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Josh Crowley (@jdcrowley)
@joshcrowley.bsky.social
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I write stories and make music and videos and digital paintings and iOS apps and whatever

You may know me from https://seinfelt.tumblr.com

Former CEO of BabyCorp
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Bernie sucks for a number of reasons but you can't look at donor maps like this and claim that the most popular route for Democrats is centrism. Without the ratfucking, he'd probably have trounced Trump in 2016 and maybe 2020 (COVID complicates things).
September 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Headline "Oh No: Dumbest Person You Know Says You Shouldn’t Take Tylenol Because Of Stupid Bullshit They Saw Online" beneath a photo of Donald Trump
September 24, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Good lord, what is IN those Epstein Files???
Earth.com headline “NASA announces discovery of life on Mars with high degree of confidence”
September 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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One last screencap for you @jay.bsky.team
My point isn’t necessarily that users should be allowed to express harmful sentiments toward each other with reckless abandon, but rather that social media platforms should consider the complete scope of what harm entails. If you’re not allowed to tell Joe Machin you hope he gets picked up by a huge hawk and dropped from ten feet in the air over and over again, perhaps you also shouldn’t be allowed to oppose action on climate change — a significantly more concrete and actionable harm than an imagined avian attack. If you’re going to ban violence, you need to recognize all its forms and not just the most overt — especially when wishes of harm are significantly less damaging than perpetuating systemic oppression and cruelty.
September 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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This incomplete definition of harm also ignores that politicians and world leaders — and by extension supporters and advocates who empower them — actually have the ability to inflict it on others, whereas a sentiment of ill will carries about as much power as an imagined whisper dampened by the long dewy grasses of a vast open field. You can spend hours every day hoping out loud for someone to die, and while it will eventually happen, it certainly won’t be because you told your friends you wished it would. Meanwhile, your state’s elected officials can actually pass laws that will put you through the greatest misery of your life, and they obtain the power to do so by openly and freely campaigning — including on social media.
September 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Hey @jay.bsky.team I implore you to read my essay and maybe take a more critical look to find the dissonance in what you believe you're achieving versus what you're actually doing.
While the platform claims its goal is to protect users from harm, it establishes what qualifies in such a myopic way that it effectively excludes the most pervasive and concrete forms of it. The rules are rooted in a very right-wing interpretation of violence — specifically the attitude that systemic and indirect forms of it simply don’t exist. Every tweet is isolated within some pollyanna vacuum devoid of real-world contexts of oppression and suffering caused by the targets of many angry sentiments. The result is an exacerbation rather than mitigation of the violent power dynamics that surround us. When you fail to comprehensively define what harm is, you empower everything you leave out. So by arbitrarily narrowing the scope of what counts, many social media platforms’ rulebooks — and Twitter’s in particular — actually reinforce systemic and indirect violence, making those things even more unidirectionally powerful.
September 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Photo of Charlie Kirk smiling, with a headline "Political Violence Advocate Would Have Loved Own Assassination"
September 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I might go with something different because it occurs to me that it's apparently no longer an obvious and widely-accepted truth that Nazis are evil
Photo of Charlie Kirk with a headline "Beloved Nazi Murdered"
September 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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After Jerry bombs at a club he blames "the wokes" and insists he'll only perform for sleeping audiences going forward. George indignantly refuses to stop wearing a red baseball cap with white lettering despite everyone mistaking him at a distance as MAGA. Kramer goes into hiding when it's discovered that he too wrote a letter in the infamous Epstein birthday book. He claims it was a case of mistaken identity but won't elaborate further. When Elaine bites a coworker in a fit of rage, the woman comes down with a vaccine-resistant form of rabies.
September 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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We're about 2 weeks away from doing this but for real
A still shot from the movie Fight Club wherein Project Mayhem members have put up a billboard reading "Did you know? You can use old motor oil to fertilize your lawn", ostensibly made to look as though it's from the Environmental Protection Agency.
July 30, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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"The Epstein Hoax"
Top panel: An edit of a screencap from the scene in Marge vs. the Monorail where she goes to North Haverbrook to investigate and talks to a woman about the monorail. In the original scene she says "Go away! There ain't no monorail and there never was!" The caption in this edited version of the image reads "There ain't no Epstein Report and there never was!" and the woman has been replaced by the Simpsons version of Donald Trump. Bottom panel: Another screencap from the same scene after the woman slams the shutter and reveals that the window is for the Monorail Cafe. In this edit, it reads "Epstein Report" instead.
July 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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mfw I see a yummy baseball
Grandpa Seth smiling with the delighted glee of a child
July 14, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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This is like saying the problem with car accidents is that some of the cars are green
Some racist xenophobic dumbassed dipshit on Twitter saying “'One in four sex crimes are committed by foreign nationals. That means one in four sex crimes didn't need to happen.' Founder and director of Women's Safety Initiative, Jess Gill discusses the impact of illegal immigration on the safety of women and girls.”
July 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Great Hell World as always, from @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

If you can vote in NYC please for fuck’s sake I promise it’s worth it to show up for Zohran even if you have to wait in line. Prove there’s still hope for us to turn SOMEthing around, that the inertia dragging us to hell isn’t insurmountable
Listen I am as sick of hearing about the New York City mayoral race as anyone else. The truth is though that the election does matter. Not in the way that people usually talk about the office being an important national one or any of that shit no but rather because it's a good barometer this time around for whether or not the establishment of the Democratic party has learned one single fucking lesson. I think we both know the answer to that but one has to hope right?
June 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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June 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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June 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Ugh… now I'm gonna have to throw out my Mckian Vcferanl apron…
Screenshot of a Facebook post about Pete Hegseth cooking for the veterans that uses two obvious AI images, with ridiculous surreal hamburgers, confusing angles and body proportions, and perhaps the most obvious giveaway of incomprehensible text on his apron.
May 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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President Wheelie-Deals can’t even crack 5k retweets and 17k likes on his post on his own platform. Pour one out for a fallen poster… amateur hour stuff dude… tumbled so far from the “I’ll still drink that Coke garbage” days…
Trump’s TruthSocial post where he says, derangedly, “Many of our allies and friends are celebrating May 8th as Victory Day, but we did more than any other Country, by far, in producing a victorious result on World War II. I am hereby renaming May 8th as Victory Day for World War II and November 11th as Victory Day for World War I. We won both Wars, nobody was close to us in terms of strength, bravery, or military brilliance, but we never celebrate anything — That's because we don't have leaders anymore, that know how to do so! We are going to start celebrating our victories again!” In the footer you see it only has like 4K retweets and 16k likes.
May 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Brain Dead is an underrated masterpiece too
May 3, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The average American has three friends
May 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Internecine conflict among workers based on ultimately meaningless distinctions like race or citizenship would be much more difficult if not impossible for powerful entities to foment if material conditions were comfortable. Like… that whole pattern is built on artificial deprivation! Think, Will!
April 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Yeah probably.

Update: Now there are spambots adding people to group chats and the emails all still say “via Twitter” and “on Twitter” lol
April 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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America's Most Brilliantest Genious and his acolytes apparently still can't figure out how to do a find/replace on "Twitter" lol
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April 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Download my recreation of the old 1980s MS-DOS game “Carticulate”! Now in iOS!

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April 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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If you're wondering about the state of ads on Twitter these days, well…
Some deranged-assed advertisement on Twitter reading, incomprehensibly, "Let the ministry of Jesus Christ of Nazareth be null, void n WORTHLESS before ALL, ALL FORMER CHURCHES ELISE OYINKROMEINEIFA EVER ATTENDED ITS LEADERS PICKING HER TO BE THEIR HEIR EVER STAND N BE OF EFFECT EVEN 0.1% ever in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth u900gtefsfbaiCnYH" Beneath that is a photo of a person inside what appears to be a classroom reading through a megaphone down into a piece of paper for some reason.
March 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM