Josiah Sutton
@josiahwsutton.bsky.social
Episcopalian acid socialist and remedial cinephile living in a Grant Wood painting. Musician, writer, bartender. Creator of @fruitlessmedia.bsky.social, He/Him
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Josiah Sutton
@josiahwsutton.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Since this app is getting more traction and I'm gonna try to use it more, I'll do one of those corny intro posts:
Hi, I'm Josiah. I produce a podcast called @fruitlessmedia.bsky.social about politics, media, history, religion, etc. It's pretty eclectic, but fun. I did a few pods before that.
Hi, I'm Josiah. I produce a podcast called @fruitlessmedia.bsky.social about politics, media, history, religion, etc. It's pretty eclectic, but fun. I did a few pods before that.
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I like how the average democratic senator is saying stuff like My Constituents Keep Asking Me Why Can't You Put Your Differences Aside And Work For The American People? While meanwhile the average normie liberal wine mom is Google image searching "Nail Bomb Schematics"
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I like how the average democratic senator is saying stuff like My Constituents Keep Asking Me Why Can't You Put Your Differences Aside And Work For The American People? While meanwhile the average normie liberal wine mom is Google image searching "Nail Bomb Schematics"
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Stone Age: We made this thing extinct one at a time by inventing a better way to throw darts.
Early Modern: We hath mayde these thinges extincte by bringing cattes whence there should nought be cattes.
Contemporary: lol we did a mass extinction with our plagiarizing nonconsensual porn machine lmao
Early Modern: We hath mayde these thinges extincte by bringing cattes whence there should nought be cattes.
Contemporary: lol we did a mass extinction with our plagiarizing nonconsensual porn machine lmao
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Stone Age: We made this thing extinct one at a time by inventing a better way to throw darts.
Early Modern: We hath mayde these thinges extincte by bringing cattes whence there should nought be cattes.
Contemporary: lol we did a mass extinction with our plagiarizing nonconsensual porn machine lmao
Early Modern: We hath mayde these thinges extincte by bringing cattes whence there should nought be cattes.
Contemporary: lol we did a mass extinction with our plagiarizing nonconsensual porn machine lmao
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When I talk about the invention of "AI" as an attempt to manifest the Infinite Money God, this is part of what I'm talking about. Private equity achieved the ability to make money without a good or service—AI is the attempt to make money without even customers or employees.
This is one of the things I hate most about modern capitalism. The idea of making money has been fully peeled away from delivering any kind of goods or services that people would want to pay money for.
What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
When I talk about the invention of "AI" as an attempt to manifest the Infinite Money God, this is part of what I'm talking about. Private equity achieved the ability to make money without a good or service—AI is the attempt to make money without even customers or employees.
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The problem isn't that they caved for a promised vote; the problem is that the vote will be a meaningless gesture impressing no one but Senate Democrats.
It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.
It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The problem isn't that they caved for a promised vote; the problem is that the vote will be a meaningless gesture impressing no one but Senate Democrats.
It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.
It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.
This shit fills me with so much contempt. I've had to work on Thanksgiving and Christmas before as a bartender, and you're telling me some fucking senators couldn't suck it up and do that once in order to slow the rise of fascism. Cowards. Pathetic. I hate them so much
It really does seem like there's a decent chance that these senators screwed us because they don't want their personal Thanksgiving plans to be disrupted.
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This shit fills me with so much contempt. I've had to work on Thanksgiving and Christmas before as a bartender, and you're telling me some fucking senators couldn't suck it up and do that once in order to slow the rise of fascism. Cowards. Pathetic. I hate them so much
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I believe this 1000%
It really does seem like there's a decent chance that these senators screwed us because they don't want their personal Thanksgiving plans to be disrupted.
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I believe this 1000%
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There’s a lot of like. Millennial signifiers under attack that I’m willing to let go of (ankle socks, Eminem, skinny jeans) but the thing I’m gonna hang onto is that this album still makes me cry a little, and the kids can’t shame me for that! I know it’s mom rock slop fuck you
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 AM
There’s a lot of like. Millennial signifiers under attack that I’m willing to let go of (ankle socks, Eminem, skinny jeans) but the thing I’m gonna hang onto is that this album still makes me cry a little, and the kids can’t shame me for that! I know it’s mom rock slop fuck you
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Kid rock
If Hitler’s whole thing "to understand Nazism one must first know Wagner" is true, what’s the equivalent music for 21st century American fascism?
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Kid rock
If Hitler’s whole thing "to understand Nazism one must first know Wagner" is true, what’s the equivalent music for 21st century American fascism?
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
If Hitler’s whole thing "to understand Nazism one must first know Wagner" is true, what’s the equivalent music for 21st century American fascism?
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Abolish the Senate. just have the House.
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Abolish the Senate. just have the House.
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Sure, you could be a Packers fan. But do you have the *courage* to be a Vikings fan?
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Sure, you could be a Packers fan. But do you have the *courage* to be a Vikings fan?
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I like how this family is firmly in Not Domesticable but will be your friend.... maybe
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I like how this family is firmly in Not Domesticable but will be your friend.... maybe
We need a service worker revolution.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
We need a service worker revolution.
The most egregiously online prose. Physically painful to read.
the josias, this kid is not:
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The most egregiously online prose. Physically painful to read.
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IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER
MIN 🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴🟢🟢
SEA 🟢🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴🟢🔴
MIN 🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴🟢🟢
SEA 🟢🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴🟢🔴
November 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER
MIN 🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴🟢🟢
SEA 🟢🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴🟢🔴
MIN 🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴🟢🟢
SEA 🟢🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴🟢🔴
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they should invent a day of rest
November 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
they should invent a day of rest
These are the oligarchs running this state. These are our barons, our landed gentry, our ruling class. Do you understand how humiliating it is to live in Iowa?
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 PM
These are the oligarchs running this state. These are our barons, our landed gentry, our ruling class. Do you understand how humiliating it is to live in Iowa?
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Say what you will about the tenets of straight edge as a lifestyle, but them fuckers write some pissed off breakdowns.
November 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Say what you will about the tenets of straight edge as a lifestyle, but them fuckers write some pissed off breakdowns.
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Meanwhile, here's what it looked like when a young upstart defeated the incumbent in Iowa eight years later.
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Meanwhile, here's what it looked like when a young upstart defeated the incumbent in Iowa eight years later.
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Finnur Dellsén got a nice pic of me on my standard Q&A slide, so now I have a stock reply to any time anyone disagrees with me.
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Finnur Dellsén got a nice pic of me on my standard Q&A slide, so now I have a stock reply to any time anyone disagrees with me.
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
Smiling just thinking about it
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Smiling just thinking about it
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Dont 👏 dress 👏 up👏as👏Santa👏Claus👏if👏you're 👏not👏Turkish 👏
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Dont 👏 dress 👏 up👏as👏Santa👏Claus👏if👏you're 👏not👏Turkish 👏
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great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"