/pBnXesk #Skystorian
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A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
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I have now read many smart people explaining what and why the dem senate did and I stand by this. My hopes for a better America do not rest on the current class of Democratic Senators.
I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I have now read many smart people explaining what and why the dem senate did and I stand by this. My hopes for a better America do not rest on the current class of Democratic Senators.
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Raise your hand if you know what happens at supermarkets in lower-income/working class neighborhoods of color when the national understanding is that prices are going up.
Never mind, I’ll tell you: PRICE GOUGING.
Never mind, I’ll tell you: PRICE GOUGING.
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Raise your hand if you know what happens at supermarkets in lower-income/working class neighborhoods of color when the national understanding is that prices are going up.
Never mind, I’ll tell you: PRICE GOUGING.
Never mind, I’ll tell you: PRICE GOUGING.
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Ah the scientific method and its 7 steps to being told you're wrong 🤔💭But being wrong is still important to the process!
We're celebrating WORLD SCIENCE DAY and the blunders of progress with FAILURE TO LAUNCH on sale for 30% off! Get ready to make a mess!
store.ironcircus.com/products/fai... 🧪
We're celebrating WORLD SCIENCE DAY and the blunders of progress with FAILURE TO LAUNCH on sale for 30% off! Get ready to make a mess!
store.ironcircus.com/products/fai... 🧪
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Ah the scientific method and its 7 steps to being told you're wrong 🤔💭But being wrong is still important to the process!
We're celebrating WORLD SCIENCE DAY and the blunders of progress with FAILURE TO LAUNCH on sale for 30% off! Get ready to make a mess!
store.ironcircus.com/products/fai... 🧪
We're celebrating WORLD SCIENCE DAY and the blunders of progress with FAILURE TO LAUNCH on sale for 30% off! Get ready to make a mess!
store.ironcircus.com/products/fai... 🧪
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disgusted and heartbroken
So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
disgusted and heartbroken
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People should understand that the "good" Democratic senators were in on this. If you're angry but your senator voted no you should still be angry at your guy (or gal).
The caucus’s deference to one another is the problem not just Schumer. They’re not going to elect a leader who will publicly call them out for hiding behind off-cycle and retiring members.
Even the handful of progressive senators don’t go after their peers in a meaningful way.
Even the handful of progressive senators don’t go after their peers in a meaningful way.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
People should understand that the "good" Democratic senators were in on this. If you're angry but your senator voted no you should still be angry at your guy (or gal).
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Some of these Dems are acting like it's still 2015 and the GOP hasn't been radicalized by Trump. They think their Republican coworkers can still be reasoned with and are acting in good faith, when that has not been true for a long time. The Pre-Trump Republican Party no longer exists.
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Some of these Dems are acting like it's still 2015 and the GOP hasn't been radicalized by Trump. They think their Republican coworkers can still be reasoned with and are acting in good faith, when that has not been true for a long time. The Pre-Trump Republican Party no longer exists.
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments, only patriarchal power grabs.
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments, only patriarchal power grabs.
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Every educated adult in the U.S. knows this but the senate shouldn't exist. There is no justification for North Dakota and South Dakota to have four senators between them when the combined population of both states is smaller than that of Chicago.
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Every educated adult in the U.S. knows this but the senate shouldn't exist. There is no justification for North Dakota and South Dakota to have four senators between them when the combined population of both states is smaller than that of Chicago.
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A “Gentleman’s Agreement”’and not a gentleman to be found.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A “Gentleman’s Agreement”’and not a gentleman to be found.
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Angela Alsobrooks, Maryland’s other Democratic senator, also a NO.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Angela Alsobrooks, Maryland’s other Democratic senator, also a NO.
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Maryland’s senior senator, Democrat Chris Van Hollen, is a NO on the funding bill.
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Maryland’s senior senator, Democrat Chris Van Hollen, is a NO on the funding bill.